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Marta Alves was elected managing director of Banco Itau in March. This is quite an accomplishment, she writes, as there is only one other female managing director in the company.
Jim Barr serves as director of planning and business development for MSN.com at Microsoft. Barr and his team coordinate the partnerships for the MSN portal, including content programming and search and shopping. Prior to joining Microsoft, he did Internet-related business at Encyclopaedia Britannica. “My wife, Linda, our three kids, Kaitlin, 7, Quint, 6, and Jenny, 4, and I are enjoying the Seattle area very much,” writes Barr.
Lora Ann Davis has shifted her career from health care to health care information technology. She serves as a director for IDX Systems Inc. in Seattle. “I am pleased to have the University of Chicago as a customer,” she writes.
In March, Chandra Greer opened a stationery store and design studio in Glencoe, Illinois. The December 13 BusinessWeek featured Greer and her new endeavor, noting that she has
designed invitations for Leo Burnett, McKinsey, and the Dewes Mansion, among other clients.
Bill Hayes and Meg Manda, ’99, will marry this July in Chicago. Manda recently became a portfolio manager covering asset securitization at Allstate Insurance.
Randy Johnson serves as president of Edison Prime Harvest. The firm provides hydroponics to food retailers in Georgia and the Carolinas.
Jim Perkaus works on climate change and international trade as a policy fellow in Washington, D.C. His research is focusing on emerging regulatory systems.
Jeffrey A. Raday, president of McShane Construction Corporation, was recently elected chairman of the Design-Build Institute of America (DBIA). DBIA is a nonprofit membership-based organization dedicated to single-source responsibility construction. Raday began his one-year term in January.
In November, John B. (Chip) Rodgers joined IT FACTORY, a start-up software company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Rodgers is vice president of worldwide marketing communications for the two-year-old company, which has 110 employees and offices in the U.S., Europe, and Australia. Rodgers writes: “We are truly a ‘virtual company’—I still live in Chicago, my office is in Cambridge, and I have staff in London, Cambridge, and Copenhagen. We use any and all technologies available to keep in touch, including e-mail, voice mail, cell phones, conference calls, and webcam meetings. We are growing like crazy and it has been great fun!” Rodgers lives in Winnetka, Illinois, with his wife, Marcia, and his two “fantastic” daughters, Paige, 4, and Grace, 2. “They are growing so fast,” he writes.
Tom and Nancie Ruder have been living in Chicago for eight years. They write that they have a daughter, Sydney, 2, and are expecting another baby at the end of May. Nancie has been working for Leo Burnett since graduation, and Tom does mergers/acquisitions for a private company called Chamberlain. Tom recently went skiing in Denver with his old roommates Brian Newman, Mike Frucht, and Paul Kolebuck, who, unfortunately, broke his ankle on the trip. The Ruders keep in touch with Cammy Magner Hines, John Mangel, and Julie (Hughes) and Jim O’Connor, who had twins in December.
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1991
Bruno Albietz writes: “My wife, Sylvie, and I have two daughters, Chloe, 5, and Marie, 1. We live in France near Divonne-les-Bains and work in Geneva, Switzerland.” Albietz works for PricewaterhouseCoopers management consulting services as a principal consultant. Previously he spent eight years with Hewlett-Packard. “As in Chicago, we have a lot of snow every winter—but without the wind and the temperatures of the Windy City,” says Albietz.
Carol Crowdus Barbour, with her “husband Jeff, daughter Katherine, and cats” is moving to the Stamford, Connecticut, area. Barbour has accepted a position with the consumer asset division of Citigroup as vice president of strategic business development.
Anjuli Bhattacharjee recently returned to New York from Singapore. She is doing mergers and acquisitions and business-to-business e-commerce initiatives at General Motors.
Brian Blackmore and his wife, Natalie, now have three children. Their son Jonathan was born in November 1998, and a year later they adopted two children from Romania: Ronnie, 5, and his sister, Stefana, 2. Blackmore recently appeared on a national IBM e-business television commercial as a New York meat worker. “Though I never got to be an account executive for an ad agency, now I find myself acting in the ads,” he writes. “It also enabled me to join the Screen Actors Guild.”
