Guest of Honor and Speaker’s Profile: DSAA/PVP Dr. Lance Masters

Brief Bio of DSAA PVP Dr. Lance Masters

Lance is currently serving RC Manila as Deputy Sergeant at Arms and will serve as Sergeant At Arms beginning in Rotary Year 2016. Previously he served as Vice President in 2009-10 under President Gert Gust. He has been active in The Rotary Foundation, serving as Co-chair for grants and has written Matching Grants and Global Grants for other clubs in other districts. This coming Rotary Year, he has been tapped to serve Rotary District 3810 on its new TRF Stewardship Panel to assure proper handling of all Global Grants throughout the district. Additionally he has been asked to design and build a District Speaker’s Bureau. He first became a Rotarian more than twenty-five years ago in Riverside, California. Lance is now retired, doing some consulting in higher education, hospitality management and health care management.

He originally came to the Philippines in 2008 to run Enderun Colleges as Provost and assure that it was fulfilling its quality promise to be equal or better than the best American business schools, especially in Hospitality Management (Hotel Management and Culinary Arts). In addition to rapidly securing ISO certification on the path to American accreditation, he also added majors in Financial Wealth Management, Marketing Management, Operations Management, technology Management and more. Enderun has rapidly become one of the most recognized leaders in Philippine Higher education.

Prior to Enderun, Lance served as President of Thiel College in Greenville, PA for nine years. He had previously been a Dean, Department Head and tenured Professor of Marketing and Management at California State Universities at Hayward and San Bernardino. He has been a visiting professor at the Claremont Graduate University, The Academy of National Economy under the Russian Federation in Moscow, and several others. He is the author of more than fifty scholarly articles and books, with several “best paper” awards. Prior to his career in academe, he worked in industry for many years, including service as Corporate Director of Marketing for America’s largest producer of frozen ethnic foods and as Corporate Economist for America’s largest producer of recreational vehicles and manufactured housing. He has been a restaurateur, owning or operating fast food restaurants in California or Pennsylvania.

Lance is an active member of the Episcopal Church of the Holy Trinity in Forbes Park, Makati, where he serves as a lay reader. Lance is a member of many Masonic orders. He was coroneted as Sovereign Inspector General of the 33rd and final degree of Scottish Rite Masonry, its highest honor, in 2005. He was invested as an “Active Member of the Legion of Honor” by the Order of DeMolay. He is a member of several honorary and invitational Masonic groups, especially those related to research and publication to shed more light on what is known about Masonry, separating truth from fiction.

Lance was born and reared in Erie, Pa. He is divorced, has two sons and two grandchildren in the US, and is a permanent resident of the Philippines by virtue of a Section 13 “Quota visa.” He intends to spend the remainder of his life here in the Philippines.