Archive for the ‘Movers and Shakers’ Category

Tom Jimenez ’68 has been named as U-T San Diego’s Vice President of Spanish Language Products.

Frances Aldrich Sevilla-Sacasa ’78 has been named Chief Executive Officer of Itau Private Bank International in Miami.

Leslie Miller ’83 has joined Corte California-based Financial Connections Group as a financial advisor.

Don Capener ’85 is the incoming Dean of Business for the Davis School of Business, Jacksonville University in Florida beginning in July.

Robert Monteux ’86 has joined Dream Local Digital as Online Marketing Strategist.

Peter Paul Pardi ’88 has been named Global Head of Distribution for BNY Mellon.

Dave Spalding ’90 has been appointed Senior Vice President of Business Development for Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota.

Sherry Sharp Sanger ’95 has been appointed Senior Vice President of Marketing for Penske Truck Leasing. Sanger was the company’s Vice President of Marketing since 2004.

Geoff Mathieux ’95 has been appointed CEO of Tickengo, an early stage Internet start-up based in San Francisco.

Nazar Massouh ’96 has left his position as Managing Director with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York to join Energy Capital Partners located in Short Hills, New Jersey to launch an energy-focused private equity fund.

Anna Maria Moore ’97 recently accepted a new position with Monster Worldwide Scandinavia, based in Oslo.

Sonia Patterson ’98 has been hired as the Executive Director of the Christian microenterprise development organization Five Talents.

Rick Cid ’05 has joined Equinox Exploration as Vice President of Business Development.

Joshua Golka ’10 has been named to the Board of Advisors for Vermont Law School’s Sports Law Institute.

Robert Eichfeld ’67 was recently appointed to the National Philanthropic Trust’s Board of Trustees. Eichfeld is a retired Citigroup executive.

Richard J. Maynes ’76 was recently named to the Presidency of the Seventy of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Elder Maynes was serving in the First Quorum of the Seventy when he was called to the Presidency. Members of the Seventy work under the direction of the First Presidency and the Quorum of the Twelve Apostles, the highest councils of the church.

Jim Anderson ’80 has been hired as President and COO of Xpert Financial.

Dave Netz ’80 has been appointed Chief Operating Officer for Dundee Hills Holdings.

Alice Terlecky ’90 has been promoted to Vice President, Client Services, Life Insurance Division of Pacific Life Insurance Company.

Kevin Gahwyler ’93 has been appointed Chief Operating Officer of Twin Capital Management.

Andrew Sagartz ’95 has been named Chair of the Immigration Law Committee of the Lake County, Illinois Bar Association. He currently serves as Executive Director for Lake Bluff, Illinois-based BENNU Legal Services, a non-profit legal aid agency which provides assistance to immigrants transitioning into the U.S. and to growing small businesses.

Paul Evans ’96 has accepted a position as Vice President, Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer for MYR Group. The company is a publicly traded specialty contractor that primarily serves the electric utility industry.

Nazar Massouh ’96 has left his position as Managing Director with Goldman, Sachs & Co. in New York to join Energy Capital Partners located in Short Hills, New Jersey to launch an energy-focused private equity fund.

Jay Oglesby ’96 has been named to the advisory board of trustees of the Alabama Center for Real Estate at the University of Alabama’s Culverhouse college of Commerce.

Liliane Stacishin-Moura ’99 has joined Benjamin West as Director-Latin America & Caribbean.

Mayur Bawa ’03 has been appointed CFO Asia Pacific for DHL Customer Service Solutions & Innovation, Corporate Center and Global Business Serivces. Bawa is based in Singapore.  

Revathi Advaithi ’05 was recently named President – Electrical Sector, Americas Region for Eaton Corporation.

Ron Alonzo ’68 has re-joined American Recruiters and will be handling much of the firm’s global searches.

Robert Fulton ’74 won unanimous approval to become Finance Chief for Jefferson Parish public schools in New Orleans.

Robert Shanks ’76 has been appointed Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Ford Motor Company. Shanks previously held the position of Vice President and Controller.

Joseph Handly ’77 recently joined RDW group as Senior Media Strategist. Handly has more than 25 years of experience as a senior advertising professional.

William Langford ’80 has been appointed as Executive-In-Residence for the spring 2012 semester at Philadelphia Biblical University. The program gives Christian business leaders a chance to share their knowledge and insights with students and faculty.

Jim Ward ’83 has been named President and CEO of the Phoenix Symphony. Ward had been serving as interim President and CEO of the non-profit since January 2011.

