1992

	Kal Denzel ’92 and Steve Rappaport '92 take a selfie in Singapore

In winter 2013, Newton Aguiar left private equity firm Avista, where he was a partner, to join Warburg Pincus as a health care adviser.

Matt Allgood‘s oldest child will attend Lipscomb University in Nashville this fall. Now that Matt is a college parent, life seems to be moving a little too quickly.

In Sydney, Bernie Armstrong continues to work on developing a portfolio of student housing in Australia and New Zealand, and spends an increasing amount of time in that part of the world.

Peter Bell became CEO of Eden Autism Services and, in April, was named the 2014 International Society for Autism Research’s Advocate of the Year. His 21-year-old son with autism, Tyler, is transitioning to adulthood, looking for employment and loving to paint. Derek, 20, is a sophomore at Colorado College and enjoys playing lacrosse. Avery, 15, loves playing field hockey and lacrosse, as well as the performing arts.

Pat Burns left Danaher last year for a top strategy post with Johnson Controls in Milwaukee, Wis.

Wendy Church is now working for ORS Impact, an evaluation consulting firm. In June, most domestic partners in Washington state were automatically rolled over into official marriages, and she and her partner were married in July.

After five years with DuPont Performance Coatings in Shanghai, Eric Degenfelder and family returned to Philadelphia when the Carlyle Group bought DPC and renamed it Axalta Coatings Systems. As vice president of business transformation, Eric is working to establish Axalta as a standalone company.

Gary Dvorchak and family are now in Beijing. Gary’s firm, ICR, provides investor relations consulting services for publicly traded companies, and has a fast-growing Asian practice consisting of a number of Chinese companies seeking to list in the United States. Their girls — Clarissa, 12, and Alexandra, 13 — attend Dulwich College Beijing, an outpost of the London prep school. 

Last year, Dan Epstein concluded 21 years at Proctor & Gamble and moved to Toronto. He has set up his own consultancy there, and is teaching a new brand-building model rooted in behavioral and cognitive science in the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Commerce’s Executive MBA program.

John Fanning is moving to Tacoma this fall to open one of Washington State’s first charter high schools. He enjoys the time with students and adult colleagues.

After many years in Seattle with Fluke, Gary Ger left the corporate grind to recharge his batteries. He moved to Israel, where he did organic gardening on a kibbutz, traveled and met lots of family. He also met his future wife in Israel. The couple lives in Maryland, where Gary works for Tessco Technologies.

Matthew Ginsburg is stepping down as head of Asia investment banking at Barclays. He joined the firm in September 2009 from Morgan Stanley, and is seeking an alternate role internally. 

Joe Hartsig and family moved back home to Chicago in January after five years of living in Arkansas. He took a new role with United Stationers as senior vice president and chief merchandising officer. Joe and his wife, Kathy, continue to enjoy watching their kids — Lilly, Peter and Bobby — grow, and they’re all excited to be back near old friends.

Russ Kamis recently earned a PhD in psychology, with a dissertation focused on happiness and well-being, fulfilling a lifelong dream. As an actualization strategist, Russ partners with leaders, helping them to an optimal place in their professional and personal lives. His first book exploring the four key dimensions of success essential to living well is written but needs a publisher.

Bill Krueger has spent time in Brazil and Mexico this past year, with two new Nissan automotive factories preparing to start production. In the United States, Bill is building a new engine plant to supply Nissan-built engines to Daimler, as well as starting up a new lithium-ion battery plant and electric motor line in Tennessee to supply batteries and motors to Nissan’s all-electric zero emission car, the U.S.-made Nissan Leaf.

Lisa Krutzel-Katzman and her husband, Evan, celebrated two major milestones in June: the high school graduation of their son, David, and the junior high graduation of Caroline. David is going to Bates College to study science and economics, and to play hockey. Caroline’s figure skating keeps the family traveling for competitions.

Mark McKechnie works at Evercore Partners in San Francisco covering technology stocks, and lives with his family in San Rafael. His twin girls are soccer phenoms, and their son, Grant, is a budding virtuoso pianist who also enjoys surfing with Dad.

In March, Adam Miller and Lori (Siegel) Miller, along with Joel Flatt and Leslie (Gordon) Flatt attended the bar mitzvah for Spencer, Denise (Luft) Glassman’s son.

Paul Mistor and Mark Coleman visited Winston-Salem, N.C., in June, after Mark dropped off his 15-year-old son, Ben, at Duke basketball camp with Blue Devils men’s coach Mike Krzyzewski. Mark is still leading his health food company, Probar, and Paul is a senior consultant at Fresenius.

Mariko Ohsato launched a portal site, Univinjapan.com, designed to present English-taught degree programs at Japanese universities. She hopes her classmates’ children will study in Japan and form a bridge between countries, as she tried to do at Kellogg.

Last year, Ron Squarer joined Array BioPharma as its CEO. The Squarer family left Chicago for Boulder, Colo. Acclimation to the company should be easy for Ron, who recently was interviewed on CNBC.

Elise (Cayelli) Wetzel continues to lead a busy and fulfilling life in Pasadena, Calif. She and her husband, Rick, celebrated their 20th wedding anniversary in August, and raising two teenagers — Maddie , 15, and Jack, 14 — keeps them busy. In 2011, she and Rick started a new fast-casual restaurant concept, Blaze Fast-Fire’d Pizza. The restaurants use an interactive ordering format to serve personal-size, custom-built, artisanal pizzas that cook in less than 180 seconds.

Liza Krutzel-Katzman '92 with her family, David, Caroline and Evan Katzman

Adam Miller and Lori (Siegel) Miller ’92 with Joel Flatt and Leslie (Gordon) Flatt at the Bar Mitzvah for Spencer, son of Denise (Luft) Glassman ’92