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ALUMNI PROFILES
Polly Kawalek, ’78
Kawalek's Staying Power
Lee Hillman, ’79
Bally Total Fitness Shapes Up
Lawrence Kinet was appointed group managing director of the medical technology business of Smiths Industries. The London-based company, involved in aerospace, industrial, and medical technology businesses, has a market cap of just over $4 billion. Kinet says he and his family will be moving to London from Winnetka, Illinois, “in time for the next school year.” He can be reached at Lawrence.Kinet@Smiths-Industries.com.
Rick Steiner reports that he is the proud father of two sons: Ace, born in July 1997, and Duke, born in June 1999. His Smokey Joe’s Café, which became the longest-running musical revue in Broadway history, will be out soon on DVD. Steiner’s next musical will be based on Shane.
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1971
Robert S. Prichard, who has served as president of the University of Toronto for the past ten years, will begin a one-year appointment as visiting professor at Harvard Law School in July. In July 2001 he will return to the University of Toronto’s law faculty, where he was dean from 1984 to 1990. Prichard also serves as a director of several corporations, holds various honorary degrees, and has been appointed an officer of the Order of Canada. He writes, “In both the public and private sectors I continue to benefit greatly from my time at Chicago GSB. With the exception of our own, it remains the best business school in the world!”
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1972
Robert Hasday is partner-in-charge of the New York City law office of Duane, Morris & Heckscher LLP. He is practicing in the areas of mergers and acquisitions and corporate and securities law. Hasday reports that he maintains his ties with the University of Chicago through his daughter, Jill, who is an assistant professor at the Law School.
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1973
Minnie Delores Davis is serving as pastor of Boston’s Morgan Memorial United Methodist Church of All Nations as she works toward her doctor of ministry degree at Andover Newton Theological School. Ordained in 1991, she is currently on leave from the Western North Carolina Conference of the United Methodist Church. She reports: “I’m having a great time!”
Howard Graham was a panelist at the GSB’s West Quest in December. (See “What Good Is an M.B.A.?”) Graham is senior vice president and CFO of Siebel Systems Inc. in San Mateo, California. To read about Siebel and the GSB, see “Siebel Funds Scholarships”.
As manager of special projects for Wyle Laboratories Inc., Jim Halloran writes that he is responsible for “proposals, contract documentation, etc.” He is also director of Project Tomahawk, a tax-exempt organization that is restoring a one-of-a-kind World War II fighter. An avid cyclist, Halloran rides up to 125 miles per day and is planning two big bike trips: a border-to-border ride this summer and a coast-to-coast ride in 2002, “after semiretirement.”
Euromoney Publications of London has named John McLees, A.B. ’70, M.B.A. ’73, J.D. ’74, one of the world’s leading 521 tax advisers in a poll of corporate tax directors. In a similar poll, London’s International Tax Review named McLees again as a leading adviser on Latin American taxation.
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1974
Bob Billow (see Darrell Butler, ’92)
Tom Burns and his wife, Mary Ellen, traveled to Bali in March. In the spring he planned to visit the south of France with a Chicago study group.
The Chicago Trust Company named Joan M. Giardina senior vice president and manager of personal trust investment services.
In March Robert Gordon Kirkpatrick resigned from his position as senior vice president and director of media services at the advertising firm DMB & B in St. Louis. He and his wife, Joanne, moved to New York, where he now serves as vice president of global media for Colgate-Palmolive Inc. “I’ve been to 22 countries, with more on the docket for the coming year,” he writes. “One of the side benefits of the move to the New York area was being asked to serve as president of the Keewaydin Foundation and as an overseer of Dartmouth Broadcasting.”
Paul Wesley Nakazawa, A.B. ’73, M.B.A. ’74, was appointed a company director of the Office for Metropolitan Architecture, Rotterdam, the Netherlands. He was also named to the architectural faculty of the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Nakazawa continues to work internationally as a strategic adviser to design firms.
The Sherwin-Williams Company appointed Thomas Seitz president of the consumer group. Seitz lives in Cleveland.
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1975
Bob Bestani has left Duke Energy’s corporate finance department to join PricewaterhouseCoopers in Boston as a managing director in the financial advisory group. Bestani writes that he will be working with a wide range of corporate and middle market companies, advising them on “mergers and acquisitions, valuation, capital structure, and exposure management.”
Bob Kayhs is executive vice president for DHR International, a retained search firm in Burbank, California. He heads up the high-tech practice, concentrating on new and emerging client firms in areas such as Internet, telecommunications, e-commerce, multimedia, medical, health care, entertainment, and financial services. He reports that he is extremely busy finding people for executive-level positions and that a Chicago M.B.A. helps “cut through the clutter of company spin.”
David Nowack has been elected a trustee of Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania.
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1976
John Antos coauthored AMA’s Balanced Scorecard seminar. He gave the keynote address before 1,100 people at the Orlando seminar.
Rick Boebel writes: “I’m living, teaching, doing investment research, and fly fishing on New Zealand’s South Island. I’ve been here with my wife, Margaret, Helen, 10, and Ricky, 7, since July 1998.”
