class notes Los Angeles District. Brian’s current role is Civil Works Project Manager, Arizona Nevada Area Office, in Phoenix. … Brian Kaplan ’01, I’m married to Kimberly Kuhn ’02. We just spent a little over a week in the Isle of Skye, Scotland. We are a Thunder-Couple and have a seven-year old son, Quincy. … Jennifer Beaston Hedrick ’01, is the executive director for Eagle Mount Bozeman, an organization committed to provide quality therapeutic recreational opportunities for people with disabilities and young people with cancer. … Irene Kontje ’01, after four years living in North Carolina and working at Duke University Medical Center, I returned home to the New York City area and am currently Director of Graduate Medical Education at Mount Sinai Beth Israel/Mount Sinai Health System. … George Sales ’01, after almost 20 years in management consulting
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inputs into short-term medical missions by U.S. physicians. … Steve A. Varela ’02, earned a 2017 Fulbright Scholar award for his research and development in international program development for business school programs. … Andy Harris ’02, my wife Molly and I had our first child Penelope Juliet on July 9. Baby and mom are healthy and all are doing well! … Ercan Turkuner ’03, I am the Head of
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and project management, I’ve decided to follow my passion and open up a mid-scale Filipino restaurant in Saint Johnsbury, VT. It’s the only Philippine restaurant in the state, and everyone is excited. … Paul Caldron ’02, completed a Ph.D in Governance and Policy Analysis at Maastricht University, United Nations University - MERIT in the Netherlands after defending his dissertation regarding motivations, economic, and manpower
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Internal Audit and Senior Banking Expert at Banking Regulation and Supervision Agency of Turkey based in Istanbul. … Todd Kirkbride ’03, I am living in Pristina Kosovo with my wife and two kids. I run my own Public Private Partnerships for Development Consultancy with clients in the Balkans, Asia, Africa and the U.S. … Kevin McKellar ’03, I have been living in Los Angeles since 2008 and opened a restaurant concept called Bottega Louie
in Downtown Los Angeles. … Matt Frary ’04, the company I founded, SmarterChaos.com, has been featured for the third year in a row in the Inc 5000 fastest growing companies in America. … Gerardo Gonzalez-López ’05, I met my wife of 10 years, Maria E. (Sissy) Urista ’05 at Thunderbird. We now live in Princeton, NJ and I am running the NYC marathon in November. … Gbemi Disu ’06, everyone thinks I am joking when I say Thunderbird is with me everywhere I go! On a trip to South Africa on Safari, I found out that a couple in my group are ThunderParents! Their son is Malcolm Whitehead ’12. … Tracey Nguyen ’06, authored a study for IBM surveying over 330 nonprofits and 30+ organizational case studies revealing it is more important than ever for nonprofits to leapfrog analytics capabilities. … Becky Sacher Woods ’06, I recently joined ADP as their Global Mobility Director in New Jersey. That is keeping me busy, in addition to my five-year-old twins. … Mike Tomasello ’07, having spent 18+ years working with hiring executives and recruiters Mike launched his company HowToLandANYJob.com out of Los Angeles after a successful Marketing Executive Career. … Thomas Steck ’07, EMBA Prague Cohort IV celebrated its 10th anniversary in Dubai, UAE.
Thanks to Ghusoun Al Khaled ’07 and Stephane Sinimale ’07 now living in the UAE, we celebrated this important milestone from the top of the Burj Khalifa to the tip of the Palm Jumeirah. … Jaz Wray ’07, purchased a plane and earned his pilot’s license about five years ago. With the freedom of wings, he flew with his two sons from Southern California to experience the total eclipse of the sun just north of Boise, ID. … Shaun Smithson ’08, is now the CEO of Fig and Olive Restaurants working from the company’s offices in New York. He will be overseeing the portfolio of restaurants with a focus on stabilizing and growing the brand both domestically in the US and internationally. … David Riggs ’08, I run a business in Nashville, TN and Kathmandu Nepal. I have 10 employees in Nashville and 30 in Kathmandu. I have also been to Turkey, India, Panama, Colombia and Peru. … Angelika Makkas Rougas ’08, I am currently working in the biotechnology sector in Human Resources. My husband and I live in Cambridge, MA with our two children. … Umar Ahmed ’09, after graduating from Thunderbird, I developed a passion for teaching International Business and Strategy. I taught for about seven years in a University in Pakistan and am working on a Ph.D. in International Business at Victoria University of Wellington. … Bradley Lazard ’09, I am the Vice President of North Shore Steel headquarters in Houston. Our most recent business concern is taking care of our employees, customers, and vendors that have been devastated by Hurricane Harvey. We plan to provide steel products to rebuild our community. … David Schrader ’09, I am the Chief Operating Officer of Scythian Biosciences Corp, a Canadian company. We are in the pharmawinter 2018