<p>Here's a broad cross-section</p>
<p>Undergraduate
Allen D. Allred (BA 1970) is a partner with the law firm Thompson Coburn LLC with
offices in St. Louis, MO; Belleville, IL and Washington D.C. Mr. Allred is chairman of
the healthcare practice group of the firm.</p>
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<p>Christopher Atayan (BBA 1982) has been an Investment Banker and Private Equity
Investor in New York since 1982 and has recently assumed a new position as Vice Chairman
and Chief Corporate Officer of Amcon Distributing Company, a leading consumer products
distributor and retailer in the Midwest with headquarters in Chicago. In his spare time he
writes a daily column in TheStreet.com on mergers, acquisitions, investments and economic
matters.</p>
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<p>Tom Baratta (BA 1967) attended Loyola Law School of Chicago (JD Cum Laude 1970)
after graduation and went into private practice in the Chicago area from 1970 to 1999. He’s
married to Nancy (ARNP, BC) and they have two children currently enrolled at Florida
State University: Jim, a Senior, and Jessica, a Freshman. The family moved to Naples, FL
in 1993, and he is currently employed by the Collier County Attorney’s Office in Naples,
Florida.</p>
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<p>Troy Barnett (BS 1996) apologizes for his first entry being on his 10th anniversary of
graduation. It has been a fruitful 10 years. On the personal front, he married Elizabeth
Corr in 2000 (BA 1996) and their daughter, Eloise Shay, was born in April of 2004. Their
second child is due in July. Career wise, investment banking and private equity are the
major themes. His current role with Adams Street Partners, a private equity fund-of-unds
based in Chicago, is quite fulfilling. Other milestones include an MBA from the University
of Chicago (2002) and traveling for work and pleasure to pretty much all four corners (the
world is really flat) of the planet, save the polar ice caps. Interesting tidbit: He’s officially
ranked at the 295th best GO (popular Asian game) player in the world.</p>
<hr>
<p>Daniel J. Bergschneider (BA 1995) is Senior Business Analyst for Fidelity Investments
in Boston, MA. He leads a team of analysts in the product development of a platform that
serves the investment and financial reporting needs of Fidelity’s client base of high net
worth families. Prior to working for Fidelity, he worked for DST International (an
investment services software company) and State Street Bank (institutional investor
services), both located in Boston. Dan is a Chartered Financial Analyst.</p>
<hr>
<p>Adam Berkoff (BA 1991) moved to Chicago and is a partner at the law firm DLA Piper
Rudnick Gray Cary US LLP. He is a real estate lawyer and specializes in condominium
and complex urban high-rise development. He is also an adjunct professor with The Real
Estate Center at DePaul University. Adam married Jennifer Byrd (a Madison native) in
1996 and they live in Chicago with their eight-year-old daughter, Abra.</p>
<hr>
<p>Mark Bredesen (BS 1998) moved to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 2005 to start a real estate
development company. After working for 7 years in fixed income research with Salomon
Brothers in NYC and Putnam Investments in Boston, this former ESA president traded
the dim office lights for a city where the sun shines 320 days a year. He would be pleased
to hear from any long lost friends at <a href="mailto:mark_bredesen@hotmail.com">mark_bredesen@hotmail.com</a>.</p>
<hr>
<p>Michael Brandl (BS 1986) teaches economics and finance in the MBA program at the
McCombs School of Business at the University of Texas at Austin. Teaching economics
is great fun, teaching finance is dull, but it pays the bills: Compensating wage differentials.
He earned his PhD in econ from the University of Houston in 1996.</p>
<hr>
<p>Joseph Burke (BA 1999) is the new professor of Economics at Ave Maria University. He
and his wife are expecting their fourth child in November.</p>
<hr>
<p>Mark William Christofferson (BS 1992) lives in metro Denver with his wife and son.
