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1940s
Gerald Fisher (BS ’40), of New York, NY, recently served as a mentor in the Business Plan Competition at the Berkley Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at NYU Stern. Fisher, now retired, was President and CEO of the Arch Bilt Container Corp and the Energy Recycling Corp.

Nicholas L. Heiny (BS ’41), of Fort Wayne, IN, was recently honored by the Allen County Council on Aging for his dedication to seniors of Allen County. He was also honored by the Alumni Association of the South Side High School, Fort Wayne, IN, where he received the Distinguished Alumni Award and was recognized in the school’s Hall of Fame.

Adrian S. Price (BS ’49), of Boynton Beach, FL, published his book, Gentleman from Boynton B-Y-T-E-S Back, which comprises a series of print columns and humorous commentaries.

1950s
Gerard A. Bongiovanni (BS ’50), of Augusta, GA, a Naval Veteran of World War II, was selected by the Richmond County Historical Society to share his WWII experience via DVD, a copy of which will be sent to the Library of Congress. Bongiovanni, now retired, was Vice President of Surgicot, a Squibb Company.

Charles B. Rangel (BS ’57), of New York, NY, was listed as one of Accounting Today’s Top 100 Most Influential People of 2008. Rangel is a member of the US House of Representatives from the 15th Congressional District of New York.

A. George Cero (BS ’59), of New York, NY, has been elected President of the International Precious Metals Institute and re-elected Chairman of the Commodity Floor Brokers and Traders Association. Cero is currently Senior Vice President at RBC Wealth Management.

1960s
David B. Cornstein (MS ’63), of New York, NY, has been appointed by New York Governor David Paterson as a member of the Board of Directors of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation and has also been designated as the Chair of the Board, a position he previously held in 1994. Cornstein is currently President of Pinnacle Advisors Ltd., a consulting and advisory firm, and serves as Chairman Emeritus of Finlay Enterprises, a nationwide leased fine jewelry company.

Howard B. Katz (BS ’63), of Spring Valley, NY, has been named an independent member of the Board of Directors of Patient Access Solutions, Inc., a provider of healthcare/financial processing solutions. Katz is the CEO and a member of the Board of Directors of MDwerks, Inc. He is also the CEO and Director at MDwerks, Inc.’s wholly owned subsidiary, MDwerks Global Holdings, Inc.

J. Albert Smith Jr. (MBA ’68), of Indianapolis, IN, has been appointed Chairman of the St. Vincent Indianapolis Hospital Board of Directors. Smith is President of JPMorgan Chase in Central Indiana.

Philip M. Skidmore (MBA ’69), of Riverside, CT, has joined the Board of the OPEB Trust Fund of Greenwich, CT, which provides medical coverage for retired Town of Greenwich employees. Skidmore is Chairman and Chief Economist at Belray Asset Management.

1970s
Fred S. Zeidman (MBA ’70), of Houston, TX, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of SulphCo, Inc., a technology company with a patented ultrasound process to desulfurize crude oil. Zeidman currently serves as interim President for Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc., and is also Senior Director for Governmental Affairs at Greenberg, Traurig’s Washington, DC, law office.

Andrew J. Barile (MBA ’72), of Rancho Santa Fe, CA, has been elected to several boards, including the Board of Directors of Park Insurance Company. He recently started Harbor Global Capitol Advisors, LLC.

Jim Apostolides (MBA ’74), of Garden City, NY, has joined Needham & Company, LLC, a privately held, full-service investment bank, as Managing Director in the Mergers & Acquisitions group. Most recently, Apostolides was Managing Director at Citigroup.

Faith Griffin (MBA ’74), of Sarasota, FL, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Coda Octopus Group, Inc., an underwater port security and marine survey technology development company; she will also chair its audit committee. Griffin is currently a Director of Enherent Corp, a New York-based public company in the information technology service and solutions field.

Joseph Haskins, Jr. (MBA ’75), of Baltimore, MD, was elected to the Board of Directors of Baltimore Gas and Electric Company (BGE) as an independent director. He is Chairman, President, and CEO of The Harbor Bank of Maryland, and is also one of the bank’s co-founders.

A Global Zythologist Chris Burggraeve (MBA ’05) “I always had the desire to learn in an unusual way, with a global slant,” said Chris Burggraeve, Chief Marketing Officer at Anheuser-Busch InBev. Burggraeve, who believes that everything is international in scope, always wanted to study and build a career internationally. So, when NYU Stern, HEC Paris, and the London School of Economics and Political Science established a joint MBA program, Burggraeve lasered right onto the opportunity. Now, having lived in Berlin, Brussels, Dusseldorf, Istanbul, North Carolina, Paris, Prague, and Vienna, he has achieved his dream. Burggraeve was drawn to the TRIUM Global Executive MBA program after reading about its unique curriculum in an advertisement in the Financial Times. The program enabled him to take advantage of three schools, each a renowned center of expertise: Stern in finance, the London School of Economics in the socioeconomic sciences, and HEC Paris in Cartesian mathematics. He found Stern to be the most challenging academically. “The level of [education in] finance was very rigorous,” he recalled. He was inspired by how much the courses pushed students with 15 years of experience out of their comfort zones. “Professors such as Aswath Damodaran and Paul Brown made the program very personalized and forced you to walk in your competitors’ shoes.” Burggraeve joined InBev, which recently merged with Anheuser-Busch, after more than 12 years with The Coca-Cola Company, where he last served as Group Marketing Director for the European Union. Previously, he worked for Procter & Gamble Benelux in Brand Management and Innovation, a natural progression from earlier jobs in consulting and technology startup companies. Burggraeve has maneuvered his career in an increasingly global context and attributes his success to his finance-driven marketing approach. “The type of marketer that I believe in is a person who understands finance – an individual with a balanced perspective,” he said. Burggraeve now has the opportunity to unify the brands of two of the world’s leading brewers. “We aspire to become the best beer company in a better world,” he said, “a world in which a brewing company can use its resources to drive responsible consumption and environmental sustainability.” Learning about different people and cultures is a passion as well as a profession for Burggraeve. And when he is not traveling, he finds many moments to enjoy his favorite pleasures: having increasingly philosophical conversations with his 13-year-old daughter, running, and relaxing with an ice-cold Stella Artois. “If you have the chance, go and discover the world – work abroad if you have the opportunity,” he advised. “And, as you do, explore the beers that go with it – become a global zythologist – a true beer connoisseur.”

William J. Pesce (MBA ’75), of Basking Ridge, NJ, has been elected Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors of William Paterson University, his undergraduate alma mater. Pesce, who is a member of Stern’s Board of Overseers, is President and CEO of John Wiley & Sons.