Dan Wakeland ’86 has been hired as Product Manager for Superfeet Worldwide Inc. Wakeland has a  background in the European outdoor industry working with companies such as Trek Bicycle Corp. and Specialized Cycles.

Frédéric Agneessens ’88 was recently appointed as Honorary Consul of Canada for Flanders. In his new role, Agneessens will increase Canada’s visibility and presence in this important region of Belgium.

Eric Nelson ’94 has been appointed as the China Business Unit Head for Oerlikon Drive Systems. Prior to this, Nelson was the Deputy General Manager for Phelps Dodge in Thailand.

Kevin Peck ’96 recently accepted a new position as AT&T as Vice President of Brand Strategy. Prior to this, Peck was running Global Brand Strategy for Microsoft.

Toufic Tabbara ’97 has been appointed CEO of Lafarge Jordan, both Cement and Concrete.

Annaelisa Holguin ’98 has joined the economic development team for the City of El Paso in Texas.

Jeewat Bijlani ’02 recently joined Houghton International as Vice President of Global Business Development, Marketing and Strategy.  His previous role was Director of the Private Equity Services Group for Celerant Consulting.

Simon Hakim ’75 recently moved to UBS Bank in Israel as an Executive Director in the Rep office. Prior to this, he worked 11 years at HSBC in Israel.

Richard Gibson ’78 was recently appointed Senior Vice President of Global Sales and Support for Iveda Solutions. Gibson has 30 years’ experience in IT, networks and security. He has held leadership positions in large companies such as IBM and Motorola.

Bruce Duff ’82 has been promoted to Chief Executive officer of ARCOS. He succeeds ARCOS Founder Mitch McLeod, who held the CEO role since creating the software company in 2005. For the last three years, Duff has been Vice President of Sales. Duff has more than 25 years of experience in the software industry, including assignments across North America, Europe and Australia.

Ann McCartney ’82 has been named Senior Vice President of Private Banking in the North Scottsdale, Ariz. office for Enterprise Bank & Trust, the banking subsidiary of Enterprise Financial Services Corp. McCartney has more than 25 years of experience in the financial services industry.

Phil Schlesinger ’82 has recently been named Vice President of Marketing for CEA Global Education, which is located in Tempe, Ariz. and markets and delivers study abroad programs to U.S. and Canadian university students. Most recently, Schlesinger was Associate Vice President, Marketing for Thunderbird.

James Lazor ’87 has recently been appointed Executive Director for Alpine Ontario. Lazor brings with him more than two decades of sports marketing and business skills as well as ski industry management experience.

Rennie Young ’87 has accepted the position of Vice President Purchasing and Supply Chain Management for Stant Corp. Young earned his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Hartford before graduating from Thunderbird.

Martha Van Gelder ’88 has been appointed Director of the Terry J. Lundgren Center for Retailing and the PetSmart Professor of Practice, an endowed chair in the Norton School of Family and Consumer Sciences, located at the University of Arizona. Van Gelder brings more than 20 years of high-level leadership in business growth and development for several companies with a global reach, including Gaiam, Sesame Workshop, The Walt Disney Company and L’Oréal.

Lisa Woods Ploeg ’89 recently joined MARY KAY as Senior International Development Specialist in Dallas, Texas. Ploeg spent the past decade as an adjunct professor for Maastricht University, the Netherlands and in the U.S. at Baylor University, Texas Christian University and Texas Woman’s University in Texas, where she taught marketing and global business.

Bryant Bell ’93 has recently joined iCONECT Development as the Senior Director, Product Marketing. Bell has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and product management. Prior to joining ICONECT, he served as Director of Product Marketing at EMC and held senior marketing and product management positions at CT Summation, Adobe Systems, Computer Associates and others.

Denise Simpson ’94 is the new Vice President of Marketing for Personal. Simpson comes to the company as an innovator in online marketing and driving massive engagement with online products. She has held senior marketing positions with AOL, Ancestry.com and Washington Post Digital.

Sarah Perez ’91 was recently named Executive Director of MBA executive programs for UNC-Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Perez joins Kenan-Flagler from Florida International University where she was executive director of its executive and professional MBA program.

John Williams ’91 has recently been named Chief Financial Officer of StratCorp. Williams has over 15 years of investment banking and corporate finance experience. Most recently, Williams was the CFO of UNITY Mobile. Prior to working for UNITY Mobile, he was a Vice President with Lehman Brother’s Mergers & Acquisitions Group.

