September 9, 2010 - Tom Loarie

Tom Loarie
TOM LOARIE

Tom Loarie is a career life science executive with 30 years of growing multi-national medical technology companies and successfully commercializing over twenty innovative medical devices, including one drug/device combination product. Prior to general management roles, he gained hands-on experience in Europe and in all business functions as a turnaround specialist for American Hospital Supply's (AHSC) Medical Specialty and International Groups. Since 1984, he has led venture backed medical start-ups from concept to commercialization and has raised over $190 million in both the private and public markets. Tom's people-centric management style and respect for physicians and patients has been central to building high-performance with high-integrity, creative teams throughout his career.

Mr. Loarie has served as co-founder and Chairman of CardioProfile, Inc.; CEO and Chairman of KeraVision, Inc.; COO of Novacor, Inc.; and as President of American Heyer-Schulte (Division of American Hospital Supply, now Baxter, Inc.). He has served as Assistant Professor of Surgery, Creighton University Medical School; Chairman-elect, Board Member, and Executive Committee member, AdvaMed (the Advanced Medical Technology Association); and as a board member of the California Healthcare Institute. Mr. Loarie serves on the advisory board of Uptake Medical, Inc (Seattle, WA.). He received his B.S.M.E. from the University of Notre Dame, and participated in graduate business studies at the Universities of Minnesota and Chicago.

Mr. Loarie's specialties:

  • Global industry knowledge and networks
  • Translating market trends, public policy, and technology into opportunity
  • Positioning companies for funding, development, & growth
  • Grant based, angel, venture, private equity, public market capital
  • Development, alignment, & execution of business strategy
  • US FDA Class II & III, ISO, CE Mark, & drug-device approvals
  • Creating high value teams including problem-solving scientific/medical advisory bds & needs-specific bds of directors

Accessible and direct, Mr. Loarie is quick to acknowledge-first by action, then by words-the profound anchor of his life, his Catholic faith.

 

October 14, 2010 - Barbara McGuigan

Barbara McGuigan
BARBARA MCGUIGAN

Barbara McGuigan is the executive director of Voice of Virtue International and teaches the virtues that the Catholic Faith upholds — Faith, Hope and Charity, as well as Justice, Fortitude, Temperance and Prudence — provide the formal structure that supports all of Voice of Virtue’s programs and projects. She has designed her outreaches to encourage virtuous living, to battle vice (the opposite of virtue), and to build up what is good, true and holy in our own lives and in the world around us.


 

 

 

November 1, 2010 - Gerry O'Driscoll

Gerry O'Driscoll
GERRY O'DRISCOLL

Gerald O’Driscoll is a widely quoted expert on banking and monetary policy. Previously the director of the Center for International Trade and Economics at the Heritage Foundation, O’Driscoll was senior editor of the annual Index of Economic Freedom, co-published by Heritage and The Wall Street Journal. He has also served as vice president and director of policy analysis at Citigroup, and vice president and economic advisor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.

He has also served as staff director of the Congressionally mandated Meltzer Commission on international financial institutions. He is widely published widely in leading publications, including The Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on national radio and television, including Fox Business News, CNBC and Bloomberg. With a dozen years experience as a university professor, O’Driscoll speaks regularly at academic conferences and universities. O’Driscoll holds a B.A. in Economics from Fordham University, and an M.A. and Ph.D. in economics from UCLA.


 

January 14, 2011 - Fr. Thomas Euteneuer

Fr. Thomas Euteneuer
FR. THOMAS EUTENEUER

Rev. Thomas J. Euteneuer (EYE-ten-our) became president of Human Life International in December 2000. Human Life International is the world's largest pro-life organization with affiliate offices and associates in eighty countries around the world. In nine years of service to this unique mission Fr. Euteneuer has traveled more than one million miles as a pro-life missionary and has visited fifty-seven countries.

Rev. Euteneuer was born in Detroit, Michigan in 1962, the fourth of seven children born to Joseph and Mariann Euteneuer. He has a Bachelor's degree in Philosophy from the University of Notre Dame in Indiana as well as a Licentiate degree in Biblical Theology from the Pontifical Gregorian University in Rome, Italy. He is fluent in Spanish.

While in college, Rev. Euteneuer participated in the Marine Corps Officer Candidate Program, attended basic training at Quantico, Virginia and graduated at the top of his Company. After discerning that the Lord was calling him to the priesthood rather than the military, he entered the seminary. After his ordination in 1988, Fr. Euteneuer served as a parish priest in five parishes of the Diocese of Palm Beach, Florida, secretary to the diocesan bishop, director of vocations, and spiritual moderator for the diocesan Respect Life office.

