Tallahassee, Fla. - Florida State University's College of Business selected three outstanding and accomplished alumni to be inducted into its Hall of Fame. Ted T. Cecala, Jeffrey P. Rohr and Randell A. Smith were officially inducted into a prestigious group of business leaders on Saturday, April 21 at the Fifth Annual Hall of Fame Dinner & Ceremony.

Established in 2003, the Hall of Fame honors and celebrates individuals who embody the qualities that make the College of Business an extraordinary place to learn and grow. Hall of Fame inductees have excelled in their careers and have made significant contributions, which continue to solidify the national reputation of the highly ranked FSU College of Business.

Ted T. Cecala, a 1971 alumnus with a B.S. in finance and accounting, is the Chairman of the Board and Chief Executive Officer of the Wilmington Trust Corporation. He joined Wilmington Trust in 1979, and was elected Chairman and Chief Executive Officer in July 1996. During his tenure as CEO, Cecala focused the company on three core businesses: Regional Banking, Wealth Advisory Services, and Corporate Client Services, and diversified the company's sources of revenue. Under his leadership, the Wilmington Trust Corporation expanded significantly by opening new offices in California, Florida, Georgia, Maryland, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, and Vermont; established an international presence with offices in London, Dublin, the Channel Islands, and the Cayman Islands; and completed acquisitions that enhanced the company's investment management capabilities and other services for clients.

Cecala currently serves on the Federal Advisory Council, representing the Philadelphia Fed and the Third District, and is a member of the Board of Directors of the United Way of Delaware. He also serves as a member of the Board of Managers of Cramer Rosenthal McGlynn, LLC and Roxbury Capital Management, LLC. Cecala is past President of the Delaware Chapter of the Financial Executives Institute, former Chairman of the Delaware State Chamber of Commerce, and a former board member of Delaware Business Roundtable, Junior Achievement of Delaware, and Geriatric Services of Delaware, Inc.

Cecala also has earned credentials as a Certified Public Accountant.

Jeffrey P. Rohr, a 1972 alumnus with a B.S. in accounting, is the Chief Financial Officer of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu and Deloitte & Touche USA LLP. Aggregate member firm revenues of Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu approximate $23 billion. He is responsible for leading all facets of finance, treasury, and taxes for the firms in the U.S. and globally. Rohr serves on the Global Management Committee and the U.S. Operating and Executive Committees.

Prior to assuming the role of CFO in June 2004, Rohr was the Midwest Regional Managing Partner, located in Chicago. Under his leadership, Deloitte grew from being the smallest to being the largest Big Four firm in the Midwest. Rohr led the quality, client satisfaction, growth, and human resource initiatives in the region, which resulted in a first place ranking in the Emerson's Client Satisfaction Study and a ranking of tenth in Chicago Magazine's 25 best places to work.

Rohr's previous positions include Managing Partner of Deloitte's Mid-Atlantic practice based in Washington, D.C. and National Director of Business Planning for the firm's U.S. practice. He began his career in Deloitte's Miami, Florida office.

Rohr is a member of the Board of Directors of the Florida State University Foundation and the Board of Governors of the FSU College of Business. He served on the Executive Committee of the Boards of the Civic Committee, Commercial Club of Chicago, Junior Achievement, the Adler Planetarium, and the Mid-America Club; was a member of the Board of the Ravinia Festival and a member of the Economic Club, the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations, and the de Tocqueville Committee of the United Way. Rohr is a member of Glen View Club, the Chicago Club, and Siwanoy Country Club.

He is a member of the AICPA and is a Certified Public Accountant in New York, Illinois, and Florida.

Randell A. Smith, a 1977 alumnus with a B.S. in finance, is the Chief Executive Officer and co-founder of Smith Travel Research (STR), the leading authority on current trends in occupancy, room rate and supply/demand data for the U.S. and the North American lodging industries. Each month, STR obtains revenue data from over 26,000 U.S. properties accounting for over 3.2 million rooms. STR tracks market share performance for virtually every major global hotel chain and most major management companies through its various STAR programs. Clients rely on STR's data quality and absolute data confidentiality to make strategic and operational decisions in the areas of sales and marketing, development, revenue management, reservation forecasting, internal audit and virtually all other departments.

STR also publishes Lodging Review, a weekly newsletter endorsed by the American Hotel & Lodging Association, that tracks occupancy and room rates for the U.S., all fifty states, and the top 25 metropolitan markets. Data from Lodging Review is frequently published in Hotel & Motel Management, Hotels, Lodging Hospitality, Lodging Magazine, The Cornell Quarterly, The Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. It is also used extensively by Investment bankers and Lodging Equity Analysts and hospitality consultants across the U.S. STR data is used as the official source of lodging information by over 300 convention and visitors bureaus, state tourism departments and government entities.

Smith is a member and past co-chairman of the Industry Real Estate Financing Advisory Council (IREFAC) and the 2002 recipient of the prestigious IREFAC C. Everett Johnson Award. He also is vice-chair of the American Hotel Foundation Funding Committee. Smith is a charter member of the International Society of Hospitality Consultants and a former member of the board of directors. He is the recipient of the 1996 Industry Pioneer Award of the ISHC for outstanding contribution to the lodging industry. Smith is a regular keynote speaker at the major industry conferences.

Prior to starting STR, Smith was Director of Research for Laventhol & Horwath and has nearly 30-years experience in lodging industry research. He attended graduate school at Drexel University.

For more information about the College of Business, please go to www.cob.fsu.edu.