FAR-FLUNG LEADERS Business on a Global Scale Opens the Door to Extraordinary Careers

THE MAGAZINE OF THE HAAS SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY

Summer 2013

3 TEE TIME 14 OB GAME CHANGER 20 BUILDING WORK-LIFE BALANCE Haas undergrad Michael Weaver becomes the Prof. Barry Staw has far-reaching infl uence on Real estate developer Carol Meyer encourages fi rst current Cal golfer to make the Masters the fi eld of organizational behavior women to pay it forward

FAR-FLUNG LEADERS Business on a global scale opens the door to extraordinary careers

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FEATURES AND DEPARTMENTS The International Issue EDITOR IN CHIEF Ronna Kelly, BS 92 UP FRONT EXECUTIVE EDITORS Richard Kurovsky Ute Frey DESIGN Cuttriss & Hambleton, Berkeley STAFF WRITERS Valerie Gilbert, Amy Marcott, Pamela Tom CONTRIBUTING WRITERS Victoria Chang, Mandy 2 Haas List Erickson, Kim Girard, Moira A newly remodeled Haas Muldoon, Christine Rohan, courtyard comes alive. Josh Sens, Mary Beth Warner PHOTOGRAPHERS 4 Haas News Jim Block, Ed Caldwell, Dean Rich Lyons lists fi ve Peter Capocao, Surbhit Dixit, easy steps alumni can Antoine Doyen, Paul Mason, take to help Haas. Genevieve Shiffrar, Martin Westlake ILLUSTRATOR Alex Williamson IN THE BACK Berkeley-Haas magazine is published by the Haas School of Business, University of California, Berkeley. For further information, contact: Berkeley-Haas Magazine Editor Supreme Energy CEO Supramu Santosa, BS 80, MBA 81, in Indonesia page 6 Haas School of Business University of California Berkeley, CA 94720-1900 6 Far-Flung Leaders 510-643-0259 20 Campaign for Haas [email protected] As business has taken on a more global scale, global business careers have Developer Carol Meyer, taken on increasingly varied forms. We share the stories of four alumni and one BS 69, MBA 71, encourages Berkeley-Haas Summer 2013, student who together highlight the diverse paths that global careers can take. women to pay it forward Number 83. Two alumni built successful businesses in their home countries of Poland and while building work-life Indonesia after earning their degrees from Berkeley. Two other alumni live in balance. For change of address, email the Bay Area but travel around the world for their jobs. And one student created [email protected]. 22 Worldwide Events a transformative train tour throughout his native India before coming to Haas. Alumni celebrate at reunion weekend. 12 Haas Alumni Around the World 24 Alumni Notes A map of the school’s representatives and notable alumni overseas. 37 In Memory 38 Personal View Haas values take shape 14 OB Game Changer in Africa. By challenging conventional thinking, Professor Barry Staw has had far- reaching infl uence on the fi eld of organizational behavior during his more than 30-year career. Cover photograph by Martin Westlake 16 Your Haas Network Profi les of alumni in Afghanistan; London; Berlin; Dallas; Bainbridge Island, Wash.; and Point Reyes, Calif.

Summer 2013 1 Up Front Haas List

MBA for Executives Class is 3 in Session Capital Campaign Dinner at the top of Memorial Stadium Courtyard with a Nobel Laureate surrounded by jaw- dropping views. A talk Comes Alive on design thinking by IDEO General Manager 1 Tom Kelley, MBA 83. And three intense days of coursework on economics, statistics, and accounting. Those are just some highlights of the first block of classes for the new Berkeley MBA for Students Executives Program, which 4Meeting the began May 15. The 19-month program Oracle of Omaha will feature courses Twenty Berkeley MBA in Washington, D.C., students flew to Omaha, Shanghai, and Silicon Neb., in April to meet Valley. Among the students with legendary investor in the inaugural class: Warren Buffett, CEO of executives from Southern Berkshire Hathaway. California, Virginia, New During a two-hour Q&A York, and Seoul, South session, Buffett predicted Korea; two high-level more bubbles and more military officers; an early buy opportunities in our Google employee; and a lifetimes, but said the veterinarian.

ED CALDWELL trick is knowing whether a company has lost its edge permanently or is in Renovation of the Haas courtyard Executive Education temporary crisis. was completed in late April just in New CEO Brings “It was a once in a time to provide a welcoming space lifetime experience,” Consulting Chops says Bryan Wong, MBA for alumni at reunion weekend 14, co-president of the and new full-time MBA admits at Derek Dean joined the Center for Haas Investment Club 2 Executive Education (CEE) as CEO Days@Haas. and a Haas investment in April, bringing more than two management fellow, The new courtyard was envisioned decades of consulting experience who called Buffett by Dean Rich Lyons to serve as a to the position. Dean spent 20 “incredibly humble and lively hub to share ideas, mingle, years at McKinsey & Co., leading down the earth.” and socialize. The plaza-like space the firm’s global semiconductor One highlight of the practice for 10 years and then trip for Joanne Xu, is intended to foster more multi- managing its San Francisco office. MBA 14, was hearing disciplinary discussion among In 2010 he moved to The Exetor from the people who students, faculty, and staff from Haas Group, where he designed and de- run Buffett’s compa- livered development programs and nies, including jewelry and the entire Berkeley campus. coached executives and teams in such industries as retailer Borsheims and The renovation included replacing technology, advertising, and professional services. party supplier Oriental large planters with pavers in order to Dean’s arrival comes after CEE’s April 1 restructur- Trading Co. “People are ing into a self-supporting, affiliated nonprofit of the very loyal to him, and provide a larger gathering space as Haas School in order to grow faster and help meet he puts a lot of trust in well as planting several large maples the school’s financial goals. CEE’s profits help sup- them,” says Xu. and other landscaping improvements. port academic areas and operations at Haas.

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Rankings Students #1 in U.S. News 5 The Evening & Weekend Tee Time Berkeley MBA Program climbed to #1 in this year’s In April, with the semester in full swing,ng, U.S. News ranking. In a Michael Weaver, BS 14, set aside his separate ranking, the business studies and set out for a differ-fer Full-time Berkeley Students MBA Program ranked ent kind of course: the Masters, golf’s #7 for the sixth year in a prestigious springtime rite. row. The part-time MBA Weaver, the first current member of Lessons ranking focuses on a peer the Cal golf team to play in the tourna- 8 assessment and admis- from Batman sions measures, while the ment, parred the first hole of the opening full-time MBA ranking round. Round 2 fell on his 22nd birthday, How should Panasonic enter the smart-home market? also includes placement which he celebrated with birdies on two That was the question the electronics company posed success, a recruiters to evening-and-weekend MBA students as their final in survey, and starting of his final four holes. Though he missed their Problem Finding Problem Solving course in March. salaries. the cut, he looks back on the golf compe- The winning proposal focused on a new technology, tition as a sort of career day. dubbed “My Alfred,” to simplify people’s connected lives. “I didn’t feel like I didn’t belong there, “Everyone wants to be like Batman with cutting-edge technology, but Batman succeeds only because and that’s the most important take-away he has Alfred taking care of everything behind the for me,” he says. scenes,” explains Kim Cabot, MBA 14. “We proposed a Drawn to economics and investing, virtual butler that acts as a bridge technology to unite all the screens in your house, anticipate your needs, Weaver opted for a business major with and fit into the way you live.” Cabot and three other thoughts of a career in financial services. students are now helping Panasonic envision the first Though he now plans to turn pro after device to move toward creating a virtual Alfred. graduation, he’s realized the golf course Faculty and classroom have something in com- Responsible mon: “You get out of it what you put in. Business The harder you work, the 6 Leader more payoffs you see.” Kellie McElhaney, founder of Haas’ Center for Responsible Business (CRB) and now faculty director, received the Founder and Visionary Award from Dean Rich Lyons at CRB’s 10th anniversary March 20. Through CRB, McElhaney 7Michael Weaver, BS 14 Alumni has brought Haas to the forefront of the corporate London Calling social responsibility and Alumni gathered in London May 31 business sustainability to June 2 for a weekend of activities, movements. Indiegogo, a 9 including a one-day symposium fundraising platform focused on leadership. Alumna Connson Chou Locke, co-founded by Danae PhD 08, a lecturer at the London School of Economics Ringelmann and Eric and Political Science, shared her research examining Schell, both MBA 08, how communication styles, such as nonverbal behavior, received the center’s new affect perception, judgment, and conduct in the Homer Redefining workplace. Haas alum and Senior Lecturer Paul Tiffany, Business Award, named PhD 83, discussed the limitations of current strategic for late CRB chair and management models and offered a new approach to tech veteran Mike Homer. how leaders can best achieve competitive advantage.

Summer 2013 3 Up Front Haas News

WINNERS Competition Roundup Leaning In Undergrad Program holds first Women’s Haas took first place in Empowerment Day several competitions this spring. As Facebook COO Sheryl Sandberg was urging women to Lean In this spring, nearly a dozen successful alumnae did just that by returning to $100,000 Prize in First Haas to talk with 100 Look West Department Students Louis Li, Sarah Walker, and Dimitar Goulev, all MBA 14, undergraduates at the of Energy Competition tackled a real estate challenge on Telegraph Avenue. Regional Finals: school’s first Women’s Phani Meduri and Sam Empowerment Day. Gharib, both MBA 15 New Lease on Land Kelly Wilson, BS 13, called the event “exhilarating.” “The women were candidly honest about the delicate MBA course drills down on real estate balance of a successful career and personal relation- Not everything about real estate development can be con- ships,” says Wilson. Among the advice she received: tained on a spreadsheet, MBA students learned this spring. “The key to success is to have a supportive partner “Buildings sink or swim on the developer’s mastery who will share the workload while encouraging profes- of core business disciplines,” says Professor Nancy sional growth.” Entrepreneurship Wallace, who co-taught the MBA Real Estate CPA Jennie Hoopes, BS 80, shared her experience in Global Health Investment and Market Analysis course with Professor working at a big firm, taking time off when her children Challenge: Katrin Cox Dwight Jaffee. “But the ability to think creatively across were young, and returning when they got older. “The and Annie Murphy, those disciplines is also a must.” hardest part was the confidence that you lose when both MBA/MPH 14, and One student team applied creativity to a city plan you take time off,” says Hoopes. “You need a mentor so Priya Mehta, MBA 14 to rejuvenate a Berkeley site surrounded by a vermin- you don’t lose faith.” infested lot, an abandoned storefront, and People’s Park. Their plan included preserving a historic mural, affordable housing, and a small grocery store. Another team, tapped to address Cal Performances’ Taking a Stab at desire for a new facility, found shorter-term options appeared to have greater paybacks. “It’s a very real- Big Ideas@Berkeley world outcome,” says Wallace, “to find that very large- Diabetes Contest: Shuonan Chen, scale projects must be developed in stages.” Justin Chu, both BS 13, Haas@Work students prescribe Reframing their challenge, students developed a digital remedies and Virgina Chung, BS 12 plan to help Cal Performances expand revenue by leveraging Cal culture. “Our approach was inspired by What is the best way to help the estimated 347 million Question the Status Quo,” says Brad Wolfe, MBA 13. “We people worldwide who suffer from diabetes better have seen the power of the Haas Defining Principles as manage their disease? That was the daunting question market differentiators and suggested a similar culture posed to students from the Berkeley MBA Program and campaign for Cal Performances.” School of Information this spring by Abbott Diabetes Best Doctoral Paper, Care (ADC), a client of the school’s Haas@Work experi- American Accounting QUOTED New UC Berkeley Chancellor ential learning course. Association Western After generating insights on patient and health care Regional Meetings: PhD “There is something different about provider attitudes, as well as the glucose monitoring student James Ryan Berkeley-Haas. At the cutting edge and e-health landscapes, students developed and of all business schools, what truly pitched several solutions and strategic partnerships to separates Haas from the rest is the improve diabetes care. Students presented use cases, way in which students, faculty, and economic models, go-to-market plans, and ways to alumni are constantly challenging de-risk the trip to market though further research, the status quo, redefining the terms experimentation, and pilot design. and meaning of excellence, always “ADC was very impressed by how quickly the Haas Institutional Investor’s Nicholas Dirks with a special commitment to team got up to speed on trends in diabetes care and by All-America Student diversity and collaboration. In these the breadth of ideas presented,” says Eric Davis, ADC’s Analyst Competition, and so many other ways, the Haas School reflects director of new product innovation. “We are continuing Health Care Sector: and contributes to Berkeley’s standing as one of the to dig deeper to translate their concepts into real new Chao Zhang, MBA 13 greatest universities in the world.” products that we can take to market.”

4 BerkeleyHaas Up Front

Watch a video about the school’s ﬁ rst Women’s Empowerment Day. Champions DEAN’S LETTER of Haas Undergrads Embody Defining Principles

For the first time, Haas recognized four undergraduates with a Champion of Culture Award, one for each of the Berkeley-Haas Defining Principles, at commencement. Brandon Pham (Question the Status Quo) served on the Associated Students of the University of California (ASUC) Senate as a freshman and interned in the UK HAN Chapter President Jens Dueing, MBA 08, chats with Dean Rich Lyons during the Alumni Berkeley Mayor’s Office and the White House. Weekend in London. Lanny O’Connell (Confidence Without Attitude) played a critical role in applying his startup experience to a class project that required a business model and proof Helping Haas of forecasted success. Hedy Chen (Student Always) was Berkeley’s first Make a difference in 15 minutes or less ASUC sophomore executive chief of staff and the only Too often alumni think they don’t have the time or resources to give back to undergrad to participate in an MBA course that teams Haas. But there are so many ways to give back that don’t require you to write a up students with nonprofits. check or commit a big chunk of time. These seemingly small five steps can add Michael Bloch (Beyond Yourself) organized student up, especially when many alumni take them: groups to raise money for Haiti, served as an ASUC senator, and created a nonprofit that offers free 1. Take the Call: When an alumnus or student you may not know calls you– consulting to low-income business owners. whether it’s about a new venture or job advice—give 15 minutes of your time. The awards were the brainchild of Haas Business After all, in the future you may be in a similar situation, seeking advice from School Association President Tyler Wishnoff, BS an alum you don’t know. 13, who received the school’s Stanley J. Thompson 2. Write an Alumni Note: The back of this magazine features our Alumni Memorial Award. Wishnoff rebuilt the undergrad cohort Notes—short updates from alumni about their personal and professional system and chaired Haas and UC Berkeley’s senior gift lives. They’re a great way to stay in touch with your classmates—and even campaigns. His favorite Defining Principle: Question the network with other alumni. Status Quo. 3. Follow Haas in Social Media: Stay abreast of the school’s news by “It’s easy to fall into the trap of mediocrity, but that’s following and retweeting @richlyons and @BerkeleyHaas on Twitter and not how progress is made,” he says. “You need people to connecting to us on LinkedIn and at facebook.com/BerkeleyHaas. Question the Status Quo, to say there’s got to be a 4. Update Your @cal Profile: @cal is an amazing directory of more than better way.” Wishnoff 400,000 Berkeley alumni, including 38,000 Haas grads. Make sure your did just that at profile is current and allow others to email you through @cal. Creating the Haas. strongest @cal directory also will help you strengthen your own network. 5. Be a Berkeley-Haas Culture Carrier: The Haas Defining Principles codify our school’s unique culture and unite and distinguish us as alumni. Support Haas as a culture carrier by carrying your Berkeley-Haas culture card in your wallet and referring to it or the Defining Principles in conversation. Call the Alumni Relations Office (510-642-7790) to receive a card by mail.

Tyler Wishnoff, BS 13 Even more important, take actions that embody the Defining Principles. As a Student Always, take a class through our Center for Executive Education or promote the center at your company. Go Beyond Yourself like alumna Carol Meyer, BS 69, MBA 71, on page 18. Question the Status Quo, like hedge fund adviser Michael Belkin, BS 86, profiled on page 15. Or lead with Confidence Without Attitude, like alumni with international careers in our cover story. We know you may not have time to take all of these steps right away. But taking just one or two will make a difference for Berkeley-Haas.

