1995 Full-Time

Rep: Rick Berg
Tel: 404.687.0748
rberg@northhighland.com

Mike Stachowiak was elected a principal of Deloitte Consulting LLP, where he focuses on mergers and acquisitions, and restructuring for the financial services industry.

Anthony Howe and his wife launched two businesses in Zimbabwe: a fuel distribution service and a soap manufacturer. They and their business partners "have both economic and philanthropic motivations" for choosing Zimbabwe, writes Anthony. "First, the Mugabe era is coming to a close. Second, the political integration and power sharing is irreversible at this point," since "Zimbabwe is homogenous from a tribal perspective."

"Third, Zimbabwe has much to recommend it as a go-forward economic platform: massive mineral wealth, dollarization, strategic assets and an educated English-speaking populace with a high literacy rate. Double-digit GDP growth is expected as the country recovers from the 'Lost Decade' and the Mugabe era."

News from Monte Henige: Last year, custom fragrance development company Tru Fragrance launched Tru Blooms Chicago, a groundbreaking community initiative. Tru Blooms is working to transform the city's public and neighborhood green spaces into growing spaces for flowers to be used in making a limited edition perfume. Tru Blooms is a joint effort between the fragrance company, the city, and community organizations, including the Chicago Park District, the Chicago Botanic Garden, Growing Power, Growing Home and NeighborSpace.

Claire Celeste Carnes writes: "Despite the recent parodying of our fair city by the show Portlandia, Portland is very popular with fellow 1995 grads. Per Torgersen was here for work, and Michael and I joined him for a fun dinner in the funky Pearl District. Most recently, Mike Paul was here meeting with clients in the Northwest for his new startup. He joined Michael and me, Mariah Scott and her hubby Ken, and Olivier Rochelois and his wife Laura for another dinner in the Pearl. If you have a visit to the Northwest planned, be sure to let us know!"

Lachlan Hughson has "retired" from energy investment banking in New York City and joined Denver-based Antero Resources as finance director. Antero is a private equity-backed, Appalachian-focused unconventional oil and gas company. After graduating from the MSc-Metals and Energy Finance program at Imperial College London in 2010 with a dissertation on U.S. shale gas plays, Lachlan is glad to be applying his experience in a very entrepreneurial environ-ment.

Michelle Quinones Chino writes that Rick Berg and his son Sam decided to spend their winter break in Los Angeles this February. Monisha Shahani happened to be in town as well. The result: a get-together with Rick, Monisha, Erin O'Malia Gehan, and Bob Gehan '94 at Bob's house.

Jeff Hyman is CEO of Retrofit, which raised an $8 million venture capital investment in November. Retrofit is the first weight loss program specifically designed for business professionals. Email him for the friends and family prices at jeff@retrofitme.com.

Nicole Neuefeind married Jaime Valverde Alarcón in Barcelona. Classmate Lucien Tenn and his wife Wendy attended the wedding. Nicole continues to work as a photographer and artist, focusing on creating custom-designed art pieces for interior decoration, as well as commercial photography. Check out her portfolio at www.nicneu.com.

Fran Brasfield Langewisch traveled to China with her husband Bob and daughter Anna to adopt their second child, Dan. She still works at Kellogg, and is enjoying getting to know the new class.

Suzy Taherian became CFO at her company, Lanzatech, a renewable energy company headquartered in Chicago with presences in New Zealand and China.

Mark Lamps continues to enjoy life in the Twin Cities and is currently hosting a 16-year-old exchange student from China, who along with the three Lamps children helps keep things lively.

Richard (Rick) Wolk was recently elected to the board of directors of the University Economic Development Association. UEDA is the cornerstone membership organization representing higher education, private sector and community economic development stakeholders. UEDA works to expand economic opportunity in communities by leveraging research, community resources, campus planning, talent development and technology commerciali-zation.