SMITH BUSINESS Magazine Volume 10 No. 2
FALL 2009

Alumni Notes

’50s

William F. Andrews ’53 has served as chairman of Katy Industries, Inc., a manufacturer of maintenance and electrical products, since October 2001, and as chairman of the Singer Sewing Company, a manufacturer of sewing machines, since 2004.

George Q. Conover ’50 has served as a director of WSB Holdings, Inc. since August 17, 1989, and previously served as a director of WSB since its formation in January 2008. Since March 2008, he has served as product development manager for Financial Freedom, a reverse mortgage lender, which is a subsidiary of IndyMac. Prior to that Conover was the CEO of International Mortgage Company for 25 years.

’60s

Daniel R. Hawbaker ’66 is the executive vice president of operations and chief operating officer of Extra Space Storage Inc.

Edward T. Tokar ’69 is a director at Beacon Trust Company. Tokar previously served as chief executive officer of Allied Capital Management, LLC, and as vice president-investments of Honeywell International, Inc. Tokar also serves as a director of Teton Advisors, Inc.

’70s

Sam R. Boone, Jr. ’76 is one of the regional executive vice presidents at Brown and Brown, Inc., since January 2009 and serves in other high-level Executive officer positions for several of the firm’s subsidiaries.

Frederick J. Boos ’76 is the executive vice president and co-chief investment officer of ACM since September 2007. Prior to joining ACM, Boos was an executive vice president and director of asset liability and capital management for MBNA America from 2003 to 2006.

Karl Haas ’73 is the executive vice president of operations and chief operating officer of Extra Space Storage Inc.

Don Klein ’74, is the president of Chesmar Homes and has been recently named 2008 Builder of the Year by the Greater Houston Builders Association.

George W. Sarbacher III ’71 is the executive vice president and chief financial officer at Payroll Network.

Victor Schmitt, MBA ’72, is a venture partner at Bay City Capital. He also serves on the board of directors of a number of development-stage biotech companies.

’80s

Omar S. Anwar ’80 is the CEO of Rio Tinto Indonesia since August 2008. He is also the deputy director at PT Pertamina (Persero).

Dave Borsos, MBA ’86, is a consultant at AES Climate Solutions. He is also the owner at DJB Enterprises, a company that invests in commercial real estate and provides consulting services for new business lines and project analysis in real estate, securitization and renewable energy.

Tom Burke ’87 is a software development director at Partners International. Burke has published a book on pro beach volleyball: Order on the Court.

Michael H. Comer ’89 is the senior vice president and chief accounting officer for First Potomac Realty Trust.

Chuck Crandall ’86 is the Vice President of Government Services of, at or for?Mind Over Machines.

Beverly Eichel ’80 is the vice president of finance & administration and chief financial officer for Hirsch International Corp. Prior to joining the Hirsch International Group, Eichel was the executive vice president and chief financial officer of Donnkenny, Inc. from October 1998 to June 2001.

Susan Eikenberg ’84 is the director of commercial market solutions of Mind Over Machines.

Jeffrey J. Fessler ’85, married Jennifer Paige Guterman, an executive recruiter at Sales Consultants of Hudson County, in Hoboken, N.J. Fessler has served as the president and director of Mondo Management Corp. since its inception. Fessler has also been a member of Sichenzia Ross Friedman Ference LLP, a New York City-based law firm, since November 2004.

Jim Flyzik ’75, MBA ’82, is the president of the Flyzik Group, a company specializing in strategic business consulting, performance based contracting consulting and training and thought leadership media events. Flyzik also serves as the chairman of the Information Technology Association of America Committee on Homeland Security in addition to hosting the Federal Executive Forum, a monthly radio program, on WFED 1050 AM and www.federalnewsradio.com.

Corey J. Gottlieb ’85 is the president of EcoMedia LLC., a leading environmental media company. Previously Gottlieb served as chief operating officer of National Arbitration and Mediation Inc.

Robert Greenberg, MBA ’80, is the chief information officer and vice president for AGCO Corporation, a global manufacturer and distributor of agricultural equipment. Greenberg has also served as a member of Active Power, Inc.’s board of directors since March 2009.

