Class notes
1960s
Peter W. Sullivan ’67MBA of Marietta is vice president and general manager of Pactiv Building Products.
1980s
Sherry Winn Howell ’82MBA of Nashville, Tenn., is founder of the Parthenon Consulting Group, a management consulting firm which targets small to medium sized business and non-profit agencies in Tennessee and the Southeast.
Louis H. Turner ’82MBA of St. Paul, Minn., is vice president and general manager of NFO WorldGroup and manages their Minneapolis office.
Rhonda L. Davidson ’82Ox-’84BBA of Decatur is director of communications and development for the East Lake Community Foundation.
Leslie B. Julich ’84BBA and Jonathan H. Kurens of New York City announce the birth of a daughter, Bobbi Emma, on April 6, 2003. Julich is senior director of employee relations for the National Basketball Association.
Seth F. Asofsky ’85MBA of Highland Park, Ill., is chief financial officer of Planet Payment, a Long Island, N.Y., based company.
Reginald M. Goldsmith ’85BBA of Dallas, Texas, works for Wells Fargo Bank.
Nancy Averbach Friedman ’87BBA and David Friedman of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Rachel Alyse, on May 23, 2002. Friedman is a billing quality manager with BellSouth Advertising and Publishing Corporation.
Jeffrey A. Gugick ’87MBA and Jennifer Gugick of New York City announce the birth of a daughter, Carolyn Ruth, on Aug. 19, 2003.
Lawrence J. Labow ’87MBA and Miriam Kaufman of Northbrook, Ill., were married Aug. 18, 2003.
Boe Young ’89MBA of Annandale, Va., national sales manager for Impressions Marketing Group, is serving in the Army National Guard in Baghdad where he and Matt Smith ’01MBA met on assignments to work for the Military Intelligence Battalion supporting the search for weapons of mass destruction.
Robert W. Warner ’89BBA and Michelle B. Warner of Troy, Mich., announce the birth of a daughter, Fiona Skye, on July 1, 2001. Warner is self-employed.
1990
Robert E. Besse ’90MBA of Granger, Ind., is director of marketing and product planning for Supreme Corporation, the largest commercial truck body manufacturer in the U.S.
1991
Steven J. Ahn ’91BBA of Tustin, Calif., is a founding partner of The Abacus Group, a California-based corporate advisory practice.
1992
Oliver M. Cooper III ’92EMBA of Dulles, Va., is chief executive officer of MARC Global, a leading supply chain execution software and services provider.
Beth Kirsner Harber ’92BBA and Norman I. Harber of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Joshua Warren, on Oct. 8, 2003. Harber works for Kamin & Associates, a marketing promotions company.
Nora Jackerson Rozin ’92MBA of Norcross is the owner of Horizon Homes and Properties, a real estate investment and property management firm specializing in residential properties.
Mary A. Kent ’92BBA and Mark D. Lassetter of Alpharetta were married May 10, 2003. Kent is the operations manager for the Vayman Company.
1993
Jodi L. Hildenbrandt ’93MBA and Carl Krawitt of Corte Madera, Calif., were married Sept. 27, 2003. Hildenbrandt works for KPMG.
Sean C. Hood ’93MBA and Catherine S. Hood of Epsom, N.H., announce the birth of a son, Nathaniel James, on July 20, 2002. Hood is regional vice president of the Manchester office of Hilb, Rogal, and Hamilton, the seventh largest insurance agency in the U.S.
Richard L. Takamoto ’85C-’90N-’93MBA-’93MN of Chicago, founding partner of MTA Consulting, a health care regulatory compliance company, is the chief nursing officer for Y-Axis, N.A., an international placement agency for health care providers.
1994
Jason M. Rothbart ’94MBA-’94MPH of Corte Madera, Calif., is director of professional services for McKesson.
Sharmila Naidu Williams ’94MBA and Brian R. Williams ’94MBA of Seattle announce the birth of a son, Nathin Naidu, on Dec. 13, 2002.
1995
David J. Lilly ’95MBA of Atlanta is a founding partner of MLA Media, a media consulting, television production, and new media development firm.
L. Joshua Wein ’95BBA of Brooklyn, N.Y., a partner of Bellator Capital Partners, recently launched a hedge fund.
Gil A. Winters ’95MBA of Marietta is director of self support solutions with EarthLink.
1996
Holden J. Hoofnagle ’96MBA and Elizabeth Rees ’97L of Alexandria, Va., announce the birth of a daughter, Sophia Patricia, on Oct. 9, 2003. Hoofnagle works for Global Securities Information.
Joshua P. Schiffman ’96BBA-’97MPH and Julie Saffer of New York City were married July 12, 2003. Schiffman works for the Deloitte Consulting Group.
Timothy R. Vojta ’96MBA of Decatur is pursuing a PhD degree.
1997
Bradley L. Groves ’97BBA and Danielle Breitman ’96C of Atlanta were married Sept. 1, 2002. Groves is an account supervisor at BBDO.
Gregory M. Hobby ’97BBA and Yvonne Chang ’98C of Roswell were married Aug. 24, 2002.
Sean E. Mayberry ’97MBA of Washington, D.C., relocated to the Democratic Republic of the Congo in August 2003 to serve as country director of Population Services International.
