TMP 2002

WOW! Thanks to everyone for their amazing support on this edition of TMP 2002 Notes! Despite the miscue on the winter edition and my very short notice (again — are you seeing the pattern here?), the response has been overwhelming. It is clear to me that if you ever send out a request for urgent assistance to your classmates, the response will be overwhelming. That being said, here we go:

Gopal Kasichainula made a move last year in April to Deere & Co. from my previous employer CNH Global as a division manager in IT. He is responsible for product delivery systems and right now is leading a project to integrate the engineering processes and systems of more than 20 units within the agricultural equipment and power systems divisions. Gopal and wife Radhika welcomed daughter Uma Mihira in June 2003 and moved from the busy streets of Chicagoland to the laid back Quad Cities on the Iowa-Illinois border.

Wolfgang Hirschburger reports that after only 15 months back in Germany it was off to new shores again. Wolfgang is currently working as COO for Atco Qualcast Ltd. in London and has his sons enrolled in a "proper British school" where they must wear a suit and tie.

Zach Markiewicz reports he is a senior market research analyst with Anheuser-Busch and would be delighted to share a few of his company's products with anyone from TMP 2002 who is ever in St. Louis.

Mike Margas is the financial director (Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa) for McDonald's Corp. and still resides in the Chicago area.

James Gruber is a senior manager of financial planning and analysis at Abbott Laboratories and was married to Tiffany Rollings on Feb. 25.

Kevin Ledvina is global supply manager of retail turnkey operations for Apple Computer Inc.

Steve Bredeweg is the COO for ABODA and since graduation has moved to Seattle and is now a father of two!

With more than 10 years of strategic communications experience she gained while working at Starcom Worldwide, Amy (Sabo) Kress's desire to combine her communications and strategy background with her volunteerism led her to leave the corporate world and pursue a not-for-profit career. Amy recently joined Christopher House as the new manager of corporate and foundation relations.

Tarcisio Ribeiro was recently promoted to vice president to oversee the Latin America and Caribbean for Tellabs.

Dan Schipfer has moved to the Kansas City area where he is the managing director of the oncology division for the Cerner Corporation in Shawnee.

Marty Smith has been working for two years with Capital Point Financial as a financial planner/advisor — give him a call if he can be of assistance with your personal financial needs.

Nishea V. Clark moved to New York City 18 months ago to begin working with NVC Consulting, a marketing, market research and strategy consulting firm, as a founding principal. Nishea also reports that she was married in August in St. Croix and would love to hear from any fellow 2002 TMPers who are also in the NYC area.

Tobi Klonecki remains as a technology practice leader at Hewitt Associates where she has worked for the past 10 years. Tobi, husband Tom TMP 2005 and son Matthew welcomed their newest addition to the family, Daniel, who was born earlier this year.

Thomas Clarke is the director of third party merchandise planning for The Limited Brands/Victoria's Secret. Since graduation, Thomas and wife Julie have been blessed with two children, Sean (3) and Natalie (1).

Cindy Borski is the director of finance and operations for ExtendMed, where she has worked for the last year and a half.

Bryan Ward joined Hewitt Invesment Group as a senior consultant in June 2005.

Moiz Doriwala has started his own firm, S & R Land Development, in the Chicago area and asked that I pass along good wishes to all.

After 11 years with Kraft, Cathryn Olchowy moved to Colorado last April where she is culinary director for the Sterling-Rice Group (marketing consulting) in Boulder. In her role, Cathryn manages brand strategy work for food-service and food manufacturer clients. She says it's a great job and fits perfectly with the culinary degree she earned prior to Kellogg.

Sanjay Nair is the director of worldwide reservations and sales for United Airlines and has used his post-Kellogg free time to travel to Europe on several occasions with his wife.

Tim Ruby remains in Chicago and is a senior vice president for commercial banking at JPMorgan Chase.

Bryan Rupprecht is a director with Merrill Lynch Capital Healthcare Finance. Since finishing TMP, Bryan and wife Sandi have welcomed son Chase (4) and daughter Ashleigh (2) and make their home in Lake Bluff, Ill.

