EMP-40

During the weekend of Sept. 12-13, EMP-40 celebrated its 10-year Reunion. The weekend was filled with classmates and spouses getting together in Evanston. We played golf on Friday, followed with a kickoff happy hour at Tommy Nevins. On Saturday, we attended Mark Weishaar's tailgate, the Northwestern vs. SIU game and a great wine dinner at Stained Glass. It was one of rainiest weekends ever in Chicago, but despite the rain and a few tough days for some of our classmates due to flooding, the EMP-40ers that were able to attend had a great time. We included some pictures from the weekend's festivities. But unfortunately our group photos from the weekend were not any good, so we'll have to try again soon.

Scott Flowers EMP-40 and Kim at Tommy Nevins
The EMP-40 men continuing the evening at Indigo in the Hotel Orrington. Scott Flowers, Tim Kennedy, Dave Petersen, John Kot, Eric Treiber and Kevin Bingham, all EMP-40
Peter Tonino, Kevin Bingham and Eric Treiber, all EMP-40, have some fun at the weekend kickoff happy hour at Tommy Nevins.

Mark your calendars, Ray Siegel is planning an EMP-40 dinner to continue our 10-year celebration Dec. 12. More details to be sent out soon.

Joe Novicki is the vice president of formulation technologies running a wholly owned subsidiary of Baxter Healthcare in Boston. The company is called Epic Therapeutics. Joe bought this business for Baxter in his BD role five years ago. There are 60 people in the organization. The technology is turning large molecule drugs (mAbs) into microspheres for pharma companies to administer the drugs sub Q. Epic is also heavy into the siRNA technology and was just published in the diabetes journal as having a major breakthrough in stopping juvenile type I diabetes. It is a collaboration with the University of Pittsburgh Children Hospital. As of now, Joe is commuting every week to Boston. 

Barb Dean-Hendricks moved back to Minnesota in 2000 and lives in Woodbury. She is working at Honeywell as of September 2007. She and Pat are doing well. Everyone is healthy and happy. Kids Kelli (9) and Mike (6) are growing like weeds. Barb's contact information is: 2986 Eagle Valley Drive, Woodbury, MN 55129. Her number is 651.808.8146 and her e-mail address is bdeanhendricks@msn.com.

Eric McAllister works for Omniture Inc. as vice president and chief human resources officer. Omniture is a leader in the web analytics and online business optimization industry. This is a very exciting opportunity for Eric and he is looking forward to leading the global HR function for the firm. Omniture is growing rapidly (annual review of $300 million with 1,200 employees in the U.S. and building a presence in multiple countries) and the opportunity to build this company and the human resources function from the ground up is compelling. The personal opportunities associated with the role also are very interesting for Eric — from board work to community work to opportunities in education. Omniture is headquartered in Orem, Utah. Eric and his family are excited to move back to Utah, but said it was very unexpected after living in Tokyo, Chicago, Dallas and Seattle the past 20 years.

Word on the street is that John Rutter is an IBM executive and currently leading IBM's finance and accounting outsourcing business in the Americas. Prior to joining IBM, John spent three years with PwC. John is located in the Houston area. We'd love to hear about how things are going for you, John.

Still missing: Vance Lancaster, Brian McInerney, Dharmendra Sahay, and Rom Nowacki. If any one knows how to get in touch with these folks, please let Dave know.