Pacific University Board of Trustees Elects Five New Members

The Pacific University Board of Trustees recently elected five new members to serve on the university's governing body.

The board elected Dan James '87 and Cam Perry '65 at its meeting in March, and Martin Moll, James Butler and Josie Kochendorfer during the most recent meeting held May 14-15.

Dan James, a 1987 alumnus of Pacific, is the vice president of public affairs and marketing of PNGC Power, a Portland-based electric generation and transmission cooperative owned by 14 Northwest utilities with service territory in seven western states.

He has more than 28 years of government affairs experience in both the Pacific Northwest and Washington, DC. James served as an aide to former Congressman and fellow alumnus Les AuCoin '69 prior to returning to Pacific to work in development and public affairs. He later represented the Pacific Northwest Waterways Association in federal relations, and Ball Janik as a senior government relations specialist, before joining PNGC.

Cameron L. (Cam) Perry is a 1965 Pacific alumnus and an accomplished advertising executive and coffee entrepreneur. He spent 25 years with The Oregonian, most of which as a senior account executive, before launching Portland-based Cam's Coffee Company in 1998, operating it for 12 years before retiring in 2010.

Martin D. Moll, JD, is a partner at AKT, a professional services firm of advisors, independent Certified Public Accountants and business consultants. As the managing principal of AKT's healthcare division, Moll works with hospitals, health insurance plans, specialty clinics and healthcare providers. He is nationally recognized as an expert on clinic administration best practices, with particular expertise in compensation arrangements and ownership succession issues. Moll is a member of the American Bar Association: Tax and Health Law Sections, and will begin his Pacific Board of Trustees term on July 1.

James J. Butler, PhD, has been elected as one of two university faculty representatives on the Board of Trustees. Butler is a professor of physics who joined the Pacific faculty in 2004, and is also the university's director of undergraduate research. Prior to his appointment at Pacific, he served on the faculty of the US Naval Academy in Annapolis, Md. for five years. He will succeed business professor Michelle Cowing on July 1.

Josie Kochendorfer has been elected as the university's undergraduate student representative on the board. Originally from Aloha, she is majoring in both creative writing and psychology and is a campus housing resident assistant as well as the treasurer of the university's English Club. Kochendorfer also begins her term on July 1.
 

Monday, June 8, 2015