Bart Miller '93 surfing the legendary waves of Mavericks

1993 — Full-Time

Steve Schultz has been living and working in New York City since 1999 and says he couldn't be happier. He recently joined startup Gilbert Systems as vice president. Gilbert Systems is a behavioral profiling and business information company. Writes Steve: "We are busy signing new clients and plotting world domination. Customers are seeing sales lifts on targeted e-mail marketing campaigns of 600 percent and better. We're keeping the names of our clients close to the vest for the moment, but they are all names you'd recognize."

Steve got married in October 2005. No kids yet. His wife, Andrea, has her own company, doing luxury lifestyle marketing and PR. They recently returned from a trip to Curaçao. An interesting side note: while in Curaçao, they attended Friday evening services in the oldest continuously operating synagogue in the Western Hemisphere, complete with sand floor. "A new twist on adventure travel."

Jack McGonagle thought about Kellogg (and the Class of '93) recently when he celebrated his son Jackson's 14th birthday. As many of you will remember, Jackson was born at Evanston Hospital the month before we graduated, so he's a constant reminder to Jack of just how long we've been out of school. "Jackson also reminds me I'm getting old. He's my ex-wife Bryn's height, so Jackson is now 6 feet tall (I'm 5 feet 10 inches). Great kid, 'A' student, great athlete, better young adult ... so I'm a happy parent."

Jack sees Bill McDonough occasionally. Bill and his wife, Carolyn James McDonough '94, have two kids and live in Connecticut. Bill runs the repo product at Tradeweb and has done so since the inception of the product more than four years ago.

Jack also runs into Ned Elton every now and then. He had a long battle with some kidney issues, but has successfully overcome those, is now married, and looks great. He's living in New York City and has been at a marketing consulting firm for a long time.

Jack recently chatted with Mike Rife, who is still at Citigroup (originally Salomon Bros.) in Chicago as managing director. "He's likely the only person from our class who is still with his/her original employer!"

	Alan MacPhail '93 and wife Kimberly just outside the Yuyuan Gardens in Shanghai
	Alan MacPhail '93 at the Italian Moto Brunch in Elkhorn, Wisc., with his Ducati Multistrada

In fact, Alan MacPhail was willing to bet that he was the only one in our class still working for the same company after all these years. He joined Grainger Industrial Supply right after graduation and after 14 years, he's still there. Grainger recently started operations in China, so Alan went there on business. Coincidentally, two good friends from Evanston had recently moved to Shanghai, so Alan's wife, Kim, went with him and they combined business with a lot of pleasure. On a separate note, writes Alan, "after years of riding 'practical' motorcycles, I overcame my frugal Scottish nature and bought a bright red Ducati Multistrada. It's way too much fun!"

Cesare Zetti has been working with buyout fund Bridgepoint Capital, based in Milan, Italy, for almost seven years and things are going very well. Next summer he will be moving to Bridgepoint's headquarters in London for at least two years with his family, which is now made up of his wife, Anna, Ludovica (9), Cecilia (8) and Pierfrancesco (5). Cesare is looking forward to getting together with all his London-based friends from Kellogg.

Peter Dahlstrom is still happily married to the same woman (Sherette), still has three kids (9, 5 and 3), and is still senior partner/director at McKinsey, now with responsibility for the Mobile Telecom Practice in Europe. They are living in Copenhagen but will probably move to another European city during the next six to 12 months.

Ted Patton now has three boys (9, 5 and 2) and lives in Brookline, Mass. He moved to Boston from San Francisco in '99 to start a software business. He sold the company and started a buyout firm in 2004 called Hastings Equity Partners. Ted also has been trying to start a nonprofit focused on long-distance caregivers called Caring from a Distance at cfad.org.

Ted sees Pete Nordell a lot, who lives in Beverly, Mass. Pete has four kids and is starting a company.

Congratulations to Sandy Barger, who was recently promoted to senior vice president of worldwide brand marketing and product management at Buena Vista Worldwide Home Entertainment. Her responsibilities include overseeing development of global business strategies, franchise plans, product strategies, business plans, global profit and loss, and integrating key functional initiatives to maximize profitability across all regions. Most recently, Sandy served as vice president of the worldwide animated/preschool brand marketing and product management team, playing a key role in such recent successes as the Platinum Edition releases of "The Little Mermaid" and "Peter Pan." She joined Disney in 1996 as manager of trade marketing for Disney Interactive Group.