Sincerely Yours,Yours,

RiRichch Lyons,Lyons, BS 8282 [email protected]

Summer 2013 5 From Roughneck to CEO Supramu Santosa, BS 80, MBA 81 CEO, Supreme Energy Jakarta, Indonesia

Supramu Santosa began his career on an oil rig in the Indian Ocean, working as a “roughneck,” or laborer, after high school before setting his sights on UC Berkeley’s FAR-FLUNG business school. “Berkeley was very famous. Several ministers had gone there and became the architects of the Indonesian economy in the 1960s,” says Santosa, referring to a group of Indonesian economists who became known as the “Berkeley Mafia.” After working on the oil rig for seven years, Santosa applied to Berkeley and was accepted. “How could it be so LEADERS easy?” he recalls wondering. It wasn’t. When he arrived in California with $7,500 in savings, he discovered he had been accepted to a small private city college in Berkeley. Undaunted, he took evening classes at UC Extension and UC San Francisco before being accepted into UC Berkeley. He paid his own BUSINESS ON A GLOBAL SCALE OPENS way by working at Indian restaurants and took as many THE DOOR TO EXTRAORDINARY CAREERS as 24 units a semester to earn his bachelor’s and master’s degrees. Santosa then returned to Indonesia and worked for several oil companies in everything from human resources and finance to strategic planning and operations. He was By Ronna Kelly senior vice president at Gulf Indonesia Resources when he left in 2002 and went on to create two companies: Star Energy, which acquired an oil field considered too small Ah, summer. Often a time to escape day-to-day by large international companies, and his latest venture, life and travel to a faraway land to experience new peoples Supreme Energy, which is focused on geothermal power. “There were huge neglected and underdeveloped and cultures. But for some alumni, such experiences are geothermal resources,” Santosa explains. “Oil prices day-to-day life as their business educations have led to were increasing, Indonesia oil production was decreas- careers in far-fl ung locales thousands of miles from Berkeley. ing, and the government was spending a lot of money on As business has taken on a more global scale, global busi- oil subsidies.” ness careers, in turn, have taken on increasingly varied While some environmentalists and locals have raised forms. Here we share the stories of four alumni and one concerns about geothermal drilling harming the environ- student who together highlight the diverse paths that global ment, geothermal power is widely viewed as renewable clean energy because it emits almost no greenhouse gas- careers can take. Two alumni built successful businesses es. Indonesia has the greatest geothermal resources in the in their home countries of Poland and Indonesia through world, Santosa notes, yet many areas in the country suffer courage and persistence that led them fi rst to Berkeley- blackouts and brownouts. Haas. Two other alumni live in the Bay Area but have gained Santosa spent four years and millions of his own dollars insights into other cultures from jobs that have taken them to acquire three geothermal fields and conduct geological around the globe to such countries as Kenya and the Philip- studies. He negotiated a 30-year deal to sell geothermal- pines. And one student created a transformative train tour generated electricity to the government-owned utility and attracted three international investors: France’s GDF throughout his native India before coming to Haas. From Suez and Japan’s Sumitomo and Marubeni. their experiences crisscrossing the globe, all fi ve have come The hurdles are still immense: about $2.4 billion in to understand and appreciate the valuable personal and capital expenses and long timelines. Supreme’s first of career growth that comes from visiting other lands. three fields will not begin generating energy until 2016. “It was long and very stressful,” concedes Santosa. “If I didn’t have determination and passion, I could not have gone this far. But I knew Indonesia needs a huge amount of energy to support its fast-growing economy, and renewable energy is the answer.” MARTIN WESTLAKE MARTIN

Supreme Energy CEO Supramu Santosa with Mount Kerinci, the highest volcano in Indonesia, in the background.

Summer 2013 7 ANTOINE DOYEN ANTOINE

Ulatowski grew up in Poland when traveling outside the country was forbidden by communism. So he became an officer in the Polish Merchant Marine to see the world. “My pay was 10 U.S. cents per day in foreign currency when I was abroad, so it was not easy money,” he says. Meanwhile, communism was becoming more op- pressive and Poland was involved in the invasion of Czechoslovakia in 1968. “This was just too much for me to really accept,” Ulatowski says, “and I decided to find a way to skip town.” The opportunity came in November 1969, when he walked off his ship in Montreal. He made his way to New York and landed a job as a security guard at the United Nations. While seeing friends on the West Coast, he visited Stanford and Berkeley to explore MBA programs. Berkeley’s Dean Dick Holton told Ulatowski he could take four summer business classes and if he did well apply to the business school. After earning his Berkeley MBA, Ulatowski landed a job in Bank of America’s project financing group, a small team involved in complicated projects in Chile, Mexico, and New Guinea. Then he moved to Crocker Bank and was quickly promoted to senior vice president, investment banking. In 1986, he set up his own investing banking company with minority investments from Bechtel and Dutch bank ABN AMRO. When the Berlin Wall fell in 1989, Ulatowski’s gaze turned homeward. He began investing in companies in Poland and in 1996 sold his firm to ABN AMRO to focus exclusively on building businesses in Poland. “It was so tragic to see the development and pros- perity of Western Europe and how backward Eastern Europe was kept by the Soviet system,” he says. As the Polish government began to privatize industry, Ulatowski and some partners bought a corn flake Multimedia Polska factory from the state and introduced the concept Co-Chairman Tomek of cold cereal for breakfast to the Polish market with Ulatowski has built a national television campaign. “The company took businesses in his off incredibly and continues to be in business. Nestlé native Poland and has a second home in Paris eventually bought it from us,” Ulatowski says. (pictured here). After other successful investments, Ulatowski and his partner bought a little cable company named Multimedia Polska in 1999. Through 100 subsequent acquisitions and organic growth, they have built it into the second-largest cable company in Poland, operating Watch a video of Tomek Champion of Breakfasts in 2,500 cities with some 5,000 employees. Ulatowski speaking on his In recognition of his Polish roots and the impor- international career during the and Cable TV tance of Berkeley in his life, Ulatowski has granted one Haas All-Alumni Conference. full MBA scholarship to a Polish student at Haas will- Tomek Ulatowski, ing to go back to Poland after graduation. MBA 73 In addition to his Berkeley MBA, Ulatowski credits Co-Chairman, Multimedia Polska his U.S. business experience, international mindset, Warsaw, Poland and knowledge about Poland for his success. “My investing in Poland was very successful because I have a When Tomek Ulatowski risked his life walking off a deeper connection with the country and the culture.” Polish Merchant Marine ship in 1969, he never envi- But, he adds, “The world is becoming a fusion of sioned returning to his homeland to build both a suc- countries, languages, experiences. Absorbing the in- cessful career for himself and a stronger economy for fluences of different parts of the world is absolutely his country—through corn flakes and cable TV. crucial to successfully functioning on a world scale.”

8 BerkeleyHaas FAR-FLUNG LEADERS

Lee worked at Accenture in the 1990s and Out in the Field with Accenture returned from eBay in 2006 when a recruiting Caroline Lee, role opened up. “I was really happy at eBay, but BCEMBA 09 Accenture sold me on the international flavor of Recruiting Manager, Accenture the job,” she says. “I think it’s interesting to learn San Francisco about new cultures. I like seeing different things, learning the history of different places, and Imagine hiring 60,000 employees around the getting an appreciation of how people do things world—every year. That’s a challenge that Caro- differently somewhere else.” line Lee helps Accenture tackle as a member of the company’s global recruiting team. Lee travels to such countries as Mexico, France, and Russia to improve recruiting for offices scaling up very quickly. “I work with offices that are doubling their hiring,” she says. “I’ll sit down with their recruiting leads and ask questions like, ‘Where are you getting your people? How quickly are you getting candidates through the process?’ Then I evaluate PETER CAPOCAO what’s going on and make recommendations.” Lee’s longest trip overseas was five weeks in 2012 in the Philippines, where Accenture’s outsourcing arm was doubling the number of its call center employees. Outside of work, Lee jumped at the opportunity to gain a unique glimpse into Fili- pino life from the seat of her bicycle. Training for a triathlon, she brought her bicycle on the trip and joined a local cycling group. “I would get out of Manila onto the side streets and back roads. It was a culture lesson, riding among the buses and jitneys, seeing the villagers on the streets, watching out for stray dogs,” she says. “I’d hear some sound and wonder what it was, and then it would dawn on me that it’s a pig being slaughtered. Every now and then there would be a goat tied to a tree. I learned that’s where the goat is supposed to eat.” For someone as fiercely independent as Lee, having a driver who chauffeured her around for work as well as her bicycle rides was a major cultural difference that she found particularly challenging. “Because the weather was so warm, we would meet for our bike ride at 6 a.m. So my driver would need to pick me up at 5:15. And, if I went on a four- hour ride, he was sitting around waiting for me to finish,” she says. “I’m not used to asking people to help me out at these odd hours.” On top of that, Lee then learned her driver had to sleep at his company’s office the night before her rides because he commuted more than an hour away. “Wow, I felt bad,” she says. “But my local colleagues would tell me that this is the culture and expectation. If I don’t use his services, it would be an insult.” At the end of her stay, Lee felt better when the driver said he’d like to work for her again because she did more interesting things than shopping and eating out. Caroline Lee of Accenture trains for a triathlon while working in the Philippines.Summer 2013 9 FAR-FLUNG LEADERS

Off the Beaten Track healthy opportunity to grow, a history, clients, revenues, and profits. He also wanted to join an organiza- Jean-Paul Tennant, tion with ideals similar to his own. Intrigued by Geo- MS 93 (EECS), MBA 01 Ex, Tennant contacted the company and managed to CEO, GeoEx convince the president that he needed a CFO. San Francisco Tennant started at GeoEx the week before the Sep- tember 11 terrorist attacks. “One of my first tasks was to Jean-Paul Tennant talked his way into his dream forecast our cash position in the wake of September 11,” job—CEO of an international adventure travel com- Tennant recalls. He immediately drew on the financial pany—after working as a Navy submarine officer, a modeling class taught by Lecturer Sarah Tasker. Goldman Sachs bond trader, and a math teacher at an Dean Rich Lyon’s international finance course, Oakland public high school. particularly the segment on hedging, also proved in- Tennant took his first trip across the world to his valuable. For example, suppose a GeoEx client books father’s Indian Ocean home country of Mauritius a trip to India departing in a year. The client’s price when he was just 7 years old. Bitten by the travel bug, is in dollars, but most of GeoEx’s downstream costs he joined the Navy after college to see more of the are in rupees. The company buys forward contracts world, becoming an officer on a submarine at the end to offset the exchange rate risk. of the Cold War. “You’ve locked in the price of the foreign currency Tennant arrived at Haas following stints on the that you’re going to need to buy on payment date,” Treasuries trading desk at Goldman Sachs and teach- Tennant explains. “It takes uncertainty off the table.” ing math at an Oakland high school—“The hardest Tennant, who became CEO in 2011, also has job I ever had,” he says. During his final semester at helped the company of 50 employees navigate the Haas, a stunning travel catalog on his in-laws’ coffee more recent recession, which had a big impact on table caught his eye. demand for discretionary international travel, and The book was created by GeoEx (previously called a shift toward digital marketing. Sales this year are Geographic Expeditions), a San Francisco company expected to reach $27 million, up from $11 million in that specializes in high-end custom and group ad- 2001, when Tennant joined GeoEx. venture travel. Since its founding in 1981, GeoEx has One of the many things that has kept Tennant at racked up 30 travel firsts, including the first guided GeoEx is witnessing the positive effect travel has on crossing of Sir Ernest Shackleton’s traverse of South clients. “Travel can be such a mind-opening experi- Georgia and the first trek to the world’s highest un- ence,” Tennant says, surrounded by Asian tapestries climbed mountain, Bhutan’s Gangkhar Puensum. and wood-carved African figures in the company’s After a summer internship at a dot-com startup, San Francisco Presidio offices. “It is not uncommon Tennant found himself looking to work for a more for our clients to come back describing their trip as a established organization—a small company with a life-changer. It is very satisfying.” JOE CHARLESON

GeoEx CEO Jean-Paul Tennant at the Daphne Sheldrick Elephant Orphanage in Kenya with his sons, James and Xavier. SURBHIT DIXIT SURBHIT

Swapnil Dixit on a train tour in India that he co-founded.

A Passage Through India Swapnil Dixit, Dixit and his team outfitted 18 cars with Watch a video about Jagriti MBA 14 cybercafés, bathrooms, and a P.A. system to carry Yatra, the train journey in Co-Founder, Jagriti Yatra, 450 young people 8,000 kilometers for two weeks. India co-founded by student Journey of Awakening Called Jagriti Yatra, Journey of Awakening, the Swapnil Dixit. Mumbai, India inaugural two-week trip left the station in December 2008, with passengers meeting a new entrepreneur Swapnil Dixit spent three days sitting in his small, almost every day. In the last five years, more than windowless bedroom in India pondering his future 150 startups have emerged out from the program. before getting it on track. Every year, more than 15,000 young people register In 2006, Dixit, a graduate of the Indian Institute and more than 4,000 are evaluated to fill the train’s of Technology, was 24 and working as a statistician— 450 seats. “Anyone who goes on the train comes back “a number cruncher”—when he reached this transformed,” Dixit says. crossroads. Though he filled a notebook with ideas That goes for Dixit, too. He was at the southern ranging from going to film school to starting a shop, a tip of India enjoying a majestic view of the Arabian friend reminded him that he had been talking about Sea while talking about MBAs with Aaron Schwartz, creating a train journey for young people. And so MBA 10, then a student at Haas and a facilitator Dixit decided to revisit that dream. on the train. “You MBAs, don’t tell me why it’s not He took his inspiration from a transcontinental possible. Tell me how to do it,” Dixit recalls saying. train trip that marked India’s 50 years of Schwartz said not all MBAs are alike and urged independence back in 1997. Since then, mobile, Dixit to check out Berkeley-Haas. When Dixit visited technology, and outsourcing had taken off in India the school’s website, he was surprised to find the and young people (two-thirds of the country’s Defining Principles resonated with him. “They population is under 35) had developed a greater touched me at a place where other schools didn’t.” confidence and belief in themselves, Dixit notes. Now on the advisory board as the train rolls The idea: Gather these young people on a train—a without him during his time at Haas, Dixit has sort of university on wheels—to meet social and hardly forgotten his home country. He is currently business entrepreneurs around the country. He left developing an online learning platform to allow his job Oct. 31, 2007, and with three co-founders teachers around the world to provide high-quality spent the next nine months toiling to raise money lessons to students in remote locations. His to no avail. Finally, their break came in August when inspiration comes from Gandhi, who said, “You must Indian conglomerate Tata became a partner. be the change you wish to see in the world.”

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AROUND Norway Katie Coughlin, M kcoughlin@haas.

Germany - Fran THE WORLD Thomas Dickh thomas.dickho U.K.U.KU - Manchester Germany - Ha JoannaJo Wallace, Dirk Freise M MMBA 91 dirk.freise@g HoHHospital Director SpSpire Manchester Germany - HoHospital Marcus Rie CEO, Iversit

CanadaCaC - Toronto Canada - Edmonton RobertRRo Nicholson, MBA 95 U.K. - London ManagingMa Director, Energy Erik Dmytruk, BS 01 uk.haasalumni.org erik.dmytruk@aimco. andan Power Group alberta.ca RBRRBC Capital Markets Jens Dueing, MBA 08 jens_dueing@mba. LeslieLe Nicholson, MBA 01 berkeley.edu [email protected] France Canada - Calgary Damien Dirringer, MBA 96 Canada - Vancouver [email protected] Russ Kalmacoff, MBA 65 Phil Seo, MBA 11 [email protected] Canada - Montreal [email protected] SwitzerlandSwS - Basel Nathan Cray, MBA 07 JoeJo Jimenez, Turkey [email protected] MBAMB 84 Eyup G CEOCE gulsun@ berkele NovartisNo Spain - Madrid Mario Alvarez- Italy - Rom Mexico - Mexico City Fernandez, MBA 98 Alice Vatta Ricardo Guajardo, Guatemala [email protected] MBA 72 MBA 04 President and Juan Mini, MBA 99 Spain - Barcelona alice_vatta [email protected] mckinsey.c Fmr. Chairman & CEO Sebastien Brion, BBVA Bancomer MS 09, PhD 10 Panama [email protected] Italy - Milan Armelle Masseron-Salas, Michele Seme MBA 99 MBA 93 Colombia - Cartegena [email protected] msemenzato@ wisegr.it Leland “Lee” Miles, MBA 70 Trinidad & Tobago [email protected] Jovan Sankar, MBA 06 Colombia - Bogota [email protected] Egypt Carlos Liévano MBA 10 carlos_lievano@mba. Lina El Venezuela Lhouss berkeley.edu Jorge A. Viera, MBA 01 Brazil - Sao Paulo GhanaGhG PeruPeP - Lima jviera01@alumni. haas.org Marcio Faria, PatrickPa Awuah, MBA 99 IsmaelIs Benavides MBA 75 FounderFo Ferreyros,Fe MBA 67 Peru - Lima Chief Investment & AshesiAs University FmFmr. CEO Nicolas Goldstein, Financial Officer [email protected] BaBanco Internacional and MBA 03 Fundacao Atlantico de FmFmr. Minister of Agriculture CEO,CO, LAN Perue u Seguridade Social andan Fmr. Minister of the EconomyEc and Finance Osmar Santos, MBA 00 [email protected] ErErnesto Rodriguez MBA 09 ernesto.rodriguez.u @ gmail.com Brazil - Rio de Janiero Sanjay Agrawal, MBA 00 [email protected]

South Africa - Cape Town Gideon Granville, Chile - Santiago MBA 04 Marcos Kulka Kuperman, MBA 01 gideongranville@ Board Member, mba.berkeley.edu Santiago Climate Exchange, and CEO, Fundacion Chile Argentina - Buenos Aires Martin Huffmann, Alejandro De Giorgis, BA 04 MBA 09 Founder & CEO alejandro_degiorgis@mba. Telediagnosis berkeley.edu Marcelo Quinones, MBA 97 marcelo_quinones@ yahoo.com

12 BerkeleyHaas Haas boasts alumni chapters and representatives in nearly 50 countries around the globe—in addition to more than 30 chapters and representatives in the U.S. Here’s a look at the school’s representatives and notable alumni overseas. An interactive version is also online at haas.berkeley.edu/alumni/community/chapters.html.

