Alumni Profiles

A new prescription for health-care delivery Bringing health-care services to rural patients in India for about $10 a year, Sevamob combines seva, meaning “service” in Hindi, with mobile technology. True to its name, the organization provides valuable services to patients in underserved areas, using innovative technology. Founder Shelley Saxena, who had previously launched a smartphone-based […]

Once a curator of travel deals, Walker now curates ideas When it comes to intellectual property, few countries rival the United States. Yet according to Jay Walker ’77, the U.S. still has a long way to go in order to harness the power of this ingenuity. “Essentially, there is an enormous problem in the United […]

2014 Carlos R. Quintanilla Distinguished Latino Alumni Award Recipient From playing football as an undergraduate at the University of Notre Dame to studying accounting and finance as an MBA candidate at Johnson, Joseph Alvarado says he learned that “The essence of success is teamwork among diverging interests. If there is no cohesive work ethic and […]

Wilbur Parker Distinguished Alumni Award Recipient When Percy Allen II joined the University Hospital of Brooklyn as CEO in 1989, the state facility was losing money and struggling with employee morale. Allen immediately set to work, buying state-of-the-art equipment, developing a strong management team, and improving customer satisfaction. He also reached out in simple ways […]

Going with the flow by Irene Kim Naama Bloom, MBA ’13, founder of HelloFlo The curse. The crimson tide. Lingonberry week. It’s the five-day event that happens to women of childbearing age each month, sending embarrassed husbands and fathers running to the “feminine care” aisle. Helloflo.com is happy to meet women’s periods head on. “It […]

New Order by Irene Kim Unless you’re a restaurateur or app developer, you’ve probably never heard of Ordr.in. This open platform for restaurant e-commerce is used by restaurants, developers, and websites to power their food-ordering capabilities. Co-founder David Bloom describes Ordr.in as “DNA for restaurant e-commerce” — an infrastructure for building takeout-ordering services that allow […]

Refocusing on climate change A year and a half ago, Larry Kraft was senior vice president of sales and marketing at Digi International, a technology company in Minneapolis. But after circling the globe on an environmental quest with his wife and two children, Kraft decided to leave the corporate world and now leads an organization […]

Spanning the globe in mining As a teenager growing up in a suburb of Cleveland, Richard Saccany recalls reading in the newspaper about an underground salt mine operating near the center of the city. With all the drilling and blasting, the operation fascinated him, and when it came time to choose a college, he selected […]

A GMO approach to sustainable crops Ponsi Trivisvavet has spent the past six years thinking about how to help farmers feed the world. In India and Africa, how can growers increase their corn yields, which are far below worldwide averages? And in Southeast Asia, how can farmers boost their production of rice to meet the […]