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Michelle Honey works at HESS
Construction + Engineering Services as vice president of development of educational and institutional services. She serves as a trustee of Gonzaga College High School’s Board of Directors. She enjoys spending time with her husband of 35 years, her children, Kristian (C ’98) and Meridith (C ’01), and grandchildren, Billy, 10, Diana, 8, and Timothy, 4, who dream of becoming future Hoyas. Honey also graduated from Georgetown’s School of Nursing & Health Studies in 1998. Terrell Mellen McDermid sells
real estate in the Washington, D.C., metro area for Washington Fine Properties. She is actively involved with several local charities and is the current president of the Founders Board of St. Johns C ommunity Services. She and her husband, John, live in Georgetown, Washington, D.C., with their beloved beagle, Birdie. Carl Rickenbaugh heads New usiness Development (M&A) B at Bard Vascular, a division of CB Bard, a medical device company. He and his wife, Diana, recently celebrated their 25th anniversary and reside in McDowell Mountains in Fountain Hills, Ariz. Diana is a realtor with Coldwell Banker in Scottsdale and Fountain Hills. Marie Royce was named a member
of the Board of Trustees for Meridian International, and with her husband, Ed Royce, served as a ball co-chair for the 41st annual Meridian Ball in October. She also joined the board of Alliance Française. In addition to Royce’s employment at Alcatel-Lucent, she recently launched her LLC, Genderstrategy.com, with her two partners.
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Greg Spierkel works as CEO at
Ingram Micro, a Fortune 100 company with subsidiaries in 35 countries. He also is active with the Dean’s Advisory Board of the University of California, Irvine’s school of business and the Dean’s Advisory Board of Chapman University’s school of business. He is also director at PACCAR Inc., and an executive board member of the Global Technology Distribution Council. He is enjoying time with his wife, Rhiannon, and his two boys, Kyle and Rhys. Felecia Wilson is director of technology solutions at L-3 Communications. In addition to maintaining existing Department of Defense markets, she expands technology and management integration, services, solutions, and teaming in new government and commercial markets. Wilson volunteers with nonprofit organizations The First Tee (board member since 2005) and Habitat for Humanity.
BSBA Class of 1998 Jorge Castilla and Claudy wel-
comed their first child, Quinn Joris Castilla, into the world on the Fourth of July, 2009. Quinn is very happy that his birthday will be celebrated with firework shows every year! N. Rocky Cho has joined the Board
of Directors of The Study Hall, a nonprofit, after-school program serving the Peoplestown Community of South Atlanta. BSBA Class of 1999 Evangelyn “Angel” Dotomain is president and chief executive officer of the Alaska Native Health Board, a tribal health advocacy group representing organizations from throughout Alaska. Liz Stapleton Zerella and her
husband, Mark, welcomed their second daughter, Caroline Olivia, on April 1, 2009. The family, including 2-year-old daughter
Lauren, resides in Menlo Park, Calif. Zerella continues to work part time as a finance manager for the Clorox Co. MBA Class of 1999 Trey Harvin is the CEO of dotMobi, a mobile Internet company based in Dublin, Ireland, and backed by industry heavyweights such as Google, Microsoft, Nokia, and Vodafone. Thus far in 2009, dotMobi has garnered a Top 100 Innovative Companies designation from Entrepreneur magazine, Mobile Web Innovator of the Year by the Irish Internet Association, and Top 10 Trends to Watch by Small Business Magazine, while launching products in more than 100 countries around the world.
IEMBA 4 Class of 1999 Neil Gregory published New Industries from New Places:The Emergence of the Software and Hardware Industries in China and India in May, co-authored with Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business Professor Stanley Nollen and Stoyan Tenev. Gregory is an adviser to the World Bank Group vice president for financial and private sector development in Washington, D.C.
MBA Class of 2000 Christopher Comella is still living in Gothenburg, Sweden, after taking the red pill and quitting his associate vice president job in 2006. In September 2009, he formed a new venture and recruited his first teammate, Swedish programmer and skate/ snowboard shop owner Janne Kemi. The new venture’s projects are called BuzzPal and BuzzLove. Comella is the founder and initial angel investor. Stephanie Paul Lynch was pro-
moted to senior vice president at Jones Lang LaSalle Real Estate Investment Banking group in July. Based in Washington, D.C., Lynch raises debt and equity capital for real estate development and works on loan sales and workouts. Christina Nystrom Mantha and her husband, Srikant Mantha, had their second child, a son, on March 11, 2009. Thomas August Mantha joins big sister Ashley, 2. The family lives in Pleasanton, Calif.
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BSBA Class of 2000 Matthew Cochard and Megan McCarthy were married by Father
Dennis McManus on April 18, 2009, at Dahlgren Chapel with a reception at the Washington Golf and Country Club in Arlington, Va. More than 20 Hoyas were in attendance, including best man Juan Linares (BSBA ’00), groomsmen Chris Marchal (BSBA ’00) and Chris Johanson (BSBA ’00), and bridesmaid Danielle Caro (BSBA ’00). The couple currently resides in Atlanta, Ga., where Cochard is a sales trader with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey and McCarthy is in investor relations with The Home Depot.
David Rudolph and his wife, hitomi Kato Rudolph, are C experiencing the joys of parenthood, having welcomed their son Nathan Yuma Rudolph, who was born on Feb. 5, 2009, in Tokyo. In April of this year, the family relocated to Greenwich, Conn.
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Cameron Davidson
energy project finance in the United States and Canada. He also spends his time fixing up a new apartment he bought in the West Village in New York City.