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2000-2009
Sean Heywood ’00 and Kumi Walker ’00 own and operate Mr., a barbershop and bar/lounge for professional men in San Francisco. (San Francisco Chronicle, 4/6/07)
Jill Salzman ’00 was interviewed about her experience as a female entrepreneur. (Audio: 6:39 min.) (Business Matters, 5/1/09)
The recently-launched MySpace News is based on more than three years of work by Dan Gould ’01 and Brian Norgard ’03. (Los Angeles Times, 4/19/07)
Bryan Cantrill ’96, Mike Shapiro ’96, ’97 ScM, and Adam Leventhal ’01, all engineers at Sun Microsystems, received the top prize in the Wall Street Journal’s 2006 Innovation Awards. (Wall Street Journal, 9/11/06)
Computer scientist Meredith Ringel Morris ’01 was named one of “35 Innovators Under 35” by Technology Review. (Technology Review, 9/5/08)
Documentary filmmaker Cass Sapir ’01 drove 34,000 miles through 42 states to attend games at 189 baseball stadiums as a fundraising effort for cancer research. (New York Times, 7/30/06)
Benjamin Goldhirsh ’03 launched a magazine called GOOD with a dual purpose: build a profitable business and serve as a platform for people looking to do good. (Los Angeles Times, 7/23/06)
Marlowe Kulley ’03 helped businesses “go green” in Portland, OR. (Portland Business Journal, 2/1/08)
Clay Rockefeller ’03 transformed a former foundry into an arts center for emerging artists and designers. (Interior Design, November, 2005)
Researcher Aparna Nadig ’04 PhD found a possible early indicator of autism in infants. (Science Daily, 4/4/07)
Alexis Saccoman ’04 and his brother won $80,000 on the ABC show Shark Tank. (Abc.com, 9/6/09)
With a coveted investment from Amazon.com, more than 100,000 songs for sale, and 13 employees - eight of them Brown alums - online store Amie Street is betting it can change the way you buy music. Amie Street, an online retail site for independent music started by Joshua Boltuch ’06, Elliott Breece ’06 and Elias Roman ’06, was also featured in Business Week’s search for “the best young entrepreneurs in the U.S. ” (Brown Daily Herald, 10/29/07; Business Week, 10/30/06)
In a New York Times op-ed, Christine Montross ’06 MD, ’07 ScM argued that dissecting cadavers offers irreplaceable medical experience. (New York Times, 3/26/09)
Chris Ordonez ’07 and Scott Norton ’08, co-founders of havadot, are connecting global design talent with clients in the U.S. (Providence Journal, 11/11/07)
1990-1999
Duane Bindschadler ’90 PhD pursued his childhood interest in space to a career in NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory. (WyomingNews.com, 1/14/07)
Sangeeta Bhatia ’90 and David M. Sabatini ’90 were among the 56 “most creative biomedical scientists” selected as this year’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. (HHMI.org, 5/27/08)
Theresia Gouw Ranzetta ’90 and Hilary Schneider ’82 were named “The New Valley Girls” in Fortune Magazine. (Fortune, September 2008)
Rufus Griscom ’91 is leaving his post as CEO of Nerve to focus his full attention on Babble, his parenting Web site. (New York Times, 1/30/09)
Computer scientist turned asset manager Axel Merk ’91, ’92 ScM is launching a fund that will allow average investors to play the markets with $2,500. (Reuters UK, 9/9/09)
Skype chief executive Josh Silverman ’91 made London’s Sunday Times “Top 40 Under 40.” (TimesOnline, 3/23/08)
Vanessa Vadim ’91 is the environmental advice columnist at the Mother Nature Network. (Access Atlanta, 3/31/09)
Karen Driscoll ’92 was named one of 40 movers and shakers under the age of 40 in the cable and telecommunications industry. (Multichannel News, 5/29/06)
Megan Fitzgerald ’92 runs a global career coaching business from Rome, Italy. (CNN Money, 6/16/09)
Joel Selanikio ’92 MD was honored for his open-source mobile health software. (Mass High Tech, 4/28/09)
Meredith Whitney ’92 made Time Magazine’s list of 100 “World’s Most Influential People.” Whitney was named one of 50 “Women to Watch” by the Wall Street Journal. An analyst at Oppenheimer & Co., she was profiled in a Fortune cover story. She also made their “Most Powerful Women in Business” list. (Time.com, May 2009; The Wall Street Journal, 11/10/08; Fortune, September 2008; Fortune, 8/6/08)
Michael Wu ’92, chairman of Hong Kong’s largest restaurant group, Maxim’s Caterers Ltd., was interviewed by the South China Morning Post. (South China Norning Post Podcast, 2/11/07)
