James E. Whaley is president of the Siemens Foundation. He joined the Foundation as vice president in 2004, and he also serves as director of public affairs for Siemens Corporation. Under his tenure, the Foundation expanded its Siemens Awards for Advanced Placement program to all fifty states. The Foundation also launched Siemens Teacher Scholarships in collaboration with the Thurgood Marshall Scholarship Fund and United Negro College Fund. This initiative awards college scholarships to encourage minority students at Historically Black Colleges and Universities to pursue teaching careers in science and math. Previously Mr. Whaley was director of communications at the United States Military Academy at West Point. He has more than twenty years of management experience that includes integrated marketing, strategic communications, media relations, internal communications, crisis communications, and community relations. Mr. Whaley earned a bachelor’s degree from Lock Haven University in 1984 and an MBA from Embry Riddle Aeronautical University, Frankfurt, Germany, in 1989.