Zeta Phi TKE Foundation

brian mccarthy

Brian K. McCarthy joined the Zeta-Phi chapter as an undergraduate in the Spring of 1996.  After graduation, he had the honor of serving as a Knight of Apollo for the Grand Chapter of TKE. 

During his two years of travel, he conducted 115 chapter visits at 90 campuses across the Southern United States.  He has continued to serve the Fraternity both at the local and national levels at every opportunity, and now proudly serves as the Chairman of the Zeta-Phi Board of Advisors.

Brian's career as a business process specialist has taken him around the globe, having lived in nine countries and visited 45 (so far). 

Now, Brian is a strategy and process improvement consultant, focused on the Oil & Gas industry.  He lives in Houston with his wife MJ, and their son, Flynn.

MBA, International MBA, Florida International University
BA, Latin American Caribbean Affairs, Rollins College

David Michail

David Michail has been both a Board Member and Hyperworks’ Chief Strategy Officer and General Counsel since 2019. Mr. Michail possesses over three decades of professional experience as a US based transactional lawyer, venture capitalist, serial entrepreneur and business executive. His particular areas of expertise rest in finance, M&A, operations and competitive strategy, and he has successfully navigated Hyperworks through a number of political, regulatory and commercial challenges since inception. Mr. Michail has lead thousands of transactions globally over the course of his career culminating in over $1 Billion in aggregate deal value. As a trusted and experienced business professional, Mr. Michail has served on several boards including Leonid Systems, Inc. (a telecommunications company sold to Broadsoft, Inc. (BSFT) in 2015) and Heramba, Plc, an Irish special purpose company that was part of a business combination entity for a DeSpac transaction in 2024. Mr. Michail is concurrently serving as a partner in Evergreen Mountain Equity Partners, an early stage VC fund located in Colorado.

John dick

John Dick is the Founder and CEO of CivicScience, a consumer analytics and advertising platform serving the largest brands and media companies in the world. He’s the host of the podcast, The Dumbest Guy in the Room and author of What We’re Seeing, the weekly newsletter read by a who’s-who of business and tech leaders. John is a contributor to AdAge and Forbes and has appeared on Good Morning America, Yahoo! Finance, and NewsNation, and as a speaker at numerous business and media conferences.

John Myers

John has made a career of improving and transforming organizations, specializing in business process and technology risk management. Most recently, John served as Vice President of PepsiCo’s Corporate Audit function, overseeing a high performing team of 30 across US and international locations. His successes included transforming and digitizing audit practices, yielding new and significant improvements to breadth and depth of audit coverage, capability to shift repetitive tasks to centers of excellence, and embedding data and analytics throughout audit processes. Over John’s tenure, he successfully implemented many improvements while reducing the annual budget of the department by over 60%.

John previously worked for PwC, in roles of increasing responsibility. His focus included harnessing risk on large scale ERP (SAP) deployments across consumer, industrial and transportation industries. He led Sr. stakeholders through risk awareness, acceptance and mitigation then drove implementation, monitoring and optimizing the solutions as risk assessments changed. John also worked to build capabilities within financial and internal audit teams, leveraging technology and data to improve ways of working.

John earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in Economics and a Masters in Business Administration both from Rollins College. He has served on the board of the Reinhold Foundation in Clay County, FL for over 20 years and serves in leadership roles for other for-profit and non-profit entities. He relishes these opportunities to give back and is additionally serving as mentor for current students and work associates. John is a certificated private pilot, and maintains instrument and multiengine ratings.

After living in Chicago and near New York City, John recently returned to Winter Park, together with his wife, Victoria and sons Jack (18) and David (14). Victoria is a sales executive for PepsiCo, and the boys enjoy competitive team sports. John also has many nearby family members and friends.

Mark teroerde

Conexus Metals, LLC was founded by Mark in June 2018. Graduating in 2008 with degrees in international business and economics from Rollins College, Mark has 16+ years of experience in metals trading and logistics, most recently as the head of global sales for TELF AG, a significant international trading company based in Switzerland, where he drove revenues in excess of $2.7 billion.

Conexus Metals LLC is an integrated commodity procurement, logistics and trading company based in Pittsburgh, PA. It procures and offers a product portfolio of ferrous and non-ferrous base and secondary (i.e., scrap/recycled) metals, which are used in metal products manufacturing, as well as a wide variety coal products for the cement and utilities industries. Conexus, albeit a young company that was built from scratch no more than 6 years ago, already exceeded $100M in revenues by end of year one.

Mr. Teroerde’s family has significant experience in the international metals trade. His father, Fritz Teroerde (Chairman of Conexus’ advisory board), has had a successful 50+ year career in the metal trading industry, most notably as CEO/Chairman of ELG Haniel, a stainless-steel and super alloy recycler that operated 53 locations world-wide and revenue in excess of $2 billion. His brother Patrick has 20+ years of experience as a merchant banker and in financial oversight. Given the Teroerde Family’s significant experience in metals trading, Mark believes there is an opportunity to grow Conexus to become a sizeable metals and manufacturing commodity trading and procurement company headquartered in the U.S.

Nicholas P. Panagakis

Nicholas P. Panagakis has been practicing law since 1997 and is admitted to the Florida Bar. After graduating from Stetson University College of Law, he began his legal career as a prosecutor and later became a partner at a civil defense firm. In 2007, he joined Morgan & Morgan, P.A., focusing on personal injury law. Recognized as a Rising Star by Florida Super Lawyers in 2009-2010, Nicholas was also named to The National Trial Lawyers: Top 40 under 40 in 2011. He is married with four children and actively serves his community and church.