August 2020 Class Notes | Whitman Voices

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NEW POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS:

Fernando Murillo ’76: Executive Managing Director, Helmsley Spear, LLC

John W. Phillips ’91 MBA: Civilian Aide to the Secretary of the Army, Georgia (North)

Robert Leach ’99: Dean of the Business and Public Service Division, Atlanta Technical College

Greg Laurence ’03 MBA, ’10 Ph.D.: Professor of Management, University of Michigan-Flint, and Director of Graduate Studies for the Center for Japanese Studies, University of Michigan-Ann Arbor

Ujjwal Dhoot ’07 MBA: Chief Marketing Officer, DXL Group

Marley Tannenbaum ’08: Associate Director – Reporting FP&A and Technical Accounting, R&D Finance, Bristol Myers Squibb

Megan McDermott ’09: TotalSource Associate District Manager, ADP

Keith Mitsuuchi ’15: Senior Analyst, Revenue & Inventory Analytics, Hulu

Nicholas P. Dickinson ’16: Junior Partner, VargasAndrews

TJ Blitzer ’17: Account Supervisor, 21GRAMS

Adriana Brown ’17: Revenue Operations, Reonomy

Joe Egidio ’17: Senior Account Executive, Dataminr

Josh Fyffe ’17: Senior Consultant, Deloitte

Vatsal Popat ’17 MBA: Manager, Business Intelligence: E-Commerce, Ziff Davis

Brittney Strickland ’17 MBA: Account Manager, Personal Care, BASF

Adriana Totino ’17: Forecasting, Planning & Sales Associate, ROLEX

Jack Reardon ’18: Supervisor, Analytics, Havas Media Group

Michelle Watson ’18 MS: Accountant, Rochester City School District

Jose Quiles Martin ’19 MBA: Senior Vice President, Global TTS Sr. Client Executive, Citibank Treasure and Trade Solutions

Joseph DiLillo ’20: Business Analyst, Capital One

AWARDS AND RECOGNITION:

Ed Katz ’81: Founder/Principal of Katnip Marketing has recently won an international Bronze Telly Award in the category of Social Video as well as a Bernays Award for Best Public Relations Campaign-Small Business.

Kelsey Davis ’20 MS, Founder and CEO of Cllctve, made Adweeks’s list of 2020 Young Influentials Shaping, Media, Marketing and Tech.

IN THE MEDIA:

Jeff Abeson ’94, Vice President of Ryder Last Mile, was featured in BENZINGA, sharing some of the actions being taken as a reaction to recent changes to Amazon freight regulations.

Logan Bonney ’17 MS and Brittany Berry ’18 VPA (below) were featured on LocalSYR. The co-owners of Anything But Beer have partnered with Syracuse University’s Institute for Veterans and Military Families to boost local veteran-owned businesses and benefit members of the community who have been harshly effected by the pandemic.

MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS:

Michael Lombardi ’03, ’12 MBA and Lisa Kelly ’03 (EDU) announce the birth of their son, Elliott Sahmyuel Kelly-Lombardi (below). He weighed 8 lb., 14 oz. Michael is a Global Consulting Partner at Ogilvy Consulting. Lisa is an attorney and real estate agent with a teaching certification in TESOL.

IN MEMORIAM:

Michael Chemotti ’38 passed away at the age of 106 on July 27.

Nina Kapur ’16 (below) passed away on July 18 following a moped accident in New York City at the age of 26. She worked as a news anchor at CBS New York, a CNN affiliate.

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Liz Holloway is the alumni engagement coordinator for the Martin J. Whitman School of Management at Syracuse University. She is responsible for fostering connections between alumni and students of Whitman, as well as the promotion of programming to strengthen these relationships.She received a Master of Arts in communications from SUNY Albany and has a diverse background of facilitating customer and community engagement, managing logistics for large-scale events, and event marketing strategy development and execution.