Steve Hilbert ’07 has recently been hired as Wealth Management Consultant for Rainier Group. Previously, Hilbert served as Vice President within Private Wealth Management at J.P. Morgan Chase. He has also served as Vice President and Financial Consultant for Charles Schwab. Hilbert is also an Alumni Chapter Leader for the Washington T-bird alumni chapter.

Megan Ronk ’07 is the new Public Information Officer for the Idaho Department of Commerce. Ronk spent the last five years as Executive Director of the Idaho Meth Project, where she raised more than $8 million for a statewide anti-drug campaign. She was also a policy advisor to former Gov. Dirk Kempthorne.

John Donnelly ’70 has been appointed to the Board of Directors of Dia Bras. Donnelly is currently Chairman of the Board of Zurich Financial Services in Mexico; Member of the Board of Directors and President of the Audit Committee of JP Morgan in Mexico; Founder and Member of the Board of Directors of CrediConfia, a microfinance company; and a Board Member of U-Storage, a self-storage company and Paralelo 19, a hotel ownership company, all in Mexico.

Charles Rix ’79 has joined Oklahoma Christian University as an assistant professor of Bible. Rix previously served as an associate dean and professor at the New Brunswick Theological Seminary. Also, he is a retired financial executive for Exxon and has served as a minister for 17 years. Rix is an accomplished pianist who performs around the world and has been a finalist in international pianist competitions.

Kim Korth ’80 has been appointed to President and Chief Executive Officer for Supreme Industries. Korth has served as the interim President and CEO of the company since February 2011.

Thomas Malone ’80 was recently hired as a senior advisor to Waller Capital. Malone has more than 30 years of investment banking experience including serving as the group head of Daniels & Associates’ Private Capital Group, the managing director at Chase Securities and additional roles for Chase.

Kim Royster ’85 was recently hired as Director of Client Strategy for The Pert Group. Royster will focus on the restaurant, hospitality and foodservice industries, drawing on more than 20 years of experience as an industry consultant. Royster has worked throughout the U.S. and in Europe, the Middle East and Southeast Asia.

Douglas Sanders ’87 has been appointed Chief Financial Officer of CMC Biologics. Sanders is a founder of several life science companies and a financial consultant in the industry. He brings extensive international, financial and life science experience and has spent years working in Europe and the U.S.

Nina Maria Fite ’88 recently assumed charge as the U.S. Consul General in Lahore. Fite is a career member of the Foreign Service and spent more than 20 years focusing on trade, environmental issues and post-conflict economic development. Her assignments include serving as the Deputy Economic Counselor in Kabul, Afghanistan and as the Political/Economic Section Chief in Angola.

Sanjeev Chowdhury ’91 was recently appointed by Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper as Consul General of Canada to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. This is Chowdhury’s second time serving as Consul General. He was Canadian Consul General to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam from 2003 to 2006 and was Acting Canadian Ambassador to Sri Lanka for three months during that same time.

William Mott ’94 has been appointed Managing Director of Opel Australia. Mott has spent the majority of his career in Europe and the last 16 years with Opel, most recently as Group Marketing Manager Mini and Small Cars at Adam Opel Haus in Rüsselsheim.

Robert Criste ’95 was named Director of BigBelly Solar waste and recycling systems. He is responsible for seven states and 38 nations globally.

Ashley Moretz ’96 moved to the Kyrgyz Republic as Country Representative for USAID’s Office of Transition Initiatives’ new program, which was launched following the unexpected change of government in April 2010. Moretz previously spent five years as the USAID Country representative in Turkmenistan.

Joseph Gerard ’98 has been named Assistant Professor of Management at Western New England University. Gerard comes to the university from the State University of New York Institute of Technology, where he served as Assistant Professor of Technology Management.

Gwen Davidow ’98 will take a short term assignment with the President’s Council on Environmental Quality to further the mission of the U.S. Government’s major sustainability initiative known as GreenGov. Davidow is currently the Senior Director of Corporate Programs & Operations for the World Environment Center. In the new assignment Davidow will serve as the Senior Program Manager in the Office of the Federal Environment Executive.

Nikhil Arora ’98 has been appointed Vice President and Managing Director of Intuit India. Arora comes to Intuit from Laureate Education where he served as Vice President and head of operations. He has more than 18 years of experience in corporate strategy, business development, marketing, finance and operations and has worked for companies such as ADP, Delphi Automotive, Microsoft and CBS Television. Arora has a deep understanding of the Indian and Central Asian marketplace as well as the challenges confronting businesses in India.

