Alumni Profiles

The Right Person for the Right Job Ann Killian has always preferred working on the “people side” of business, which is what led her on a 30-year-career path in corporate human resources. It was her first job after college — as the development coordinator at Artpark in Lewiston, N.Y. — that impressed Killian with the […]

Switching Gears in Women’s Products For 11 years, Cathleen Tobin marketed products for women — from Snuggle Fabric Softener to Revlon Lip Color — at multinationals, including Unilever and Johnson & Johnson. But in 2010, she decided to transfer her skills to a different product targeting women: savings accounts. When Tobin joined Women’s World Banking […]

Patrick Wardell, MBA’ 79, CEO at Cambridge Health Alliance A champion of delivering quality health care to all, hospital administrator Patrick Wardell has an aptitude for assembling diverse allies and engineering financial stability. The choice was clear-cut. Patrick Wardell could head for Chicago and an administrative job at the teaching hospital for Northwestern University’s Medical […]

Taking on Bollywood Saurabh Arora had never heard of Star TV USA before a crew member from the entertainment company approached him at New York City’s South Street Seaport during an Indian festival last year and asked him to audition for a part in a soap opera. Star TV USA, a News Corp. subsidiary that […]

Putting her best foot forward by Irene Kim Alice Chen never believed in sacrificing comfort for style, or vice versa. But she was frustrated to find that the beautiful shoes that she admired in store windows weren’t very comfortable, and she determined to make a better shoe – one that was as wearable and ergonomic […]

Helping prospective parents navigate the adoption landscape by Irene Kim Adopting a baby is typically a costly (upwards of $35,000), lengthy endeavor that can be confusing and sometimes heartbreaking. Prospective parents wonder, “What if birth mothers won’t consider me because I’m single or over the age of 35? Which attorneys and agencies can I trust? […]

Wowing skeptics with miniature therapeutics by Irene Kim In 2009, Bryant Guffey and George K. Lewis Jr. cofounded ZetrOZ out of Lewis’s garage, based on Lewis’ inventions in ultrasonic technology. In 2011, after expanding to a 12’x12’ office room and a closet, the team launched its first product into the veterinary rehabilitation market: a pocket-sized […]

Lorna Smith, MBA ’87, CEO at Horizons National In her five years leading Horizons National, a nonprofit serving low-income and educationally disadvantaged students, CEO Lorna Smith has helped transform the organization into one of the top summer-learning organizations in the U.S. What if schools that typically shut down in the summer stayed open to offer […]

Rebuilding Africa one country at a time Two days after starting her first job as an MBA graduate at Deloitte, Haskins & Sells, Andy (Margaret) Dennison Dijkerman was sent to Cameroon by the firm’s international lending unit to establish an accounting and pricing system for a seed company. Ever since then, her career has been […]