Meredith L. Rentz ’97MBA-’97MPH and Dean Baker of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Keller Mitchell, on Sept. 25, 2003. Rentz works for Emory Healthcare.
Julia Bagby Williams ’97MBA and Joe Williams of Charlotte announce the birth of a son, Charles Francis, on Feb. 12, 2003.
Tolga Yaveroglu ’97MBA and Idil Sayrac of Marina del Rey, Calif., announce the birth of a son, Kaan, on July 5, 2003. Yaveroglu works for the Deloitte Consulting Group.
1998
Robert C. Askins ’98MBA and Nicole Askins of Atlanta announce the birth of a son, Hudson Robert, on March 13, 2003.
Thaddeus Barney ’98MBA of Framingham, Mass., works for BearingPoint.
Brian P. Kish ’98MBA of Vienna, Va., is director of consulting for corporate real estate strategy services with Gensler.
Alok V. Desphande ’99BBA of Boston is a graduate student at Harvard University School of Business.
1999
Lisa Hedden Edler ’99MBA and Robert Edler of Lawrenceville announce the birth of a son, Scott Laurence, on Feb. 18, 2003.
Aselia P. Kupueva ’99BBA of Chicago, who received a degree from the Tuck School of Business, works for McKinsey and Company.
Chris N. Laine ’99MBA of New York City works for Morgan Stanley.
Jonathan T. Mittleman ’99MBA and Michelle Mittleman of Atlanta announce the birth of a daughter, Alexa Marni, on April 1, 2003. Mittleman is a marketing manager with Delta Air Lines.
Robert L. Viars ’99EMBA of Marietta is chief financial officer of the communications sector of IBM Business Consulting Services.
Andy E. Wang ’99MBA of Aurora, Ill., who works for IBM Global Services, spoke at the BIOPHEX Conference in San Jose, Calif., in September 2003 and was a web seminar presenter at the BetterManagement.com site.
2000
Hiroyuki Misumi ’00MBA of Tokyo, Japan, is director of the consumer and office users business division of the Strategy Planning Department with NTT Communications Corporation.
Sarah K. Nottingham ’00BBA and Chris Antonetti of Cleveland, Ohio, were married Jan. 25, 2003. Nottingham conducts marketing and market research in consumer product design.
Mark E. Pifer ’00MBA of Atlanta works for Time Warner with the Turner Broadcasting Cartoon Network.
Abby A. Spatz ’95C-’00MBA of New York City is vice president, account services at Momentum Worldwide.
David J. Stegman ’00BBA of West Bloomfield, Mich., is a student at Michigan State University School of Law.
2001
Jacobo Hochman ’01MBA of Germantown, Tenn., works in marketing with Federal Express.
Matt Smith ’01MBA of Atlanta, a marketing manager for IBM Global Services, is serving in the Georgia Army National Guard in Baghdad where he and Boe Young ’89MBA met on assignment to work for the Military Intelligence Battalion supporting the search for weapons of mass destruction.
Nicole St. Martin Johnson ’01MBA of Atlanta works for Hewlett Packard.
John R. Petty Jr. ’01MBA and Elizabeth G. Morin ’00Ox-’02C of Atlanta were married Nov. 30, 2002. Petty works for AT Kearney.
Jose A. Rosado ’01MBA and Megan Holl of New York City were married April 26, 2003. Rosado is an associate in the Leveraged Loan Group at Deutsche Bank.
2002
Keith L. Last ’02BBA of New York City works in the marketing department for NYC2012, New York’s Olympic Bid Committee.
Lisa Garbutt Ottley ’02MBA and Winfred Ottley of Columbus announce the birth of a son, Gabriel Winfred, on Aug. 16, 2003.
Catherine Seltzer ’02MBA of New York City completed the Marine Corps Marathon on Oct. 26, 2003 and raised $11,000 for the Leukemia and Lymphoma Society.
Andrew I. Sinclair ’02BBA of New York City, who works for Ernst & Young, completed 3 of 4 parts of the CPA exam.
Alejandro J. Sola ’02MBA and Viviana Van der Schraft of Surrey, England, announce the birth of a daughter, Emilia, on Sept. 25, 2003. Sola works for CHEP as a global operations analyst.
Jill S. Warm ’02BBA of Cincinnati is a student at the Cincinnati College of Law.
Deaths
Rufus B. McCall ’36BBA of Atlanta on Sept. 13, 2003.
Ernest L. Miller Jr. ’49BBA of Atlanta on Sept. 7, 2003.
Walter Huebner ’53BBA of Atlanta on Aug. 25, 2001.
Joseph J. Shippen ’54BBA of Atlanta on Sept. 13, 2003.
W. Thomas Callahan III ’55BBA of Fayetteville on Feb. 23, 2003.
A. Radford Janney ’52Ox-’55BBA of Atlanta on Sept. 19, 2003.
John R. Hines Jr. ’56BBA of Hogansville on Oct. 15, 2003.
Walter A. Preische Jr. ’59MBA of East Hampton, N.Y., on April 8, 2003. Emory survivor: Carolyn D. Preische ’62G.
William H. Finne ’60BBA of Lynnwood, Wash., on Sept. 16, 2003.
Iven L. Rolnick ’67MBA of Charlotte on Aug. 2, 2003.