Matt Christensen, ’00 MBA, was promoted to vice president of Enterprise Performance Systems at Pragmatek Consulting group after serving as director of Enterprise Performance Systems.
Shambhu Nath, ’00 MBA, has recently taken the position of a business analyst for Super Solutions, a company providing lending application for lending industry.
Rick Nehm, '00 MBA, has joined ATS Medical (ATSI) as the director of Tissue Product Marketing in March 2008.
Stephanie Streit Lenertz, '00 BSB, is currently a stay-at-home mother to their daughter, Samantha Jane, born in January 2007. Stephanie was previously a senior manager in audit at KPMG LLP. Stephanie and Matthew were married in 2002.
Rita (Rivard) Groneberg, '00 BSB, recently became a stay-at-home mom to Eillia Elsa Groneberg born on July 30th, 2007.
Peter Gastreich, '01 MBA, was promoted to executive director at UBS in Hong Kong. He is an equity market analyst covering stocks in the Asia oil and petrochemicals sector.
Peter Gastreich, ’01 MBA, was promoted to head of Asia oil and petrochemical research for UBS in Hong Kong. He is an executive director with the firm and has worked as an equities analyst for UBS since graduation.
Uri Felemovicius, ’01 MBA, is the executive vice president of marketing in Latin America for Evolution Marketing Group, a leading relationship marketing company.
Chad Johnson, ’01 MBA, is the vice president of The M & A, a mergers and acquisitions advisory firm in Minneapolis, MN.
Craig Kleis, ’01 MBA, and his wife, Beth, are the proud parents of a new baby boy, John William, born on August 3, 2006.
Aaron Pearson, ’01 MBA, has been promoted to senior vice president in the technology practice of Weber Shandwick’s Minneapolis-St.Paul office. He specializes in developing trade media relations, analyst relations, and vertical market programs primarily for enterprise technology companies.
Bill Robers, ’01 MBA, has started his own sports/entertainment representation practice. Mr. Robers concentrates on NFL and MLB players, as well as college basketball coaches.
Matt Valle, '01 MBA, recently moved to Cincinnati as senior vice president for MarketTools, Inc.
Michael Wandschneider, ’01 MBA, is the marketing manager of Kohler Brand Bathing Products at Kohler Co. He joined Kohler in 2001.
Robert Dudacek, ’02 MBA, is vice president of the direct response insurance group at Wells Fargo Insurance, Inc.
Jack Gresser, '95 BSB, '02 MBA, was promoted to Senior Marketing Manager of Tony's Pizza at Schwan's Consumer Brands. Jack will have responsibility for leading Tony's through a brand transformation process and reestablish consumer relevance in the value of segment of frozen pizza. Most recently, Jack served as brand manager for Red Baron Pizza and Minh Asian Appetizers at Schwan's.
Jody Collis King, ’02 MBA, and her husband, Jeff King, are the proud parents of a daughter, Meredith, born on August 25, 2006. Jody has been a senior IT audit manager at USBank since 2005.
William Prouty, ’02 BSB, has been working at Dan Films in London, developing film projects and producing the DVD extras for the movie "Severance." Recently, he returned to Minnesota to edit the History Channel series "MonsterQuest." He has also started the company ThreeVolts to create ads and entertainment for the web. His company has had some quick success selling a number of off-color ads, and most recently, their spot "Enter the Pepto" was chosen as a national finalist in the Pepto-Bismol ad competition.
Christine Scheier, ’02 BSB, and Thomas Scheier were married on October 8, 2006 in Rochester, MN. The couple currently resides in Boeblingen, Germany.
Jim Wiese, '90 MBT, '02 MBA, has accepted a position at Entergris.
Jesse Bergland, ’03 BSB, received a Wealth Management 2008 Five Star Award which is given to financial services professionals with the best client satisfaction rating, which was also mentioned in the January issues of Twin Cities Business and Minneapolis St Paul Magazine.
Jeanne Chase, ’03 MBA, has been promoted to Vice President of Marketing at EquiFirst Corporation, a division of Barclay's Bank. EquiFirst is located in Charlotte, NC.
Kip Boie, '03 MBA, has recently been appointed to the position of vice president of sales & marketing at Thiele Technologies.
Jeanne Chase, ’03 MBA, was promoted to vice president of marketing at EquiFirst Corp., a division of Barclay’s Bank.
Matthew Hogan, ’03 MBA, completed all requirements necessary to achieve the CFP® certification.
Diane Palmquist, '03 MBA, was featured in the "Careers Spotlight" in the Star Tribune. She is now the vice president of SAP products for Soft Brands.
Cyndee Pelt, ’03 BSB, is a graduate student at American University, in Washington, D.C. working toward her MPA in International Development. She currently works at the U.S. Embassy in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania and will study and conduct research through the American University in Cairo.
Maggie (Johnson) Zumwalde, ’03 BSB, married Brian Zumwalde, CLA School of Music and IT class of 2000, on November 23rd, 2007. They are currently living and working in St. Paul, Minnesota.
Nels Anderson, ’97 BSB, ’04 MBA, works at Ecolab Inc.
Emily Berken, ’04 BSB, recently got married and she started a new position at General Mills.
Christopher Brathwaite, ’04 MBA, is a wealth management consultant at UBS.
Andrew Joyce, '04 MBA, recieved the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) designation.
Alex Lee, ’04 BSB, is a consultant at Accenture’s Los Angeles, California office.
