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May 2010 Dean’s Message – Dr. Hugh Courtney, Associate Dean of Executive Programs Dear EMBA Alumni, Your ranks are growing. After one last exhilarating and exhausting week spent in our capstone business simulation experience, our ninth cohort of EMBAs graduated on May 21st here in College Park. Please join me in congratulating the “Wolfpack” (their cohort “mascot”) and welcoming them to your alumni community!
As always, we invite you to partner with us and each other to help make our EMBA program, business school and university one of the best in the world. Would you like to come to lunch and visit with and mentor our current students? Introduce us to potential new students? Participate in thought-leader events, panels, conferences and non-degree executive education courses? Host alumni events and develop focused alumni interest groups and networks? Plan a cohort reunion? Your community is getting bigger and better every year, so if you let us and the entire EMBA alumni community know your interests and ideas, good things are bound to happen! As always, I hope to see many of you again soon, and wish you all a wonderful summer!
Hugh Upcoming Events
What is happening at Smith EMBA? Shelbi Brookshire It was wonderful to see so many members of the Smith EMBA Community at the recent April 14th Alumni Event in Washington, D.C. For those of you who missed the event, 50 alum, current students, professors and staff met to mingle at The University Club. Dr. Jahangir Boroumand (bio), one of Smith's expert economics professors and a previous professor for many of you, gave a lively discussion on Current Economic Trends. Attached is the presentation. I highly encourage you to take a moment to review. For those of you who had JB as your professor, you will recognize his signature inclusion of an interesting video clip. The "rap off" is something you really will not want to miss. There is a link to the video on the last slide. [DOWNLOAD] We hope to see you at future Smith events. Dates for the Fall EMBA Speaker Series will be coming soon. Have a wonderful summer! Shelbi EMBA Business Simulation - Who will be the next winner of the EMBA Capstone Business Simulation? Amanda Lavino and Joyce E. A. Russell As all our alums know, the Business Simulation run by Dr. Joyce E. A. Russell is the capstone of the entire EMBA experience. Over time, this simulation experience has grown from the first four day intense experience with EMBA teams competing against each other to our current simulation with teams from the EMBA program, SAIC, and our International EMBAs all competing to take away the title of Grand Market Master of the Universe. What many of you may not remember is who those winners were from years gone by. So, a trip down memory lane … From the EM01 cohort who graduated in May 2004, the winning team was called Advantage, Inc and was made up of David Beagan, Alberto Menendez-Hassel, Frans Meuwissen, David Pelgrim, and Nilesh Shroff. Who can forget how they shared and traded clothes to make sure everyone was “dressed for success” in their presentations? Or, how they used great project management skills to plan out the entire process on the whiteboard? And remember the great offices for the teams? NOT. What we survived back in those days… From EM02, graduating in February 2005, the team of K-2 was made up of a “take no prisoners” team of Chris Carlisle, Todd Garliss, Eric Gwin, and Natesh Manikoff . They quietly went about their work, overcoming the team with the matching shirts and even the team with the late-night inspirational speeches given by Donta’ Wilson (of course!). Not an easy feat! In September, 2005, the EM03 team, Infiniti Machines (Liam Brown, Ed Burke, Chris Luchtefeld, and Sandeep Thumula) won the big award overcoming the other “8 of the 12 monkeys” as well as the rest of the teams and that pesky Badger team that gave them a run for the money. By EM04, the team names got even more interesting, and the team of Ferris Bueller and Partners, made up of Joanne Ferchland-Parella, Mark Robinson, Patrick Smith, and Viyas (‘sports car’) Sundaram took the big win. EM05 graduated in November 2006 and the last year of the single universe went out with a win by Venturi International, that all male powerhouse team of Steve Fisher, Ron Josey, Scott Knorr, Geoff Underwood, and Burak Uzman. But, who can ever forget the beautiful advertising work (a prize to this day) by Swan Systems or how the other teams shot them out of the sky! Oh well.. By May of 2007, we had some international teams join the College Park teams so we created two universes. The winners of the Red Universe were Eulen Systems Solutions with the talented and diverse team of Jerry Godwin, Cahba Kingwood, Johanna Polsenberg, Eddie Tyner, and David Sarpal. The Blue Universe winner was Summit Computer Corp. a highly competitive and strategic team consisting of Philip Altschuler, Dean Abrams, Prakash Sesha, and Steve Sullivan. One thing we can say for sure - the entire EM06 cohort knew how to welcome our international students to a “good time”! EM07 graduated in May, 2008 and the winners of the Red Universe were appropriately named Red Alert Corp (Tim Jurco, Dave Morgan, Terry Munroe, and Rao Vangaru). The winners of the Blue Universe were the multi-talented team, Symphony Computing made up of Bambo Bamgbose, Terry Johnson, Greg Oliven, Rabinder Singh, and Michele White. By this time, the facilities got nicer yet the competition remained fierce for the coveted 1st place. Last year, for the first time the EMBA cohort had to take on both international students and teams from SAIC – a task quite formidable and challenging. The competition was tough as the SAIC teams fought to