Class Notes
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Individuals are listed according to the year of their most recent School of Management degree.
Class Years
Chris Greene, MBA ’75, partner at Barclay Damon, was recognized as a notable practitioner by Chambers USA.
Dan Hauenstein, MBA ’82, is an arbitrator with the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service as well as the American Arbitration Association. He also serves on the panel of arbitrators with the Ohio State Employment Relations Board.
Brian W. Dziwulski, BS ’83, was named chief operating officer for the ministry C-Suite for Christ.
Doug Olsson, BS ’83, retired as CEO of Greater Lima Region Inc., an economic development nonprofit organization in Ohio.
Kenneth Ruh, MBA ’89, was named president and CEO of The Carby Corporation, a metals processor in Watertown, Conn.
Daniel Laufer, BS ’91, was named professor and head of the School of Communication Studies at the Auckland University of Technology.
Ronald Peoples, BS ’91, was promoted to customer success director at SalesForce.
Alumni Spotlight: School honors distinguished PhD alumni
Throughout 2024, the School of Management recognized seven distinguished alumni with PhD Achievement Awards for their significant contributions to their fields and communities:
- Angela K. Gore, PhD ’00, George Washington University School of Business
- Kenneth E. Kendall, MBA ’70, PhD ’75, Rutgers School of Business-Camden
- E. Han Kim, PhD ’75, University of Michigan Ross School of Business
- Yongtae Kim, PhD ’01, Santa Clara University Leavey School of Business
- Stanley J. Kon, PhD ’76, Ripsaw LLC
- Cheng-Few Lee, PhD ’73, Rutgers University
- Lemma W. Senbet, PhD ’76, University of Maryland, College Park
Juliana Allely, BS ’96, was named president and general manager of KPCW Radio in Park City, Utah.
Pietra Zaffram, BS ’96, was named partner at Hodgson Russ LLP.
Cynthia Khan, BS ’95, MBA ’97, was promoted to senior vice president, strategic planning at Northwell Health.
Gregory Lewandowski, BS ’98, is founder and chief AI strategist at GLEW.
David Morlitz, MBA ’98, was promoted to business unit executive at IBM.
Matthew Michalski, MBA ’99, was named vice president, claims programs and shared services at Amerisure Insurance.
Ronald Veiders, MBA ’01, was named director of marketing at Curbell Medical.
David Wedekindt, MBA ’02, was promoted to president of Artpark & Co. Inc.
Laura Fecher, BS Engineering/MBA ’04, was promoted to senior director of national accounts and celebrated her 20-year employment anniversary at Piramal Critical Care Inc.
Deneb Pirrone, BS ’04, MBA ’06, was promoted to chief compliance and quality officer at Catholic Charities of Buffalo.
Tara Richman (Redmond), BS ’06, was promoted to chief of staff to the chief transformation officer at Kyndryl.
Victor Filadora, EMBA ’07, MD, was named chief physician executive at Catholic Health.
Alexander Barr, BS ’08, CPA, was named director, finance transformation and process innovation at Horizon Five.
Stephen Turner, BS ’08, partner at The Bonadio Group, was named to Buffalo Business First’s 40 Under 40 list for 2024.
Fred Sansiveri, BS ’09, joined HubSpot as an account executive.
Shayna Arrington, JD/MBA ’11, chief risk officer at Servbank, was ranked No. 1 on the 2024 Most Powerful Women in Banking list by American Banker.
Poornima Raman, MS ’11, was named senior program manager at NVIDIA.
Elizabeth Chapman, JD/MBA ’12, associate general counsel and director of corporate social responsibility at Columbus McKinnon, was named to Buffalo Business First’s 40 Under 40 list for 2024.
Jasmeet Singh Gujral, MS ’12, was promoted to group product lead, AI products at eBay.
Benjamin Sohn, BS ’12, was promoted to director of medical solutions at IDS Medical Systems (idsMED).
Mark Bortz, BS ’05, MBA ’13, was promoted to marketing manager at Mattel Inc.
Mahesh Varma Pusapati, MS ’13, was promoted to director, data analysis at Capital One.
Ann Casey, MBA ’14, architect and northeast market leader at Wendel, was named to Buffalo Business First’s 40 Under 40 list for 2024.
Carson Ciggia, BS ’14, was named senior manager of supply chain at Walmart, in the company’s home office in Bentonville, Ark.
