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themes and issues connected with the popular CBS sitcom, for example: Would Aristotle approve of the life Sheldon Cooper leads? Would Thomas Hobbes applaud Leonard and Sheldon’s roommate agreement? Is Wil Wheaton truly evil? LISA MAHNKE ’92 of Jamaica Plain, Mass., has been promoted to senior director and head of Clinical Pharmacology, Vertex Pharmaceuticals, in Cambridge, Mass. She and her husband, Kyle Nelson, have a son, Cole William Nelson, born Aug. 19, 2012. WILLIAM S. MILLER ’92 of Cudahy, Wis., has been granted tenure and promoted to associate professor of sport management at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside. CATE PARNELL WYLIE ’92 of Appleton, Wis., has been promoted to lean implementation specialist with the Lean and Continuous Improvement/People team in Menasha. MISHA LEE ’93 of Sun Prairie,
Wis., recently left his position as director of government affairs at Sentry and started his own government affairs office in Madison. Lee Government Relations LLC is a multi-client lobbying firm specializing in influencing public policy to directly meet the needs of clients. LORIE STELLMACHER SIMMS ’95 and her husband, Peter, of Tempe, Ariz., have a son, Henry Alton Peter Simms, born May 24, 2012. DARELL HAMMOND ’96
of Washington, D.C., was a presenter at the eighth annual Collaborative Innovation Summit held by the Business Innovation Factory in September 2012 in Providence, R.I. The summit featured 32 storytellers from around the globe. A video of his talk can be viewed here: businessinnovationfactory.com/iss/video/bif8darell-hammond. BRIAN NORTH ’96 of Fort Leavenworth,
Kan., graduated in June 2012 from the Army’s Intermediate Level Education program. He has been promoted to a lieutenant colonel. “I feel it is an indication of the quality of people I have worked with over the last 16 years rather than anything I have personally accomplished,” he says. “Whether it was NCOs who shaped me, teams who accomplished the impossible, or leaders who trusted me, I have had an amazing experience.”
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elocating to England has opened a world of opportunity not only for Jessi Kofler Guenther ’97 in her job, but also for her husband, Mike Guenther ’97, and their sons, Greyson, 6, and Graham, 3. Guenther runs the Managed Services and Recruitment Process Outsourcing business lines for Europe and Asia for Allegis Group Services, a human capital management firm that designs talent management strategies for the Fortune 500. “I’m involved in the solution design and implementation and then ultimately responsible for building the teams who will deliver our services over what’s typically a three-to-five-year contract,” Guenther says. “My team is 120 and growing and it’s spread out, so I spend a lot of time with our leaders, ensuring they have the tools they need to succeed.” Guenther says living in Europe makes it easy to get from country to country. “From London, I can be in Paris, Brussels, Frankfurt, Prague, Rome, Amsterdam — almost any major city in two hours or less,” she says. “I schedule my trips to Asia over the course of a week to 10 days and typically make a few stops to maximize my time. With two little boys at home, I cherish being able to tuck them in at night.”
AMY TINCHER-DURIK ’96 of
Indianola, Iowa, is the senior director of Premedia Services for the Meredith Corp. in Des Moines, Iowa.
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