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1970
CYRIL BALDACHIN was named chairman of the board of Compugen Systems
Ltd., a Canadian firm specializing in PC-based systems integrators.
Baldachin will work with the executive management team in the
development of long-term strategy.
LAWRENCE D. BROWN and his wife moved to Atlanta, where he is now
Controllers RoundTable Research Professor at Georgia State University
College of Business. For the past 19 years, Brown has served on
the faculty of SUNY-Buffalo.
1971
BILL HASS, chairman of TeamWork Technologies, wrote “The Profit
and Value Advantage System” and is a partner in the Center for
Management Advisors, an association dedicated to helping certified
public accountants improve client performance. TeamWork Technologies
is based in Northbrook, Illinois.
After 29 years with Allstate Insurance company and two years of
financial consulting, BILL LOLLI joined CNA Insurance as an investment
operations project director. Lolli and his wife, Judy, live in
Highwood, Illinois. Their three daughters have completed college
and have embarked on professional careers–one of them at Allstate.
ROBERT NAKASONE was named chief executive officer at Toys “R”
Us Inc. He has been president and chief operating officer at the
nation’s largest toy retailer since 1994. He also is the highest
ranking Asian American among the 100 largest U.S. companies ranked
by sales.
1972
RICHARD L. ANTOINE was promoted to senior vice president of the
Procter & Gamble company in Cincinnati, with responsibility for
corporate human resources.
M. CARL JOHNSON III was named president of the newly created meals
and enhancers division of Kraft Foods. This division includes
Kraft dinners, DiGiorno pastas and sauces, Minute Rice, Miracle
Whip, and other dressings and sauces. Previously Johnson was general
manager of the meals division.
1974
JAMES KILTS was appointed chairman and chief executive officer
of Nabisco.
STANLEY NOLLEN spent the fall 1997 semester in India as a Fulbright
Senior Research Scholar. Nollen is a professor at Georgetown University’s
School of Business Administration.
1975
DONALD M. HEINRICH was named president of Smith Fiberglass Products
Inc., a global manufacturer of fiberglass reinforced pipe and
fittings.
1976
ROBERT E. BRIGGS was named chief financial officer of Pillsbury
Company, a unit of Diageo P.L.C. London. He previously was president
of Arby’s International.
1977
MAURREN BRODSKY moved her family and her business, Two Pines Studio,
from the Chicago area to the St. Louis area. A porcelain artist
and teacher, Brodsky uses Victorian techniques and materials to
create custom tile and other pieces.
GENE FERRETTI reports that he is moving again–this time to New
England. He accepted the position of executive vice president
and chief operating officer of VST Technologies, a leader in peripheral
storage devices for notebook computers. He is working in Acton,
Massachusetts, and building a home in Nashua, New Hampshire.
SUSAN RACHER writes: “In a major career change, I left the world
of corporate banking, where I was senior managing director at
Bank of America, and joined the University of Miami as director
of placement for the Graduate School of Business. I would appreciate
hearing about M.B.A. employment opportunities from any U of C
alumni. I can be reached at sracher@SBA01.MSMAIL.MIAMI.EDU.
WONG SIU-FUN was appointed senior executive director for market
services at the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. He will oversee trading
operations and development activities, including options trading
and clearing.
1978
DOUGLAS ALAN FRANK writes: “What does a Wall Street ‘Master of
the Universe’ in the ’80s do for an encore after taxable fixed-income
careers with Salomon and CSFB?” Frank wrote the bicentennial history
of his prep school and some movie scripts that went nowhere (“not
enough sex and violence,” he says). He lives in Kennebunk and
Great Cranberry Island, Maine, with four children, two standard
poodles, and his wife. As an independent financial consultant
and securities principle, Frank manages money for individual and
institutional clients.
DANIEL LASMAN reports: “In late 1996 I had an opportunity to combine
my consulting activities with a startup commodity finance company,
Commodity Capital Group, Inc, that I have been working with for
several years. We closed our first round of equity capital in
February 1997.” Lasman lives in Wilton, Connecticut.
PAUL PAO-LO YING recently became the director of the Far East
region for Elf Lubricants, S.E.A. He writes: “This is a new challenge,
as this region is going through some major economic turmoil. You
know the saying: ‘when the going gets tough...’” He lives in Singapore.
1979
MARCc L. PETIT moved to Belgium after three years in Ravenna,
Italy. He joined Sabena, the national airline, as executive vice
president of finance. He and his wife, Franca, and their children
Nicolas, 11, and Julie, 6, live in Brussels.
KENNETH R. STOKES writes: “We moved to Holland in mid-1997 when
I accepted the position of executive vice president, Western Europe,
for Benckiser N.V., a leading worldwide household cleaning products
company. Benckiser went public on the Amsterdam and New York stock
exchanges in November. I’m enjoying the transition to managing
in the new environment with responsibility for several countries.
My wife and children (now 10 and 7) seem to have adjusted well
to the not-so-sunny climate of Northern Europe (we live just outside
The Hague), and we all look forward to exploring the north as
aggressively as we did the south for the last four years while
living in Barcelona. For two people who grew up in California,
my wife, Dana, and I are constantly amazed at how we continue
to adapt so well to new places even if they continue to be farther
from home. I’d be happy to hear from friends who happen to be
in the area; my office is the World Trade Center at the Amsterdam
airport.”
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