F. Selby Wellman was born in Williamson, WV, to Fred and Ilene Wellman. When he was 11, his father moved the family to Huntington. Selby graduated from Huntington High School and later from Marshall University, where he met his future wife, Donna Bias.

After graduation, Selby spent five years in the U.S. Air Force, where he was trained in computer programming. After an honorable discharge, he was hired as a systems engineer with IBM in Huntington and spent 15 years climbing the corporate ladder.

Selby left IBM as manager of its commercial operations in Washington, D.C., taking a job as President of Sales and Marketing at a high-tech networking company in Florida.

In the 1980’s Selby accepted a corporate officer’s position with Fibercom, a fiber optics company in Roanoke, Virginia, and in 1994, he began his career with a small Silicon Valley company called Cisco Systems.

Selby became Senior Vice President for Product Development and Marketing in San Jose, California, and for the next six years, served as a corporate officer with Cisco, which became the fastest growing company in the history of American business.

Selby serves on many educational and professional committees’ boards of directors and has been instrumental in helping Marshall become a world-class user of networking technology.

In September 2000, Selby took an early retirement to spend more time with his wife, Donna, and their two sons, Brent and Brian.