He is 2nd Vice President of Wealth Management, Portfolio Manager, and Financial Advisor
at Smith Barney in Denver, CO. You can reach Mark via his website at
<a href="http://www.fc.smithbarney.com/mark_christofferson%5B/url%5D">www.fc.smithbarney.com/mark_christofferson</a> or email him at
<a href="mailto:mark.w.christofferson@smithbarney.com">mark.w.christofferson@smithbarney.com</a></p>
<hr>
<p>Ken Dau-Schmidt (BA 1978) is the Willard and Margaret Carr Chair of Labor and
Employment Law at Indiana University School of Law—Bloomington. Both of his sons,
Nick and Nathan, will be attending UW-Madison next year as History and Mathematics
majors (respectively).</p>
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<p>Tim Day (BS 1975) moved to Wyoming after college. After several years in law
enforcement, he attended law school at the University of Minnesota. He worked as a
District Attorney in Alaska before returning to Jackson, Wyoming in 1985 where he
practiced law until being appointed the Circuit Court Judge in 2003.</p>
<hr>
<p>Jason Deitz (BS 2004) is currently an Assistant Investment Officer for Wood Trust Asset
Management in Wisconsin Rapids and working on his MBA through UW-Whitewater’s
online MBA program. He is getting married in December.</p>
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<p>Michael Dolan (BS 1995) earned his law degree & MBA from the University of
Minnesota. He then clerked for Judge Bruce D. Willis of the Minnesota Court of Appeals
and proceeded to apply his UW economics degree in the antitrust portion of his private
practice as an attorney with Oppenheimer Wolff & Donnelly LLP. Mike is certain that he
will call on his economics background to an even greater extent in his new role as Deputy
Director of Enterprise Risk Management with U.S. Bancorp. Mike also served as an
Adjunct Professor of Law with the University of Minnesota Law School and is currently
a member of the State Central Committee of one of Minnesota’s major political parties.</p>
<hr>
<p>Patrick Eckstrom (BS 2001) recently finished his first novel entitled “My Memories,”
which should be out in stores by Fall 07'. He’s excited to say the main character goes to
college at none-other-than the UW-Madison (Obviously, I had to represent my alma mater!).
Anyway, he lives in Las Vegas, works at a large consulting agency, travels a lot, and he’s
always trying to find inspiration for his next novel. Take care and as always,
GO BIG RED!</p>
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<p>10
• Alumni News • Matt Fishbune (BS 2004) recently took a position as an Investment Representative with
Edward Jones in the Chicago area after previously working for a trading group at the
Chicago Board of Options Exchange and Chicago Mercantile Exchange.</p>
<hr>
<p>Herbert H. Fisher (BA 1949; Bachelor of Laws 1952) moved to Milwaukee and then to
Chicago after law school. He has moved from law firm employment through sole
practitioner status, a law firm partnership and back to a small firm emphasizing in real
estate commercial and multi family transactions and financing with a concentration in
representation and development of housing cooperatives. He has been listed in Who’s
Who in America starting in 1986-87 edition and has been an advisor to the Commissioners
for Uniform State Laws Model Real Estate Cooperatives Act Drafting Committee, served
as past chair of the Cooperative Committee of the American Bar Association Real Estate
and Probate Section, has been a long term National Association of Housing Cooperatives
board member, and served as its president and board chair for 17 years. He is a lecturer
on cooperative housing legal matters and is an advocate of the economics of cooperation.</p>
<hr>
<p>Molly M. Foley (BA 1993) recently abandoned her quest to resolve the economic conflict
between public interest law and law school student loans by taking an in-house counsel
position with Siemens Corporation in its construction division (SBT). Molly now applies
her econ skills to energy efficiency contracts while her husband, Peter H. Honigmann,
Jr. (BA 1992), continues the couple’s crusade for low-income legal assistance as a sole
practitioner.</p>
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<p>Seth Frey (BS 1992) moved from DC to Chicago in 2000. His promotional product &
corporate gift company, Big Frey Promotional Products, is now targeting Human Resource
and University Recruiting divisions of large companies nationwide. Married to another
Badger, with 2 daughters and a 3rd on the way (and a Labrador named Bascom!), the
family is looking forward to watching UW-Madison football this fall…</p>
<hr>
<p>David Gimpel (BS 2001) recently moved back to sweet home Chicago upon graduating
Beta Gamma Sigma from his MBA program at Washington University in St. Louis. He
currently works for Morgan Stanley’s Private Wealth Management division in Chicago.
