Donofrio, Koster Join WOS Academic Advisory Board

Nicholas Donofrio and Barbara Koster, two highly regarded IT executives, have joined Workforce Opportunity Services’ Academic Advisory Board.

Donofrio is an IBM Fellow Emeritus and the company’s former Executive Vice President of Technology and Innovation. He has served on the boards of several corporations, academies and institutions, and has been honored as a top IT executive by leading magazines, including Bloomberg Businessweek and IndustryWeek.

Koster is Senior Vice President and Chief Information Officer of Prudential Financial. Koster joined Prudential in November 1995 as vice president, Policy Administration and MIS. In 2004, she was appointed chief information officer for Individual Life Insurance Systems, where she was responsible for a wide range of technologies, including those that support distribution, policy administration, customer relationship, call centers, service delivery, financial systems, information security, business continuation and architecture. Koster also serves on WOS’ CIO Executive Council.

The WOS Academic Advisory Board was established to address how the WOS talent supply model can be broadened to meet the needs of businesses. Our advisory board is composed of the most accomplished faculty and business leaders who are focused on such employment issues as workplace diversity, talent management, alternative supply chain, outsourcing, and global competition. The Academic Advisory Board represents a new movement in the way in which businesses and higher education can work together to reduce student debt while proving organizations with a competitive and diverse workforce alternative.

The Academic Advisory Board is chaired by David Thomas, Dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University. Peter Cappelli, the George W. Taylor Professor of Management at the Wharton School and Director of Wharton’s Center for Human Resources, and Charles Snow, the Mellon Foundation Professor of Business Administration in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, also serve on the board.