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Class Notes introductions, econometrics/ financial modeling, and data analytics. The lab toured close to 2,000 visitors per year, showcasing emerging technologies and modeling techniques to academics, industry partners, and technology enthusiasts. It even served as the host for the 2010 Connecticut gubernatorial technology debate. Currently a management consultant at TJX Companies, Chris chairs the Connecticut Technology Council and lives in Westchester County, New York, with his twin teenage children. Chris is still active with Columbia ARC (Alumni Representative Committee) and does interviews and college fairs for Columbia.
Carolyn Wang-Yong and David Yong MS’97 with their two children
Michael Chung’s daughter, Isabella
Chris Kalish and his twins in NYC
1988 25th Reunion To take an active role in your Class Reunion activities, please contact Star Sawyer at ss3858@columbia .edu or 212-851-2402.
Nate Lesser and family
Class Correspondents: Caryn Frick carynfrick@gmail.com Elaine Loumbas ElaineZL@aol.com David Shofi dshofi@atmi.com
1989 Class Correspondent: Shre Roy, Shre.roy@att.net
1990 Class Correspondent: Laura Cordani Christopher zchristophers@gmail.com
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Class Correspondent: Radhi Majmudar radhi@majmudar.org
Class Correspondent: Enrico Marini Fichera em75@columbia.edu
Pavanjit Singh Dhingra writes,
Frank A. Y. Wang MS’96 started Athena Capital Management in Taiwan in September 2012 focusing on undervalued, under-researched companies in Taiwan. Frank has continued to raise new funds and make new investments as he finds good opportunity. He looks to institutionalize an overlooked public equity market in Taiwan. He can be reached by former classmates at frankaywang@athenatw.com.
“Columbia is very close to my heart. I found the love of my life there—my wife, Alda ’91CC. I rowed on the crew team, helped found the Cricket Club, and became the person I am. Alda and I are proud that our son Amar Singh Dhingra joined SEAS this year for the undergraduate Class of 2016. We had the opportunity to participate at the Convocation and it was amazing. The campus is revitalized, and Morningside Heights is so much better than what I remember. Alda and I run India’s largest corporate insurance brokering company called Prudent. We are lucky that we get to work together and share that part of our life. It also allows us to travel together internationally on work, which is great. Our daughter, Sana Kaur Dhingra, 17, started 12th grade in January. She will be applying for college during the next year as well. We live in Gurgaon (part of the Delhi National Capital Region) in North India and greatly enjoy it here.”
1992 Class Correspondent: Janneth Ignacio Marcelo jannethmarcelo@gmail.com
1993 20th Reunion To take an active role in your Class Reunion activities, please contact Cliff Massey at cam2171@columbia .edu or 212-854-2317.
1997 Class Correspondent: Kelly Lenz, kal23@columbia.edu
1998 15th Reunion To take an active role in your Class Reunion activities, please contact Cliff Massey at cam2171@columbia .edu or 212-854-2317.
accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. Viktoriya Sokolova MS’03
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and husband, Oleg, welcomed their firstborn, a son, Daniel H. Zeltser, on November 5, 2012. Viktoriya writes that they had Daniel “right in between the tail end of Hurricane Sandy and the snow storm. Since the NYU hospital, which we were assigned to, remained closed, I delivered at Lenox Hill. The baby is doing great, but the mother and father are somewhat sleep deprived!” Steven Tommasini writes, “In July, I married Lynn Copes ’05CC in Battery Park, New York City! Sharing in the celebration were several classmates and Columbians. We are currently living in New Haven, where Lynn is teaching anatomy to first-year medical students at Yale, and I am an assistant professor in orthopaedics at the Med School.”
Class Correspondent: Daisy Chow daisy@caa.columbia.edu
2002
SEAS alumni reunited for Steven Tommasini’s wedding last July. Steven and his bride, Lynn, pictured in the center.
In 2008, Carolyn Wang-Yong MS’99 and husband, David Yong MS’97, moved to Singapore, where they are happily raising two wonderful kids, Maggie, age five, and Matias, age three.
Michael Chung and wife Audrey
Class Correspondent: Pak Li pakping@yahoo.com Ebony Love has recently authored
two nonfiction books about quilting. One is called The Big Little Book of Fabric Die Cutting Tips (November 2012) and the other is Notes & Doodles: A Die Cutting Sketchbook (January 2013). Both books are available on Amazon, and according to Ebony, Big Little Book is regularly in the Top 100 in the Consumer Guides and Quilts & Quilting categories.
Class Correspondent: Herbert Kreyszig Hek7000@gmail.com
Ebony Love Photo Credit: Rebecca Fons
Lee ’00BC welcomed their daughter, Isabella Lee Chung, on July 13, 2011. They reside on the Upper West Side in New York City and agree that life with baby could not be sweeter. In addition to celebrating their daughter’s first birthday this past July, they also reached a very special milestone—their 10-year wedding anniversary! Stephen Del Percio and wife, Allison, welcomed their first child, a daughter, Charlotte Del Percio, on September 5, 2012. Nate Lesser MS’05 and Karen (Chani) Bloom ’00CC and their two daughters (Aliza and Liana) welcomed a new baby boy (Eitan) last September. Everyone is happy and healthy living in the Shepherd Park neighborhood of Washington, DC. Chani is working as a trial attorney in the Civil Division at the Department of Justice. Nate is about to start a new job as the deputy director of the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE). The NCCoE is a public-private collaboration for
Viktoriya Sokolova with baby Daniel and husband, Oleg
Sara Kim BS’02 and Stephen Muench BS’02 welcomed their baby boy, Aiden Liam Muench, on September 22, 2012.
Class Correspondent: John Morris jpm53@columbia.edu Aylin Kim with her family
2003 10th Reunion To take an active role in your Class Reunion activities, please contact Cliff Massey at cam2171@columbia .edu or 212-854-2317. Class Correspondent: Amar Doshi abd19@columbia.edu Aylin Kim hopes to have her first medical device FDA approved and commercially available this year! She is also expecting the birth of her second child in May, so she’ll miss the 10-Year Reunion, but she loves living in the Pacific Northwest and invites friends to come visit her and her family anytime! Veru Narula writes, “It has been 10 years since my engineering undergraduate years, and I recently returned to Columbia to complete my Executive MBA. By day, I work at American Express as a marketing
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