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Average years in management 15 Most prevalent job titles Director, Manager, VP New degree program director named Paul Velasco was named director of degree programs in the Executive Education department in September 2009. Velasco provides internal and external leadership and direction for Notre Dame's two Executive MBA programs in South Bend and Chicago. He led the recent redesign of the EMBA curriculum and will serve as interim director of Notre Dame Executive Education as of October 2011. Velasco previously was the EMBA director of instructional technology at the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. He also has worked as an economics consulting expert, providing professional analysis of antitrust issues to several Fortune 100 firms, the U.S. Department of Justice and the attorney general for the State of Ohio. Velasco earned his MBA from the University of Michigan and his Bachelor of Philosophy in Communications Studies from Northwestern University. EMBA alums continue to tackle ethics Alumni of the 2010 EMBA program have formed an ethics discussion group that meets monthly at the Notre Dame Chicago Commons. Named Notre Dame Conversations on Leadership and Ethics, the group grew out of the Executive MBA students' desire to continue the conversations they'd enjoyed in and out of class. Joseph A. Holt, Executive Ethics program director and concurrent instructor, has served as a moderator or conversation leader for most of the group's sessions. The group tackles a different topic each quarter. Suggested readings are posted online ahead of the meetings, which typically occur the second Thursday of every month. The final meeting each quarter features a guest speaker or panel. In the first quarter of 2011, the topic was ethics in mergers and acquisitions. Guests came from Kraft Foods, which had recently acquired Cadbury, PLC. Select New Executive MBA Courses Strategic Thinking Systems Thinking and Advanced Tactics Design Thinking and Innovation Change Management Strategic Planning for Growth Executive Education from left: Jamie Von Feldt and Mark Gordon, executive program participants 17