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Alumni in the News
April 2003
Suzanne Peck, WG'66, has been named interim director of the Office of Management and Productivity for the state of Pennsylvania. The office is newly created under Governor Ed Rendell's Pennsylvania Management and Productivity Improvement Initiative. (PR Newswire, 4/30/03)
Umber Ahmad, WG'02, was featured in the film Risk/Reward. The film is a documentary of four women on Wall Street, one of which is Ahmad. (Toronto Star, 4/29/03)
James D. Boswell, WG'83, was featured for his decision to leave his corporate career and write "a great American novel." (PR Newswire, 4/29/03)
Brad Stone, WG'83, has joined Flaherty & Crumrine Inc., a firm that specializes in the management of preferred securities. (Business Wire, 4/29/03)
Manish Goel, WG'93, has been named president of the Network Appliance India Technology Operation at Network Appliance, Inc., a provider of open storage network solutions. (Business Wire, 4/28/03)
Eric Farr, WG'00, wrote an article about the messages businesses send to the public. (Deseret News, 4/27/03)
John S. Cottage, WG'85, has been appointed vice president of marketing and product management at Valley Gases Incorporated, a packager and distributor of industrial, medical and specialty gases. (PR Newswire, 4/25/03)
Stephen J. Suhowatsky, WG'66, was profiled in an article about Lakefront Development Corp., an organization that oversees development in Syracuse, NY. (The Post-Standard, 4/25/03)
Tobin V. Levy, W'67, WG'72, has been appointed director of the Goldman Sachs Hedge Fund. Goldman Sachs is a global investment banking, securities and investment management firm. (Regulatory News Service, 4/24/03)
Mark H. Davis, WG'89, has been appointed managing director of diversified industries investment banking at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., Inc., a subsidiary of Friedman, Billings, Ramsey Group, Inc. The company provides investment banking, institutional brokerage, specialized asset management and private client services. (PR Newswire, 4/24/03)
Jeffrey M. Zalla, WG'90, has been named vice president, treasurer and corporate responsibility officer at Chiquita Brands International, Inc., a marketer, producer and distributor of fresh and processed foods. (PR Newswire, 4/22/03)
Jacob Wallenberg, W'80, WG'81, was featured in an article about running the Wallenberg family empire with his cousin, Marcus. (The Wall Street Journal Europe, 4/22/03)
William Pomeroy, WG'68, was featured in an article about being the founder and chief executive officer of Cablexpress Technologies, a seller of new and refurbished computer equipment. (The Post-Standard, 4/21/03)
Isabelle Benton, WG'83, was featured in an article about her role at the Philadelphia Stock Exchange. Benton has been elected to the exchange's board of governors. (Philadelphia Inquirer, 4/21/03)
David Y. Ying, WG'78, has joined Miller Buckfire Lewis & Co., LLC as managing director. The firm, which will change its name to Miller Buckfire Lewis Ying & Co., LLC, provides strategic and financial advisory services. (PR Newswire, 4/18/03)
Alfred A. Plamann, WG'71, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to the board of directors at National Cooperative Bank, a cooperative financial services company. Plamann is president and CEO of Unified Western Grocers, a wholesale grocery company. (Business Wire, 4/16/03; Associated Press Newswires, 4/16/03)
Thomas McEachin, WAM'93, has been appointed vice president and chief financial officer at UTC Power, a distributor of power and developer of fuel cells for transportation applications. (PR Newswire, 4/15/03)
Rich Repetto, WG'97, has been ranked second in the 2002 Overall Stock Picking awards by StarMine, a provider of objective ratings of securities analysts. Repetto is an equity analyst at Putnam Lovell NBF Securities Inc., an investment banking firm. (Business Wire, 4/15/03)
James L. Fox, WAM'96, has been named president of BISYS Fund Services, a provider of business outsourcing solutions for the financial services sector. (PR Newswire, 4/14/03)
Nancy Moloff, WG'91, has been appointed director of the International Equity Research Team at CRA RogersCasey, a provider of investment consulting services. (PR Newswire, 4/14/03)
Wick Keating, WG'74, was a featured speaker at the IT Business Management Forum in Seattle. Keating is the vice president of American Management Systems, Inc., a global business and consulting firm. (Associated Press Newswires, 4/14/03)
William A. Walkowiak, WEV'84, has joined EDO Corporation as director of investor relations. EDO Corporation supplies engineered products for governments and industry. (Business Wire, 4/14/03)
Lisa Stein, WG'92, was featured in an article about high-profile bankers who left banking, then resurfaced with new positions. Stein has joined Deutsche Bank Securities as head of global consumer products investment banking. (The Daily Deal, 4/14/03)
