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Alumni Association Update
A Call to Connect
Dear Wharton Alumni,
It is with pleasure that I greet you as
the new Chairwoman of the Wharton
Alumni Association Board of Directors.
The Board is charged with overseeing
the 81,000 person community worldwide
which includes all Wharton alumni—undergraduate, graduate, and
PhD. It is our mission to enhance our
world-class alumni community, to truly
engage (and re-engage) all of you. In order
to achieve this mission, we are committed
to continuing to strengthen our
alumni and affinity clubs worldwide,
and identifying new resources, and implementing
new services that meet the
needs of all of you¡¦wherever you are
in your alumni lifecycle.
Our goal is simple—to better connect
our community and to find new
ways to engage all alumni. In order
to do this, we need to hear from you.
Whether you are a dealmaker, corporate
executive, chief family officer, entrepreneur,
artist, philanthropist, retiree,
or recent graduate—your opinion is
critical to our mission of improving the
quality and delivery of the Wharton
alumni value proposition.
World-Class Alumni Board
Our Board is in the midst of significant
transformation and I am excited to announce
the recent election of Corridor
Capital CEO, Craig Enenstein, WG'95
G'95, as Board President. I look forward
to partnering with Craig as we lead our
Board forward in its next stage of evolution.
Craig has been a major contributor
to the Board over the past five years,
most recently by successfully restructuring
the Wharton reunion program, now
stronger than ever before.
We were also excited to have eight
alumni join our Board in July 2006
who are committed to lending their expertise
and leadership to move our mission
forward. They are:
Christian Hernandez, WG'03,
Strategic Partnerships Manager, Google,
Inc. (London, England)
Janet K. Kinzler, WG'92,
Portfolio Manager, SIT Investments
(Minneapolis, MN)
Rocky Lee, WG'95, GrW'07, Partner,
Pounce Sports LLC (Philadelphia, PA)
L. David Mounts, WG'04, EVP & CFO,
Domino's Pizza, Inc. (Ann Arbor, MI)
Rob Newbold, WG'99, Managing
Principal, Graham Partners
(Philadelphia, PA)
Vedat Sadioglu, W'86, Managing
Partner, Kapital Factoring Hizmetleri
A.S. (Istanbul, Turkey)
Leslie Morgan Steiner, WG'92,
General Manager, The Washington Post
(Washington, DC)
Ronica Wang, WG'90, Managing
Partner, InnoGrowth (Hong Kong,
Toronto)
and returning to the Board,
Meesh Joslyn Pierce, W'93, WG'98,
Gibraltar Homes LLC (Los Angeles, CA).
How You Can Make a Difference
As I traveled around the globe this past
year meeting many of you at the Global
Alumni Forums in Mumbai, Istanbul,
and Rio de Janeiro, it became clear to
me that we need to continue doing more
to bring us closer together. Our Board
is determined to better connect (and reconnect)
each of us through shared interests,
to identify new levels of services
that meet the changing needs of our ever
evolving life stages¡¦and to hopefully
have a positive impact on the larger
world community in which we live.
For each alumnus, the Wharton
alumni value proposition means something
different. Our Board has been
working closely with the Wharton
administration to ensure that we can
deliver to each of you the appropriate
Wharton alumni product. We will
continue to enhance the Wharton
alumni experience by delivering professional,
social and educational benefits
to our alumni at various lifecycle stages
locally, regionally and globally. We
are committed to continuing professional
education, world class reunions
and global forums, Wharton brand
protection and development, top-notch
student recruitment, lifetime career
support and innovations to maintain
the relevance of the Wharton experience
throughout one's career and beyond
into retirement. We're here for you and
we're waiting to connect with you.
Just give me a call at 310-229-5951
Tama L. Smith, WG'90
Board Chairwoman, Wharton Alumni Association
President, Tama Smith & Associates, Inc.
tsmith@tsassociates.com
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Save the Date!
The Wharton 125th Anniversary
Economic Summit will take
place april 12-14, 2007, in the
Pennsylvania Convention Center, featuring top
faculty, alumni, and industry leaders from around the world.
(http://125th.wharton.upenn.edu/summit)
Reunion Weekend 2007 is set for
Thursday, May 10 through Sunday,
May 13, 2007. (www.wharton.upenn.edu/alumni/reunion)
Really like to plan ahead? Reunion
Weekend 2008 will be Thursday,
may 15 through Sunday, may 18,
2008. www.wharton.upenn.edu/alumni/reunion
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