1997

	Nicole Cole joined by Kellogg peers at the Black Management Association's conference this spring

Needless to say, the first half of 2001 has been a time of transitions. From the job front to personal lives, our class members have experienced significant changes. The Kellogg network is alive and well.

Rob Dreier has had an extremely busy time of it during the past couple years, including (chronologically): Promoted to vice president in Tucker Anthony's mergers and acquisitions department during 1999; married at the end of 1999; bought a house in early 2000 (in Duxbury, Mass.); he and his wife had a baby boy, William Marshall, in September.

Rob has spent time with fellow Kellogians Corrado Giaquinto, Marco Azzaretti, Kevin Dame, Rand Lewis, Patrick Imholz, and Chris Cassanega, not to mention his annual golf pilgrimage with fellow Kellogians Wali Bacdayan, Sanjay Kapoor and Kenji Hashimoto.

Erin and Scott Turtel added to the family this past December. Scott writes, "Matthew Caleb joined us at 3:37 a.m., 12 days past expected due date. He is a bundle of joy! He feeds well, doesn't cry very much and likes to sleep -- just like dad on all counts. Nathaniel calls Matthew his best friend and brought him his first teddy bear. Erin is doing fine; she really enjoys being a mom and says 'it's good to be getting my lap back!' I'm with Intel in Tokyo and had a chance to see Anotai Adulbhan. and May (Jutatip) while vacationing in Thailand last month.

Julian Posada and his long-time girlfriend, Gina, eloped to Bali and got married. Mirabel Gombe is working in Atlanta. She writes, "I have been here about four months. I am now the sales and marketing manager for Jaguar Cars, Southern Region. The position is challenging but rewarding." Betsy Jacks got married Sept. 9 to Ken Dow!

Alex Nacht joined Bear Stearns as associate director of e-commerce. After a year at an Internet start-up which followed three years of consulting at IBM, Alex joined Bear in May. He resides in New York City.

After two years, Andrew Appel and Susan Hersh moved from Singapore to San Diego in early June. They had a fantastic time, met some nice people, and traveled all over Asia. Andrew's still with HP, and has started a new role managing a portion of a strategic alliance that HP has with a joint venture partner. Susan's in the process of interviewing for teaching positions. They haven't seen many Kelloggians in the past couple years, and would be glad to host visitors to San Diego (as soon as they have a place). Reach Andrew at andrew_appel@ hp.com.

Andy Scott was married April 21 in San Francisco to Stacey Smith. They returned from a great honeymoon in the Caribbean. He is still employed at Garage.com.

Michelle (Cesped) Vidano and her husband, Chuck, are planning a journey to travel the world (at least as much as we can see in the time they have) starting July 29. "We will be off to Alaska for a month, then Asia for nearly five months and Egypt plus the Middle East for another three months. Can't wait!"

Brad Williamson and his wife, Debbie, welcomed their first daughter, Carina, on Oct. 15. (Baby pics may be found at www.milestone2.com). Brad left his job with Sonicare last June so he and Debbie could spend their last childless summer traveling and remodeling their Seattle-area home. Brad recently joined Sun Precautions, makers of sun protective clothing (www.sunprecautions.com), as director of marketing. Debbie continues to do freelance editing and writing for Advertising Age and The Industry Standard out of their home.

Alex Emery writes, "Our son, Maximilien, was born May 10. Both mother and baby are doing well, as is elated elder sister, Charlotte (4). We are still in London, and I continue to have fun at McKinsey."

Benoit Besson is still with Meta Group in Chicago, not remarried but enjoying the spring with his two children, Chloe (8) and William (6), both bilingual and bi-national. "All is very well."

Barbee (Bartolome) Chuidian reports, "Another baby for me and my husband, Tim. On May 9, baby boy No. 2 arrived for us (only 17 months after our first baby). Jaime Sebastian Antonio weighed in at 8 pounds, 5 ounces. We look forward to a very busy household in Hong Kong with two baby boys running around."

