New Divisions at Embry-Riddle

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Two Veteran Embry-Riddle Vice Presidents Head New Divisions

Daytona Beach, Fla., July 12, 2006 -- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University has created two new divisions in its effort to reorganize functions and seek savings across the university. They are University Relations, headed by Ken Stackpoole, and Global Planning and Program Development, headed by John Metzner.

Stackpoole, who was vice president of Government Relations for the past three years, has been named vice president of the University Relations division, which encompasses university-level public relations, brand and image marketing, government relations, and corporate relations.

Metzner, who most recently served as vice president of External Relations, will be responsible for Global Planning and Program Development. Among his projects is the Daytona Beach Research Park being proposed by the university to help attract large and small corporations to the local area. The park would be adjacent to both Daytona Beach International Airport and Embry-Riddle. Metzner is also the university’s emissary on international development projects.

Stackpoole has been at Embry-Riddle for 25 years. One of his high-profile projects in recent years was to organize the Southeast SATS Lab Consortium, which involved Florida industry, universities, and governments in NASA’s Small Aircraft Transportation System program.

Before that, he was special assistant to the president, chairman of the Flight Technology department, an instructor pilot, pilot examiner, faculty member, and speaker of the Faculty Senate. He served on the boards of the Florida Aviation Trades Association, the Florida Aviation & Aerospace Alliance, and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce. He is also active with the National Research Council’s Transportation Research Board as the chair of the Committee on Intergovernmental Relations in Aviation.

Stackpoole earned a B.S. and an M.S. in Aeronautical Science at Embry-Riddle and a Ph.D. in Public Affairs at the University of Central Florida.

Before rejoining Embry-Riddle in 2003, Metzner spent 12 years abroad. In Germany, he was the managing director of MCI Engineering. He helped establish the Technology Parks in Abu Dhabi and Dubai for the Higher Colleges of Technology, which attracted 20 companies to set up business, training, and product-development operations.

In previous positions at Embry-Riddle during the early 1990s, Metzner was director of International Program Development and director of the Aviation English Language Program.

Metzner has a B.A. in History, English, and Education and an M.A. in English Literature, both from Midwestern University.

Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, the world’s largest, fully accredited university specializing in aviation and aerospace, offers more than 30 degree programs in its colleges of Arts and Sciences, Aviation, Business, and Engineering. Embry-Riddle educates more than 32,000 students annually in undergraduate and graduate programs at residential campuses in Prescott, Ariz., and Daytona Beach, Fla., through the Extended Campus at more than 130 centers in the United States, Canada, Europe, and the Middle East, and through distance learning.