take the titles. It was neck and neck the whole way, with our EM08 cohort capturing 2nd place in both universes. Or course, we do have those lovely pictures from the Challenge Course they can always sell online… Thanks to the “Panda” and the intense dedication of the White Lotus team in the Red Universe (Samira Askarova, Tony Davenport, Eugene de Ribeaux, Raj Gopalaratnam, and Wendy Sanhai) they were able to get the top prize for the EMBA class. In the Blue Universe, Reliant Computers, Inc. (Karen Cuviello, Brian Donnelly, Deepak Joseph, Mike Kriel, and Amit Reizes) worked steadily to get to the top of the EMBA class, and who can forget their “video” presentation at the end of it all? A classic. One big success – the EM08 cohort got the international and SAIC execs to finally party and dance… well, maybe a little… So, what will happen this year with the EM09 Wolfpack cohort? They too, will have to take on the SAIC teams who have also been to the Challenge Course to build their teams’ strengths. What will it take to win it all this year? Stay tuned for our next issue to find out who will be the next Grand Market Master of the Red and Blue Universes… and who will win the coveted VC Awards… EMBA faculty will be posting occasionally on what is on their minds and what's going on in the EMBA program overall. The first two posts are up and we'd love your comments. Stay Connected The Smith School launches the Smith Connector. The Smith Connector is a place to update your contact information and connect with other Smith Business School alumni professionally and socially. It links to Facebook automatically. And the Smith Connector can be used to search for jobs or to post jobs. In its first month 1,349 alumni updated their profiles! Make sure you check it out. For more information check out the article in Smith Business Magazine (Spring 2010) We have two areas where we ask you to make sure your email and mailing address are up to date.
Don’t forget to look for the Smith School on LinkedIn, Twitter, and Facebook. Alumni News Healthcare Worker Shortage Solution Started Here Healthcare may be the fastest growing industry, but it is facing a shortage of both healthcare workers and the faculty to train them. Military to Medicine – a non-profit that provides healthcare training and career opportunities to the extended military family – offers a solution. This solution was first conceptualized here at Robert H. Smith School of Business to Executive MBA Alum Daniel Nichols, now Executive Director of Military to Medicine. Nichols, combined his experience as the Director of Recruitment for Inova Health System based in Falls Church, VA, and his passion to support the military community when he first developed Military to Medicine as a recruitment initiative for Inova in 2007. Having experienced great success for Inova, Military to Medicine, launched as a national military service organization in April. Now it provides the nation’s military family with a career path to quality employment in healthcare. Military to Medicine offers both online training (free to the military community) and access to the National Healthcare Career Center that houses thousands of open healthcare positions nationwide. The combination of both training and placement assistance is dramatically enhancing not only the talent pool for those hiring healthcare employees, but is also enriching the lives of military families nationwide. In 2009, Military to Medicine served 1,200 members of the extended military family. The numbers are expected to jump to 3,200 in 2010, and expansion plans could provide services to as many as 30,000 in coming years. To learn more about Military to Medicine visit the Web site at www.militarytomedicine.org where you can also join our social networks on Ning, Facebook, Twitter and YouTube. Announcements Camila Rose Josey was born April 20 to proud parents, Ron (EM05) and Marisse Josey. Job Opportunities for EMBA Alumni Director of Development, Southwind: The Director of Development is responsible for establishing and maintaining relationships with a broad range of stakeholders, including but not limited to client senior executives at the CXO level as well as other client stakeholders, each member of the Southwind senior management team, key executives and other marketing resources at The Advisory Board, the Office Services Manager, and Controller. The Director of Development reports to the Southwind CEO/Chief Development Officer. Currently, two Development Managers report to the Director of Development. For more information, please contact James Zenyuh (EM01). Finally, we would like to request personal updates to share with all of our EMBA alumni. We would like to highlight your successes! Please send any updates you want to share such as new job or new baby. Email the updates to emba_alumni@rhsmith.umd.edu. We are looking for a couple of your classmates; we do not have a good email address for them. Please contact emba_alumni@rhsmith.umd.edu. Thank you for your help!
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It will be a busy summer here at Smith and the University of Maryland
overall. Dan Mote is stepping down as President at the end of the
summer and we are undertaking a global search to find a worthy replacement.
Smith is working on a new branding campaign and a whole host of
new degree and non-degree programs that will better leverage our
intellectual capital and location to have a bigger impact on business
and society. And our EMBA team will be focused on helping our current
students to not just survive, but actually thrive during the “dog
days” of summer, and actively recruiting our next cohort of extraordinary
executives. 
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