2003 — Full-Time

First and foremost, thank you to everyone who joined us for the five-year reunion in May! If you can believe it, we had over 270 classmates participate in the weekend, an amazing feat. We would also like to thank everyone who contributed to the Reunion Campaign. Donations like yours ensure that current and future students (maybe some of our classmates' children?) can enjoy the same experience we had.

Our class, again, has been extremely busy. Changing jobs, getting married, having kids. They say you shouldn't do all of that in one year, well, some of you have! So, put your seatbelts on, because in addition to our usual updates, we have a fantastic Reunion Round-up (thank you again to everyone who took pictures and sent them in). As always, if you have any thoughts or updates for our next version, please e-mail us.

Front from left, Jeff Behring, Babar Khan; second row, Rebecca Schmedlen, Florian Funke, Carl and Hanna Von Schantz, Prudence (friend of Andrew Thornton), Johan de Beukelaer; back rows John Yurcisin, Andrew Thornton, Ash Hussein, Jeremy Lott, Ryan Ross and Greg Ross, all ‘03 unless noted
Ed Bird ‘03 and daughter Gianna
Huw Gilbert and Tindley Whipple Gilbert ‘03 took daughter Pryor Anne on her first ski trip to Breckenridge, Colo.
Rebecca Clements ‘03, the adorable Rohan Petros-Mehra, and Angela Petros ‘03 enjoying a sunny spring day in Jersey City, N.J. in April
Kellogg ‘03 grads and their families spent time together in Evanston. Front from left, Ichiro Enomoto ‘03, Edward Sim ‘03, Emma, Rioko, Carolina, Olivia, Izabell; back from left, Alex, Helen, Jan Rhode ‘03, and Adrian, Edit, Patricia and Attila Toth ‘03.
Brian Fitzpatrick, Elaine Schulze, Neil Chernoff, Leonardo Torress, Claudine Coto, Rodrigo Cejas Goyanes, all ‘03, catch up at Reunion.
Tindley Whipple Gilbert ‘03 and daughter Pryor Anne celebrate their second Mother’s Day at Inwood Hill Park in Manhattan.
Anthonie Janse van Rensburg ‘03 and Natasha looked beautiful on their remarkable day.
Nicky and Clinton Kent ‘03 on a hike near Sedona
Brigette Wolf ‘03 and husband Corey Klein climb Mt. Kilimanjaro on their honeymoon.
Kevin Pendleton ‘03 and Evan with Timmy and Tony Chen ‘03
New mom Michelle Peterson ‘03 and her adorable twin daughters.
James Sullivan (spouse of Sara Schieffer), Sara Schieffer Sullivan ‘03, Danny Koblin ‘03 and Gina Schaer ‘03 with newborn Katie
Joanna Shebson ‘03 and her Mister Men, Aryeh and Marko Shebson (and husband Jonny behind the camera)
Kayla Marie was born in October 2007 and she’s doing a great job of teaching both Marie Solem ‘03 and Rob ‘04.
Classmates from ‘03 Dan Waters, Maggie Burke Brown and Lee Purcell

In case anyone missed it in last issue's update, the Solems had a baby! Kayla Marie was born in October and she's doing a great job of teaching both Marie Solem and Rob '04 a thing or two about parenting.

Belinda Marcus shares that Ariane Sylvie Roth arrived on Jan. 29. Belinda reports that she's a sweet, sweet baby, but that doesn't surprise us!

Kyle and Michelle Peterson are proud to announce the birth of their twin baby girls, born on March 13. Sierra Kylie and Sonoma Beverly arrived a bit early so they have been living at Children's Hospital in Minneapolis and getting amazing care by the nurses and neonatologists there. Proud Mommy and Daddy are anxious to bring them home once they are big and healthy! Visit their Web site babysites.com/sites/mlcirino for additional updates on their daughters.

Our class continues to make Kellogg proud through all of our various career endeavors. Spencer Phua reports that he recently left Prudential Investment Management in Newark, N.J., to join ING Investment Management in Atlanta. He's performing a similar role at ING as his old job: senior credit analyst for banks, brokers and finance companies.

Josh Miller has a new job in San Francisco working as a program officer for the Jim Joseph Foundation, a small nonprofit foundation that supports Jewish education. So far, he's really liking it and finds himself thinking about Professor Steve Rogers' Entrepreneurial Finance class at least a few times a week as he works with colleagues to identify where the foundation should "invest" its resources. He's also been doing a lot of cycling these days, training for the California AIDS Ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles in early June.

Well, it looks like Tony Chen took the lessons from the life-changing experience of becoming a dad and turned it into a new business opportunity. The experience, coupled with a lot of soul-searching, led him to create a Web site dedicated to this passion to be a great dad. You can now check out his new Web site at savvydaddy.com to learn more about his company.