Christina Morales Haltiwanger ’93 received a 2005 Charlotte Business Journal’s Women in Business Achievement Award. (Charlotte Business Journal, 2/06)
NPR’s Talk of the Nation featured Pamela Paul ’93 and her latest book, Parenting, Inc., about the big business of having children. (Audio) (NPR's Talk of the Nation, 4/7/08)
Suzanne McKechnie Klahr ’94, CEO and president of Businesses United in Investing, Lending, and Development (BUILD), received the Sand Hill Group Foundation 2006 Social Entrepreneur award. (BusinessWire, 4/5/06)
Social psychologist Jennifer Richeson ’94 was named to Smithsonian magazine’s list of “37 innovators under 37. ” Richeson is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship or so-called “genius ” award. ( Smithsonian magazine, October 2007; The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 9/19/06)
Fred Hsieh ’95 MD was awarded an Early Career Physician-Scientist award from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. (HHMI.org, 6/5/08)
Barry W. Murphy ’95 was profiled as an “achiever under 40 ” in the Oklahoma press. (Journal Record, 5/18/06)
Carl Palmer ’95 co-runs Beartooth Capital, a small private equity group that seeks to bring together the divergent worlds of private capital and land conservation. (Ecosystem Marketplace, 1/16/07)
Bryan Cantrill ’96, Mike Shapiro ’96, ’97 ScM, and Adam Leventhal ’01, all engineers at Sun Microsystems, received the top prize in the Wall Street Journal’s 2006 Innovation Awards. (Wall Street Journal, 9/11/06)
Taina Hernandez ’96* was named co-anchor of ABC’s “World News Now ” and “America This Morning. ” (Hollywood Reporter, 2/9/07)
As senior vice president and general manager at MTV Network’s VH1 Digital, Tina Imm ’96 is responsible for overall strategy, creative direction, content development, and production of VH1 Digital’s platforms. (Radioandmusic.com, 10/27/07)
Michelle Quiogue ’96, ’00 MD explains why doctors support health care reform. (Bakersfield.com, 8/29/09)
Eliot Pierce ’97 was promoted to vice president of operations and strategy at NYTimes.com. (Forbes.com, 6/5/07)
Jonah Staw ’97 is one of Crain’s NY “40 Under 40.” (Crain's New York, 3/31/09)
Kelly Benoit-Bird ’98 has been honored with a Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers. (Corvallis Gazette Times, 7/29/06)
Founder of New York City’s Rickshaw Dumpling Bar Kenny Lao ’98 was chosen for Inc. Magazine’s “30 under 30 ” list of America’s coolest young entrepreneurs. (Inc. Magazine, July 2006; Brown Daily Herald, 12/1/06)
Technology Review named Liam Paninski ’99 one of its 2006 Young Innovators Under 35 for using statistics to decipher the brain’s electrical signals. (Technology Review, September/October 2006)
1980-1989
John Dukakis ’80 was hired to run Boston ad agency Hill Holiday’s emerging branded entertainment division. (Boston Herald, 12/7/07)
John J. McConnell Jr. ’80 was honored by Lawyers USA for his landmark prosecution that found paint manufacturers liable for injuries caused by lead paint. (PRNewswire, 12/13/06)
Investor-educator Jonathan Stone ’80 was appointed the new executive director of Rhode Island’s Save The Bay (PBN.com, 12/17/08)
Michael Stout ’80 MD is a hands-on CEO of his medical company. (The State, 6/2/08)
Peter A. Thompson ’80, ’84 MD, co-founder, president, and CEO of Trubion Pharmaceuticals, was a finalist for the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year 2007 award, won last year by another Brown alumnus, Patrick Lo ’79. (Investors.com, 5/23/07)
Medical anthropologist Vincanne Adams ’81 was honored for her contributions to the study of traditional Asian medicine. (Marinij.com, 9/5/09)
Janet Dillione ’81 of Siemens Medical Solutions was named one of the most powerful women in the technology channel by VARBusiness Magazine. (BusinessWire, 8/14/07)
Brian Moynihan ’81 was promoted to oversee Bank of America’s consumer banking division. (Boston.com, 8/4/09)
Paul Ridker ’81 was leader of the Jupiter Study that suggests even people with low cholesterol could benefit from taking cholesterol-lowering statins. (The New York Times, 11/9/08)
Bill Beckmann ’82 is supervising a newly created residential mortgage unit that consolidates activities from two other Citi groups. Beckmann was the president and chief operating officer of CitiMortgage. (New York Times, 1/9/08; St. Louis Business Journal, 8/25/06)
