An informal reunion of Four-Quarter '92 alums in Chicago.

1992

Hey ho, way to go! We should be fiercely proud of the record turnout at our 10-year reunion in May. I heard we numbered well over 200, smashing Kellogg's previous record of attendance at a 10th-year reunion, which was 134. And that excludes the dozens of Saturday-night gatecrashers and paparazzi. For those of you who were unable to attend, well, uh, you really missed out. It was great catching up with old mates, seeing the flocks of little tykes, guys with even less hair than I have, networking, partying, and commiserating with fellow start-up and technology refugees. I hope that the reunion will further strengthen the bonds of friendship that hold us together.

Riff Coven '92 and wife, Eva on vacation in Patagonia.

My wife, Eva, and I spent the Memorial Day weekend with Paul Mistor, hosted by Lydia and Kashif Chaudrhy at their home in beautiful West Chester, Pa. The weekend highlights included Paul recounting how he tried to give Jesse Helms an earful about the U.S.-Cuba policy, his work as an Olympic correspondent for Kenyan skiers, and, of course, canoeing with Kashif down Brandywine Creek. Kashif managed to christen his new canoe within five minutes by leaning over too much and swamping it - with Eva and me aboard. Paul recently left PwC and is currently cheering on Team USA in Korea. He has also thoroughly enjoyed the relief work he has done with a Catholic charity in Cuba.

Kashif is still consulting to the Pharma Industry for Gemini and squeezes in Architecture101 classes on Saturdays so he can figure out whether his house is Queen Anne or Federalist style. Herr Doktor Karl Krista is back in the medical field with Cell Control Biomedical Laboratories and commuting between Munich and Austria. Anita and Phil Lane had a daughter, Marni Marie, who joins brothers Casey (6) and Sydney (3) in Colorado. Phil wants to know how to track down Matt Ginsburg: any ideas? [As of June 21, Matt's in Hong Kong.

Check the Alumni Directory at www.kellogg.northwestern.edu/alumni -editor.] Vinod "Vinnie" Dasari has left Timken after 10 (!) years and will now be running most of Cummins Engine's operations in India. From Canton, Ohio to India, hmmmŠthat sounds like an easy transition. Andy Jay is still an analyst in Boston covering the medical devices industry; the name of the firm keeps changing, now it's Wachovia Securities, Boston. Bruce "The Juice" Spear is doing the S.F.-to-Omaha commute while consulting for Fenix Partners. He says the commute is hell, but that the allure of cornfields and stockyards
is overpowering. Larry Gies and Jim Winnett seem to do a triathlon a month, upping the ante for Gerry McGinley. Jim does seven-hour bike rides on Sunday just to relax, despite having a Playboy-mansion-style home in Manhattan Beach. Steve Rappaport says business is still booming and has established a Warsaw office. Kit Heffner is now senior planning manager for Caltex, Hong Kong.

Gerard Beenen has moved from COO to CEO of Block Medical Center and
the Institute for Integrative Cancer Care. Living two blocks down the street in Evanston are Gina and Phil Warren and family. Phil recently rejoined International Paper from Pactiv. Denise and Kevin Lee celebrated the first birthday of their twins - Patrick Rejent and Maeve Therese - at their Phoenix home. Kevin is the manufacturing manager for Intel's U.S. assembly/test factory. After quitting consulting in 1997, Mark Kennedy is finishing his PhD in
organizations at Kellogg this year and will join the faculty at USC next year. His wife, Helene, and three daughters are all excited about moving back home to warmer climes.

Jennifer G. Cornell relocated to Richmond from Atlanta last year. "My family loves being back home in Virginia, close to friends and relatives. In my current role with Capital One, I oversee Internet strategy and operations for our young adults product line. Our boys, Drew and Brad, are 5 and 2." Matt Allgood and family live in Wheaton, Ill., and just added a baby boy, Joseph Matthew, to their two little girls. Matt left Amoco when it was acquired by BP and moved to Merrill Lynch. More recently, he joined Harris Bank's AdvantEdge
private banking group in Chicago's suburbs. Send a note to him at matthew.allgood@harrisbank.com.

Scott Allan writes, "Much has happened since 1992. After consulting with PwC for 18 months, I traded in my consulting hat and Chicago bachelor pad (shared with Jamie Crouthamel and John Welsch) for a position with a San Francisco software company and married life. In '98, I joined my current company, which makes advanced-payments hardware and software for big retailers and banks. Besides the excitement of being in Silicon Valley for the past eight years, I married Carrie and have two great children - Cayley (5) and Ryan (2).

It was great to see everyone's kids or kids' pictures at the reunion. Hard to believe some of us were capable of parenting. I hope to see more of you before another 10 years."

Arnold Liao finally reports in after a decade. "Technically, I have been working for the very same company since graduation; after several reincarnations, it's now called OwlMD. We were the biggest dialysis center management company in the Chicago area, then we were sold to Fresenius Medical Care in '97, spun off the physician services division in '98, and now focus on managing information for physician offices through the ASP model. We did have some existing clients, but in many ways we are a start-up company facing challenges in funding and generating revenue. I didn't cash in during the
Internet bubble when I could have, and my 401(k) has disappeared like
Enron's, but alas, I survive and I'm now director of information services. In '96 I married Jieping Huang, and now have two daughters - Ivy (5) and Joyce (1). In '96 I also started my own company, Ivy International, to handle the side business from my previous life, and have taught computer classes at the Computer System Institute. I am also looking at investing in China."

Check out George Corrigan's newest latest endeavor since leaving i2.
It's called IceVan.com. The buzz is that Kleiner Perkins is putting in $120 million in B-round financing. Rumor has it that Barry Fougere is onto bigger and better things. We're waiting to hear from him. Finally, please make sure to update your Kellogg School e-mail forwarding address. It doesn't do you or your classmates any good when it's still linked to your old e-mail at Webvan or Enron. And while you're there, update all your other contact info, too. Your
classmates want to see you.