The Division of Business presents the Executive Forum at DeSales University

Caroll Neubauer, chairman and CEO of B. Braun of America and B. Braun Medical, Inc., headlined the February installment of the Division of Business’ Executive Forum series. It was held Tuesday, February 17, in the Gambet Center for Business and Healthcare’s Barbara Walker Breslin Auditorium. Carol Neubauer, B BraunNeubauer, who has earned law degrees from The Albert Ludwigs University Freiburg, Germany, and Georgetown University, is the chairman of the German American Chamber of Commerce New York and is a member of the President’s Advisory Group of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce. “He’s dynamic. He runs one of the most important companies in the Lehigh Valley and they’re one of the biggest companies in the world in their space. They have an important place in the world because they save lives,” Assistant Professor in the Division of Business and former research and consulting firm CEO, Dr. Steven Aukers, said about scheduling Neubauer for the forum. Select students were invited to attend the interactive event, which featured a conversational segment between Aukers and Neubauer, as well as student question and answer and informal mingling time-allotments. In addition to business majors, nursing and physician assistant students, who have been training with B. Braun equipment in their skills labs, were invited as well. B. Braun has donated this equipment to the University in a partnership. The series is designed as an opportunity to spotlight exemplary leaders of locally based companies to provide students with a concrete model of success to follow outside of classroom learning. This was the second annual Executive Forum, with 2014's event featuring David DeCampli, Chief Transition Officer of PP&L Corporation. “We’re very good about teaching students about, ‘Well, here’s accounting, here’s economics.’ But what is it like to lead? What is it like to work your way up? What is it like to make strategic decisions? So I wanted to have more of a peer-to-peer discussion and have the audience involved,” Aukers said. “He and I will have a discussion and everyone kind of gets to dip in and watch how that works: what two CEO’s think about and talk about.” Thanks to William Edwards '17 for writing the article about the event.