David L. Shedlarz (MBA ’75), of New York, NY, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the Hershey Company. Shedlarz is a member of the TIAA Board of Trustees, as well as the Board of Directors of Pitney Bowes, Inc.

Yvonne Davies Tropp (MBA ’75), of Mamaroneck, NY, was honored by the Mental Health Association (MHA) of Westchester for her dedication to her community, to MHA, and to MHA’s Court Appointed Special Advocates program.

Richard B. Berger (BS ’76), of Clifton, VA, has been promoted to Vice President of The Segal Company, a leading independent firm of benefit, compensation, and human resources consultants. Berger joined The Segal Company in 1997 as a benefits consultant.

Richard A. Lorraine (BS ’76), of Jonesborough, TN, has been elected to the Board of Directors of PolyOne Corporation, a global provider of specialized polymer materials, services, and solutions. Lorraine recently retired as Senior Vice President and CFO of Eastman Chemical Company.

William C. Denninger (MBA ’77), of Stamford, CT, assumed the role of Senior Vice President, Finance, of Kaman Corporation. Denninger most recently served as CFO of Barnes Group, Inc.

Mark E. Chertok (BS ’78), of East Hills, NY, has been appointed by the Schonbraun McCann Group as Senior Managing Director leading its Financial Outsourcing group. The Schonbraun McCann Group is the real estate practice of FTI Consulting, Inc., a global business advisory firm.

Arlen H. Kantarianin (MBA ’78), of New York, NY, was featured in BusinessWeek’s “The Power 100,” a ranking of the most influential people in sports. Kantarianin is CEO of the United States Tennis Association.

Richard E. Khaleel (MBA ’78), of New York, NY, was appointed Executive Vice President of the financial services division of Nielsen IAG. Khaleel was previously Executive Vice President and CMO at The Bank of New York.

Jonathan D. Spaet (BS ’78, MBA ’79), of New York, NY, was appointed Executive Vice President, US Sales, a newly created position at Vault.com, Inc. Spaet was formerly Vice President and General Manager of Advertising Sales at Time Warner Cable.

Allen Adamson (MBA ’79), of New York, NY, recently published his second book, BrandDigital: Simple Ways Top Brands Succeed in the Digital World. Based on more than 100 interviews with top branding executives, the book demonstrates how leading brands are embracing digital technology while staying true to basic branding principles, and it describes how brands succeed in the digital world in the same straightforward manner of his first book, BrandSimple: How the Best Brands Keep it Simple and Succeed. Adamson is Managing Director of the New York office of Landor Associates.

Linda S. Jackson (BS ’79), of Brooklyn, NY, has been appointed acting Associate Provost of the City University of New York’s Medgar Evers College. Jackson is currently Associate Professor of English and has served as Deputy Chair of the English department and as Coordinator of Composition.

Terrie C. Reeves (MBA ’79), of Sun Prairie, WI, has joined the University of North Carolina-Greensboro’s Bryan School of Business and Economics as Associate Professor of Health Care Administration. She will be the first faculty member in healthcare administration at the Bryan School. Previously, Reeves was Assistant Professor at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee’s Lubar School of Business.

Christine Lindahl Reilly (MBA ’79), of Berkeley Heights, NJ, has been honored as one of the Top 25 Nonbank Women in Finance by US Banker Magazine. Reilly is President of CIT Small Bank Lending.

Marion E. Sherman (MBA ’79), of London, OH, has been appointed Medical Director for the Ohio Department of Mental Health. Sherman currently serves on the faculty at both The Ohio State University School of Medicine and The Ohio University College of Osteopathic Medicine.

1980s
Ellen D. Fein (MBA ’80), of North Hills, NY, recently married Lance Houpt. Fein is co-author of The Rules: Time-Tested Secrets for Capturing the Heart of Mr. Right and The Rules for Marriage: Time-Tested Secrets for Making Your Marriage Work.

Anthony S. Glickman (MBA ’80), of Teaneck, NJ, has been appointed Global Head of Risk Services with GlobeOp Financial Services. Glickman also joined GlobeOp’s operating committee.

David P. Jacob (MBA ’80), of Great Neck, NY, has been appointed as Executive Managing Director and Head of Structured Finance Ratings for Standard & Poor’s. Most recently, Jacob was a principal with Adelson & Jacob Consulting.

Patrick J. McMullan (BS ’80), of New York, NY, has announced the launch of PMc, a luxury fashion magazine available exclusively to iPhone users, in partnership with a new media company.

Jane Dresner Sadaka (MBA ’80), of New York, NY, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of New Media Lottery Services PLC, a gaming content and systems provider, as Non-Executive Director. Sadaka is a retired partner of Kellner DiLeo & Co., an investment firm. She is also a member of NYU Stern’s Board of Overseers.

Jeffrey A. Tannenbein (BS ’80, MBA ’86), of New York, NY, has been appointed CFO at International Derivatives Clearing Group, LLC, a central clearinghouse to clear and settle interest rate swap contracts. Previously, Tannenbein served as Global Business Manager of the Technonolgy and Operation Group at Deutsche Bank.

Audrey A. Appleby (MBA ’81), of Greenwich, CT, is opening MagicDance Toddler Studio of Arts and Letter, a new preschool in Greenwich, CT. Appleby is the owner of the MagicDance-on-the-Water studio, also in Greenwich.

William R. Hannan, Jr. (BS ’81), of Manhasset, NY, has joined Morgan Keegan as Vice President, Municipal Sales for New York. Hannan was most recently Vice President in institutional sales with J.P. Morgan.

Lisa A. Scalia-Desmoine (MBA ’81), of Summit, NJ, has been appointed Second Vice President and ERISA Consultant with New York Life Retirement Plan Services.

William F. Spengler, III (MBA ’81), of Cambridge, MD, has been named Executive Vice President and CFO of Smith & Wesson Holding Corporation, the parent company of the weapons manufacturer Smith & Wesson Corp.

Steven R. Brown (BS ’82, MBA ’89), of Short Hills, NJ, has been named Vice President and Senior Portfolio Manager for the American Century Real Estate Fund. Previously, Brown served as Neuberger Berman’s Global Head of Real Estate Securities.

Gregory C. Carey (MBA ’82), of Clarksville, MD, was featured in BusinessWeek’s “The Power 100,” a ranking of the most influential people in sports. He helped finance construction of the new Yankee Stadium. Carey is Managing Director at Goldman Sachs.

Edward P. Gilligan (BS ’82), of Brooklyn, NY, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Concur, a provider of on-demand employee spend management services. Gilligan is Vice Chairman of American Express Company and also a member of its operating committee.

Andrew L. Goodenough (MBA ’82), of Rye, NY, has been named President and CEO of Summit Business Media.

