TRU-Biz Forum – Spring 2023

Robert Madigan, Jr. is Senior Director, Supply Chain Contracting for Boeing Defense and Space. Robert has been with The Boeing Company since 2005. For more than 17 years, he served as Director, Supply Chain for the T-7A RedHawk. He began his career as Retail Associate Buyer for Famous Barr Department Stores in St. Louis.

Boeing is the world’s largest aerospace company and leading provider of commercial airplanes, defense, space and security systems, and global services. Building on a legacy of aerospace leadership, Boeing continues to lead in technology and innovation, deliver for its customers, and invest in its people and future growth.

Robert earned a degree in Business Administration in 2002 and was a member of Pi Kappa Phi and the Newman Center.

Ryan Murphy is CFO of Nidec Americas Holding Corporation. He oversees all facets of the corporate tax, accounting and treasury functions and leads financial planning efforts surrounding complex corporate transactions.

Nidec is a Japanese global company with about 300 subsidiaries across the world. Before Nidec, Ryan was Director of Federal Tax at Merck, a German global pharmaceutical company, Senior Director of Tax Compliance and Reporting at Express Script, and Tax Manager at Deloitte.

Ryan is a native of Kirksville. At Truman, he was a member of Alpha Kappa Lambda and the Bulldog baseball team. He established the Ryan Murphy Accounting Scholarship and is a past member of the Accounting Advisory Board.

Dr. William Newburry is Chair of the Department of International Business and the Ryder Eminent Scholar of Global Business at Florida International University. Bill is also a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at the Nanyang Business School Center for Emerging Markets, and a Fellow of the Academy of International Business. His research focuses on how multinational corporations manage and relate to subsidiaries and other local stakeholders when they invest in foreign countries, with a particular emphasis on reputation issues.

Bill earned his Ph.D. in 2000 from New York University, with co-majors in international business and management. Prior to his academic career, Bill worked six years in the F-15 Contracts and Pricing Department at McDonnell Douglas Corporation.

At Truman, Bill earned a degree in Business Administration in 1987 and was a member of Delta Sigma Pi, Student Activities Board, Band, Blue Key, and the Pershing Society. He also served as Delta Sigma Pi President (1986-1987) and was selected as National Collegian of the Year (1987).