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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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