Sanford G. Hausner (BS ’82, LLM ’87), of New York, NY, has joined Arent Fox LLP as Partner in its New York office.

Lawrence Kneip (MBA ’82), of Wyckoff, NJ, has been appointed Small Business Administration Director and Vice President at Indus American Bank.

Kevin J. Bannon (MBA ’83), of Mount Kisco, NY, has been appointed to a newly-created directorship on the Board of Urstadt Biddle Properties Inc.

Geoffrey Colvin (MBA ’83), of Fairfield, CT, recently published a book, Talent is Overrated. Colvin is a writer at Fortune
magazine.

Joseph G. O’Brien (BS ’83), of Delafield, WI, has been appointed President of Zep East, a market-faced business Zep Inc. formed to create profitable customer-focused organizations. Before joining Zep, O’Brien was Vice President of Sales and Marketing at Atlas Paper Mills.

Lauren D. Rich-Fine (MBA ’83), of Cleveland, OH, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Dolan Media Company and also appointed to the company’s compensation committee. She is currently a practitioner- in-residence at Kent State University’s College of Communication and Information and serves as Research Director for ContentNext.

Thomas L. Tran (MBA ’83), of Weatogue, CT, was named Senior Vice President and CFO of WellCare Health Plans, Inc, a provider of managed care services.

Stephen M. Coutts (MBA ’84), of Rancho Sante Fe, CA, has been appointed CEO, President, and Director of Biocept, Inc., a biotechnology company that engineers solutions that provide the foundation for a new class of diagnostic assays. Coutts was most recently Director of Pharmaceutical Development at Cypress Bioscience, Inc.

David P. Gurwitz (MBA ’84), of Monsey, NY, has recently released his first album, “Hear the Children,” a collection of piano solos.

Stelios Papadopoulos (MBA ’84), of Great Neck, NY, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Regulus Therapeutics LLC, a joint venture between Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. and Isis Pharmaceuticals, Inc. formed to discover, develop, and commercialize microRNA-based therapeutics. Papadopoulos retired as Vice Chairman of Cowen and Company, LLC in 2006.

Jerry F. Barbanel (BS ’85), of Tenafly, NJ, has been appointed President and CEO of Precision Discovery, a provider of IT risk and litigation consulting solutions. Barbanel joins Precision Discovery from Aon Consulting, where he served as Executive Vice President for the financial advisory and litigation consulting services practice.

Sharon Sabba Fierstein (MBA ’85), of Woodbury, NY, has been appointed to the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board’s 2009-2010 Standing Advisory Group. Fierstein is currently Partner in Marks Paneth & Shron LLP’s Litigation and Corporate Financial Advisory Services Group.

Gary Katcher (MBA ’85), of Port St. Lucie, FL, has been appointed Senior Managing Director and Head of Global Institutional Fixed Income of Knight Libertas LLC, an institutional fixed income broker-dealer. Katcher is the founder of Libertas Holdings, LLC, a boutique institutional fixed-income brokerage firm that was acquired by Knight Capital Group, Inc.

Christianna Wood (MBA ’85), of Sacramento, CA, has been named to the Board of Directors of H&R Block. Wood is the CEO of Capital Z Asset Management.

Deborah Foye Kuenstner (MBA ’86), of Newton, MA, has been named Chief Investment Officer of Wellesley College, her undergraduate alma mater.

Peter A. Kyviakidis (BS ’86), of Milford, PA, has joined LECG, a provider of independent testimony and strategic advisory services, as Managing Director. Kyviakidis will focus his practice on forensic accounting and financial advisory consulting services.

Dorothy S. Pisarski (MBA ’86), of West Des Moines, IA, received the Distinguished Advertising Educator of the Year Award for the Ninth District of the American Advertising Federation. Pisarski is Assistant Professor of Advertising at Drake University.

Jon W. Anderson (MBA ’87), of Madison, NJ, has been appointed Global Head of Over-the-Counter Derivatives for GlobeOp Financial Services. He will also join GlobeOp’s Operating Committee. Previously, Anderson served as Managing Director of Trading Technologies at BlueMountain Capital Management.

Ted A. Berenblum (MBA ’87), of Cos Cob, CT, has been named Head of Alternative Investments, a newly created position, for BNY Mellon Wealth Management, a wealth and investment management business of The Bank of New York Mellon Corporation.

John A. Kritzmacher (MBA ’87), of Far Hills, NJ, has been appointed CFO and Executive Vice President of Global Crossing, which provides telecommunications solutions over the world’s first integrated global IP-based network.

Kathleen G.R. Madigan (MBA ’87), of Bensalem, PA, has joined the Dow Jones Newswires editorial team as an economics writer; she will also write its “Big Picture” column. Previously, Madigan was Senior Writer and Market Analyst with Lord Abbett, an independent money management company.

Al Sapienza (BS ’87), of West Hollywood, CA, was recently married to Michelle Widlitz. Sapienza is an actor, most known for his role in “The Sopranos.”

James J. Ambrose (MBA ’88), of Brookfield, WI, has been appointed Chairman of the Board of the Equipment Leasing and Finance Association. Ambrose is the President of the Equipment Finance Organization for GE Healthcare Financial Services.

Richard C. Janda (MBA ’88), of New York, NY, has been appointed Director of Research, a new position, with Loughlin Meghji + Company, a restructuring advisory firm. Most recently, Janda served as Director of Research with XRoads Solutions Group, a boutique corporate restructuring firm.

Seth H. Lehman (BS ’88, MBA ’93), of Wesley Hills, NY, has joined Fitch Ratings as Senior Director in the Global Infrastructure and Project Finance Group. Previously, Lehman served as a director and senior underwriter at Financial Guaranty Insurance Co.

Debra Sandler (MBA ’88), of Yardely, PA, has been named the 2008 Black Enterprise Corporate Executive of the Year. She is the Worldwide President of McNeil Nutritionals L.L.C., a healthcare and beauty products company, part of Johnson & Johnson.

Mark R. Zygaj (MBA ’88), of East Amherst, NY, has been elected to the Board of Directors of the National Association of Specialty Health Organizations. Zygaj is the COO and Director of Palladian Muscular Skeletal Health, a benefits management organization.

Habib P. Achkar (MBA ’89), of London, England, has been appointed CEO of Morgan Stanley Saudi Arabia. Achkar was formerly Morgan Stanley’s Head of Sales and Trading for France; he has worked at Morgan Stanley since 1989.

Christopher M. Czaja (BS ’89, MBA ’97), of New York, NY, has been named Executive Vice President of Insight Investments Corporation, an independent leasing agent of IT and medical equipment.

