May Class Notes

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AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:

Christine Carona ’85, a senior vice president in wealth management at UBS, has been named to Forbes’ inaugural list of America’s Top 200 Women Financial Advisors. A native of Syracuse, Carona works in UBS’ Boston firm and manages assets in excess of $330 million.

 

 

Gerard Athaide ’94 MBA, ’95 Ph.D., professor of marketing at Loyola College in Maryland, has been accepted for placement on the Fulbright Specialist Roster for the next three years. The Fulbright Specialist Program (FSP) links U.S. scholars and professionals with their counterparts at host institutions overseas.

 

NEW POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS:

Jason Sherman ’02: Senior Product Manager, HBC Digital

Mercedes (Fereck) Carrasco ’04: Senior Vice President, North American Tech Practice, Lead MSLGROUP

Michael Markman ’05: Corporate Controller, Q2 Solutions

Chris Bossert ’07: Senior Manager Inventory Strategy, Wayfair

Janet Levine ’07: Managing Director, Invention Studio, Mindshare

Abha Bang ’09 MBA: Assistant Vice President-Risk Management, YES BANK

Leslie Chin ’09: Merchandise Planner, UNIQLO

Sarah Colson ’09: Director of Brand Management, Utica Comets

David Guilmette ’09 MBA: Director, Supply Chain Center, Domino’s

Kathleen Scully ’10: Business Development Manager, Mastercard

Amanda Cohen ’11: Deployment Consultant, PwC

Taylor Childs ’12: Director of Client Development, Amnet Group- US

Lauren Miller ’13: Competitive Strategy Specialist, Cox Communications

Robert Feit ’14: Global Operations Associate, Flexport

Kriti Kanwal ’15: Digital Analyst, Diageo

Germano Coelho’17 MBA: Commercial Director, North America, Evonik

 

ALUMNI ON CAMPUS:

Doug Sweeny ’90 (WHIT/FALK), chief marketing officer at Nest and VP of marketing at Google, was on campus in April for a talk entitled “Marketing Sustainability to the Masses: Lessons learned from EV1 (Electric Vehicle One), Levi’s and Nest.”