His pro-life activity began in the early years of his priesthood with prayer vigils, pilgrimages, pickets at abortion mills, sidewalk counseling and the establishment of a crisis pregnancy center across the street from an abortion mill in 1999.

Since taking office at HLI, Rev. Euteneuer has spoken directly to tens of thousands of people all over the world spreading the Gospel of Life and has appeared frequently on EWTN and other media. He has been featured in Human Events and Envoy magazine and has appeared on local and national television many times. His now-famous Fox News interview with Sean Hannity on the subject of contraception has merited him both praise and criticism for his defense of Church teaching (see video below). He was awarded the John Cardinal O'Connor Award for Life from Legatus in 2005 and the "Soldier of the Church Militant" Award from the Brent Society in 2007.

 

February 10, 2011 - Nicholas Capaldi

NICHOLAS CAPALDI

Nicholas Capaldi is Legendre-Soulé Distinguished Chair in Business Ethics at Loyola University, New Orleans. He also serves as Director of the National Center for Business Ethics. He taught previously at: the University of Tulsa where he was McFarlin Research Professor of Law; Columbia University; Queens College, City University of New York; The United States Military Academy at West Point, and the National University of Singapore.

Professor Capaldi received his B.A. from the University of Pennsylvania and his Ph.D. from Columbia University. His principal research and teaching interest is in public policy and its intersection with political science, philosophy, law, religion, and economics. He is the author of 7 books, over 80 articles, and editor of six anthologies. He is a member of the editorial board of six journals and has served most recently as editor of Public Affairs Quarterly.

Professor Capaldi is the recipient of grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities, The Mellon Foundation, The U.S. Department of Education, The Board of Regents of Louisiana, and the John Templeton Foundation among others. He is an internationally recognized scholar and a domestic public policy specialist on such issues as higher education, bio-ethics, business ethics, affirmative action, and immigration.

Professor Capaldi’s recent publications include articles on corporate social responsibility, the ethics of free market societies, and an intellectual biography of John Stuart Mill in connection with which he was recently interviewed on C-SPAN’s Booknotes.

 

March 10, 2011 - Debi Vinnedge

DEBI VINNEDGE

Debi Vinnedge is the Executive Director of Children of God for Life, a non-profit, pro-life organization focused on the bioethic issues of human cloning, embryonic and fetal tissue research. In addition she serves as a member of the Advisory Board for the 100% Pro-Life PAC (Political Action League) of Havertown, PA and her organization is an official member of the American Life League Associates program. She attended college at Cameron University in Lawton, Oklahoma, majoring in Business Management.

Ms. Vinnedge is a nationally recognized author and speaker and has provided written testimony for Congressional hearings on embryonic stem cell research. She introduced the Fair Labeling and Informed Consent Act to members of the US House and Senate, legislation that protects religious rights, moral conscience and requires informed consent on medical products using aborted fetal or embryonic materials.

She has appeared on both local and national television programs and has been a guest speaker on major national radio broadcasts, including Vatican Radio, USA Radio, EWTN and Human Life International. Her work has been featured in leading Catholic publications such as Our Sunday Visitor, New Covenant Magazine, EWTN Question and Answers, EWTN’s Ethics in Healthcare, American Life League's Celebrate Life, the National Catholic Register, Human Life International Reports and numerous diocesan newsletters and periodicals.

Ms. Vinnedge is considered the foremost authority on the use of aborted fetal cell lines in medical products and vaccines. Her organization’s Campaign for Ethical Vaccines has gained the backing of over 610,000 supporters nationwide including numerous medical professionals, pro-life organizations, religious and political groups. The organization has provided assistance and educational materials to over two dozen foreign countries.

 

April 14, 2011 - Fred Ruopp, Sr.

FRED RUOPP, SR.

For more than 20 years, Fred Ruopp (rhymes with "up") has been a member of Thomas Aquinas College's Board of Governors - six years as its Chairman - and has lent his vast expertise in financial concerns in overseeing the College's budget and financial affairs, including the College's $9 million endowment which is managed by the investment counseling firm, Everett Harris Co.

Ruopp was featured in Kiplinger's as one of 20 elite money managers who have teamed up with myMoneyPro.com to offer portfolio management services to investors with accounts that up to now were too small to interest a top-flight money manager. Ruopp and his colleages have risk-adjusted rates of return that rank them in the top quartile of their peers, as measured by Nelson's Money Manager Review.

