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Polly Kawalek, ’78
Kawalek's Staying Power
Lee Hillman, ’79
Bally Total Fitness Shapes Up
Jean-Paul Bruls (see Carl Hannan Greppin, ’91)
Robert Buccelli,
his wife, Cheryl, and son, Robert, welcomed twins Garrett and Joseph to their family on February 27. “Everyone is doing well,” Buccelli writes.Claudia Buttinger and Jason Fisher married in Austria last June. They live in London.
Aaron Finch
married Christine Getzey in Charlottesville, Virginia, in September. Classmates in attendance included Jules Drelick, Chris Woehrle, Mike Nannini, and Michael Thieberg. Finch works for United Payors & United Providers, a health care company. His wife works for an Internet start-up firm in Reston, Virginia, where the couple lives.James Ganley writes: “My wife, Kathy, and I are proud to announce the birth of our son, Patrick James. He was born on August 27 in London.”
Scott Haddad and Caroline Jia Yuh Liu are engaged and will be celebrating their wedding in Taipei and Boston later this year. Haddad recently moved to San Francisco with Toyota, and Liu continues to enjoy the wine business with Mark Anthony Inc. in Vancouver.
Patrick Hallinan recently left Booz Allen & Hamilton to assume business development responsibilities for Cyclone Commerce Inc., a business-to-business software company based in Scottsdale, Arizona. He and his wife, Julie, will remain in Evanston, Illinois. Hallinan can be reached at phallinan@cyclonecommerce.com.
Tomoe Maria Hirata and Takanari Yamashita write: “We are pleased to announce the birth of our son, Hiroyoshi P. Yamashita, on October 16. We couldn’t be happier!” The family lives in Tokyo.
Abhay Jajoo has been working as a manager for ZS Associates’ Princeton office since March 1997. Jajoo reports: “We were blessed with a daughter, Anjalee Keran, on December 7, 1999. The transition to parenthood has been smooth so far. Hopefully, it will remain smooth for years to come!”
Andrew C. Johannesen has been transferred to ExxonMobil’s Asia Pacific Treasury Center in Singapore.
Barcley Johnson reports: “I’m launching BizFlorist.com in June. BizFlorist.com will focus on the flower and gift needs of business. GSB professor Robert Calvin is using the company for a case study spring term in his 484 New Enterprise class. Interested alumni can contact me at barcley@gsbalum.uchicago.edu for more information.”
David Levine married Traci Birk in March 1999 in suburban Philadelphia. “I was pleased and honored to have the following classmates at the celebration: Nimma Bakshi, Anurag Ahuja, Jamie Hague, and Brian Mukherjee,” writes Levine. He manages product development for the Window Group of the Certain Teed Corporation in Valley Forge, Pennsylvania.
Catherine M. J. Lo recently became marketing manager at ZuluSports.com, a San Francisco Internet start-up. Zulu- Sports, which launches this spring, is a Web site for outdoor and adventure sports enthusiasts.
Ghislain Paradis of Quebec writes: “I am a private pilot and just bought a Piper Cherokee airplane. I intend to fly from Quebec City to Hudson Bay with Simon Rebsamen.”
Larry Seruma and Elizabeth Younger are engaged to be married in New Jersey this September. They plan to live in San Francisco. Younger currently works for Deloitte Consulting in New York, while Seruma is with Barclays Global Investors in San Francisco.
Kenneth Arthur Smith recently rejoined Munder Capital Management in Birmingham, Michigan, as co-portfolio manager of the firm’s NetNet fund and the future technology fund. Smith had been working as an equity analyst for American Century Investments in Kansas City, Missouri.
Victoria Kyhl Stephen (see Robert Gregory Stephen, ’92)
Michael John Wokosin writes: “In September, I married Amanda Massucci, whom I met in Chicago while getting my M.B.A. Tom Wilter participated in the ceremony, and John Hillenbrand and Brigid Burke, ’90, helped us celebrate.” Wokosin and his wife bought a home in Hollywood Hills, Los Angeles. In April, he became a brand manager in the home video division of Warner Brothers. Wokosin manages retail marketing, category management, and a 1,100-title library of classic films.