More importantly, he recently became engaged and plans to marry his longtime girlfriend,
Dr. Lauren Eisenberg, during summer 2007.</p>
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<p>Ken Grant (BS 1982) is a proud grad of the fighting class of ’82 (Eric Heiden’s year, if
I’m not mistaken). He’s been in the field of risk management for 20 years, the last 10 in
the hedge fund industry. He has worked with some of the largest hedge funds in the
business. He’s also written a book, called Trading Risk: Enhanced Profitability through
Risk Control (Wiley, 2004), and have, among other things, become the principal author of
the risk management curriculum for the CFA Institute. Ken is currently managing his own
risk consulting business: Risk Resources, LLC, in NYC. He is also the proud father of an
in-coming sophomore at UW, Brianna Grant. He insisted that she take economics courses,
but they have not been her strongest suits. Since she’s much smarter than her dad, he can
only take this to mean that the courses are much tougher than they were, say, 25 years
ago. Go Big Red (always and forever)!!!!!!</p>
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<p>Stephanie Gordon (BA 1992) reports that she completed her MBA from Northwestern’s
Kellogg School of Management in 1997 and now works at Target Corporation in
Minneapolis. She lives in Minneapolis with her husband, Steve Farsht (BBA 1992), and
their two daughters, Sami and Alexandra.</p>
<hr>
<p>Philip Hansen (BS 1990) was promoted to Vice President of the Peoples State Bank of
Munising, MI in May, 2006.</p>
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<p>Sherri Hellenbrand (now known as Sherri Fried) (BA 1991) started “Red Stone Title &
Abstract, LLC” about 3 years ago. They provide Real Estate Title Insurance for New
York and New Jersey. She lives in Hoboken, NJ with her husband. She can be reached
at: Sherri Fried, President, Red Stone Title & Abstract, LLC, 419 Lafayette Street, 2nd
Floor, New York, NY 10003, phone: 212.289.6454 efax: 212.214.0524,
<a href="mailto:sherri.fried@redstonetitle.com">sherri.fried@redstonetitle.com</a>.</p>
<hr>
<p>Derek Hildebrandt (BS 1993) was recently voted to serve on the board of the Producers
Guild of America - New Media Council. Derek also serves as the VP of the Big Ten Club
of Southern California and heads up the Los Angeles Badgers for the alumni association.
Derek’s “Greater Bucky Open” annual fundraiser for the UW Children’s Hospital and
Bucky Badger student mascots raised $25k last year. Please check it out and consider
supporting: <a href="http://www.greaterbuckyopen.com%5B/url%5D">www.greaterbuckyopen.com</a>. Thanks.</p>
<hr>
<p>Daisuke Iijima (BS 2001) is currently a consultant at McKinsey & Company, but will be
attending INSEAD in France from this August on for an MBA degree.</p>
<hr>
<p>Stan Ingraham (BS 1969) After joining the sewing machine business in 1970 in Madison,
Stan ultimately moved to Cleveland, OH continuing his career and today is President of
Husqvarna Viking Dealers Business. He always visits the UW on travels through Madison.</p>
<hr>
<p>Prashanth Jayachandran (BA 1995) is an associate with Morgan, Lewis & Bockius in
Princeton, New Jersey. Prashanth specializes in the labor and employment law.</p>
<hr>
<p>Ahmad Jazayeri (BA 1978) After graduating from UW-Madison Economics in 1978, he
did an Mphil and then a PhD at the University of Sussex (Brighton,UK). Subsequently, he
worked for the UN for 15 years in Rome, Italy. His work was on financing pro-poor rural
development projects in francophone West Africa. He left the UN in 1998 for private
consulting, and has been a free lance consultant since then - working on international
development related to poverty, credit cooperatives, and financial literacy. His recent
projects are in Mali (MCC), South Africa (BANKSETA), and Tanzania (FORD/COADY).