Creating a Triple A-Rated Career Maria Pierdicchi (MBA ’88) When Maria Pierdicchi arrived in New York from Milan as a visiting student in the doctoral program at NYU Stern, she had little inkling she would end up a powerhouse in finance. Over the next two decades, she started a high-growth equity market at the Italian stock exchange, won the international Bellisario Award for distinction in business, and organized women’s networks in banking to encourage other women to follow in her footsteps. Pierdicchi came to Stern as a researcher in financial institutions with a degree in economics, after completing a short consulting stint at the World Bank. While she found research interesting, she knew she wanted to expand her experience, and thought that Stern would be an ideal place to do it. At her home institution, Bocconi University, studying abroad was not encouraged. “At that time,” she recalled, “not many students went abroad. They thought I was not using my time wisely.” Once at Stern, she was quickly intoxicated by the thrill of Wall Street. “In New York, you were in the center of it all,” she said. Pierdicchi realized she wanted to strengthen her background in finance and became attracted to the “more pragmatic” approach of an MBA education. Transferring from the PhD program, she delved into an MBA in finance and soon became impressed by her fellow students, who hailed not only from the US, but also from Italy, Spain, South America, and Israel, and “brought a lot of experience from the streets. It was very interesting to me.” After graduating, Pierdicchi joined the private sector, first at Citibank in Italy and then at Premafin SpA, where she focused on investor relations. In 1998, as the stock exchange in Milan was privatized for the first time, Pierdicchi seized a new opportunity there. She designed and launched Nuovo Mercato, which she described as “an Italian version of NASDAQ,” an extremely successful project that she managed for five years through the heady climate of the late 1990s technology boom. In 2003, she moved on to her current position in an American company, as the Managing Director and Country Head for both Italy and Spain at Standard & Poor’s, which provides rating and investment services. Pierdicchi has expertly navigated her career, although, she acknowledged, “It was challenging to be a woman in finance in Italy.” Despite an atmosphere keyed to loyalties and “not so open to women in senior positions,” she has advanced based on her accomplishments. Early in her career, she was often in the office until 9:30 pm. Now she finds more balance. Describing herself as “a curious person,” she reads everything from literature to psychology to the latest in business. She also enjoys playing sports. With all this, she even finds time to reconnect with her fellow Stern alumni, most recently by serving on the host committee for the upcoming global alumni conference in Barcelona, which will convene an extended community that is most fortunate to count her in its ranks.

Tina L. Fiumenero (BS ’89), of Princeton, NJ, has been promoted to CFO of Vitae Pharmaceuticals, Inc., an emerging pharmaceutical company dedicated to the discovery and development of innovative small molecule medicines. Fiumenero joined Vitae in January 2006 as Senior Vice President of Finance and Administration.

Nina Goodheart Kessler (MBA ’89), of Doylestown, PA, has been promoted to Vice President of Cardiac Rhythm Disease Management Marketing. CRDM is the oldest and largest business unit of Medtronic, a company which develops life-changing technologies that improve the way chronic diseases are treated.

Elizabeth J. Satin (MBA ’89), of New York, NY, has joined The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. as Managing Director. The Jordan, Edmiston Group, Inc. is a provider of independent investment banking services for media, information, marketing services, and related technologies.

Henry C. Schmeltzer (MBA ’89), of New York, NY, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Euromatix Fund plc, an investment company with variable capital. Schmeltzer is currently establishing an investment management firm in the UK with several partners. Previously, he was Managing Director at UBS Limited in London.

Craig T. Shepherd (BS ’89, MFA ’97), of New York, NY, was recently married to Marlene Kandler in Chicago. Shepherd is the Executive Producer of “Home Made Simple” on the TLC cable network. He was also the Line Producer of “Girlfight,” the winner of a Grand Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival in 2000.

1990s
Nicholas S. Cyprus (MBA ’90), of Scotch Plains, NJ, was inducted into the Pinnacle Alumni Society by Fairleigh Dickinson University College at Florham in Madison, NJ. Cyprus is Controller and Chief Accounting Officer for General Motors Corporation.

Ira S. Fishkin (MBA ’90), of Mahwah, NJ, has joined Eisai Corporation of North America as Associate Director of Facilities and Administration. Prior to joining Eisai, Fishkin worked at Hertz Corporation as Director of Corporate Engineering.

Charles-Henry Choël (BS ’91), of Paris, France, was promoted to Global Head of Trading Solutions with GL TRADE, a global provider of multi-market and multi-asset solutions for international financial institutions. Choël joined GL TRADE in 2002. Since 2006, Choel has been Deputy CEO of the Asian region and Managing Director of the Japan office.

R. Brooks Gekler (MBA ’91), of St. Paul, MN, joined the University of Washington Bothell as Director of its Business Development Center, a unit within the Business Program at UW Bothell.

John Gonsalves (MBA ’91), of Edison, NJ, has been appointed Vice President and Head of Communications for the Americas at Aricent. Aricent is a global software, services, and solutions provider. Most recently, Gonsalves was Partner and Practice Leader of Strategy and Performance Management Practice at EMC Global Services’ communications and media sector.

Jeffrey A. Seidel (MBA ’91), of New Caanan, CT, has been hired as Vice President of Corporate Strategy, where he is responsible for strategic initiatives and planning at Ener1, Inc., a maker of advanced lithium-ion battery systems for the new generation of hybrid and electric vehicles. Previously, Seidel was Global Head of Convertible Research at Credit Suisse.

Kee-Meng Tan (MBA ’91), of New York, NY, has been appointed to the newly-created position of Managing Director, Head of the electronic trading group in Europe, with Knight Capital Group, Inc. Knight Capital Group, Inc. is a capital markets firm that provides electronic and voice access to the global capital markets across multiple asset classes for buy-side, sell-side, and corporate clients.

Neeraj K. Vohra (MBA ’91), of Alexandria, VA, has joined Signal Hill, a Baltimore-based specialty investment banking, research, and institutional brokerage firm, as Managing Director. Prior to joining Signal Hill, Vohra was Managing Director in the Technology Investment Banking Group at Friedman, Billings, Ramsey & Co., Inc., a real estate investment trust that invests in mortgage-related assets.

David Yaudoon Chiang (BS ’92), of Brooklyn, NY, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the American Lorain Corporation, an international packaged foods company based in China’s Shandong province. Chiang is currently a managing director overseeing alternative energy, technology, and China banking efforts at Northeast Securities, Inc., a multi-line financial services firm.

Robert H. Getz (MBA ’92), of Salt Lake City, UT, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Palladon Ventures Ltd., a resource company focused on building production facilities at the Comstock/Mountain Lion iron mine in Iron County, Utah. Getz has served as Managing Director and Partner of Cornerstone Equity Investors, LLC, a New York-based private equity investment firm, since 1997.