Menno Veeneklaas and his wife, Mairead, had a 9-pound baby son on Feb 18. "His name is Finn and he's having fun experimenting with little sounds and playing. It's an amazing experience being a father. We moved houses early this year to Long Reef beach, about 15 miles north of down town Sydney. We love it there. The start-up that I co-founded last year (Natural Health Therapies) raised a seed round early this year, and is now raising its first round of capital. We are developing a branded network of integrative medicine centers where best practice in conventional medicine and natural therapies are combined to provide an integrated, holistic approach to healthcare. Australians are tired of swallowing too many pharmaceuticals!"

Joe Urban recently joined a new start-up in Belmont, Calif., called E2open as director of product management. He shares, "We're enabling product design collaboration, supply chain and open markets for the electronics industry. It's been quite a ride and it doesn't look like it's going to slow down any time soon."

Charisse Ford has left the Sara Lee Corporation (Playtex Apparel Division). She has accepted a position with Avon in the city. (No more commuting, yipppeeee!) She will be marketing manager on their global team in the personal care group.

Nikki (Tarlton) Cole and her husband, Ron, just moved into their new home in Gaithersburg, Md., coming off of a great first year for the consulting business, Potomac Consulting Group, LLC. Nikki writes, "We're looking to add a couple employees this year and are still working in management and product strategy for big pharma mainly. And now we're a little closer to the MaggieMoo's Ice Cream store that Ron and I own in Gaithersburg. With the warm weather, business has picked up nicely."

Peter Walter, his wife, Lyle, and their son, Nathan, decided to pick up their bags and head east...to Bangkok! He reports, "We're planning to spend at least 2-3 years in Bangkok with AT Kearney, working throughout SE Asia and beyond. After being in Singapore last year for several months, we decided we really wanted to get back to Asia. Thailand, in particular, is a place we've always enjoyed and we've wanted to go for a long time. This is the perfect opportunity to do it! We'll be heading over in late-June, just in time for AT Kearney to christen their new Bangkok office space with all sorts of fanfare. Nathan's almost two-and-a-half and is shooting up like a weed. Hopefully he'll have a sibling not too long after we get settled into our new home in Bangkok. He's great; so much fun, and so fascinating to watch him change."

Sean Foley is one of the most recent (and maybe among the last, given the recent economic downturn) '97ers to migrate to the Bay Area. He writes, "I finally left the crazy world of consulting (Marakon Associates in Chicago)in March to take on a new position as director of corporate strategy at Gap Inc. in San Francisco, supporting the Gap, Banana Republic, and Old Navy online businesses. So far, the work has been great, (and the store discount has come in very handy as well)."

Rene and Nancy (Joyce) Jarquin are living in the Bay Area. Rene writes, "We've been here since September 1999 when, after two years at GE Capital, I accepted a vice presidential sales position at a start-up software company called Aceva Technologies, based in Mountain View. We're almost two years old and have made significant traction despite the dramatic pullback in IT spending. Aceva develops and markets financial supply chain software to CFOs of Fortune1000 enterprises. Nancy is still at Doubleclick, which requires her to travel a lot between New York and San Francisco. She was recently promoted to general manager of their e-mail division (located in New York), which has truly tested her remote management skills. At any rate, she's happy for now, though the travel will become tougher to manage. Luckily, she still finds time for the occasional weekend spa visit with her old Kellogg posse Candace Parks and Archana Mehra, who are still in Chicago. We really enjoy living in the Bay Area (San Mateo) and though there are no kids on the way yet, we are considering buying a house. The only good thing to come out of the IT slump is a pretty significant drop in the value of homes in the Bay Area."

Marco Azzaretti just accepted a new position of business development manager for Gerber Technology. As part of the transition, he will relocate to Connecticut from his current post in Seattle with FMC Corporation. In addition, he reports, "Over New Year's I met up with several classmates in Val d' Isere (France), for a week of great skiing and fun. Among the participants were Patrick Imholz, Alessandro Duina, Corrado Giaquinto, Felix Ahlers, Richard Debrot, Thomas Schultz and Orazio Costadura '96. We are looking forward to doing it all over again in December. Earlier this spring I attended Richard Debrot's wedding in Philadelphia, along with Thomas Schultz, Antonio Guerra, Vernie Huertas, Hugh Cunningham, Ravi Kumar, Vladimir Barbieri and Kristen Dykema. Finally, I just returned from a week of vacation in the Turks and Caicos islands with Corrado Giaquinto, who is still living in Paris working for Colgate-Palmolive."