He has two sons, (9 and 13) and is based in Vancouver BC, Canada - and enjoying it.
<a href="mailto:ahmadj@shaw.ca">ahmadj@shaw.ca</a>.</p>
<hr>
<p>Steven Kaiser (BA 1998) has been appointed Senior Country Manager, Automotive,
J.D. Power Asia Pacific. He is married and based in Singapore.</p>
<hr>
<p>Thomas J. Kalinske (BS 1966) earmed his MBA in 1968 from the University of Arizona.
After serving as CEO of Mattel 1985-87; Matchbox 1987-89; and Sega 1990-1996, Tom
became CEO of LeapFrog Educational Toys in 1997, taking the company public on the
NYSE in 2002, LeapFrog has become the largest manufacturer and marketer of
Educational Products for children in the U.S., and is currently expanding globally. Tom
and his wife Karen reside in Atherton California with their 5 children ages 8-21,</p>
<hr>
<p>Andrew A. Karow (BS 1990) will oversee business development and customer
relationships for Alpine Bank Telluride in the Telluride area. Originally from Business
Administration at the University of Denver in 1996 and graduated from the Graduate
School of Banking at the University of Wisconsin in 2001, Andrew’s banking career
started with Alpine Bank in the Vail Valley in 1996. After opening the Avon location, he
served as Branch Manager in Vail from 2000-2006. Andrew and wife, Katie, enjoy skiing,
mountain biking and sailing. Katie is a licensed real estate agent specializing in mountain
resort properties. They have a beautiful 2½ -year old daughter, Morgan. To contact
Andrew Karow, please call him directly at 970-369-5399, or email
<a href="mailto:andrewkarow@alpinebank.com">andrewkarow@alpinebank.com</a>.</p>
<hr>
<p>Ronald C. Kesselman (BS 1964) has been appointed to the Board of Directors of the
American Italian Pasta Company (NYSE: PLB). Ron Kesselman has a 30-year career of
holding senior executive and management positions with consumer products and food
processing companies. He is currently a consumer products consultant with the Berwind
Group, a privately held enterprise, and was previously the Chairman and Chief Executive
Officer of Elmer’s Products. Mr. Kesselman has also served in a number of management
positions with Fortune 500 companies, including Borden, Inc., Mattel Corporation and
Quaker Oats Company. Mr. Kesselman is a graduate of the University of Wisconsin and
received a Masters of Business Administration from Northwestern University.</p>
<hr>
<p>Beum Joo Kim (BA 1997) has been living in Seoul, Korea since 1997. He served in the
Korean Army for 26 months after graduating, and then entered the financial industry in
Korea as an equity analyst. Currently, he is a sales manager at Fidelity Investments, Seoul
office.</p>
<hr>
<p>Kleenfeld, Kenneth R (PhD 1972) has been promoted to Senior Vice President in
Derivatives Research at Lehman Brothers in New York. His recent work has applied
cross-entropy methods to decompose the vega risk of interest rate products.</p>
<hr>
<p>Annette (Kellor) Knapstein (BA 1981) has been elected vice president
of office administration at American Family Insurance effective Jan. 1, 2006. Knapstein
joined American Family in 1983, working most of her career in the Marketing Division
and most recently as the division’s integrated marketing communications director. In that
capacity, she directs general and multi-cultural advertising, corporate branding, marketing
communications and direct marketing. Knapstein is active on several boards and is past
president of the Insurance and Financial Communicators Association. She received the
2004 Silver Medal Award for lifetime achievement in the advertising industry from the
Madison Advertising Federation. She and her husband, Michael, live in Middleton, WI</p>
<hr>
<p>John Kovalic (BA, 1986) has been nominated for two prestigious Harvies, one of
the Comic Book world’s premier awards: for “Best Cartoonist,” and “Special Award for