Grace Chang has relocated to the San Francisco Bay Area and is now working for Intuit, a software company in Silicon Valley, as a senior manager of finance. Grace still has a home in Chicago and visits friends and family often but really enjoys the great weather, food and new friends in the Bay Area.

Tom Dahlin has been working as a buyer with Caterpillar Inc. for the past 18 months in Peoria, Ill.

Ken Mathieu is a director with FTI Consulting in Chicago, where he investigates accounting fraud and has been involved in investigating some of the very high-profile cases we've all seen lately in the news.

Sabrina Karl and husband Brian Beutter recently moved to Madison, Wis., and purchased their first home very close to both the university and downtown. Sabrina took a position as the director of fund development for SERRV International, a nonprofit organization that reduces global poverty by providing U.S. market access to artisans and small farmers in developing countries. Besides being very excited about SERRV and the position, Sabrina says she is "psyched about reducing my commute to a mere 12 minutes by bike or bus. Life is good!"

Mark Angelos and Jaideep Vivekanand have teamed up to provide 2-D drafting and 3-D rendering outsourcing services to Chicago- and Los Angeles-area architects and builders. Headquartered in Chicago with operations in India, Buildsoft Graphics Inc. is fulfilling a burgeoning demand for 24/7 drafting services at half the price of their U.S. competition.

Arthur Alvarez has recently taken a position with Rohde & Schwarz Inc. as a distribution account manager in Chicago. In even bigger news, Arthur was married to Sandra Lozano on Aug. 21, 2004.

Mike Margas of McDonald's Corp. was promoted to financial director of the Asia Pacific, Middle East and Africa division in October 2004.

Mayura Garg continues to serve as a product manager for the wireless infrastructure division of Symbol Technolgies in Menlo Park, Calif. She is hosting her in-laws for an extended stay as they wait for news on their home in New Orleans.

Nicolle " Nicki" Hines continues to serve as the managing director, western region, for GCD Consultants in Chicago. She and husband Bill were able to enjoy the summer with family in Nantucket chasing their nephews under the age of 4 up and down the beach! Nicki remains busy traveling across the country from L.A. to New York, handling the retail real estate for clients Aeropostale, Coach, J. Jill and Tiffany & Co.

John Lee was married to Sandra Ferreira in June 2005. The wedding was in France (near Paris) and they spent their honeymoon trekking around Peru. John remains a senior consultant with Ennis Knupp & Associates.

Eric Solberg moved from Chicago in June 2004 to start a business in electronic document management (IntegriDoc). Eric, wife Danielle and daughters Jenna (8), Samantha (5) and Erica (3) are all adapting well to new schools and friends!

Jason Seiden took the plunge and recently started his own consulting firm, Seiden & Associates. The firm specializes in executive team building and helping leadership teams develop a sustained ability to execute without ongoing reliance of strategy and management consultants. Jason also found time (as he says, "maybe when I should have been sleeping") to write a coming-of-age novel that he is currently looking to get published. Last year was equally busy for Jason as he and his wife welcomed their second daughter and simultaneously made the move out to the Chicago suburbs.

Bill Nurthen, wife Jennifer and daughter Lily welcomed the birth of their newest family member, Julia Rose, on Sept. 1. Bill continues to serve as treasurer for Inforte.

Jennifer Moss, husband Keith and kids Ryan and Anna have relocated to Michigan. Jennifer works as operations controller for Federal Mogul in Southfield.

Sheila Hanley continues to work in the emerging markets PM group of Lehman Brothers Asset Management-Chicago. Sheila reports that "Life is still good" and that she is "enjoying the (stock market) rally while it lasts." Marc Dietrich reports that he took a position with Morgan Stanley in their institutional equity sales group (here in Chicago) in June.

Jim Newcomb recently moved to a new position within Boeing and now serves as the senior manager of corporate identity and sponsorship.

Nate TMP 2004 and Shay Depies welcomed son Conrad Tyler Depies last May. Shay recently took an account director position with 141 Worldwide and Nate continues to serve as a category insight manager for Kraft Foods.

