New roles for Bernhardt and Edwards to bolster college's ability to assist corporations and create more learning opportunities for students; new development officer, Diane Kollar, moves from Georgia Tech to business school's development team July 25, 2008 – (ATLANTA) – Two top administrators have been named to new positions at Georgia State's J. Mack Robinson College of Business and a third, Diane Kollar, has moved from Georgia Tech to join the college's development team. Ken Bernhardt, Regents' Professor, Taylor E. Little, Jr. Professor of Marketing and formerly assistant dean for corporate relations, has been named special assistant to the dean; Charles Edwards, assistant dean for development, assumes Bernhardt's corporate relations post; and Kollar, formerly the director of industry and government relations at Georgia Tech's Tennenbaum Institute, becomes senior director for development. The appointments were announced today by H. Fenwick Huss, dean of the Robinson College. Both Bernhardt and Edwards assume their new positions immediately. Kollar will start at the Robinson College August 1. As special assistant to the dean, Bernhardt will have wide-ranging responsibilities in the areas of community relations, marketing and corporate affairs. In addition, he will teach in the college's Executive Education programs and will continue to spearhead Robinson's highly successful MAX Awards and Marketing RoundTable. Edwards, who assumes Bernhardt's role as assistant dean for corporate relations, will work as an ambassador between the college and the business community, promoting the college's offerings and enhancing opportunities for student placement. Edwards will work to foster mutually beneficial partnerships that match the needs of the corporate community to resources available at the Robinson College. Kollar will team with Monica Scarbrough, senior director of development, in the college's major gift development program, a key source of financial support for the college. Huss called the appointments "key to our growth and expansion and to our ability to bring students the best business education available anywhere. We are extremely pleased that Ken and Charles will now apply their talents in new ways within the organization and that Diane has brought her wealth of development experience to the Robinson College." Bernhardt joined the Robinson College in 1972 and served as chairman of the marketing department from 1989 to 1993 and 2003 to 2005. He has published 10 books and monographs and numerous articles on marketing and consumer behavior. He currently writes a bi-monthly column on marketing for the Atlanta Business Chronicle. He received a B.S. degree from Washington and Lee University, and has an M.B.A. from the Harvard Business School. He received a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Michigan. Bernhardt currently serves on several boards of directors including the Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau, Junior Achievement of Georgia, Leadership Atlanta, Community Foundation of Greater Atlanta, the Alliance Theatre, Metro Atlanta Arts and Culture Coalition, and the Georgia State University Foundation. He also has received numerous community service awards including the 2002 Atlanta Convention and Visitors Bureau President's Award for outstanding contributions to the marketing of Atlanta. Edwards serves as an Alliance Theatre Company Board member, Georgia State University Marketing RoundTable member, 100 Black Men of Atlanta member and past chair of the Financial Development Committee. He is also an alumnus of Leadership Atlanta and an active participant in many church auxiliaries. Before joining Robinson, Edwards served as executive vice president and co-managing director in DHR International's Atlanta office, where he focused on recruiting board members and C-level executives. He also led the effort that secured approximately $100 million of support for the 1996 Atlanta Paralympic Games and prior to that held a number of executive positions in systems engineering, sales and marketing over his 25-year career with IBM Corporation. Edwards holds a BSE(IE) and MBA degrees from the University of Michigan, and an MS (IE) degree from Wayne State University. Kollar has served in a variety of development positions with Georgia Tech, including associate director for corporate relations; director of development at the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering; and from 2005 to the present, director of industry and government relations at the Tennenbaum Institute, the first multidisciplinary center of its kind, uniting academic, government and corporate experts to create industry-shaping business models. Kollar also has held development positions with International Life Sciences Institute, the Carter Center and the Atlanta Speech School. She holds an MPA and Bachelor of Arts degree from the University of South Carolina.

The largest business school in the South and part of a major research institution, the J. Mack Robinson College of Business at Georgia State University is located in Atlanta, an epicenter of business and a gateway to the world. With programs on four continents and students from 150 countries, the College is both worldwide and world class. Its part-time MBA program is ranked number five in the nation and has been in the top 10 for 13 consecutive years. The College has 200 faculty, 7,400 students and 65,000 alumni. Noted for an emphasis on educating leaders, the Robinson College and Georgia State have produced more of Georgia's top executives with graduate degrees than any other school in the nation.