Fraternity
The Executive Committee (Board of Directors) meets at least four times per year and via conference calls in the intervening months between quarterly meetings. It has general supervision of the Fraternity during the recess of the Grand Chapter and Grand Council.
The Executive Committee is composed of 12 members. The Grand Consul serves as chairman and the Grand Pro Consul as vice chairman. Other members are the Grand Quaestor, the immediate Past Grand Consul, a Grand Trustee nominated by the Board of Grand Trustees, two Grand Praetors nominated by the Grand Praetors, one alumnus member-at-large and the two most recent International Balfour Award winners. These nine members serve for two years. Two undergraduate representatives also serve one-year terms on the committee.
The committee directs the Fraternity budget and expenditures, acts upon recommendations and reports from the various boards and committees and, in coordination with the Executive Director, assigns duties to the International Headquarters staff. It administers the endowment and trust funds of the Fraternity and establishes Executive Committee Regulations, which are a part of the Governing Laws.
The committee makes recommendations concerning undergraduate chapter problems, and may place on probation or suspend any undergraduate chapter charter. It investigates petitions for undergraduate chapter charters, and grants charters to alumni chapters and associations. It has appellate jurisdiction over the suspension or expulsion of members with authority to reinstate and the power to try any member for offenses specified in the Constitution and Statutes.
Additional duties of the committee include scheduling Grand Chapter and Grand Council meetings; determining province boundaries and their makeup; making contracts and regulations regarding the use, manufacture, sale and distribution of Fraternity insignia; and designing a uniform system of bookkeeping, records-keeping, minutes-recording, house rules and scholarship regulations. The members of the committee are also the directors of the Sigma Chi Corporation.
Seventy-third Grand Consul Wilson, FORT HAYS 1981, was initiated into the Fraternity on May 6, 1978. He holds a bachelor of arts degree in political science and a bachelor of science degree in economics, as well as a master’s degree in international economics from the University of Denver.
Wilson has served the General Fraternity in a variety of capacities at both the international and province levels. While at the University of Denver, he served as chapter advisor and was the secretary-treasurer with the Denver Alumni Chapter. He first became a Grand Praetor for the Rocky Mountain province in 1997 and held that role for 10 years. While as Grand Praetor, Wilson helped reactivate the Pikes Peak Region Alumni Chapter.
He has served on numerous committees, including as chairman of the Peterson Award Review Committee, International Balfour Award Selection Committee, New Chapter Development Committee, Mission 365 Committee and Alumni Engagement Committee, as well as being a member of the Significant Sig Awards Committee, Ritual Peers Committee and the Membership Review Team.
Wilson has served as a summer workshop facilitator in the Quaestor, Magister and Recruitment faculty teams, and he earned the William H. Carlisle Jr. Outstanding Workshop Faculty Award in 1998. He has served as an Officer Training Academy faculty member and being an executive committee member for the Adaptive Leadership and Authentic Leadership courses within the Transformational Leader program. Wilson also became a Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit program facilitator in its inaugural year.
Wilson was inducted into the Order of Constantine in 2003.
Professionally, Wilson started his commodity trading career while in graduate school and is a founding partner in hedgersedge.com, a consulting firm for the agri-business industry.
Ryan Temby, RUTGERS 1990, served as Consul of the Theta Sigma Chi colony for 2 years, and was later named a founder of the Iota Psi chapter. As an undergraduate, he founded and incorporated the Rutgers house corporation. Continuing his support of Sigma Chi as an alumnus, he was a chapter risk manager for five years and a chapter advisor, as well as is a facilitator for the Balfour Leadership Training Workshop, Mission 365 recruitment training workshop, Crossroads drug and alcohol program, and Journey chapter development program. He serves on the New Chapter Development Committee and the Derby Days Committee, and is the Grand Praetor of the Southern Ohio province.
Temby began working for Hewlett Packard in 1998 and held many positions in the company. He is currently a vice president of PCMS Datafit. He married his wife, Heather, in 1996, and has two children, Matt and Eryn. He also serves on the Zoning Appeals Board Committee in Powell, Ohio, and enjoys hunting, fishing, and playing video games in his spare time.
Shaver has served as the CEO and president of Affinity Consultants in Carlsbad, Calif., since 1997. With Affinity, Dan leads a team that provides proven licensing and marketing solutions for North America’s leading fraternities, sororities, honorary societies and affinity-rich organizations. He worked as director of marketing for Sigma Chi Headquarters for seven years as well.
Within Sigma Chi, Dan has chaired the Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit Operating Board and served as a volunteer committee member. He also has served as chairman of the Philanthropy Committee for the Sigma Chi Fraternity. Dan helped establish the Cal. State-San Marcos undergraduate chapter in 2015, and he currently is working with the San Diego State undergraduate chapter and its installation. In 2008, he received the Fraternity’s Mark V. Anderson Character-in-Action™ Leadership Award. He was inducted to the Order of Constantine in 2016. He was elected Grand Quaestor on June 23, 2023, during the 84th Grand Chapter in Toronto.
Dan also loves teaching, serving as session coordinator and guide at Sigma Chi’s annual Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit in Snowbird, Utah.
