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BSBA Class of 2004 Carlos Luis Gazitua has partnered with his mother to run their three-generation family restaurant business. Sergio’s Family Restaurant, the family’s fifth Cuban restaurant in the Miami area, opened at the Wal-Mart Supercenter in Hialeah Gardens in July 2009. Lizette Jenness Olmos (EML ’05),
Ronaldo Ferreira and his wife,
Maria Leopoldina, welcomed their first baby, Carolina Machado Ferreira, who was born on Nov. 10, 2009. Sudhakar Garlanka’s company won a five-year project with Amtrak to provide IT services, especially for amtrak.com. His son, Sujay, is 13.
national communications director of the League of United Latin American Citizens, was named 2009 MillerCoors’ Líder of the Year. The award recognizes leaders in the Hispanic community. As the Líder of the Year, Olmos will be featured in print advertising recognizing her achievement, and LULAC will receive a $25,000 grant to develop and implement a leadership program in partnership with MillerCoors.
Oscar Ovalle is still in Bolivia
in charge of the World Bank operations in the country. His son, Mateo, is 16 months old. Ovalle also teaches energy and development at Vermont Law School. Ryan Smalley is living outside
Pittsburgh with his wife, Shannon, and their three boys: Jake, Raef, and Sam. He is a principal at Zenetex, a medium-sized company that offers IT consulting to the intelligence community and the U.S. Department of Defense.
Shahed Amanullah was named one of the 500 most influential Muslims in the world in a December 2009 study commissioned by Georgetown’s Center for Muslim-Christian Understanding and The Royal Islamic Strategic Studies Centre in Amman, Jordan. The report cited Amanullah’s work in creating media services for the global Muslim community. Richard Ambrose works for EMP
Summer Amin recently left her
Global in Washington, D.C., developing a European real estate fund and an infrastructure fund targeting the Middle East in collaboration with the Islamic Development Bank. He celebrated New Year’s Eve in the outskirts of Kampala dining on barbecued mystery meat and shortly thereafter spent a weekend in GW Hospital battling malaria. This year’s projects include setting up a consulting project for current Georgetown MBAs, renovating his apartment, and possibly planning for more travels during the World Cup.
position as director of marketing/ communications at Chief Executives Organization to start her own company, NiMA. An integrated marketing boutique headquartered in Washington, D.C., NiMA provides integrated marketing and communications services, from strategic planning to creative execution, to small businesses, nonprofit organizations, and trade associations.
Worth Dixon is working as a product specialist for W.L. Gore and Associates and recently has relocated to Hong Kong after living in Shenzhen, China, for two years. He hikes in the New Territories and plays the banjo in his free time. McDonough alumni are welcome to contact him on Facebook if they have plans to travel through Hong Kong or Mainland China.
Mark Gray’s eldest child, Lauren,
is a freshman business major at Georgetown and also is on the women’s lacrosse team.
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Peter Gasca and Flyura Gimatova
were married Oct. 2, 2009, in Myrtle Beach, S.C. Their company, Wild Creations, was a finalist in the 2010 Toy of the Year Award at the Toy Industry Association’s Toy Convention in New York City with its EcoAquarium. Julie Kang recently founded barkle.com, a social resource Web site created by dog lovers for dog owners for the purpose of knowledge-sharing through userdriven content. It will have the capabilities of sharing information through social media tools. Victor Palmeiro started a bankruptcy attorney firm, Maryland Bankruptcy Pros, and practices Chapter 7 bankruptcy and Chapter 13 bankruptcy. Andy Rah got engaged in Decem-
ber 2009 and will start a new job in August as brand manager at TIGI Linea, managing the S-factor professional hair care line. IEMBA Class of 2006 Ada Vaughan’s new venture,
Amy Sweet, her husband, Andy,
and son, Tyler, 3, relocated to Michigan in June 2009. Sweet is a senior analyst for the U.S. Government Accountability Office in Chicago and is conducting oversight of the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act spending in Michigan.
CuteyBaby, LLC, is thriving. In the first quarter of 2010, the company will test its Modern Cloth Diaper product line in Costco and Meijer stores in the Midwest. MBA Class of 2008 Mary Ann Licamele recently started
working at Booz Allen Hamilton with the human capital team.
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