MBA 97 alumni.org kfurt off MBA 09 [email protected] China - Beijing amburg PolandPoP HongHongKg KongKong MBA 00 TomekTo Ulatowksi, Jeffrey Hine MBA 84 gmail.com MMBA 73 Chief Operating Officer Andrew (Chi Fai) Chan, CECEO CCB Financial Leasing Corp. MBA 79 Berlin MMultimedia Polska Egan Lau, MBA 04 Professor of Marketing, ecke, MBA 96 General Manager and Director, EMBA. y Vizury China The Chinese University [email protected] of Hong Kong HuHHungary - Budapest China - Shanghai Pakistan - Karachi EleniEl Tsakopoulos shanghai.haasalumni.org Kounalakis,Ko MBA 92 Naveed Alam, MBA 10 [email protected] Ann Hsu, MBA 98 U.U.S. Ambassador to Hungary [email protected] Pakistan - Lahore JapanJapapan - TTokyookyk o Russia - Moscow Hamza Khan, MBA 11 South Korea [email protected] Christina Ahmadjian, PhD 95 Amir Sharif, MBA 03 Hyuk-Jun Kwon, MBA 98 Dean, Hitotsubashi University [email protected] Thailand Vice President Graduate School of International Apollo Chansrichawla, Samsung C&T Corp. Corporate Strategy MBA 95 Jay Kim, MBA 95 Israel - Tel Aviv [email protected] Koji Abe, MBA 00 [email protected] [email protected] Yossi Bachar, India - New Delhi MBA 85, PhD 87 Chairman, Israel Rahul Chandra, ulsun, MBA 03 MBA 05 @mba. Discount Bank Former Director rahulchandraa@ y.edu yahoo.com Japan - Osaka General, Israel Takeshi Haeno, MBA/MPH 09 Taiwan - Taipei e Ministry of Finance [email protected] Ashley Wang, MBA 09 a, Idan Geva, MBA 09 [email protected] India - Chennai/Madras [email protected] a@ Balaji Thirumalai, com MBA 03 HongHoH Kong Saudi Arabia balaji@mba. berkeley.edu RongRo Lu, MBA 93 Wiam Hasanain, HeadHe of Financial Products enzato, MBA 08 BankBa of China International wiam_hasanain@ @ mba.berkeley.edu United Arab Emirates - JJamesa Man, MBA 03 Dubai [email protected] Mohammed Nayal, MBA 04 Philippines [email protected] India - Bangalore, Rajesh Shah, MBA 97 Joey Yujuico, MBA 71 [email protected] Houssamy, BS 08 India - Bombay/ Founder [email protected] Mumbai Peer Water Exchange, Nidhi Jain, Blue Planet Run Indonesia MBA 08 Foundation Supramau Santosa, Singapore nidhi.jain242 Ratnesh Sharma, BS 80, MBA 81 @gmail.com MBA 97 Kwee Liong Tek, BS 68 CEO, Supreme Energy [email protected] Chairman Pontiac Land Matt Sinder, MBA 99 msinder@alumni. Matthias Goertz, MBA 95 haas.org matthiasgoertz24@ hotmail.com Australia - Sydney Anders Hansson, BS 94 Executive Director, Investment Banking Goldman Sachs Australia, LLC SouthSououth AfrAfricaica - VietnamViettnam JT Klepp, MBA 98 Johannesburg Australia - Adelaide [email protected] Christopher Zobrist, Takeshi Yamada, Julie Earne, MBA/ BS 02 MPH 04 PhD 93 Deputy Director Associate Professor Senior Finance John von Neuman Specialist of Finance Institute, Vietnam The University of International Finance National University New Zealand Corp., World Bank Group Adelaide [email protected]. Fiona Miller, Norbert Doerr, MBA 88 edu Australia - Melbourne MBA 10 Director Anna Young, MBA 99 [email protected] McKinsey & Company Executive Talent Consultant, Wesfarmers

Summer 2013 13 14 BerkeleyHaas Faculty Giants: Barry Staw A Game Changer in Organizational Behavior

By Victoria Chang

If you’ve ever poured more time or money into a bad and innovation. In a 2006 study that involved 204 uni- decision despite mounting evidence to sprint the other versity students, he concluded that firms who focus on way (think bad investments and bad relationships), individual employee achievement and uniqueness are then you’ve experienced what Haas Professor Barry more conducive to creating innovative ideas than com- Staw calls “escalation of commitment.” panies who emphasize a more team-based structure. Staw, who retired at the end of 2012 after 32 years, The upshot of this research is that companies should coined the phrase in 1976 in his seminal paper “Knee- protect individual perspectives, Staw says. “Organi- Deep in the Big Muddy: A Study of Escalating Commit- zations try to hire people who fit with the culture, but ment Toward a Chosen Course of Action.” should instead look for people who are different,” he To this day, “Knee-Deep” remains one of the most says. “Nurturing individualistic perspectives is better highly cited studies in organizational behavior (OB), than having a corporate-wide direction.” and the concept is a mainstay in business school courses. It helped pioneer the field of behavioral decision Real-Life Inspiration theory, a sub-area of behavioral economics, and is just Everyday life inspired Staw’s research. For example, one of many examples of Staw’s far-reaching influence the failure of his father’s discount chain, ABC Stores, on the field of organizational behavior. That influence inspired his escalation of commitment research. The was recognized in 2008 when he received the Lifetime store was once ranked the seventh largest discount Achievement Award from the Academy of Manage- chain in the country, but was eventually wiped out by ment’s Organizational Behavior Division. larger chains like Kmart. “Staw’s work has illuminated people’s thoughts, actions, and feelings in organizational and social settings in incredibly important, convincing ways,” says Keith Murnighan, a leader in the field of OB and professor Nurturing individualistic at Northwestern’s Kellogg School of Management. “I know of no one in our field who has done so much pro- perspectives is better than having vocative, important work.” a corporate-wide direction. No One-Trick Pony Many academic scholars dream of having one brilliant idea in their careers. Staw has achieved much more. Staw’s classic study on intrinsic versus extrinsic re- “Most people who were in my dad’s situation were inforcement is counterintuitive, like much of his work. taking their personal money out of their businesses,” The study showed that ROTC members who were not recalls Staw. “But my father never gave up; instead he going to be sent to the Vietnam War (due to their draft doubled down with every cent he had ever earned. He lottery number) were actually more committed and nearly lost everything.” worked harder in the military organization than those Beyond research, Staw has taught hundreds of who knew they were going to war. Berkeley MBA and PhD students since coming to Haas Staw also reintroduced the concept of personality in 1980 from Northwestern, where he earned his PhD back into OB in the 1980s when it was unpopular to do and worked as a professor. so. He showed that whether people were unhappy or Haas Professor Jennifer Chatman, PhD 88, a lead- happy in junior high could serve as a predictor of job ing expert on organizational culture, studied with Staw satisfaction late into their 50s and 60s. Because of this as a PhD student. “Barry has had a huge impact on my early work on happiness, there’s now a whole branch thinking and on my career,” says Chatman. “He always of psychology called positive psychology and a popular opened Pandora’s box, getting me to rethink things and field of emotions in OB. to ask the less obvious questions.” Staw’s most cited paper, “Threat-Rigidity Effects Even during retirement, Staw expects to closely in Organizational Behavior: A Multilevel Analysis” watch the field of organizational behavior evolve from (1980), argues that when people or organizations are the sidelines, sort of—he has no immediate plans to under threat, they tend to be less adaptive. Rather, they move to Hawaii and golf full time. “Hopefully I’ll be fad- become rigid in thinking and actions; revert to prior, ing out slowly,” he says. “I’ll miss working with our stu- known behavior; and add more rules and regulations. dents and colleagues the most.” “People and organizations actually do the worst thing And they will miss him: Berkeley-Haas, the OB and that they should be doing,” says Staw. “Instead, they management community, and the world will be losing should be looking for new approaches and innovating.” a creative thinker who is never afraid to challenge con- More recently, Staw has studied culture, creativity, ventional thinking, hallmarks of Berkeley-Haas. BH

ILLUSTRATION BY ALEX WILLIAMSON Summer 2013 15 In the Back Your Haas Network

BEYOND YOURSELF Wall Street to War Straddling two worlds to serve his country

Tim Sanchez, BCEMBA 05 Lieutenant Commander, U.S. Navy Reserve, Afghanistan Director-Western Region, NYSE Euronext Palo Alto, Calif. Home on leave from Afghanistan earlier this year, Tim Sanchez explains that there are more connections between business experience and military operations than one might think. “In the combat zone, you’re often doing things on the fly,” says the U.S. Navy lieutenant commander. “It reminds me of a Silicon Valley startup environment, where there are no rules. Day to day, you’re trying to adapt and take advantage of certain situations.” Sanchez joined the Navy Reserve after 9/11. “I’m not the type of person to sit in a comfy chair and not do something,” he says. A few weeks after graduating from the Berkeley-Columbia Executive MBA Program, he was deployed to Iraq and Kuwait, where he spent nine months overseeing troops’ return home. Back in the United States, he took a job with a startup, VestMatch, a collaborative savings platform that folded during the 2008 downturn. He then started working for the New York Stock Exchange in Palo Alto, managing the relationships of 175 West Coast-listed companies across all industries and market capitalizations. In October 2012, the Navy sent him to Afghanistan. In a compound outside Kabul, Sanchez worked 15 to 16 hours a day, seven days a week, equipping and training the Afghan police in their fight against the Taliban and other insurgents. He also provided military forces with equipment and weapons to conduct operations and helped move troops around the country. “It has been an incredible experience helping a country build an infrastructure from the ground up. It’s probably the most rewarding, fulfilling thing I’ve done,” he says. “We’re doing our part to secure the United States’ safety.” Though not involved in direct combat, Sanchez frequently traveled outside the compound, which can be dangerous. He says he wasn’t scared, however: “We’re trained to deal with the situation at hand.” Before Sanchez’s tour of duty in Afghanistan ended in June, the father of three managed to speak to his wife and children once a day using WiFi. He quips, “She likes to say I went from one battlefield, the New York Stock Exchange, to another, Afghanistan.” –Mandy Erickson

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Learn more about Michael Belkin’s band, The Refusers, at reverbnation.com/therefusers.

Taking Tech to by hand each time there stomach and managing was a change. Now every a fund myself, I’m advis- New Heights pilot carries an iPad with ing fund managers,” says Maya Leibman, MBA 94 an electronic, easy-to- Belkin, who writes a weekly Chief Information Officer, update manual. newsletter called the American Airlines, Dallas Technology can also Belkin Report. “It allows me create connection, Leib- to work from home and be man notes. As president with my family, but I’m af- of the AAdvantage loyalty fecting people’s thinking. ” program before becoming For more than 20 years, CIO, Leibman noticed that Belkin has been apply- customers felt passionate ing a forecasting model about the program but the that he developed using company wasn’t har- time-series analysis and nessing that emotion. So probabilities to make she led a new campaign calls on stocks, markets, that included gather- and industries. His first ing stories of the crazy client was George Noble, “Technology’s reason for things people did to earn a Fidelity top-performing being is to solve business miles and making a funny, overseas fund manager problems,” says Maya tongue-in-cheek video of who began his own hedge Leibman, senior vice herself talking about elite fund. “I was well known president–technology and members’ benefits. in those days for calling chief information officer “The video definitely the top in the Japanese of American Airlines. As wasn’t something that we market,” Belkin recalls. the job of CIO morphs from would traditionally do,” Another one of Belkin’s tech geek terrain into a Leibman says. “But for the claims to fame is predicting more strategic leadership Advantage program, every- the dot-com crash in early arena, successful CIOs like one recognized that we 2000, when he called tech Leibman have found they needed to be a little more,” firms “C.R.A.P.”—companies need acute business skills. she pauses, looking for the without revenues and prof- Since joining AA after right word, “connecting.” its. Often contrarian, Belkin graduating from Haas, more recently declared Leibman has held 12 Riffing on Apple stock highly overval- roles in 18 years, navi- Markets ued at the end of last year. gating such challenges Apple shares have dropped as Y2K, 9/11, and the Michael Belkin, BS 86 15 percent since then. bankruptcy of parent Fund Manager Adviser, Before striking out on company AMR. Her expe- Bainbridge Island, Wash. his own, Belkin spent five rience includes revenue years at Salomon Brothers management, marketing, after graduating from and technology. Berkeley. He transferred CIO since 2011, Leibman to Cal from Santa Monica wants to bring consumer Community College technology into the enter- after working in the music prise to solve problems industry and fixing up and and improve service. selling houses. He already “People go home and had concluded that mar- interact with technology kets could be exploited that in many cases is way using statistical models. better than what they are “I spent my time at getting when they come to Based 30 minutes by Berkeley in the stat depart- work,” says Leibman. ferry from Seattle, Michael ment and on the computer, She’s working on that. Belkin plays guitar in a applying econometric A new app provides flight rock band named The models to systematic attendants up-to-the- Refusers. But despite his trading. I really loved the minute information on distance from Wall Street spirit of the place,” he says. passengers, including their and touring schedule, Bel- “I could do what I wanted, connections. Mechan- kin’s stock forecasts have which was argue with my ics now carry tablets to attracted a loyal following professors and make my track parts so that repairs among hedge fund and own way against the grain.” happen faster. Pilots used portfolio managers across He’s been going against to lug 35-pound manuals the country and overseas. the grain ever since. and had to update them “Instead of holding my Summer 2013 17 In the Back Your Haas Network

Quant Overseas Capital, an advisory and had been to the city only asset management busi- twice–as a tourist–and Krishan Rattan, MFE 03 ness focused on emerging didn’t speak German. Founder & Managing markets. But the New Zealander Partner, Voltaire Capital, “Banks will always had long set his sights London belong in the financial on coming to Europe, market, but what banks and the idea of working used to do, want to do, and at an American-style reasonably could do may business school in be very different tomor- Germany fascinated him. row,” says Rattan. “This Founded by a group creates opportunities for of German business a focused, intellectually titans, the European driven form of capital. A School of Management disruption of the estab- and Technology offers lished order provides us English-language opportunities to assist full-time and executive Establishing Société investors.” MBA programs. Its Berlin Générale’s global deriva- Rattan drives Voltaire’s campus is housed in the tive financing business business side, focusing imposing building where while running its emerg- on new products and the head of the East ing markets in London transactions. He credits German Communist should have kept Krishan his MFE for teaching him Party had his ofﬁ ce. “It is Rattan plenty busy dur- to think intuitively, a skill ironic,” Wakeman says. ing the economic crisis. he’s using to consider Wakeman’s research Instead, the electrical- relocating to Asia. has focused on technology turned-financial engineer “Many cutting-edge commercialization. His started thinking up new financial firms are Capturing Value from ways to manage assets coagulating in London, Innovation course in a shifting financial but Asia has real growth,” explores preventing landscape. Rattan says. “My parents competitors from “At Soc Gen, the great- and teachers inculcated copying innovation and est challenge was being in me that change is good. structuring partnerships. relevant to our clients in I don’t mind taking risks. “You have to structure a world where almost ev- Just promise me that the how you bring your erything they needed from journey will be interesting, innovation to market to banks, banks couldn’t do,” and I’m happy to take the retain your fair share of says Rattan. “When capi- ride.” the value,” he says. tal is so scarce, it’s hard to A native of Auckland, convince your clients that New Zealander Wakeman always they should spend their wanted to do something ever-shrinking banking in Germany related to technology wallet on you.” Simon Wakeman, PhD 07 and innovation. “Coming India-born Rattan Associate Professor, out of a small country, it discovered financial engi- European School of was almost in my blood neering while pursuing his Management and to be interested in economics master’s in Mi- Technology, Berlin startups,” he says. lan. He worked in London As much as they for Morgan Stanley, Credit enjoy Berlin, Wakeman Suisse, and Deutsche and his wife, Rachel Bank after earning his Fleet, MBA 04, hope to Berkeley master of finan- eventually move their cial engineering degree. family to New Zealand With the Eurozone or the Bay Area, which crisis brewing, Rattan Fleet considers home. asked what he could do “We enjoy being here; differently if he set up a there are lots of things bank from scratch today. to do and lots of In January, with a small opportunities,” team of “risk-takers will- When Simon Wakeman Wakeman says. “But it ing to challenge the status decided to move to Berlin is hard being a long quo,” he launched Voltaire after earning his PhD, he way from home.” PHOTOGRAPH BY PAUL MASON 18 BerkeleyHaas In the Back

Watch a video of Simon Wakeman, PhD, talking about his research at youtu.be/XjM0vJvRM3I.

