McKenzie Named to Zell-Lurie Institute Advisory Board at The University of Michigan
 | June 28, 2006
Clyde E. McKenzie, Chairman and CEO of Tellurex Corporation in Traverse City, has recently been named to the Advisory Board of the Zell-Lurie Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at The University of Michigan's Stephen M. Ross School of Business.
Established in 1999 by Samuel Zell and Ann Lurie on behalf of her late husband, Robert H. Lurie, the globally recognized Institute "provides the curriculum, program initiatives, community involvement, and alumni outreach activities that deliver exclusive resources for future entrepreneurs of the Ross School of Business." The Institute is lauded for its development and sponsorship of innovative student programs including its support of student-launched business initiatives. |
McKenzie, who received his MBA from The University of Michigan in 1974, built a thirty-year career in commercial banking and oil and gas in Colorado and Michigan. Currently, in addition to his duties at Tellurex, he is a principal of McKenzie Curtiss-Lusher & Associates in Denver, a founder and director of Nexus Resources (an oil and gas exploration company headquartered in Colorado), and a principal of a number of companies that make angel and venture capital stage investments in an array of markets and businesses.
He and his wife, Harriet, maintain a scholarship for undergraduate business students in financial need at the University of Michigan. McKenzie also serves on the Mountain States Region Board of Directors of the Anti-Defamation League. |
