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  Rich Daly, Ray Siegel, Dave Bungum, Mark Zurcher and Greg Irving.
 
Rich Daly, Ray Siegel, Dave Bungum, Mark Zurcher and Greg Irving.
   
Ben Randazzo is now the Grainger recruiting leader who works with the Kellogg School. Grainger has had an excellent year hiring two recent grads for the Grainger Leadership Rotation Program and has also hired someone for the summer intern program for first-year students. This year, Wes Clark, Grainger's president, presented at the newly formed General Management Club and also at the Business Leadership Club. Grainger also sponsored the Leadership Club Award event.

Greg Irving got a huge promotion at WW Grainger. His new position is vice president of financial services. He is now responsible for credit, collections, cash applications, accounts receivable, accounts payable, payroll, and contract administration for the large supplier rebate programs. His span of control includes approximately 500 employees. He is supervising a lot of people at Grainger, except, of course, Ben. This position is an operational financial position. Congratulations, Greg!

After 25 years with Motorola, Jeff DeMonoco has decided to venture out and accepted a vice president of sales and marketing position for an Internet wholesale company and wireless Internet access subscriber business. It has been a big year for change and challenge and Jeff is having the time of his life. Go Jeff, a.k.a. Pasquale!

John Mitchell is still living in Phoenix and loving it. He was promoted to vice president of sales at Openwave. His new contact information is: john.mitchell@openwave.com. Telephone 602.312.4028.The whole family is having success, as his daughter made the Olympic Development Team for soccer and his son qualified for regionals in wrestling. Wow! Oh, John also wants us to know that he still has his hair and life is good.

Judy Buckley has completed 1.5 years of Chinese/Mandarin language training and will be reassigned to the political/economic section at the U.S. Consulate in Hong Kong this August. We will update her info as soon as she hits Hong Kong. How do you say "Go girl!" in Mandarin Chinese? Judy, we all miss you.
I need new e-mail info for the following (don't make me find you): eric.a.mcallister@accenture.com, ptonino@luc.edu and gjd002@aecs.mot.com.

John Kot was sighted in Prague drinking absinthe.

Troy Richardson is the new vice president of sales, retail solutions division for NCR Corp. He is responsible for $2 billion in sales for the Americas, including North America, Latin America, and Canada. The division's HQ is located in Duluth, Ga., a suburb of Atlanta. Way to go, Troy!

Ken Willis has assumed a much coveted promotion to VP/GM South Customer Business Center (CBC) located in Atlanta, which is much closer to Florida - my home and the home of the Florida State Seminoles, Ken's undergrad alma mater. CBC's are sales/profit centers staffed with cross-functional resources (sales, marketing, finance, supply chain, category management, I/T, etc.) that are organized by geographical chunks and driver customers. The geographical outline of the SCBC extends from Florida, north to Tennessee and west through New Mexico. Given the strength of Gatorade and Tropicana in that region of the country, sales responsibility is approaching $1 billion across grocery and convenience store channels. The Willis Family
moves in early June, so meantime he's doing the Monday-Friday shuffle from Chicago. Congratulations, Ken!

Chris Ksoll was promoted to senior vice president at Northern Trust and continues to manage a team of private bankers whose sole focus is to provide unequaled financial services to closely-held business owners. She is also co-leading the Affluent African American initiative at Northern Trust and can't wait to involve her EMP-40 buddies.

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