Chai-Koon (CK) Tan ’99 has been appointed as the Vice President of Marketing for Asia Pacific in the Infrastructure Business Group of Belden Singapore. Tan’s most notable experience includes Director of Asia Pacific Sales and Marketing with Johnson Controls Power Solutions and various sales and marketing positions throughout Asia with Hilti.

Eigo Okada ’99 recently joined Takeda Pharmaceuticals International, Inc. as a Director, Franchise Strategy at their global headquarters in Deerfield, Illinois.

Olivier Portet ’02 has recently joined Polaris Wines as national sales manager. Portet has more than 15 years of professional wine industry experience. In his new role, Portet will focus on national sales and marketing, brand management and distributor and supplier management.

Claudia Huang Ruobing ’04 has been appointed as a member of the BASF Greater China Country Board. BASF is a leading chemical company. Huang joined BASF as a Plant Manager of Shanghai BASF Polyurethane Co. in 2004. She became the General Manager of Shanghai Lianheng Isocyanate Co. four years later.  Before joining BASF, Huang held senior positions in technical planning and project management with international companies.

Ignacio Silva ’80 has been appointed the first International Business Development Director for CAS Medical Systems. Silva has spent 20 years in medical device sales and has worked in Europe, Africa and Asia. He was most recently with Teleflex Medical OEM as Vice President of Global Sales, Marketing and Customer Care.

Dana Mansuri ’86 was recently sworn in by the U.S. Agency for International Development as the mission director to Nigeria. Mansuri will oversee a program totaling over $600 million annually. Mansuri’s career with USAID spans nearly 20 years and she most recently served in Jordan as Deputy Mission Director.

Christina Jackson-Skelton’88 will serve a four-year term of Executive Director of the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America (ELCA) Mission Advancement Unit effective Oct. 1, 2011. She is currently the ELCA Treasurer and has served the ELCA church-wide organization since 1989. Jackson-Skelton will continue to serve on the Lutheran World Federation Council and Executive Committee and to chair the LWF Finance and Administration Committee.

Annette Bousquet ’89 is now the Vice President  & Chief Financial Officer for Give2Asia. Bousquet has spent twelve years at Bank of America in San Francisco and London.  In 2003, Bousquet chose to leave Bank of America. She moved to India, where she spent two years helping to develop and expand a Kerala state-sponsored microcredit program that served more than 48,000 women and provided over $4 million in microloans.

J. Teig Boyle ’92 was recently appointed Vice President of Sales for TMG Health in Pennsylvania. Boyle brings more than 16 years of sales and account management experience to TMG Health. He spent seven of those years at Aethon, a leading provider of robotic delivery and asset management systems to the healthcare industry.

Lindsay Osborne ’10 recently joined the Snell & Wilmer law firms in Tucson as a member of the real estate, banking and commercial finance group. Osborne is a volunteer attorney for Southern Arizona Legal Aid assisting clients in domestic relations issues.

TJ Sinha ’74 has joined American Completion Tools in Houston, Texas as the new General Manager Worldwide Operations.  The company is a manufacturer of oilfield equipment.

Dennis D’Oria ’79 is the new Vice President of International Sales and Marketing for Aeris Therapeutics. In his new role, D’Oria will be responsible for the international sales and marketing of the AeriSeal System. He will also oversee and manage the staged expansion of distribution in strategic geographies and lead direct sales efforts in certain markets.  

Siebe Van Der Zee ’80 has joined Lethers Milligan & Associates as its Practice Leader for Talent Acquisition. Prior to joining Leathers Milligan, Siebe was the owner of Vanderzee & Associates, Inc., a boutique executive search firm in Scottsdale, Arizona. He built his national and international executive search experience during his tenure with both DHR International and Cornerstone International Group where he completed both domestic and international executive search and consulting engagements for numerous local, national and multi-national organizations.

Kimberly Ely ’86 was recently promoted to Vice President of Development for the Cheekwood Botanical Garden & Museum of Art. Ely has experience in non-profit fundraising for cultural institutions as well as financial services marketing.

Daniel Ortiz ’92 is the new Chief Financial Officer of ResortCom International, which provides resort management, rental, reservations, travel services and financial services to the vacation ownership, fractional and luxury resort industry. Ortiz will be directly responsible for financial operations for the company’s services and technological division and will be involved in ResortCom’s strategic planning, projects and business development efforts.