Simon Satanovsky (MBA ’92), of Brooklyn, NY, has been promoted to Partner with Options Group, a global executive search and strategic consulting firm.

Joanne Taylor (MBA ’92), of New Rochelle, NY, has been named COO of The Housing Development Fund in Stamford, CT. Previously, Taylor served as Vice President of Insured Portfolio Management for MBIA Insurance Corp.

Erik T. Asgeirsson (ADCRT ’93, MBA ’02), of New York, NY, appeared on Accounting Today’s list of 2008 Top 100 Most Influential People.

Paul D. Fiore (BS ’93), of Beverly Hills, CA, has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Aqua Connect Inc., a Mac terminal services company.

Sonjoy Ganguly (BS ’93), of New York, NY, has been hired by Ringleader Digital, the only third-party ad-serving network for mobile devices, as Vice President of Product Management. Prior to Ringleader, Ganguly was Director of Product Management for the Rich Media product line at DoubleClick.

Paul E. Mallen (MBA ’93), of Pine Brook, NJ, was promoted to Executive Vice President of Amalgamated Life Insurance Company and continues to serve as CFO.

Jonathan S. Miller (BS ’93), of Armonk, NY, has joined the investment advisor of Fifth Street Finance Corp as Director of East Coast Origination. Prior to joining Fifth Street, Miller worked at Bear Stearns, most recently as Managing Director in the Leveraged Finance Group.

Charles Moon (MBA ’93), of Sherborn, MA, has joined Morley Financial Services, Inc. as Chief Investment Officer. Previously, Moon was Managing Director at Hartford Investment Management.

Beth Murray (MBA ’93), of Chatham, NJ, joined NYU Stern as Chief Marketing Officer, a newly created position, in the fall of 2008. Previously, Murray served as Vice President and Head of Global Marketing for the Financial Institutions Group of American Express Bank.

Frank W. Baier (MBA ’94), of Summit, NJ, has joined Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association as CFO and Chief Administrative Officer. Previously, Baier had been a consultant at Meridian Capital Group.

Jeffrey M. Farber (MBA ’94), of Stamford, CT, has been appointed Executive Vice President Finance/Corporate Development and CFO of GAMCO Investors, Inc., an investment advisory company.

Lily Huang (BS ’94, MBA ’00), of Forest Hills, NY, was recently married to Hsiu-Hsien Ling. Huang is Vice President in the investment management division of Goldman Sachs in Manhattan.

Brian D. Matthews (MBA ’94), of Gaithersburg, MD, has been appointed Chief Strategy Officer of Avail Media, a provider of profitable Internet protocol television (IPTV) solutions. Most recently, Matthews was Vice President of Enterprise and Industry Solutions Marketing for VeriSign, Inc.

Evelyn M. Morrow (MBA ’94), of New York, NY, was recently married to Steven Solinsky. Morrow is a project manager for business development at the Visiting Nurse Service of New York in Manhattan.

Heather Mutterperl (MBA ’94), of New Rochelle, NY, was named Senior Asset Manager at Hudson Realty Capital. Previously, Mutterperl served as Asset Manager at Investcorp International.

Che D. Watkins (MBA ’94), of Atlanta, GA, serves as the interim Executive Director of the Regional Business Coalition in Atlanta, GA. Watkins is the Vice President for External Affairs at the Metro Atlanta Chamber of Commerce.

Calvin G. Wong (BS ’94), of Summit, NJ, has been named Executive Vice President of Advertising Sales and Operations for appssavvy, a direct sales team for social media applications. Previously, Wong served at the company he co-founded in 1996, Community Connect, Inc. (CCI), a publisher of niche social networks.

Kenneth Y. Chang (BS ’95), of Whitestone, NY, has joined Sibson Consulting’s retirement practice as Vice President and Consulting Actuary. Previously, Chang served as a senior manager with Deloitte Consulting.

Vinay T. Dayal (MBA ’95), of Little Neck, NY, has been appointed to Treasurer of the Metropolitan Transit Authority (MTA). Dayal was most recently the MTA’s acting Finance Director.

Brian R. DiDonato (MBA ’95), of Blue Bell, PA, has joined Sorin Capital Management as Senior Partner and member of the Investment Committee. Sorin Capital is a leading independent alternative investment firm.

Anatoly Nakum (BS ’95), of New York, NY, has been appointed Managing Partner and Head of high-grade and crossover flow trading in Barclay Capital’s US Fixed Income Group. He joins Barclay’s New York office from Deutsche Bank AG. Nakum serves on the NYU Stern Dean’s Advisory Council.

Sapna P. Shah (BS ’95), of Albertson, NY, recently married Srinivasan Iyer (BS ’97), of Bayside, NY. Shah is a tax accountant in the real estate group at Ernst & Young. Iyer is Director for Bond Trading at UBS. The couple met while attending NYU Stern.

Dominick C. Tolli, Jr. (MBA ’95), of Wayne, NJ, has been named Senior Vice President of Marketing for North America for SpinVox, a service that converts voicemails into mobile phone SMS text messages and e-mails. Previously, Tolli led mobile data and service delivery efforts at Virgin Mobile as its Vice President of Innovation Services.

A World of Good Linda Strumpf (MBA ’72) When she began her career as a securities analyst in the early 1970s, Linda Strumpf was a pioneer in a male-dominated environment. The business world was so lopsided with regard to gender, she recalled recently, “On a plane, if you were [a woman] wearing a suit, they [the men] would hand you their coat thinking you were a stewardess.” She was hard-pressed to find a women’s restroom on the executive floor. Exclusive all-male social clubs in Manhattan refused to let her wait in their lobbies or enter certain floors. For one business meeting, she remembered a staff member asking her to leave the room. She replied, “I’m sitting down. If you want to make the other 80 people in here leave, you can.” She laughed, “So I sat there, and the walls didn’t cave in.” Strumpf has been a woman of firsts. After graduating from Pennsylvania State University with a BA in economics, she began her career in the for-profit sector as an assistant to a securities analyst at Prudential. Quickly realizing the comparative earning power of the MBA graduates around her, she decided to go to business school, and chose NYU Stern for its reputation and its New York City location. After earning her degree, she went to Equitable Life as a securities analyst and worked her way up to become a portfolio manager – and one of the first women to manage large pension funds. She recalled, “Running pension funds for big corporate clients was not something that women did.” In 1982, Strumpf was recruited into the non-profit world as a portfolio manager at the Ford Foundation, a career change that reflected her long-standing passion for the foundation’s mission of helping the world’s poor and advocating for women’s rights and civil rights. After managing the Foundation’s billion-dollar equity fund for 10 years, she became its Chief Investment Officer in early 1993, a position she still holds. “No woman had ever been Chief Investment Officer of a major foundation before,” she said. “It was a challenge to prove to the people doing the search that I was up to the task.” Since Strumpf arrived in 1982, the Ford Foundation’s assets grew from $2.5 billion to a recent high of almost $14 billion. During her tenure, the Foundation, which runs solely on investments generated from the Ford family’s original gift, has given more than $10 billion in grants to strengthen democratic values, reduce poverty and injustice, advance human achievement, and promote international cooperation. For years, the Foundation supported Muhammad Yunus, a pioneer in the micro-credit field, who won a Nobel Peace Prize in 2006 for his work to alleviate poverty in Bangladesh. This fall, Strumpf will retire, and she already has plans. A self-described “type A personality,” she will contribute her expertise to various committees and non-profit boards. And, as she has for every summer she can remember, she will travel abroad with her husband, a high school psychologist also retiring in June. On deck is a trip to Africa on safari – her next adventure in a world she continues to both explore and enrich.

