Reconnect Class of 1996
30th Reunion
Celebrate your wonderful memories with the class of 1996 as well as your business school friends, classmates, faculty, staff, and alumni across generations at Reconnect 2026.
See class specific event information below, as well as additional details on the schedule page. Before Reconnect, we encourage you to join the Chicago Booth Connect page for your class to connect with friends and make extra plans for the weekend.
Class of 1996 Reception
Friday, May 1
7–10 p.m.
Bellevue Chicago
1031 North Rush Street
Chicago, IL 60611
Enhancements for this event have been generously sponsored by Roopa Gandhi, MBA '96, and Subhash Makhija, MBA '96, GEP.
Help us reach our class attendance goal of 60 alumni from the class of 1996.
Attendance goal (46 of 60)
Help us reach our class campaign goals of $3,500,000 from 200 classmate donors.
Donation goal ($3,119,987 of $3,500,000)
Donor goal (120 of 200)
Last updated March 9, 2026
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Committee
Chris Cashin
Anne Farnham-Brundige, Program Chair
Jarrod Fong
Kathy Ganley, Participation Chair
James Ganley, Participation Chair
Andy Greenberg
Stacey Hadash
Ashish Kishore
Will McLane
Rosette Nguyen
Todd Patrick
Ani Patwardhan
Michele Schiliro
Nancy Silverstone
Staff Contacts
Caitlin Andersen, programming
Emily Seybold, fundraising
Class of 1996 Honor Roll
- Anonymous (13)
- Melissa Aagesen
- Miles Adam
- Monty Agarwal
- Eric Baer
- Nirmaljit Bakshi
- Douglas Barnard
- Satish Bhat
- Scott Bils
- Rhonda Bird
- Anne Brundige
- Kevin Canavan
- Philip Canfield
- Deena Carr
- Christopher Cashin
- Craigh Cepukenas
- John Chen
- Trang Chu
- Dean Curnutt
- Darcey Dakers
- Sandy D'Antonio
- Kent Davis
- Mark DeLisle
- Scott Diaz
- Nathan Dowden
- Carol Downey
- Gayle Ekstrom
- Grady Elliott
- Mark Fitzgerald
- Timothy Flannery
- Marc Fredette
- Gavin Freytag
- James Ganley
- Kathryn Ganley
- John Gardner
- Susanne Gealy
- Jason Ginsburg
- Eric Gomberg
- Benjamin Goren
- Jonathan Grabel
- Andrew Greenberg
- Stacey Hadash
- Mary Hall
- Robert Healy
- Jurgen Huck
- Samantha Kappagoda
- James Kaspar
- Mark Kaye
- Aileen Kelleman-Band
- Ashish Kishore
- Donald Klink
- Douglas Knoch
- Matthew Kurtzman
- John Lacy
- Andrew Laing
- Lisa Laing
- Jimmy LaRue
- Robert Lynch
- Roopa Makhija
- Subhash Makhija
- Roger Martinez
- Stephen McKenna
- Susan McLain
- Willard McLane
- Gregory Melconian
- James Molloy
- Karen Montbach
- Stephen Moy
- Harry Nahatis
- Michael Napier
- Scott Neitzel
- Hien Nguyen
- Rosette Nguyen
- Richard Nuzum
- Stephen Oswald
- Todd Patrick
- Aniruddha Patwardhan
- Theresa Pope
- David Rattner
- Greg Roda
- Walter Ruane
- David Ryan
- Guy Sanschagrin
- Kristine Sanschagrin
- Rudi Schadt
- John Schneider
- Sandra Schulte
- Owen Shapiro
- Robert Shi
- Samuel Siegel
- Nancy Silverstone
- David Slump
- Michael Sprague
- Sandra Stephens
- Jeffrey Strunk
- Thomas Sullivan
- Scott Swanson
- Paul Travers
- W. Britton Trukenbrod
- Franco Turrinelli
- Christina Van Houten
- James Varay
- Suvir Varma
- Robert Venable
- Mari Vilmansen
- Masahiro Watanabe
- Dennis White
- Patrick Willis
- Heidi Wisbach
- Erica Yoon
Milestone Match
A group of alumni leaders celebrating reunion milestones in 2026 have committed a total of $1,000,000 to the Chicago Booth Annual Fund. Match their commitment and double the impact of your reunion gift with your new five-year pledge. Learn more and join the challenge.