CONFIDENCE WITHOUT ATTITUDE

Kayaker with a Conscience Charting a Circuitous Career

Pamela McNeeley, BS 77 Co-Owner, Blue Waters Kayaking Point Reyes, Calif. Pamela McNeeley navigated a long, winding course before pad- dling her kayak to the tranquil waters in West Marin County. After Berkeley she worked at Coopers & Lybrand (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) for three years, primarily in Dal- las, where clients told her she had “way too much personality to be a CPA.” Missing the West, McNeeley returned to the Bay Area, where she tested the waters in a handful of jobs: She trained customers on early personal computers and then worked for herself helping businesses set up accounting systems. She even launched a New Age greeting card business, which she still runs today. Then she met her future husband, who co-owned a kayaking company with one launch on the east shore of Tomales Bay. McNeeley bought out her husband’s partner in 1992. In 1994, the couple bought Blue Waters Kayaking, which had a launch on the west shore and ran trips in Baja California, Mexico. “The accounting background and marketing from Cal have been super helpful in our business,” McNeeley says. “I’ve had this framework all these years: I can look at financial statements, and I do endless analysis. People who don’t have this business understanding are lost.” Still, serving 10,000 customers a year from two launches and 200 customers in Mexico proved “quite an adventure.” “They were always coming up with new rules in Mexico, wanting $8,000 or $10,000 because you didn’t do something that they never told you about,” McNeeley says. And then came the recession in 2008, just after McNeeley put up $40,000 for chartered flights to Mexico. With business sinking 25 percent, Blue Waters left Mexico in 2010 and now markets tours there provided by local operators. Although she loved whale watching in Baja, McNeeley is just as enthusiastic talking about the 20,000 birds that spend their winters at Point Reyes National Seashore. Her favorite excursion: spring kayaking through the restored Giacomini Wetlands at the southern end of Tomales Bay. McNeeley calls Blue Waters a “lifestyle business.” “It’s not like investment banking, but we’re making good money—and I get to go kayaking whenever I want. We meet really nice people, and it’s a way to support our natural world.” Through Blue Waters, McNeeley also has built strong ties in West Marin. She sits on the Chamber of Commerce, works on events with the Point Reyes National Seashore Association, and regularly donates kayak trips to local nonprofits. “The neatest thing about Point Reyes is it’s very community oriented,” she says. “People here just want to do something for the planet.” –Ronna Kelly

Summer 2013 19 In the Back The Campaign for Haas

ASK THE DONOR

Building Work-Life Balance Real Estate Developer Encourages Women to Pay It Forward

Carol Meyer, BS 69, MBA 71, inherited a love of real estate from her parents, who owned apartments. She bought her first house at age 14, earning $20 a month cash flow with no money down. After earning her MBA, Meyer spent the majority of her career developing high-end housing developments in the Bay Area, most recently as chairman and VP of sales and marketing of Greenbriar Homes, whose total sales top $2 billion. She’s always believed in giving back, sponsoring shelters that helped some 500 people transition out of homelessness. She’s also been a generous donor to Haas, recently offering a successful match- ing-gift challenge of 5:1 for women who had never before given to the school and 2:1 for women who had, up to $500,000. What prompted you to challenge women specifically? When I went to graduate school, there were probably only five women in my class. Now, over 50 percent of undergraduates and 33 percent of full-time MBA students at Haas are female. I think we’re on the threshold of an era where women of this generation will make tremendous strides in business. And they are in a position to give back. What I’m trying to accomplish with this challenge is every alumna giving something to pay it forward. New alums may not think a small donation is important, but put together with many others, it really is significant. And when it goes to Haas, it’s going to benefit generations to come. What challenges still remain for women? Child rearing. There are fathers who do the main child rearing, but in general, that falls to mothers. A lot of professional women want to take some time off or cut back during their children’s forma- tive years. Smart companies will figure out how to accommodate these women and reap the rewards. How did you manage motherhood and a successful career? I was home for nine years before I went back to work, but I had babies on my hip—literally—while I was out buying properties and investing. When I went back to work, I only worked six hours a day for the first year, and that helped me a lot. I still got the job done. I just had to really plan. Women leaders need to be the engine of change to develop ways that mothers can be accommodated and still keep their oar in the water so that they advance during that time frame. What advice do you have for women in business? Like Sheryl Sandberg says, “Lean in.” It doesn’t mean you have to be aggressive. I think you can be as feminine as you want, but you need to be assertive in conveying your ideas with confidence. Why do you give to Haas? Haas’ core values fi t right in with being good stewards of the environment, being ethical business people, providing high-quality jobs, and making a profi t too. Profi t is not a bad word. Profi t is a good thing, especially if it’s done ethically. That’s how you grow an economy. I can’t think of anything better than empowering the people of California to educate great business leaders. Haas is right there. Why not support something so wonderful?

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Read a detailed account of Julie Brown’s time abroad at juliearoundtheworld.wordpress.com.

UPCOMING EVENTS Scholarship Defines a haas.berkeley.edu/events Career Path Abroad Alumni-Hosted Networking Julie Brown, BS 14, savors the gift of culture shock Lunch July 16 microfinance programs in Morocco, Chicago which she conducted during spring break. Wanting to learn how to be Homecoming a change maker drew Brown, who October 5 grew up in San Diego, Calif., to study Berkeley business at Haas, but her semester in Spain helped her define that passion. 8th Annual “Before studying abroad I felt like I Student-Alumni had to fit myself into one of the ABCs of business: accounting, banking, Networking or consulting,” she says. “Now I have Event realized that I am probably an N, October 24 nonprofit, or O/W, other/weird.” San Francisco Her new career aspirations tie together the Haas Defining Principles >play Digital Question the Status Quo and Beyond Media Yourself, which she contemplated a lot during her time overseas. “After Conference October 25 Julie Brown, BS 14, at the Alhambra in graduation, I plan on doing something San Francisco Granada, Spain most Haas undergraduates do not pursue, like the Peace Corps or a Without the generosity of alumnus Fulbright,” she says of Question the Haas Gala Thomas Tusher and his scholarship Status Quo. It’s a sentiment she and November 15 for international study, Haas under- Tusher share—one of the things Brown San Francisco graduate Julie Brown, BS 14, might has learned during the correspondence never have found her true calling. She she began with him. Tusher says, “My Old Blues certainly would never have met female experience studying and traveling Luncheon entrepreneurs in Morocco or been able abroad set me on a path seeking an December 5 to protest in support of legalizing gay international business career at a time Berkeley marriage in Paris. “I also would not have when that was outside the norm.” had the space or time to really think As for going Beyond Herself, Brown Haas about who I am and what I want in life,” wants to dedicate her life to giving back Celebration in Brown says. to the community. This fall, she and Brown is the latest recipient of the four classmates will begin a mentoring Silicon Valley, Thomas Tusher Scholarship for Study program for at-risk high schoolers in Menlo Circus Abroad, an award given to high- Oakland based on a proposal that won Club achieving Haas undergrads. Tusher, third place in the Big Ideas@Berkeley February 5, 2014 BA 63 (Poli. Sci.), retired president contest, which provides funding and Atherton and COO of Levi Strauss & Co. and a support to interdisciplinary student member of the Haas School Board, teams with innovative projects. MBA Reunion studied in Vienna while he was at Cal. Upon leaving Spain, Brown headed “I would like to see more U.S. students Weekend to South Korea for a paid summer April 24-27, 2014 be exposed to other cultures,” Tusher internship with Samsung. But she’s Berkeley says. “Most businesses today are approaching the experience with a new global in reach and activity, and perspective. “Living in Granada has this is an opportunity to gain some changed my opinions on happiness,” You don’t need to international experience.” she says. “I felt like I needed to get the be in the Bay Area to Brown immersed herself in the perfect internship, to get the perfect continue learning from language and culture of Granada, job, to have the perfect family, and then Berkeley-Haas. Remain a Spain, and received additional I would reach ‘the happy successful “Student Always” online funding from the Institute of place.’ But…happiness is about through videos of faculty International Studies to support enjoying the dance of life, not trying to and speakers at research on the effectiveness of be perfect.” insights.haasalumni.org. tracking the social impacts of

Summer 2013 21 In the Back Haas Worldwide Events

EVENT All-Alumni Conference & Reunion Weekend

School Spirit Alumni celebrate their Haas connections

The class of 2012 showed its Cal spirit while posing for a one- Kelley, MBA 83, on design thinking. Thirteen alumni also year reunion photo during MBA Reunion Weekend in April. delivered HAASx Talks, with titles including “Digging for In addition to reconnecting with classmates, celebrating, and Dollars in Your Underwear” and “Startup Marketing: Get Loud, networking, alumni enjoyed an insightful one-day conference, Get Sued, Get Noticed.” Watch the HAASx Talks and faculty which included a keynote by IDEO General Manager Tom presenters at insights.haasalumni.org.

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Watch a video of former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin speaking on global careers at 2013 MBA commencement.

All-Alumni Conference & MBA Reunions 1 Jim Burk, BS 62, MBA 63, former Cal Alumni Association executive director, and wife, Anne. 2 Jennifer Toney, MBA 08, and Laurence (Lo) Toney, MBA 97. 3 Sandeep Singh Kohli, MBA 12, and Carlos Dieguez, MBA 98. 4 Daniel Sousa, Fabio Matsui, Alfredo Finch, and Ricardo Suarez, 1 234 all MBA 03. 5 Jeff Denby, MBA 08, founder, PACT Apparel, during his HAASx Talk . 6 IDEO General Manager Tom Kel- ley, MBA 83. 7 Christine Rhinehart, MBA 10. 8 Carol Upton, MBA 83, traveled from Australia for her reunion. 9 Oski stops by the family picnic. Gap Event in San Francisco 10 Leah Sutton, MBA 05, and Libby 5 6 7 8 Reder, MBA 06. 11 Jay Dumaswala, Nikhil Gangaraju, and Vanessa Barros, all MBA 13. 12 Kellie McElhaney, founder of the Center for Responsible Business, and Indiegogo founders Danae Ringelmann and Eric Schell, both MBA 08. 13 John Viera, Ford’s global director of sustainability and vehicle environmental matters.

9 10 11 12 Women in Leadership Dinner 14 Professor Jennifer Chatman, PhD 88; BRE Properties CEO Connie Moore, MBA 80; Cisco CMO Blair Christie; and Gap CFO Sabrina Simmons, BS 85. 15 Marina Gracias, BS 80, MBA 99, and her mother, Angela. East Bay Chapter Thai Cooking Event 16 Renu Bhatt, MBA 06, and Elizabeth Chan, MBA 12. 13 14 15 16 17 Kasma Loha-unchit, MBA 75, founder of Thai Food and Travel. NYC Chapter “Beyond Yourself” Event 18 Nicole Campbell and Miraya Berke, both BS 12; Austin Kim, BS 09; and MayC Huang, BS 11. Commencement 19 Marc Singer, BS 86, director of McKinsey’s Marketing and Sales Practice for the Americas, speaks to 17 18 19 20 undergraduates. 20 Former Vodafone CEO Arun Sarin, MBA 78, MS 78, speaks at MBA commencement. Haaski Golf Tournament 21 Jeff Rhode, BA 95 (Hist.), MA 00 (Ed.), and Mark French, MBA 98. 22 Sunil Bhonsle, MBA 75. London Alumni Event 23 Paul Tiffany, PhD 83, presents on strategy. 24 Vera Hegarty and Marilou 21 22 23 24 Calara Swallow, MBA 90.

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ALUMNI AWARDS AND ACCOLADES UNDERGRADUATE Two Alumni Make SF Business Times Alumni at Facebook Garner Awards 1946 “40 Under 40” List Facebook Chief Information Offi - Mary (Forquer) Guinee Kevin Chou, BS 02, and cer Tim Campos, BCEMBA 10, writes, “After living in Santa Cruz for 16 years, Sheldon Kimber, MBA 07, received a Lifetime Achievement I returned to Hayward were named to the San Francisco Award in June at the Bay Area CIO three years ago. My two Business Times “40 Under 40” Awards sponsored by the Silicon sisters live close by, but, list of young professionals who Valley Business Journal and San to my dismay, I found “hit home runs.” Francisco Business Times. Before out that many of my old Chou, 32, is co-founder and joining Facebook in 2010 Campos friends had died. Now I CEO of Kabam, a free-to-play became the youngest CIO of any wonder if there are any Fortune 500 company at semi- of my former class- video game maker that now mates in or near the Bay boasts more than 500 employ- conductor equipment supplier Area. In ’44, ’45, and ’46, ees, more than 4 million players a KLA-Tencor. I socialized at Newman month in 100 countries, and $180 Libby Leffl er, BS 06, was Hall. Anyone remember million in annual revenue. named one of the 30 most im- that? No one called me Kimber, 35, is chief operat- portant women under 30 in Mary. I was better known ing offi cer of Recurrent Energy. technology by the online publi- as ‘Bonnie.’ I would be Kimber has led the expansion of cation Business Insider. She also pleased to connect with a former classmate. My Recurrent Energy’s strategy from received the UC Berkeley Foun- e-mail is bonguinee@ a small-scale rooftop developer dation’s Young Bear Award for sbcglobal.net. My latest with less than 100 megawatts in her volunteer eff orts at Cal. Lef- endeavor is learning to the project pipeline to a leading ﬂ er served as chief of staff to Facebook COO Sheryl play the ukelele. Also, I am utility-scale solar developer with hundreds of mega- Sandberg for three years before becoming the social trying to become more watts of contracted projects. network’s strategic partner manager. proficient in Spanish.”

Alum’s Money Code San Francisco Business Times 1953 CAL HOMECOMING Reaches Best Seller Lists Honors Four Haas Women OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 The Money Code, a 129-page fi nan- Four members of the Haas com- cial advice book by Joe Duran, munity were among 140 wom- BCEMBA 04, hit the USA Today en honored in June by the San 1954 and New York Times best seller Francisco Business Times as Gerald Wheeler, of Pierce lists earlier this year. While other the most infl uential women in County, Wash., reports, fi nancial advice books are often Bay Area business. “After six years as a retired CPA, I started a laden with business jargon, Du- Joy Chen, BS 87, CEO of Yes To Inc., ran sought to write The Money Code in a way that is new career as a police told the Business Times her proudest chaplain with the Pierce easy for anyone to understand, providing insight into accomplishment was supporting Sec- County Sheriff’s Depart- why people make fi nancial mistakes and repeat them ond Wind, an urban ministry concept ment. Very rewarding throughout their lives. Duran is CEO of United Capi- led by two talented ministers who took kind of work.” tal, a partnership of 41 private wealth counseling of- on the challenge to fulfi ll a need within fi ces around the country. 1956 San Francisco. Ronald “Bud” Figel Financial Engineering Alum Wins Carrie Dolan, BS 87, MBA 97, CFO of writes, “I started Cal in Investment Award the Lending Club, advised women seek- pre-dental in 1951 and ing to advance their careers. “I encourage soon recognized that Dave Klein, MFE 06, is the 2013 my grades were not fi rst-place winner of the $10,000 women to work on knowing themselves, very good. I switched to Wagner Award for Advances in being clear about what they want, and un- liberal arts and then to Active Management for his paper derstanding how others perceive them.” business administration. “Equity Sector Rotation via Cred- Due to the Korean War, I Mary Francis, MBA 06, chief corp orate was drafted in 1953 and it Relative Value.” The award was counsel, Chevron, said her female role applied for active duty in designed by the National As- model was former U.S. Supreme Court the Navy Reserve. I was sociation of Active Investment Justice Sandra Day O’Connor: “She was assigned to Electronics Managers to raise awareness of expert at mediating consensus, taking School even though I active investment management was a 2nd class yeoman a long view, and choosing only battles striker because of my techniques. Klein’s paper lays out a novel investment that mattered to her.” strategy that uses information from the credit mar- relative scores. After discharge I decided to ket to make equity sector investment decisions and Maria Nondorf, executive director of the Haas School’s Center for Financial combine my business tactical asset allocations among equities and bonds. and electronic educa- Klein is a partner and co-founder of Capital Context, Reporting and Management, was asked how she uses tions, and received a a market strategy consultancy. her infl uence and replied, “I preach the importance of position with the fi nancial literacy.” Dalmo-Victor Co. in 24 BerkeleyHaas In the Back