About three years ago, Diane Abshire and her family moved to Middleburg, Va., (best known for foxhunting, polo and horse farms), where her husband, Lupton, is an Episcopal priest. Their four children now range in age from 6 to 10, so life is busy with their various school and sports activities. Diane says all her Kellogg management skills are being put to work hourly, day and night, as she manages the myriad of playdates, sports teams, volunteer commitments, etc. "It's all loads of fun! Right now, for example, I'm planning the particulars of a massive egg fight (we have 14 dozen eggs!) tomorrow afternoon between two teams of goggle-toting 10-year old boys — a dream-come-true birthday party for my oldest son. I would never even have thought of this if I hadn't first played paintball during my years at Kellogg!"

Ed Fox '93 and his family
Lisa and Cliff Sharples (both '93) with their kids in Carmel
Emily Malatesta '93 and husband Steve Kelton on their honeymoon in Chilean Patagonia
Emily Malatesta '93 and husband Steve Kelton had a winter wonderland wedding in Keystone, Colo., in March.
Stuart Muir '93 races a 470; Stuart is the crew in font, sailing with skipper John Handler.

Last August, Diane visited classmate Mark Jowell, who lives in Shaker Heights, Ohio, with his wife, Simone.

Ed Fox writes from the heart of Texas where he is a marketing professor at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. He can hardly believe he's been teaching there for eight years now. After graduating from Kellogg those many years ago, Ed stuck around to work with Professor Bob Blattberg, building a retail research center at Kellogg. Classmates Cahn Tran and Eric Sorenson also worked at the center, as did Kellogg alumna Mary O'Brien-Pearlman '85. They essentially did two things. No. 1: worked with Dominick's Finer Foods and 10 packaged goods manufacturing companies to reengineer category management (reengineering was de rigueur in those days). No. 2: wrote category management manuals for the Food Marketing Institute, the trade association for grocery retailers. After a couple of years, Ed decided that academe was for him, so it was off to the Wharton School for a PhD in marketing. As he was finishing that degree, JCPenney and its former CEO, W.R. Howell, were making sizeable endowments to SMU to establish a retailing program. Ed's skills and experience matched well with that opportunity, so he was hired into the Howell chair to run the new retail center. He was tenured last year, "which means that I'm now fireproof," he says. Most of his research involves quantitative modeling related to packaged goods retail — things like retail promotion, pricing, assortments and site selection. He is moderately active in the local business community. In particular, Ed sits on the board of the Dallas/Fort Worth Retail Executives Association. He has also done some work recently for Joe De Pinto '99, CEO of 7-Eleven.

Ed thinks Dallas is a very easy place to live, provided you don't mind the heat. He was one of our classmates who was married with children while at Kellogg, so his oldest is now approaching college age. Ed visited Northwestern with his daughter this past spring, but somehow it didn't take. "In fact, my daughter preferred the U. of C. (gasp!). What's a poor guy to do?" Ed's three children all have been signed to modeling contracts with the Kim Dawson Agency. They do mostly commercial print. Clearly, writes Ed, "they take after their mother." Ed is happy to entertain any classmates in the area or any who are passing through Texas.

Lisa and Cliff Sharples continue to flourish in Washington. Lisa recently became president of AllRecipes.com, America's leading online community of home cooks. Prior to AllRecipes.com, Lisa had been senior vice president of marketing at Classmates.com.

Cliff is working on his next company: Snapstyle.com, an Internet/catalog business that aims to become mom's personal assistant with regard to her family's moments and memories. The company launches in August with a commerce site featuring customizable and personalized products and gifts, as well as a content/community site to help members gather ideas and inspirations for preserving and sharing family milestones, moments and occasions.

The Sharples gang is "holding at three" with Wescott (9), Yve (6) and Otto (5). Their two golden retrievers and a pug round out the mayhem at their house on Mercer Island, Wash., just outside of Seattle.

On March 3, Emily Malatesta married Steve Kelton, a native Coloradan, outdoorsman, environmental attorney and all-around fabulous guy! They had a winter wonderland wedding in Keystone, Colo., complete with a sleigh ride, log cabin ceremony and a celebratory ski day on Sunday. Emily was so happy that several Kellogg classmates were able to join in the fun — Gwen Foster, Julie Wheeler, Molly Halloran Biglari, Neeta Rochlani and her husband, Chris Angus, and Sumin Eng.

For their honeymoon, Emily and Steve visited Santiago and Chilean Patagonia. They enjoyed lots of beautiful scenery — and penguins. The impressive towers in Torres del Paine National Park were the highlight. "We definitely recommend it!"

