Findlay, Ohio, Feb. 9, 2005 – Pamela K. M. Beall and Gary M. Harpst were elected new trustees during The University of Findlay Board of Trustees meeting on Feb. 3-4.
Pamela K. M. Beall is director of Corporate Affairs for Marathon Ashland Petroleum LLC, where she is responsible for leading the company’s public and government affairs and its corporate purchasing and commercial services organizations. She joined Marathon Ashland in 2002 as manager of business development.
Prior to joining Marathon Ashland in 2002, Beall was vice president and treasurer of NationsRent, Inc. in Fort Lauderdale, Fla., a leading construction equipment rental company.
Beall served as vice president and treasurer of OHM Corp., Findlay, from 1985-98. She was responsible for corporate finance activities of the nation’s largest environmental cleanup contractor, a New York Stock Exchange company with annual revenue of $551 million and 3,200 employees in 30 locations across the United States.
She began her career as an auditor at Marathon Oil Co. in Findlay in 1978. She quickly advanced to insurance analyst for Corporate Risk and Environmental Affairs and supervisor of domestic funds at Marathon before being promoted to general manager of treasury services at USX in Pittsburgh.
In community leadership roles, she served as president of the Hancock County Parks Foundation, a member of the Ohio Bank Advisory Board, co-chair of the Corporate Division for the UF capital campaign and a member of the Finance & Investment and Advisory Committees for the Findlay•Hancock County Community Foundation, the Investment Advisory Committee for UF and the Membership Committee of the Findlay Country Club.
Beall graduated cum laude from UF with a degree in accounting in 1978. In 1984 she obtained her certified public accountant credentials from the State of Ohio and earned a master of business administration degree from Bowling Green State University.
She and her husband, John, reside in Findlay.
Gary M. Harpst is the founder and chief executive officer of Six Disciplines Corp., a firm that blends communications, training, consulting and the Internet in innovative ways to help businesses achieve new levels of excellence.
A co-founder of Solomon Software and its CEO for more than 20 years, Harpst demonstrated what it takes to build an organization of excellence. Under his leadership, Solomon grew to more than 400 employees and sold more than 60,000 installations of its Solomon Software products to more than 400 industries in more than 100 countries. The company became part of Microsoft Great Plains Business Solutions in 2000.
Solomon products won numerous industry awards, including the PC Magazine/ Price Waterhouse Coopers Editor’s Choice, the Top Windows Accounting Software Products award from Accounting Today. Harpst has been named one of Accounting Today magazine’s “Top 100 Influential People in Accounting” numerous times.
Harpst has recently started a business software firm, Plumbline Solutions, which was reported to have initially hired about 70 people who were with the former Microsoft Great Plains Solutions when Microsoft closed that business in Findlay.
In addition to his professional pursuits, he is a member of the Findlay YMCA board of trustees and the Liberty-Benton School Board. He is secretary-treasurer of the TLB Foundation, an organization dedicated to helping young people come into a life-changing relationship with Jesus Christ. For more than 20 years, he has taught Biblical principles for everyday living in his church.
Harpst earned his undergraduate and graduate degrees from The Ohio State University.
He and his wife, Rhonda, have three children, James, Anna and Jordan. They live near Findlay.
