High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Ben "Todd" Parnell III was named as the interim President of Drury University at a faculty/staff meeting in Clara Thompson Hall on April 23, 2007, upon the resignation of John Sellars, Drury's fifteenth President. After a number of options were considered for the office, Parnell was inaugurated as Drury University's sixteenth President on April 20, 2008 by Drury's trustee-driven search committee. Vice chairman of the Board of Directors of The Signature Bank, Todd Parnell has been a Breech Advisory Board member since 2003. Parnell graduated from Drury University in 1969. He then went on to earn his Master's in Business Administration from the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College in 1971. While at Drury, Parnell was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha and Omicron Delta Kappa and spent a semester studying abroad in London.