Mark Brady and his wife, Jamie, have two children: Mary, 2, and Brian, 1. Brady is a partner and cohead of business services investment banking at William Blair and Company in Chicago. The family lives in the DePaul area.
Editora Abril, the largest publishing company in Latin America, promoted Maurício Dabul, president of the Brazil GSB alumni club (see page 43), to director of planning and control. Dabul has worked for the company for more than six years. He previously was the publisher of the weekly Brazilian newsmagazine VEJA.
Jonathan Dill recently sold his interest in the workshops of David T. Smith, an Ohio-based furniture manufacturer, and is now acting as chief financial officer of a rollup company in the packaging industry.
WomenCONNECT.com named Sara Gilbertson senior vice president of marketing. Gilbertson will coordinate brand management, marketing partnerships, consumer promotions, and public relations for the company. Founded in 1994, the site is the leading online destination for female professionals and business owners. It offers daily business, career, and finance news and feature stories that exclusively target a female business audience. Previously, Gilbertson directed sports marketing and business development for PSI net, a global Internet Protocol (IP) access and Web hosting company. She also has directed marketing for the two-time Super Bowl champion Denver Broncos football team and held marketing and media positions with the National Basketball Association (NBA) and the NCAA International.
Since January 1998, Carl Hannan Greppin has been working for FreeMarkets with Jean-Paul Bruls, ’96, and Katrien Demeester, ’95. Based in Pittsburgh, FreeMarkets specializes in business-to-business e-commerce. The firm holds online bidding events where suppliers bid interactively against each other for supplying industrial materials. In 1998, $1 billion of materials passed through FreeMarkets’ channel.
Julie Hahn writes: “I am enjoying life in Atlanta with my husband, Gary, and our son, Stephen. Life is always interesting with a toddler!” Hahn is a product manager in the Internet group of MCI WorldCom.
Neil Kane is vice president of strategic alliances for Blue Meteor Inc. (www.bluemeteor.com), an Internet accelerator and application service provider. Kane says the company “helps start-up companies and established companies who ‘get it’ accelerate their time to profit through a suite of best-of-breed applications called the e-Catapult. We provide prebuilt, scalable technologies that are delivered quickly and minimize a company’s need for the technical, human, and capital resources traditionally required to support a leading-edge back office infrastructure.”
Shelly Kielar (see Andy Dubin, ’92)
Cory LaBarge and his wife, Maria, celebrated their 15th wedding anniversary last August and their third anniversary of living in Miami in February. As regional business unit director of Merck and Co., LaBarge has marketing responsibility for three major products in a 12-country region of Latin America. He writes: “We have three children. Sarah, 14, who was three years old when we were in Chicago and was probably the youngest cast member ever of the GSB Follies, starts high school in the fall. Mary, 7, is enjoying first grade and is learning to speak Spanish. Peter, 4, is preparing for preschool in the fall. Maria just started a master’s degree in art history at the University of Miami and will probably graduate in two years. We are enjoying life in south Florida and invite anyone to e-mail us at clabarge@bellsouth.net or cory_labarge@merck.com if they’re coming south.”
Eric Leurquin writes: “I’m living in Belgium. Daughter Elise was born in September 1998 and is now running around the house. I joined the internal audit of bank BBL-ING in January from the asset management of the same bank. I’ve been a certified internal auditor since mid-1999.”
Andrew N. Lewis III (see Valerie Anderson-Lewis, ’95)
Rob Lovett reports: “My growing family and I are happily planted in Charlotte, North Carolina. Our daughter, Sophie, almost 4, got a somewhat welcome little brother on October 28: Robert F. ‘Bo’ Lovett IV. Poor guy, a ‘IV’ after his name and an eminently tease-able nickname. I hope he grows up to be really big. And, yes, I know that it’s clear that we have been in the South too long. Oh well. At least I don’t have an accent yet (right?). I am pleased to be working hard with a software company here in Charlotte—YOUcentric Inc., helping them conquer the world of Web-based relationship management.”