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1997
Christine Baker has been business director for Parke-Davis South Africa since October 1998. Her husband, David, is working on his master’s degree and teaching economics at the University of Cape Town. She reports: “Our house overlooks the ocean in Clifton Bay, Cape Town. My job has allowed David and me to travel to 18 countries, including China, Hong Kong, Vietnam, Zimbabwe, Namibia, Australia, Italy, Spain, and France. The travel has offered opportunities for many adventures—numerous safaris to see big game, parasailing in Mauritius, scuba diving on the great barrier reef in Australia, skiing in Cortina, Italy, and sand sledding down mammoth dunes in Namibia. We visited the U.S.A. for a month last year and were able to spend time with fellow GSBers, including Janet and Chris Hughes and Hong Duan, and a weekend at our vacation home in Pennsylvania with John Lockhart and Danielle Martinez.”
In August, James Brown will marry Laura Lantinga, A.M. ’93. Brown moved in January to Raleigh-Durham, North Carolina, where he is manager of capital investments and economic analysis for the Argo-Chemical Group of BASF.
After more than 60 weekend trips courtesy of Sabre, Gerry Caballero is heading back home to California to join Exult (www.exult.net), an Irvine-based Web-centric business process outsourcing firm, as director of e-commerce. Caballero says that he and his wife, Dana, have enjoyed being in Dallas but are ready to return to the West Coast and its “near-perfect” weather. He also notes: “I think only Cathy Carroll has taken more trips than we have.”
Bill He relocated in February to A.T. Kearney in Shanghai, China.
Louis-Philippe Hemond reports: “I left the Chicago Board of Trade in January to join the team of Unext.com.”
John Joliet and Andy Song recently realized what a small world it is when they bumped into each other during happy hour in the Lan Kwai Fong section of Hong Kong. Song, who works for Goldman Sachs, joined Joliet, who is considering a move to Hong Kong with Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette, for dinner and a night on the town, but left before the sun came up to “head to the casinos on Macau!”
In January Deborah O’Neal joined the professional services practice at Korn/Ferry International in Atlanta. As an executive recruiter, she writes that she is enjoying this new opportunity that allows her to reconnect with many classmates in a professional setting.
Arpan Patel reports: “I left Wasserstein Perella in New York and moved out to San Francisco in February 1999 to join the band of merry dealmakers at CSFB Technology Group and get back to my technology roots. But the entrepreneurial bug was my endgame, so I left many years of mergers and acquisitions behind in July 1999 to start a business-to-business e-commerce company, eFrontiers. We focus on the investment world and launched in April. We are growing fast and always looking for the best people. I’ve already had to settle for the Harvard and Stanford b-school grads on my payroll, but I really want some GSBers! I hope they come find us. We hosted a group of students during West Quest and enjoyed it thoroughly.” To read about West Quest, see “What Good Is an M.B.A.?”.
In March Jason Price left Marakon to join the strategy and business group of Cargill in Minneapolis. “My wife, Monica, our 19-month-old son, Clayton, and I are happily adjusting to life back in the Midwest,” writes Price.
Phillip Rhodes is director of business development for global technology solutions with DoubleClick. He and his wife, Tracy, have returned to New York after a year in San Francisco, where he was senior vice president of strategic development for a small private software company. “Looking forward to being back on the East Coast!” he writes.
Jay and Cindy Lester Rudman returned to Chicago after 10 months in St. Louis, where Jay worked for YourPharmacy.com before it was sold to PlanetRx. Jay is now vice president of business development for OpinionLab (www.opinionlab.com). Cindy continues to work as e-brand manager for Influence, an e-business solutions provider (www.global-influence.net) with plans to open a Chicago office in the next few months.
Chris Rynning and Marianne Malvik had their second child, Ida Amalie Louise, in Hong Kong March 3. “Everything is well with mother and child,” Rynning reports.
Pam Schmidt writes: “After a year of independent consulting on Web sites and e-commerce in Madison, Wisconsin (yes, technology exists in areas other than San Jose and Boston), I recently moved to Milwaukee to join Cumulus Media Inc., a company that owns over 300 radio stations. I work in development and strategy in the firm’s newly created Internet group. I have also been assisting Darrell Cronan, ’00, with product development at Plexys Inc., (www.plexys.com), a Chicago-area start-up. Cronan is a cofounder of Plexys, which is developing a service to enable physicians to place prescriptions using a hand-held computing device and the Internet. We are actively seeking financing and welcome inquiries from all interested parties; e-mail Cronan at dcronan@plexys.com. We have already built a limited prototype, and the technical specifications for our service are well under way.”
