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Josh Geleris ’03 CEO Edge Targeting On June 5, 2010, Erle Pettus married Bethany Johnson at Amo Methodist Church in Storden, MI. They live in Twentynine Palms, CA. Erle is the Marine Corps, and recently shipped out to Afghanistan.
As the CEO of Edge Targeting, Josh Geleris ’03 has developed transformative technology for political campaigns. Campaigns and Elections Magazine named him one of their 2010 Rising Stars at the Art of Political Campaigning Conference in Washington, DC. He was specifically recognized for developing the mobile phone application, Walking Edge, which uses GPS technology to guide campaign volunteers and field staffers to targeted voters as they walk the streets. Walking Edge has been credited with winning some highlycontested races and has won praise from CNN Politics, FOX Business and The Atlantic just to name a few. Josh created Edge Targeting out of the success of Walking Edge and has worked with campaigns of all sizes, including a few national organizations during the 2010 campaign cycle. In addition to developing new features that will enhance the ability for campaigns to message voters directly, Josh and his team are currently preparing for the 2012 Presidential campaign and preparing for the challenges that a campaign of that size brings. The company is expanding quickly with new products such as Calling Edge and Watcher Edge, a phone bank database and a mobile poll application to check in voters on Election Day respectively. Visit Josh’s website www.edgetargeting.com.
James Withey is in his third year at USC Keck School of Medicine. This year he is hospital bound with clerkships in trauma/surgery, OB/GYN, pediatrics, psych and family medicine. Medical school is intense and rewarding and he is still deciding on a specialty. He says he is still having fun with his Webb friends.
Eric Yeh is a management consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers based out of Madison, WI. He was working in New York when he had dinner with Laura Wensley and Hector Martinez last December.
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2005 • Robert Bennett is an associate analyst at Harvard Management Company (HMC) in Boston. HMC is a wholly-owned subsidiary of Harvard University which manages the school’s $27.4 billion endowment and provides nearly a third of the university’s operating budget. Robert is grateful to Webb for teaching him the values of hard work and integrity which helped prepare him for a career in finance. John Morgan studied electrical and computer engineering at Olin College in Needham, MA. Now he’s working as a systems engineer in the computer security field. Flying is his biggest hobby. He earned his private airplane license after graduating from Webb. Since moving to Boston he’s earned commercial privileges in airplanes, helicopters, and gliders and learned to fly aerobatics. When not at his engineering job he’s busy managing helicopter operations at a local flight school and working on his helicopter flight instructor certification.
Spring 2011