Alumni Profiles

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Wendy Mishkin Mayer ’92, MBA ’94

Leading Innovation at Pfizer How do you encourage innovation in a global pharmaceutical corporation with nearly 80,000 employees? That was the challenge Wendy Mishkin Mayer faced when she became vice […]

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Benjamin W. Wood, MBA ’99

Turning Around Roper’s Scientific Imaging When Ben Wood became vice president of Scientific and Industrial Imaging at Roper Industries in 2002, the division was underperforming. Sales were in decline, manufacturing […]

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James “Jamey” Edwards ’96, MBA ’03

Making a mark in health care It’s a scene that unfolds every day in a hospital somewhere in the United States: A patient arrives in the emergency room, unable to […]

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Lori McMahon, MBA ’10

Driving Social Change Around the World Nearly all mobile phones, computers, and the microprocessors that power them contain some combination of four minerals: gold, tin, tantalum, and tungsten. When Intel […]

Joseph Cherian, MS ’92, PhD ’93

A “hybrid” career in asset management Both a widely respected scholar of asset management and a practitioner with years of experience as a managing director on Wall Street, Joseph Cherian […]

Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80

Irene Rosenfeld ’75, MS ’77, PhD ’80, CEO of Mondelez International and recipient of the L. Joseph Thomas Leadership Award, shares “Tips to the Top” At Johnson’s seventh annual Alumni […]

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Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06

Kenyattah A. Robinson, MBA ’06, receives the Robert J. Swieringa Young Alumni Service Award Helping public organizations to help the people they serve improve their quality of life is a […]

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Jack M. Ferraro, MBA ’70

Jack M. Ferraro, MBA ’70, receives the Samuel C. Johnson Distinguished Service Award Although he began his graduate studies at Cornell in a joint law and MBA program, Jack Ferraro […]

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Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11

On behalf of the Johnson Club of Seattle, Club President Pam Spier ’05, MBA ’11, receives the Henry P. Renard ’54, MBA ’55 Regional Club of the Year Award Pam […]