Business Achievement Award Recipients - 2013
The Business Achievement Award honors individuals for significant achievement in business through the traditional corporate route. The achievement may be demonstrated over a career or by a singular achievement that has advanced the field of business and contributed to a community and to humankind.
Louis V. Eccleston
President, S&P Capital IQ; Chairman of the Board, S&P Dow Jones Indices
Nominated by: La Salle University
Louis V. Eccleston, president of S&P Capital IQ and chairman of the board of S&P Dow Jones Indices, has nearly 30 years of business and leadership experience. In his roles with The McGraw-Hill Companies, Eccleston oversees S&P Capital IQ's provisions of multi-asset class data, research and analytics. He works with multiple investors, investment advisors and wealth managers from across the world, and every day, he is responsible for over 830,000 indices through S&P Dow Jones Indices.
Currently, Eccleston is a member of the Drew University Board of Trustees and is a longtime teaching volunteer, continuing to serve as an alumni lecturer for Drew University's annual Wall Street Semester program. He has also been named to the President's Circle at Drew University, recognizing him as a donor who has given lifetime gifts of $100,000 or more to the school. He is a member of La Salle University's Council of President's Associates and a chair of the La Salle University Business Advisory Board where he founded the Dean's Circle and the Economic Outlook Luncheon at the university. He was named a Beta Gamma Sigma Chapter Honoree at La Salle University in 2005.
Eccleston earned his bachelor's degree in economics from Drew University. He received his MBA in finance from La Salle University.
Jerry D. Fields
Founder, Chairman and CEO, JD Fields & Company, Inc.
Nominated by: Texas State University-San Marcos
Jerry D. Fields, the founder, chairman and CEO of JD Fields & Company, Inc., has created one of the largest distributors of steep products worldwide. Based in Houston, Texas, the company also has regional offices in Dallas, Tulsa, New Orleans, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles and Guadalajara, Mexico. JD Fields oversees $60 million in inventory in about 25 stocking locations, and it has sourced material from every continent except Antarctica. Each year, the company ships material from mill sources to customers all around the world.
Fields has received numerous awards and recognitions, including being a finalist for the 1989 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. JD Fields and Company was named one of the fastest growing companies in 1990 by Inc. Magazine and has been recognized for the last three years by the Houston Chronicle as one of Houston's Top 100 Private Companies.
Fields received his bachelor's degree in business from then Southwest Texas State University, now Texas State University.
Past Business Achievement Award Recipients
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