Greg Tierney (BBA ’95) has been appointed to the position of vice president of finance, planning, and analysis and corporate controller at MillerCoors. In this position, he will be responsible for the organization’s accounting, planning/forecasting, and financial services functions, which includes the management and governance of Group Benefits, Treasury, Risk Management, Taxation, Finance Systems, and Shared Services. Greg joined MillerCoors in 1998 as a corporate financial analyst. He then went on to serve in numerous roles across finance—sales financial analyst, internal control manager, financial reporting manager, and corporate sales controller—before heading up the finance function in the Texas model market in Dallas. In 2008, Greg returned to Milwaukee as the performance, planning, and analysis director before moving to Chicago to serve as senior director of strategy and planning. [**Information was provided by his loving wife, Amy Tierney (BBA ’94), who wished to surprise him.] Julie (Preston) Karg (BBA ‘00, MAcc ‘01) and her husband Mike reside in Orange, California, and welcomed their second son, Brandon, on March 18. He joins Justin, who is now three years old. Julie works as a finance manager for The Walt Disney Company in the Theme Parks and Resorts Financial Reporting Department in Anaheim. Derek Matzke (BBA ’01, MAcc ’02) rejoined BDO USA, LLP, as a senior manager in the firm’s new Madison, Wisconsin office in October 2011. Jonathan Krauski (BA ’02, MAcc ’03) and his wife Jessica welcomed their first child, Nola, into the world on February 1, 2012. She was born at St. Catherine’s Medical Center in Kenosha, Wisconsin. She weighed 7 lbs., 10 ozs. and was 20.5 inches long. Aycha Sirvanci (BBA ’05, MAcc ’06) worked with the State of Wisconsin Department of Transportation after graduation as an auditor, eventually moving into public accounting auditing governments and governmental organizations at Baker Tilly Virchow Krause. Aycha is currently the audit manager for the City of Milwaukee. Katherine Miller (BBA ’07, MAcc ’08) was promoted to tax manager at Deloitte in Milwaukee in 2012. Jason Benedict (BBA ’08, MAcc ’09) accepted a secondment opportunity and is working in Australia with KPMG’s Hobart, Tasmania office. Michael Graves (BBA ’09) started as an auditor at KPMG in Minneapolis in November 2009, where he became a CPA. He worked for a year and a half, then made a career change to investment banking. He is currently starting his second year as an investment-banking analyst in the middle market M&A group at Lazard in Minneapolis.
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