Louisa Lloyd Shields, a manager for Deloitte Consulting in San Francisco, writes: “I married Tom Shields in Columbus, Ohio, this past October. Now we are taking off for a round-the-world honeymoon for the year 2000. We encourage any GSB alumni to contact us via e-mail at louisa@kira.net, especially if they are in South America, India, or Southeast Asia and like visitors!” Several GSB alumni attended the celebration, including the maid of honor, Marcia Hunt, and Robbie Fang, Marianne Llewellyn, Aneysha Pearce, Tim Brennan, Graham Wik, Cathy Carroll, Mark Trombley, and Cindy and Jay Rudman.
Mimi Baker Swank and her husband, Steve, moved to Singapore in February. Swank, who continues to work for Morgan Stanley Dean Witter selling Asian equities, welcomes visitors to the region to stop in for a visit.
Seiichi Wakana left Merrill Lynch to join Softbank Corp. as manager of strategic planning. Wakana lives in Tokyo.
Scott Wu (see David McClellan, ’98)
Kishore Yalamanchili writes: “My wife, Padmaja, and I are proud to announce the arrival of our baby boy, Jay Krishna, in June 1999. Both mother and baby are doing well.” Bentley College awarded Yalamanchili the inaugural Nasdaq-Bentley Executive Professorship to recognize outstanding teaching in finance at the college. In addition to teaching, Yalamanchili works as a fixed-income analyst at State Street Research and Management in Boston and continues to make discoveries in molecular biology as a research fellow at the Harvard Medical School Center for Blood Research. He and his family live outside Boston.
Jonathan Zapp married Kimberly Rasor in October in Portland, Oregon. Michael Wiener and Jordan Celkupa attended the celebration.
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1998
Special thanks to class officer Catey McCreary, who submitted class notes on dozens of ’98 classmates.
Craig Adkins is controller for Tribune Education, Creative Publications Inc. He and his wife, Keitheia, and their two children, Jaela, 1, and Marcus, 3, live in Evergreen Park, Illinois.
Michele Allen married David Souder on March 25 at the Penn Club in New York. GSBers in attendance included Michelle Pyun, Ginger Gaidemak, Renee Berman, Valerie Bauer Gore, Elizabeth Malmo, Margaret Master, Suzanne Koester, Richard Liu, Kathy Kirin, and Lori Boller. Pyun recently left Andersen Consulting to join BigfootInteractive, a direct e-mail marketing agency.
Renee Berman has managed to find the time to visit San Francisco, where she hooked up with Ginger Gaidemak, Pari Goode, and Margaret Master.
Paul Bullington and his wife, Kelly, are the proud parents of Wilson Douglas Bullington, born January 10. “As the first grandchild on either side, he is the center of attention and a great joy for our entire family,” Bullington writes. “And, as my classmates to whom we sent pictures can attest, he must be one of the cutest babies of the modern era.”
Neelan Choksi and Sharon Burns are engaged. Class officer Catey McCreary writes: “From that first Cubs game, to watching the playoffs for their first ‘real date,’ to their pilgrimage to Cooperstown, to purchasing their Victorian in Washington, D.C., these two were destined for the altar. Whoever introduced these two should get a prize.”
John Dale writes: “My biggest news is that my wife, Niki, and I had a baby boy, Samuel, on December 15. Mom and baby are great, he’s sleeping well, and I couldn’t ask for much more.”
Richard Dalton is engaged and has transferred to New York from Chicago. He is still with Goldman Sachs.
Sunil Doshi and his wife, Urvi, left Chicago for Columbus, Ohio, where he took a job with The Limited.
Class officer Catey McCreary writes: “Dan Ezrow is certainly in the loop! While working in marketing and business development at Comdisco in Chicago (where he has introduced new products into e-commerce and regularly sees Amy Hamilton), he still finds the time to report on other classmates. He attended Frank Karbarz’s November 1998 wedding to Laura Fordonski in Joliet, Illinois. Karbarz is living in Houston and is a financial analyst at Enron; he is currently doing a rotation with a VC incubator.”
Nina Fine was married last November. Her husband accepted a new job, so they will be moving from Dallas to Irvine, California.
In October Rajneesh Gaur and Madhu Sarwal wed at a ceremony in New York City. Several GSB alumni attended the reception, including Francisco Bayron, Andrea Level, Scott Kupchinsky and girlfriend Havona Madana, Fernando Vinzons, and Christy Whitney. They went to Aruba for their honeymoon. Gaur currently works as a senior product marketing engineer with Intel in Santa Clara, California.
