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Trennepohl named chair of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma affiliate board

     
Gary L. Trennepohl, Ph.D., president, Oklahoma State University-Tulsa, has been named chair of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma affiliate board of directors. 

Dr. Trennepohl joined the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma board of directors in May 2003, playing an active role on the board by serving on the investments / finance committee and the compliance subcommittee. 

Following the November 2005 merger with Health Care Service Corporation (HCSC), which also operates Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans in Illinois, New Mexico and Texas, the Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma board of directors became one of HCSC’s four affiliate boards.

Dr. Trennepohl became the first president of OSU-Tulsa in August 1999.  Previously, he served as dean of the College of Business Administration at the OSU campus in Stillwater and held faculty and administrative appointments at Texas A&M

University, the University of Missouri-Columbia and Arizona State University.  He has co-authored two college-level finance texts, contributed chapters for three editions of Options: Essential Concepts and Trading Strategies and The Encyclopedia of Investments and authored or co-authored more than 30 professional journal articles.  He is active in many academic associations and served as President of the Financial Management Association International in 1994.

Trennepohl also has served as a consultant to pension funds (Shell Pension Trust), corporations and college endowment funds. He also is a visiting faculty member for the Options Institute at the Chicago Board Options Exchange, presenting periodic seminars

on futures and options strategies to institutional investment managers.  Since 1983 he has conducted yearly seminars about financial analysis to journalists who write for business periodicals and local and national news organizations, including the New York Times, Bloomberg News and USA Today.

Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Oklahoma is a Division of Health Care Service Corporation, an Independent Licensee of the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, an Association of Independent Blue Cross and Blue Shield Plans.