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1990
Suzanne Dunn has recently joined DirecTV in California as director of advanced
products. She coordinates development of DirecTV’s interactive
television services. “I am enjoying living at the beach in Marina
del Rey,” she writes.
Francisco Escoffery became vice president of BankBoston in October 1998. He manages
private banking, mortgages, corporate accounts, and corporate
businesses from Central America. The bank recently appointed him
products director, “which implies a lot of development and organization,
which I like a lot,” Escoffery writes. “Our three daughters are
doing fine. The twins just turned 3 years old. They are all delightful.”
First National Bank promoted Bob Sitko, A.B, ’86, M.B.A. ’90, to senior vice president in the financial
management group. Sitko manages stock and bond portfolios for
private and institutional accounts in Austin, Texas.
Steve Skalski is chief operating officer of MariTEL Marine Communication Systems
in New York City. He, his wife, Linda, and his two children, Evan,
9, and Drew, 6, moved from Atlanta to the Upper West Side of Manhattan.
1991
Louise Baker writes: “My husband, Greg, and I recently moved to a new house
in the Cupertino Foothills in California. Our son, Scott, was
born in February and joins our two daughters, Natasha and Michelle.”
Baker works part time at Oracle.
Tom Clark (see Collin Anderson, ’96)
Jeff Elton, A.B. ’81, M.B.A. ’84, Ph.D. ’91, was promoted to managing partner
of Integral Inc. The firm, based in Cambridge, Massachusetts,
focuses on inter-national management consulting.
Bob Griswold (see Jeff Griswold, ’94)
FaxWatch Inc., a company started by John Marchica, A.B. ’91, M.B.A. ’91, three years after graduation, was named
one of Inc. 500’s fastest-growing private companies in the United
States. Based in Scottsdale, Arizona, FaxWatch provides information
and communications services to the health care industry. Marchica
is president and CEO.
Brian Mulcahey recently joined Tasking Inc. in Dedham, Massachusetts, as vice
president, worldwide corporate marketing. The small international
company supplies software tools to the embedded systems industry.
Dale Philippi (see Collin Anderson, ’96)
J. Peter Ricketts, A.B ’86, M.B.A. ’91, is senior vice president of marketing and
sales at Ameritrade. “My wife, Susanne Shore, and I just had our
first two children–twins. They are a girl, Margot Elizabeth, and
a boy, Roscoe Rollins.”
Nancy L. Scott was promoted to manager in the consulting services practice of
Ernst & Young L.L.P. She lives in Prospect Heights, Illinois.
Heidrick & Struggles promoted Roblyn S. Theodorou to chief information officer of North America, Asia Pacific and
Latin America.
Reiko Tokukatsu works for the risk management group in Nikko Salomon Smith Barney,
a joint venture between Salomon Smith Barney and Nikko Securities.
She lives in Tokyo and has three-year-old twin daughters.
Diana Winston and her husband, Van Buren, live in Norwalk, Connecticut. Her
son, Damien Hooper-Campbell, 21, is a senior at Morehouse College
in Atlanta.
1992
Barry Bear (see Elliot M. Scott, ’95)
Håkan Bergstrand (see Marc Usem, ’93)
Kevin J. Brandon reports that he is a principal at CEA Capital Partners, a New
Yorkbased private equity firm targeting media, communications,
and information services. “My wife, Denise, and I are expecting
our first child in April,” he writes. “Best to all from ’92!”
In June John Gonzalez was promoted to vice president of finance and administration
at A-Med Systems, a venture capital backed medical device start-up
in Sacramento, California.
Jamie McGough and his wife, Debbie, welcomed their fourth child into the family.
Thomas James joins Mary, Andrew, and Eleanor.
Alex Russin writes: “I continue to enjoy my work as a project finance developer
for Bechtel Enterprises, in Manila, Philippines. Recently I helped
jump-start the Manila alumni club. This has given me a chance
to get to know an incredibly diverse group of classmates who share
the goal of finding ways to grow our businesses in this fascinating
country.”
Marco Sims, A.B. ’89, A.M. ’91, M.B.A. ’92, reports that he continues to
manage the U.S. Embassy’s real estate portfolio in London, and
that his “child portfolio” has expanded as well. “My wife, Karen,
and I had a baby boy, Liam, on September 6. The whole family,
including his big sister, Moira, are all doing well.”