Mike Scandalios and his wife, Kathy, are the proud parents of Sarah Katherine, born January 13. “Sisters Jenna and Amanda celebrated by turning 5 and 2, respectively, on St. Patrick’s Day,” he writes. Scandalios is vice president of Security Capital Markets Group, active in real estate investment banking and capital placement, in the Menlo Park, California, office. His wife is one of the leading district managers for Pratt Pharmaceuticals, a division of Pfizer. Scandalios reports that he and his brother successfully completed the Alcatraz Sharkfest Swim last August, calling it his “latest harebrained accomplishment.”
K. Randolph Scheller continues to work as an investment banker in Munich, Germany, concentrating on corporate finance and mergers and acquisitions at Oertel Scheller, the firm he cofounded in 1996. In 1998, he successfully completed his doctorate in financial economics at the Wissenschaftliche Hochschule für Unternehmensführung, Germany’s leading business school. His advisers were Gunter Dufey, also professor at the University of Michigan, and Arnd Huchzermeier, former associate professor at the University of Chicago. Scheller can be reached at scheller@oertel-scheller.de or www.oertel-scheller.de and invites classmates to stop by if they are in the area.
Kurt Scott writes that he and his family have crossed the seven-year mark living in Miami and are ready to call South Florida home. He, Anita, and their three boys, Alec, Keiffer, and Stephen, “have adopted the tropical climate and now consider long pants formal attire!” With a swimming lake for a backyard, Scott reports, they eagerly anticipate hurricanes as the Miami equivalent of a snow day. After working at Procter & Gamble and Ryder, Scott is now CEO of BuyTelco.com, where he is busy directing the site launch and second-round funding. Scott writes: “The Internet is no place for the meek and to perform significant consulting prior to committing with equity partners. Watch for announcements in the near future as BuyTelco.com goes primetime.”
Internet.Com Venture Fund II recently funded one of Ronald Wagner’s two Internet start-ups, milesandpoints.com. His first start-up firm recently filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) to become a publicly held company later this year. Wagner reports that he maintains his Chicago roots by serving on the board of advisers of two Internet companies based in the city, collectherent.com and spyonit.com.
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1992
Raymond J. Brooks has recently relocated to Nashville, Tennessee, with his wife, Nici, and son, Clay. He reports that he has taken over as managing partner of Pine Creek Investors, the holding company he has worked for since 1995. The firm focuses on investments in distressed health care service companies.
In 1997 Darrell Butler and his partner, Bob Billow, J.D. ’74, M.B.A. ’74, formed Billow Butler & Company L.L.C., a boutique mergers and acquisitions firm in Chicago. Butler reports that the company has closed 14 middle-market transactions to date and currently employs six people. He and his wife, Marci, recently welcomed their third child, Brian Joseph, who joins big sisters Rachel, 5, and Lauren, 2.
Bob Bycraft is vice president of sales and marketing for the Jack Post Corporation, a manufacturer of outdoor furniture, Christmas tree stands, and steel building columns. He has relocated from suburban Chicago to South Bend, Indiana, with his wife, Camille, and his daughter, Bridget.
CNH Global N.V. has appointed Jamy Cureton to the position of senior director, global commercial shared services and original equipment manufacturers sales.
Andy Dubin and Shelly Kielar, ’91, are proud to announce the birth of their first son, Kyle Alexander. Mom, dad, and baby are doing “just fine” on the Upper West Side of New York.
Rochelle Kopp’s firm, Japan Intercultural Consulting, celebrated its fifth anniversary in 1999. The company works with several blue chip clients, including Honda, Sony, and Toyota. The firm has branches in New York and in Tokyo. In addition, Kopp’s book, The Rice-Paper Ceiling: Breaking through Japanese Corporate Culture (Stone Bridge Press) is about to go into paperback, while her most recent work, Hansei Shinai Amerikajin wo Atsukau Hoho (How to Deal with Defensive Americans), has been an enormous success in Japan and is going into its second printing. Her new bilingual Japanese-English annotated dictionary of American business terms and concepts was published earlier this year by Kodansha International. U.S. Business Buzzwords features American business terms and concepts such as “empowerment,” “commitment,” “micromanagement,” and “work-life balance” that do not translate well into Japanese and sometimes cause misunderstandings when Americans and Japanese conduct business, she explains.
