1995 — Part-Time

Raman Chadha recently joined the Advisory Board for NFTE (National Foundation for Teaching Entrepreneurship). For the past three and a half years, Raman has been executive director of the Coleman Entrepreneurship Center at DePaul University, where he is also a member of the entrepreneurship faculty.

In March, Tim Lester was appointed vice president, controller and principal accounting officer of Cost Plus World Market, a specialty retailer of casual home furnishings and entertaining products. Tim lives in Pleasanton, Calif., with his wife, Elizabeth Hollis Lester '95, and their four children.

Guy Logan lives in Chicago with his wife, Suzanne, and three children, Julianne (7), Andrew (5) and Laura (2). In addition to serving as president/managing partner of Logan Consulting, Guy volunteers with the school system education fund, rotary board and Bikes for Kids program. In his spare time he enjoys Cubs games, and he took a spring vacation to Florida.

Deborah Nustad is enjoying her role as a global marketing operations program manager at GE Healthcare. She and her husband, Tim NU '89, are enjoying lots of family time with their children, Sarah (6) and Alexander (3). Deborah is an active member of the Betty Brinn Children's Museum board of directors in Milwaukee and co-leads Sarah's Daisy Girl Scout troop.

After eight years with Arena Football League, where he most recently served as the COO, Joe Vrankin will be leaving in July to become the CEO of Golf Entertainment International, where he will lead all U.S. operations. In addition, beginning last fall, Joe has been a part-time professor with the Northwestern University Graduates Sports Administration program.

Mark Watzke has just moved into a new role with BP Alaska, commercial manager, Midstream. He and his staff oversee the commercial aspects of managing BP's interests in the crude oil transportation system (for example, local pipelines, the Trans Alaska Pipeline System and the fleet of marine tankers). In addition to his role with BP Alaska, Mark has an "evening and Saturday job" he characterizes as a labor of love: coaching girls' softball for his 11- and 8-year-olds, who both play.

Rick Wolk organized Juneau's first Business Roundtable on climate change. It was appropriate that this event was held at the U.S. Forest Service's Mendenhall Glacier Visitor Center.