1970s

Lynn Bentley, ’72 MAIR , is a senior account executive with Cote & D’Ambrosio Marketing and Communications. He leads marketing and business development for the eastern region of the United States, focusing on market research, business strategy development, ad agency services and business planning  solutions. He and his wife, Dorothy, live in Wickford, R.I.

Richard Berger, ’78 MAIR , was promoted to vice president at The Segal Co. He joined Segal’s Washington, D.C., office in 1997 as a benefits consultant and has more than 20 years experience working with pension and group health plans in the maritime and service industries.

Dr. Gordon Patzer, ’76 MBA, will be working in Delhi, India, through December 2008 as part of a U.S. Fulbright Scholar commission.

Paul A. Ries, ’73 BSB, and his wife, Judy, returned to Minnesota in June 2006. Ries has been working in contract materials and purchasing positions as a consultant/temporary agent and has been invited to speak at ISM Meetings of the Southern Minnesota Chapter of ISM.

1980s

Timothy F. Floeder, ’80 BSB, ’88 MBA, has been appointed vice president of corporate development at Synovis Life Technologies Inc. He will be responsible for identifying and acquiring or licensing products in the bariatric, general, vascular, and micro/reconstructive surgery realms.

Peter M. Gill, ’80 BSB, ’82 MBA, has been appointed vice president of corporate development at UnitedHealth Group.

Craig Mack, ’88 BSB, was named a finalist for the 2008 Minnesota Cup, a statewide contest that seeks out, supports, and promotes new and innovative business concepts.

Bob Pickens, ’83 BSB, completed his merger work for Integra/Eschelon and opted to leave the company instead of moving to Portland, Ore. He is enjoying being semiretired and is starting to work on his next project/company.

1990s

William Benjamin, ’92 MBA, has been named CEO of US Bancorp Investments Inc., and US Bancorp Insurance Services. He previously has held senior wealth management positions at UBS Financial Services and Piper Jaffray.

Chris Fischer, ’91 MBA, was recently appointed senior director of COLLOQUY, a marketing and consulting company. Fischer’s role will include new business acquisitions and client services.

Roumiana Gotseva-Yordanova, ’99 MBA, leads the Futures Observatory program and manages Social Technologies’ London office. Since joining the company in 2005, she has managed consulting projects for European firms such as BP and Cadbury Schweppes. An accredited expert with the European Commission, she evaluates proposals and projects under the Information Society Technologies and e-Content programs. She is also a founding fellow of the European Academy for Digital Media and has sat on juries for the EuroPrix digital content award and the Bulgarian Web Awards.

Amy B. Hietapelto, ’97 PhD, has been named interim dean of Northeastern Illinois University’s College of Business and Management in Chicago, effective July 1. She was previously an associate dean at the university.

Yvonne Houle-Gillard, ’98 MBA, accepted a new position as manager of information technology and eBusiness  for 3M’s Electro & Communications Business in January 2008. She is colocated in Austin, Texas, and St. Paul, Minn.

Chris Meidt, ’96 MBA, is now an offensive assistant coach with the Washington Redskins of the NFL. He spent the last six years as the head football coach at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minn.

Luther Ottaway, ’99 MBA, is the assistant treasurer of Koch Industries Inc.

Matthew Rausch, ’99 MBA, is a shareholder and has also been named managing director at Brill Street + Co. in Chicago.

Jennifer Simek, ’98 MBA, is a senior marketing manager at Ecolab Inc. and was lead manager for two award-winning campaigns on behalf of the company’s Equipment Care line.

John Utley, ’98 MBA, was promoted to vice president of global product management for Teletrax, a London-based television monitoring and analytics company. He will oversee all aspects of the company’s product portfolio, product development, and technology research & development. He lives in Charlotte, N.C., with his wife, Julie, and daughter, Jillian.

Dr. Robert M. Wiseman, ’92 PhD, was promoted to full professor in the Eli Broad College of Business at Michigan State University. He also holds the Eli Broad Legacy Fellow of Management research fellowship.

2000-Present

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.

Jeanne Chase, ’03 MBA, was promoted to vice president of marketing at EquiFirst Corp., a division of Barclay’s Bank.

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.

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.

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.

Lance Madson, ’00 MBT, was promoted to partner at Boulay, Heutmaker, Zibell & Co., a Twin Cities-based accounting and consulting firm. He started at the firm in 2005 as a tax manager.

Michael Olson, ’05 MBA, was promoted to vice president of information systems at Wells Fargo Equipment Finance in Minneapolis.

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.

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.

Marc Salmon, ’05 MBA, has been named vice president of business development at Stearns Financial Services in Edina, Minn.

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