They are living in Washington, D.C., in a 1910 row house in need of renovation. When not at work, they can be found at the local Home Depot. "Life is great!"

After more than a decade, Bart Miller decided it was time to say hello to the class. He's still living in the Bay Area, enjoying the surfing and mountain biking between pursuing his passion for life coaching. You might also catch him at Haas in Berkeley, mentoring the culminating entrepreneurship class. His boys are now 5 and 7, and he is still learning as much from them as from anything else in the world. "My best to all," he writes.

This just in from John Sheputis: "Kellogg population explosion in Burlingame, Calif. Kellogg alumni continue to flock to and multiply within the San Francisco suburb.

"Susie Campbell and John Sheputis are delighted to share that Reed Heuer Sheputis was born on Dec. 27, 2006 — 9 pounds, 6 ounces, 23 inches — a big happy boy. Reed joins Susie, John and older brother Ryan (3).

"Late breaking story: Dorene and Pat Burns delivered Logan Jeffrey Burns on May 3 — 7 pounds, 10 ounces, 20 inches. Pat and Dorene and their older son, Brendan (2), are doing great.

Confirming the acceptability of the ZIP code for Kellogg alumni is Ghia Griarte. She and her husband, Rod Brewster, and their children, Natalie (6) and Grant (1), recently emigrated from Redwood City."

After several moves since Kellogg, Rob Gregg is settling down in Boulder, Colo. He jumped out of CPG about a year ago to start his own consulting practice. Reduced business travel and more control over hours have given Rob and his family more time to really enjoy all that the area offers. Rob lost touch with many from the class but hopes to reconnect soon.

Stuart Burgdoerfer, his wife, Laney, and their three kids (8, 10 and 12) have been on quite a ride since graduating in 1993: Chicago; Dallas; Columbus, Ohio; Atlanta and back to Columbus. He clearly can't hold a job or is running from the law! Stuart is now executive vice president and CFO of Limited Brands, the mall-based specialty retailer. Prior stops included CSC Index, Pizza Hut and The Home Depot.

After Kellogg, Marva Berger spent a year working with her husband, Percy, in his financial consulting business. The work was challenging and interesting, but wasn't quite what she was looking for. Then Marva got a job as an auditor at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago, where she still works. However, she has held several positions since she began working there almost 13 years ago. She manages the public affairs function, which includes the free money museum, educational outreach, tour program, publications distribution and public outreach. The money museum has been featured over the past few years on Chicago Public Radio's "Eight Forty-Eight" program and on Chicago's ABC Channel 7 program "190 North," both of which have interviewed with Marva. Most recently, she did an interview with the city of Chicago's cable channel, which will air soon. Marva's family is all well and lives close by. One son is married, a second is soon-to-be-wed and a third is still in college.

Stuart Muir transferred back to Chicago last year to serve as head of commercial sales and marketing for Citizens Financial Group, which is a subsidiary of the Royal Bank of Scotland (branded Charter One in Chicago). Leisure activities continue to include sailboat racing (current 470 class and Catalina 22 class Midwestern champion) and distance bike riding.

Josh Drachman bounced around in a few high-tech companies after graduating. One of them was Citrix Systems, which is where he has been working for 12 years. "No one, including me, would have thought I'd have a knack for high tech. (Ed Miller, are you listening?) I think I still would have trouble with those dreaded Windows-to-Mac disk conversions that were part of the Kellogg late-night experience. But here I am!" Josh enjoys south Florida, which is "probably the last place on planet Earth I would have thought to make my home." He has been in charge of a number of business development groups, including outbound licensing and wireless and mobility, which have been his focus for the past five years.

Josh also runs a small aikido dojo in Boca Raton. He has a great group of students, and the training helps keeps him out of trouble.

After graduation, Josh married a wonderful woman named Gina. She's an accountant, which, he notes, "among other things helps make us a near-perfect match given my still near non-existent accounting skills." They have no kids, which is fine by them. But, they do have two parakeets, Desmond and Tutu, "who are saying hello as I type this."

Josh recently went back to Kellogg for a leadership seminar with Deepak Chopra. He thought it was a phenomenal class and a great way to revisit Northwestern. Josh's goal is to retire in the next couple years, focus on his aikido and budo training, and do volunteer work in the community. Josh asks that you drop him a line if you're ever in south Florida.