Robert Gogel recently joined the AXA Group in Paris as worldwide executive vice president responsible for human resources. Prior to joining AXA, Gogel directed the global banking and insurance business for Siemens Business Services.
Michael Mach and his wife, Stacy, welcomed a son, Christopher Sheffield Mach, on October 18. Two months later Mach left his position as managing director and senior research analyst at Robertson Stephens to join Eaton Vance Management as vice president and portfolio manager of its Tax Managed Value Fund and its Growth and Income Fund.
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1977
ITT Industries, a global multi-industry company based in White Plains, New York, appointed David J. Anderson to the position of chief financial officer in December. Prior to his endeavor with ITT Industries, Anderson most recently coordinated the effort to establish Newport News Shipbuilding as an independent public company. He negotiated the terms and conditions of the firm’s spinoff from Tenneco and managed its listing on the New York Stock Exchange. In the past, Anderson also served as senior vice president and chief financial officer of the tobacco groups at RJR Nabisco and held senior financial positions with the Quaker Oats Company and Kraft Inc.
Elliot Savitzky, A.B. ’76, M.B.A. ’77, has been elected president of the New York American Marketing Association (AMA). “As the largest section of the AMA, the New York chapter thus leads the charge in creating opportunities for professionals in the marketing industry to effectively further their careers around the world,” writes Savitzky. He is senior vice president and director of market assessment practice at Opinion Research Corporation International.
Larry Siegel is director of investment policy research at the Ford Foundation in New York City. He also writes articles on investment topics, serves on advisory boards and investment committees, and was featured in Money magazine in January 1998. He lives with his wife, Connie, and a daughter, Elizabeth, in Wilmette, Illinois, and New York City. His son, Josh, is a freshman at the University of Colorado. He can be reached at l.siegel@fordfound.org.
On February 13, the Seattle Times profiled Vijay Vashee as one of Microsoft’s “big thinkers” and an adviser to the many Indian technology workers who have started dot-com businesses in the area. Now general manager for product-group technology, Vashee joined Microsoft in 1982 and worked on the earliest versions of Windows, Excel, Works, and the Microsoft mouse. He is now forming a local chapter of Indus Entrepreneur, which was founded as a professional-support organization for South Asian entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley.
Vegard Vevstad founded his own consulting firm, Cencir Inc., at the end of last year. The company provides complete chain development services, and its Web site is in the works. Vevstad and his wife, Orbie, live in Crete, Illinois.
Banc One Capital Markets in Chicago promoted Richard Waldman to senior vice president. Waldman and his wife, Julie Kiser Waldman, live in Highland Park, Illinois, with their daughters, Chelsey and Marley. Kiser Waldman is director of marketing at Allstate Life Insurance Company in Northbrook, Illinois.
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1978
Arthur D. Beard, Ph.D. ’78, reports that his first year as an independent consultant and workshop leader was busy and fulfilling. After retiring from DuPont in early 1999, he founded ArtBeard Inc. to assist business and marketing teams with strategy development. He also cofounded Atlantic Marketing Workshops L.L.C. with four other retired DuPont executives to provide fast, action-oriented training to business-to-business marketers. Beard has coached managers on five continents on branding, positioning, and marketing planning. This summer he and his wife, Sharon, will relocate themselves and ArtBeard Inc. from Delaware to New Hampshire’s lakes region.
Terry Brown, product manager for compact tractors at John Deere, moved to Augusta, Georgia, in 1998. His wife is manager of staffing, compensation, and benefits for Club Car. Brown writes: “We have always lived in the Midwest until this move, but it will be hard to ever leave the sunny South.” Brown’s daughter is a sophomore at Miami University of Ohio and his son is a high school junior.
Polly Kawalek, vice president of Quaker Oats and president of its hot breakfast division, is profiled in this issue. See “Kawalek’s Staying Power”.
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1979
Ernst and Young L.L.P. named Kenneth Bernstein national director of entrepreneurial health services. “My wife, Barbara May, and I are having fun with our son, Noah, who just turned one year, and our daughter, Rachel, who is getting ready for her bat mitzvah,” he writes.
Lee Hillman, CFO of Bally Total Fitness, is profiled in this issue. See “Bally Total Fitness Shapes Up”.
April Klein, M.B.A. ’79, Ph.D. ’83, teaches at New York University’s business school. She reports that she is enjoying life in New York City with her husband and daughters, Emma, 7, and Abigail, 11/2. She writes: “I would like to say hi to my fellow grads from the M.B.A. class of 1979.”
Gary Mittleman initiated the formation of Plug Power Inc., a leading developer of fuel cell power generation systems, in 1997. Since then he has served as president and chief
executive officer of the firm. Located in Albany, New York, the company made history in November when it completed a successful initial public offering and became the first publicly traded fuel cell firm based in the United States.Dean A. Scarborough has been elected president and chief operating officer of Avery Dennison Corporation. Scarborough, who joined the company in 1984, most recently served as group vice president for the company’s global pressure-sensitive materials business.
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