Order of Constantine Sig D. Timothy Sanderson, WESTERN ONTARIO 1985, was initiated into Sigma Chi on Dec. 3, 1983. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in economics from the University of Western Ontario and earned the Certified Financial Analyst (CFA) designation from the CFA Institute in 1994. He has served the General Fraternity in a variety of capacities at both the international and province levels. Sanderson was the founding chapter advisor for the former chapter at Bishop’s University in Sherbrooke, Quebec, from 1986 to 1990; Grand Praetor for the former Ontario-Quebec province from 1993 to 2003; and has 25 years of volunteer service within the Ontario province.
Internationally, Sanderson has provided mentorship and officer-specific training to undergraduates at the Balfour Leadership Training Workshop since 1987, and has served as team lead for the workshop’s Quaestor division since 2007. He has served the Sigma Chi Canadian Foundation as a board member from 1995 to 2015; as vice chairman from 2000 to 2003; and as its chairman from 2003 to 2013. He has also loaned his services to the Sigma Chi Foundation Board of Governors from 2005 to 2013. He was elected as the Fraternity’s 72nd Grand Consul in June 2021 during the 83rd Grand Chapter in Scottsdale, Arizona. He is the third Canadian member to hold the Fraternity’s highest office.
Professionally, Sanderson is the managing director of Tapiola Holdings Ltd., in Toronto, and has more than 25 years experience as a professional Money Manager.
Asher Kalef, CAL. STATE-SAN BERNARDINO 2011, was initiated into the Fraternity on June 6, 2009, and became Consul of his chapter the following year. After graduating, he immediately joined the Cal. State-San Bernardino chapter advisor’s board and eventually became assistant chapter advisor. After attending Alumni Facilitation Training at the 2012 Balfour Leadership Training Workshop (LTW), now called the Krach Transformational Leaders Workshop, he began facilitating Journey chapter development programs in his area. In 2013, he joined the Consul faculty team at Balfour LTW, which he now serves as vice chairman. In 2014, he became a Ritual Peer and Assistant Grand Praetor, and in 2015, was elected Grand Praetor of the Southern California province. In the 2017 to 2019 biennium, he served on the Chapter and Member Accountability Committee and Mission 365 recruitment training workshop committee, and became a Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit Guide — facilitating at the summit for the first time in June 2019. His favorite moment as a Grand Praetor so far was the installation of Cal. State-San Marcos chapter in November 2015.
Professionally, Kalef is a strategic account manager for Anaheim Broadcasting Co., focusing on new business development, customer service and market research. In his free time — of which Sigma Chi takes a lot of — he enjoys travel, golf and anything to do with cars.
Kotz was initiated into the Fraternity in 1978. As an undergraduate, he served his chapter as Consul and Magister. He has been Grand Praetor for the Southwestern province since 2012 and has served as a faculty member at the Balfour Leadership Training Workshop and the Krach Transformational Leaders Workshop since 2002. He is a certified Ritual Peer and has been a member of the Fraternity’s Chapter and Member Accountability Committee. Kotz was inducted to the Order of Constantine in 2020.
In his professional life, Kotz is an Assistant United States Attorney for the District of New Mexico.
Crossan was elected as alumnus member-at-large to the Executive Committee on June 23, 2023, during the 84th Grand Chapter in Toronto. He previously served as Grand Trustee of the Rocky Mountain region from 2021 to 2023. Crossan has been a member of the Fraternity’s alumni services committee, a member of the former Balfour Leadership Training Workshop Operating Board and a facilitator for the Krach Transformational Leaders Workshop. He also was a member of the 2015 Grand Chapter planning committee where he designed and built the event’s website. Crossan has been a member of the Fraternity’s San Diego Alumni Chapter since 2002, serving as president, information technology officer, historian, membership chairman, and activities chairman at various times. He additionally was president of the house corporation at his alma mater, Western Illinois University, from 1997 to 2000 and at San Diego State University from 2013 to 2014 and 2019 to 2021. Crossan was inducted to the Order of Constantine in 2016.
Crossan owns and operates CreativeSights, a web design/development agency and business consulting company based in San Diego.
Park was initiated Dec. 6, 1983, at the Zeta Pi chapter at Texas A&M-Kingsville. During his undergraduate days he served as recruitment chairman, Magister, Pro Consul and Consul. He was honored to serve as Pro Consul for the installation of the Theta Tau chapter at Texas State University in 1987. After graduation, he joined the Zeta Pi house corporation as its treasurer and has held that role since 1996. He was vice chairman of the 75th Anniversary Houston Alumni Chapter Wild Game Dinner and chairman of the Zeta Pi chapter’s 50th anniversary committee. He was a Mission 365 recruitment training program board member from 2009 until 2018. He additionally has served as a facilitator for the Krach Transformational Leaders Workshop and former Balfour Leadership Training Workshop. Presently, he is chairman of the Fraternity’s audit committee and Grand Trustee for the state of Texas. In 2017, he was inducted in the Order of Constantine.
