1997 — Part-Time

Tim Moriarty recently joined the business development team at Emerging Solutions, an IT consultancy based in downtown Chicago. He and his wife, Lee, are staying very busy with their three children, John (18), Jennifer (16) and Patrick (14). They are also very active in their support of the Pediatric Oncology Treasure Chest Foundation, which raises money to buy toys for kids undergoing painful cancer treatments.

Dan DeSantis is a principal with Linsalata Capital Partners, a Cleveland-based private equity firm. Dan lives in Cleveland with his wife, Marti, and two children, Emily and John.

Carla Sawa and her husband, Steve, along with daughter Ashley Marie (3), welcomed a son/brother, Kyle Joseph, on March 21. "We are so blessed, and our little family is complete!"

Patty Ozaki and Gerrit Loder welcomed their fourth child, Mayu Akari, March 1. "Her brothers and sister absolutely adore her and I'm enjoying a long maternity leave. We're still living in the Netherlands, and since last year I've been working for TomTom, a Dutch navigation company. The navigation market is growing rapidly, making it all the more exciting and challenging to be in this field."

Deborah Kuo is now the director of real estate for Exelon, one of the nation's largest utility and electricity generation companies. "My responsibilities now encompass the portfolio strategy, asset and property management, lease/records administration, transactions management, and property tax management for Exelon's portfolio of real estate holdings. Since you can't open up a publication without seeing something about the green movement, I'll add that I just completed the design, construction and relocation of Exelon's corporate headquarters — more than 220,000 square feet and nearly 800 employees. The culmination of our three-year project was the award of the Platinum designation by the U.S. Green Building Council's LEED program, making our project the largest platinum LEED office space in the world! I've been on the speaking circuit to share our experience, and it's very gratifying to see that sustainability has become much more mainstream in business, compared to when we first started down this path in 2004."

John Strelecky just released his latest book — Life Safari. After watching his first writing endeavor, The Why Café, turn into an international best-seller, he decided to follow it up with something a little more action-oriented. For this book, he built upon the experiences he and his wife, Xin Zhao '00, had while backpacking through Africa in 2002. The story tracks the journey of a young man searching for happiness and a very wise, very old African woman who guides him across the African continent.