Nancy, a Missouri native, is a 1971 graduate of Mizzou with a major in Economics and a minor in math and statistics. She credits her choice of majors to Professor Kuhlman's Econ 51 course!

After a brief stint in a government grant program, she returned to MU to earn her Master's in Social Work. She found she indirectly used both degrees in her government career: in court administration for 15 years in the 13th Judicial Circuit, Boone and Callaway Counties, here in central Missouri; and then 20 years in state court administration, ultimately as a Division Director with the Missouri Office of the State Courts Administrator.

She and her husband Dave founded Dave Griggs Flooring America in 1975. Happily retired since 2011, Nancy loves to volunteer for the Missouri Symphony Society, and she and Dave enjoy entertaining at their cabin at the Lake of the Ozarks, attending MU sports events, seeing live music and theater performances and traveling the world. She served on the College of Human and Environmental Sciences "For All We Call Mizzou" campaign committee, and she and Dave are proud to be able to give back to Mizzou in thanks for a wonderful education.

Ted Murray began his real estate career in 1977 as a salesperson for Coldwell Banker Commercial Real Estate Services, where he also served as sales manager. In 1983, Ted was named director of marketing for the Linclay Corporation, a development company serving primarily the Midwest. Ted became the Kansas City operating partner for Property Company of America (PCA) in 1984 and in 1989, he and two other PCA partners formed The Winbury Group. In 2010, Colliers International acquired an interest in The Winbury Group, merging the two into the Kansas City branch of Colliers International. Ted was President of its predecessor companies since their inception in 1984 and became CEO in 2005. In 2020, Ted transitioned to Principal. 

Ted has been in the commercial real estate business in Kansas City since 1977, bringing a vast amount of experience in commercial real estate development, brokerage and consultation. Since 1984, Ted has developed more than 1.5 million square feet of commercial property in the Kansas City area.

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James (Jay) Nouss, Jr. is a partner at Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner LLP in St. Louis, Missouri. He is a business lawyer representing public companies, investment banks, start‐up companies and venture capital funds. He has been selected for inclusion in The Best Lawyers in America and by Chambers, for Corporate Governance, Corporate Law, Securities/Capital Markets, Securities Regulation and Venture Capital Law, and has been recognized as "Lawyer of the Year‐Securities Regulation","-Venture Capital” and “-Corporate Governance”. In addition, Jay was the co‐founder of Oakwood Medical Investors, a life sciences venture capital fund which has made over 50 investments in break‐through technology companies. Jay earned his Bachelor of Arts in Economics with Honors at the University of Missouri and completed his Juris Doctorate at the Georgetown University Law Center. Jay lives in St. Louis, Missouri, with his wife Lisa. He has two children.

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Phil Nuetzel graduated from Mizzou in 1978 with a degree in business with an emphasis in economics. He remained at Mizzou to earn an MA in economics, and proudly served as a teaching assistant for Econ 51 during that time. Phil was awarded his Ph.D. in Economics from Northwestern University in 1985, where his dissertation focused on topics in monetary economics.

Phil's professional career began in the research department at the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Later, he served over a decade as an economist at SBC (now AT&T), both in St. Louis and in San Antonio, Texas, then for ten years at Citigroup in St. Louis. In 2010, Phil joined the Capital Markets group at Wells Fargo Home Mortgage in St. Louis, where he develops and maintains predictive competing risk models of prepayment and default.

An avid Mizzou football fan, Phil enjoys visiting Columbia each year to root for the Tigers. A major hobby of Phil's is musical theatre, ever since he performed with his children in The Music Man in 2002; he has participated in 26 musicals, taking major and minor roles, with community theatre groups around St. Louis. Phil also enjoys playing jazz standards on the guitar and occasionally dabbles as a cabaret singer.

Phil has been married to a Mizzou alum, the former Cindy Hayes, for 34 years. They have two children, Tripp and Margi, who are both young adults.

Patrick J. Platter earned his Bachelor's degree (A.B., Political Science and Economics) in 1978 and law degree (J.D.) in 1981, both from Mizzou, where he was a member of Phi Gamma Delta. Mr. Platter has practiced law in Springfield for over twenty years. He was a law clerk for the Honorable George M. Flanigan of the Missouri Court of Appeals-Southern District during 1981-1982 and an assistant prosecuting attorney for Greene County during 1982-1983. He has been in private practice since then and joined Neale & Newman in Springfield in 2002.

Mr. Platter focuses his law practice upon work-related injury litigation and planning models for employers, land use law, administrative law, and general trial practice. His on-the-job injury litigation practice includes workers' compensation, disability benefit litigation, return-to-work issues for injured employees, personal injury, and litigation in various settings such as the Americans with Disabilities Act, Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993, and federal and state antidiscrimination statutes. This practice also includes planning with businesses to develop employment policies concerning these areas. His practice in land use law includes both litigation and work with governmental entities to develop land use practices in the public interest.

Mr. Platter is the author of Chapter 1 (History, Administration and Jurisdiction) of the Workers' Compensation CLE Deskbook for the Missouri Bar Association, has published in the Missouri Bar Journal and Workers' Compensation Law Review, and regularly speaks before interested groups on topics concerning workers' compensation, employment law and return-to-work issues. Mr. Platter's civic involvement includes serving on the Springfield Board of Public Utilities, 2005-2011 (served as Chairman 2011); and Chairman of the City of Springfield Planning and Zoning Commission, 2000-2003.

He was named in Missouri and Kansas Super Lawyers, 2010 and 2011. Super Lawyers is a rating service of outstanding lawyers from more than 70 practice areas who have attained a high-degree of peer recognition and professional achievement. Super Lawyers Magazine features the list and profiles of selected attorneys and is distributed to attorneys in the state or region and the ABA-accredited law school libraries. Super Lawyers is also published as a special section in leading city and regional magazines across the country.

Mr. Platter first visited MU when he was 14 and always finds new reasons to return, such as serving on the Economics Leaders' Board.

Terry Schroepfer held a variety of economics­‐related positions during a 30 year career at AT&T and its predecessor companies. Among his roles at AT&T, Terry worked as a financial analyst, an economic forecaster, cost analyst, consultant on regulatory policy, marketing analyst, and an expert witness in governmental proceedings and litigation cases. In addition, Terry has published several articles regarding economics and regulatory policy. Terry received both a BA in Economics (1981) and a MA in Economics (1982) from the University of Missouri‐Columbia. Although raised (mostly) in Kansas City, Missouri, Terry now lives with a big dog in a 140-year old house in St. Louis. As such, most of his free time is taken working on his house or taking his dog on very long walks.

Melissa Skeens is a residential real estate investor and manager in Kansas City, MO.  Prior to her current job, she was the Managing Principal--Enterprise Services at Xerox Corporation, and before that worked for 17 years at IBM in various management/business unit positions, as well as executive-higher education.  Melissa graduated from MU with honors in 1982 with a BA in economics.  While attending Mizzou, she was a member of Kappa Alpha Theta and the Homecoming Steering Committee.  Melissa feels her degree choice and great experience at Mizzou prepared her well and contributed very much toward her successful career.