Hall of Fame
64th Grand Consul Keith Krach, Former Chairman and CEO of DocuSign and Ariba, and Former Under Secretary for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment, presents the inaugural Delta Eta Hall of Fame Award to none other than Order of Constantine and longstanding proud Delta Eta Housing Association President, Dick “Bulldog” Barley
On March 3rd, 2023, undergraduate leaders inducted Chuck Adams, William McGinley, and Ted Ackerley into the new Delta Eta Hall of Fame
Founded in 2022 by the Delta Eta Housing Association and the Bruin Sig Foundation, the Delta Eta Hall of Fame honors Sigma Chi Brothers for outstanding lifetime achievements and service to the Chapter and the community.
Sigma Chi is built on a commitment to personal excellence and service to others. Our distinguished alumni have furthered these goals throughout our history, as have the Brothers of the Delta Eta Chapter since its founding in 1947.
Each inductee to the Delta Eta Hall of Fame has—in his own field and his own ways—contributed his considerable time and talent in the service of others. Each has brought honor to our Fraternity.
Congratulations to those who have been inducted into the Delta Eta Hall of Fame, and thank you for all that you do for Sigma Chi! Your portrait, name, and biography will now be displayed prominently on a plaque in the Chapter house.
HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2022
Dick “Bulldog” Barley, ILLINOIS WESLEYAN 1954
HALL OF FAME CLASS OF 2023
Santiago Fernandez
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1976
Fernandez has been responsible for handling all legal affairs of MLB’s Los Angeles Dodgers for more than 32 years. As the team’s senior vice president and general counsel, he has negotiated and drafted contracts with the team’s broadcasting partners, licensed the team’s intellectual properties and helped lease Dodger Stadium for concerts, films and other non-baseball events. In 2002, the Los Angeles chapter of the University of California, Hastings College of the Law named him its alumnus of the year.
Harmon Brown
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1976
Brown is an estate planner whose nationwide practice has helped clients plan for the transfer of their assets in tax-efficient and practical ways. He focuses on advising business owners in management and ownership succession by restructuring business entities, creating incentive compensation plans for management, designing voting arrangements and creating wealth-transfer vehicles. He has also assisted families in designing individual trusts to manage assets with investment advisors, business operation managers and trustees.
Timothy Powers
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1977
Powers is managing partner of Haynes and Boone, LLP, an AmLaw 100 firm. As chief executive of the firm, he chairs its executive committee and board of directors. He is consistently ranked in Chambers USA as one of America’s leading lawyers for business and as one of the “Best Lawyers in America.” He is an executive board member at Southern Methodist University Dedman School of Law and is on the board of directors of the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the Dallas Committee on Foreign Relations.
John Plueger
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1977
Plueger is CEO, president and a member of the board of directors of Air Lease Corp., an aircraft leasing company based in Los Angeles. Plueger has 31 years of aviation industry and aircraft leasing experience, 24 of which were with International Lease Finance Corp., where he served on the board of directors as president and chief operating officer and then acting CEO prior to joining Air Lease Corp. in March 2010. He also has testified before the U.S. House of Representatives as an aircraft leasing expert and answered formal inquiries from the European Commission about aerospace industry-related mergers and acquisitions.
Dudley Slater
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1979
Slater has been an industry advisor since 2016 for Stockholm-based EQT Partners, one of the 10 largest private equity firms in the world. In 1998, he co-founded Integra Telecom Inc., a landline/fiber network provider based in Vancouver, Washington. He has served as Integra’s CEO, vice chairman and director, and he was recognized in 2011 as an Ernst & Young LLP Entrepreneur of the Year for the Pacific Northwest region. He is a member of the boards of directors of AVI-SPL, a video conferencing and enterprise collaboration company based in Tampa, Florida, and WOW, one of the United States’ largest cable operators.
Dan Meyer, MD
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1979
In his career as a physician and surgeon, Meyer has been named the Sarah M. and Charles E. Seay Distinguished Chair in Thoracic Surgery at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center; served as director of the Mechanical Assist Program and associate director of pulmonary transplantation at the University of Texas Southwestern/St. Paul Medical Center and Baylor University Medical Center; and served as a diplomat of the American Board of Thoracic Surgery and American Board of Surgery. His community work includes involvement with Camp John Mark for Special Kids and teaching in the public science program with the University of Texas’ Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas and the D3ll3s Independent School District.
Donald Slaught
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1980
of Arlington, Texas, is the catcher and a consistent .300 hitter for the Pittsburgh Pirates. His batting average contributed to the Pirates’ winning their division championship for three years. His major league career covers 11 seasons with the Pirates, Kansas City Royals, Texas Rangers and New York Yankees. He has also been among the leaders in the American League in catchers’ fielding percentages.
Art Winkleblack
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1979
Winkleblack has been senior adviser to the CEO at Ritchie Brothers Auctioneers since 2014. He is also a member of the board of directors for Wendy’s, Church and Dwight Co., and Performance Food Group. Winkleblack is chairman of the audit committee at both Wendy’s and Performance Food Group, and is chairman of the compensation committee at Church and Dwight Co. He served the H.J. Heinz Co. as its executive vice president and chief financial officer from 2002 to 2013, and in 2011 was ranked as the No. 1 CFO in the food industry by Institutional Investor magazine.
