Reconnect Class of 1996
30th Reunion
Below is how the class of 1996 celebrated their 2026 Reconnect reunion weekend.
We encourage you to join your class community page on Chicago Booth Connect to stay connected with classmates.
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.
Unfinished Business: Pivots, Purpose, and the Art of Writing Your Third Chapter
Saturday, May 2
12:45–1:45 p.m.
Charles M. Harper Center
Room C01 (lower classroom level)
Chicago, IL 60637
Thirty years ago, we sat in the same classrooms, ran the same regressions, and walked out with the same degree—and wildly different ideas of what you were going to do with it. And yet we may all still sometimes wonder, what do we really want to be when we grow up?
Join three classmates—one who walked away from the hedge fund industry to teach; one who moved from giving advice to building something entirely new in Europe; and one who traded Wall Street for Harvard Yard—for a conversation about reinvention, intentionality, and the surprising freedom that comes when you stop optimizing for the next rung and start asking what the ladder is even leaning against. Come for the stories, stay for the argument—and think about how you will write your own next chapter.
Hosted by Stacey Hadash, MBA '96, Ashish Kishore, MBA '96, and Peter Pashigian, MBA '96.
Class of 1996 Gallery Tour
Saturday, May 2
4–6 p.m.
Looking for a fun activity with the class of 1996 between the events during the day on campus and dinner that evening with friends? Please join Kathy (Klunzinger) Ganley, MBA '96, principal with Mason Lane Art Advisory, for a gallery tour in West Town.
This event is at capacity.
Class of 1996 Saturday Gathering
Saturday, May 2
6–9 p.m.
Continue the celebration with your class at Anne Farnham-Brundige's, MBA '96, home in Old Town. Registration is required, and the address will be provided upon registration. For questions, please contact Caitlin Andersen (caitlin.andersen@chicagobooth.edu).
Help us reach our class attendance goal of 60 alumni from the class of 1996.
Attendance goal (66 of 60)
Help us reach our class campaign goals of $3,500,000 from 200 classmate donors.
Donation goal ($5,028,167 of $3,500,000)
Donor goal (155 of 200)
Last updated April 30, 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
- Ashik Ardeshna
- Eric Baer
- Nirmaljit Bakshi
- Douglas Barnard
- Paul Beinstein
- Sara Beinstein
- Satish Bhat
- Scott Bils
- Rhonda Bird
- Marc Birenbaum
- Julia Brady Hoexter
- Anne Brundige
- Lance Bylow
- Kevin Canavan
- Philip Canfield
- Joseph Cantwell
- Deena Carr
- Brian Case
- Christopher Cashin
- Craigh Cepukenas
- John Chen
- Trang Chu
- Michael Cochran
- Deborah Crawford
- Dean Curnutt
- Darcey Dakers
- Aaron Daniel
- Sandy D'Antonio
- Kent Davis
- Mark DeLisle
- Scott Diaz
- Timothy Dowd
- Nathan Dowden
- Carol Downey
- Gayle Ekstrom
- Grady Elliott
- Mark Fitzgerald
- Timothy Flannery
- Marc Fredette
- Gavin Freytag
- Kathryn Frisch
- James Ganley
- Kathryn Ganley
- John Gardner
- Susanne Gealy
- Jason Ginsburg
- Eric Gomberg
- Jonathan Grabel
- Andrew Greenberg
- David Gregory
- Cory Gunderson
- Stacey Hadash
- Mary Hall
- Margaret Hardin
- Robert Healy
- Jurgen Huck
- Samantha Kappagoda
- James Kaspar
- Mark Kaye
- Peter Keim
- Aileen Kelleman-Band
- Ashish Kishore
- Jennifer Klie
- Donald Klink
- Douglas Knoch
- Matthew Kurtzman
- John Lacy
- Andrew Laing
- Lisa Laing
- Jimmy LaRue
- Robert Lynch
- Roopa Makhija
- Subhash Makhija
- Christine Mann
- Roger Martinez
- Arturo Mauleon Rubin de Cel
- 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
- Tal Raeside
- Rama Ramachandran
- David Rattner
- Greg Roda
- Walter Ruane
- David Ryan
- Guy Sanschagrin
- Kristine Sanschagrin
- Anjum Sayyed
- Rudi Schadt
- Michele Schiliro
- John Schneider
- Sandra Schulte
- Owen Shapiro
- Robert Shi
- Kirsten Shook-Horton
- Samuel Siegel
- Nancy Silverstone
- David Slump
- Michael Sprague
- Sandra Stephens
- Jeffrey Strunk
- Thomas Sullivan
- Philip Summe
- Scott Swanson
- Karen Sykes
- Paul Travers
- Rodney Trent
- W. Britton Trukenbrod
- Franco Turrinelli
- Christina Van Houten
- James Varay
- Suvir Varma
- Robert Venable
- Mari Vilmansen
- Lisa Walker
- Susan Wallace
- Mitchell Warachka
- Masahiro Watanabe
- Thom Waye
- Dennis White
- Patrick Willis
- Heidi Wisbach
- Erica Yoon
Milestone Match
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