Fortune magazine listed Sharon Fay ’82 as one of the highest paid women in the financial sector. (Fortune, September 2008)
Robert P. Goodman ’82 made the 2009 Forbes Midas 100 List. (Forbes, 1/29/09)
Craig Mello ’82 shared the 2006 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. Mello was also elected to the prestigious American Academy of Arts and Sciences. (10/2/06; UMass Medical School press release, 4/30/08)
Yahoo’s “global partner solutions” division will be led by Hilary Schneider ’82, a fast-rising protégée of Yahoo President Susan Decker. (New York Times, 8/30/07)
Robert E. Somol Jr. ’82 was named director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. (Architect Online, 8/17/07)
Hotel exec. Barry Sternlicht ’82 received a premier hospitality industry award. (Hospitality Net, 1/30/06)
Keith Ablow MD ’83* has a nationally syndicated talk show. (Boston Globe, 9/7/06)
Christopher Baldwin ’83 made the 2009 Forbes Midas 100 List. (Forbes, 1/29/09)
Lauren Corrao ’83, Comedy Central’s executive vice president for original programming and development, attributes her success at the cable channel to her male sense of humor. (NPR, 10/5/07)
Will Poole ’83, Microsoft Vice President of Emerging Markets, has helped develop a three-dollar Windows software suite for international governments that subsidize student computers. (CNET News.com, 4/19/07)
David Salesin ’83 has helped to develop a computer game that harnesses the efforts of scientists around the world to advance biomedical research. (Eureka! Science News, 5/8/08)
Mark Bear ’84 PhD founded a biotech company that has raised $30 million to develop a new autism treatment. (Xconomy.com, 9/17/09)
Michael Cappello ’84, a professor at the Yale University School of Medicine, has been named director of the Yale World Fellows Program. (Medical News Today, 5/15/07)
Thomas Gahan ’84 joined Providence Equity Partners (headed by Jonathan M. Nelson ’77) as president of the firm’s capital markets group. (Providence Business News, 9/25/08)
Randall Kroszner ’84, governor of the Federal Reserve Board, played a major role in crafting consumer-protection regulations in the areas of mortgage lending and credit card practices. (USA Today, 6/5/08)
Catherine Billon ’85 founded RiverWired.com, a social networking community for an eco-friendly audience. (Internet Retailer, 4/19/07)
Shiv V. Khemka ’85, executive director of Sun Group, is part of India’s delegation to the East Asia Summit of the World Economic Forum. (Yahoo! India News, 6/7/06)
NBC Universal named former ESPN executive Salil Mehta ’85 president of business operations, strategy, and development. (Hollywood Reporter, 2/6/08)
Jeff Podolsky ’85, editor of Tatler, has been named editor at large for The Wall Street Journal’s new luxury glossy magazine, WSJ. (The New York Observer, 5/29/08)
Janet Tsai Dargan ’86 is the senior vice president, business development, for Sony Pictures Television International. (Hollywood Reporter, 3/19/08)
The National Urban League appointed Cheryl F. McCants ’86 to senior vice president of marketing and communications. (Reuters, 2/19/08)
Shirin Moayyad ’86, director of coffee purchasing for Peet’s Coffee & Tea, was featured in Business Week for her company’s work in Africa. (Video: 3:42 min.) (Business Week, 4/23/09)
Author Scott Shane ’86 spoke with BusinessWeek about The Illusions of Entrepreneurship. (BusinessWeek, 1/23/08)
Barbara Shinn-Cunningham ’86 and Robert Cunningham ’85 are part-time scientists who have successfully made time for family. Barbara is also one of six distinguished scientists selected by the Department of Defense for its first class of National Security Science and Engineering Faculty Fellows. (Science Careers, 12/7/07; Washington Post, 6/9/08)
Lisa Strausfeld ’86 was profiled in BusinessWeek magazine for her innovative redesign and data visualization of the Gallup Organization’s Web site. (Business Week, 7/30/07)
NASA has selected GRAIL, a project led by Maria Zuber ’86 PhD, as one of 3 Discovery missions that will receive $1.2 million in funding for further study. (Planetary News, 10/31/06)
Cutting-edge developer Sean Cummings ’87 attracted both praise and skepticism with his recent New Orleans redevelopment proposal. (USAToday, 7/26/07)