Mark K. Bhasin (BS ’96), of New York, NY, has joined Palisades Financial as Senior Director of Originations. Bhasin most recently served as a loan officer for CWCapital, and he is also Adjunct Professor of Real Estate Development at Columbia University.

Jeffrey J. DeKorte (MBA ’96), of Washington, DC, has joined Travel Ad Network as Vice President of Product Development. Previously, DeKorte served as President and COO at LeisureLogix.

Nicholas J. Hart (MBA ’96), of Randolph, NJ, has joined Emisphere Technologies, Inc. as Vice President of Strategy and Development. Emisphere Technologies, Inc. is a biopharmaceutical company that focuses on a unique and improved delivery of therapeutic molecules and pharmaceutical compounds.

Donna H. MacPhee (MBA ’96), of Ridgewood, NJ, has been named Vice President for Alumni Relations and President of the Columbia University Alumni Association.

Timothy M. Maloney (MBA ’96), of Raleigh, NC, was appointed Senior Director of Digital Power Marketing with Exar Corporation, a fabless semiconductor company. Maloney was most recently the Senior Director, Power Management and Discrete Products, for Infineon Technologies.

S. Douglas Pugliese (MBA ’96), of Wynnewood, PA, has joined Marshall & Stevens Incorporated as Executive Managing Director, where he will be responsible for management of the firm’s eastern US operations. Marshall & Stevens provides appraisal and valuation services nationwide.

Nikhil Puri (MBA ’96), of New Delhi, India, has been appointed Managing Director for Ambit Corporate Finance with Ambit Holdings Pvt. Ltd., a financial services firm based in Mumbai.

Bradford D. Van Siclen (MBA ’96), of Upper Montclair, NJ, has been elected to the Board of Directors of Metabolic Research, Inc., a biotechnology company. Van Siclen is Partner in Bartholomew International Investments.

Manoj S. Chouthai (MS ’97, MBA ’00), of Jersey City, NJ, has been named 2008’s Chief Information Officer of the Year by the New Jersey Technology Council. Chouthai is VP of Information Technology and CIO for Public Service Enterprise Group (PSEG) of Newark, a branch of the publicly-traded, New Jersey-based energy and energy services company. He also serves on the Board of the Mental Health Association of Essex County.

Raymond J. Deacon (MBA ’97), of Denver, CO, has joined Pritchard Capital Partners as Senior Exploration and Production Energy Analyst. Pritchard Capital Partners is an energy investment bank.

Sharon Rebecca Gonen (BS ’97) and Shachar A. Gonen (MBA ’00), of New York, NY, welcomed twins, Ezra Maier Gonen and Elianna Meira Gonen, on October 25, 2008.

Robert Meringolo (MBA ’97), of New York, NY, has joined FBR Capital Markets Corporation, an investment bank serving the middle market, as Managing Director. Meringolo most recently served as Senior Managing Director on Bear Stearns’ convertible securities sales team.

John W. Schrader (MBA ’97), of Weston, CT, has joined Duff & Phelps Corporation as Managing Director. Previously, Schrader served as Managing Director and Head of Global Risk Management in the Securitized Products Group at Morgan Stanley.

Michael L. Achenbaum (MBA ’98), of New York, NY, was featured in PODER magazine’s “23 under 40,” its first annual list of “entrepreneurs, executives, leaders, and artists under 40 who are shaping South Florida and its perception around the world.”

Matthew R. Chasin (MBA ’98), of New York, NY, has joined Sorin Capital Management, LLC, an independent alternative investment firm, as COO, Partner, and member of the investment committee. Previously, Chasin was Senior Managing Director and Head of Repo Financing Activities for Mortgage and Structured Products at Bear Stearns.

Grace W. Cheng (MBA ’98), of New York, NY, has joined GoldenTree InSite Partners as its CFO. Cheng most recently served as Executive Director for Morgan Stanley’s private equity real estate fund.

Kim T. Gehrke (MBA ’98), of Hummelstown, PA, has joined Citadel Investment Group, L.L.C. as Co-head of International Distribution and Marketing. Gehrke was most recently with Merrill Lynch, where he served as Co-head of Government Institutional Sales. Citadel is a global financial institution focused on alternative investment strategies and services.

Mark A. Glickman (MBA ’99), of Marlboro, NJ, has been promoted to Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing, as well as Corporate Officer, with Oscient Pharmaceuticals Corporation. Glickman joined Oscient in August 2007 as Vice President of Sales.

Owen J. Jones (MBA ’98), of Durham, NC, has been appointed Senior Vice President, Sales Trader, with Pritchard Capital Partners, an energy investment bank and institutional financial services firm. Previously, Jones was Director of Equity Trading in Lehman Brothers’ London office.

Tomasz M. Józefacki (BS ’99, MBA ’02), of Brooklyn, NY, has been elected to the Management Board of Agora SA, a media corporation based in Poland. Józefacki is currently its Head of Internet operations.

Colleen Kelleher Sorrentino (MBA ’98), of Staten Island, NY, has been named one of the 50 Most Influential Women by Irish Voice in the newspaper’s first such annual ranking. Kelleher Sorrentino is Vice President of Advanced Strategies and Senior Investment Officer at Wall Street Access LLC.

Joshua L. Kirschner (MBA ’98), of New York, NY, has been named CMO of Inform Technologies, a “journalistic” technology solution for established media companies. Previously, Kirschner was SVP of Global Product Development with Marsh, Inc.

Constantine Korologos (MBA ’99), of New York, NY, has joined Deloitte Financial Advisory Services as Director of Real Estate Consulting, after serving previously as a managing director at Wachovia.

