SPRINGFIELD, Mo.,— Drury University’s Breech School of Business Administration will induct three new members into its Hall of Fame during a ceremony on Friday, Oct. 27 at the Judy Thompson Executive Conference Center.
The Class of 2023 includes Beth Pile ‘80, Diana Bugg ‘69 and Bob Fox ’68. They will join 30 other outstanding members of the Hall.
Beth Pile graduated from Drury in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in business administration and started her career as a federal bank regulator for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC). During her 19 years there, she served as a field office manager, a large bank liquidity expert and Deputy to the Chief of Staff. She left the OCC to help start a new business with other former bank regulators called IntraFi, previously known as Promontory Interfinancial Network. IntraFi is the largest banking network of its kind, with over 3,000 financial institutions participating. It attracts billions of dollars in deposits from thousands of businesses, nonprofits, government entities and individuals. Billions of dollars have been channeled back into communities through local lending initiatives. Pile started as head of client services, developing the policies and procedures and hiring the staff. Once the business became larger, she moved into a newly created Chief Risk Officer role, in which she continues to serve. She’s been a member of the Drury University Board of Trustees since 2011.
Diana Bugg graduated from Drury University’s Breech Business School in 1969 with a degree in Business Administration and Psychology. After graduation, she moved to Sydney, Australia, where she began her career with Polaroid. Two years later and back in Springfield, she was hired by IBM; one of the first women chosen for their high-tech computer sales sector. In her many years of new account sales for IBM, Bugg built high level tech and selling skills in the banking industry. This led to her recruitment by KPMG Consulting in San Francisco to help expand tech financial services with key clients including the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, Bank of America, Wells Fargo and Visa. Her established sales expertise in financial services next led her to Hewlett Packard, to develop and drive sales and marketing strategies, as a trusted advisor at the executive level. Bugg’s 40+ career in IT executive sales spanned the early IT revolution that changed virtually every industry. She has served on the Drury University Board of Trustees since 2000.
United States Air Force veteran, Bob Fox, earned a B.S. in Business and Economics from Drury University’s Breech School of Business in 1968.
In 1984, Bob founded NewSpace, Inc., a fixture company he sold in 2017 after 33 years of successful operations. He and his wife, Maxine, established the Clark-Fox Family Foundation in 2004, focusing on St. Louis regional growth with programs like BluePrint4Summer, Regional Resource Mapping and their Mass Incarceration Community Education Initiative.
They are founding sponsors of Teach For America and KIPP Charter Schools in St. Louis and funded a Cardiac Intensive Care Unit at St. Louis Children’s Hospital, endowed the Chair of the President/CEO of Goldfarb School of Nursing and established a professorship at St. Louis University, among other initiatives, contributing significantly to the St. Louis community.
The Breech Hall of Fame was created to honor Drury alumni and faculty for outstanding professional achievement in the field of business. Inductees into the Hall must have made a significant, positive impact in the field of business through exemplary leadership, have demonstrated professional conduct consistent with the mission of the university and the Breech School of Business Administration and have demonstrated a concern for improving their communities.
Past inductees include legendary Fortune magazine editor Carol Junge Loomis, Bass Pro Shops founder Johnny Morris, Ford Motor Company CEO Ernest Breech and O’Reilly Auto Parts executives Larry and David O’Reilly.
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Media Contact: Jasmine Cooper, Director of University Communications and Media Relations, Office: (417) 873-7390, Email: JCooper020@drury.edu
