The Shoemaker Series Keynote Speaker for 2025 is Cari Baylor, President, Baylor Trucking, Inc. The event will take place in the Hanover College Science Center on May 15 from 6:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. EDT.

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The Shoemaker Speaker Series, part of Hanover's expanding entrepreneurial network, was established in 2022 to feature prominent voices on business, leadership, and innovation. The program is made possible through the generosity of John Shoemaker '63 and his wife, Donna.

Shoemaker has more than four decades of experience in high technology, including executive management roles at Sun Microsystems and Xerox Corporation. He is currently the board chair at Extreme Networks and has also served as a board member for numerous companies such as Altera Inc., SonicWall Inc., Astute Technologies, Inc., and Conformative Systems, Inc.Register