Despite eGrad becoming profitable, College Publisher dominating the online college newspaper space, and Broadband Publisher (an amazing Web publishing and content management system for online magazines, newspapers, newsletters, etc.) showing incredible promise, Michael Teh is taking indefinite leave from his start-ups and is headed to Portugal for the summer "to learn the language, do lots of yoga and take up kung fu." He'll be in Lisbon for June and July and will be looking for trouble elsewhere on the continent during August and beyond, so feel free to track him down if you're in the region (try his sister's phone in Portugal 351.96.387.2057 or mteh1997@ kellogg.nwu.edu). No, he's yet to mature in any tangible way.

Annette Herz sends her best from Germany. "Hello, all! Have any Class of '97ers moved to Germany? Last November, I moved from Boston to Frankfurt with Gillette. Instead of the wonderful world of shaving, I am working on the next generation power toothbrushes -- truly a better way to brush! Frankfurt is a great city to explore the rest of Europe, so I am trying to pack in as many mini trips as possible. If you are in the vicinity, please e-mail me: Annette_Herz@Gillette.com." Charlotte Vere and her husband Alfredo became proud parents of baby Hector on Sept. 11. He weighed 9 pounds, 4 ounces and measured 22 inches. She shares, "What's more to say? Feel like I haven't slept since! Still trying to run my company room-in-a-box.co.uk whilst juggling the responsibilities of a new mother."

Barrette Green added to his family this winter. "Elizabeth Sanders Green was born Feb 16. We are calling her Sanders, which is Janice's maiden name. Everyone is doing great. We're still in Jackson, Miss., and I am still working for Entergy running the finance group for acquisitions of nuclear plants."

	Jon Belmonte with his wife Rita and their baby Hana Helen

Julie Kim writes, "I've joined a special club called ŒUnemployed' and have been spending my time looking for a job, visiting friends and training for a triathlon. Unemployed life isn't too bad. I've visited many of our classmates in the past couple of months. During my last trip to San Francisco, I spent some time with Anne Raveret, Mark Holmstrom, Marc Galletti and Andy Scott. In a visit to Chicago, I met up with Jon Wilk, his wife Tracie and their baby boy, Noah, Andy Carlson, Kevin Hoffman, Beth Weber, and Ed Lhee. I also visited Steve and Ifen Carlson at their new home in Pacific Grove and had dinner with Jon and Rita Belmonte and their baby girl, Hana, in San Diego. And the ever-traveling Michael Teh has stopped in L.A. a couple of times on his way back and forth from Australia. If anyone wants to visit, I've got time to entertain. The other news is I've signed up to do the Pacific Grove Triathlon with The Leukemia and Lymphoma Society's Team in Training Program. I've never competed in a triathlon, so tackling an Olympic style triathlon will be challenging."

Marty Caverly is in London, making a go of it with his new company. "So far, we are doing well, but to say it's a challenging environment is an understatement. Courtney is also doing well. We added a second one, a baby girl named Gillian, last June. Time flies, and she is a lot of fun now. Bray is a proper little boy now (over 3!), and speaks with an English accent, which we will have to clean up when we come back to the States. Speaking of which, we only get back two times a year, and until this thing is up and running and I can replace myself with a qualified manager, we can't really come back. Could be a while!"

Janet (Gardner) Long and her husband Justin relocated to Bryn Mawr, Pa., (just outside Philly) in December to be closer to their families on the East Coast. They also had a baby boy, Henry Addison Long, on March 28. Janet is currently on maternity leave but is still working for Diamond (used to be Diamond Technology Partners -- it's now DiamondCluster International) as a director of marketing.

Burt Lampl writes, "Several Kelloggians attended the wedding of Nancy Blair and Lutz Goedde at the Delta Lodge at Kananaski, just west of Calgary. Those present included Asha Morgan and her husband Marty Moran, Annette Herz, Arturo Zacarias and his wife Christina and Jasmin Kraft. The touching ceremony and extravagant dinner reception were filled with fun and laughter."