After graduating from high school, he enrolled in Elmhurst College, dabbling in general business courses and the liberal arts. He found he had a knack for the business courses, and after two years, transferred to the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, where he became a finance major, earning a Bachelor of Science, Banking and Finance degree with honors in 1952. He also became a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, the scholastic honorary society in business, to which he still belongs.

With the Korean War then in full swing, Ruopp did a 13-month tour in Korea with an Army artillery battery unit. He returned to Chicago and got a job in the trust division of the First National Bank of Chicago. At the same time, he started pursuing a Masters of Business Administration in Finance at Kellog School of Northwestern University. He met a charming young lady who typed his thesis for him, Joyce Bowker. They married the following year and raised two sons, Frederick, Jr. and Christopher.

With his MBA in Finance in hand, Ruopp started rising through the trust division of the bank to become a senior portfolio manager handling a large share of pension and profit-sharing trusts. In 1963, he and Joyce decided to move to warmer climes, and they picked California. Ruopp took a job with the old Crocker Citizens Bank, doing trust and investment work, and soon thereafter was hired as a senior analyst and portfolio manager for the Occidental Life Insurance Company (which later became Transamerica). Six years later, he was recruited to Lehman Brothers' New York City office to manage the accounts of the firm's partners and those of their families.

But in 1971, after getting some Wall Street experience under his belt, and with about $9 million in asset management in tow, he decided to return to California and, along with a friend from Occidental, opened Chelsea Management Co. Since then, the downtown Los Angeles firm has grown to 15 employees, including four partners and four senior associates. The firm services a wide variety of clients, including insurance companies, pensions, profit-sharing accounts, and charitable trusts, from New York to Hawaii. Ruopp served as president of the organization until 1994, when he became its chairman and chief executive officer, which he remains today.

Ruopp is a Chartered Financial Analyst, a Chartered Investment Counselor, and a member of the Institute of Chartered Financial Analysts, the Los Angeles Financial Analysts Society, and the Investment Counsel Association of America. He was awarded Senior Security Analyst designation by the New York Society of Security Analysts. He is also director of several corporations.

 

May 12, 2011 - Rev. Sebastian Walshe, O.Praem.

Rev. Sebastian Walshe
REV. SEBASTIAN WALSHE, O.PRAEM.

Originally from Pasadena, Fr. Sebastian Walshe is a Norbertine Canon of the Abbey of St. Michael in the Diocese of Orange, California, where he is a professor of philosophy for the seminary program. Fr. Sebastian is a former patent engineer, a graduate in engineering from University of California, Irvine. After completing his studies at Thomas Aquinas College in California, he continued studies at The Catholic University of America in Washington D.C., receiving a license in Philosophy. Later, he attended the Pontifical University of St. Thomas at Rome (the Angelicum) where he received a Masters in Sacred Theology and a Doctorate in Philosophy. His thesis was entitled: "The Primacy of the Common Good as the Root of Personal Dignity in the Doctrine of St. Thomas Aquinas." From 2003-2005, Fr. Sebastian was also a visiting professor in the Philosophy Department at the Angelicum.

 

 

 

 

 

June 9, 2011 - Bishop Randolph Calvo

Bishop Calvo
MOST REVEREND RANDOLPH ROQUE CALVO
BISHOP OF RENO

Peter Randolph Roque Calvo was appointed by Pope Benedict XVI as the seventh Bishop of Reno on December 23, 2005. Bishop Calvo was born on August 28, 1950, in Agaña, Guam. As a child, he moved with his family to San Francisco where he attended elementary school. He completed his clerical formation at Saint Joseph College Seminary in Mountain View, California, and at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park, California. Shortly thereafter, he earned a doctorate in canon law at the Pontifical University of Saint Thomas (Angelicum) in Rome. He was ordained to the presbyterate on May 21, 1977 for the Archdiocese of San Francisco and served as parochial vicar at Holy Name Parish in San Francisco (1977 - 1979) and at Saint Pius Parish in Redwood City (1979 - 1982). From 1982 to 1986, he studied canon law in Rome. He served as Vice Judicial Vicar for the San Francisco archdiocese (1986 -1987) and then as Judicial Vicar (1987 - 1997). In 1997, he was appointed as Pastor of Our Lady of Mount Carmel in Redwood City, California. He also taught canon law at Saint Patrick Seminary in Menlo Park. His episcopal ordination and installation was February 17, 2006 in Reno, Nevada.