Humor in Comics.” His multi-award winning comic book, Dork Tower, has sold nearly
500,000 copies, and is approaching the 10th anniversary of the comic strip’s first
appearance. One of its central characters, Carson the Muskrat, appeared in John’s Daily
Cardinal comic strip, Wild Life. USA Today called Kovalic a “Hot Pick,” and he’s a coowner
and co-founder of Out of the Box Games, whose “Apples to Apples” was the best
selling toy at target stores nationwide the week before Christmas, 2005. He’s also a bestselling
and prolific freelance game illustrator (“Munchkin,” “Chez Geek,” “Creatures
and Cultists,” “Mag*Blast”), and John’s editorial cartoons have appeared in the New
York Times and the Washington Post, and he continues to freelance for his hometown
Wisconsin State Journal (Madison, WI). John took his comic strip “Wild Life” (Daily
Cardinal, 1984-1986) and parlayed it into a job at the Wisconsin State Journal. Staying in
Madison, in 1996 he co-founded Dork Storm Press, a comic book company, as well as
Out of the Box Publishing, a games company where he’s also Artistic Director. Since
then, his comic book Dork Tower has been translated into five different languages, and
optioned for television and movies. His second comic book, Dr. Blink: Superhero Shrink
has likewise been option by Hollywood. The Out of the Box game “Apples to Apples”
has sold over two million copies, and was the bestselling game at Target in 2006. The
company now produces more than 30 different award-winning family games, and John is
amazed he gets to do things like this for a living. He and his wife Judith Heise (BA 1987,
Journalism) are adopting a daughter, Louisa Marie, from Siberia. They do not recommend
it as a holiday destination. In John’s free time, he searches for free time.</p>
<hr>
<p>Donald Lee (BA 1969) went on to complete his MBA and JD in 1974 at Columbia. He
practiced accounting, then law, from 1974-1981. He has been involved in a family
commercial real estate business since 1981. He married in 1971 and is still married to the
same wife. They have lived in Scarsdale, NY since 1980. Their daughter graduated from
Williams College & is currently in Michigan’s School of Public Policy; their son is an
undergraduate at Cornell.</p>
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<p>Tom Lehmkuhl (BS 1984) completed his MBA at Michigan State University last
December, and he has accepted an offer from ITW to become marketing director for the
company’s Evercoat automotive business unit. Tom and his wife Tammy are relocating
from Norton Shores, MI to Cincinnati, where they can fly their Badger flag without fear
of retribution from Spartan fans.</p>
<hr>
<p>Mark Lieberman (BA 1969) learned first hand about economic competition in the
telephone business as he just sold his 14-person, local telephone providing company.
He’s now wondering if economics will help him figure out what to do with the rest of his
life.</p>
<hr>
<p>Darin C. Lind (BA 1998) has joined Mortenson, Matzelle & Meldrum (M3) in the
Employee Benefits Department. M3, headquartered in Madison, is one of the largest
Insurance Agencies in Wisconsin with 5 locations throughout the state.</p>
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<p>11
• Alumni News •
Heather Lipner (BA 2002) currently works as the Project Manager for Fluidesign
(<a href="http://www.fluidesign.com%5B/url%5D">www.fluidesign.com</a>) in Los Angeles and has been with the company for a little over a
year. Within the last year they won 1 Horizon Interactive Award and 4 International Davey
Awards. Fluidesign is a Branding and Interactive Agency for forward-thinking and likeminded
companies.</p>
<hr>
<p>David London CFA (BA 1999) is currently living and working in NYC at Wilshire
Associates working w/ Equity Analytics and Performance Analysis. He’s doing his MBA
at the NYU Stern School of Business and specializing in quantitative finance and economics.
