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OGE's Chief Ethics Officer featured speaker for OSU's Puterbaugh Ethics Lecture

Wednesday, February 27, 2013

Gary Huneryager
Gary Huneryager

Oklahoma State University graduate Gary Huneryager, chief ethics officer for OGE Energy Corp., will be the featured speaker for the Puterbaugh Ethics Lecture on March 14 on the Stillwater campus.

Huneryager will address “Ethics in Corporate America” during the lecture to be held at 2 p.m. Thursday, March 14, in 317 Engineering South. Admission is free and is open to all OSU students.

Huneryager joined OGE in September 2001, and he was named Internal Audit Officer in July 2002 and Vice President in May 2005. Under his leadership, OGE’s ethics team has developed a robust ethics program that includes face-to-face ethics training, an independent ethics hotline and periodic ethics surveys to the entire workforce. In 2012, OGE won the OK Ethics Compass Award for its leadership in business ethics.

“OGE has a very strong commitment to ethics training and Mr. Huneryager has done an excellent job spearheading that effort,” said Andy Urich, Puterbaugh Professor of Ethics and Legal Studies in OSU’s Spears School of Business.

“Gary is a dynamic speaker and a huge supporter of OSU. I have heard him speak many times and I am looking forward to this event.”

Huneryager’s 30 years of business experience include six years as an Arthur Andersen Audit Division Partner with a focus in the utility industry. He has had the opportunity to experience different regions of the nation, including Boston and Houston, during his career.

He has been active in various community and professional organizations during his professional career. Currently, he serves on the Board of Governors of the OSU Foundation and as treasurer on the Board of Directors of The First Tee of Metropolitan Oklahoma City.

He also served on the boards of the Oklahoma City Chapter of Financial Executives International and the Internal Audit Committee of the Edison Electric Institute, an industry association.

In 2008, the OSU School of Accounting selected Huneryager as the Distinguished Accounting Alumnus in the category of global public accounting service 

The Puterbaugh Ethics Lecture is sponsored by the Honorable Steven Taylor, Chief Justice of the Oklahoma Supreme Court.

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