Bryan D. Kraft (MBA ’99), of Chatham, NY, has been appointed Vice President of Media, Cable, and Entertainment, at Bank of America. Kraft was previously Vice President and Senior Research Analyst at Credit Suisse.

Lisa C. Markowitz (BS ’99), of Allentown, PA, along with husband, Mosha, and daughter, Tali, welcomed the birth of her second daughter, Aviva Rachel, on October 18, 2007.

David W. Tang (MBA ’99), of Shanghai, China, has been appointed CFO and Vice President of Vimicro International Corporation. Vimicro designs and develops multimedia semiconductor products and solutions. Prior to joining Vimicro, Tang served as the CFO of CNinsure Inc., a NASDAQ listed company operating in China.

Sharon Weinstein (MBA ’99), of New York, NY, has joined FBR Capital Markets’ Financial Institutions group as Managing Director. Previously, Weinstein served as Managing Director and Sector Head of Depository Institutions and Corporate Finance at Wachovia Securities.

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Steve Lee (MBA ’00), of New York, NY, will serve as a portfolio manager for the Nuveen Multi-Currency Short-Term Government Income Fund. Lee currently serves on the portfolio management team for the Nuveen Global Government Enhanced Income Fund. Lee has been with Nuveen Investments, a global provider of investment services to institutions and high net worth investors, since spring 2007.

Debanjan Mitra (MPhil ’00, PhD ’03), of Gainesville, FL, has been named a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar. The Marketing Science Institute’s biennial Young Scholar Program brings together some of the most promising scholars in marketing and closely related fields.

Karen S. Patton (MBA ’00), of Wyckoff, NJ, was named CFO of Bravo Media. Patton was formerly Vice President of Finance at WNBC.

Suzanne B. Schiavelli (MBA ’00), of Hoboken, NJ, has been appointed to the position of Principal, Specialty Finance, at Bank of America. Schiavelli previously worked at Morgan Stanley.

Carol J. Simon (MBA ’00), of Short Hills, NJ, is the founder and owner of Carol Simon Consulting, LLC, a consulting firm based in Roseland, New Jersey, that specializes in the assessment and management of counterparty risk with financial institutions. Simon also serves as a trainer for Fitch Training, a company offering credit risk workshops.

Jeremy W. Szeto (BS ’00), of Sugar Land, TX, was recently hired as an urgent care physician at The Physicians at Sugar Creek and also as an emergency room physician at a local Houston, TX, hospital. Szeto is currently in private practice in Sugar Land, TX, specializing in family medicine.

Guatam Bhandari (MBA ’01), of New York, NY, has been appointed to lead the development of the investment platform for Morgan Stanley Infrastructure in India, Middle East, and Sub-Saharan Africa.

Shahid Shafi Khan (MBA ’01), of Princeton Junction, NJ, has been promoted to Senior Partner with Interactive Broadband Consulting Group, LLC (IBB), a boutique consulting firm advising top management in the broadband-related sectors of cable, mobile, technology, and digital media. Khan is currently a fellow at the University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School of Business.

Lena M. Liu (MBA ’01), of New York, NY, was recently married to Frank Stonebanks. Liu is Managing Director for Banc of America Securities.

Andrew Pancer (MBA ’01), of Tenafly, NJ, has joined Media6 degrees, a company that provides major brand marketers scalable, bespoke audiences using the power of social graph data, as its COO. Previously, Pancer was Vice President, Digital Development, at The New York Times Company.

Paying it Forward Michael Levy (BS ’89) Michael Levy, Managing Director of the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley, understands the importance of credibility. Having taken a circuitous route to investment banking, he had to earn it. And in the competitive market new graduates face today, he generously bestows it on the NYU Stern graduates he recruits for his firm. Levy’s appetite for learning led him to take a path different from the traditional financier. After receiving his bachelor’s degree in 1989 from Stern – which he chose based on its reputation and global outlook – Levy opened a graphic design firm. “When I started at NYU, there wasn’t much dorm housing available, so I shared a studio apartment with two of my friends who were going to Parsons School of Design,” said Levy. After receiving his degree, Levy teamed up with one of his roommates who graduated the prior year and was working as a freelance graphic designer. “We decided to form a legitimate company because I could add the business piece to the puzzle.” They opened Lowell Design Group in 1989 and successfully established themselves in the graphic design community. After that initial success, Levy added another page to his schooling, garnering a law degree from Brooklyn Law School. After graduation, he transitioned to investment banking, and following a few positions in finance, joined Morgan Stanley in 1998. He has remained there, serving not only as Managing Director, but also as Co-head of the firm’s Real Estate Banking Group for the Americas and Global Head of Lodging. Gaining credibility in investment banking wasn’t a slam dunk. “I had zero experience in banking and didn’t come from a traditional background,” he explained. “Most bankers I spoke to were focused on hiring MBA graduates with traditional finance backgrounds from Ivy League schools – not newly minted lawyers with graphic design credentials.” However, Levy was determined to gain a foothold in the industry and show how well an NYU graduate could perform. Now, as Co-captain of Morgan Stanley’s recruiting efforts at Stern, Levy takes every chance he can to recruit Stern graduates. “Stern graduates have it all: common sense, international exposure, and academic excellence,” he said. “The School’s reputation throughout the financial community is unsurpassed and its graduates are highly coveted.” Levy admitted that he loves working for Morgan Stanley and that his “goal is to continue to help the firm build the core team of Stern alumni so that the network and recruiting efforts will be self-sustaining, and that Stern will be a major contributor to the firm’s success.” He’s clearly earned the credibility to make that happen.

Kiran S. Patel (BS ’01), of Jackson Heights, NY, has joined Morgan Keegan as Associate Vice President, Municipal Sales for New York. Patel was most recently an associate in municipal sales with J.P. Morgan.

Ron D. Perry (BS ’01), of Englewood, NJ, has been featured in Billboard magazine’s “30 under 30” list, which identifies “individuals who drive the fields of music and entertainment forward with their artistic and business vision.” Perry is Senior Creative A&R for Songs Music Publishing.

Jeffrey E. Berman (BS ’02), of Rockville, MD, is Partner with Berman Enterprises, a family-owned company based in Maryland that will form a partnership with former New York City Mayor Rudolph Guiliani’s company, Giuliani Partners, to be called the Berman Enterprises Opportunity Fund.

Greg B. Habay (BS ’02), of New York, NY, has joined Collins as Senior Vice President. Collins serves clients in the property-casualty, life, accident, and health insurance markets.

Michael Margolis (MBA ’02), of West Orange, NJ, has been hired by Merriman Curhan Ford as Managing Director in its healthcare investment banking practice. Merriman Curhan Ford is a full-service financial services firm.