Paul Hering
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1983
Hering is CEO of Barney and Barney Insurance Services, and a senior executive of the Marsh and McLennan Agency. In those roles, he is responsible for setting strategy and managing operations in California, Arizona, Nevada, Oregon, Washington and Alaska. He is also a member of Marsh and McLennan’s steering committee. Since joining Barney and Barney in 1985, he has helped transform it into one of the most successful business insurance brokerages in the U.S.
Mark Douglass
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1981
Douglass is a managing director, private wealth advisor and sports and entertainment director with Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management division. He and his business partners and team are responsible for $45 billion in assets under their care. Both Barron’s and Forbes have recognized Douglass as one of the financial service industry’s top advisors. In addition, Douglass is co-chair of the Morgan Stanley Private Wealth Management Advisory Council and active with local organizations, including Junior Achievement of Northern California. He is a former member of the board of trustees and audit chair for Menlo School in Atherton, California.
William Miller
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1989
Miller has been an umpire for Major League Baseball for 24 years and a crew chief since 2014. He has been selected to umpire the 2010, 2013 and 2017 World Series; six league championship series; six division series; four wild-card playoff games; the 2007 All-Star Game; and the World Baseball Classic in 2009 and 2013. He also volunteers his time with UMPS CARE Charities, a nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching the lives of at-risk youth, children coping with serious illness and military families by providing memorable baseball experiences and financial support to children who have been adopted later in life.
John Ireland
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1985
Ireland is the radio play-by-play announcer for the Los Angeles Lakers. He also co-hosts a Monday through Friday sports talk show and the Mason & Ireland Show on Los Angeles’ KSPN-AM radio. Ireland has had a long career in sports news and radio, with experience on Fox Sports Network and in play-by-play and sideline work with the Los Angeles Clippers, UCLA football and UCLA basketball. He has raised significant funds for Autism Speaks and is a board member of Team Prime Time, an organization that helps mentally disabled children play sports at the middle school and high school level. In 2016, Ireland was named Orange County Youth Sports Foundation Sportsman of the Year.
Chuck Adams
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1991
A partner and managing director at Goldman Sachs, Adams heads the West Region in health care banking. In this role, he advises clients in the life sciences and health care sectors. Prior to joining Goldman, Adams received his MBA from the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School and was managing director at Morgan Stanley. He is on multiple boards, including Los Angeles County’s The Music Center and The People Concern, Ocean Park Community Center, and Saint John’s Hospital and Health Center Foundation.
John Mapes
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1990
Mapes is a partner of Aurora Capital Group in Los Angeles – a position he has held since 2000; managing partner of Aurora’s private equity practice since 2005; and chairman of the firm’s investment committee. Prior to joining Aurora in 1992, Mapes was a financial analyst in the corporate finance department at Salomon Brothers Inc., where he specialized in the evaluation of companies for potential financings and mergers, from 1990 to 1992. Maples received his MBA from Harvard in 1995.
William McGinley
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1991
McGinley is a principal of the Vogel Group, a lobbying and advisory firm, and a partner at the law firm Holtzman, Vogel, Josefiak, Torchinsky. Prior to this work in government affairs and law, McGinley served as assistant to President Donald Trump and was White House Cabinet secretary from Jan. 20, 2017, to July 19, 2019. In this role he was responsible for managing the Office of Cabinet Affairs and served as the primary liaison between the White House and the Cabinet.
Brad Daluiso
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1991
Daluiso is a financial advisor and financial planning specialist with the Scott Group at Morgan Stanley Smith Barney. Prior to joining the Scott Group, Daluiso was a kicker in the NFL for 10 years, playing with teams including the Buffalo Bills, Denver Broncos and New York Giants. He played in the 1992 Super Bowl with the Buffalo Bills and the 2001 Super Bowl with the New York Giants. Daluiso is a member of the Century Club of San Diego, which administers and promotes San Diego’s annual PGA Tour event, and is the founder of the Brad Daluiso Golf Classic, which raises money for scholarships and athletic programs at Grossmont College.
Robert Myers
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1999
Myers has been general manager of the NBA’s Golden State Warriors since 2012. He was named NBA Executive of the Year for the 2014-15 and 2016-17 seasons. Before joining the Warriors, he was a managing executive at Wasserman Media Group, a Los Angeles-based sports marketing and talent management company. Earlier, he served as vice president of Washington, D.C.-based SFX Sports Group Inc., also a sports marketing and talent management company. Myers serves on the board of directors of the Warriors Community Foundation, an organization that supports education and youth development to promote thriving students, schools and communities.
Ted Ackerley
CALIFORNIA-LOS ANGELES 1991
Ackerley, with his brother and fellow Significant Sig Chris, is a co-founder and managing director of investment holding company Ackerley Partners. He is a minority owner of the Seattle Kraken NHL team. He is an investor in the startup, Tomo, a digital mortgage company, and serves on the boards of Audiosocket, LOANtuitive, Subject Pictures and the Seattle SeaDogs rugby team. He is a director of the Ackerley Foundation and a member of the Community Council of Seattle.
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