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1960s Harvey Golub (BS ’61), of Palm Beach Gardens, FL, has been appointed as Chairman of Miller Buckfire & Co., LLC, an investment banking firm. Jeremiah Collins (MBA ’69), of Denville, NJ, has joined CNY Builders, a Manhattan-based construction and development services organization, as Director of Marketing and Business Development. Previously, Collins served as Vice President at the URS Corporation, an engineering, construction, and technical services company.
1970s Wayne Tamarelli (MBA ’72), of Basking Ridge, NJ, is a bicoastal angel investor in early stage technology businesses in the New Jersey and San Francisco Bay areas. He is President of AWT Private Investments, a portfolio of private equity investments, and serves on a number of boards of directors and advisory boards. Martin Cooperman (MBA ’75), of Weston, CT, has been named Managing Partner of Geller & Company, LLC, a leading strategic financial advisory firm. Cooperman, a long-time senior executive at Grant Thornton LLP, will be responsible for Geller’s continued leadership in providing high-quality professional services for its clients and the growth of the company’s businesses. Cooperman was associated for 35 years with Grant Thornton, a global accounting, tax, and advisory services firm. Michael C. Plansky (MBA ’75), of New York, NY, has been elected to the board of directors of ANN INC., the parent company of Ann Taylor and LOFT. He has 35 years of experience at KPMG LLP, where he served in a variety of senior leadership positions until his retirement in 2010.
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Gerry Gould (MBA ’77), of Braintree, MA, has been named Vice President of Investor Relations with Haemonetics, a global healthcare company headquartered in Braintree. He previously held the same position at RSC Equipment Rental. Steven Barlow (MBA ’79), of New Canaan, CT, has been named Vice President of Investor Relations with Ebix, Inc., an international supplier of ondemand software and e-commerce services to the insurance industry. Gerald L. Hassell (MBA ’79), of Chappaqua, NY, has been appointed Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of BNY Mellon; he will also continue as BNY Mellon’s President. Myra Rothfeld (MBA ’79), of New York, NY, has been named Chief Marketing Officer with Genworth Financial Wealth Management, a subsidiary of Genworth Financial, Inc.
1980s Mitch Jerine (BS ’80), of Brooklyn, NY, has been named Director of Dynamics AX Sales with Business & Decision, a global consulting and systems integration company. George Handjinicolaou (MBA ’78, MPHIL ’81), of London, England, has been named deputy CEO of the International Swaps and Derivatives Association, Inc. (ISDA) and head of ISDA Europe. Sudhi Amarji (MBA ’82), of Potomac, MD, has been named a representative of the IJIS Institute on the Logical Entity eXchange Specification (LEXS) Governance Task Force, an initiative of the FBI Criminal Justice Information Services Advisory Policy Board. LEXS is a comprehensive, National Information Exchange Modelbased framework for the development of information exchanges that was initially
developed for the law enforcement information sharing program at the US Department of Justice; Amariji co-invented the LEXS framework.
Ltd., as Director of Marketing. She will oversee brand management, advertising, and communications for Athene’s expanding retail annuity business.
Robert Glasser (MBA ’82), of Sands Point, NY, has been named a partner in the New York office of Dempsey Partners, a forensic accounting, claims, and risk consulting firm; he has also been named leader of the firm’s US East Coast property and business interruption claims practice.
Carl Koivuniemi (MBA ’85), of New York, NY, and Paul T. Burkhart, Jr. were married on July 26, 2011, at the Town Hall in Southampton. Koivuniemi retired as the Deputy Chief Planning and Budget Officer of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York.
Medel T. Nera (MBA ’82), of Quezon City, Phillipines, has been named President and CEO of House of Investments, the investment holding and management company of the Yuchengco Group of Companies. Rodolfo Archbold (MBA ’83), of Acton, MA, has been named Vice President and General Manager of Global Operations with Luminus Devices, Inc.
John Fry (MBA ’86), of Lancaster, PA, was elected to the Board of Trustees of Lafayette College. He is also the 14th president of Drexel University, and has served in higher education for his entire professional life.
Kenneth Arthur (MBA ’83), of New York, NY, married Peter James Hagan, III, on Monday, October 3, 2011, at the Manhattan Marriage Bureau. Arthur is the producing director of TheatreworksUSA, a children’s theater company in Manhattan. Kevin Bannon (MBA ’83), of Mount Kisco, NY, has been named President of the Board of Directors of the Boys & Girls Club of Northern Westchester. Bannon also serves on the boards of The Hundred Year Association of New York and the S.K. Yee Foundation. Takahiro Morita (MBA ’83), of Kobe, Japan, has been named Regional Director for Japan with the World Gold Council, the market development organization for the gold industry. He joined the World Gold Council in September 2010 and has more than 25 years of experience in financial markets. Alison Denis (MBA ’85), of Princeton, NJ, has joined Liberty Life Insurance Company, a subsidiary of Athene Holding
Salvatore Guccione (MBA ’87), of Fairfield, NJ, has been named President and COO of Aceto Corporation. He joined the company’s board in May 2011. Spencer Hagan (MBA ’87), of Port Washington, NY, has joined Barclays Capital as a Managing Director and Head of CMBS Credit and Underwriting. John Kritzmacher (MBA ’87), of Far Hills, NJ, joined the board of directors of Duff & Phelps Corporation, an independent provider of financial advisory and investment banking services. Nihar Patel (BA ’87), of Dearborn, MI, has been named Vice President of Business Strategy with Toyota Motor Sales. With more than 22 years experience in the automotive industry, Patel was most recently Managing Director of Marketing Operations, Public Affairs, and Supply Chain at a Toyota Affiliate in Saudi Arabia. Al Sapienza (BS ’87), of West Hollywood, CA, starred in a new Lifetime Network movie, "Secrets From Her Past."