William L. McLeod Jr. and his wife, Trigg Robinson McLeod, live in the San Francisco Bay area, where McLeod is with Banc of America Securities L.L.C., Equity Capital Markets.
Robert Gregory Stephen resigned from his position as manager of network development at BJC Healthsystem and joined the Farris Group as a partner. The Farris Group, a fully owned subsidiary of the LaserSight Corporation, provides strategy consulting to health care and medical manufacturers. Stephen lives with his wife, Victoria Kyhl Stephen, ’96, in Bridgeton, Missouri.
Joann Szymski van Loon’s second child, Bernard, was born December 29. Van Loon reports: “He enjoys waking up at 5 a.m. for a cuddle from his two-year-old sister, Margo. I spend most of my time feeding Bernard, entertaining Margo, and working as a cultural consultant in the Netherlands. I may have a career comeback, but for now I just salivate as Robert comes home and tells me his news about the Internet industry.”
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1993
Ralph Bennet now serves as finance manager for Dell Computer Corporation in Austin, Texas.
Lester Blair, of Blair Capital Management in Chicago, was profiled in the April issue of Money magazine. The funds page writer called the firm’s midcap blend portfolio “one of the better midcap secrets around.” Blair was also profiled in the January 17 issue of Crain’s Chicago Business. Blair and Jim Miller, XP-62 (’93), are creating a joint venture to provide corporate intelligence and research of publicly traded securities throughout the United States.
Tom Bomba, a senior principal in the McMahan Group strategy consulting firm, has been awarded the IDRC’s 1999 William Dorsey Award for the Corporate Real Estate Portfolio Alliance research program that he developed and coordinated. The alliance is a consortium of major corporations, the U.S. government, academics, and real estate companies that researched and developed new techniques in corporate real estate portfolio management. Bomba lives in San Francisco.
Maggie Williams Bound has lived in London since her marriage to Simon Bound in November 1997. Bound met her future husband when they both joined Goldman Sachs’s equity training program in New York. She worked in sales in the Chicago and London offices before the couple’s first son was born. Harry, 2, and his brother, Peter, 1, will be joined by a new sibling this June. Bound writes: “I’m currently an at-home mother and enjoying it tremendously!”
Jeff Burke has joined Robertson Stephens’s San Francisco office to market equity derivative products to private clients.
Since graduation, Alejandro Diaz has been with McKinsey, predominantly in Mexico City. Diaz writes: “In June, the firm elected me to partner, and my first son, Mateo, was born in September. 1999 proved to be a good end-of-the-millennium year.”
Ellen Hardy married Brian Nastruz on December 31. Hardy works at Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company. The couple lives in Fairfax, California.
After six years in San Francisco, Thomas Koundakjian moved to London as director of BARRA’s enterprise risk management group for Europe. While he misses the mountains and ocean of the Bay Area, he says he is enjoying traveling through Europe and is looking forward to comparing the French Alps to Lake Tahoe. Koundakjian says he’s eager to circulate with the London crowd and would like to hear from London alums. E-mail him at tom.koundakjian@barra.com.
Jonathan Lauer and family have moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts. Lauer reports that he and Nancy have two daughters, Caroline, 3, and Christine, almost 2. After six years at Hewlett Packard, Lauer became director of marketing at a small, privately held company called Visualization Technology. The company makes computer-assisted, image-guided surgery systems. “Yes,” he writes, “it is brain surgery!”
Jay and Kendra Leindecker Mirasol have added a second child to their family with Alexandra Grace, born October 6. They report that Jay is taking the family to Tokyo for a two- to three-year assignment with IBM.
Anthony Purther writes that he enjoys trading stock options as a hobby and would like to hear from anyone else who shares his interest. E-mail him at tpurther@aol.com.
