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Amanda Henry, with her dog, Dallas, and boyfriend, Nick Blank (also from Lake Forest), lives in River North. Amanda works in Asset Management at Northern Trust and does Business Strategy. In this capacity, she helps develop and implement strategic and financial initiatives across all business practices in the Institutional Group, working closely with the executive leadership group on a wide variety of strategic issues. She earned a B.S. in Business Administration from Babson College, Mass., and holds finance and economics degrees from the London School of Economics, Bocconi University, and Westminster University. Currently a Level 2 CFA Candidate, she is studying for the CAIA exam as well and will sit for that this fall, with the hope to attend business school in the city in 2018. At Northern Trust, she is involved with the Advanced Professional Resource Council (APRC) and sits on the Professional Development Committee. Externally, she is a member of the Junior League of Chicago, where she has been involved with the Annual Gala Committee, Grant Writing Committee, and is now the Chair-elect for the Annual Fund. Amanda notes she is in the development process of creating an Associates Board for the University of Chicago Children’s Hospital.
2009 Susanne Eberle Watson married Samuel Montgomery Watson on Feb. 11, 2017 in the Chicago suburbs. Bridesmaids included Isabelle Sarah Chapman. Sam and Susanne plan to move back to Kansas City this summer. Susan Eberle Watson and Isabelle Sarah Chapman at Susanne’s wedding in February.
2011 Class Correspondents: KC Chilamkurti, Lizett Meraz, Matt Payne, and Mariel Rogozinski Thomas Gallagher was promoted to Team Lead in Client Services at FIS Global. Tom joined the Client Services team in June 2015 after graduating from Babson College. In Tom’s new role he will manage a team responsible for supporting BDI, Profitability, Budgeting, RM, ARS, and Abacus.
2012 5th Reunion September 8 & 9, 2017 Seamus O’Malley Finnegan has been enrolled at the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts since August; he is a graduate student, pursuing a Master in Fine Arts in Film and Television Production. He has written, directed and produced numerous short films. While in LA, he also had the opportunity to shadow the CEO of Lions Gate Entertainment Inc. Jessica Gunderson graduated with her Master of Science (M.S.) in Integrated Marketing Communications in December 2016. In January, began a Professional Marketing Internship with Disney Institute and Disney Meetings at the Walt Disney World Resort in Orlando, Fla.
2013 John Luttig graduated early from Stanford University and is working for a venture capital firm, Founders Fund, in San Francisco, Calif.
2015 Paul Johnson is a sophomore at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio studying Sports Business Management and Entrepreneurship, with a focus in corporate business. He is currently interning with the Miami University Athletic Marketing Department and recently accepted an internship position for this summer at the Game Of Life Foundation (G.O.L.F.) in Coldwater, Mich. as a Tour Assistant. He adds that Miami is full of familiar faces, such as Lydia Brosnahan ’16, who plays on the Miami women’s soccer team, and he sees classmates Alexander Bournakis, and Nicholas Buchanan. Paul was recently accepted to study abroad next spring with Semester at Sea, where he’ll visit 11 countries and 15 cities on four continents. He is very excited for this opportunity
2016 Madeline McWilliams is currently studying at Franklin University in Switzerland and went skiing in the Swiss Alps (Davos specifically) recently. She plans to be in Paris for academic travel, and from there will spend a few days in Marseille, France. She reports, “I’m doing wonderfully :) As for classmates I’ve seen, I saw many at the Young Alumni Luncheon in January, but the most notable reunion for me was spending New Year’s with River Lund and his family.
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