	Anna Workman Brewster '93, husband John, and son Alexander baptized daughter Sarah in April.
	Jeff Urdan '93 married Carolyn Sporn in NYC last October.
	Jeff Urdan and Craig Asher (both '93) at Jeff's wedding
	Jim St. Leger '93 gets a workout with his kids Schuyler (7), Lauren ( 3) and James (2) last year.

Anna Workman Brewster, husband John, and son Alexander baptized daughter Sarah this April. They still live in downtown Atlanta.

Jeff Urdan got married in October. He met his bride, Carolyn Sporn, in August 2004 through a family friend — the same person who introduced Carolyn's mom to her dad! They honeymooned in southern Spain and are now back living in Washington, D.C. Carolyn is an ER doctor in Silver Spring, Md., and Jeff is still working at Crystal Steel. The business has quadrupled since he joined three and a half years ago. "I would like to take full credit, but we Kelloggians always think in terms of teams (or so I am told)."

Their wedding was at the Harmonie Club in New York City. Craig Asher came up from D.C. for the festivities. Jeff had lunch with Craig recently. "He is working for IBM — I think they used to make computers, but now they do some other stuff, too. Craig is the intergalactic deity for RFID (Radio Frequency ID for the few non-geeks left in the world). He will tell you he is but a simple product manager; don't be fooled. He's rapidly turning the hype of RFID into the reality of a technology that works." Craig has two boys and lives in Bethesda, Md., with his wife, Jenny.

Luke Parker dropped into New Orleans in April and caught up with Dave Darragh, his wife, Eddie, and their two beautiful boys for a Southern-style barbecue at Dave's home. If anyone else visits Dave, Luke strongly recommends the ribs. Luke continues to work in his family recycling business, and he and his wife have also set up a new venture: Parker's Organic Juices, which manufactures and distributes high-end organic juices and sodas.

After seven years at Intel ("I'm surprised I lasted that long!"), Jim St. Leger will be heading out on a well-deserved eight-week sabbatical, one of the few remaining Intel perks that isn't tied to the stock price. His three kids, Schuyler (7), Lauren ( 3), and James (2), are all too eager to spend the summer with dad while their mom focuses on her Intel career. They'll escape the triple-digit heat of Phoenix for the cool pines at 8,000 feet in Flagstaff, Ariz. Drop Jim a line if you're in Arizona (Scottsdale, Sedona, Grand Canyon, Monument Valley, Havasu Falls).

Debbie Muller is back in the Chicago area, having returned there from Charlotte, N.C., 18 months ago. About a year ago, she returned to BCG Chicago as director of training and development for the consulting staff. "It's great to be back, though everyone seems to have gotten a lot younger during my eight years away," she notes. Debbie hasn't seen many classmates lately, though. "I did run into Karen Dolfis (literally, almost) in the Highland Park Target the other day. Her boys are adorable." Debbie sees Kermit King at work from time to time. He was just elected senior partner at BCG. "Something to be said for working straight through without the eight-year coffee break, I suppose (and for being smart, competent, dedicated, yadda yadda)."

Ava De Ghetto just finished directing a local middle-school's spring musical. With a cast of 44 children and a wonderful team of parent volunteers, they put on "Godspell, Jr." Ava says it was a great experience for herself and the kids. It included a Saturday workshop during which they all learned about different aspects of the theater and heard from various "experts" in their field, including Stephen Schwartz, composer and "new" lyricist of Godspell, who wrote them a personal letter to wish them a successful Godspell experience. "The little stirrings I had when I was involved in Special K! have been revived, and I can't wait to get back to directing again (just wish I took more than MBA courses while at Northwestern!)."

I (Heather Forsythe) recently had coffee with Beth MacLean, who, like me, is enjoying island life on Alameda. After many years at The Gap, Beth is also enjoying the flexibility of being an independent consultant, working with clients such as Clorox and Nike.

I recently left LeapFrog and have been doing marketing consulting for B2C startups. Not sure yet whether I'm going to go the independent-consulting route like Beth or take on another full-time job. I also had lunch with Nancy White Ramamurthi and Sumin Eng, both of whom left eBay recently. Nancy is now the CMO of SideStep, the travel metasearch engine (check it out; it'll save you money). Sumin is now a director at PayPal — so I suppose she didn't actually leave eBay.

Thank you all for the terrific updates — and keep them coming. Isn't it fun to hear (and see) what everyone else is up to? And remember to send me an invite to your LinkedIn account if you haven't already, so we can all stay "connected" as a class: linkedin.com/in/heatherforsythe.