UMaine Business School Names Grant Graduate Programs Director
Contact: George Manlove at (207) 581-3756
ORONO — Richard A. Grant of Brunswick has been named the new Director of Graduate Programs and Executive Education for the University of Maine Business School.
He replaces Richard Borgman, associate professor of finance, who has returned to full-time teaching.
As director of graduate programs, Grant manages the Master of Business Administration and Master of Science in Accounting programs, and will develop new programs for business leaders and executives already advanced in their careers.
Grant holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration and an MBA from the University of Southern Maine. His professional background is in retailing and direct marketing with L.L. Bean and Timberland.
At L.L. Bean, he served in several capacities — senior analyst in strategic planning, a business analyst in merchandising, assistant manager in product quality and direct shipment coordinator in customer service.
At Timberland, Grant served as store manager for the company’s first factory outlet in Brunswick, Maine, and the second store, in Burlington, Vt.
Grant also worked as an independent writer under the business name Right Word Communications and has been a contributing business writer for the Portland-based Interface newspaper group since 2002.
He is a member of the Portland Marketing Association and Maine Public Relations Council, and has contributed numerous hours volunteering for several organizations, including: various roles in United Way of Greater Portland fundraising campaigns, a board member for Big Brothers Big Sisters in Brunswick, a USM Alumni Board member, secretary of the USM School of Business Alumni Chapter, and a member of the advocacy steering committee and the student business plan competition committee at USM.
Grant recently was selected into the Leadership Maine program for 2004–2005. Leadership Maine is a year-long experiential program, which provides 40 established leaders with a statewide perspective of the economy, information to meet the challenges of tomorrow and encourages the building of networks to spark collaborative change in Maine.