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Gary Fassak ’76, MBA ’78 Gary Fassak enjoys helping businesses grow and prosper by sharing his extensive management and marketing expertise as a member of Chief Outsiders, a company comprising more than 50 part-time, or fractional, chief marketing officers (CMO) for hire. “The work is challenging and exciting,” he says. “You need to quickly develop […]

Wai-Leong Chan ’83, MEng ’84, MBA ’85 Wai-Leong Chan decided to launch an executive search firm when he saw an opportunity to establish a collegial, pan-Asian search firm to better serve Western clients. A Malaysian who has lived in Singapore since 1985, Chan worked for seven years at search firm Spencer Stuart before he and […]

Deirdre Monroe, MBA ’90 Unlike most of us, Deirdre Monroe can’t share war stories from work. “I can’t talk about the bulk of what I did,” she says, because it involved “issues of importance to national security.” A research and development engineer for the Weapon Systems Engineering Division at Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Monroe […]

Agata Kostecka, MBA ’11 Agata Kostecka is helping to make sustainability a way of life for stakeholders at Gap Inc. After working on the firm’s supply-chain strategy team in San Francisco for a couple of years, Kostecka, a Park Fellow, collaborated with her boss to create a new role for herself as senior manager for […]

Cameron Brooks, MBA ’03: E9 Energy Insight and Tolerable Planet Enterprises by Dick Anderson Cameron Brooks was smitten with the outdoors as a teenager, spending countless hours exploring California’s Sierra Mountains. His hero was John Muir (1838-1914), the Scottish-American naturalist, author, and pioneering wilderness preservationist. “I was very interested in environmental issues,” says Brooks, who […]

Gerardo Galvan, Executive MBA Americas ’18 Solid education, constant self-improvement, and innate marketing talent have brought Gerardo Galvan to the pinnacle of North America’s beverage industry. As president and general manager of Interex, a Dallas/Fort Worth-based commercial firm, Galvan directs sales of one of the industry’s hottest drinks, Topo Chico, a sparkling mineral water bottled […]

Alice Leung, MBA ’86, Sapientiae by Dick Anderson Alice Leung didn’t develop her new business by today’s rules. Sapientiae, a biotech management consulting firm, has no website, no app, and no real online presence. (“Most of the work I do is confidential,” she explains.) Clients find her by word of mouth, referrals, and a well-connected […]

Javed Singha, MBA ’09, Fieldwire by Dick Anderson For all the construction design tools that look like something out of “The Jetsons,” the building process itself still resembles “The Flintstones.” “There’s all this phenomenal software that’s happened in the design process, then the execution goes back to paper and pencil,” says Javed Singha. Seeing opportunity, […]

Melva Covington, MBA ’04 Melva Covington fell into health care unintentionally. After graduating with a degree in politics and economics from The Catholic University of America, Covington aspired to earn an MBA. However, with no professional work experience, her first stop was selling vacuum cleaners door-to-door in Washington, D.C. Then her undergraduate psychology professor called, […]