George Geis and his wife, Laurel, report the birth of their first child, Audrey Lillian Geis, in February. The family lives in South Pasadena, California. Geis is still with McKinsey in Los Angeles.
Drew George is trading and managing the natural gas storage assets for Southern Company Energy Marketing in Atlanta. In September he and his wife, Melissa, had their first daughter, Brinley Dorothea. George notes that life in Atlanta is “much better than our Yankee fears and biases would have predicted.”
Chris Gloede recently joined the firm Giant Step as a senior strategy consultant in the Chicago office. He will collaborate with companies to evaluate Internet business opportunities and create interactive solutions.
John Graham is pleased to announce that he and his wife, Katie, welcomed their new little girl, Madison Myriel Graham, on March 15. Graham reports that she was born healthy and happy and is as beautiful as can be. Katie is doing well and, Graham says, she is also as beautiful as can be.
Matt Hamada is still with ZS Associates and travels frequently to Mexico.
Dan and Christine Daudt Hanson have new jobs. Dan moved from research to investment banking at Bear Stearns and Chris is now in institutional sales for Sanford C. Bernstein & Co.
Lara Hanley Herbolsheimer had a baby girl, Charlotte Grace, on August 9.
Donovan Ho has changed his name from Dong He. His daughter, Sarah Jaimie Ho, born after he moved to New Jersey, celebrated her first birthday in February.
David Brian Hoffman and his girlfriend, Gretchen Birgells, have moved to Washington, D.C., where they are working on their comic book, The Black Squirrel.
Tom Huntington writes: “I tied the knot with Sprague Callery in October in Vermont.”
A group of 1998 friends got together in New York City to watch March Madness. Kathy James, Justin Mauskopf, Steve Hopchick, Peter McNally, Kent Kalvaitis, Dan Perlman, Andrew Haber, and Bill Hook watched some great NCAA second-round action, and a good time was had by all.
On January 19 Chris Johnson and his wife, Susan, welcomed Alexa Gabrielle into the world.
Sanjeev “Josh” Joshi moved from Chicago to Washington, D.C., last June and became a father (his baby daughter’s name is Swati, which means “pearl”) in October. He is now a manager in Andersen Consulting’s communication and high-tech group.
Mike Kauffman moved back to the East Coast in February to be the point man for a risk arbitrage effort at K Capital Partners of Boston, which just passed the half-billion mark for assets under management. He had dinner in New York with Andrew Haber, who just enjoyed a heli-skiing trip in Canada. Kauffman reports that he is also in touch with Jake Crampton, whose MedSpeed start-up is doing well. This makes Kauffman very happy, as he invested in Crampton’s first round and he is already looking for more cash.
Anurag Khaitan got engaged to Megan Twomey. Class officer Catey McCreary writes: “May their marriage facilitate love and happiness to LEAD them forward through a happy and satisfying life together. Are there any fish in the future?”
David Killian, Pete Carrillo, and Fred Copper hosted a New Year’s Eve blowout at Killian’s New York City apartment. Many GSBers partied the night away, including Chris Crevier, Brian Gilmore, Jeff Swiatek, Laura Hubbard, ’99, Nicole Lev, ’97, Daniela Berger, Matt Boge, Dan Perlman, Steve Hopchick, Bill Hook, Mike Scronic, Bassam Abushakra, Justin Mauskopf, Dan Trencher, Dan Hanson, Christine Daudt-Hanson, Eve Glatt, Jeremy Friedman, and Rachel Caplan.
Debra Krolick, M.B.A. ’97, Ph.D. ’98, is an assistant professor of accounting at Washington University in St. Louis. Krolick teaches introductory financial accounting to evening and executive M.B.A. students. She also received the American Accounting Association’s 1999 Competitive Manuscript Award for a research paper based on her dissertation.
Greg LaDoe and family have relocated to London, where he is working in the structured asset and corporate finance group at Shell Capital Ltd.
Kevin Leyh left the valuation practice at PricewaterhouseCoopers and joined a money management boutique in Los Angeles.
Mike Macakanja has a new daughter, Katherine Grace, born January 26. You can see photos of the new bundle of joy at www.geocities.com/macakanja. Macakanja also has a new job at William Blair & Co., where he is in the corporate finance technology group.
Elizabeth Malmo moved back to Seattle to manage the marketing department of LiveBid.com. She is now with the Sothebys.amazon.com team and reports that she loves her job.
John Marovich is the board treasurer in a 955-unit condo association ($5 million operating budget) in downtown Chicago. He teaches part time in the graduate business program at Dominican University in River Forest, Illinois.
