Alumni Profiles

Airbnb real estate investor and podcast host discusses redefining success, strengthening community, and listening to what matters

Boyle reflects on the influence of her time in the U.S. Army, transitioning to Accenture, motherhood, and the Roy H. Park Leadership Fellowship

Louis Guzzo, MPS ’23 obtains Italian citizenship three years after the Smith Family Business Institute’s Family Businesses in Italy trek.

Brian Hittle, MBA ’03, discusses leadership, storytelling and finding purpose in a character.

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 student majoring in History and minoring in Business at Brandeis University, Josh Levine, MBA ’13, considered entering the world of academia, but for the most […]

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 talking about the potential for biotechnological cures for cancer. As founder and head of BioForesight, she linked investors with biotechnology opportunities in China. Much has […]

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 admissions essay about urban farming. After rereading it, he suspended his management consulting practice to launch a new startup — an urban farm in Denver. […]

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, and she pauses. Her path to becoming CEO of Rhetorik Solutions, a data analytics company headquartered outside of London, has taken a rambling tour of […]

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 night thinking about the welfare of billions of farm-raised animals. Helms’ division of American Humane oversees the American Humane Certified seal and third-party audit program, […]