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Entrepreneur Magazine
Women Businesses Log Another Sales Gain 6/4/2007
CBA Hall of Fame 2003: Duckworth, McKinley, Reilley
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| By Jim Mitchell, PIO New Bureau |
The College of Business Administration at OSU honored four alumni
Friday at the Stillwater Country Club. (left to right) Rocky Duckworth
and Liz McKinley were inducted into the CBA Hall of Fame along with
(far right) Dennis Reilley. Rebeka Padgett (second from the right) was
recognized as CBA Outstanding Young Alumni for 2003. |
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STILLWATER The College of Business Administration (CBA) at Oklahoma
State University recently honored four alumni for their business and career
success as well as generosity toward their communities during an annual Hall
of fame banquet Friday, Nov. 7. |
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| CBA Dean, Dr. James R. Lumpkin, recognized Hall of fame inductees, which
included Rocky L. Duckworth, partner and energy audit leader for KPMG in
Houston; Liz Norris McKinley, owner of Pinnacle Petroleum, Inc., Seal Beach,
Calif.; and Dennis H. Reilley, chairman and chief executive officer of Praxair,
Inc., Danbury, Conn. Rebekah J. Padgett, vice president for strategic planning
and business development for frito-Lay, Inc., was recognized as the
Outstanding Young Alumni for 2003. |
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Rocky Duckworth, a 1972 accounting graduate, got his start with peat,
Marwick and Mitchell & Co. in Oklahoma City, and following active duty in
the military as a lieutenant in the U.S. Army's Adjutant General's Corps he
worked for PMMC in its Indianapolis offices. In 1981, Duckworth was elected
into the partnership of KPMG and became partner-in-charge of the audit
practice and later the managing partner of the Oklahoma City office. In 2000, he
transferred to Houston where he became the audit leader for the office's
energy practice. Duckworth's current clients include some of the largest
independent oil and gas exploration and production companies in the United
States. He and his wife, Carol, have two daughter, Regan and Cara. |
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| Liz McKinley, who grew up in Still water and graduated from Stillwater High
School in 1977, earned a double major in marketing and finance from OSU in
1981. She began her oil career at Koch Industries in Wichita, Kan., where she
was the company's first woman trader. After various positions with other
companies, she established Pinnacle petroleum, Inc. in 1995. The petroleum
and lubricant wholesaler and distributor serves a three-state area and has $35
million in sales and revenue. Pinnacle was recently listed as one of the Top
500 Woman-Owned companies in Working Woman Magazine. McKinley lives in
Huntington Beach, Calif. with her husband, Peter, and their 12-year-old twins
Robort and Madeline. |
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| Dennis Reilley was born and raised in Oklahoma City and received his B.S. in
finance from OSU in 1975. He is also a graduate of Harvard Business School's
program for management development. As president and chief executive
officer of Praxair, he runs the largest industrial gases company in North and
South America with $5.1 billion in revenues. Reilley joined Conoco in 1974 and
served in a variety of positions until transferring to DuPont in 1989. He was
named president of the company in 1997 and chief operations officer in
1999. He joined Praxair in March of 2000. Reilley is married to the former,
Cindy Ketner, ('75 B.S. Education at OSU). He and Cindy have two sons, jason
and Michael. |
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| The Outstanding Young Alumni for 2003, Rebekah Padgett, grew up in Apache
Oklahoma and earned her B.S. in management and international business at
OSU. Padgett was a top ten senior at the university and she graduated with a
4.0 grade poing average. She earned an M.B.A. from the University of Texas
where she also maintained a 4.0 GPA. Padgett worked for payless Shoe Source,
Inc., Hallmark Cards and Boston Consulting Group before accepting her current
position at Frito-lay. |
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