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Redwood City, Calif., and of Denver. As a gover- 1965 after a very brief term in nor on the Board of the 1958 CAL HOMECOMING 1963 CAL HOMECOMING OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 Vijay (Pandit) Kumar, an executive position, I Adams County Economic of Mountain View, Calif., realized that this was a Development Commit- writes, “I am on the board ‘go-nowhere’ situation for tee, I developed a real 1960 Richard Power, Our Defining of advisors of Internet me. I was 24 years old. estate database and was of Shingle Principles Speech, which is having a I was offered an named ‘Developer of the Joan (aka Joanie Hob- day) Krizman, of Sacra- Springs, Calif., Question the greater success outside opportunity to go into Year’ for two consecu- reports, “In Status Quo of the U.S.A. than within it. business in Denver. Dis- tive years. I was actively mento, Calif., writes, “Am doing the same thing we the past, I My son Jay works for Solar count stores had become involved with the new have created City based in San Mateo; it new in retail. GOLO was Denver International have been doing for several years. Renting our software for various had its IPO this year. Unlike a new discount store Airport (DIA) develop- activities, including en- Facebook, its stock price and needed someone ment. I retired from many Craftsman, Tudor, and other style houses gineering tech measure- has nearly tripled in value. to operate the sport- Fuller and Company and ments as well as legal My son’s employee stock ing goods department. commercial real estate in the East Sacramento and Land Park areas of processes under the options are getting higher I started with a partner when I was diagnosed name of RCP Software in value. My daughter sells with $10,000 loans each. with multiple sclerosis Sacramento. They are advertised on sacrentals. (www.rcpsoftware.com). real estate in the Santa We started the business (MS). Now, in addition Recently, my wife and I Cruz area. Real estate was in a ‘leased’ department to a regime of yoga and com—and once they are put up, the phones decided to promote the stagnant a couple of years on Oct. 10, 1956. After swimming therapy twice data management soft- ago, but her sales are a few years we were a week, I volunteer. I start ringing. We also advertise other landlord ware creation process by improving now.” offered the opportu- joined a group called advertising more. I have nity to open two larger SCORE, (Service Core of and homeowners’ homes departments in GEM Retired Executives) and on our website. 1968 CAL HOMECOMING stores. After a few more joined the Denver Rotary “Prior to this, we OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 years, we leased space and Denver City Club. I took interesting trips to in a new large shopping was also a member of Myanmar, Bangkok, and Angkor Watt in Cambo- center and named our the National Multiple Howard Fong, of Mon- new store Sports Villa. Sclerosis Society and dia. Subsequently, we visited Cartagena and terey Park, Calif., is a Operating two ‘discount’ was elected chairman of commissioner on the Art departments and the the Denver Mayor’s Com- Cali, in Colombia, S.A., and attended son Kent and Culture Commis- freestanding standard mission for People with sion and the Sister Cities ‘legitimate’ retail store Disabilities. Krizman’s wedding in December. He, too, is a Commission, City of was incompatible. Be- “My wife, Mimi, and I Monterey Park. cause we had two fairly read, travel, and attend Cal-Berkeley alumnus. “When this heavy large inventories in those theater and the sympho- 1970 two GEM stores it was ny. I have four sons, who rental season is over prudent to lease a sec- are all married and all (April 15 thru October 15), David Goold, of Wood- ond freestanding store, professionals, and eight we will definitely need land, Calif., writes, “I very Richard Power, BS 64, with which we also named grandchildren, including two or three more vaca- recently retired after 23 Sports Villa. We leased three in college.” tions to unwind and relax. wife Bernadette years with the County a third Sports Villa store We can’t decide where to of Sacramento, where go because we have seen sold software to people I served as a senior in another new North- Norman Parsons, of all over the country. Also glenn shopping center in Clovis, Calif., writes, “My many countries. I, as a accountant and admin- Gemini, always like to see as a lawyer, I would love istrative services officer. Northglenn, Colo. Sports oldest granddaughter, to create software solu- Villa, with three stores, Brooke Plummer, of something new. I will be continuing my “Have lived in the tions for the California small CPA and nonprofit became the third largest Capistrano Beach, Calif., courts if they would let retail sporting goods a graduate of UCLA, ‘Fabulous Forties’ in consulting practice. I East Sacramento for me help but so far that have also been a church company in Colorado. married Pedro Brasil Del- has been a fruitless We decided to open a labello of Rio de Janiero, the past several years. organist for more than 40 Prior to this, we lived in effort, even though the years, starting at age 15.” store named Pier 77 with Brazil, on June 21, 2013. California court system some other partners. She met him while in Hillsborough, south of San Francisco. While we is essentially going down 1971 Within a couple of hours Rio as part of her UCLA the drain due to ineffi- I received enough infor- curriculum two years might miss a few cultural Rich Knox, of Orange, activities here, we love cient operating prac- mation to make my trip ago. He flew to Southern tices. Didn’t Haas teach Calif., writes, “In 2011, well worthwhile. California to propose to the weather, outside retired from Allergan cafes and restaurants, us to operate efficiently? “We experienced a her. They can speak to Why does government and a career in supply series of store break-ins each other in Portuguese. all summer long. We are chain management. involved in the Sacra- have to fight efficiency and robberies because My family needed some so much? Can we really Now enjoying more time of the guns and ammuni- more Latin members and mento Philharmonic, with my two grandkids, Sacramento Opera, afford to have our court tion and too much inter- is now one-half Anglo system go down the traveling, playing golf, nal and external pilferage and one-half Latin— Sacramento Ballet, Clas- coaching Little League, sical Chamber Music drain? I don’t think so. and eventually sold the mostly Mexican and now Are there any other Haas volunteering at PGA golf sporting goods stores. some Brazilian.” of Sacramento, Crocker tournaments, and riding Museum, etc.” alumni out there who They are now Sports would like to jump in and my 2008 Harley David- Authority stores. 1957 son motorcycle. Last 1964 help save the state court “I decided to totally Dan March, of Burlin- system before it virtually summer, my wife, Janet, leave the retail business game, Calif., a retired Tom Kasten, of Hills- shuts down?” and I traveled to St. Au- and go into commercial elementary school ad- borough, Calif., see MBA gustine, Fla., to visit the real estate, and became ministrator, is expecting 1965 notes. very active in Adams a fourth grandchild— County land just north first granddaughter. Summer 2013 25 In the Back Haas Alumni Notes

UNDERGRADUATE from 1975 to 1977 and 1982 cont. lived in Spens-Black Vince McCambridge, for the first year. I was of San Francisco, Calif., a resident assistant. In announces his five-year 1976 I transferred to the anniversary as a director law dorm, as a pre-law in fixed income capital student, and lived there markets at Robert W. until I graduated early Baird, a Milwaukee- in March 1977. I then based investment bank. attended Southwestern Law School from 1977 to 1980; graduated with honors; passed the bar; and continued my education at USC, where I Semifreddi’s CEO Tom Frainier (center), BS 79, with a $150,000 graduated with high hon- check to The Bread Project, a nonproﬁ t whose rent was subsidized ors with an MBT, taxation by Frainier’s company in May 1981. I have practiced law since 1980, been involved with The Richard Knox, BS 71, with and I have had an active granddaughter Mady Bread Project as a vol- real estate brokerage unteer teacher for many from since 1981, manag- years, and Semifreddi’s World Golf Hall of Fame. ing some of the biggest had donated raw materi- We are planning to vaca- real estate companies als, bakery equipment, tion in Maui, Hawaii, in Southern California, and even a van over the Vince McCambridge, BS 82, and later this summer.” including Jon Douglas, years. In 2009, The Bread sister Madeline at the Horse- Fred Sands, Century 21, Project was desperately shoe for the 2012 Cal-Ohio Keller-Williams, Pruden- seeking a new location or State game, which he called 1973 CAL HOMECOMING tial and other prestigious would otherwise have to “a great effort by the Bears!” OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 real estate companies. I discontinue its program. ran for judge, L.A. Supe- He writes, “As luck would Steven Kaplan, BS 79 rior Court, and came in a have it, Semifreddi’s 1983 CAL HOMECOMING strong second. was moving to Alameda structure solutions for OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 1974 around the same time, commercial and govern- John Fulton, of Char- and we were leaving ment data centers. It’s the lotte, N.C., reports, “After 1978 CAL HOMECOMING behind a space that had fastest growing infra- 14 years in a variety of OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 two years remaining on structure company of the senior management the lease. We decided past decade and has an roles at Daimler, I have to sublease the space annual run rate of over returned to my former 1979 Our Defining at a discounted rent to $80 million in revenues career in the brokerage Principles after just 6 quarters Tom Frain- The Bread Project. We industry. Once again, I Beyond subsidized half of The shipping.” ier, CEO of Yourself am serving the needs Bread Project’s rent for of business buyers and Semifreddi’s 1980 Handcrafted more than two years so sellers in the Southeast- that they could afford Julie (Julie Ann Cramer) ern United States, as a Bread & Pastries, recently helped The Bread to move in and continue Zoellin, of San Diego, senior broker with Sun- to operate. That subsidy Calif., writes, “I am cur- belt Business Brokers.” Project, a nonprofit or- George Oliva, BS 85 ganization that teaches was worth $150,000. We rently a senior research were glad that we could associate at the Univer- 1977 culinary and life skills to those down on their luck help this worthwhile sity of San Diego Center 1985 George Oliva, of Pleasan- Douglas Weitzman, so they can gain employ- cause. The Bread Project for Education Policy and ton, Calif., reports, “Cur- of Los Angeles, writes, ment. His vice president continues to thrive today. Law. This year, I am also rently looking for my next “I attended Berkeley of bakery operations had For more information visit working on the develop- www.breadproject.org.” ment of a new center, The professional challenge. I Mobile Technology Learn- have more than 20 years Steven Kaplan, of ing Center, as its interim as a controller, VP of fi- Stateline, Nev., reports, director of operations. The nance, and CFO in Silicon “After spending 25 center focuses on mobile Valley and have extensive years in the IT industry technology learning in the experience with startups on the channel side of K-12 classroom. As part of and turnarounds. Big 4 the business, including the center space plan- CPA. My last CEO called co-founding, running, ning, I took the opportunity me his secret weapon. and selling a couple of to visit Cal’s Education I am looking to help channel partner firms, Technology Department. deliver a company to its I recently accepted the Brenda Farmer provided next stage, profitability, position of VP of channel a tour of Dwinelle’s active growth, M&A, or an IPO.” and strategic sales for learning classroom. What George has been married Nutanix. Nutanix utilizes a great way to recon- 28 years, has three chil- Douglas Weitzman, BS 77, with Chancellor Albert Bowker and his the scale-out model nect with Cal, thank you dren in college, and lives wife, Rosedith Sitgreaves pioneered by Google to Brenda!” in the East Bay. provide converged infra-

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1986 the CPA front, I have been Lidia Stiglich, of Reno, to Shanghai. Now at Jeff Myers, of Wash- very successful negotiat- Nev., was appointed Standard Chartered as ington, D.C., writes, “I ing settlements with the to the district court a credit analyst for large am enjoying work at REI IRS and Franchise Tax bench for the Second local corporations (very Systems, where we help Board.” Judicial District Court in interesting vis-à-vis the government make Washoe County, Nev., on the Fortune 500s in the information available to November 30, 2012. United States).” the public. We developed 1988 CAL HOMECOMING OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 and operate www.Perfor- 1993 CAL HOMECOMING mance.gov, www.Data. OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 gov, www.ITDashboard. gov, www.Business.USA. 1990 gov, and www.American- Jesse Freitag-Akselrod, BS 01 JobCenter.gov, among Andrea Romano, of Parma, Italy, writes, “How others. Sometimes I like and send anyone our way what the government great it is to celebrate 20 years since graduation, who might benefit from does and sometimes unbiased and straight- I don’t, but I think it’s how crisp are my feelings and memories at Haas, shooting European real always healthy for the estate advice. More people to be able to see but I am also celebrating my five years at Dell this recently, I’m rolling out what the government is Christina Hollingsworth Zhang, an e-learning platform doing so they can make year and 21 years of mar- BS 00 riage! While my sailboat called Akselrod Acad- up their own minds. On emy, which is dedicated the home front, my wife, turns 17, my oldest son Christina Hollingsworth (of three) is still 16: Let’s Zhang, of Petaluma, to financial modeling Lin Liu, BA ‘88, works for and company valuation. the government directly, talk about priorities! Calif., informs, “I recently Robert Morgan, BS 93, completed my 12th busy For some lighthearted and my kids Hope and (and hopefully humor- Tucker love walking to will visit this summer and season in public ac- I hope other mates will counting, only this time ous) Excel video-tuto- school in downtown rials, please visit us at Washington, D.C.” join us for a cruise along I did it with my new firm, Timothy Yee, BS 90, with the Croatian Islands. Fair Dillwood Burkel & Millar akselrod-academy.com wife Rose and son James at and check out our Ak- Leslie (Lindahl) Schib- winds to all of you Bears LLP, in Santa Rosa. DBM Walt Disney World for New of 93.” is a full-service account- selrodAcademy YouTube sted, of Chico, Calif., Year’s 2013 channel. Go Bears!” was recently appointed ing firm providing tax, 1994 accounting, business interim associate vice Timothy Yee, of Oak- Larry Fox, of Richmond, valuation, and consulting president for develop- land, Calif., updates as 2003 CAL HOMECOMING Calif., reports, “Working services for a variety of ment as lead campus follows: “Timothy R. Yee, OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 for Kaiser Permanente in business clients and high fundraiser at Chico State. AIF and co-founder of the National HR Service net-worth individuals. Green Retirement Plans, Center as an HR analyst. As a senior assurance Raymond Young, of is pleased to welcome David Cheng, of San Continuing the ongoing service manager, I have Fremont, Calif., writes, new 401k clients New Francisco, Calif., reports, journey/challenge of be- been working with small- “I photographed for Resource Bank of San “I recently co-founded ing a husband to my wife to medium-size partner- Sygma Agency Paris and Francisco, Solar Alterna- VendorStack, a ‘Yelp + and a father to my three ships and corporations Pageantry Magazine tives of New Orleans, and Quora’ for enterprise children. Am president of in wine, manufacturing, from 1990 to 2006. After the Capital Good Fund vendors. We provide a my congregation, Temple technology, and nonprofit seven years Pageantry of Rhode Island. We are platform for enterprise Beth Hillel, and doing my industries. I’m proud of called me and said the proud of the good work consumers to do better fair share of volunteer the quality services my magazine was letting our clients are doing vendor discovery. We a photographer go and work.” new firm provides our in community banking, clients and would love to launched our open beta wanted me back. After solar panel installation, in February 2013 on deliberation, we mutually 1997 connect with alumni in and community micro- the North Bay area who TechCrunch and raised agreed; my first assign- loans.” He adds, “My wife, Daniel Abram, of New a small angel note from ment was Miss USA, can use our help! Give me Rose, and I are empty York, N.Y., recently joined a call at 707-577-8806 500 Startups and other June, 16, 2013, at Planet nesters and are thinking the real estate group of angels. I hope to grow our Hollywood, Las Vegas. or email me at cholling- of selling our home in the national law firm Katten [email protected].” business and bring more Thank you, Carl Dunn. On Oakland Hills and moving Muchin Rosenman LLP in great Cal/Haas talent to a yacht.” its New York City office. 2001 into our small but growing team! Go Bears!” 1992 Jesse Freitag-Akselrod, 1998 CAL HOMECOMING of London, England, Shannon Gallagher- Jennifer Gandin, of Los writes, “Fellow Bears! OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 Bolton, of San Diego, Angeles, Calif., an- After five years as a stock Calif., reports, “After nounces, “My husband, picker in the listed real six years of practicing Peter Tontonoz, and I estate space, in 2010 big law at Cooley LLP, I welcomed our son Elliot 2000 I launched Akselrod recently accepted an in- Dow Tontonoz on October Charlene Choi, of Consulting, a standalone house position at Qual- 17, 2012. He joins big Shanghai, China, writes, consultancy with a focus comm, where I will be sister Eve.” “Went back to full-time on the European REIT working with Qualcomm work after two kids and sector. Please take a look Ventures and assisting moved from New York at our website at www. on M&A transactions. Raymond Young, BS 86 akselrod-consulting.com

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UNDERGRADUATE Daniel’s second book, Roots, and we absolutely cont. The Young Professional’s wouldn’t be here without Guide to Managing (pub- the support of Haas. In lished by Career Press, addition to our Grow- foreword by Jim Kouzes), at-Home Mushroom 2004 recently hit bookstores. Kits, we now have the It’s an essential guide for AquaFarm—a fish tank all millennial manag- that also grows food! The ers. The first book in fish feed the plants by the series, The Young creating usable nutrients Professional’s Guide to and the plants clean the the Working World (pub- water for the fish! We’re lished in 2012) received excited to be taking our acclaim, including being brand beyond the ‘mush- on the Business Top-Ten room guys’ and can’t wait English Books List in Eu- to continue connecting rope (WirtschaftsBlatt).” families to food through various beautiful, fun, Jennifer Lau, BS 10, in Chiang Mai, Thailand and innovative products. Look out for the Aqua- Development Program, Matthew De Soto, of San Farm on our website and where I worked in various Francisco, Calif., writes, “I Fresas Flores Balistreri, BS 04, at Whole Foods, Nord- groups, including iPhone started a new position in with mother Edith Hernandez, strom, and Petco!” and worldwide financial sales with Apttus Technol- Mrs Tourism Philippines San Diego planning and analysis, ogy. Along with my new Jeshana Jenson, of I am now permanently position, I’ve relocated Fresas Flores Balistreri, Jalalabad, Afghanistan, joining the retail finance to the Marina District in of San Diego, Calif., writes, “I am currently team in Shanghai as a San Francisco, two blocks writes, “I am so thrilled to deployed in Afghanistan store operations analyst away from the Marina have co-founded a music serving in the United for Greater China.” Green. I’m loving my new education/technology States Air Force. I recently place in the city so far!” company called BRA- reached my four-year 2011 VURA innovations, which mark in the Air Force and Daniel Chun, of Los launched in March 2013 Artin Sedighan, BS 04 pinned on ‘captain.’ I get Angeles, Calif., has been to promote global acces- back from this deploy- working for DreamWorks sibility of music through ment in August, and Animation SKG as the innovation. Check us out Artin Sedighan, of Los I’m getting married in Angeles, Calif., a senior assistant to the produc- at www.bravurainnova- November! I’m marrying ers and directors of the tions.com! associate at Cappello a rocket scientist who Capital Corp. since company’s animated “In February 2013, works at NASA. He’s born feature, The Croods, star- my husband, Piero, and November 2011, writes, and raised in Virginia, “Completed an MBA ring Nicolas Cage, Emma I took an adventure- where we both live now. Stone, and Ryan Reyn- filled vacation to the at Columbia Business Exciting new adventures School Class of 2010. olds. After more than four Matthew De Soto, BS 11 beautiful islands of the ahead of us!” years in production and Philippines, my home Returned to L.A., where country. We visited I got married to my high Edmond Lee, of Thousand historical sites in Manila, school sweetheart and Oaks, Calif., is currently went scuba diving in the we had our baby girl, working at a biotech world-famous and top Siena June Sedighan, on startup in Camarillo that scuba diving site, Anilao, Christmas Day 2012.” makes cutting-edge strolled through the top- bioreactors. He adds, rated white sand beach 2005 “Intending to matriculate at Boracay, and stayed Viet Nguyen, of Ho Chi at Columbia Law this with wonderful family.” Minh City, Vietnam, is fall, but plans have a way assistant vice president of changing.” at CDH Investments, a Hong Kong-based private Melissa Medina Our Defining equity fund. Em, of Wash- Principles ington, D.C., Student reports, “At the Always 2008 CAL HOMECOMING beginning of the OCTOBER 4-6, 2013 113th Session of Congress, Representa- Alejandro Velez and Nikhil Arora, both BS 09, with their grow-at- tive Ed Royce, my boss, home mushroom kits became chairman of the 2009 House Foreign Affairs Nikhil Arora and Alejan- premiering at the Berlin Committee. With his new dro Velez, both of San 2010 position, I now serve as Aaron McDaniel, BS 04 Film Festival in February, Francisco, Calif., write, Jennifer Lau, of Shang- this film was released the legislative assistant Aaron McDaniel, of San “We’re very excited to be hai, China, reports, “After in the United States on who works on his foreign Francisco, Calif., updates launching our second spending nearly two March 22, 2013. affairs portfolio and as as follows: “Aaron Mc- product at Back to the years in Apple’s Finance the committee liaison.