Jeff Wojcik continues to live here in Chicago where he works as the director of financial planning and analysis for Cosi Inc.

Chris Cornett is a vice president with Bank of America leasing and capital group in West Palm Beach, Fla. Since moving back to Florida from Chicago to attend Kellogg, he says he is "finally back where I can put my ocean engineering degree to work, i.e. fishing, boating, scuba diving, surfing, etc." Chris, wife Karen, and kids Chase and Chloe relocated with Bank of America in January and couldn't be happier. Chris invites any and all of his classmates to give him a call if ever they are in South Florida.

Sumeet Kapoor's travels have included New York City, England, Scotland, Switzerland and India. Sumeet has recently left Motorola to take a position as a consultant with DiamondCluster while continuing to run his own company, Notes Inc. Despite his very busy schedule, Sumeet still managed to find time for a few "overs" of cricket this summer.

Lock your doors — Bharat Kakar is back in Chicago. Bharat joined IBM as a strategy consultant in the communications sector. Prior to joining IBM, Bharat worked for T-Mobile in Seattle and has recently returned from travels to Germany and India.

Jon Wols is with Newell Rubbermaid as finance director/SAP implementation business intelligence team leader. He and wife Heather recently moved to a new house in Oak Park, Ill., and wish everyone continued health and success.

Jennifer Anderson is enjoying her new position as a brand manager for Miracle-Gro Plant Foods with The Scotts Miracle-Gro Co. in Columbus, Ohio.

Wayne Brown, his wife Kristin and daughter Kaitlyn were blessed on Dec. 7 with their second daughter Jessica Paige. Wayne is the financial analysis manager for CNA Insurance Co. in Chicago.

Chris Bostrom is a senior account executive with Sleepeck Printing and invites any and all TMP 2002ers to join him "on a trip to Germany for the World Cup (that's soccer for those who don't read the fine print of the sports pages). Go USA!"

Kelly Arduino reports she left strategic healthcare consulting in August 2005 after the firm Tiber Group was purchased by Navigant Consulting. Kelly is now a newly minted registered securities representative and investment banker helping raise money for nonprofit hospitals as vice president, healthcare group, public finance for Raymond James & Associates.

Arek Jaszcz and family have just returned from a 2 -year stint with McKinsey & Co. in his native Poland. Arek is now a senior consultant with ChapterHouse LLC, a healthcare strategy consulting firm in the Chicago area and is looking forward to reconnecting with his Kellogg classmates.

Philip Lamonaca is the manager for planning and business analysis at Bally

Total Fitness. More importantly, Philip, his wife and daughter welcomed twin boys Massimo and Alessandro to the family on Dec.14.

Kristyn Dunn got the "entrepreneurial bug" while in brand management and decided to go into residential real estate brokerage. Kristyn has been a broker for the last 3  years and specializes in consulting, sales and marketing of new construction or condo conversion for Coldwell Banker Hyde Park. There she leads a team of four agents that support her in the sales/marketing of new construction and condo conversions on the South Side of Chicago and recently launched a 70-unit new construction condo project in the North Kenwood/Bronzeville communities, adjacent to the Lake. Kristyn is particularly proud of the significant number of Kelloggians she has as clients!

Matt Coburn writes that he and his wife Julietta are busy with their 2-year-old daughter Kendall and newborn son Robby. Matt works in fixed income for Robert W. Baird & Co. Inc. and recently completed a second term as president of the CFA Society of Milwaukee. He'll be joining fellow classmates Pete Syslack and Stephen Simsic in Park City, Utah in January for their annual ski visit with Eric Johnson TMP 2001. Pete works for Wells Fargo in Menomonee Falls, Wis., and he and his wife Victoria are enjoying their 18-month-old daughter Annika. Stephen continues in his role as a vice president with US Equities Realty in Chicago and vows to finally go skiing "off trail" this year in Utah.