Rita and Jon Belmonte have good news to report. On March 4, Rita gave birth to Hana Helen Belmonte, a beautiful 7 pounds, 3 ounces and 20 inches baby girl. According to Jon, Hana has been the perfect child thus far. She cries only 10 minutes per day, sleeps 11 hours per night and flashes her beautiful smile regularly. In addition to multiple visits from the new grandparents, fellow Kellogians Andy Carlson, Vimla Gupta, Tim Moran, Steve and Ifen (Sung) Carlson, and Julie Kim have met her during recent visits to La Jolla/San Diego. Alisa (Sacerdote) Brockelman and her two little ones also met Hana in NYC during Hana's first trip. Life outside of parenthood is well. Jon's company, Active.com, continues to do well, in spite of the downturn in the market. Rita has resumed her part-time marketing consult consulting work from home, and enjoys splitting her time between work and motherhood.

Hai-Duong (HD) Vo writes: "I got married last September to a Kellogg EMP-39 alum, Stan Woo. Kellogg attendants were Joe Dierdorf, Sean Kraus, Tim Moran, Judy Hayes, Mitsuyo Mori, and Russ Low EMP-39." In March, her company announced a new server product line, making up about a significant portion of Sun's revenue. HD was responsible for pricing strategy of these servers, pricing from $70,000 to $1 million.

	Kristi Anderson competing in the Ironman California endurance triathlon in May

Congratulations to Kristi Anderson for competing in the Ironman Calif., on May 19. The race included a 2.4 mile swim, a 112-mile bike race, and a 26.2 mile marathon run. She finished strong in 12 hrs 7 min! Barbara McCollister writes, "It was so inspirational to watch."

Glen R. Dils will be moving to San Francisco where he'll be working with '97 grad Ed Snyder at JPMorgan/ Chase doing equity research in the wireless sector. He started work June 4.

Geoff Kulesa's family is growing quickly. "From one to three in 11 minutes. On April 29 in the span of a few minutes, Wanda delivered twin baby boys, Ryan and Bryce. Combined with our son Kyle (almost 3), we have our hands full. I am still heading up the sales and marketing efforts at SafeRent, a dot-com that looks like it will actually make it. By the time this is printed, we will have closed our third and final round before we reach profitability early next year."

Steve Carlson writes, "The last few years since Kellogg have brought quite a few changes for Ifen (Sung) and me. After moving to San Francisco last fall, we were married in October. For the most part, the ceremony (which took place in Chicago) was overrun by the Kelloggians in attendance: Art Ash '94, Jon and Rita Belmonte, Adam Bergstein, Brett Bonthron '95, Brenda Brown, Daniel Bryant '95, Matt Burnham, Andy Carlson, Bob Carlson, Ted Davis, Pat Flanagan, Julie Grusin '96, Kevin Hoffman, Mark Holmstrom, Jerry and Sadhana Joliet, Julie Kim, Ed Lhee, Darren Louis, Andy Maner and his wife Julie '96, Barb McCollister, Daris McCullough, Tim Moran, Shephalie Patel '96, Anne Ravaret, Danny Rosenberg, Dan Seligson, Dan Spector, Mike Stone, Jenn Strom, Rob Taylor, Beth Weber, Kurt Weinsheimer, Jon Wilk, and Christopher Wright '98.

In March, Jason Summers '97 was married to Staci Lynn Orie.

Our honeymoon was in the Maldives (Indian Ocean), with a couple days spent in Hong Kong where Julie Kim did a remarkable job as travel guide. More recently, Ifen and I both accepted positions with Household International (nation's second largest consumer finance company). With the jobs came a move to the Monterey Peninsula, two hours south of San Francisco. Living in Pacific Grove, we are able to watch the sunset over the Pacific each night and are a few blocks from Pebble Beach. While we have a number of Kellogg friends who have reserved a weekend at our place, we hope more can make the trip."

In March 31, Jason Summers married Staci Lynn Orie in Pittsburgh. Fellow 4Qs of 1997 Jasmin Kraft and Brian Kearns joined the festivities. Jason and Staci will be living in Fairfax, Va. just outside Washington, D.C.