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Working for the chairman and Justin Chu, both BS marketing and marketing Endowment and Re- model building (quants brings unique experience 13. We entered the Big management! gional Trust of San Mateo now) having worked for and I continue to be a Ideas@Berkeley 2012-13 “I just returned from County, the Peninsula people like Jim Simons, ‘lifelong learner’ in my Competition under the my 105th country, visit- Traffic Congestion Relief Alexander Migdal, and new capacity. new Financial Literacy ing Burma (Myanmar) Alliance, and the Office of Gregory Chudnovsky. I “In Washington, D.C., category. I’m very excited on a two-week trip with Emergency Services. tried my hand twice after I sit on the board of the to say that we won First Overseas Adventure “On July 1 I became that in China and was California State Society, a Place overall and the Travel (15th trip with president of the Jewish ‘shmeissed’ each time. I nonprofit, bipartisan, so- Grand Prize Pitch Day them). The country is rich Community Federation just joined a new abso- cial/networking organi- contest for Campus & with Buddhist history of San Francisco, the lute return/high-yield zation whose objective is Community Impact! Our and philosophy/religion. Peninsula, Marin, and strategy fund purchased to promote friendly rela- project is called Cashify, Incredible isolation from Sonoma counties. I also by a former partner. The tions among its members an online, fun, social the rest of the developing serve on the board of the fund has 20 years of and to serve the interests platform for financial countries, but now on the Bay Area Water Supply & profits and no losses. of the nation and the edutainment. Users play right track, with a major Conservation Agency, as The model basically state of California. I also games while learning election, scheduled for well as on the board of predicts U.S. interest rate recently got accepted to money management May 2015. A photogra- a private medical device movement. I am looking the Women’s Campaign skills and in doing so pher’s paradise, with 135 company, and three to connect with Haas School at Yale.” earn points to redeem tribes, each with its own investment committees. graduates interested in for goods and events. language but Burmese No moss growing under seeing further informa- If you’re interested in as a master interchange. my feet.” tion about the invest- learning more about us, Everyone should have ment possibilities. This is please email Cashify. this country on the 1966 the first time the model [email protected].” ‘bucket list.’ I now live in has been offered to insti- Rossmoor, since my wife tutional and hedge fund died in 2002 at our home investors.” MBA in Orinda, Calif.” 1971 1955 1965 Winton (Wint) Mather, Tom Kasten, of Hillsbor- of Walnut Creek, Calif., ough, Calif., writes, After writes, “Since 1955, I had serving 12 years on the two years in the U.S. Air Hillsborough City Coun- Force, in Texas, and upon cil, two terms as mayor, returning to California and 12 years as police Melissa Medina Em, BS 11 joined IBM, with postings commissioner, I retired to Hawaii, Washington, from the council. It was a D.C.; Dusseldorf, Germa- great 12 years, including serving on a number of 2012 ny; and many stops in between. My 32 years with municipal and county Virginia Chung, of IBM were very fruitful, boards. I was chair of the Berkeley, Calif., writes, with many different jobs, board of the City/County “I started a financial thousands of associates, Association of Govern- Philip Carville, MBA 66, climbs ‘edutainment’ project ments for San Mateo Peter Michael, MBA 71 and presentations to Half Dome in Yosemite. with my Haas class- so many different large County and a board mates, Shuonan Chen and small customers in member of the Housing Remembering John Philip Carville, of Nevada Hanson: A Biography of City, Calif., writes, “Have the First President of the had lots of fun and Original United States done many things over Government, a book the past 45 years since by Peter Michael, of graduating from the Adamstown, Md., has School of Business, as it been named the 2013 was called before Peter eLit Awards Silver Haas made his generous Medalist in Biography for donation to the school. I books published in 2012. live now in the foothills Says Peter, “It would of the Sierra Nevada and be hard to recognize a work with a few project/ more deserving subject investments. The school than the overlooked gave me a perspective on John Hanson for this business and society for important award, which which I am very thankful.” should go far in helping to reintroduce him to 1969 the American people.” Lewis Okser, of Brooklyn, The eLit Awards, an N.Y., informs, “I retired industrywide unaffiliated as senior VP of Knight awards program open to A team including Virginia Chung, BS 12, won the Berkeley Big Ideas Competition. Pictured here are Group back in 2002. the worldwide electronic Haas staffer Andrik Cardenas; Justin Chu and Shuonan Chen, both BS 13; Virginia Chung, BS 12; and My career has been in publishing industry, are Dave Williams and Andre Rudd. stock and commodity conferred annually to Summer 2013 29 In the Back Haas Alumni Notes

MBA cont. After every trip I see the teachers. Daughter Dria director, algorithmic the urge to settle down great reviews that people (UC Hastings grad and trading, and a quarter- and grow some roots write, often telling us attorney) is a law clerk century total on Wall in this wonderful local illuminate and honor the that the trip was a life- for a U.S. district court Street, I’m hanging out community and on this very best in English-lan- changing experience.” magistrate judge, son my own shingle as a beautiful piece of land. guage digital publishing. consultant on all matters This being my first crack Remembering John Han- of financial engineering, at small business owner- son may be purchased at especially as it relates ship, I am really leaning Amazon.com. to multi-asset electronic on that broad-based trading. Google me (algo- business education I 1974 rithmic options trading). received at Cal! Market- Tweet me (@abekohen). ing, finance, operations, Don Bellizzi, of Carmel, LinkIn with me.” administration—you N.Y., writes, “We bought a name it, I’m doing it and beautiful redwood forest loving it!” in Elk, Calif., just south of 1984 30TH REUNION On the personal Mendocino. We intend to APRIL 24-27, 2014 front, she adds, “My life use it as a vacation home partner of 23 years, Fran and will be spending McDaniel, passed away more time in California.” suddenly in early 2011. Bob Ellis, of Saratoga It’s been a rough couple 1976 Springs, N.Y., reports, of years since, but a Our Defining Marty Cresalia, MBA 76, enjoys the Portland sunshine in Principles “I had the good fortune time of reorienting and Chris Braun- his new car. Beyond to work for a month in figuring out what mat- lich, of Briones, Yourself Calif., reports, Nigeria as part of IBM’s ters most. My daughter “I am now CEO Marty Cresalia, of Jonathan (UC Davis Corporate Service Corps. will be getting married and director of Con- Portland, Ore., writes, engineering grad, with The CSC program sends soon, and her fiancé just servation Volunteers “Despite all the rumors a master’s degree) is global teams of IBMers graduated with a BA International Program, to the contrary, Port- now a software engi- to emerging markets in business from Penn a nonprofit dedicated land can be warm and neer with Check Point to deliver high-quality State. My granddaughter to the sustainability sunny—sometimes. Software Technologies engagements to local is finishing her first year of some of the world’s Here is picture of me and on the Peninsula, while communities and orga- in high school, doing well greatest landscapes and my new car, ready for the husband Jeff Fearn, MBA nizations while providing in a slew of AP classes cultural sites. We partner good days.” 83, is enjoying ‘being on IBMers the opportunity and every music and with REI Adventures to sabbatical’ and decid- to make unique contri- drama performance pos- lead Volunteer Vacations Joe Garrett, of Berkeley, ing what he wants to do butions. My assignment sible!” next.” to Torres del Paine Na- Calif., is serving on the was in Ado Ekiti, Ekiti tional Park in Patagonia, board of directors of Pa- State, assisting a not- Mike Lucero, of Seattle, Michaela Rodeno, of Machu Picchu in Peru, cific Premier Bank, a $1.4 for-profit organization Wash., writes, “Another Napa, Calif., writes, “This that is dedicated to social successful holiday sea- and Yosemite National billion commercial bank year marks the 40th development and justice son with the Xbox Unit Park in California. See in Southern California. anniversary of Domaine in Nigeria. Other teams ad- of Microsoft (Interactive our website at www. Yoshikazu Inaba, of Chandon, where I was dressed IT requirements Entertainment Business). conservationvip.org. employee #2 in 1973 Tokyo, Japan, is going to for the state government We have launched nearly “Although my CEO and where I was working start an online site for and university, all with the 100 content applications job at Conservation VIP while I earned my MBA. full support of the gover- on the Xbox platform, global asset allocation of is 100 percent volunteer, The degree surely had nor. The program exempli- including ESPN, HBO, ETFs soon. I spend a huge amount something to do with fies social responsibility BSkyB, Hulu, and Sony of time and energy on it. immediately being pro- in business and afforded Crackle. These apps Why? Originally, it was 1980 Our Defining moted to VP/marketing. me a rich and rewarding bring enormous content because I fell in love with Emilene Fearn, Principles I hope to have finished experience in an African catalogs onto the Xbox Patagonia on my first of Oakland, Student my book on those culture.” platform where users visit there, realized that it Calif., com- Always heady entrepreneur- can enjoy them with the needed help, and wanted pleted and was ial days in time for the 1987 Our Defining power of the platform, to contribute. Now, it is Principles awarded her PhD celebration(s). Cheers!” Therese Miller including Kinect and the because I know that our in Special Education at Student Xbox Live social features. organization makes a Henson, of Always UC Berkeley’s Graduate Jesse Wolf, of New York, Lewisburg, Pa., According to a Forbes ar- significant difference to School of Education at N.Y., who returned to grad ticle published in Janu- some fabulous places writes, “I’m start- the end of 2012, only 32 school, is currently ABD ing on my third career, as ary ’Microsoft and Game that really need our years after completing and expects to receive Consoles are the Future help. When I read our the proprietor of Dancing her MBA studies, giving a PhD in mathematics Bear Farm, a bed and of Television.’ These are trip leaders’ reports, I’m new meaning to the term in September, from the exciting times to be in always impressed to see breakfast and event “lifelong learner,” she Graduate Center of The venue in central Penn- media space and I’m hav- how much a small group notes. Emilene adds, City University of New York. ing a great time helping of people can accom- sylvania. After a 25+ “I’m currently looking for year career in corporate to shape the future.” plish when they work a university position in 1983 together. I also know human resources and a the Bay Area teaching Abe Kohen, of New York, 10+ year career in me- Christopher Scharff, of that we make a differ- graduate-level special N.Y., reports, “After 11 diation and international Los Angeles, Calif., writes, ence to the people who and general education years at FlexTrade as development, I’m feeling “I just celebrated the participate in our trips.

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1991 started an independent consulting business — Kevin Andrade , of Lamorinda Life Science Laguna Niguel, Calif., Consulting. I special- reports, “For the past ize in commercializing 22 years I have been in early-stage technology the real estate develop- through market development industry. Nearly 19 ment, sales, collaborative years of that has been partnering, and license at one firm, Trammell agreements. Crow Residential, which “Wife Nancy, Nathan transitioned to Mill Creek (23), Zachary (20), Savan- Residential in 2010. As Christopher Scharff, MBA 87 nah (16), and I moved to executive managing Orinda in 1996 and have 10-year anniversary of director there I’ve been been there ever since. We acquiring Dreamgirl Inter- responsible for develop- have been active in the Tsuguru Saito (second from left), MBA 91, with high school friends national, an international ment and construction Lamorinda schools, local apparel manufacturer, operations on the West sports, temple activities, he implemented a new dent and COO of Network which has seen its sales Coast and have been a and recently Habitat trading platform and General, which was grow more than tenfold member of the com- for Humanity East Bay/ developed its website acquired by NetScout in the past decade as pany’s management Silicon Valley. While I (www.gkfx.jp) in less than Systems. Before that, business has expanded committee. It’s been fun have been fortunate to two months. The initial he was president and to more than 2,000 ac- and rewarding, but now travel across the United business results are en- CEO of DigitalThink, counts in 22 countries I am leaving to pursue States, Europe, and Asia couraging, and Tsuguru EVP and CFO of Dionex, around the world.” my interest in astrophys- on business, Nancy and I is pretty confident about and a bank examiner at ics, a lifelong passion of are looking forward to our the future of GKFX in the New York Federal 1988 mine. In addition, I plan own travel as the kids Japan by reproducing Reserve. to continue my nonprofit Kevin Renner, of get established in their what went well at his board activities, spend own lives.” previous jobs. Portland, Ore., reports, more time with my wife “Kevin’s firm BrandNew and kids, exercise more, Frederik Kristensen, of 1992 (BrandNew.us.com) has and play more golf. Also, begun providing market- Geneva, Switzerland: Arden Koontz, of El Cer- I’ll probably make small “Frederik joined the World ing consultation and real estate investments rito, Calif., writes, “After management services to Health Organization in spending three years in for my own account. It’s Geneva in May, as senior the Gokhale Method In- an exciting change for channel management stitute (gokhalemethod. adviser to the assistant at SolarCity, I’ve recently me and I’m really looking director-general. Frederik com/) in Palo Alto. forward to it!” accepted a position as a Founded by renowned will in particular focus on partner at Cynergy Group back pain expert Esther the implementation of the Consulting. CGC provides Gokhale, the institute’s recommendations of the strategy consulting and programs bring signifi- U.N. Commission on Life- investment advisory cant, non-surgical relief Saving Commodities for services for investors and to those suffering from Women’s and Children’s operating companies in back pain or looking to Health. These cover 13 the solar space.” Michael Pope, MBA 92 prevent it.” overlooked life-saving Arden adds, “I’ll be commodities for women relocating to San Miguel, 1993 Red Smith, of Moraga, and children in resource- Mexico, with my family Calif., reports, “After 11 poor settings; key barriers for the coming academic Amy Larson, of Oak- fulfilling years as CEO of preventing access and year and would be happy land, Calif., was recently ContainerTrac, a venture use have been identified to hear from any Haas featured in the cast of and private equity fund- and innovative actions by alums in the area.” “All I Want Is Silence,” a ed tech company serving public, non-governmen- short film by Cal student the seaport shipping Peter Bluford, MBA 91 tal, and private entities Michael Pope was Tobias Deml. “As a Cal industry, I have accepted have been identified to named chief financial alum, it was exciting to rapidly increase both ac- work with a film cast and the position of president, Peter Bluford officer of Clean Power , of Orinda, cess and use.” crew made up of mostly Business Breakthroughs Calif., informs, “Since Finance, an online International. BBI, a marketplace for distrib- Cal students,” she says. EWMBA graduation in Tsuguru Saito, of Tokyo, “My parents both gradu- Tony Robbins and Chet December 1991, I have uted solar financing and Holmes company, is a Japan, took on the job as provider of solar sales ated from Cal, so Cal has had the good fortune to president at GKFX Secu- been a part of my life for global consulting firm continue working and and design software. Be- specializing in helping rities Co., Ltd., following fore joining the company, as long as I can remem- living in the S.F. East 1.5 years of building up ber.” Amy attended Lair of businesses grow revenue Bay. From 1991 to 2008, Michael was the COO and profit.” another broker almost and CFO of MarketTools. the Golden Bear as a kid, I migrated through four from scratch into profit- served as an alumni ad- biotechnology firms, com, which was acquired ability. “GKFX Financial by Texas Pacific Group viser to the Cal chapter building experience in Services Ltd. bought out of Kappa Kappa Gamma, 1989 25TH REUNION the areas of licensing, (TPG). Prior to Market- an existing domestic Tools.com, Michael and has been cast in APRIL 24-27, 2014 business development, forex broker in Japan served as VP for the another upcoming Cal alliance management, and turned it into GKFX student film project. She and commercial plan- office of the CEO of Bear- Securities Co., Ltd. After ingPoint and as presi- also looks forward to us- ning. In August 2008, I Tsuguru came to GKFX,