Since matriculating TMP, Heather Foote Daas received a promotion to the department of radiology at Northwestern Memorial Hospital, where she led the successful turnaround of their reception, scheduling and transcription services. In 2003, Heather and husband Charlie purchased a beautiful condominium in Chicago that overlooks Indian Boundary Park, where they have enjoyed restoring their vintage home. In 2004, Heather left Northwestern to take on an exciting new challenge with Accordis, part of the New York-based HMS Holdings Co., where she assumed the role of manager of EMS Services. Heather completed her tenure with Accordis last April and took the glorious Chicago summer off, visiting relatives in Michigan, western New York and taking in concerts with fellow alumni Sumeet Kapoor and Arek Jaszcz at the fabulous Millennium Park! Heather is also in her 14th year of singing with the St. Clement's Choir as it prepares for a tour of Ireland. Heather recently took a position as one of the project managers working on the transition planning team of Northwestern Memorial Hospital's women's health division. She is involved in building and facilitating of the work plan involving all operational and physical changes associated with the move to the new Prentice Women's Hospital being built at Chicago Ave. and Fairbanks Ct. in Chicago.

Venkat R. Mullur became senior banking consultant for IBM Business Consulting Services in Chicago and shared the following: "My daughter Kamala started first grade this fall. She finally made the connection and asked me why I went to 'cereal school' when I don't even like the morning staple. After my lengthy explanation, covering, among other things, brand names, endowments and corporate identities and philanthropy in the United States, she asked if she could attend Kellogg when she grows up." (Venkat, please note that I have notified the admissions office, which believes it is "never too early" to begin recruiting talented people.

Shiva Kalisetty has become director of project management for Clarity Communication Systems and continues to live in Naperville, Ill. with wife Madhva and son Siddarth.

Harisha Koneru joined the investment office of Northwestern University last spring to manage private investments and real assets. He asks that we keep the donations coming!

Since finishing Kellogg, Erin Smith joined Motorola's Global Rewards senior leadership team and was elected a trustee of her hometown village board of Lakewood, Ill. She and her husband Mike are preparing to send daughter Brittani to college next year with siblings Morgan, Rachel and Keith soon to follow.

Tom Aiello recently moved from Leo Burnett to marketing for Military.com, the largest military membership organization in the world with over 6 million members.

Keith O'Brien remains with the Corporate Executive Board as the title project manager (which he claims translates to chief lackey in waiting, but knowing Keith, I certainly have my doubts). He and wife Tara welcomed a baby daughter on Sept. 15.

Bill Stoval moved to Utah in September to take a position as director of acute engineering for GE Healthcare.

David Anthony Paoni is a Solution Principal for SAP America and is pleased to announce the birth of his daughter, Rena Margaret Paoni.

Rochelle A. Richardson is with the Titus Group where she works as an engagement manager and passes her sincere thanks to all our classmates who reached out to her in December.

Brian Finch, vice president, government relations manager, JPMorganChase, reports that after seven years in Chicago, he recently packed up his bags and moved back to his hometown of San Diego. Furthermore, Brian says he's "not missing the cold weather one bit (and) one of the first people I met after arriving in San Diego was, guess what, a Kellogg alum. We're all over the place!"

Tim Britt says the past four years have brought about a lot of changes for the Britts. In 2002, he was hired by a private equity firm to manage a technology consulting and software firm they owned, which was based in Irvine, Calif. He relocated his family to Newport Beach, Calif., for this opportunity. In 2003, this company was sold and he started another consulting firm (ICG LLC) focused on improving processes and systems in the financial services and consumer products industries which has grown dramatically, both organically and via acquisitions. Tim also reports that in 2004 he added another member to Team Britt with the birth of his fourth child (three girls, one boy) Lily Katherine. The Britts still reside in Newport Beach and invite any and all classmates to look them up if they are in the area.

John W. Cultra continues in his position in Chicago as a principal with William Blair & Co. in the investment management group.

Scott M. Shinners is a senior manager with Deloitte & Touche and is pleased to announce that he was married to Karen Rende in July!

Paul Davidson is now a vice president of equity derivatives for JP Morgan in New York and reports that he misses Chicago.