David received his CFA charter in August 2003.</p>
<hr>
<p>Jonathan D. London (BBA 1999) moved to Chicago after graduation and worked as a
financial analayst for LaSalle Bank. In September of 2002, he married Alison Appelbaum
(BA 1999). In June of 2005, he and Alison moved to Minneapolis, where he began work
as a financial advisor for UBS. He & Alison had a baby, Matthew Ross on May 22, 2006.</p>
<hr>
<p>Dawn De Belak Marceau’s (BA 1982) eldest daughter, Kristine, graduated from UW
Madison in May, 2006 with degrees in Philosophy and Psychology. Her youngest daughter,
Susie, will attend UW Madison in the fall of 2006. Dawn is a Senior Vice President of
Product Development at Metavante Corporation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.</p>
<hr>
<p>John McLeod (BS 1987) worked for 8 years developing, managing, and creating one of
the most efficient and profitable offices for GMAC. He is now President of Capital Quest
Group. CapitalQuest was formed with some partners of John’s to allow them to focus on
the needs of their real estate clients. CapitalQuest is a full service real estate company
specializing in mortgage brokerage, investment sales and consulting. It is one call for real
estate solutions locally and nationwide. They have superbly qualified staff with real estate
expertise in debt/equity structuring, institutional sales, consulting, business management,
and equipment financing. Their Mission: CapitalQuest will be the premier source of real
estate CAPITAL and financial service to their clients. Their principal QUEST will be to
ensure the most effective and efficient customized solutions delivered with passion, unrivaled
responsiveness and client satisfaction. It is really that simple.</p>
<hr>
<p>Jordan K. Mee (BA 2004) purchased a home in Central Wisconsin and will soon be
married to Amber Lynn Siewert (Oct. 1, 2006). Jordan currently works in Title Insurance
for Knight-Barry but is in a job transition due to the home purchase outside of Madison.</p>
<hr>
<p>Frank Mils (BS 1986) is a Weasel Wrangler for a large Hollywood entertainment
conglomerate. He finds weasels know little about economics although they like to use a
lot of the jargon to impress other weasels. Years of applied research have resulted in a
fairly effective general model which describes the best sharpened hammer to use on weasels.
Weasels respond far more efficiently to hammers than the economist’s toolkit. In his
downtime, he is a risk mitigation consultant for groups trying to adapt to post-9/11 realities.</p>
<hr>
<p>David Morell (BA 1961) went on to earn a PhD from Princeton; served as a senior official
of the US Environmental Protection Agency in both Washington, DC and San Francisco;
was a consultant for the World Bank in Mexico, Russia, and Thailand; and is founder (in
1999) and President of a 20-person environmental health and safety consulting firm focused
on effective management systems and auditing. Clients include Eli Lilly, GE, Genentech,
Johnson & Johnson, and Lockheed Martin. The firm’s offices are in Oakland (CA)-
corporate; Albuquerque, Baltimore, Boise, Houston, Newark, and Pittsburgh. Dr. Morell
served for four years on the Board of Visitors of the Gaylord Nelson Institute for
Environmental Studies at UW-Madison, and is on the faculty of Environmental Studies at
the University of California, Santa Cruz.</p>
<hr>
<p>Samir Murty CFA (BA 1999) is engaged to be married 7/1/06. He is Research Director
of The Mark Orgel Investment Group, the largest private high net worth asset management
practice in the RBC Dain Rauscher network and the state of Wisconsin, and he earned the
right to use Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 2002.</p>
<hr>
<p>Nick Orum (BS 1997) obtained his MBA in 2004 from the Carlson School of Management
at the University of Minnesota, and lives in Minneapolis, but remains a Badger at heart.
