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DREXEL UNIVERSITY’S LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS LeBow Student Maaz Rehan’s Presidential Co-op Eight Oaks Craft Distillers: From Grain to Glass Alison Carroll’s Desert Inspiration SPRING / SUMMER 2016 contents 12 Presidential Co-op 3 Editor’s Note Maaz Rehan worked as an analyst with the President’s Office of National Drug Control Policy. 4 Dean’s Word 6 StreetBuzz Reinvent Your Career. Former Mayor Michael Nutter joins LeBow; students collaborate with Philadelphia Media Network, and more. 28 Ideas BRIDGE students visit the Golden State; Jamila Payne puts ideas into action; Jabari Jones shares lessons learned as a university intrapreneur. 40 U-Turn 16 Desert Wonder A look back at the beginning of business at the Drexel Alison (Altomari) Carroll finds inspiration in the desert Institute of Art, Science as she creates a lifestyle brand around her flagship and Industry. product, Wonder Valley olive oil. From Grain You and your career are ready for a change, and Drexel LeBow is ready to provide 22 the opportunity. With high-quality faculty, opportunities for experiential learning, to Glass and individualized student support, LeBow is the place to reinvent your career. Twenty-five-year Army veteran Chad Butters earned his MBA to gain the skills needed to run his own craft distillery. 34 People Susan Kelly found the world The Drexel LeBow MBA of fashion fun but fatiguing; Eileen McDonnell is LeBow’s LeBow.Drexel.edu/MBA 2016 Business Leader of the Year. General MBA_Mira.indd 1 5/13/16 1:37 PM EDITOR’SNOTE market st Spring/Summer 2016, Vol. 5, Issue 1 Market Street magazine is produced and published Amazing Results: Students Raise by Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business Office of Communications. Money for Bringing Hope Home ASST. DEAN, COMMUNICATIONS AND ENGAGEMENT Lisa J. Bogan t Drexel LeBow, our students do some amazing things. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Lisa Litzinger-Drayton For the third year, LeBow ASSOCIATE EDITOR A freshmen, peer leaders, faculty Jonathan Hartley and staff worked on a project to raise ASSISTANT EDITOR money for the local nonprofit Bringing Natalie Shaak Hope Home, which provides “unexpected ART DIRECTOR amazingness” for local families fighting Susan Rinaldi cancer through financial and emotional ASSISTANT ART DIRECTOR support. Allison Chang This year, the effort was expanded MARKETING to include numerous creative grassroots Ebony Staton Weidman initiatives, and the students succeeded at Bringing Hope Home Development CONTRIBUTING WRITER raising more than $8,100 for the nonprofit Coordinator Caitlin Mahon says her Jabari Jones Reinvent – nearly four times more than our students organization found its experience with CONTRIBUTING EDITOR LeBow to be so positive, and the end Brian Hegarty raised last year, and enough to help 10 local Your Career. families struck with cancer. result so great, that they are going to PHOTOGRAPHY utilize it as a model to engage other Jay Carroll LeBow’s 44 peer leaders – sophomore Shea Roggio business students selected to help with colleges throughout the tri-state area. Shantanu Saha freshman onboarding and acclimation Julia LaRosa, an associate clinical Tamzin Smith professor and LeBow’s peer leader Ben Weldon – were tasked with developing and implementing plans to raise funds for faculty adviser, worked with the students DEAN to help them develop their fundraising Frank Linnehan, PhD, R. John Chapel, Jr. Chair Bringing Hope Home during fall term. efforts and maintain enthusiasm among DEAN’S CABINET Through their University 101 classes, the their freshmen groups. “The thing that’s Lisa J. Bogan, Assistant Dean peer leaders and their students engaged Anna Chrulkiewicz, Associate Dean in a competition to raise the most money. remarkable to me is that they raised all Patricia Q. Connolly, Ex. Dir., CCG this money – pennies, nickels, dimes, Brian Ellis, Assistant Dean Some of the ideas implemented included a dollars – mostly from a population that Timothy Gilrain, Executive Director coin jar competition, sponsored events at Teresa Harrison, PhD, Associate Dean restaurants, a crepe breakfast, t-shirt sales doesn’t have a lot of extra money to Paul Jensen, PhD, Associate Dean give,” she says, referring to their fellow Christopher Laincz, PhD, Dir., PhD Program and bake sales. students. V.K. Narayanan, PhD, Associate Dean Peer leader Grace Mellor proposed Ron Nordone, Assistant Dean a 10-mile walk, utilizing social media to “And they also learned that you Kristin Risi, PhD, Exec. Dir., Executive Education can come up with great plans, but Alison Young, Exec. Dir., Leadership Institute raise funds, to her group. “I know that many freshmen tend not to venture out implementation is difficult and requires INSTITUTIONAL ADVANCEMENT tenacity in order to be successful.” Eric R. Almonte, JD, Interim