The mission of the Expert-in-Residence Program at Shenandoah University is to enhance the academic excellence of the Shenandoah University School of Business through the practical experience of its team of highly experienced business executives. As a faculty, we believe students deserve a school that has built strong relationships with the business community and assists them in their transition into the business world.
Clyde Lamond has served as the Executive in Residence for the Shenandoah University School of Business since the fall of 2014.
In his role as Executive in Residence, Clyde has had such a tremendously positive impact on our students. Whether in the area of management, banking or marketing, Clyde’s perspective is much appreciated by students and faculty alike. Through his mentoring and guest lecturing, he has been an integral part of the transformative experiences that we strive to provide for our students. His enthusiasm and passion for educating young minds is a true inspiration for all of us here in the School of Business.
Bogdan Daraban | Acting Dean of the Shenandoah University School of Business
Mr. Lamond graduated from the American Institute of Banking in Washington, DC, with a dual major in commercial lending and investments. He later went on to receive his broker, auctioneer, and real estate licenses.
Mr. Lamond comes to us with an extensive financial and regulatory background, having founded Harvest Bancorp, Inc., Hamilton, Virginia, as Chairman and CEO. He was a National Bank Examiner with the Comptroller of the Currency, Washington, DC. Additional banking involvements included President and Chairman of Community Bankers of Northern Virginia, a Director of Virginia Bankers Association and an Instructor at the American Institute of Banking.
Entrepreneurial accomplishments included founding Director of Leesburg Today, a weekly periodical; founding President and Trustee of the Loudoun Education Foundation, Leesburg, Virginia; and CEO and Partner in the Western Loudoun Warehouse Group.
Agrarian-related activities included Director of Atlantic Rural Exposition for Strawberry Hill, Virginia State Fair and Cultural Center, Richmond, Virginia, Chairman of the Education and Audit Committees; Director and President of Northern Virginia Angus Association as well as a Director of the Virginia Angus Association, founding Director of the Atlantic National Angus Cattle Show in Timonium, Maryland, and proprietor of Clyde’s Cuts, a custom meat business.
Mr. Lamond’s public service included the gubernatorial appointment as the Executive Director of the Virginia Student Loan Authority; the initiation of the first United Way Campaign in Loudoun County, Virginia; guest speaker at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia; Trustee, Treasurer, and Investment Committee member, Foxcroft School, Middleburg, Virginia.
Community service included church vestryman, Chair of Finance Committee and Treasurer; founding Director of Clarke County Rotary Club and Paul Harris Fellow.
J. Knox Singleton, the newly retired chief executive officer of Inova, has joined the school as its healthcare executive-in-residence.
On April 6, 2018, Singleton retired from his position at Inova, the Washington, D.C., region’s leading not-for-profit health care system that serves more than two million people annually.
Knox brings an extraordinary wealth of experience and knowledge of the healthcare industry and therefore serves as a valuable resource for students and faculty in the area of healthcare leadership. In his role, Mr. Singleton is a wonderful mentor and inspiration to our students, and his insights are instrumental in ensuring that our program offerings in the area of healthcare leadership are relevant, innovative and aligned with industry demands. We are very fortunate to have Mr. Singleton on our team.”
Bogdan Daraban | Acting Dean of the Shenandoah University School of Business
Singleton joined Inova in 1983, taking it from a three-hospital, $500 million organization to a $3.5 billion health care system with five hospitals and more than 100 ambulatory service locations. Inova is considered a leader in genomics and personalized health, which uses an individual’s genetic makeup to predict and prevent disease.
Inova and Shenandoah have a relationship that spans more than 20 years, including Inova’s commitment to invest $5 million to support Shenandoah-led educational programs at the Inova Center for Personalized Health in Fairfax, Virginia, including programs in public health and nursing.
The School of Business, which has a variety of areas of study, offers an undergraduate program in health care management as well as a graduate certificate in health care management.
Singleton, who was named CEO of the year in 2015 by the Washington Business Journal, also gives back to communities locally and abroad, serving on a number of boards, and as the co-founder of both the Global Good Fund and the Community Coalition for Haiti, for which he is also a past president.
Singleton is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of North Carolina, where he earned a Bachelor of Science degree in Business Administration in 1970. He received a master’s degree in Health Administration from Duke University in 1973.
Businessman Dan Kaseman is bringing his industry knowledge to the Shenandoah University School of Business as its newest executive in residence.
The Shenandoah students are as bright and driven as any I have encountered. It’s an honor to work in this high-energy environment. I hope I can give them some real-world experience and help them build confidence.”
Dan Kaseman | Executive in Residence
In 1987 Dan founded The Kaseman Companies, a diverse group of engineering, technical, professional, IT, security, construction and staffing firms with close to 300 employees around the world. The company portfolio included: ALEX, Inc. – a staffing firm focused in the Engineering, Technical and Professional arenas, KASEMAN, LLC – a project management company with expertise in engineering, training, security, and construction, and TMSI – an IT consulting company.
After the sale of The Kaseman Companies in 2008, he purchased Middleburg Real Estate. As managing partner and co-owner of Middleburg Real Estate and the new brand of Atoka Properties – a residential and commercial real estate brokerage firm, he oversaw growth from one office with 4 agents to four offices with over 70 agents serving Northern Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.
Upon the sale of his interest in Middleburg Real Estate in 2018, Dan began Kaseman Capital Partners which owns, operates and invests in real estate projects and properties.
He serves on the board of NOVA Parks, which oversees 13,000 acres of parkland in Arlington, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties and the cities of Alexandria, Falls Church and Fairfax.
Dan is also on the Accessible Campus Initiative and Hendricks Chapel Advisory Board at Syracuse University.
He resides in Purcellville, Virginia with his wife, Dr. Theresa Fahy and has two grown children, Mac and Erin.
Kaseman has worked with Assistant Dean of Student Affairs Fritz Polite, Ph.D. as a guest lecturer in Polite’s classes. He has handled topics such as introduction to management, globalization, communications, marketing, team building, opportunity, career advancement/graduate degrees and more. He was also part of the Shenandoah team that went to PyeongChang, South Korea, for the Winter Olympics and has visited corporate management for the Pittsburgh Steelers and Pirates. He has also been part of Shenandoah’s Leadership and Mentoring Program (LAMP), mentoring students for the past three years.
I selected Shenandoah because of the welcoming and professional atmosphere, and I have been treated as a real asset. After being here, it’s the engagement with the students that drives me. I love it when they seek me out for advice.”
Dan Kaseman | Executive in Residence