He married his lovely wife Jess (also a Badger alum) in 2005 in a destination wedding in
Madison, Wisconsin. Nick is presently Senior Consultant at Deloitte Consulting.</p>
<hr>
<p>Greg Parker (BS 2003) became Principal Broker & Senior Annalist for Castle Trading,
Inc in Los Angeles in January 2006. He is also co-Founder of pmcTrade.com a
global Aircraft Marketplace for buyers, sellers, & dealers.</p>
<hr>
<p>Meehir Patel (BS 2000) has been living in New York for the past 3 years. During this
time, He has worked as an equity trader and a consultant in the hedge fund/asset management
industry. Recently, he’s been working with General Motors Asset Management (one of
the largest pension funds in the US) to implement more efficient work flows in their trading
processes. He is looking forward to possibly coming back to Madison this year for his first
homecoming since graduating. Go Badgers!</p>
<hr>
<p>Mary Ann Peckham (BA 1973) After retiring from the National Park Service, serving in
six National park areas-as ranger and eventually as park superintendent, she now serves as
executive director of the Tennessee Civil War Battlefield Preservation Association, a
nonprofit organization dedicated to preserving historic battlefield sites in Tennessee.</p>
<hr>
<p>Bill Piernot (BA 1977) moved to Northern Illinois after graduating, working in a variety of
capacities in manufacturing businesses and earned an M.B.A from UW -Whitewater in
1984. He is now President and CEO of Wiscraft, Inc. in Milwaukee, a small manufacturing
business that employs primarily people who are blind. He is also on the board of directors
of Wisconsin Manufacturing Partnership.</p>
<hr>
<p>John D. Porter (BA ’83) is SVP with Charter Properties, Inc. They develop institutional
quality multifamily rentals and condominiums in the Carolinas. They also do land
development. He recently finished his term as President of the Charlotte Apartment
Association and currently sits on the Board of the Apartment Association of NC. He is also
a Deacon in the Presbyterian Church USA. He’s been married twenty years and has two
sons – ten years and six months! On Wisconsin!
Ryan “Jay” Prall (BS 2001) has been a financial advisor for Waddell & Reed in
Madison, WI for the past 4 years. In his spare time, he is the treasurer for the West
Madison Jaycees. He also runs their annual Haunted House charity fundraiser at Olin
Park.</p>
<hr>
<p>Bill Raaths (BA 1969) recently served as a guest speaker and has taught business classes
at UW-Oshkosh. Bill is CEO of Great Northern Corporation (GNC) which is
headquartered in Appleton, WI. GNC is a $200 million privately held leader in the
graphic packaging industry. Bill serves on several for-profit and non-profit boards.</p>
<hr>
<p>Thomas A. Rosenbloom (BA 1984) worked in New York for one year after graduating
from the Boston University School of Law in 1988. In 1989, Tom moved to Boston,
MA, where he worked as an associate for a boutique law firm representing entrepreneurs
and emerging business in public offerings and private financings. In 1996, Tom joined
Epstein, Becker & Green, where he became a partner in 1998. In 2005, Tom joined
Foley & Lardner as a partner, and a member of the firm’s emerging technology, life
sciences and medical devices, nanotechnology industry teams and the firm’s transaction
& securities and private equity practice groups, where he continues to represent emerging
technology companies and other growing businesses in mergers and acquisitions, private
equity and venture capital, and general corporate matters. Tom lives in Wellesley, MA
with his wife Jessica of 16 years, and three children.</p>
<hr>
<p>James Rosenwald (BS 1989) is an Acquisitions Manager for Walgreens Health Services,
a division of Walgreen Co. in Deerfield, Illinois. He holds an MBA from the University
of Illinois-Urbana and resides in Buffalo Grove, Illinois.</p>
<hr>
<p>Matthew Russo (BS 1998) is a Senior Buyer in Merchandising for Target Corporation.