Melissa Debes ’97 recently joined Ener1 in the role of Chief Accounting Officer and Senior Vice President of Finance. She will also serve as the Chief Financial officer for Ener1’s EnerDel subsidiary. She has more than 25 years of experience.

Derek “Deke” Kiger ’98 recently accepted a Senior International Account Manager position at Calix in Petaluma, California. Kiger, his wife Hiromi and son Stefano will relocate from Florida for the new position. Calix is the largest communications equipment supplier focused solely on access.

Ying McGuire ’99 was named Vice President of International Business for Technology Integration Group, a supplier of IT products and services. McGuire will oversee TIG’s existing International operations and expansion of the company’s international business. She will also work with TIG’s sales management team to develop and enhance relationships with strategic international business customers.

H. Tony Hartmann ’87 was recently named as a member of the advisory board for the Wisconsin Institute for Sustainable Technology at the University of Wisconsin-Stevens Point. The 12-member board will provide guidance to the institute as it shapes priorities and works to transfer new technology from the laboratory to commercial use. Hartmann is Chief Executive Officer of Great Lakes Ag Energy. He has worked in the field of bioenergy since 2003 and is past President of the Wisconsin Biodiesel Association and Green Diesel Wisconsin Foundation.

Paul Simpson ’92 was recently hired as the International Sales Manager for Wilcoxon Research products. Simpson’s 15 years of international technical sales experience and his ability to speak multiple languages will be a great asset to customers in Asia, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. In his new role, Simpson will focus on all aspects of international sales, such as devising and implementing sales strategies and serving as the account manager for strategic international customers as well as selecting and managing international resellers globally. Simpson is fluent in Chinese and Spanish and has a working knowledge of Portuguese.

Judith Lu ’01 has recently joined the Private Client Services team in Los Angeles of City National Bank. Lu has more than 15 years of experience and will serve as a Senior Vice President, Senior Private Client Advisor and will focus on new client development and service to the bank’s high-net-worth clients in Los Angeles. Lu previously served as Executive Director and Senior Client advisor for UBS Wealth Management International where she has worked since 2002 in locations such as as Zurich, New York and Miami. Prior to that, she worked for Deloitte & Touche.

Sam Drennen ’04 was recently promoted to Group Vice President of Retail Banking for First American Bank and Trust. In addition to his work for First American Bank and Trust, Drennen also serves the Board of Directors for the Economic Development Foundation and Project Safe.

Siobhan MacDermott ’05 was recently announced as one of two founding Directors to the newly-formed Advisory Board of The Global Leaders Holdings LLC. MacDermott is in charge of Investor Relations for AVG Technologies and is their Chief Policy Officer. She has extensive experience working on U.S. and global policy matters across a variety of information technology, wireless and security markets. She has co-authored a book designed to help parents discuss internet safety with their children and speaks five languages.

Phil Ouellette ’84 has been promoted to President and Chief Operating Officer for Lindsay, Stone & Briggs. Ouellette joined the company in 2000 and became a partner and Senior Vice President in 2006. Ouellette has worked as a business strategist at multiple companies, including Honeywell. While at Lindsay, Stone & Briggs, he co-founded and launched a digital gaming company called Egencie, which develops social games, applications and web-enabled games in Europe, the U.S., Canada and Australia for brands such as Sony, Mr. Bean, Mattel and Fiskars.

John Burwell ’90 has been named to the newly created role of Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Adayana. Burwell joined Adayana in April 2010 as Senior Vice President, Business Development for the Adayana government group. He has more than 25 years of experience developing business for a variety of organizations that create training and learning solutions as well as for innovative companies that develop related enabling technologies. Before joining Adayana, he drove sales and marketing activities for Forterra Systems (acquired by SAIC in 2010), a Silicon Valley-based software company that produced online virtual world solutions for enterprise and government. Prior to Forterra, Burwell worked in several business development and marketing roles related to computer graphics, virtual worlds, video games and geospatial imaging – including 10 years at Silicon Graphics Computer Systems (SGI).

Russell Wood ’90 has recently been appointed Vice President of Canadian Sales & Operations to lead the way for ViSalus Sciences. Wood has more than 18 years in the direct-selling industry and has held management positions at companies such as NuSkin, Tahitian Noni Inc, Xango and the Limu Company. He was selected to the role because of his extensive expertise in international business, distributor relations, the development and launch of new products, supply chain management, regulatory approval and distribution, IT and strategic planning. Wood is also fluent in Mandarin.

