Board Members
Scott is currently the President and CEO for Northstar Aerospace. Northstar is a leading manufacturer of gears, transmission, and components for the global aerospace industry. Northstar has operating facilities in Bedford Park, IL, Phoenix, AZ and Windsor, ON Canada.
Scott graduated with his degree in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University and has spent his entire career in the Aerospace industry. He started at Goodrich in their Manufacturing Leadership Program and spent time at sites in Pueblo, CO, Vergennes, VT, and Phoenix, AZ before setting into the Landing Gear business. There he progressed through operational leadership roles including as the Plant Manager for sites in Tullahoma, TN and Oakville, ON, Canada. The rest of his tenure at Goodrich/United Technologies Aerospace system encompassed P&L leadership roles over a variety of design & build-tospecification mission-critical systems businesses including rescue hoists, de-icing systems, anti-icing, digital data, potable water, heated composites and specialty heaters.
Scott’s next role was President for TECT Aerospace, a built-to-print aerostructures business with four manufacturing sites in the Wichita, KS and Seattle, WA areas. Scott then moved to Precision Castparts Corporation (PCC), with his final role being General Manager for the Wyman Gordon sites in Pennsylvania.
David is President and CEO of ECO Oxygen Technologies, LLC, (ECO2) a cleantech company specializing in water and wastewater treatment technology. David’s experience stems from a broad range of water and wastewater treatment systems, construction management and business development.
David holds a Bachelor Degree in Civil/Environmental Engineering from Purdue University (Purdue, BSCE 2000) and is a licensed PE in Indiana. He is an active member in a number of professional and civic activities including Water Environment Federation, North American Lake Management Society and Boy Scouts of America.
David holds a number of U.S. and International Patents, has authored several published articles, and regularly speaks at technical conferences and educational forums. He has a long history of involvement with Purdue University including being a past board member of Purdue Engineering Alumni Association (serving from 2017-2020). He has partnered with the Lyles School of Civil Engineering and worked with eighty-two students in their senior design course CE 498 which focused on ECO2's Savannah River Expansion Project. Most recently David and ECO2 were featured in Purdue Alumnus Spring 2023 edition.
David is married to Anne Clidence (Purdue, HTM 2000), has four children and resides in Carmel, IN.
Originally from St. Louis, MO, Darius graduated from Purdue University with a B.S. in Computer Engineering in 2016. During his time at Purdue, he interned three times for Eaton Corporation, actively participated in University Residence Global Organizations, was a member of the Purdue University Jazz Bands, and became a lifelong member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. Darius Elliott has a wealth of experience in assisting small, medium, corporate, and enterprise businesses in growing and scaling their cloud infrastructure to meet their business objectives. He holds eight Azure Cloud Certifications and currently works as a Sr. Advanced Analytics & AI Solutions Specialist at Microsoft, where he helps customers explore the possibilities of Microsoft Azure Data Services. Prior to this role, he served as an Applications & Infrastructure Cloud Solution Architect for five years. In 2022, he received the Platinum Club award at Microsoft, the highest distinction within the company. Darius currently resides in Dallas, TX, where he continues to pursue his passion for technology and music by mentoring college students heading for corporate careers and honing his jazz skills on the trumpet and saxophones.
Hank Hoelscher graduated from Purdue with a degree in Nuclear Engineering in 1979. Later in his career, he earned an MBA from the University of St Thomas. He retired from Xcel Energy after 40 years in the nuclear power business including designing, constructing, and operating nuclear facilities in the upper Midwest. Hank managed Xcel's nuclear fuels engineering program, leading efforts in nuclear core design and safety analysis for multiple nuclear power units.
Three generations of the Hoelscher family have attended Purdue since 1951 - Hank's father, sister, wife, daughter, and son-in-law are also Purdue graduates. Since retirement, Hank has focused on his family, served
his community as a Lake Elmo Parks Commissioner, and served six years on the University of St Thomas
(Minnesota) Graduate School of Business Alumni Board.
Adam Miller is a Corporate Negotiator at Chevron in Houston, TX. Adam graduated with a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Purdue University in 2001. After graduation he joined General Motors in Detroit, where he worked in the dynamometer lab as a combustion engineer while also earning a MS in Mechanical Engineering at the University of Michigan-Dearborn. He left GM after 4 years to attend the McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas, receiving an MBA in 2007.
Upon graduation he joined Chevron, where his extensive career has been dominated by negotiating oil, gas, and NGL gathering and transportation agreements, as well as business development work for the acquisition and divestment of upstream fields.
With any available time he enjoys running, playing golf, and cheering on Purdue sports teams with his wife and three children.
Words of Encouragement to New Engineering Alumni: Recognize the value of the opportunity in front of you with a Purdue engineering degree, but continue to develop your soft skills by learning how to better communicate, lead, and seek counsel. As always, be sure to embrace diversity to learn about people different than yourself. Boiler up!
MacKenzie is a 2016 (BS) and 2017 (MS) graduate of Purdue's Biomedical engineering program. While at Purdue, MacKenzie was a member of the Varsity Diving team where she was an All-American, team captain, USA National team member, and 2016 Olympic trials finalist. She was also the 2015 recipient of the B1G Medal of Honor.
Upon hanging up her suit and graduating with her Master's degree, she started her career in the pharmaceutical industry as a data scientist, but quickly realized that she was more interested in the wearable devices the clinical trials were using than the drug the trials were testing. Since that realization, she's been working in the med-tech startup space, focusing her efforts on developing new algorithms and software to deploy on wearables to both diagnose disease and monitor progression, specializing in the integration of signal processing with machine learning. With several patents and publications in the field, she is driven to help push the industry forward through machine learning and AI. She currently works as a Senior Data Scientist on the Science team at SPARKNeuro, working to create an algorithm with EEG to help diagnose dementia.
Outside of work, she continues to stay involved in the diving community through coaching high school diving in Chicago and collaborating with the USOPC (U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Committee) and USA Diving to bring new technology to the sport. She also enjoys swimming, cycling, and golfing in her spare time.
