Alumni News
Lucy Briggs, music industry ‘13 and MBA ‘14, is a marketing manager at AVL Digital Group, the leader in self-publishing for content creators. She has recently co-written The Marketing Plan Blueprint, a step-by-step workbook on how to create a marketing plan that will support turning a great idea into a winning business. Check out her business related blogs at brandmarketingtips.com. As time passes, she appreciates ever so much what she gained from being a member of the Pennoni Honors College. She looks forward to connecting via Linkedin and wishes everyone all the best in 2018.
From left: Maggie DePetola in her LinkedIn ad; Brian Patrick Reilly and his wife, Miriam; Megan Sparaco and Brandon Hinman; Sheba Vine; Soha St. Juste
Maggie Deptola, international area studies ’13, was recently featured in LinkedIn’s national #InItTogether campaign for her work as COO of Coded by Kids. The commercial is playing in Philly & Atlanta markets, and ads are up on public transportation in those cities. Tina DiSciullo, international area studies ’11, got engaged to Kyle Acker, architecture ’13. The two met their freshmen year living in the then-Honors dorm Race Hall. Tina is the special events assistant at the Philadelphia Museum of Art and Kyle is a project architect at BBLM Architects in Center City. The couple is planning a Spring 2019 wedding. Shefali Karani (nee Ramsinghani), entrepreneurship ’10 MBA ’13, recently became a Board Director in her family’s businesses for Rama Industries Limited (Gelatin) & Rainbow Agri Industries Limited. She is also an Executive Business Director for her family’s businesses in Mumbai, India. These include the Bombay Stock Exchange-listed Rama Phosphates Limited, Rainbow Denim Limited, and Rama Petrochemicals Limited. She is currently enrolled part-time at the Columbia Business School for the CIBE program, where she was a part of the Women in Leadership program. Jesse B. Mark, business administration ’12, relocated to Atlanta and is an account manager at Equinoxe Alternative Advisors. Dr. Lauren D. Pitts, Educational Leadership & Management (EdD) ’13; Couple, Marriage, & Family Therapy ’17, launched a new business: say YES!
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Motivation at Work (sayYES-Motivation-at-Work.com), and hosted a women’s conference in April. Brian Patrick Reilly, chemical engineering ’13, was promoted from Process Technology Engineer to Production Leader with Arkema Inc. He was married in July 2017 to Miriam Elise McGill of Evansville, IN. He was accepted to University of Texas at Austin’s MBA program starting in fall 2018. Megan Sparaco, BS/MS chemical engineering ’12 is engaged to Brandon Hinman, BS Civil/Architectural Engineering ’12. The two met their sophomore year at Drexel and have been dating since. Sparaco and Hinman are planning a June 2019 wedding. Soha St.Juste (nee Shah), BSArchitecture ’09, was promoted to Architecture Design Principal at Jacobs Philadelphia Office in 2016. She chaired eight local sub-committees and coordinated with AIA National’s
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2016 Convention Committee and Visitor’s Bureau of Philadelphia to host the largest Architectural Convention in the country. She sits on the American Institute of Architects Board of Directors. She was also the 2015 recipient of American Institute of Architects Pennsylvania Chapter Emerging Professional Award and the 2016 American Institute of Architects Philadelphia Chapter Volunteer of the Year Award. In 2012, she married her high school sweetheart and gave birth to a baby girl in January 2017. Sheba Vine (nee Thomas), biomedical engineering ’04, has been named the Vice President and General Counsel for First Healthcare Compliance, a privately-owned business enterprise which helps physicians and other healthcare providers comply with federal rules and regulations. Prior to joining FHC, Vine was an attorney in private practice, concentrating in litigation and employment law. She is licensed to practice law in Delaware, New Jersey, Pennsylvania and before the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office. Vine holds a Juris Doctorate from Widener University School of Law and is a Certified Professional Compliance Officer. Lauren (Wedge) M. Wegman, Film/TV Production ’12, lent her production assistance to the 2016 film Vessel, now on a festival tour around the world. She just finished working as an AE on Discovery Velocity’s Unique Rides and is now in Botswana with the Natural History Film Unit, working on shows/ films such as Savage Kingdom, The Return of the Giant Killers, and Africa’s Fishing Leopards.