David McClellan, Jim Adams, and Scott Wu, ’97, recently accepted director-level positions with Incent Inc., a Chicago-based Internet start-up that provides automated financial planning software to customers of personal financial services companies. McClellan (dmcclellan@incentinc.com) leads client sales and marketing, Adams (jadams@incentinc.com) leads product development, and Wu (swu@incentinc.com) leads consumer strategy. McClellan writes: “Please contact any of these guys if you think your company might be a prospective client or service provider to Incent.”
Mike McCoy and Tony Jonikas, ’99, are founding members in the April launch of Crowe Chizek Capital Markets L.L.C., in Chicago. A subsidiary of Crowe, Chizek and Company L.L.C., the eighth-largest consulting and accounting firm in the United States, the newly created firm provides investment banking, corporate finance, and capital sourcing services for privately held and middle-market businesses. Recent transactions include the sale of J.W. Allen and Co. to Rich Products Co. and the divestiture of two divisions of United States Can Company. McCoy is a vice president and Jonikas is a managing director. More information on the company can be found at www.crowechizek.com/csg/cfs.
Northon Melo is at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette in New York doing banking with the Internet group. Melo is having a great time at work and with friends. No marriage or kids, he reports, but his girlfriend, a first-year Wharton M.B.A. student, is doing great.
Ram Moorthy is enjoying his work as a manager with ZS Associates’ Princeton office. He and his wife, Saras, are expecting their first baby this spring.
Frederick Narsolis reports the birth of his second child, Alexander Bernard Narsolis, in 1998. Narsolis works as a project manager for UOP in Chicago and recently played golf with Tony Barron.
Linda Okstein is engaged to David Shaffer. In the first five minutes of their acquaintance at an Irish bar in San Francisco, they learned that both were from “a small town in Connecticut.” As it turns out, Shaffer was a senior when Okstein was a freshman at the same high school in Storrs, Connecticut.
Nima Parikh has left Nestle in Los Angeles and moved east to join with Clairol.
Brian Park is engaged to Samantha Singh. He recently joined Morgan Stanley Dean Witter in its technology investment banking group in Menlo Park, California.
Kalindi Patel reports that after spending three months with her mum in Nairobi to plan her December 1998 wedding, Patel and her husband, Harsh Kumar, honeymooned in Rajasthan. She returned to A.T. Kearney in New York (after a camel safari in the desert) and is now spending quite a bit of time in Toronto, where she is “oot and aboot” with Chris Koski and Eva Janssens.
Vinod Patel and his wife had their first child, a girl named Tanvi, on August 31.
Rex Peters recently accepted a position as a global systems integrator alliance solution manager with the IBM Software Group in Fort Wayne, Indiana.
Angela Ryker is engaged to Adam Gallagher. They met while taking the MPRE (ethics portion of the bar) after an administrative error sent them to the wrong room. The two had coffee, and, as Ryker says, “That was it!”
Andrew Sallay is living in Singapore working for Schroder Capital Partners, a private equity group, and loving it. Meghan Twomey and Anurag Khaitan visited on their way back from India. Dan Hochstadt, who worked in Hong Kong for a short period, also visited Singapore. Sallay sees Ken Rhee quite regularly when he goes to Hong Kong.
John-Paul Savant has left Ernst & Young’s strategy group to join the strategy group at ZEFER, a new Internet consulting firm. During his visit to New York in March, he got together with Chris Crevier, Jeff Swiatek, and Brian Gilmore.
Thomas M. Seftenberg married Lee Hermanson on June 12, 1999, on Cape Cod. Seftenberg recently left Heller Financial Inc. to join Chicago-based Driehaus Capital Management Inc.
Joe Singer and his wife, Martha Anne, are now in Atlanta, where Singer is doing early-stage Internet private placements for the technology banking group at First Union Securities.
George Sotiropoulos is a senior project manager at E-Trade and recently came back to the GSB to give a presentation to Austan Goolsbee’s Business 385 e-commerce classes in February.
Todd Vermeer and Samantha Hodgkins married on December 4 in Bond Chapel on campus. The evening wedding was attended by Amy Hamilton, Eunhee Choi, Catey McCreary, Mike Murray, Annie Laugan, ’99, Chris Crevier, Jeff Swiatek, Steve Schmitchel, Chris Koski, Eve Janssens, Paul Kostolansky, David and Blair Foster Martin, Liz Marshall, Elizabeth Dustin, Tom Huntington, Tony Davis, Brad Wolfsen, Bill Reilly, and Joel Miller.