Catherine Lee, ’04 BSB, works in international management for Best Buy Corporation in Taiwan. Previously, Ms. Lee was an assistant product manager in retail buying for Best Buy in Shenzhen, China.
Andrew Schornack, ’04 BSB, was promoted to vice president of business development at First Commercial Bank in Bloomington, Minn. He was previously the bank’s associate vice president.
Randy Witt, '04 MBA, is the Director of Information Technology at Restaurant Technologies, Inc.
Sam Adegoke, ’05 BSB, is an assistant human resources manager at General Mills in Carson, CA.
Ahmet Hepdogan, ’05 MBA, has recently taken the position of Vice President of Procurement for Pennant Foods.
Jess Langerud, ’05 MBA, has announced his candidacy for the Minnesota House of Representatives, District 48B.
Michael Olson, ’05 MBA, currently serves as program manager for Wells Fargo Technology Finance and has worked for Wells Fargo Equipment Finance since 1999. In his current role, he oversees Wells Fargo’s entry into full service technology leasing. Also, Mike recently was named as a recipient of both the Wells Fargo Volunteer Service award and Diversity Excellence award.
Michael Olson, ’05 MBA, was promoted to vice president of information systems at Wells Fargo Equipment Finance in Minneapolis.
Nina Panda, ’05 BSB, is a financial analyst at MTV in New York City.
Rolf Paeper, ’05 MBA, has been promoted to director – Global Products Marketing – Power Products Division for the Eaton Corporation. Paeper joined Eaton in 2000 and has held positions of increasing responsibility.
Marc Salmon, ’05 MBA, has been named vice president of business development at Stearns Financial Services in Edina, Minn.
Julia Testa, ’05 MBA, is an account director at Denali and is working on the Best Buy Reward Zone program. She previously was employed by Carlson Marketing in its Client Services Group.
Ben Wright, ’05 MBA, has recently accepted a position as Vice President of Marketing and Sales for Appareo Systems in Fargo, North Dakota.
David Yussen, ’05 MBA, recently joined The Lacek Group (loyalty marketing practice of OgilvyOne) as senior database marketing analyst.
Brandy Burton, ’06 BSB, was hired by Denali, a Twin Cities-area marketing agency, as an account executive. She previously worked at Carlson Marketing Worldwide, where she was a fulfillment and promotions specialist.
Brian Carlson, ’06 MBA, has consolidated management of Ambrion under himself and a business partner. The company specializes in the placement of accounting and finance employees on a permanent, contract, and consulting basis.
Lars Leafblad, ’06 MBA, has joined Keystone Search, a full service executive search firm with a unique emphasis on corporate culture, located in downtown Minneapolis as a vice president.
Lars Leafblad, ’06 MBA, has been named a Policy Fellow at the University of Minnesota’s Hubert H. Humphrey Institute of Public Affairs.
Elda Macias, ’06 CEMBA, is a senior marketing manager of High Value Client Strategy in the Marketing Strategy and Retail Department at Ameriprise Financial.
Ebbie Parsons, ’06 MBA, was recently accepted into the Broad Residency program, which is a management development program that places talented early career executives into full-time paid positions at top levels of urban school systems across the country.
Jay Peters, ’00 BSB, ’06 MBA, was hired by Denali as an account director. His primary responsibility is the Sun Country Airlines Ufly program, as well as account support and Web development. Peters previously was employed by MilePoint Worldwide in Web marketing and product design and Best Buy as a consumer marketing associate.
Navneet Singh, ’06 MBA, is an operations and management consultant for Cutter Associates, Inc.
Andrew Thibodeau, ’06 BSB, is a financial advisor at Ameriprise.
Matt Dickinson, MBA ’07, welcomed a son, Nathan Michael, on July 1, 2008.
Irene Fernando, ’07 BSB, Brian Peterson, ’07 BSB, and Greg Tehven, ’06 BSB founded the organization Students Today Leaders Forever, which was selected as the winner of the 2008 Social Entrepreneur’s Cup at last summer’s Engaged Philanthropy Conference, hosted by Social Venture Partners Minnesota. The Social Entrepreneur’s Cup seeks out, supports, and promotes social entrepreneurs and the nonprofit organizations they lead.
Ilmar Kalviste, ’07 MBA, accepted a job offer today from United Airlines Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) group in San Francisco. His title is senior analyst, Supply Chain and Support in the Strategic Planning and Performance Management Group.
Matthew Lenertz, '00 BSB, '07 MBT, is a manager in international tax at Deloitte.
Marcus Brans, ’08 EMBA, has accepted a position at Allen & Overy LLP as Head of Brand Development & Marketing in Germany. He was previously employed by Shearman & Sterling LLP as a Director Operations Germany.
Kyle Henderson, ’08 BSB, was named a finalist for the 2008 Minnesota Cup.
Nila Khan, ’08 BSB, is working for Polaris Industries as a sales associate in the leadership and sales development program. She previously interned with the Toro Co. and Xcel Energy.
David Melby, ’08 MBA, was married July 2008 to Lori Melby. David has also accepted a new position with Fairview Hospital as a HR data analyst.
Christopher Oudavanh, ’08 BSB, has recently accepted a position as an assistant brand manager for L’Oreal USA Inc. in New York City, New York.
Nate Pearson, ’08 MBA, has recently accepted a position in Mortenson Construction’s Preconstruction and New Business group.
Jason Turtle, ’08 MBA, has accepted a position at General Mills Inc. as a zone operations manager in its consumer food sales division.
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