Henry Ritchotte and Janet Miranda are enjoying their fifth year living in London. Their first child, Edward, was born June 18, 1999. Ritchotte reports: “We aren’t traveling to Europe and Africa as much as we used to, but parenting is as fun as it is challenging. We hope to see more classmates here in the future.”
Richard Rubin (see David Mapley, ’85)
Christine Ortt Schollenberger and her husband, Richard, welcomed a second son, Calvin, September 2. She writes: “He is keeping us very busy, as is our other son, Victor, 3. I am hopeful I will get a good night’s sleep sometime soon.” After returning from maternity leave in January, Christine accepted a position as director of marketing for Candle Corporation of America.
Urvi Shah and her husband, Prashant, are the proud parents of Jasmine, born May 4, 1999. “She’s gorgeous!” Shah writes.
In November Alison Hennings Tanner, J.D. ’93, M.B.A. ’93, became director of the National Center for Technology and Law at George Mason University School of Law in Arlington, Virginia. The Tech Center, she explains, is a forward-looking research center and think tank that examines the relationship of the existing legal framework to the rapidly evolving information-based economy. Fellow alums can learn more online at techcenter.gmu.edu. Alison and Jim Tanner, J.D. ’93, have a two-year-old son.
Peter Weinstein writes, “My wife, Jacqueline, and I are very busy with our son, Rex Gordon Weinstein, who is busy learning how to walk. He has already been the youngest attendee at several U. of C. events, so we’re indoctrinating him early.” Weinstein, who works in the New York office of Ibbotson Associates, can be reached at pweinstein@gsbalum.uchicago.edu.
Lee Jacobs Whiting is manager of drug sales analysis/geographic information systems integration manager in the economic research department of Albertsons Inc. in Boise, Idaho. The group Whiting coordinates provides new store sales forecasting for the Sav-on and Osco drugstore chains. He writes: “We moved to Eagle, Idaho, from Utah following the American Stores/Albertson’s merger in the summer of 1999. My wife, Sylvie-Anne, and I have three children: Alexandra, 16, Arthur, 5, and Simon, 3, all of whom enjoy the outdoor activities and all the West has to offer. Sylvie-Anne is settling back into her world of wonder as a Montessori teacher following a hiatus as an at-home mom. I am a member of the world-renowned Bogus Basin Ski Patrol—you can find me on the slopes most every Sunday!”
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1994
In his new job, Robert A. Cox will be running business development for a multimedia dot-com company in New York’s Silicon Alley. He reports: “I am spending a good deal of time going back and forth between the coasts.”
Corinne Brogan Fern and her husband, Leon, welcomed a new daughter, Casey Brogan Fern, last July 13. Fern recently returned to her job at MetLife as an ABS analyst/trader. She and her family live in Basking Ridge, New Jersey, and are looking forward to a summer of boating at the Jersey shore.
Jeff Griswold reports that he has finally “yielded to the current of the new economy” and has joined an Internet start-up. In March, he launched his new company, FSPNetwork (www.fspnetwork.com). “More importantly,” he notes, “I will be getting hitched October 7 to Chika Tagawa in Berkeley, California.” The couple lives near Wrigley Field in Chicago.
Rod Guy writes: “My wife, Lisa, delivered our first baby girl, Katie Nicole, in November.” The software company SCA, a subsidiary of Motorola, recently promoted Guy to vice president of strategy and product management.
Mark Hopkins and his family have moved from Connecticut to Milwaukee, Wisconsin, where he is vice president of Premier Financial, an Internet/CAPCO venture capital firm.
Negin Kamangar is founder, president, and chief executive officer of Golden Parachute Inc., a free online network community exclusively for alumni of the top 150 worldwide universities and colleges. Previously, Kamangar was a brand manager for Universal Studios and a marketing manager with the Walt Disney Company. She writes that she enjoys skiing black-diamond runs, shark diving in exotic locales, running with her Siberian husky, and playing golf, tennis, and coed ice hockey.
