1992

Lana Etherington Slavit and Sharon (I'm not Davenport) Flanagan insured that the Section 65 news pipeline was full. In the last issue of Kellogg World, Sharon was misidentified as a Davenport when, in fact, we know she's a Flanagan of the McKinsey Chicago clan. My apologies. Sharon. In all honesty, I must admit that Sharon Davenport was my junior prom date.

Todd Morgan recently visited Lana in L.A. Todd lives in London where he founded an Internet company, GF-X. Sharon said that GF-X is riding out the dot-com storm rather well and has had many big companies become investors. Apparently he's constantly on the road visiting many continents. All that with twin toddlers!

Joe Husman reportedly has left Carparts.com.

Jenny Patton had a second child, Daphne, and is managing the launch of a cosmetics line for Victoria's Secret.

Kathy Shea Urbat has settled into her new home in Greenwich, Conn. Berthold Heinemann finally checked in: "I left Poland in 1998 (enough cold winters) to move back to Hong Kong. Now I live in sunny Saigon producing babies and helping multinational firms get a foot into Vietnam (two unrelated activities)."

Annique and Scott McGregor had their first child -- a boy named Collin. "This family stuff is pretty cool; I should have started a long ago, but better late than never. I made the switch at Beech Street from finance to director of IT. I've gone from a numbers nerd to a computer geek. I manage a group of programmers doing application development. I guess this is a good thing, as soon as I figure out what I'm doing."

Charlie Cosovich wrote: "failing to notice the correlation between babies and exhaustion, I am proud to announce the birth of my son Grant Fitzpatrick." See pictures at http://cosofitz.homestead.com/gfc.html.3. Charlie is a manager at Kurt Salmon Associates in San Francisco.

Maria Thomas works in Biz Dev at Amazon.

Perry Cantaruti is still working in Japan.

Simone Frank is rumored to have quit work to live the Bohemian lifestyle (lucky her).

David Trossman now has three kids and lives on the East Coast. Dan Vinh works for 1-800-Flowers in New York.

Greg Doman is living in Memphis doing consulting work on his own. Keith Brown moved back to L.A. with American Golf Corp.

Drew Koecker heads up M&A for the KPMG's Southwest Region.

Mike and Kristen Simmons now live in Aliso Viejo, Calif. Mike is vice president of finance at Enfrastructure and Kristen heads up marketing at Mazda.

 

Sabine and Torsten Goesch (both '92) celebrated the birth of their twin girls, Sarah Ricarda and Hannah Rebecca, in November.

Tom Scarpello resides Ann Arbor, Mich., and directs marketing for Ford's Special Vehicles Team.

Mike and Monica Giaquinto live in New Jersey. Mike works at Warburg Dillon Read and Monica is loving the life of a stay-at-home mom.

Mark McKechnie bought a house in San Fran's Noe Valley. Mark still covers wireless equipment stocks for Banc of America Securities.

Eric Greene writes: "After several years of Œworking for the man' in various brand and new product roles, I've started a consulting think tank: The Greenhouse, which helps business grow via strategy optimization and new product development. I live in Denver with my wife Nancy and two cuter than anything daughters, Casey (5) and Emily (3). I would love to hear from you at eric@greenehouse-strategy.com."

Jim Buck writes: "My wife, Lisa, and I had a baby boy: James Augustus Buck, born March 2000."

Bill Krueger and his wife Lynn had their third child in October. Benjamin Joseph Krueger joined his older brother Mitchell Andrew and older sister Olivia Sienna. Bill was also promoted to general manager of production of a manufacturing plant in southwestern Indiana that makes the Tundra full-size pickup truck and Sequoia full-size SUV.

Gieriet and Ted Bowen are thrilled to announce the birth of John Xavier, born March 21, 2000. Siblings Grace, Fitz and Gieriet love him -- he's like a family toy! Gieriet resigned from Jones Lang LaSalle to be with the children. Ted left Parson Group to join Orbit Commerce, an e-business platform provider headquartered in Chicago.

Start-up Central:

Cedric Loiret-Bernal reports, "I'm excited about the prospect my company, Geneva Proteomics (a biotech start-up). We've raised over $100 million in two private rounds and now look to IPO on the NASDAQ soon." Cedric jets between Geneva and Princeton.

John Small writes, "I left Amazon last year after CEO Jeff Bezos and I had a falling out about the P word (profitability). I wanted it, he didn't. It's his company, so I moved on. I've started a new wireless company called evector mobile, a wireless platform for the convergence market. We just raised $10 million from Intel, Reuters and Chase, and are opening offices in Bangalore, Singapore, London and the U.S. We've launched the platform with wireless carriers in Asia and Puerto Rico, so my diet is pretty much a combination of curried dim sum with rice and beans. If anyone knows a great biz dev candidate with telco experience and likes to travel, write me at johnfsmall@aol.com."

Pam del Rio left Getfit.com, but stayed in the Bay Area and joined Tivo.

As for me, it seems the start-up I co-founded, Ecos Technologies, (www.ecostech.com) will survive the dot-com fallout. We are closing on $2-3 million in ŒB' round funding as I write -- no small miracle in this environment. In 14 months, we've evolved from an e-commerce company to an ASP provider of environmental knowledge management solutions -- not what I envisaged in 1999, but moving forward nonetheless.