Asst. VP into Center City until spring term. So, I Email: [email protected] created a 10-mile route online that was fun, Challenging students to come up with ideas to raise funds for a Accelerate to the next stage of your career with an MBA from Drexel LeBow’s COMMENTS? WE LOVE FEEDBACK! easy and educational. We walked up the Email: [email protected] Schuylkill River Trail to the Philadelphia valuable charitable organization in our Editor: 215.895.2897 campus in Malvern, Pa. Designed for working professionals to complete in Museum of Art, down Ben Franklin community and charging them with LeBow College of Business executing those ideas is exactly the 24 months, it’s the first step to reinventing your career. Office of Communications Parkway, around Love Park, through 3220 Market Street Rittenhouse Square, Penn’s campus and type of thing that sets LeBow apart Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875 Conveniently located at the corner of Route 29 and Swedesford Road, right off ended the walk where we started, in front from other business schools. I’m so CHANGE OF ADDRESS? of Gerri C. LeBow Hall.” proud of all the students who worked the Malvern exit of 202. Send address changes to: Out of her class of 41, Grace reports hard to make this effort such a success. Drexel University’s LeBow College Congratulations! of Business Office of Communications that 22 of her students participated in the 3220 Market Street actual walk, as well as a few other LeBow Philadelphia, PA 19104-2875 students and even her parents. “Originally, or email: [email protected] as a class, we had a goal of raising $820. The Drexel LeBow MBA © 2016 Market Street magazine Our end total was $931.” Drexel University’s LeBow College of Business The winning University 101 class — IN MALVERN Team Summer — raised $1,180 through candy and bake sales, a Cosi fundraiser and LISA LITZINGER-DRAYTON LeBow.Drexel.edu/Malvern asking friends and family to make donations. EDITOR-IN-CHIEF Cover photography courtesy of Jay Carroll (jaycarroll.us) Spring / Summer 2016 3 MBA in Malvern_Dale.indd 1 5/13/16 1:08 PM DEAN’SWORD Mapping Success: Meeting With Alums in NYC DREXEL UNIVERSITY LEBOW COLLEGE OF BUSINESS few weeks back, I set out bright and early via train to spend a day in New York City meeting with alums up and down Manhattan, 14th ANNUAL DEAN’S CUP A and attend a LeBow student-alumni finance networking reception in the evening. Two colleagues from institutional advancement joined me: Eric Almonte, GOLF TOURNAMENT assistant vice president, and Cassie Mesko, regional director for development. Our first stop, downtown across the street from the 1 Staten Island Ferry depot, is to see Clare Hart ’83, president of SterlingBackcheck. Clare joined the firm in 2013 after working as CEO and president of Infogroup and as president of the Dow Jones Enterprise Media Group. 2 SterlingBackcheck does background screening for companies – an industry that has grown considerably over the last 15 years. Her office on the 24th floor at the Join us at the prestigious Aronimink southern tip of Manhattan boasts a beautiful view of the Golf Club to support Drexel University’s Statue of Liberty and the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge in the distance. Like many alumni, Clare talks enthusiastically LeBow College of Business. Your about her co-op jobs and her time at Drexel. She expresses support helps fund scholarships and interest in our C-Suite Co-op program and connects us with her human resources director to explore hiring a programs to attract the best students. student. We invite her to visit campus and meet with students; she enthusiastically accepts. Our next stop is just around the corner: 3 BATS Global Markets, a global stock exchange operator. At BATS we visit We depart Gerry’s office and walk in a drizzle to the 6 Bob Brooks ’75. Bob’s office is on the 31st floor, with a view Terrace Club to attend our alumni-student reception hosted by equally impressive to Clare’s. Bob is director of project strategy Vince Roth ’99, ’02. We first held this event eight years ago with and commutes here from his home in New Jersey. A seemingly four alumni and just a handful of students in attendance. This quiet man, Bob focuses on regulatory work and is a committed Monday, Sept. 26, 2016 year, the house is packed with students and alums. Al Lord ’89 is philanthropist. the official ambassador for the event this evening and mentions Our next stop is uptown at the 4 Emigrant Savings Bank he was the first LeBow finance major to be hired by a major for lunch with George Dickson, Jr. ’86. George is an EVP at the investment bank. He now owns Lexerd Capital Management. bank and works in private wealth management. Founded by Irish He gives the students his advice about how to succeed on immigrants in 1850, Emigrant now owns a number of companies, Wall Street: “Kick a**.” including Boylan Soda.