After almost eight years in Chicago, Dawn Leijon will be moving to Washington, D.C., where her husband started a new job late last year. “Currently,” she reports, “I’m still working at Kraft in Glenview, Illinois, so we’re spending a lot of time supporting all of the GSBers who work in the airline industry. I’m looking forward to moving back east and settling down closer to family. I can be reached at dleijon@aol.com.”
Returning to the Chicago area last summer, Michael Lewis took the position of chief information officer at Resource Information Management Systems, a 20-year-old software company and the sixth-largest in the Chicago area. His “charter” is to transform the vendor of health insurance benefits administration software into an application service provider.
Jamie Rome reports that Eric Struminger plans to marry this fall in Westchester County, New York. Struminger follows the telecommunications services industry as vice president of Paine Webber’s equity research department.
Margot Kahn Rosenbaum and her husband, David, are expecting their first baby in June. She works for William Harris Investors, a Chicago money manager focusing on small-cap companies.
David Rosenberg was married March 1, 1998, in Australia. He and his Australian wife, Gina, are the proud parents of a baby boy, Max, who was born April 12, 1999.
Speaking of Australia, John Starr and his wife, Tammy, recently returned from a monthlong trip Down Under. “The highlight was doing the sunset climb over the Sydney Harbor Bridge,” he reports. The couple and their two children, Bryce and Lyndsey, live in Seattle, where Starr is a consulting group manager at Onyx Software.
Sowmya and Chandra Venkatesan live in Austin, Texas, and have two children, Aparna, 4, and Roshan, 8 months. Venkatesan writes: “I am enjoying the transition from management consulting to Dell, given the almost zero travel.”
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1995
Last summer Andrew Ackerman left Booz Allen & Hamilton and moved back to New York City to take a job with Kaplan Test Prep Online.
Valerie Anderson-Lewis and her husband, Andrew N. Lewis III, ’91, welcomed their first child, Andrew IV, on January 2. Anderson-Lewis is on leave until July, when she will return to Ameritech New Media.
Roger Andre has joined Personnel Decisions International, a rapidly growing provider of human capital management services, as the director of transformation initiatives. He lives in Edina, Minnesota, with his wife, Alicia, and their two children.
Lisa Bartels has been promoted to director of supply chain finance at Honeywell International. She lives in Phoenix and wrote this winter that she planned to marry in May.
Narendra Bettedpur resigned from Inland Steel to become the vice consul at the Consulate of India in Chicago.
Brad Cherniak writes that he changed careers about a year ago. He is now a partner at Crosbie & Company, portfolio manager for a $70 million venture capital fund called First Ontario Fund. He says he is “very busy but really enjoying the new business.” He can be reached at bcherniak@crosbieco.com. In May 1997 Cherniak married Cyndee, an international trade and tax lawyer with Goodman Phillips & Vineberg in Toronto (“home of Vince Carter,” he notes).
Angy (Wong) Chin has moved to Louisville, Kentucky, to join the treasury department of Tricon Global Restaurants, the parent company of KFC, Taco Bell, and Pizza Hut. She writes: “I have also built a house and become a passionate gardener.”
Katrien Demeester (see Carl Hannan Greppin, ’91)
James Dix works as an associate analyst in the media group for Deutsche Banc Alex Brown. Commuting from the Upper West Side of New York City to Greenwich, Connecticut, he reports: “I am losing my mind somewhere along the way each morning, but it’s fun to be at the intersection of new media and old media, so it’s worth the trip.” Dix notes that he keeps in regular touch with Mike Frankel, J.D. ’95, M.B.A. ’95.
James Fair marrie
d Julie Dusing in Amsterdam in October 1998. Several alumni from the class of ’95 attended the ceremony, including Alyssa Altman, Kelly Sueoka, Brian Opsahl, Phil Apel, Jeff Maling, Rebecca Johnston, Fred Engel, and Raoul Schuddeboom.John Gordon, a program manager with George Group Inc., was elected to the firm’s investment partnership last December. The $400 million Pericles Capital Fund will invest in or acquire medium-sized manufacturing companies and support near-term performance improvements. Gordon will continue to deliver operational improvements to current clients but will also participate in due diligence efforts for the acquisition fund. He lives in Dallas with his wife of ten years, Teri.