Steve Glenn ’87 is founder and CEO of LivingHomes, a developer of a sustainable design model home that received the highest possible rating from the U.S. Green Building Council’s Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design. (Business Week Magazine, 9/11/06)
Marina Hatsopoulos ’87, founding CEO of Z Corporation, and her father, founder of Thermo Electron Corp., spoke together at MIT’s Enterprise Forum. (International Business Times, 5/28/08)
Mary Lou Jepsen ’87, ’97 PhD has launched a new company with plans to leverage a larger market for new technologies and create a $75 laptop. Jepsen is chief technology officer of One Laptop per Child, which aims to put computers within economic reach of children worldwide. (CBCNews, 1/10/08; New York Times, 11/30/06)
The New York Post profiled chairman and CEO of Atlantic Records Craig Kallman ’87. (New York Post, 6/15/09)
Fine jewelry retailer Zale Corp. named William Acevedo ’88 as executive vice president and chief stores officer. (MSN Money, 4/3/08)
The 2009 and 2008 Forbes Midas 100 List of best global dealmakers in tech and life sciences included Aneel Bhusri ’88. InformationWeek also named Bhusri one of 15 innovators driving change in the world of technology. (Forbes, 1/29/09; Information Week, 12/15/07; Forbes, 1/24/08)
David Katsujin Chao ’88 made the Forbes Midas List of Technology’s Top Dealmakers in 2007, 2008, and 2009. (Forbes, 1/25/07; Forbes, 1/24/08; Forbes, 1/29/09)
R. Christopher deCharms ’88 was the founder and chief executive of Omneuron, a start-up exploring the use of real-time functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) to treat chronic pain, addiction, and other conditions. (New York Times, 8/26/07)
Perry Hoffmeister ’88 was named head of U.S. investment banking by Nomura Holdings Inc., Japan’s largest brokerage firm. (RTT News, 3/17/09)
Pablo Salame ’88 was named one of four co-heads of the global securities division of Goldman Sachs. (Bloomberg, 2/28/08)
Sloan Lindemann-Barnett ’89 introduced eco-friendly household cleansers and health-care products through Tupperware-style parties. (New York Times, 4/22/07)
Clinical Assistant Professor of Family Medicine Cheng-Chieh Chuang ’89* used aesthetics to enhance his medical practice. (Boston Globe, 5/28/06)
1970-1979
The 2009 World Science Festival featured Ken Miller ’70, Anna Nagurney ’76, ’83 PhD, and James Naughton ’67. (Discover, 6/15/09; Discover, 6/15/09; Broadwayworld.com, 6/4/09)
After 20 years on Wall Street, Jack Schwager ’72 AM listed the first vehicle to invest solely in managed funds. (Financial Times, 4/23/07)
William Hankowsky ’73, Chairman, President and CEO of Liberty Property Trust, joined the Citizens Financial Group Board of Directors. (Pittsburgh Business Times, 2/22/07)
Arthur Horwich ’73, ’75 MD was awarded the Wiley Prize in the Biomedical Sciences for his groundbreaking research. He was also the first graduate of Brown’s medical school to be elected into the Institute of Medicine. (Yale Daily News, 12/9/08; Medical News Today, 2/2/07)
Richard Heller ’74 and Craig Jacobson ’74 were profiled in Variety as top Hollywood legal talent. (Variety, 3/28/07)
Michael Nichols ’74 was named senior vice President, general counsel, and corporate secretary at SYSCO Corporation. (Houston Chronicle, 7/21/06)
Steven Rattner ’74 will serve as a top adviser to Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on the task of rescuing the Big Three automakers. (Washington Post, 3/12/09)
The South China Morning Post featured Amy York Yip ’74, CEO of DBS Bank, a banker whose path to the top took an untraditional route. (South China Morning Post, 12/04/06)
Randy Komisar ’76 has co-authored a book about the importance of “Plan Bs” in dynamic business models. Komisar was also involved in the global collaboration with Al Gore and Generation Investment Management aimed at accelerating green business, technology, and policy solutions. (Forbes, 8/31/09; CNN, 11/11/07)
Debra L. Lee ’76, Chairman & CEO of Black Entertainment Television, was on the Wall Street Journal’s list of “The 50 Women to Watch.” (Wall Street Journal, 11/20/06)
Dr. Griffin Rodgers ’76, ’79 MD was appointed director of the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases at the National Institutes of Health.
