GMAC CEO David A. Wilson to speak at Neeley business breakfast March 27
Fort Worth, TX
3/19/2007
David A. Wilson, president and CEO of the Graduate Management Admission Council ®, a $65 million enterprise governed by 154 of the world’s leading business schools, will be the featured speaker at the Neeley School of Business’ Tandy Executive Speaker Series Tuesday, March 27, at Dee J. Kelly Alumni & Visitors Center. Tickets are $20 each, which includes a full breakfast. Neeley students, faculty and staff are free. Register at www.tess.tcu.edu.
A Certified Public Accountant (Texas) and Fellow Chartered Accountant (Canada), Wilson graduated from Queen’s University, received his MBA from the University of California (Berkeley), and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois. From 1968-78, he taught at Queen’s University and the University of Illinois, and at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Business. He was awarded tenure at The University of Texas at Austin in 1975. Wilson has published numerous books, articles, texts and cases including as co-author: Intermediate Accounting, Forbes Numbers Game and Contemporary Financial Reporting.
Prior to joining the Council, Wilson was Audit Partner in Ernst & Young LLP’s Houston Office from 1978-83 (then Arthur Young & Company), then Managing Partner and National Director of Professional Development, Chairman of Ernst & Young’s International Professional Development Committee, then Director of the Ernst & Young Foundation. In 1991, he was named a Fellow of The Institute of Chartered Accountants of Ontario for outstanding contribution to the accounting profession.
The Graduate Management Admission Council® operates in 70 countries worldwide. It is best known for the Graduate Management Admission Test (GMAT®), a standardized test required by more than 3,000 graduate business programs worldwide for candidates seeking admission to graduate studies in management. The Council’s $2 billion MBA LOANSSM program focuses exclusively on students pursuing graduate management studies. The Council also publishes an array of books and interactive multi-media software to assist candidates in preparing for graduate study in management