Bruce Ramsay, WG'84, was featured in an article about the restructuring of Acumen Capital Finance Partners, a technology-focused investment company. Ramsay is the chairman and founder of Acumen. (The Globe and Mail, 4/11/03)
Stephen S. Tang, WG'92, has been chosen to be a member of the New Jersey Clean Energy Council. Tang is president and CEO of Millennium Cell Inc., a technology company. (Business Wire, 4/10/03)
Michael J. Biondi, L'83, WG'83, has joined Lazard as chairman of investment banking. Lazard is an investment bank that provides international financial advisory and global transaction execution services. (PR Newswire, 4/9/03)
Marco De Benedetti, WG'88, was featured in an article about the European cell phone market. De Benedetti is CEO at Telecom Italia Mobile, a mobile telephone company. (The New York Times, 4/8/03)
John C. van Roden, WAM'96, has been appointed CFO at P.H. Glatfelter Company, a global manufacturer of specialty papers and engineered products. (Business Wire, 4/8/03; Associated Press Newswires, 4/8/03)
Donald Trump, W'68, was interviewed on the Today show about his new reality TV series, "The Apprentice." The show will have contestants trying to survive New York's corporate jungle, with the ultimate prize being a year-long job with Trump. (NBC News: Today, 4/8/03; BusinessWeek Online, 4/23/03)
Mark G. Shafir, WG'85, has joined Lehman Brothers as a managing director and global head of mergers and acquisitions. Lehman Brothers provides financial services to corporations, governments, municipalities, institutional clients and individuals. (PR Newswire, 4/8/03; The Daily Deal, 4/8/03; eFinancial News, 4/28/03)
Badal Pandhi, W'02, was featured in an article about business school case competitions. Pandhi commented that participating in a case competition helped him land his investment-banking analyst job at Legg Mason Inc., a Baltimore financial services company. (The Wall Street Journal, 4/8/03)
C. Martin Harris, C'77, M'82, WG'86, has joined the board of directors at Sentillion Inc., a provider of single sign-on access solutions for healthcare. Harris is the CIO and chairman of the Information Technology division of The Cleveland Clinic Foundation. (PR Newswire, 4/8/03)
Alice Wang, WG'95, has joined newspaper publisher Knight Ridder as vice president of corporate development. (PR Newswire, 4/8/03)
Beryl Wolk, W'51, founder of IMC Corp., an international marketing company, will be partnering with MSM Jewelry Corp to form the Ultimate Jewelry Consortium. Wolk will serve as co-director of the new consortium, which will market jewelry through radio, television, print and Internet advertising. (Business Wire, 4/7/03)
Daniel E. Geffken, W'79, has resigned as senior vice president of finance and chief financial officer at Transkaryotic Therapies, Inc., a biopharmaceutical company. (PR Newswire, 4/4/03)
Geoff Stedman, WG'94, has been appointed vice president of marketing at Omneon Video Networks, a provider of video server infrastructure for the professional broadcasting industry. (Business Wire, 4/3/03)
Fredric A. Nelson, W'79, has been appointed vice chairman and chief investment officer at ING Investment Management Americas, a provider of asset and relationship management services for institutional, managed account and alternative businesses. (PR Newswire, 4/2/03)
M. Rashed Hasan, WG'87, was featured in an article about preventing teen drug abuse among Muslims. Hasan is the education director for the Muslim Community Center of Greater Pittsburgh, where a pilot workshop on prevention was held. (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 4/2/03)
Peter E. Roth, C'81, WG'85, has been hired as a senior member to the insurance investment banking team at Keefe, Bruyette & Woods, Inc., a New York-based investment banking and brokerage firm specializing in the financial services sector. (Business Wire, 4/2/03)
Barry Lapidus, W'70, has been appointed Northern California Division Manager for the Fremont Employers Insurance Company subsidiary of Employers Insurance Company of Nevada, a workers' compensation insurance company. (PR Newswire, 4/1/03)
Richard White, WG'78, has been appointed to the board of directors at ActivCard Corp., a company that markets and supports software and related hardware products that provide or enable authentication, electronic certification and digital signatures for use on the Internet or in network systems and applications. (PR Newswire, 4/1/03)
Anil Ambani, WG'83, was featured in an article about his father, Dhirubhai Ambani, the former chairman of Reliance Industries in India. The younger Ambani now oversees the company's finances. (World Trade, 4/1/03)
Barton H. Buxbaum, W'82, has been named president and CEO of W.P. Stewart Asset Management, Inc., the North American marketing and client service subsidiary of W.P. Stewart & Co., Ltd., an asset management company. (Asia Pulse, 4/1/03)
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