Darin Vig left Ernst & Young at the end of the year and joined a Chicago-based Internet start-up, USatWork.com. For a career consultant, he says, this has been an exciting, eye-opening experience. Vig and his wife are expecting their first child this spring.
LeRoy Wicker married Kellye Tisdale in August in Charleston, South Carolina. Andrea Page, ’97, attended the celebration. After the wedding, Wicker moved to Chicago from New York City.
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1999
Tim Compan writes: “My wife, Anita, and I had our first child November 24, 1999—the day before Thanksgiving. Matthew Compan is doing extremely well and adjusting to his new surroundings in Princeton, New Jersey.”
Heidi Conant reports: “Elizabeth Bailey and Brent Bundon got engaged in January and will be married in October. Darryl Ah-Now and Lily Lee got engaged in the same month and will also be married in October. Bhalendu Deshpande also just got engaged to his girlfriend.”
Eric Duvall and his wife, Heather, recently celebrated the first birthday of their son, Douglas. Duvall is a senior product manager for U.S. Bancorp in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Warren Fendrich and his wife, Hannah, are pleased to announce the birth of their third child, Meira Fendrich, in January. “Our other daughters, Alyssa and Rebecca, are psyched at being big sisters,” says Fendrich. “I am now really outnumbered!”
Steven Finckle (known professionally as Steve Cole) is an Atlantic Records recording artist. His first album, Stay Awhile, was released in May 1998 and reached number one on the national radio airplay charts. Finckle, who lives in Chicago with his wife, Laura, received the Prism Award for best new artist in the new adult contemporary category at the 2000 Oasis Awards. He released his second album, Between Us, in May.
Tony Jonikas (see Mike McCoy, ’98)
William Stephen Kamman was promoted to director at CIBC in New York, doing telecom equity research. “I look forward to covering companies directly later in the year,” says Kamman. “I am also very happy to be back in New York, although it’s feeling a bit ‘Disney’ with so little crime and filth. Otherwise, I’ve bought a foldable kayak as my official stupid post-M.B.A. purchase. So if you see someone paddling around the Hudson River in a bright yellow fabric-covered boat, give a wave. If you see me bobbing around face-down in the water, please call the NYPD!”
Maggie Magallon was recently assigned to a project that will take her to Hong Kong for the next few months. In March she went to Taipei for a wedding and was able to meet up with Rich Hsu, who was also visiting. She ran into Richard Ho in a bakery while in Hong Kong and hopes he can show her around. She was also planning to get together with Ernie Robles in Hong Kong in April. “If anyone is heading to Hong Kong, please get in touch,” she writes. “Also, Tina and Al Longfield, ’97, recently celebrated their five-year wedding anniversary.”
Meg Manda (see Bill Hayes, ’90)
Jeff and Pam Moritz welcomed their first child, Emily Rose, on January 2. Moritz writes: “We are really excited and happy.”
In December Alexandre Pfeifer's wife gave birth to a daughter, Giulia, in Miami, as Pfeifer finished his training period with Lucent Technologies. Pfeifer has returned to Brazil as an account executive for the company. “Giulia is now with mom and dad in Campinas, state of São Paulo, in Brazil, and she has just enjoyed her first Carnival!” he writes.
Jerric Ramos recently joined Kraft Foods as a finance manager after eight years with BP Amoco and a brief stint with Sargent & Lundy. He also reports: “We had our first child, Erica Maleah, on January 5.”
“Between graduation and now,” writes David Wang, “I got married to Katie Barnicle, started my new position at McKinsey, and had a great time doing absolutely nothing but walking my dog before last October. I also had the opportunity to work for Unext.com, which was educational.”
Every day is a GSB reunion for Allen Webb, J.D. ’99, M.B.A. ’99, and Jeff Meyer. Webb writes: “We live in one of Seattle’s elite bachelor pads. Our house boasts a basement bar, billiards table, and a terrific backyard and deck for barbecuing. The challenge, of course, is finding a dry night to barbecue. Fortunately, winter rains bring snow to the Cascades, and I had a ball during ski season. I’m enjoying my work in McKinsey’s Seattle office. I’ve been with a local client recently, so let me know if you roll through town. I may even be here to greet you! I enjoyed playing host to Christy Munday when she came to Seattle for a rainy March weekend.”
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