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MBA cont. growing Meet-up group TheBest, where he will 1996 called Social Enterprise be responsible for the Robert Freedman, of Talks (SET). We meet company’s marketing, San Francisco, Calif., monthly in San Fran- communications, and reports, “My technology cisco to learn from each branding efforts. consulting firm, other and to explore how, Accomplio, is coming together, we can have a Marcy Porus-Gottlieb, into its second year and greater positive impact: of Seattle, Wash., writes, we’re doing some really http://www.meetup.com/ “I can’t believe it’s interesting projects Social-Enterprise-Talks- been almost 10 years with both consumer in-San-Francisco/.” since I left my terrific and business products. co-director of alumni Having been in tech relations, Tenny Frost; Nap Hosang, MBA 95 for the past 20 years, 1994 20TH REUNION packed my husband including right here in APRIL 24-27, 2014 Nap Hosang, and two babies into S.F. for the dot-com of Berkeley, Our Defining our Subaru; and drove Principles boom-bust, I have to say Calif., reports, to Seattle! Life is great Confidence that I think this is one of “Retired Without here. Charlie (12) and Attitude the most exciting times Yves Speeckaert writes, from clinical Eli (10) are thriving I’ve seen in tech. Young, “Hello from Luxembourg. practice (2010). and busy student- excited entrepreneurs To make a long story Now leading the hybrid athletes. Steven owns can make software and short, after earning my on-campus/online MPH and operates a highly hardware and get it to MBA from Cal in 1994, I degree program, the first regarded corporate market while still in Amy Larson, MBA 93, with spent 15 years in man- of its kind at Berkeley. communications college—or high school. Cal student and fellow actor agement consulting, with Will graduate our first firm, and our mini I’m relearning to code Haoyang Zhang, who stars in KPMG, World Bank proj- class in 2014. I miss goldendoodle Siggi with my 8-year-old the Charlie Chaplin-inspired ects, and then 5 years delivering babies, but loves chasing birds and daughter, who wants ﬁ lm “All I Want Is Silence,” a Cal with Banca Intesa San I get a lot more fish- jumping in puddles. As to make an app for student production. Paolo, in Brazil, the U.K., ing done. Working with for me, I’m having a ball her hand-me-down and Paris. In the course Kari Gothie, MBA 95, on juggling my multiple iPhone. How great is ing her Haas marketing of these many years I the VSInnovations.org roles and activities: that!” education to “boomer- developed a passion for board (a women’s health coaching private ang” into a part-time emerging markets and nonprofit) and with Haas clients in career search Robert Simpson, acting and voiceover Latin America and alums Dave Charron and strategies, teaching of Green Valley, career—her retirement Africa in particular, Arno Hesse, both MBA career management Ariz., announces, plan! Contact: amyjaylar- with missions in 15 95, and JoAnn Dunaway, curriculum to MBA “After serving as [email protected]. sub-Saharan African MBA 92, on the Impact students, facilitating biology faculty, I am countries, among others. Carbon board, reducing workshops for moms currently dean of arts, Hilary Weber, of I have now translated indoor air pollution in reentering the world communications, and Our Defining this passion into a job rural households abroad. of paid employment, San Francisco, Principles humanities at Pima Calif., updates in the investment fund Matt Evans, MBA 08, is providing HR College, the eighth Beyond industry of Luxembourg, as follows: Yourself on our team.” advice to startups, largest community “My leader- where I help create and sitting on school and college in the nation. ship consulting manage, as fund director, nonprofit boards, and On July 1, I will begin business, Opportu.com, alternative investment driving my kids to sports serving as acting vice focuses on executive and funds (AIFs) specialized practices! I’d love to hear president of instruction team development and in investing in the agro- from old pals so send at Pima. And I have now management innovation business, timber, mining, me a note via Facebook traveled to all seven for both startups and real estate, and infra- or LinkedIn.” continents.” more established orga- structure in sub-Saharan nizations, with a special Africa and Brazil.” He emphasis on social im- adds, “Should you have pact. Accordingly, I have an interest in invest- partnered with another ing in Africa and Brazil, Haas alum, Steve Teru- don’t hesitate to call me saki, MBA 89, to form a or to come and visit me in Luxembourg. There is always a good Belgian beer available for visitors Palmer Jackson, MBA 95 from Cal.” Palmer Jackson was 1995 named new CMO of Anya Axelrod, of FindTheBest, the Berkeley, Calif., writes, unbiased, data-driven, “Meet our new baby girl, comparison platform Katrina ’Katya‘ Michelle! founded by DoubleClick She was born in Sep- founder Kevin O’Connor. tember 2012, and her He brings more than 20 years of consumer and Robert Simpson, MBA 96, in beautiful Antarctica, has now parents and her brother traveled to all seven continents. Hilary Weber, MBA 93 adore her!” technology marketing experience to Find-

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1997 career and development year of coaching lacrosse David Botkin, of San time in Fresno County. Andrew Laszlo, of of a university brand and for the Diablo Scorpion Jose, Calif., writes, “I’m Equally momentous, the Hillsborough, Calif., reputation program in a club, as our second son working in Palo Alto City of Palo Alto Utilities reports, “Last year I digital age.” Rubien also moves to high school running Analytics and Advisory Commission, joined 137 Ventures spoke at the What’s Next next year. Our triplets Business Intelligence for which I chair, and the city (www.137ventures.com) DC conference on how turn 12 this year—where Disney Interactive. Our council established a as a managing direc- great brands manage does the time go?” daughter Julia, who was carbon neutral electrical tor. 137 Ventures is a their greatness. born toward the end of portfolio effective this Dan Rosler, of Pleasan- our second year, is now year. Hoping to see more Peter Zabierek, of ton, Calif., recently joined entering high school. of you now that I’m work- Montreal, Canada, was Rocket Fuel Inc. as VP of Where does the time go?” ing in the city.” appointed the new CEO professional services. of Presima Inc. Presima The company, based in Gleb Budman, of San Chuck Kao, Our Defining is one of the partner bou- Redwood Shores, ap- Francisco, Calif., notes, of Dublin, Principles tique investment firms of plies “big data” artificial “Hard for me to believe, Calif., writes, “I Beyond National Australia Bank’s intelligence to improve but Backblaze online co-founded a Yourself direct asset manage- marketing ROI. backup celebrated its company when I ment businesses, spe- fifth anniversary. The graduated back in 1999. cializing in real assets. company has backed up Fourteen years later, I’m Prior to joining Presima, more than 50,000,000 starting another one! he was managing direc- GB of data and restored Since it has been so tor and co-head of Global more than 3 billion files long, I feel like I’m doing Andrew Laszlo, MBA 97 Real Estate Securities at for its customers. Despite it for the first time. The Urdang Capital Manage- being profitable, Back- company is called Sussle venture-style investment ment, headquartered in blaze has raised its first (http://sussle.org), and fund in the secondary Philadelphia. During his institutional VC financing it’s a site that helps you market that provides 10-year tenure there, the to grow faster. And I’m in- discover new things liquidity to founders business grew from $250 credibly excited to share about your interests and entrepreneurs in million to $7 billion. He that we have a small, from people who share late-stage, privately has also held senior roles but vocal, addition to our the same interests. It has held tech companies. at Morgan Stanley and family—our daughter a strong social mission, Our investment strategy Salomon Smith Barney. Ravi Shankar, MBA 98 was born in March.” and we offer a scholar- differs from that of more Peter writes, “After 10 ship to students. I’m traditional secondary years of building a busi- Ravi Shankar, of Cuper- eager to reconnect with funds since we provide ness in Philadelphia, it tino, Calif., was promoted the Haas community a structured loan rather was time for our next to vice president of as I grow this business. than purchasing capital adventure. My wife, Jen- product marketing at In- On the family front, my stock outright. This nifer, and my two boys, formatica. Ravi writes, “I two kids and wife are all has advantages for the Henry (9) and Ben (7), run all technical market- doing well. We’re look- borrowing founder or have been buying warm ing efforts for one of the ing forward to getting a entrepreneur and also clothes and brushing up product lines—Master dog—after Sussle gets for his or her company. on their French. We are Data Management. I have funded.” In addition, I am a board very excited about this a worldwide responsibil- member of Flint Mobile new role. It is a great firm ity to ensure competitive John Liu, of Portland, Ore., (www.flint.com), a mobile with a great track record positioning of the prod- writes, “Our asset man- payments company I co- of success. I couldn’t be uct, evangelizing it, and agement firm has changed happier about it. Feel increasing market share.” its name to Timberline As- founded before joining James Cook, MBA 99, at the 137 Ventures.” free to drop me a line set Management. We are at pzabierek@presima. Daniel Tellalian, of Los Campo Verde Solar Project still located in Portland, Ira Rubien, of Our Defining com.” Angeles, Calif.: “Daniel Oregon, and assets under Philadelphia, Principles continues his economic James Cook, of Palo Alto, management are growing Confidence Pa., writes, Without 1998 development work as Calif., updates as follows: well. I ride a bike to work “After a great Attitude David Garff, of Danville, principal of Emerging “My colleagues and I every day and haven’t experience as Calif., writes, “Accuvest Markets, Inc., leading at First Solar sold the worn a suit in a year. Kate, leader of marketing/ Global Advisors, the the deployment of the Campo Verde Solar Proj- who was just a toddler communications at firm I started in 2005, $270 million CA Fresh- ect this month and when when we were at Haas, is Wharton, I have started recently completed its Works Fund that invests construction is complet- a junior in high school and a new role as associ- eighth year of operation. in healthy food retail ed later this year it will looking at colleges. Her ate VP, marketing and Our actively managed throughout the state’s be one of the five largest little brother, Coltrane, is communications, at ETFs (NYSE symbols: food deserts. He also solar PV power plants in in middle school. Both of Lehigh University, a AGLS, ACCU) turned one continues to consult with the world at 139MW(ac). them still keep Mary and beautiful campus in year old in January of financial institutions to While this means fewer me pretty busy.” Lehigh Valley support- this year. It has been a expand access to basic trips to Imperial County, ing both undergraduate lot of work, and a lot of banking services for vul- it means more time at Scott Kucirek, of Pied- and graduate arts and miles on airplanes, but I nerable populations.” home with family and mont, Calif., writes, “We sciences, engineering, wouldn’t want to be doing friends. Now that the are almost finished with business, and educa- anything else!” excitement wears off, our third year at OCHO tion colleges. Great step He adds, “I’m finishing 1999 15TH REUNION and sleep comes easier, Candy (www.ochocandy. in my higher education what looks to be my last APRIL 24-27, 2014 we are off working on com) and things are go- another project, this ing better than expected. Sales keep increasing

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MBA cont. Tanya (Shaw) Stein- supply-chain relation- hofer, of Mill Valley, ships, and RFP respons- Calif., writes, “We are es. If you’re interested, still enjoying the good please contact me.” and we are in the middle life in Marin County. My financial planning firm, Nick Sturiale, of of building a new facil- Our Defining ity in Oakland so that Redwood Grove Wealth Los Altos, Ca- Principles we can keep up with Management, celebrates lif., announces, Confidence Without demand. At home, we are its fourth anniversary in “Started a new Attitude down to the last couple May. Business is brisk, venture capital of months before Natalie but I’ve managed to firm in Palo Alto heads off to college. She maintain some form with two partners: www. selected Cal over a few of balance to allow me ignitionpartners.com. other schools, so we are to volunteer in my kids’ $150 million, early stage, excited that she will be classrooms and also focused on enterprise nearby (though I don’t train for a few foot and software and consumer- think she will be home cycling races. My latest ized IT. Raised the fund in very often). Juliet is fin- adventure took me to 10 weeks in Q1 this year ishing up seventh grade Moab for mountain bik- and was oversubscribed Peggy (Pei Yi) Wu, MBA 01, with family and continues to play vi- ing with some girlfriends by $50 million. Just made olin and soccer. My wife, and I finally ran The the first investment out Peggy (Pei Yi) Wu, of San Aaron McNally, of Mirjana, works a couple Dipsea Race in June. Life of the new fund.” Francisco, Calif., reports, New York, N.Y., reports, days at her psychology is good!” “We are moving again— “Switched to a new practice and keeps our this time to Singapore! job within Google this home running smoothly. 2000 John accepted a job year, working on busi- We will be in Croatia this Dave Marron, of Pleas- opportunity with Wells ness development for summer and hope to visit anton, Calif., informs, “My Fargo as a global rela- the DoubleClick Ad Paris or London while company, NuCompass tionship manager in the Exchange. Fun stuff. I in the area. In the last Mobility, has an opening global financial institu- imagine the early days of couple of months I have for a vice president of tions group. We relocated the NYSE were similar! had lunch with Patrick global business devel- in late June after a few By the time you read this, Awuah (things are going opment. NuCompass weeks visiting family my townhouse apart- very well at Ashesi), Rich Mobility is a global and friends back East. I ment combination in Chen, Chuck Kao, all relocation management will find a new job after the West Village will be MBA 99, and a couple services firm with a com- the kids are settled in complete (hopefully). others. If you are in town mitment to providing out- school. I look forward to Some advice for the Haas and have some time, standing service through connecting with Berkeley community: Never do a please contact me at creative solutions and alums and making new townhouse apartment [email protected] innovative technology. Nick Sturiale, MBA 00 friends. If you’re ever in combination.” so we can catch up. Have The VP of global business Singapore, please give a terrific summer.” me a holler. Contact: 2001 [email protected].” Jerome (Rougeot- Maroniez) Rougeot, of 2002 Aix-en-Provence, France, Greg Campbell, of La- reports, “Coming back guna Hills, Calif.: “In the from the Bay Area for the aftermath of the sale of first time since gradua- Archstone Communities, tion! We had a wonderful where he was an invest- two-week family trip. Of ment officer, Greg is course, we made a ‘pil- putting his efforts into a grimage’ to the Berkeley multifamily startup com- campus, where I attended pany. This new venture is the Startup Competi- called True North and is tion award ceremony on backed by Guardian Life Cindy (Karasick) Sherman, April 25 and enjoyed the Insurance.” Greg adds, MBA 02, with son Harrison entrepreneurial spirit of “We have four children, Haas. No doubt the Bay two boys and two girls, Cindy (Karasick) Sher- Scott Kucirek, MBA 99, with daughter Natalie, who selected Cal Area has a unique charm man, of Chicago, Ill., for college ranging in age from 3 to and it would not take 11. The oldest was born announces, “Cindy and much to convince us to 5 days after graduation Marc Sherman welcome Marco Nicosia, of Milano, development is a key come back. But currently back in 2002. They are their little Golden Bear Italy, announces, “On April position in our company. living in Aix-en-Provence great kids that make life Harrison Tate Sher- 15 our first son, Riccardo, The primary objective is in France makes the a ton of fun.” man to the world, born was born. Paola and I are to market and close new ‘best-place-to-live‘ com- 11/5/12. Harrison is delighted with him.” business through direct petition quite exciting.” adorable and we are client calling efforts, getting the swing of parenthood.”