Sa Surmeli, J.D. ’91, M.B.A. ’92, writes: “I am still enjoying my 11/2-year
sabbatical from legal work. I opened my second nightclub, 357,
at 357 West Broadway in Soho. We’ve just added dinner service.
Come visit if you are in New York!”
Solveig Whittle started the professional master’s degree in computer science
program at the University of Washington in Seattle. She continues
to work at Microsoft as lead product manager in the Windows 2000
marketing group.
1993
Cornell University recently named John Callister director of the Harvey Kinzelberg Enterprise Engineering Program,
a program to help undergraduate engineering students learn about
entrepreneurship. “I’m teaching freshman and senior classes in
engineering education. My Chicago education has certainly helped,”
Callister writes.
Victor Wai-tak Chung has been working with Reuters Singapore as a risk management
consultant for the past 18 months. “I would like to congratulate
Mark Wellnitz on his marriage,” he writes.
Jo Ann Fujii recently married William Cooley, an attorney in a private practice.
She is currently a business manager at Abbott Laboratories. The
couple lives in the Chicago area.
Jun Hosoya reports that he joined a newly formed venture capital company
called Apax Globis Partners and Co. in Tokyo. “It is a joint venture
of Apax Partners of Europe and Patricof and Co. Ventures of the
United States with Japan’s Globis Corporation, a small venture
firm that does management school and publishing business with
some venture capital fund experience,” he writes. “We have completed
the first closing of the new fund with 7.8 billion yen in September.”
Jonathan Lauer left Hewlett-Packard’s medical products group to become director
of marketing at Visualization Technologies in Wilmington, Massachusetts,
a privately held company that makes an image-guided surgery system.
Lauer has moved to Newburyport, Massachusetts. “My wife, Nancy,
and I have two girls: Caroline, 3, and Christine, 11/2,” he writes.
“Windsurfing and golf are on an indefinite hold.”
Ajay Mishra moved from Chicago to California two years ago “to explore the
gold rush” and recently joined the acquisition and business opportunity
group of Cisco Sys-tems. “Interesting housing market here,” he
writes. “It’s a 50 percent reduction in space and a 300 percent
increase in price compared to Chicago.”
Rob Mukai writes: “The last year has seen quite a few changes for me and
my family. I left Mars Inc. at the end of 1998 and moved from
the Mars Tokyo office to Salt Lake City. I am now working for
O.C. Tanner Co., a privately held employee recognition provider.
Talk about a change of scene. We bought our first house here and
are spending quite a bit of time remodeling it. It has been quite
a culture shock coming from the 24/7 lifestyle of Tokyo to the
more ‘relaxed’ scene here. My son, Chance, who was born my first
year at the GSB, is now 8! We also have a daughter, Maya, who
was born in Tokyo four years ago.”
John F. Phelan has become director, sales and marketing, with T&N Antennas of
Vernon Hills, Illinois. He is responsible for worldwide sales
and marketing, including strategic planning to grow the business
as foreign operations colocate with major customers and offshore
sites come online. “This is a great opportunity in a rapidly expanding
industry and I look forward to the challenges of learning a whole
new set of criteria for performance,” he writes. “My audio industry
background has given me the base upon which to build this new
opportunity and the practical understanding of the technologies
involved. It should be a blast.”
David Jay Raduziner works for Sun Microsystems Inc. He moved from Palo Alto, California,
to Boulder, Colorado, in August 1998. In September 1998 he married
Diana Verrilli in Millbrook, New York. “We completed the renovation
of a historic home in October–just in time for our new baby due
in January.”
Cameron Routh joined GainsKeeper.com as vice president of business development.
GainsKeeper develops Internet-based tools for individual inves-
tors. Its flagship service automatically calculates cost bases
for tax-reporting purposes.
Gary A. Sabshon works in the risk management and regulatory consulting practice
at Ernst & Young. “I am living in Dix Hills, New York, and since
graduation my wife, Eileen, and I have had two beautiful boys,
Eric, almost 3, and Jason, 1.”
Robert Sohn was promoted to senior manager, market research, at Merck & Co.
in August.
Marc Usem and Håkan Bergstrand, ’92, recently joined forces to start a New Yorkbased money management
firm under the name Usem Bergstrand Capital Management. Their
new hedge fund, Quant One Partners L.P., employs an equity hedge
or “market neutral” portfolio approach. The duo developed proprietary
quantitative models to build, rebalance, and trade long and short
equity portfolios of approximately equal dollar weight. “Check
back next year for returns,” they write.
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