Alumni Profiles

From Spring Trek to Italian Citizenship: A Baker Program Student’s Journey
Louis Guzzo, MPS ’23 obtains Italian citizenship three years after the Smith Family Business Institute’s Family Businesses in Italy trek.

Park Fellows Alumni Spotlight: Brian Hittle, MBA ’03
Brian Hittle, MBA ’03, discusses leadership, storytelling and finding purpose in a character.
Alumnus Spotlight: Josh Levine ’13
Since conducting this interview, Josh has moved to Citadel, a multi-strategy hedge fund. He is currently a Senior Associate in the firm’s event driven-focused Fundamental Strategies group. As a college […]

Zhu Shen’s Journey: How recovery from loss transformed her life
An unlikely journey from biotech scientist to documentary filmmaker Those who remember reading about Zhu Shen, MBA ’98, in this magazine in 2008-09 may recall a radiant, confident young woman […]

An urban farmer aims to address food insecurity
Harlan Blynn, MBA ’10 Last year, Harlan Blynn was reorganizing papers in the office of his Denver-based consulting firm, Certain Rivers Strategic Marketing Services, when he stumbled across his Johnson […]

Profile in Leadership: Meredith Amdur, MBA ’03, CEO of Rhetorik Solutions
Making data smarter, from the UK’s “silicon suburb” and beyond Meredith Amdur isn’t very often at a loss for words. But ask her what she’s passionate about in her career, […]

Setting the Standard in Animal Welfare
Janet Helms ’88, MBA ’07 Some people count sheep to fall asleep at night. As the national director of the American Humane Farm Program, Janet Helms goes to bed each […]

Finding Common Ground in Public Service
Scott J. Cameron, MBA ’79 Scott Cameron is drawing on four decades of experience in public and private natural resource, energy, and environment management — and his proficiency in building […]

A Grateful Leader Gives Back
Amane Nakashima, MBA ’89 Amane Nakashima remembers feeling shocked when he arrived at Johnson and began taking classes in the summer of 1987, after spending five years working at the […]