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It’s a match: Mentors meet ‘mentees’

Nearly 800 alumni and students, BBA and MBA, took part in the 2005-2006 Goizueta Mentor Program. They represent every region of the United States and nine foreign countries. Mentors offer their students a link between academic theories and the realities of the business world. In addition to the opening breakfast held in September, the pairs are scheduled to get together at various non-mandatory events throughout the school year, and concluded the experience with a reception on April 6.

During the opening breakfast, Tonya Smalls ’05EMBA noted how well matched she was with Lynn Popiel ’07MBA, a career-switcher looking to enter the nonprofit world. “I needed to get a sense of what is out there,” says Popiel. “I knew through the Mentor Program I’d be able to pick people’s brains and find out what I need to be successful making the transition.”

“I want to commend the program for matching us as well as it did in order for her to gain as much benefit out of it and for my experience to be relevant to what she’s interested in,” adds Smalls, a managing finance director for the American Cancer Society.

Goizueta’s Mentor Program allows students and alumni to learn from each other. Pictured here are Amanda Besemer ‘01BBA, right, and Angela Fu ‘07MBA, left, with one of her mentors, Ellery McLanahan, at a recent Mentor event.

Jeff Hall ’04EMBA and his mentee, Krish Shetty ’07EvMBA, participated last year, but not with each other. Hall was pleased to return for another experience. “Both people learn a lot . . . like the person I mentored last year. We became friends and our families got to know each other. Her husband is a Georgia Tech professor with a start-up company, my experience is startups . . . it just blossomed into this neat little network,” he says.

Shetty agrees. “I’ve gotten a lot of contacts from my previous mentor, and other folks in his office,” he says, offering that he plans to become a mentor himself.

The keynote address was delivered by Sidney Pike, the retired president of CNN-International Special Projects. Pike, the individual responsible for securing CNN’s position as a global news organization, described the challenges he faced bringing the Channel to the politically charged markets of China, Iraq, and Eastern Europe. “Don’t let anything stop you,” he told the audience.

Plans are already under way for the 2006-2007 Goizueta Mentor Program. Program information and an online registration form
are now available at www.goizueta.emory.edu/mentor. If you
have questions, contact Samantha Renfroe at samantha_renfro@bus.emory.edu or 404.727.6374.

—Sarah Banick

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