He and his wife, Kara, have a 6 month old boy named Alexander.</p>
<hr>
<p>Barry Sak (BS 1985) is currently working as Vice President of Business Development
for Pretium Packaging, a plastic bottle manufacturer. He also just completed work as
part of a committee with the Environmental Protection Agency to develop recycling
standards for plastic bottles, pails, and drums used to package agricultural chemicals.</p>
<hr>
<p>David Salmela (BS 1995) has returned from extensive travels. He now runs an art
gallery/music shop in Northeast Minneapolis (<a href="http://www.creativeelectricstudios.com)%5B/url%5D">http://www.creativeelectricstudios.com)</a>. He
continues to operate his software development business.</p>
<hr>
<p>Matthew M. Sandretto (BA 2004) was a school teacher in Houston with Teach For
America for two years. Now, he is pursuing a commission in the United States Navy
and hopes to become an aviator.</p>
<hr>
<p>Patricia (Webb) Shepard (1994) is now Director and Business Manager for the Northern
California Region of the Citigroup Private Bank and is charged with managing and
growing the business in the region. She and her family recently moved from San Francisco
to Mill Valley, just a hop-skip-and-jump north over the Golden Gate Bridge. Her husband,
Steve, loves their new neighborhood and community - lots of places to bike and train for
Iron Man races. Their daughter, Madeleine, turned 1yr this summer and is equally thrilled
with the move and new home - lots of sun and flowers. In addition to work and family,
Patricia is active with the International Museum of Women, having previously served on
the Celebrating Women Gala Board she continues to help the museum with fundraising
and general outreach.</p>
<hr>
<p>Adam Schwebach (BS 2004) He is currently working in Minneapolis, MN for Benfield
Inc, a reinsurance intermediary, where he assists his clients in their purchase of reinsurance
to provide cover for professional liability exposures.</p>
<hr>
<p>Alan Silow (BA 1972) received an MPA from Princeton University’s Woodrow Wilson
School in 1974. Currently he is Executive Director of the Santa Rosa Symphony based
in beautiful Sonoma County where he lives with his wife, a Professor of Psychology at
JFK University, his 12-year-old son and 2-year-old yellow lab.</p>
<hr>
<p>Kendra Stensven (BBA 2000 - Economics/Real Estate Urban Land Economics) moved
to Boston after graduation and worked in real estate consulting / development and married
Jeff MacDonagh (BS 1998 - Math/Physics/Phil). She is currently working towards an
MS in Real Estate Development in Columbia University’s Graduate School of
Architecture, Planning, and Preservation in New York City. She is focusing her studies
on responsible property investment, including the development of green buildings and
affordable housing, and is interning with Jonathan Rose Companies.</p>
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<p>O J Thompto (BS 1956) was owner and partner in Independent Ins. Agency in Madison
till 1980, then built and operated Bed & Breakfast in the Wisconsin Dells. He retired
from WPS in Madison. He now helps operate the Museum in the WI State Capitol. If
you are in Madison, drop by the Capitol & you might or might not find him up in the
Museum and Observation Deck: It’s a great way to retire and enjoy life; each summer
meeting and greeting visitors from all over the world.</p>
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<p>Paul Van de Sand (BS 1996) accepted a position with Franklin Energy Services in Port
Washington, Wisconsin. Paul has been assigned to the Energy Incentives Program from
We Energies. The program is a comprehensive four year effort to provide financial
incentives to We Energies industrial and commercial customers to reduce electrical
demand and energy.</p>
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<p>Art Vlasak (BS 50, JD 52) retired from private practice in 1999 after 44 years as an
insurance defense litigator in Milwaukee and became General Counsel for Sharp
Packaging Systems in Sussex, WI and continues in that position.</p>
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<p>Charles P. Walsh (BS 1984) moved to Bentonville, AR in 1990 to join the then lesser
known Wal-Mart Stores Inc, Corporate offices. A 15 year career with Wal-Mart included
roles in merchandising, Import Operations, Procurement Operations, Strategy and
Business Development. Traveled to over 40 countries and lived in both Russia and the
UK on assignments. He retired from Wal-Mart in Nov, 2005 and opened his own
professional management consulting business in December, 2005. The Network of NWA</p>