Business/Research
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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)
The recently-launched MySpace News is based on more than three years of work by Brian Norgard ’03 and Dan Gould ’01. (Los Angeles Times, 4/19/07)
Bryan Cantrill ’96, Mike Shapiro ’96, ’97 ScM, and Adam Leventhal ’01 - all engineers at Sun Microsystems - receive the top prize in the Wall Street Journal’s 2006 Innovation Awards. (Wall Street Journal, 9/11/06)
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 is launching 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 is helping 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 has found a possible early indicator of autism in infants. (Science Daily, 4/4/07)
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 Elliott Breece ’06, Joshua Boltuch ’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)
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)
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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 are among the 56 “most creative biomedical scientists” selected as this year’s Howard Hughes Medical Institute Investigators. (HHMI.org, 5/27/08)
Skype chief executive Josh Silverman ’91 made London’s Sunday Times “Top 40 Under 40.” (TimesOnline, 3/23/08)
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)
Michael Wu ’92, chairman of Hong Kong’s largest restaurant group, Maxim’s Caterers Ltd., is 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 is a recipient of a MacArthur Foundation fellowship or so-called "genius" award. Richeson was also named to Smithsonian magazine’s list of "37 innovators under 37." (The Chronicle of Philanthropy, 9/19/06; Smithsonian magazine, October 2007)
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 - receive the top prize in the Wall Street Journal’s 2006 Innovation Awards. (Wall Street Journal, 9/11/06)
LA Weekly profiled Rufus Gifford ’96 and his partner - influential political power brokers who are helping to promote gay and lesbian issues. (LA Weekly, 1/30/08)
Taina Hernandez ’96* has been 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)
Eliot Pierce ’97 was promoted to vice president of operations and strategy at NYTimes.com. (Forbes.com, 6/5/07)
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)
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1980-1989
John Dukakis ’80 has been 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)
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, is 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)
Janet Dillione ’81 of Siemens Medical Solutions is named one of the most powerful women in the technology channel by VARBusiness Magazine. (BusinessWire, 8/14/07)
Bill Beckmann ’82 is the president and chief operating officer of CitiMortgage. Beckmann* is supervising a newly created residential mortgage unit that consolidates activities from two other Citi groups. (St. Louis Business Journal, 8/25/06; New York Times, 1/9/08)
Craig Mello ’82 shares the 2006 Nobel prize in Physiology or Medicine for his work in the discovery of RNA interference - gene silencing by double-stranded RNA. (10/2/06)
Yahoo’s new “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 has been named director of the University of Illinois at Chicago School of Architecture. (Architect Online, 8/17/07)
Hotel exec Barry Sternlicht ’82 received premier hospitality industry award. (Hospitality Net, 1/30/06)
Keith Ablow MD ’83* has a new nationally syndicated talk show. (Boston Globe, 9/7/06)
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)
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)
Catherine Billon ’85 has 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 has 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 new senior vice president, business development, for Sony Pictures Television International. (Hollywood Reporter, 3/19/08)
The National Urban League has appointed Cheryl F. McCants ’86 to senior vice president of marketing and communications. (Reuters, 2/19/08)
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. (Science Careers, 12/7/07)
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)
Fine jewelry retailer Zale Corp. has named William Acevedo ’88 as executive vice president and chief stores officer. (MSN Money, 4/3/08)
InformationWeek named Aneel Bhusri ’88 one of 15 innovators driving change in the world of technology. Bhusri ’88 was also ranked 16 in Forbes’ “The Midas 100 List” of the best global dealmakers in tech and life sciences. (Information Week, 12/15/07; Forbes, 1/24/08)
David Katsujin Chao ’88 made the annual Forbes’ Midas List: Technology’s Top Dealmakers. Chao was ranked again as 18 in the 2008 issue. (Forbes, 1/25/07; Forbes, 1/24/08)
R. Christopher deCharms ’88 is 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)
Pablo Salame ’88 has been named one of four co-heads of the global securities division of Goldman Sachs. (Bloomberg, 2/28/08)
Sloan Lindemann-Barnett ’89 is introducing 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* uses aesthetics to enhance his medical practice. (Boston Globe, 5/28/06)
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1970-1979
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, has 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. (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 has been named senior vice President, general counsel, and corporate secretary at SYSCO Corporation. (Houston Chronicle, 7/21/06)
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 is involved in the global collaboration with Al Gore and Generation Investment Management aimed at accelerating green business, technology, and policy solutions. (CNN, 11/11/07)
Debra L. Lee ’76, Chairman & CEO of Black Entertainment Television, is 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.
Jonathan Nelson ’77 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. (New York Times, 8/9/07)
Julio E. Velarde ’77 AM has been appointed head of the central bank of Peru. (Bloomberg, 9/7/06)
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, is 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)
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)
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1900-1969
Dr. Aaron T. Beck ’42, ’82 Hon. receives a Lasker Award for his more than 40 years of pioneering work in the field of cognitive therapy. (New York Times, 9/17/06)
John E. Marshall III ’64, retiring president and CEO of the Kresge Foundation, comments 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 will head to Beijing to set up security for the 2008 Summer Olympics. (Patriot Ledger, 1/2/08)
George Lister ’69 MD became a new member of The Institute of Medicine. (Medical News Today, 10/11/06)
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