As Senior Associate Dean, Seegers is the Chief Operating Officer with responsibility for strategy, finance, personnel, procurement, and facilities. Additionally, he is an Ordinary Professor, the University's highest academic rank, and the Director of the Master of Business Administration Program. He brings to the Busch School a lifetime of practical leadership experience in venues ranging from foxholes and battleships to factories and boardrooms.

Dean Seegers is a decorated veteran officer of the U.S. Marine Corps, where he held significant leadership responsibilities in the South Pacific, Capitol Hill, and the Pentagon. Following his military service, he pursued a career in business. Highlights include:

• Chief Executive Officer of General Electric's Electronic Commerce Division, a $700 million business, with thousands of employees, operating in 40 countries around the world;
• Founder and President of the Home Depot's online business, Home Depot Direct, where he developed and launched www.homedepot.com. In the first year of operation, he grew the online business from nothing to over a $100 million in sales;
• Management Consultant to portfolio CEO's at Cerberus Capital Management, an American global alternative investment firm with $65 billion of assets across credit, private equity, and real estate platforms.

Today, as Ordinary Professor of Practice, Seegers teaches undergraduates, graduates, and clergy from all around the world. He teaches in Executive Leadership, Strategic Planning, Operations Management, Quantitative Analysis, and Business Law. He is a recipient of several Busch School Teaching Awards.

Dean Seegers holds a B.A. with distinction from University of Virginia, an M.B.A. from Harvard Business Shcool, and a J.D. from Catholic University, where he was an Executive Editor of the Law Review. He is a past Chairman of the Board of Directors at the Stone Ridge School of the Sacred Heart. Currently, he serves as an Executive Director of the Marine Corps Scholarship Foundation and as an Attorney and Counsellor of the Supreme Court of the United States.