Cindy Axne is now working for the State of Iowa as the director of performance and development. Cindy moved to Iowa in July to be close to family and says it has been a good move personally and professionally. "Des Moines is a great place to be and has more fun things to do and activities to be involved in than our family had expected. Hope everyone is happy in their lives. Regards to all."

Corey Billups is head of the automotive group for Calyon Corporate and Investment Bank.

After almost six years at BTInfonet, Kurt Johnson moved to Virtela Communications, Inc. last year as vice president of sales.

Greg Nieder started Foresite Realty Partners LLC, a $200 million joint venture investment fund with an east-coast partner focused on value-added commercial real estate investments in the expanded Midwest. He has recently completed their first acquisition, a 180,000 square-foot, 7-story office building in the Chicago-O'Hare area.

Meryl B. Weinstein is the controller of southwest region medical supply chain services for Cardinal Health. Meryl gave birth to a beautiful baby girl named Rachel Lynne on Sept. 28!

Mitch McCloskey is living in the Denver area where he is the treasurer for Colorado Bankers Life. Mitch, wife Katie and son Casey welcomed daughter Molly to the family in the spring of 2004.

Charles Siebert is the national accounts director of consumer advertising for Monster Worldwide in Chicago. Charles and wife Missy EMP-46 became the parents of twins Charlie and Caroline in May 2003.

Christi (Parello) Woodson is a reserve analyst for General Electric's Employers Reinsurance Corporation. Christi was just recognized with the GE Summit Award for her outstanding work, for which she and her husband received an all expense paid vacation to the Dominican Republic!

Steven Treadwell is a director with Credit Suisse's Investment Banking Group and reports that he was married in 2004 to Mary Pat.

Jennifer Volpi reports that she has recently relocated to New York City to work for L'Oreal as a senior marketing manager in their professional products division.

Holly (Besold) married Samuel Apgar on Feb. 27 in Massachusetts. Holly now lives in Japan where she works for Burrill & Co. as the director of its Tokyo office.

Lieutenant Commander Matt Lince of the U.S. Navy had a run-in with Hurricane Katrina and has this to report: "I've been working in Montgomery, Ala., as the executive officer of Navy recruiting district Montgomery (we cover all Navy recruiting for Mississippi, Alabama and the Florida panhandle. But my wife and kids lived in Bay St. Louis, Mo. (I drove home every weekend). The day before Katrina hit I drove down and picked them up and we evacuated to Atlanta and stayed with family. Our house in Mississippi was flooded with about four feet of swamp water and we had two large trees fall on the roof. The house is uninhabitable but standing. I don't know if we'll have to totally rebuild or just do a major remodeling. Everything from the waist down was lost and the house smells really bad with lots of mold. We've gotten a house on Maxwell AFB in Montgomery and the kids are going to school up here for the remainder of this year. Good news: We are alive and well (including the three cats, much to my disappointment) and we're moving in a positive direction; I have a job and a paycheck thanks to the Navy (most of my neighbors have neither); We had flood insurance (most of our neighbors did not); and, lastly, we have a house to live in (again, most of my neighbors do not). We've owned the house in Mississippi for 13 years and we have many friends in the community who are still unaccounted for. Our church and the kids' school (which was attached to the church) were completely destroyed by the storm surge and they did not have flood insurance. We don't need anything but your prayers — many of my fellow Kellogg alums have contacted me and I thank you for thinking of us. Please give generously to charities helping locals from the Gulf Coast if you have the means."

Jenny Shin is a product manager for Motorola.

Jennifer (Moore) Marier and husband Marc welcomed baby Kate to the family in March 2005. Jennifer continues in her position as the manager of sales strategy at Tropicana for PepsiCo.

Finally, Michael McLean continues with Pearson Education as he fights colon cancer. Michael's had some significant treatment successes in the previous months and is determined to beat this once and for all. Michael, please know that all our thoughts and prayers are with you.

Thanks again to all who contributed to this update — I couldn't do it without you. As always, drop me a line when you can and don't hesitate to call me if I can be of service to you in any way. I wish you and your families all the best.