Gary Kurdziel, EMBA ’14, was named executive vice president and chief commercial officer at Sense Neuro Diagnostics.
Marina Barci, BS ’15, joined Kahana Feld as an attorney.
Varsha Narasimhamurthy, MBA ’15, was promoted to director of product marketing, C&I at SolarEdge Technologies.
Charles Schutt, BS ’14, MS ’15, CAMS, was promoted to senior vice president, financial crimes audit at M&T Bank.
Brandon Steinbaum, BS ’15, was named senior industry account executive at Logic20/20 Inc.
Adam Fries, MBA ’16, was promoted to brand manager of Lipton Hard Iced Tea at FIFCO USA.
Sean McEvoy, BS ’16, was named Microsoft Dynamics CRM administrator at Bryant & Stratton College.
Annie Ouyang, BS ’16, vice president at Goldman Sachs, was named franchise manager for Marquee, the digital platform for institutional and corporate clients.
Jarrod Tran, BS ’16, was promoted to manager, industrial engineering at Tesla.
Vimal Venugopalan, PMBA ’16, was promoted to vice president of sales at Medbio LLC.
Sara Chee, BS ’17, was named people operations associate at Vanta.
Apurva Jajodia, MS ’17, was promoted to manager at ServiceNow.
Medha Parashar, MS ’17, was named senior product manager in supply chain at Microsoft.
Christopher Whitcomb, PMBA ’17, communications strategist and associate vice president at CannonDesign, was named to Buffalo Business First’s 40 Under 40 list for 2024.
Allie Coates, BS ’18, was promoted to HR business partner at National Grid.
Ashley Huertas, BS ’18, was named senior enterprise risk analyst at The Summit Federal Credit Union.
Alexander Bitar, BS ’17, MS ’19, was promoted to solutions architect at SalesForce.
Danielle Vazquez, MPH/MBA ’19, was named an Impact Class of 2025 Fellow by the Chicago Urban League’s Impact Leadership Development Program.
Mohit Tuteja MS ’20, CFA, was named product specialist - multi-asset performance and risk at Bloomberg.
Alex Wu, BS ’20, was named litigation support analyst at TransPerfect.
Andy Zheng, BS ’21, CPA, was promoted to senior tax associate at KPMG.
Prasanna Bhamidipati, PMBA ’22, was promoted to director, Aerospace Business Unit and Global Engineering at Conax Technologies.
Jason Zauner, PMBA ’22, joined Eleversity as training and organizational development specialist II.
Mark Fleming, PMBA ’23, was named business strategy lead at M&T Bank.
Peter Fox, PMBA ’17, MS ’23, was promoted to director of quality engineering at Honeywell.
Nandini Mehta, MS ’23, was named senior delivery manager at Moody’s.
Himani Priya, MBA ’22, MS ’23, was named senior associate at Axtria.
Soumya Shetty, MS ’23, was named manager of IT infrastructure and cloud operations at Canoo.
Aditya Singh, MS ’23, was named data solutions architect at Aspetto.
Anmol Sizaria, MS ’23, was named internal audit associate at Goldman Sachs.
Steffy Thampy, MS ’23, was named senior associate at Cognizant.
Alexander Wanat, MBA ’23, was named MDP management trainee - retail sales strategy associate at M&T Bank.
Akshansh Baliyan, MS ’24, joined Amazon Web Services as a business intelligence engineer, AWS Analytics and Data Solutions.
Ahana Banerjee, MS ’24, was named business intelligence analyst - product and technology analytics at Synapse Health.
Claudia Cabrera, BS ’22, MS ’24, was named project manager, delivery and compliance operations - Mexico, Latin America at Tesla.
Farrah Fuld, BS ’24, was named analyst, FICC product control at Goldman Sachs.
William Gorman, MBA ’24, was named management trainee, commercial lending operations at M&T Bank.
Aiona Lawrence, BS ’23, MS ’24, was named financial solutions analyst II at Citi.
Elianys Martinez, BS ’23, MS ’24, joined Aero Instruments & Avionics Inc. as a data analyst.
Jahanvee Narang, MS ’24, was named senior data analyst at Walmart.
Sergio Sandoval, BS ’24, joined Leland as a management consulting coach.
Marta Varga, BS ’24, was named finance trainee at Bunge.