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.


Rita (Rivard) Groneberg, '00 BSB, recently became a stay-at-home mom to Eillia Elsa Groneberg born on July 30th, 2007.


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.


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.


Uri Felemovicius, ’01 MBA, is the executive vice president of marketing in Latin America for Evolution Marketing Group, a leading relationship marketing company.


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.


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.


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.


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.


Kip Boie, '03 MBA, has recently been appointed to the position of vice president of sales & marketing at Thiele Technologies.


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.


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.


Jess Langerud, ’05 MBA, has announced his candidacy for the Minnesota House of Representatives, District 48B.


Mike 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.


Nina Panda, ’05 BSB, is a financial analyst at MTV in New York City.


David Yussen, ’05 MBA, recently joined The Lacek Group (loyalty marketing practice of OgilvyOne) as senior database marketing analyst.


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.


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.


Navneet Singh, ’06 MBA, is an operations and management consultant for Cutter Associates, Inc.


Andrew Thibodeau, ’06 BSB, is a financial advisor at Ameriprise.


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.

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