Class Notes
Class Notes
1970s/1980s Rick Reinhard (‘82) is the principal consultant with the Niagara Consulting Group. Carol Shattuck (‘82) is president of the Houston nonprofit organization Collaborative for Children. Greg Deitch (‘83) is vice president and partner at Trabon Solutions in Kansas City, Missouri. Greg joined the company in 2001 as director of strategic business consulting. Tom Bacon (‘84) is founding partner and CEO of The Lionstone Group, a privately-owned real estate investment firm founded in 2001. Flint Brenton (‘84) has been president and CEO of TIDAL Software, Inc., one of the top-ranked enterprise job scheduling companies, since 2003. Flint also is on the TIDAL board of directors. Michael A. Kane (‘84) is a managing director at Caltius Mezzanine, a provider of capital solutions to middle market companies throughout North America. Michael McEachern, CFA (‘84) is head of the High Yield Group and senior high yield portfolio manager for Seix Investment Advisors LLC in New Jersey.
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Daniel East (‘98) is senior vice president, M&A and Treasurer, of KGen Power Corporation.
Achilles Macris (‘86) is the international CIO for financial services firm J.P. Morgan.
Roger Haston (‘98) joined as COO of Ascend Geo, LLC, which designs and develops cable-free land .seismic acquisition systems.
Ward Polzin, CFA (‘86) serves as a managing director in Investment Banking at Tudor, Pickering, Holt & Co., LLC headquartered in Houston.
Joseph Hoepfl (‘98) cofounded Parks Paton Hoepfl & Brown to provide financial advisory expertise to the energy industry.
Kevin Uebelein (‘86) was recently named the new president and CEO of Pyramis Global Advisors headquartered in Boston.
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T. Kevin DeNicola (‘87) is the new CFO of military and engineering contractor KBR. He also is an adjunct professor for the Jones School.
1990s 1 Heather Carroll (‘95) married Jon Berglund on April 26, 2008 in Playa Del Carmen, Mexico and will honeymoon in Australia this fall. Allan Brown (‘95) attended the ceremony. Heather is still working at MasterCard and Jon works for Applied Medical.
Abhay Padgaonkar (‘84) is principal of Innovative Solutions Consulting, LLC. Mark Coffey (‘85) is president of ShoreBank Pacific, the first commercial bank in the U.S. committed to environmentally sustainable community development.
Cavan C. Carlton (‘98) serves as the senior vice president and general manager for the U.S. and international divisions of Detechtion Technologies, based in Virginia.
Charles Griffey (‘85) is senior vice president of regulatory affairs for Reliant Energy, Inc.
R. Marc Carroll (‘98) currently serves as vice president and
Brian Hocker (‘86) is vice president for Programming, Research and Digital Media, for NBC’s KXAS, Channel 5, in Dallas/Fort Worth.
Katherine Dodds (‘98) has been at Aux Sable Liquid Products Inc. since 1999. She is the vice president and general counsel and is also acting general counsel for Aux Sable Canada Ltd.
CFO of Black Stone Minerals, which is located in Houston.
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with Deloitte Consulting and has been extended an extra year in Deloitte’s exclusive Energy & Resources Industry Management Development Program in the D.C. area. While he and his family miss their friends in Houston, they are enjoying their time on the East Coast. He recently linked up with John Roe (‘01) who is currently working in Maryland.
Alexia (Pearce) Dauterive (‘00) and her husband, Eddie, are expecting twins in December 2008. They already have a two-year-old daughter, Olivia. Alexia is currently working from home as a CPA and is the controller/CFO of a startup geothermal energy company.
Michael Landy Haile (‘03) is a director with Triad Real Estate Consulting Group, LLC.
Kathryn Pavlovsky (‘00) recently accepted partnership with Deloitte. Kathryn serves as a principal in Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP based in Houston and leads Deloitte’s Corporate Responsibility & Sustainability practice nationally.
birth of their son, Sutton Kane Philips, on Feb. 5, 2008. He was welcomed home by big brother Grey in San Diego, CA.
(‘04) proudly announce the birth of their daughter Mary Armistead Brusselback, born Oct. 16, 2007. Currently, Katie is associate product manager, Retirement Plans, for OppenheimerFunds, Inc.
3 Ted Dimitry (‘02) would like to announce the birth of his son, Theodore Maxwell David Dimitry, born May 27, 2008 at 5:35 p.m. He weighed 8 lb and 15.3 oz and was 20 in. long. Ted is currently a marketing manager, Energy & Marine, for GEM Insurance Agencies, L.P. in Houston.
4 Lisa Kudchadker Gordon (‘02) married Aaron Gordon in October of 2007. She currently works at BP in the Gulf of Mexico Materials Management, Dispositions.
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5 Kirby Brendsel (‘03) celebrated his five-year anniversary
Oscar Gurdian (‘03) is the real estate finance director of Flagler Development in Miami.
2 Richard Brusselback (‘02) and Katie Biggs Brusselback
Kelly L. Brcka (‘98) is the president and founder of Chain of Events, an event planning company for corporate and social events and weddings.
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Emel Kahya (‘86), one of two students awarded a doctorate degree from the Jones School, is an associate professor of Accounting at the Rutgers School of Business – Camden.
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Todd Monette (‘03) is general manager at the largest U.S. refinery Motiva Enterprises LLC in Port Arthur, Texas.
6 Liz Philips (‘03) and husband Todd celebrated the 4
7 Rafael Gerlein (‘04) shares a photo of his first son, Alejandro Gerlein, born on Oct. 1, 2007. Julie O. Griffith (‘04), owner of j.griffith Public Relations, a boutique PR, publicity, and marketing firm based in Houston, was recently made a media partner with CNN as part of the CNN “Black In America” national grassroots marketing team. In addition, her firm won the contracts for Finesse Mitchell and the new Memorial Hermann Medical Center Tower.
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8 Justin Hopkins (‘04) and his wife Kara proudly announce the birth of their son, Reid Hudson Hopkins
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