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SANDRA CANO, of Pawtucket, RI, has been elected to the Pawtucket School Committee. She is a business and community development officer at Navigant Credit Union and previously served as operations coordinator for the Providence After School Alliance. She earned a master’s degree in public administration with a concentration in youth development from the University of Rhode Island. LANEY PILPEL, of Salem, MA, director of client operations at AG Salesworks, was a featured contributor on CustomerThink.com, a global online community of business leaders, on meeting and exceeding monthly sales goals. She began her professional career at AG Salesworks in 2006 as a business development representative.
2007 JOHN DALOMBA, MBA, of Uxbridge, MA, was named vice president and credit department manager at Webster Five bank. He is responsible for all of the bank’s credit functions. DaLomba joined Webster Five in 2006 as assistant vice president and credit officer. He has more than 13 years of banking experience. 2007 DAVID E. FONTES, MBA, CPA, CFE, of Lincoln, RI has earned the designation of certified fraud examiner. He is a manager at the CPA firm of Sullivan & Company in Providence, RI. He leads the firm’s practice area in fraud protection and detection services. He joined the firm in 2004. 2009 DAVID ALMONTE, of Charlotte, NC, has been named a senior accountant at Cherry Bekaert & Holland in Charlotte, NC. He previously served as a staff accountant at Bernard Robinson & Company.
LINDA CALABRO, of Cranston, RI, was appointed to accounting analyst at Swarovski. Her responsibilities include analyzing financial information and preparing financial reports to meet the company’s goals and objectives. Calabro joined Swarovski in 2008 as an intern in the finance department and then served as a staff accountant. DANIEL QUINN, MST, CPA, of Fall River, MA, was promoted to manager at Sullivan & Company, a Providence, RI-based independent accounting firm. He has more than nine years of experience in public accounting, leading the engagement teams for many of the firm’s nonprofit clients. He earned a bachelor’s degree in finance from the University of MassachusettsDartmouth and received his CPA designation in 2005.
2010 MARK DONAHUE, of Marshfield, MA, was hired as an officer with the Marshfield Police Department. He previously served on the Hull, MA, police force. NICHOLAS MILLARD, of North Providence, RI, was promoted to creative services coordinator at the Providence-Warwick Convention and Visitors Bureau. He previously served as an electronic media assistant. 2011 MIKE CRONIN, of Salem, NH, was hired by Worcester-based Charter’s TV3 as a Worcester News Tonight general assignment news reporter. He recently served as a bureau news reporter at KFBB / KHBB ABC-5 in Helena, MT. IAN SCHACHNE ’12 MBA, of Barrington, RI, was named a project specialist in the treasurer’s office for the city of Fall River, MA.
BECOMING A GLOBAL CITIZEN: EMILY PANASOWICH ’08
A member of Bryant’s first class of International Business graduates, EMILY PANASOWICH ’08
was teaching English as a second language in a small farming community in South Korea when she received word of a job opening at Destination Imagination. The Cherry-Hill, N J-based educational nonprofit organization teaches problem solving, creativity, and teamwork to kids by sponsoring competitions around the globe and was looking for an international coordinator. “I was halfway around the world reading about my dream job, and I knew I had to apply,” she recalls. The job
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description seemed to fit her to a T: an international business degree, knowledge of a second language, and work or study experience in another country.“My Bryant education gave me all that and differentiated me from everyone else,” she says. When she first came to Bryant, Panasowich had never traveled outside of the United States, but she dreamed of owning a sports-related business and living abroad. Today, she lives and works in Singapore, where she is director of Asian Operations for Destination Imagination. She works with people in approximately 30 countries. “Bryant really gave me the confidence to work with people in a variety of countries, and the awareness of basic cultural differences,” she says. At Bryant, Panasowich took part
in an International Business Seminar to Europe and the Sophomore International Experience to China. A marketing concentrator, she minored in French and went on to develop a basic knowledge of Korean. To date, she has traveled to 15 countries.