Cornelia Dean ’69, Andrew Revkin ’78 and Matthew Wald ’76 were on the New York Times’ new environmental reporting unit. (Brown Alumni Magazine, January/February 2008)
George Barrett ’77 was named chairman and CEO of Cardinal Health, a $91 billion health care company ranked #18 on the Fortune 500. (DotMed News, 8/6/09)
Jonathan Nelson ’77 was also featured on the cover of Fortune Magazine. Nelson is leading Providence Equity Partners to invest in an NBC Universal/News Corporation joint venture to speed the arrival of TV and movies on the Web. (Fortune Magazine, May, 2008; New York Times, 8/9/07)
Julio E. Velarde ’77 AM was appointed head of the central bank of Peru. (Bloomberg, 9/7/06)
Seth Berkley ’78, ’81 MD made Time Magazine’s list of 100 “World’s Most Influential People.” (Time.com, May 2009)
John Chen ’78, chairman and CEO of Sybase Inc., was part of a recent summit of Silicon Valley leaders about the future of U.S. technology. U.S. database software provider Sybase Inc., which has bought nine companies in the last four years, is continuing its acquisition spree. (ABC7news.com, 10/11/07; Reuters, 3/15/07)
Charles Giancarlo ’78, senior vice president of Cisco Systems, was one of 21 technology leaders appointed to a task force by California Gov. Schwarzenegger to remove barriers to high-speed cable and wireless access. (Contra Costa Times, 12/10/06 )
Karen Hoguet ’78 has risen through the retail ranks to become chief financial officer at the nation’s largest department store chain: Cincinnati-based Federated Department. (Cincinnati Enquirer, 1/29/06)
New York Times science reporter Andrew C. Revkin ’78 has won the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in Journalism. (Brown Alumni Magazine, 9/17/08)
Senior research engineer Christopher Bull ’79, ’86 ScM, ’06 PhD and RISD designers are developing cheap, clean, and comfortable transportation for developing nations. (Providence Journal, 2/17/07)
Patrick Lo ’79 received an Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award (networking/ communications category). (PRNewswire, 6/20/06)
1900-1969
Aaron T. Beck ’42, ’82 Hon. received a Lasker Award for his more than 40 years of pioneering work in the field of cognitive therapy. Beck has a new theory on the root of depression: a gene that makes the brain “hyperactive to negative experiences.” (New York Times, 9/17/06; Boston.com, 1/19/09)
Stanley Falkow ’60 ScM, ’61 PhD was awarded the Lasker-Koshland Award for Special Achievement in Medical Science, one of the nation’s highest honors for medical researchers. (BioTechniques, 9/13/08)
Ted Turner ’60 made Time Magazine’s list of 100 “World’s Most Influential People.” Turner discussed his book, the economy, and foreign policy on Meet the Press. (Video: 18:30 min.) (Time.com, May 2009; Meet the Press, 11/25/08)
John E. Marshall III ’64, retiring president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation, commented on the evolution of the challenge grant. (Philanthropy News Digest, 6/21/06)
Nancy L. Buc ’65 was elected chair of the Board of Directors of the Food and Drug Law Institute. (CNBC.com, 1/21/08)
Former Secret Service agent Paul Kelly ’66 set up security for the 2008 Summer Olympics. (Patriot Ledger, 1/2/08)
Janet Yellen ’67, president and CEO of the Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, was a keynote speaker at the 2008 Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Annual Conference on the Global Economy. (San Antonio Express-News, 4/3/08)
William Linehan ’69 was made a member of the Institute of Medicine. (Institute of Medicine, 10/13/08)
George Lister ’69 MD became a member of The Institute of Medicine. (Medical News Today, 10/11/06)
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