Alumni Notes

’60s

Bob Milloy ’67 was enshrined in the Washington DC Sports Hall of Fame following a career coaching high school football in Montgomery County, MD, including stints at Whitman, Springbrook, Sherwood and Good Counsel.

’70s

Louis Pope ’74 was appointed to the University System of Maryland Board of Regents by Governor Larry Hogan.

Gary Tabach ’77 was inducted into the Washington Business Hall of Fame.

’80s

Douglas Kelsey '81 joined US Customs and Border Protection, Air and Marine Operations as Program Manager.

Danita Nias ’81 was appointed VP for Institutional Advancement at Florida Atlantic University.

Kevin Smith ’82, CFO of United Way of the National Capital Area, was a 2016 Washington Business Journal CFO of the Year honoree.

Richard “Dick” Koch ’84 joined George Mason Mortgage as Managing Director, Strategic Growth & Acquisition. In this role, he will be responsible for growing the Company’s market share and business development teams.

Julie Boughn ’85, MBA ’89 joined the executive team at Audacious Inquiry, a health information technology and policy company.

Rajeev Mehta ’87 was appointed president of Cognizant Technology Solutions.

William Eisig ’88 was elected to the Board of Directors of BDO USA, LLP, one of the nation’s leading professional service organizations.

James Frauen ’88 joined Massaro Construction Group as the new Vice President of Finance, CFO.

Robert Warren '88, MBA '92 retired on July 31st from the Internal Revenue Service after a 25-year career that included over 22 years as a special agent, supervisory special agent, and senior analyst. This fall he began a second career as an Accounting Scholar Fellow at The Busch School of Business at The Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C.

’90s

William “Bill” Murname, MS ’90 was named CEO at Lazydays, one of the largest RV dealerships in the world.

Mike Thomas ’90 celebrated his 16th anniversary in business as a local independent insurance agency (Lighthouse Insurance Services), proudly representing Erie Insurance. They provide home, auto, life, and business insurance to protect our clients. His company was recently named Crofton Rotary Service Above Self Award and the Crofton Chamber of Commerce Leadership Award.

Vinod Jain, PhD ’94 recently published "Global Strategy: Competing in the Connected Economy" which details how firms enter, compete and grow in foreign markets.

Matt Klein ’94 joined Spirit as the Senior Vice President and Chief Commercial Office.

Dale Vanderputten, MBA ’96 was named Chief Scientific Officer of Nutra Pharma.

Steve Halligan, MBA ’95 is the CEO of n2grate which landed the No. 1 spot on Washington Technology’s 2015 Fast 50 list.

Tyrone Brooks ’96 was the keynote speaker at this year’s African-American Heritage Sports Luncheon hosted by the Pittsburgh Pirates.

Wellford Dillard ’97 joined Social Tables as Chief Financial Officer

Scott Bernard Nelson, MBA '98 was named Director of Communications and Marketing at Linfield College in McMinnville, Oregon.

’00s

Matthew Jankowski, MBA ’00 was hired as Senior Vice President of Business Development of IOMAXIS.

Hillary Berman, MBA ’03 published Customer, LLC: The Small Business Guide to Customer Engagement & Marketing. The book teaches small business owners how to put their customers at the center of their business so that customers buy more easily, return more frequently, and refer more often. Customer, LLC is available on Amazon.com in paperback and Kindle formats.

Kevin Stonesifer ’03 has been promoted to partner at Baker Tilly.

Chris Henson Jones ’04 opened SourceCore in Vienna, VA, a class-based fitness studio.

Diana (Schoenberg) Mitchell ’05 lives in Phoenix with her husband, Will, and her son, Felix. She has worked for CVS Health for 5 years and is responsible for interpreting rules, regulations and guidance related to the Affordable Care Act as it relates to Pharmacy Benefit Management (PBM) business activities both for the company and its clients.

Joshua Polsky ’05 married Dr. Heather Levin on July 30 in East Meadow, N.Y.

Aqil Chishty, MBA ’06 was named CEO of MDIG two years ago and has since maintained the position.

Casey Hedden ’06 married Drew Jennings on Sept. 17, 2016 in Lake Tahoe, California.

Melissa Darmody ’09 began working at Under Armour as an HR Business Partner.

Brian Lavin ’09 opened the restaurant “Gnocco” in Baltimore.

’10s

Akshay Goyal '10 was named to Forbes 30 under 30 list in finance for 2017. He is the youngest vice president in Starwood Capital’s history.

Brian Hopman, EMBA '10 and his team won a Technical Emmy award on Jan. 7, 2017. He is Associated Press vice president and general manager of ENPS, a multiplatform news production system.

Monisha Lewis ’10 began working at BBDO as a Communications Planning Director.

LaKisha Greenwade ’11 was named to the 2016 Baltimore Business Journal’s 40 Under 40 list.

G. Nagesh Rao, MBA ’11 married Kali Wasenko.

Heath Campbell, MBA ’12 has been named president of BB&T’s Northern Georgia Region.

Benjamin Rank ’12 oversaw the seven official merchandise stores in Quicken Loans Arena during the Republican National Convention.

Alexandra “Ali” von Paris ’12 was named to 2016 Baltimore Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list.

Thomas Malone ’13 began working at Citi as a Financial Management Associate.

Brittany Walsh ’13 moved to Arlington, VA, and began working for Cvent as a Client Success Consultant.

Evan Lutz ’14 was named to 2016 Baltimore Business Journal's 40 Under 40 list and to Forbes 30 Under 30 list in social entrepreneurship in 2017.

Matt Brandstein ’15 began working at PricewaterhouseCoopers as a Cybersecurity, Privacy and Risk Associate.

Cheryl Wei ’15 began working at PwC as an Experienced Associate.