The Burns family celebrates Easter 2005. From left, Patrick Jr., wife Kim, Elise, Lauren, Katie, Ruslan, Pat Burns '92 and Caroline

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Carter Cast reports: "I'm single and renting. 'Cash and carry Cast.' I'm guess I'm like something out of a DeNiro movie — can't you see him telling someone, 'Be able to walk away immediately ...' I did leave Walmart.com in April after four years and am now at eBay as the chief marketing officer. So if anyone in our class wants to talk barter, baby, I'm your man. Or vintage Pez. Or bobble dolls. Or anything, really. [What about my old textbooks and course packs, Carter?] I had lunch last week with Meredith Mortimer. She's at eBay, working in product marketing. She's doing the 'I can bring home the bacon and fry it up in a pan' shuffle with several kids, a demanding job and a husband who's also working. Whew. But she seemed great."

	Luis Garreaud '92 celebrates his birthday with wife Claudia and daughters Eloisa, Maria, Olivia and Lucia.
	The family of Luis Garreaud '92 on holiday at Portillo ski resort in Chile

Al Weggeman reports that "my three months of 'beach time' ended. I accepted a new position (president) running a business for another private equity firm. Our Web site is tydengroup.com. I'm drinking from the fire hose right now, but it's an incredibly exciting business. On the fun side, the annual golf 'eightsome' of Barry Fougere, Charles Meyers, Scott Allen, Jamie Crouthamel, Kevin Lee, Greg Santoro, Sean Conlin and I hit the Arizona links. This is our fifth or sixth year doing this Š I've lost track Š too many 'refreshments.' After our visit, I think the courses are under repair for a week or so." Ah, yes, Al, we heard. Divots visible from the space station that gave rise to new, albeit short-lived, meteorite theories.

Mark Hamm becomes the third member of our class in three years to take a leading management position at ServiceMaster. He writes: "After six years of managing technology startups (B2B ASPs), I recently joined ServiceMaster in Memphis, Tenn., as VP of customer contact processes. I will work both with the business units (e.g. TrueGreen, Terminix) and IT to make it easier to do business with ServiceMaster (largely in the areas of CRM systems, marketing and customer processes). My family is doing great! Sally just finished up our first year home-schooling our four girls and everyone loved it!"

Both David Ongpin Valdes and Paul Dennis Valdes '90 now work for the Inquirer Group, the Philippine's largest newspaper and media company. David is SVP of the Philippine Daily Inquirer.

Board game maven Paul Mistor reports he "got dragged into helping a friend with an independent movie in Minneapolis. It's a low-budget film, but has some quality people involved. It should be making the indie film festival circuit next year. I'm just watching over the finances, not acting, unfortunately. Call me; we'll do lunch."

Rick Erwin writes, "Contrary to the 'William. F. Sharpe Rumor Mill,' I didn't rejoin RR Donnelley after all. I chose to take a job as SVP of marketing and product development for Experian in Schaumburg, Ill. Experian is a $2 billion provider of information services (e.g. your credit ratings). Great job, great company and I'm happily staying put in Hinsdale, Ill., with my wife Tracy and our kids Katie, James and Grace." Rick also heard that Mr. Sharpe left the private equity business to join Cirque du Soleil as the head unicycle mechanic.

Jonathan Guerster, a onetime partner with Charles River Ventures, has resurfaced as president of OffshoreView, a Charlestown, Mass.-based corporate-development consulting firm focused on offshore business process outsourcing. Find the company on the Internet at offshoreview.com.

Saying a happy goodbye to 10 years of the nonstop international travel grind, David Sanderson left Roll-Systems. He has started two new companies, Cultivance-on-Demand and umbrella company Cultivance.com. David will be focusing on consulting to the on-demand printing industry, which was essentially what he was doing before. He wants to build a team so that he doesn't have to go to Beijing, Minsk and Montevideo every other week. While the airlines grieve, David looks forward to spending more time with his family in Boston and more Red Sox games.

Joseph Feldman was hired as vice president of business development at genomics firm Chromatin Inc.

In April, Ken Glickstein was named vice president of planning and analysis at Corporate Express Inc.

Vinod (Yo Vinne) Dasari has left Cummins Engine India to become COO of India's famed Ashok Leyland. He will head manufacturing, strategic sourcing and corporate quality engineering.

Jeffrey Kahan was co-winner of the Investment Broker of the Year award at Colliers Bennett & Kahnweiler in Chicago. Jeffrey was among those honored at the 17th annual Commercial Real Estate Awards

Yolanda Macias has been appointed vice president of business development and acquisitions at Universal Music and Video Distribution/Visual Entertainment, based in Universal City, Calif.

Diana Ferguson has been promoted to senior vice president, strategy and corporate development, at Sara Lee Corp. in Chicago.

Heather Hudnut Page reports nothing new — just the three kids and husband. She works part time at Medtronic leading its AF team.

James 'Call me Jamie' Crouthamel was flattered to win the 2005 Kellogg Alumni Master Entrepreneur Award.

As the Stork Flies: Amy and Andy Arenberg are excited to announce the arrival of their second daughter, Abigail Frances. She arrived via a scheduled C-section weighing in at a respectable 11 pounds, 13 ounces.

Kristi and Kevin Hykes are pleased to announce the birth of son Ben on March 31. He joins sister Emily (5) and brother Sam (3). On the work front, Kevin is still at Medtronic, now leading the heart failure business in Minneapolis. Kevin writes: "Unfortunately we discovered a major structural problem in the 80-year-old house we bought back in November. We are now in the midst of a massive, unplanned construction project, basically rebuilding the house from the ground up (ouch!). As a result, I've begun moonlighting to make ends meet, doing defibrillator implants on the kitchen table with out-of-date inventory. Call now for the special Kellogg School discount. At least a glance around any McDonald's would suggest that our market (and customers) will be robust (read: SuperSized) for some time to come Š"

Charlie and Jennifer York and family and Dmitry Paramonov attended the baptism of Estelle and Charlotte Murphy, the lovely twin daughters of Isabelle and David Murphy, in Jacksonville, Fla. The girls join their brother Cedric and sister Chloe in the expanding Murphy clan. Dmitry is happily settled with family in Princeton as director of global marketing for a registrational phase new cancer compound with Bristol-Myers Squibb. He traveled to Moscow in May to attend an award ceremony for his father, who won the Pushkin literature prize, and visited with Ruslan Korzh '93. David is still with Vistakon (J&J), developing a novel contact lens in Jacksonville.

From Bryan Sadoff: I've been back in Milwaukee since 1997 and am definitely settled in. It is a nice place to raise a family. I'm married to Alicia and have two boys, Bradley (8), who taught me how to work TIVO, and Adam (5), an old English sheepdog and the suburban home. I'm busy running from work to kids' activities. I still sneak in some vacations. I'm temporarily not playing basketball due to a broken ankle from playing the game. (I learned 40-year-olds aren't supposed to be jumping anymore.) I serve on a national advisory board for Charles Schwab and on the President's Council for TD Waterhouse."

As for yours truly, life in Baltimore is good, though I've been working crazy hours doing due diligence on several VC deals. Feast or famine, baby! I look forward to summer evenings spent outdoors, as opposed to those spent in airports and my office.