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Business Recognizes Its Best The College of Business honored 11 alumni at its first-ever annual Business Alumni Awards event held last October in conjunction with Homecoming 2017. The college inducted three members into the Business Hall of Fame, named three Distinguished Business Alumni, and recognized five people with the Young Business Alumni Award. Hall of Fame inductees: • Dave Carey ’96, president and founder of ROI Training • Sue Meisinger ’74, former CEO of the Society of Human Resource Management • Dan Wolfe ’84, media executive Distinguished Business Alumni Award recipients: • Lou Marmo ’94, CEO of Liqui-Box • Robert Strassheim ’96, vice president of business operations for Dickinson + Associates • Sarah Gildersleeve Strassheim ’01 vice president of finance and operations, Americas region, for Merkle
Jessica Reingold ’15 and Gibran Parvez ’14 show their UMW colors at Homecoming 2017 in October.
More than 500 alumni joined UMW students to celebrate Homecoming 2017.
June 1-3, 2018 Register online at alumni.umw.edu/reunionweekend
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Young Business Alumni Award recipients: • Andrew Blate ’04, president of Beautiful Home Services • Bryan Campbell ’06, vice president of strategy and operations for ABS Technology • Dan Clendenin ’07, managing director of Cary Street Partners • Fitz Maro ’11, senior innovation lead for 360i • Charles Reed ’11, advisory associate for KPMG More than 100 alumni, faculty, students, staff, and friends attended the gala event held in the University Center. Acting Dean of the College of Business Ken Machande was master of ceremonies. ASK Childhood Cancer Foundation and Beautiful Home Services sponsored the event.