- Todd Parnell
Ben "Todd" Parnell III was named as the interim President of
Drury University at a faculty/staff meeting in Clara Thompson Hall on April 23,2007 , upon the resignation ofJohn Sellars , Drury's fifteenth President. After a number of options were considered for the office, Parnell was inaugurated as Drury University's sixteenth President on April 20, 2008 by Drury's trustee-driven search committee. [http://www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?nlid=246&id=19738]Vice chairman of the Board of Directors of The Signature Bank, Todd Parnell has been a Breech Advisory Board member since 2003. Parnell graduated from
Drury University in1969 . He then went on to earn his Master's in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business atDartmouth College in1971 . While at Drury, Parnell was a member ofLambda Chi Alpha andOmicron Delta Kappa and spent a semester studying abroad inLondon .Prior to his position as president of The Signature Bank, Parnell was president of Truman Bank and executive vice president of First National Bank, both located in
Clayton, Missouri . Currently, Parnell serves as the board chairman of theSpringfield, Missouri , Area Chamber of Commerce, member of theSpringfield-Branson National Airport board, member of the Community Foundation of the Ozarks board, member of the Rotary Club of Southeast Springfield, treasurer of the James River Basin Partnership, treasurer of the UpperWhite River Basin Foundation, and board member forMissouri Bankers Association andWonders of Wildlife .Parnell is the recent author of "Postcards from Branson: A Century of Family Reminiscence". [http://www.417mag.com/417-Magazine/July-2006/A-River-of-Life/]
His father was
Ben Parnell Jr. Ben was founder and President of People's Bank, now Ozark Mountain Bank, inBranson , MO. [http://www.drury.edu/multinl/story.cfm?ID=245&NLID=85]
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