Executive VP & Chief HR Officer of Anthem Inc from 2001-13. Career Mentor and MBA Leadership Coach in Lacy School of Business since 2014. Certified Professional Coach. 

Ed Friel left the corporate world on a Friday in 2008, and joined Butler University the following Monday as an Executive Career Mentor. Ed started his business career in sales and marketing with Cummins Inc, Columbus IN. in 1964, and had been Vice President-Marketing for Cummins Crosspoint in Indianapolis since 1991.

I graduated with a Purdue degree in electrical engineering technology. I then spent 36 years at IBM first as an engineer then in sales, followed by a couple of other jobs outside of IBM. I enjoy bicycling, sailing, camping, traveling and helping students build their lives.

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Chad has been in IT since he was 13, teaching his first class to eight- and nine-year-old’s BASIC on Timex Sinclair Z80 computers. All the way through his undergraduate Integrated Science (ISP) and Mathematics double major at Northwestern, he worked with and around computers, landing a Systems Analyst role at Eli Lilly and Company right out of school. After six years at Lilly, he and his family took a brief side trip to Evansville, Indiana at the corporate offices of Shoe Carnival to help them out of a technical mess before returning to Indianapolis as a Systems Consultant with C/Soft (Haverstick) for a few years.

Teaching himself networking online and acquiring multiple Cisco networking certifications (CCNP, CCDP), Chad then jumped to a Network Engineer and Data and Networking Department Manager job at Communications Products where he enjoyed projects in telecommunications, networking and security for almost seven years. His first stint at Butler was coming on to join the IT team as a network engineer in 2006. After a few team lead roles in IT, he became the Director of Systems and Infrastructure in 2012 and then moved to Senior Director of Technology Development in 2014. In 2017, after working on a joint project, Chad left Butler to join Butler Business Consulting Group client MJ Insurance as their first Chief Information Officer. 

After guiding a complete technology restoration, and adapting MJ to remote work during the pandemic of 2020, he left after four years for a career change, completing a Masters’ degree in Educational Psychology and becoming an adjunct professor. He was hired full-time as a Lecturer in the Lacy School of Business at Butler in 2023.