Mary E. Gross ’82 was elected to the board of Unity Bankcorp, Inc. in March 2009. Gross is a partner and founder of Human Edge Resources, LLC, a management and human resources consulting firm.

Daniel Rosen ’82, MBA ’84, has been promoted to the position of managing vice president, funding and analytics, in the corporate treasury division of Capital One Financial Corporation.

Rajeev Mehta ’87 is the chief operating officer of Global Client Services and is responsible for the company’s sales, business, development, and client relationship management organizations.

Joseph B. Rosenberg ’81 is the counsel to the firm for Sahn Ward & Baker PLLC. Rosenberg was previously associated with Mudge Rose Guthrie Alexander & Ferdon and was a partner at Herzfeld & Rubin, two prominent national firms.

Daniel J. Schrider ’87 has been appointed president and chief executive officer of Sandy Spring Bancorp, Inc., the parent company of Sandy Spring Bank.

Gary Smith ’87 has been appointed chief information officer for Ignite Media Solutions, LLC.

David Stern ’89 has joined AC Moore as chief financial officer.

Josefina Padlan Simpson ’84 has returned to her alma mater as the director of alumni relations at the James A. Clark School of Engineering.

’90s

Andrew P. Bauer ’97 is the director for client service at Turner Investment Partners.

Rex Blankinship, PhD ’91, is the president of Blankinship Funds, Inc. Blankinship is also a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and the Virginia Society of CPAs.

Joseph A. Ferrara, MBA ’94, has assumed the additional role of chairman of the board for Tollgrade Communications, Inc. He is the president and chief executive officer and a current member of the Tollgrade Board.

David Fike ’91 is the regional vice president and publisher for the American Consolidated Media- Chesapeake Region which includes 17 publications in Maryland and Delaware with two community dailies, a variety of weekly and monthly publications, and two commercial printing plants.

John Giere, MBA ’98, has joined Medis Technologies Ltd. as chief commercialization officer. Giere was the chief marketing officer at Alcatel-Lucent.

Eric S. Lodge ’96 is a managing director with High Street Partners, Inc., an international business consulting firm headquartered in Annapolis, Maryland. Lodge has also served as a director of WSB Holdings, Inc. since November 2003 and a director of WSB since its formation in January 2008.

Laura Mooney, MBA ’98, is the vice president of corporate communications for Metastorm.

Andrew R. Siegel, MBA ’98, is the director at TechTeam Global, Inc. and serves as a member of the company’s audit committee.

David Terk ’94 is the chief financial officer of Titan USA.

’00s

Stephen Acott ’00 is the chief operating officer of Shadow Room.

Anna Bakalova, MBA/MS ’05, is the manager, strategy at AES Corporation.

Swaptak Das ’00 is the president and chief executive officer at Das Enterprise, Inc., a holding company for SolarConnect, AbsoluteAddiction and Shadow Room.

Alex Depetris ‘02 joined Deutsche Bank AG in June 2008 and serves as a vice president in the Global Markets Investment Products Group.

Dan Fullem ‘00 is a senior financial analyst at AES Corporation.

Ryan Guthrie, MBA ’03, former chief of staff for Congressman Baron P. Hill, has joined The Bockorny Group, one of DC’s leading government affairs consulting firms, as a vice president.

Naomi Horak ’08 is the marketing and operations manager for Starfish Retention Solutions. She trains colleagues on company software, and how to develop targeted email campaigns, webinars, direct mailings, and other collateral.

Rajesh Rai, MBA ’01, is co-founder and a partner at New Markets Venture Partners. Rai also serves as a board observer for FortiusOne, Artifact Software and Innovative Biosensors and on the advisory boards of Arctern and M-Spectrum.

Darryl R. Oliver, MBA ’02, is an equity research analyst at Brown, currently covering the consumer staples sector. He is also a member of the National Association of Real Estate Investments Trusts.

Sung W. Park, MBA ’06, is an equity research analyst at Brown. He is also a contributing research analyst for the Fund.

Ryan Taibel, MBA ’04, has been appointed senior business development manager at the Frost & Sullivan consulting company in the Sydney office to provide a boost to the company’s analyst and consulting capabilities in the Australian and New Zealand markets.

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