Barry Grant is continuing to move down in the world, and he couldn't be more excited. After careers at GM (750k employees), Ford (375k employees), and PayPal (6k employees), he has recently accepted a job as director of product management for BrightRoll, a 15-person startup in San Francisco. Barry's new job will require him to lead all product development efforts for the company, which is the world's largest branded video advertising network. He's looking forward to the fast-paced action of an online media startup, as well as to a reduction in his commute time of two hours per day and to a Jamba Juice in his building.

Clinton Kent works in mergers and acquisitions for Dubai Aerospace Enterprise, an aerospace buyout fund based in Dubai. They have moved to the Boulder area of Colorado, as Nicky found her ideal job in a physician-run clinic. Look them up if you are skiing, hiking "fourteeners," or munching on organic tofu rice cakes. This summer, they are looking forward to hiking to the bottom of the Havasupai region of the Grand Canyon, the last place mail is still delivered by donkey.

Lisa Karbiner reports that she and her husband are still living in downtown Chicago and loving it. Lisa recently left the corporate world to start her own business, Lisa Louvre Ltd., a boutique fine arts company that specializes in custom-designed oil paintings and drawings for home or business. She is thrilled to be pursuing her longtime passion for the arts, with the first phase of her business plan complete. Check out Lisa's new venture at lisalouvre.com.

Rebecca Clements took a new position with ING, but will be staying in London (one of the first times a job change has kept Beckie in the same city). She'll now be back on the client side, actually investing instead of just pitching trade ideas to clients.

Edward Bird married Sandra Mele in July 2007 and is now a wealth manager for private clients at M&T Bank in York, Penn. Ed and Sandra also bought their first house and had a baby girl. Ed reports that 2008 is his year for a nap, although he hasn't told Sandra that just yet!

Tindley Whipple Gilbert has been spending the last several months learning how to juggle her career and new job with motherhood, following eight months off after daughter Pryor was born. As if being back at work isn't busy enough, Tindley, Huw and Pryor have been spending many of their weekends traveling. In March they took Pryor on her first ski trip to Breckenridge, Colo. With memories of the great times at Whistler in their heads, they learned the harsh reality of trying to go on a ski vacation with an 11-month-old! It's not easy! In addition to Colorado, the Gilberts traveled to Chicago for Pryor's 1st birthday and again for Reunion. Although they would love to take a break, family weddings and vacations mean that Pryor may be rivaling some consultants soon with her frequent flyer miles.

Joanna Shebson recently wrote to us about her experiences in domain sales: "While I was beginning my second year at Kellogg, Jonny and I looked for assets to sell to pay for my weekly trips to L.A. to see him, since Jonny had a startup in mall gift cards out there. We decided to sell seven domain names to Scholastic Inc. that I had bought pre-Kellogg and we were happily surprised by our ROI. The tiny investment yielded enough to pay for all my trips through to graduation. The experience inspired us to buy four more names.

"Fast forward six years when Jonny walked into Target before Thanksgiving and a saw a large ad for their credit card that read "Shop Red." One of our purchases in 2002 had been shopred.com. Within a few weeks and thanks to the invaluable Kellogg network, we had our second successful domain sale and this time it covered the year I took off to have our son Marko.

"In the meantime Jonny's mall gift card business was a big success and after he sold it we moved to Jerusalem, Israel, for the year. A good friend of ours, Hayley, came to visit and mentioned that the Mister Men cartoon characters, which we all knew from the U.K., had just launched a TV show on the Cartoon Network in the U.S., in conjunction with a launch of the brand by Chorion, as the master licensee for North America. Inspired by a Kellogg project, we had also bought mistermen.com in 2002 as one of our four purchases, and decided to hold on to it. So now the wheels have started to turn again and we are beginning the process of talking with a variety of merchandising licensees who plan to launch products in the fall. We are hoping this story will "beat the cake" and we will keep you posted in the next Kellogg World. You might be wondering what the last two domain names were that we bought: extendyourstay.com and enhanceyourmedia.com."

Congratulations to the many classmates who recently married! The past six months have been busy for Brigette Wolf as she married Corey Klein in Cancun, Mexico, on Dec. 2. Several classmates made the trip down, including Jessica Yang, Lu Gallucci, Dean Lindo, all '03, Katja Lindo '04, Iris (Seidmann) Snyder '03 and David Cohen '02. In February, Corey and Brigette climbed Mt. Kilimanjaro in Tanzania for their honeymoon and recently bought a house in the suburbs. With extra rooms, they look forward to Kellogg visitors.

Anthonie Janse van Rensburg and fiance Natasha Taylor married on April 12 in picturesque Knysna, South Africa, a small town nestled between the Indian Ocean and the Outeniqua mountains. Kellogg friends Ryan O'Toole, Jami Totten '05, Chris Bayham and wife Valerie joined Ant, Tash and the Knysna elephants for a magical time in South Africa. Ant writes, "Thanks to our Kellogg friends for making the long trip out to South Africa for the wedding. It was a truly memorable experience."

Thank you again to everyone who forwarded their updates. Please have a great summer and get ready to send in your updates for the next Kellogg World edition!