Contacts: Eric Whittington ([email protected]) or Patricia Divine (336) 758-5030 or (800) 722-1622
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - Ronald H. Butler, chairman, president and chief executive officer of Three Dog Bakery, will deliver the address at the Babcock Graduate School of Management's annual hooding ceremony at 7 p.m., Sunday, May 16, in Wait Chapel on the Wake Forest University campus.
The Babcock School will honor 275 students from the Winston-Salem full-time, evening and executive MBA programs, JD/MBA and MD/MBA programs, and the Charlotte MBA program. The graduating class is the largest in the school's history.
Butler, a native of Alabama and a member of Babcock's Board of Visitors, began his career in a management training program at Lowe's Companies in the mid-1970s. He earned an MBA at the Babcock School in 1984, and remained in retail management, mostly with Fortune 500 companies, before joining the PETsMART retail chain, where he eventually became executive vice president.
Butler shifted his focus to a smaller company in the early 1990s and joined the management team of Three Dog Bakery, a Kansas City, Mo.,-based company founded in 1990. The company, a wholesale manufacturer and distributor of all-natural dog treats, has been featured in several national publications, and radio and television programs.
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The Babcock School offers full-time, weekend executive and evening MBA programs in Winston-Salem, an MBA program in Charlotte, and custom, nondegree executive education programs in Charlotte and Winston-Salem. Information about the Babcock School is available on the World Wide Web at www.mba.wfu.edu.
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