Professionally, Brother Park is Regional President of South Texas of Prosperity Bank and has been in banking for over 35 years. In addition to volunteering for Sigma Chi, Park has chaired numerous non-profit boards such as the Community Food Bank of the Golden Crescent, YMCA of the Golden Crescent, the Victoria 100 Club, United Way of the Crossroads, Perpetual Help Home, Associated Builders and Contractors and has served appointments to special committees in the South Texas area.
He has been married for 30 years to his wife, Patsy, and they are blessed with a daughter, Morgan. In his spare time, Kelly enjoys hunting, fishing and travel.
Cathey graduated from Texas Tech University with a degree in biology and a minor in chemistry and general business and will return to Texas Tech for the university’s medical school program. Drawn to helping others, Cathey’s volunteer and work efforts were concentrated in the medical field. He helped administer COVID-19 tests and vaccinations, taught EMT and EKG courses and worked in various clinics, among others. On campus, Cathey served as the vice president of judicial affairs for the Interfraternity Council at his college and participated in a published research paper to study the biological mechanisms underlying fertility and conception. In his chapter, Cathey served as Pro Consul and risk manager, and attended the Horizons Huntsman Leadership Summit.
Brown graduated from DePaul University in Chicago with a degree in political science and minors in history and Russian language. He WAS a member of the Army ROTC and, upon graduation, plans to commission into the Army as an active-duty military intelligence officer=. While in the Army ROTC, he served as the program’s battalion commander and is the first DePaul cadet to be appointed to this position in a large battalion of cadets from five different Chicago-area schools. Brown also held several leadership positions on campus. He was elected Consul of his chapter his junior year and has held various student government positions, including serving as chief of staff, where he led multiple critical student initiatives.
Shuron was initiated into the Fraternity’s Lambda Kappa chapter on March 26th, 2022. Originally from Camillus, he is a 4th year student at RIT pursuing his Bachelors and Masters in Mechanical Engineering. Within his chapter, he is the current Consul and has also served as Annotator and Chapter Editor. For the International Fraternity, he currently serves as a Ritual Peer for the Psi Psi chapter, and is a member of the Ritual Education Committee. On campus he is the current Student Body President, and is the former Student Government Director of Operations and the Interfraternity Council Vice President of Judicial Affairs. In his professional experience he has worked as an engineering intern at Toyota, GE Vernova, and TTM Technologies. After graduation he plans to pursue a role mixing design and management.
The Grand Praetor, one for each province, is nominated by one or more delegates elected by the undergraduate chapters in the province, and elected to a two–year term by the Grand Chapter. Grand Praetors advise chapters in their respective provinces, maintain general knowledge of their condition, and endeavor to improve their standing in scholarship, morals and discipline. They are required to visit each chapter at least once a year, and to report their observations and recommendations in writing to the Executive Committee. They are empowered to enforce the Fraternity’s Governing Laws and Ritual in province chapters.
Grand Praetors appoint one or more chapter advisors for each chapter, review chapter reports and applications submitted to the General Fraternity and schedule a yearly conference of all undergraduate chapters in their province. They also ensure that each chapter administers the official pledge examination. The Grand Praetor reviews the academic average of men proposed for Initiation and ensures each man has met university and Sigma Chi requirements.
Each Grand Praetor appoints an undergraduate member from his province for representation in the Grand Council. The undergraduate chapters in each province nominate these undergraduate members.
The Grand Praetors are known officially as the “Praetorial College.” At each meeting of the Grand Chapter, they elect a chairman who is known as the Dean of the Praetorial College. The Grand Consul may appoint an assistant Grand Praetor in a province, with all of the powers of the Grand Praetor except voting membership in the Grand Council.
The Sigma Chi Board of Grand Trustees has faithfully served the Fraternity since its creation at the 1903 Grand Chapter in Detroit. As senior, elected volunteer officers there are 18 Grand Trustees at any given time. Their role continually evolves to meet the ever-changing needs of volunteers and staff within the organization.
Most importantly, today the Grand Trustees serve as liaisons to any person, corporation or association holding any interest in real property, for the purposes of benefiting our members. With years of professional experience and service to Sigma Chi — in capacities ranging from real estate and accounting to business management and education — the Grand Trustees offer a unique skillset and are ready support Sigma Chi’s housing efforts.
The Grand Trustees also serve our active members, supporting effective operations and governance, and, as members of the Grand Council, can be called on to assist the Executive Committee and other staff members in areas related to their specific expertise. They proudly represent the International Fraternity at events such as chapter house dedications, chapter installations and alumni functions, promoting the interests of Sigma Chi before academic communities and the public-at-large.
The Board of Grand Trustees presents this annual two- to three-day event devoted to the concerns of house corporation officers.
Topics include: knowing your customer, corporate governance issues, fundraising, how to attract volunteers, chapter house maintenance and risk management.
Most of the program’s cost is underwritten by Sigma Chi and is generously funded by Constantine Capital Inc. Space is limited and priority is given to house corporation officers who have not attended a previous seminar.
Each year, Sigma Chi house corporations are asked to submit information to the Grand Trustees that includes:
The Sig House is a website and quarterly newsletter that is produced and maintained by the Board of Grand Trustees for Sigma Chi house corporations and others interested in chapter house operations.
