Three New Members Join Council

Trio's expertise will Add assets to new SOM centers

By Brynn Bagot Allday


Corporate misconduct scandals and absence of leadership in high-profile
companies continue to make headlines. To reinforce corporate ethical
standards and to provide practical solutions to governance issues, UTD's
School of Management (SOM), with support from its strategic partners and
corporate sponsors, recently founded The Leadership Center at UTD and The
Institute for Excellence in Corporate Governance (IECG). The SOM's
Advisory Council has added three new members with solid corporate
expertise to help implement and further develop these new initiatives --
Russell A. Labrasca Jr., Frederick A. Points and Sue Spradley.

Mr. Points and Ms. Spradley represent SOM strategic partners Bank One
Corporation and Nortel Networks, respectively.


Russ Labrasca is executive vice president and regional managing
director-Southern Region for Wells Fargo Private Client Services. In
addition to overseeing more than $9 billion in assets under management,
Mr. Labrasca is responsible for 416 team members across Texas and New
Mexico. A three-year veteran of the company, he assumed his current role
in 2001. Previously, he was senior regional sales director of the Western
Division.

He began his career in the securities industry in 1976 as a financial
consultant, rising to senior vice president, national sales manager and
national accounts director at State Street Research and Management in
Boston, where he was responsible for overseeing mutual fund sales, sales
management and national accounts. Mr. Labrasca has held various management
and senior management positions, including director of national sales and
marketing at Principal Financial Securities, Sutro & Co. and Prudential
Securities.

Mr. Labrasca is the senior co-chairman of the Securities Industry
Association Sales and Marketing Committee and Executive Board, and he
served nine years as a trustee of the Securities Industry Institute at the
Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania.

Mr. Labrasca replaces Robert Chereck, also of Wells Fargo, on the advisory
council. "Education is a top priority for Wells Fargo. In the last three
years, we have donated more than $60 million to education and educational
services," Mr. Labrasca said. "I am delighted in this role to be able, in
part, to contribute to the success of future executives and leaders. It is
important as a firm and as an individual to give back to our educational
system."


Frederick A. Points joined Bank One Corporation in 1995 and serves as
first vice president of Dallas Banking, working with Dallas-based
corporate and commercial customers. He began his banking career in 1981
with United Oklahoma Bank in Oklahoma City. In 1985, Mr. Points moved to
Dallas to work for Republic/Nations Bank. Throughout his career, he has
focused on relationship management for corporate and multinational
companies.

"Bank One is really stepping up its involvement with The School of
Management, particularly as a strategic partner for the Institute for
Excellence in Corporate Governance. I am honored to be representing Bank
One on the advisory council and will offer marketplace knowledge and
up-to-date expertise from the banking and finance industry as it relates
to corporate governance," Mr. Points said.

Mr. Points' dedication to the community is evidenced by his past and
present service as a board member and in other roles at the Dallas Museum
of Art; Girl Scouts of Tejas Council; Leadership Dallas Ð Class of 2000;
Outward Bound Leadership Courses; Dallas Business Committee for the Arts;
Dallas OSU Alumni Association, and Dallas Zoological Society.


Sue Spradley, president of Wireline Networks, is in charge of
cost-effective packet solutions for Nortel Networks' voice, data and
multimedia service offerings. She also works to maintain Nortel Networks
leadership position in circuit technology. Previously, Ms. Spradley was
president of Voice Over Internet Protocol (VoIP) for Metro and Enterprise
Networks, where she oversaw delivery of Nortel Networks' VoIP to the
global market. She has held increasingly responsible management positions
at Nortel Networks in sales, sales engineering, marketing, product line
management and customer service. Ms. Spradley also established and led
Siemens Corporation's product and marketing's entry into the PCS telephone
business in the United States.

Ms. Spradley is a member of the National Security Telecommunications
Advisory Committee (NSTAC), which reports to the president of the United
States. The committee provides industry-based analyses of and
recommendations on policy and technical issues related to
telecommunications, information systems, information assurance,
infrastructure protection, and other national security and emergency
preparedness concerns.

She also sits on several boards, including the Science Place; Inroads,
Inc.; Boys and Girls Club of Richardson; Nortel Networks Women's Executive
Board, and is chairman of Nortel Networks' Leadership Edge Council.

"Representing Nortel Networks on The School of Management Advisory Council
is both an honor and an opportunity. The honor is being associated with
one of the leading educational institutions in the North Texas region. The
opportunity is twofold -- to use the business and technology expertise of
Nortel Networks in helping the UTD School of Management build a
world-class reputation within and beyond the Southwest and to continue to
build an outstanding talent pool for businesses in the Dallas-Forth Worth
Metroplex," Ms. Spradley said. "I've seen that the success of Nortel
Networks is a reflection of the great talent we have in the organization,
and I know other businesses will agree that the success of any company is
dependent upon the talent of its people and the new ideas they bring."