David Grenier is founder and president of C-Risk Inc., a Denver-based risk management consultancy focused on “all the risks and exposures of a construction contractor—financial, contractual, insurance, business—‘holistic risk.’” Grenier’s feature article on risk management was published in the October/ November 1999 issue of Building Profits. He writes that he would also like to teach a construction management course at one of the major Colorado universities.
Megan Golden Hobson and her husband, Rich, welcomed their first child, Clare Elizabeth, July 5.
Doug Jackman, A.B. ’89, M.B.A. ’95, and his wife, Kris, A.B. ’87, report that their
second child, Abigail Scheele, was born September 15. She joins her four-year-old brother, Jake, and her one-year-old cousin, Maisie Elaine, whose proud parents are Zoe and Bill Jackman.
In February, Kihwan Lee accepted the position of controller for Duck Yang Industry Co., a Ford-owned Korean firm that is the sole supplier of instrument panels for Hyundai Motor Co. He reports that his wife is working as a nurse at the U. of C. hospital and his daughter is a student at the Lab School.
John Miller and his wife had a baby daughter, Alexis, last year.
Bill Ryckman is a director in the leveraged finance department of UBS Warburg (formerly Dillon Read) in New York City. He and his fiancée, Pamela Balbach, will be married next spring in New Jersey. They recently returned from a ten-day African safari, an experience Ryckman says he would highly recommend to everyone. He has seen many classmates recently: “I visit Chicago from time to time, mostly for GSB recruiting events and interviews. On my last visit I had dinner with Barbara Paduch and Manny Conte. Barbara recently joined Green Leaf Ridge, a small buyout shop in Chicago, and Manny still works for Ernst & Young Consulting. I saw Staci Smith when she came to New York as part of John McCain’s presidential campaign team.” In addition, he says, “A few GSBers got together for cocktails in February at a midtown saloon. I was almost the only person there who didn’t have a ‘dot-com’ on his business card. I caught up with Marc Margolies, who is director of strategic planning at SmallWorld.com. Marsha Lipton has left DLJ to start up her own real estate dot-com business. Charlie Yi is working at Kozmo.com. Ari Sklar just started up Phlair.com. At least Tom Faherty is still working at Toronto Dominion.”
John P. Sango and his wife, Laura, recently had their third child, Emma, who joins Samantha, 9, and Tyler, 8. Sango is president of USLink Inc., based in Minnesota. The firm provides local, long distance, and Internet services throughout Minnesota and North Dakota. He continues to play and follow soccer and hockey in his spare time, and he and his family often travel to Winnipeg, Chicago, and Las Vegas.
After working in J.P. Morgan’s private client services for three years, Jeff Sheedy became chief executive officer of Textiles La Escala, a textile manufacturing firm in Quito, Ecuador, in 1998. “Despite the country having three presidents in 18 months, a coup, and several popular uprisings,” he reports, “the company continues to grow. I have also started up (with two partners) a business-to-business firm called LatinSecure, a producer of Latin e-commerce systems. With the two companies, I can have my hand in the old and new economies. Ecuador has a notable shortage of GSB alums, and with the recent departure of José Miguel Barra, ’96, to McKinsey in Caracas, I believe I am the only GSB alum here. Alumni passing through are welcome to look me up.”
Peter Thomson and his wife, Carey, moved from Rochester, New York, to Boston. “I continue to work for Hewlett Packard on our consumer business,” he notes, “but a new city may bring new opportunities. Carey will continue to pursue her fellowship in pulmonary and ICU medicine at Brigham and Women’s and Mass General hospitals. This move will complete our coast-to-coast relocation, as we moved from Mountain View, California, last summer. We are looking forward to making New England our home.”
Angelique Tober is an account manager at Post Communications, an Internet marketing start-up in San Francisco. Anyone interested in starting an e-mail marketing program or “just catching up” may contact her at tober@postcommunications.com.
Charlie Yi is living in New York City and working for Kozmo.com. “Things have been very crazy, but fun,” he writes. “I would love to hear from you all at charlie@kozmo.com.”
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