Jerome Schneider (MBA ’02), of New York, NY, has been hired as Executive Vice President, Portfolio Manager, and Finance Specialist for PIMCO, Inc., an investment management company based in Newport Beach, California. Previously, Schneider was Senior Managing Director at Bear Stearns.

Angela Faye Taylor (MBA ’02), of Minneapolis, MN, has been hired as Vice President and General Manager of the Washington Mystics, a Women’s National Basketball Association team based in Washington, DC. Previously, Taylor was the Vice President of Business Development for the Minnesota Lynx.

Eli S. Goldschmiedt (MBA ’03), of Woodsburgh, NY, has joined Amherst Securities Group, L.P., a privately held broker-dealer specializing in residential mortgage-backed securities. Most recently, Goldschmiedt worked at J.P. Morgan Securities.

Timothy Zaino (MBA ’03), of Fairfield, CT, has joined the debt capital markets division of Broadpoint Capital, Inc. as Vice President, Bank Debt Sales. Broadpoint Capital is a broker-dealer subsidiary of Broadpoint Securities Group, Inc., an independent investment bank. Most recently, Zaino was a director in leveraged loan and high-yield bond sales and trading at UBS.

Robert M. Brown (BS ’04), of New York, NY, was recently married to Julie Elizabeth Maguire. Brown is Associate for Mergers and Acquisitions in the New York office of Credit Suisse.

Zheng James Chen (MBA ’04), of Pine Brook, NJ, has joined Morgan Joseph & Co. Inc., a New York-based investment bank that has a growing stake in financing middle-market growth companies in China, as Senior Equity Research Analyst and Senior Vice President.

Anne-Cecilie Engell (MBA ’04), of New York, NY, was recently married to Rob Speyer. Engell is Marketing Director at Iconix Brand Group.

Daniel J. Farr (MBA ’04), of Durham, CT, has been promoted to CFO of CBRE Realty Finance, Inc. Farr recently served as Manager of Financial Planning and Analysis.

Maura Gedid (MBA ’04), of Astoria, NY, was recently married to Eric Kaye. Gedid is Assistant Vice President at the Breakstone Group, an investor relations and corporate communications consulting firm in New York.

Nidha Agrawal (PhD ’05), of Seattle, WA, has been named a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar. The Marketing Science Institute’s biennial Young Scholar Program brings together some of the most promising scholars in marketing and related fields.

Christopher D. Rigg (MBA ’05), of Wyckoff, NJ, has joined Soleil Securities Corporation, a provider of value-added, independent equity research and brokerage services, as a research analyst. Rigg will provide coverage of the healthcare facilities and services sector.

Dean Howard Schaffer (MBA ’05), of New York, NY, was recently married to Rebecca Lee Glashow. Schaffer is Vice President for Private Investment Transactions at PanAmerican Capital in New York.

Brian D. Swarth (MBA ’05), of Brooklyn, NY, was recently married to Rachel Dana Birnbaum. Swarth is Senior Director of Strategy and Business Operations at MTV Networks in New York.

Ellen Winkler (MBA ’05), of New York, NY, was recently married to Dennis Lafferty. Winkler was previously an associate at Goldman Sachs in New York where she worked with institutional investors.

Thomas J. Curtin (BS ’06), of New York, NY, was recently married to Shannon Leonard. Curtin is an accountant with Archer Capital Management.

Stephanie L. Lee (MBA ’06), of Brooklyn, NY, published a working paper titled “Auction-Rate Securities: Bidder’s Remorse?” in Pratt’s Journal of Bankruptcy Law.

Glenn S. Robertelli (MBA ’06), of New Brunswick, NJ, was selected as Entrepreneur Magazine’s 2008 Emerging Entrpreneur of the Year for his new entrepreneurial venture, ViewGuard.

Brian Skorney (MBA ’06), of New York, NY, was recently married to Catherine McGuinn. Skorney is an associate analyzing publicly traded companies in the biotechnology sector with Susquehanna Financial Group.

Manoj K. Thomas (PhD ’06), of Ithaca, NY, has been named a Marketing Science Institute Young Scholar. The Marketing Science Institute’s biennial Young Scholar Program brings together some of the most promising scholars in marketing and related fields.

Stefanie Lisa Dreiblatt (MBA ’07) and Robert J. Wotton (MBA ’07), of New York, NY, were married in July of 2008. Dreiblatt is the Senior Manager for Brand Management at The Robert Allen Group. Wotton is Senior Financial Analyst for the consulting and brokerage groups at CBRE. The couple met at NYU Stern.

Lindsay Monihan (MBA ’07), of New York, NY, and Jeffrey Stein (MBA ’07), of Saddle River, NJ, were recently married. Monihan is an associate at JPMorgan Chase working in the municipal bond sales group in the securities division. Stein is an associate at Bank of America’s investment bank, working in structured finance in the capital markets strategies group. The couple met at NYU Stern.

Craig A. Rudner (MBA ’07), of Ossining, NY, welcomed son, Justin Michael, on June 21, 2008.

Andrea M. Scribner (MBA ’07), of New York, NY, was recently married to Ahsim Khan. They both work for Morgan Stanley.

Ellen E. Sheets (MBA ’07), of Concord, MA, has been appointed to the position of Chief Medical Officer with Predictive Biosciences, a molecular diagnostics company developing non-invasive diagnostic products for cancer management. Sheets most recently served as Chief Medical Officer and SVP at Hologic Inc., a women’s health diagnostics company.

Philip Silverman (MBA ’07), of New York, NY, was recently married to Anne Greenberger. Silverman is a founder and the Managing Partner of Kingsview Group, an investment management firm.

Russell J. Weiner (MBA ’07), of New Rochelle, NY, has joined Domino’s Pizza as Executive Vice President and CMO; he will also serve as a member of its leadership council. Weiner was most recently Vice President of Marketing, Colas, for Pepsi-Cola North America.

Kimberly L. Ballard (MBA ’08), of Washington, DC, was recently married to Harley J. McKinley. Ballard is the Operations Manager at the Louis Vuitton store in Chevy Chase, MD.

Ryan D. Fiftal (MBA ’08), of New York, NY, was recently married to Nicole Brady. Fiftal is a research associate at Morgan Stanley.

Benjamin R. Maisel (MBA ’08), of New York, NY, was recently married to Susan A. Rosenthal. Maisel is Vice President in the credit department at Morgan Stanley in New York.

Emily Powers (MBA ’08), of New York, NY, has been appointed Manager, Business Development, at NBC Universal. Previously, Powers was Associate Producer for National Geographic.

David A. Sherman (MBA ’08), of New York, NY, was recently married to Wendy Schwan. Sherman is Vice President of Operations in the US asset management unit of Nomura, the Japanese brokerage firm.