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2003 objective is to provide stores and on Amazon Federico Helman, of Sao Adam Goldworm, of Los a new marketplace for in fall/winter 2013. Still Paulo, Brazil, announces, Angeles, is producing the high-quality, socially with PAAMCO, managing “I recently got married supernatural action film and ecologically minded and structuring complex to Camila! We had a The Last Witch Hunter fashion. Fashion4Free- alternative investment wonderful time at the at Lionsgate, starring dom shares with others solutions for institutional wedding and enjoyed Vin Diesel. Production the opportunity for investors. I’m also looking our honeymoon doing a begins in 2014 with a responsible design and forward to returning to safari in Africa.” budget of approximately creation through our Haas later this year as a $75 million. He is also network of artisans, guest lecturer. I attended currently in pre-produc- craft villages, and part- the SALT conference and tion on the indie crime nered factories.” expect work-related trav- drama Dermaphoria, el domestically as well as based on the cult novel In April 2013, Nelly Spieler, to Europe and Asia this by Craig Clevenger. of Sausalito, Calif., year. Looking forward to started working as a se- seeing Haas alums and Siddharth Sanghvi, of nior manager for Frank, reconnecting!” Oakland, Calif., reports, Rimerman +Co., building “After three years man- and growing an IT audit Joaquin Pedrin, of San practice. The initial focus Carlos, Calif., writes, aging sustainability at Linh Do, MBA 04, models a of the practice is on IT “After three years as eBay, I am very excited Cal color vintage hand-knit to jump back into the assurance audits for ser- the principal landscape sweater from her company’s vice companies and on IT architect/planner for Abhishek Shrivastava, MBA 07 startup world. I recently spirit wear line, which sup- joined Back to the Roots, compliance audits. Pearl Harbor in Oahu, I’ve ports a village knitters co-op returned to paradise as Abhishek Shrivastava, a very cool startup in Vietnam. founded by two Haas 2006 an associate landscape of Santa Clara, Calif., undergrads, where I will Qing Li, of Mountain View, architect at Caltrans in writes, “I started my Linh Do, of Our Defining be heading marketing Principles Calif., reports, “We hu- Oakland.” He announces, entrepreneurial journey Newport and operations. We just Beyond mans share 99.9 percent “Since graduation, we’ve in the past year with the Beach, Calif., Yourself launched our AquaFarm, of DNA, meaning we are added another son to founding of Unboxed. updates as a fish tank that grows all very similar. Plus all our family, Samuel, in Company’s vision is to follows: “2012 food. Check it out at currently living humans January 2012. He and build a product owner- brings me back full time backtotheroots.com.” share a common mater- his brother, Elliott, just ship graph for everyone. to the United States On the personal front, nal ancestor who lived enjoyed a few days in Our first product is an since graduating from he adds, “We just had in Africa about 200,000 Disneyland. Their parents iPhone application that Haas. I married Erik our second child, a years ago and a com- are still recovering.” helps people get organized N. Johnson in the fall, baby boy we named Ari mon paternal ancestor with the products they own with cameos by Arturo Dev Sanghvi.” who lived in Africa about 2007 with respect to manuals, Morosoff, MBA 04, and 230,000 to 500,000 years Mark Craig, of Red- warranties, and recalls. Zeph Stuart, MBA 03. I ago. Makes us wonder mond, Wash., updates The ride has been intense did NGO work in Vietnam why all the conflicts and as follows: “After 13 but exhilarating and fulfill- 2004 10TH REUNION for six years and trav- wars. On the other hand, years at Oracle, now ing in every aspect.” eled for two. Highlights APRIL 24-27, 2014 the 0.1 percent difference working as senior vice include developing small in DNA makes everyone president of product 2008 and medium enterprises, unique. Really makes us management at Verta- Sameer Agrawal, of Fre- improving health and Florencia Estrade writes, appreciate the beauty fore, a SaaS company mont, Calif., updates, “Af- social care for orphans “Living in Rio de Janeiro. of diversity. I am working specializing in the inter working for 18 years and children affected by Happy mother of newly on the world’s first DNA surance vertical market. in the corporate world, HIV/AIDS, trekking for born Sofia (4 months) ancestry test based on Also, moved from S.F. to in October 2012, I took two months in Nepal, and Maia (3 years old). I next-generation se- Seattle in 2011.” the plunge and launched studying peace and am running an innova- quencing technology at conflict resolution for tion consultancy and an Centrillion Biosciences. three months at the accelerator-focused, You’ll be surprised to find Rotary Peace Center at shared-value business. out what ethnicities are Bangkok’s Chulalongkorn We just won a $2 million in your DNA, where your University, dirt biking fund from the Brazilian ancestors were from, in NE Cambodia, and government for 10 start- when they met each backpacking in Turkey, ups, which can be from other, and how you are re- India, and south and east anywhere in the world. lated to other people.” Africa, where a Rwandan So, Berkeley entrepre- mountain gorilla gave me neurs, feel free to apply Putri (Sugondo) a love tap. I am working if interested. Check it Pascualy, of Newport with Fashion4Freedom. out at pipa.vc and Start- Coast, Calif., writes, “Just com, a social enterprise. Up Brazil.” finished the manuscript We are a design house for my book, Investing in that tailors production Credit Hedge Funds. Mc- around a mission of ethi- Graw-Hill is my publisher, cal manufacturing. Our copies expected in book- Soumya, Madhuri, Siddharth, and Sameer Agrawal, MBA 08

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MBA cont. our first child, Dillan for me the transport of The most rewarding part Simon Ru, of Our Defining Melia Bernstein, on physical goods (industry of this work is that by fol- San Francisco, Principles Question Sunday, May 5, 2013. She lingo for starting a mov- lowing my dream, I have Calif., writes, the Status came in at a healthy 7 ing company). And we inspired others to follow “Launched Quo Optimsoft Consulting. lbs. 8 oz. and 19.5 in. and both became engaged theirs!” For more infor- LessThan- We are a professional in her first week of life to our significant others mation, email Michelle 6Percent to help home services company pro- has captured our hearts. and are considering a at michelle_florendo@ sellers compare realtor viding consulting in the Everyone is doing great, joint wedding. It will be mba.berkeley.edu or visit commissions and mar- areas of business intel- and Dillan has already more likely, if we can http://whatifyoucould.be. keting plans. Give it a ligence, market research, met several of her Haas convince Conor “Holly- try if you are planning to and Web development 09 aunties and uncles, wood” Toohey, MBA 10, Tom Kraikit, of San sell your home.” technologies. It has been including Mariah Byrne, to officiate!” Francisco, Calif., an- a great journey so far and Omar Garriott, Marga- nounces, “Joann and I 2011 I strongly believe that my ret Yang, and Norberto Michelle Our Defining welcomed our son Evan Carlos Chiabra, of MBA at Haas had a lot to Guimaraes.” Florendo Principles to the world in April. His San Francisco, Calif., do with taking this path.” writes, “I am Confidence big sister, Olivia, has Without started a senior busi- Limiao Cheng, of Beijing, happily living Attitude already helped out with ness manager position writes, “After a few years in Oakland Evan’s first few days at TH at the Autodesk Con- 2009 5 REUNION in venture-investments, I and just married home and she can’t wait APRIL 24-27, 2014 sumer Group, driving the started a social com- to Sam Mende-Wong in to teach him everything monetization strategy for merce business Circle July. Since graduation, I she’s learned with her products such as 123D Chic (known as Yishike in have followed my calling two-year head start.” and Sketchbook. Bjorn Austraat, of New Chinese) based here in and am a career transi- York City, N.Y., joined Beijing. I travel between tion catalyst with What Pedro Kudrnac, of Ian Ranahan, of San IBM as an associate the United States and If You Could, a company I Santiago, Chile, writes, Francisco, Calif., updates partner in the strategy China a lot for business founded to inspire ambi- “The Chilean Chapter as follows: “2013 has and transformation development. The idea tious professionals to do participated in an MBA been an exciting year! practice of IBM’s Global is to build marketing what they love and love Alumni Soccer Tourna- Along with another Haas Business Services. channels through social what they do. I coach ment in Santiago. It was alum, Shourya Basu, media, online/mobile type-A professionals the perfect excuse to MBA 11, I left corporate Eliot Bencuya writes, “I e-commerce platforms, through transitions get together and have a America to form Simple left Canyon Capital Real- and offline events/trunk toward more fulfilling wonderful time, remem- But Needed, an enter- ty Advisors with a couple shows to market lifestyle work and lead workshops ber good times with prise software company. colleagues to start our brands to improve the on ‘career pivots’ for friends, and welcome We have had significant own real estate invest- quality of life of the universities and pro- new admits.” traction signing large ment and advisory firm, Chinese people and bring fessional associations clients to use our mobile Tryperion Partners. We social impact awareness throughout the Bay Area. recently closed our first to the local communities. fund, which will invest We are also in the pro- in a mix of office, retail, cess of bringing Chinese hospitality, and multi- cultural products and family properties. Natalie brands to the United and I are still living in Los States through social Angeles, where it seems media partners and of- more Haasies are starting fline events.” to make their way.” 2010 Morgan (Eckles) Bern- Dave Bend writes, “Very stein, of San Francisco, excited to announce that I Calif., announces, “Matt, moved to Washington, D.C., MBA 09, and I welcomed with my girlfriend Erin, who’s an amazing lawyer. I also switched to my fourth company since graduation, OPower. Incredibly excited about this opportunity and glad I finally found such a perfect fit.”

Roshan Bhula, of Boul- der, Colo., announces, “It has been a very eventful year for Eric Kuhn, MBA 10, and for me. We both left Napkin Labs early The Chilean Chapter of the Haas Alumni Network at an MBA Alumni Soccer Tournament. Pictured this year to pursue other top row: Pedro Kudrnac, MBA 10; Macario Valdes, MBA 11; Pablo Bosch, MBA 15; Renato Daziano, Matt and Morgan (Eckles) interests. For Eric that MBA 04; Carlos Soublette, MBA 01. Bottom row: Alejandro DeGiorgis, MBA 09; Eric Recart, MBA 08; Bernstein, both MBA 09, with means health care IT and Ignacio Larrain, MBA 10. newborn daughter Dillan

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Create your public proﬁ le in the new @cal Alumni Directory: cal.berkeley.edu and Web software to is the chief financial of- MFE IN MEMORIAM Robert Giusti, BS 51 streamline government ficer of BCB Homes, Inc., Jack Dickman, BS 52 and enterprise safety with corporate offices in 2006 Alison Crist, BA 37 Jack Hays, BS 52 processes! Our company Naples, Florida. David Klein, Oakland, Elinor Shaffer, BS 37 Taketsugu Takei, BS 52 has benefited greatly John Thompson, BS 52 from joining the Skydeck 2006 Calif., writes, “I was the Robert Miller, BS 38 Berkeley incubator and 2013 first-place winner of Muriel Emerson, BA 39 Roger Gilbert, BS 53 Juergen Schmidt, of the National Association Isabel Brock, BS 40 Gerald Ferro, BS 54 we are looking forward Munich, Germany, writes, to continued success of Active Investment Man- James Dobey, BA 40 John Kessler, BS 54 “Started a new global agers (NAAIM) Wagner throughout 2013 as project with a leading Myrtle Douglass, BS 40 Harvey Lee, BS 54 our team grows. Check Award for Advances in Ac- Lee Sammis, ATU 54 DAX (German stock in- tive Investment Manage- Mary Popenoe, BS 40 out our website: www. dex) company and SFDC. Joseph Takehita, BS 40 Stephen Jones, BS 55 sbnsoftware.com and ment for my paper ‘Equity It is a global competence Sector Rotation via Credit Oliver Wolcott, BS 40 Floyd White, BS 55 feel free to reach out if center channel—all Edith Long, BA 41 Robin Fairbairn, BS 56 interested/curious. ian@ Relative Value.’ As the cloud, all integrated. William Phelps, BS 43 Andrew Gee, BS 56 simplebutneeded.com.” award winner, I presented The ‘brainware’ was my results at NAAIM’s Herman Bistrin, BS 45 Egon Kraus, BS 56, MBA 58 developed during various annual Uncommon Anka Ohman, BS 45, Sharon Plomgren, 2012 classes at Haas. I will Knowledge conference in MA 57 (Educ.) ATU 56 (Educ.) Hussein Khazaal, San keep you posted about Denver in late April.” Jose, Calif., reports, “After results. Best wishes to all Gene Englund, BS/BA 46 Edwin Wong, BS 56 a wonderful period in Haas students.” Wilbur Gomes, BS 46 Willis Sheldon, BS 59 management consulting at PhD Rebecca Harris, BS 46 John Muirhead, BS 60 Alvarez & Marsal, I am very George Blair, BS 47 George Spillane, MBA 61 excited to join the startup 2009 5TH REUNION 1971 Philip McClure, BS 47 Earl Anderson, MBA 62 world (www.ciinow.com) as APRIL 24-27, 2014 Kenneth Nagel, BS 47, JD 50 Patricia Jensen, ATU 62 director of operations.” Serge Matulich, of Orlando, Fla., writes, Paul Sauer, BS 47 William Ginsburg, BS 64 “Retired in 2001 after Howard Brownson, BA 48 Melinda Thomas, BS 64 2013 1ST REUNION more than 35 years of Arthur Forderer, BS 48 Elizabeth Morris, BA 39, APRIL 24-27, 2014 2012 university teaching, Thomas Gates, BS/BA 48 MBA 66 Brian Prinn, BA 67 Nilesh Savkoor, of San with the last 18 years Tamara Lipson, BS 48 Francisco, Calif., was re- at the Crummer Gradu- Theodore Schulz, BA 48, Gregory Young, MBA 68 cently promoted to senior ate School of Business, MA 50 Anita Vogel, BS 71, MBA 71 BCEMBA manager, product line Rollins College. With Theodore Melim, BS 49 Richard Quarterman, management at Cisco wife, Margarete, we visit Allan Renton, BS 49 BA 67, MBA 74 our son, his wife, and 2003 Systems. In this leader- Earl Rowe, BS 49 Minna Lieberman, MBA 82 ship role he oversees grandson in California; Chris Phenner and wife, our daughter, husband, Knowles Hall, BS 50 Soledad Voss, BS 99 Erika, moved Harrison offer management and Eugene Rude, BS 50 Edwin Stone, MBA 01 go-to-market strategy and their many animals (1) and Will (3) back in Plant City, Fla.; and we Karl Ruppenthal, MBA 50 Hansoo Lee, MBA 10 to Chicago after being for a multibillion-dollar Anna Bahme, Friend portfolio of enterprise especially like when our Corinne Ryland, BA 50 away 13 years in San grandson visits us.” (Environment Design) Francisco and New networking (routing, switching, wireless) tech- York City. Chris joins IN MEMORY TubeMogul as director of nical services. platform sales based in Chicago. Ping him with 2013 1ST REUNION Hansoo Lee, MBA 10, Founder of Magoosh any questions around APRIL 24-27, 2014 online video. Entrepreneur Magoosh won second place in Hansoo Lee, the Intel+UC Berkeley Technology 2004 10TH REUNION Evan Terry, of Boise, MBA 10, passed Entrepreneurship Challenge in 2010. APRIL 24-27, 2014 Idaho, started a new away March 4 Under Lee’s leadership, the company consulting position at after a 15-month grew into a funded, cash-flow-positive West Monroe Partners battle with lung business. Jamie Pirrello, of Cape as a senior manager in Chicago, Ill., in February cancer. To honor To honor Lee’s memory, Parikh Coral, Fla., presented a his memory, teamed up with Pejman Pour-Moezzi, paper at the Academy of 2013 upon completion Human Resource Devel- of the BCEMBA program. classmates have MBA 10, and Lee’s fiancée, Wendy opment’s 2013 Annual Will focus on client raised $63,000 Lim, BS 99, to create the Hansoo Lee Conference in Washing- delivery and developing to create an entrepreneurship fellowship. Fellowship for Entrepreneurs. The ton, D.C. The paper was the business intelli- Lee came to Haas knowing that fellowship will be awarded annually titled “Improving the gence and data ware- he wanted to pursue a career in to support a Berkeley MBA student Success of Mergers & housing practice. entrepreneurship. He joined classmate or team pursuing an entrepreneurial Acquisitions: The Role of Bhavin Parikh, also MBA 10, in co- venture for a summer internship. Learning in an Environ- founding Magoosh, an online education To give, visit givetocal.berkeley.edu/ ment of Planned and Emergent Change.” Jamie company that has helped thousands of fund/?f=FM8331000. students improve their test scores.

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Haas Personal View By Tara Marie Kramlich, BS 03

At Berkeley I was very Tara Marie Kramlich, involved with the Young BS 03, is a board Entrepreneurs at Haas member of the Ikirwa youth mentoring program, English Primary School and since graduating I have in Tanzania. She is also spent many years working currently a partner at a with at-risk youth. When private debt fund in the Masha told me family Bay Area that has obligations would keep received initial seed her from going to Tanzania funding to invest in for the official launch of the small U.S. businesses Ikirwa School in January, with a focus on I quickly volunteered to corporate social go and represent the Ikirwa responsibility and School Project Board of gender. For more Directors. information about While in Tanzania, Ikirwa School, email her I oversaw the school’s at kramlich@alumni. launch with co-founder haas.org or visit the Gasper Mbise and the help school’s website at of several U.S. volunteers. ikirwaschool.org. I worked closely with in- country lawyers, accoun- tants, and teachers to final- ize contracts and draft and formalize Ikirwa’s official code of conduct, year-end financial statements, and internal financial policies and procedures.

Teaching English While I was excited about the contribution that my Haas in Africa Haas business education enabled me to make, it was Beyond Yourself for children in Tanzania my time in the classroom with the children that truly made the experience memorable. Although all contracts, courts, and major jobs are in English in Tan- Although I have often contemplated the Berkeley- zania (a former British commonwealth), government Haas Defining Principles, I found it difficult to say how schools have few resources and teach in Swahili until these values shaped my interests and my career—until students’ ninth class and after that secondary edu- this year. After spending more than a month in Tan- cation is merely translated into English. As a result, zania to launch the Ikirwa English Primary School, I children are ill-equipped to study at universities. Our now know that these principles–Question the Status goal was to start teaching English early with an af- Quo, Confidence Without Attitude, Students Always, fordable private school model that has been success- and Beyond Yourself—have become the fundamental ful in India, charging parents the minimum they could foundation for how I think about the world. afford that still would allow us to cover the school’s Ikirwa School broke ground in 2011, due to the expenses. generous donation and leadership of my mentor and In the classroom, as I watched children ages 4 to 7 former World Bank colleague Masha Skurkatovskaya. I learning to sing “Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star,” their met Masha while working in a one-year program on the beauty, innocence, and excitement about learning was World Bank’s Global Treasury desk, where I managed palpable. And then later, outside the school, I could $3.5 billion in short-term, non-dollar securities. After hear the children singing the song around the village. 10 years of managing World Bank portfolios, Masha Many say experiences like these change you, and was drawn to educational philanthropy and wanted to I am now a firm believer. Not only did the experience make a tangible difference in the lives of children. push me out of my comfort zone, but it strengthened my gratitude for Berkeley, where I realize now I got a first- Helping Youth class education at an amazing price. I hope all Berkeley Youth development was common ground for Masha students are fortunate enough to have experiences like and me. Growing up in North Dakota with seven these, as they only affirm why it is so important to give siblings and many cousins, I have always loved children. back after getting so much from Berkeley-Haas.

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