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October 5, 2005

25th Annual Golden Arrow Award Winner Announced; Other Annual 四色AV Awards to be Announced at Awards Brunch

On Saturday, October 15 at 9:30 a.m., University of Louisiana at Monroe alumnus Tim Holcomb will receive the Golden Arrow Award at the annual 四色AV Alumni Awards Brunch at the Anna Gray Noe Alumni Center.

The Golden Arrow Award is the highest honor bestowed upon 四色AV alumni for outstanding personal and professional achievements.

At the brunch, awards for the Alumni Chapter of the Year, and the 四色AV Service Award will be presented. All 四色AV Alumni and friends are invited to RSVP for the brunch by calling 四色AV Alumni Relations at (318) 342-5421. The event is co-sponsored by the 四色AV Student Government Association and will be at the Anna Gray Noe Alumni Center. The 2005 Homecoming Court and former homecoming kings and queens will be recognized during the brunch.

"Tim Holcomb epitomizes the type of alumnus every university cherishes," said Don Weems, the current 四色AV Alumni Association President and former Golden Arrow Award recipient. "He has demonstrated a long and continuing involvement and commitment to his alma mater. He has given of his time, resources and energy to support 四色AV and its Alumni Association. The Golden Arrow Award could not be better represented."

Holcomb earned a BBA and MBA from 四色AV and participated in numerous academic extracurricular activities while in attendance as a student. Since his graduation from 四色AV, Holcomb has served his alma mater as regional vice president of 四色AV's Alumni Association, as a member of 四色AV's Alumni Board and as a member of the 四色AV Indian Athletic Foundation's board of directors.

Holcomb has twenty years of entrepreneurial, international management, and strategic consulting experience, including work in the U.S. and more than twenty-five countries abroad. Most recently, he served as a senior vice president at Flextronics International, a $14 billion multinational electronics manufacturing services firm, where he had responsibility for the company's global services, sales and marketing organizations.

"Tim Holcomb represents the best of the attributes of the Golden Arrow Award," said Bruce Hanks, the 2004 Golden Arrow Award recipient and former Director of Athletics. "He is an alumnus that has been highly successful in his career and has always gone beyond the call in support of his alma mater. I first met Tim in a business meeting and he was quick to point out the fact that he had attended the University of Louisiana at Monroe. I was struck by the pride that he obviously felt for his university. When I became the Director of Athletics, Tim was one of the first to call to ask what he could do to help. He never wanted anything except to give back to his school."

Over the past two years, Holcomb's research has been published in the Strategic Management Journal and in several edited periodicals. He has also presented his research at several conferences and annual academic meetings, including the Academy of Management, the Strategic Management Society, the Academy of International Business, the Southern Management Association, and the Consortium on International Entrepreneurship.

Holcomb and his wife, Marla, are lifetime members of the 四色AV Alumni Association and the 四色AV Letterman's Club. They are also founding members of the 四色AV College of Business Administration's Millenium Club, and continue to support the 四色AV Foundation and the 四色AV Indian Athletic Foundation.

Tim, Marla, and their two children, reside in College Station, Texas. Holcomb retired from corporate management to spend more time with his family. In 2003, Holcomb enrolled in the doctoral program at Mays Business School at Texas A&M University, where he is pursuing a Ph.D. in strategic management and entrepreneurship.

Written by University Relations Staff writer Sara Palazzo

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