Juan Maria Gallego-Toledo ’93 was recently appointed Chief Commercial Officer for Celistics, a global company specializing in distribution logistics of mobile headsets and electronics. The designation of Gallego-Toledo will spearhead the growth strategy for Celistics’ development of retail channels, physical and virtual, across Latin American markets. Gallego-Toledo brings to Celistics more than 17 years of experience from Finland’s Nokia Inc. Prior to his new position with Celistics, Gallego-Toledo was General Director of Telefonica for Nokia Spain.

Mike Speetzen ’05 is expected to serve as the new Chief Financial Officer in one of three new companies that will be formed upon completion of ITT Corporation’s previously announced plan to spin off its defense and water businesses later this year. Speetzen is currently Vice President of Finance for Fluid and Motion Control. He joined ITT in 2009 as Vice President of Finance for Fluid Technology and his role was expanded to his current position later that year. Prior to joining ITT, Speetzen served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer for the StandardAero division of private equity firm Dubai Aerospace Enterprise.

Eric Adams ’78 has been named Market President and Business Banking Manager for Larimer County. Adams was most recently Community Banking President for Norwest Montana and has worked for Wells Fargo for 18 years. He has more than 30 years of experience in financial services.

Mark Goldman ’80 was recently appointed Head of European Fixed Income Sales for Cantor Fitzgerald, a leading global financial services firm. Goldman recently served as an Advisor to a macro-economic investment fund at Zolotov Trust. Prior to that, he was Managing Director of Fixed Income Sales and Trading at Mitsubishi UFJ Securities International. Goldman was also Managing Director of Institutional Client Businesses at BNP Paribas and has served in a number of senior management roles at Merrill Lynch.

Steven Crane ’82 has recently been nominated to the Pulse Electronics Board of Directors. He will run for election along with others at the 2011 annual meeting of shareholders on May 18, 2011. Crane is Chief Financial Officer of ModusLink Global Solutions. He would bring more than 20 years of senior finance and operational leadership experience to Pulse Electronics. 

Patricia Grasso ’85 was recently appointed Regional Sales Manager for Latin America at SENCORE, which develops high-quality signal transmission solutions for the broadcast, cable, satellite, IPTV, telecommunications and professional audio/video markets. Throughout her career, Grasso has represented more than 25 product lines for broadcast technologies ranging from graphics, video compression and digital asset management to the IPTV and VoD markets.

James Hedges IV ’91 is president of newly-launched Montage Finance, which will provide secured lending to high net-worth art collectors, established gallery owners, auction houses and other art world investors. The niche asset-based lending firm will provide loans that are secured by fine art. Hedges brings 18 years of experience as an industry leader in alternative asset management coupled with over 20 years of experience within the art world as a collector, patron, producer and advisor.

Jennifer McVey ’98 recently joined The House of Marley as Director of Sales, Lifestyle. McVey brings nearly 15 years of experience to The House of Marley with a focus on helping lifestyle brands achieve what she calls, “the triple bottom line” of planet, people and profit. McVey is treasurer of Protect Our Winters, a non-profit organization started in 2007 by professional snowboarder, Jeremy Jones, to unite the winter sports community toward a common goal of reducing climate change’s effects on our sports and local mountain communities. McVey joined The House of Marley after a 10-year relationship with Nikita Clothing, an Icelandic clothing brand. Most recently, McVey was Nikita’s International Sales Manager, responsible for sales, marketing and operations in all non-European territories, including the United States and Australia.

Elaine King ’00 has joined the Lubitz Financial Group as Managing Director of Wealth Planning. King’s focus is on wealth planning for multi-generational families with emphasis on retirement, education and estate planning. Prior to joining Lubitz Financial Group, King created and directed the Wealth and Well-Being Institute, a platform for high net-worth families at Gibraltar Private Bank & Trust, where she worked seven years as vice president and director. Before that, she was the Latin American Investment Sales Manager for The Royal Bank of Scotland, U.S. division’s $8 billion investment advisory group and worked at Citigroup as the Sales and Marketing Manager for a $13 billion investment advisory service.

S. Boyd Karren ’10 was recently introduced as the new CEO of SearchMarketMe. The company’s founder said in a statement that SearchMarketMe needed a leader with both advanced education and experience in international business and working with diverse cultures. The founder said that Karren brings a wealth of understanding, experience and professional contacts from around the world and was the right person to take the company to the next level.