EMP-20

Bets Lillo Bukszar updates: “I’m continuing to apply my Kellogg MBA to the challenges of M&A, as a part of the Abbott Transition Organization. As the project lead for our acquisition of Piramal Healthcare in India, I did a fair amount of my marathon training on hotel treadmills, but managed a PR of 3:38:46 at the Corning Wineglass Marathon on Oct. 4. I’m sure some of the credit goes to John Powers and Tim Trummer for all that base training we did on the streets of Evanston years ago! All are happy and healthy on the home front, though with my son away at college and my daughter busy with the sports and social life of high school, my husband and I are starting to wonder if it’s time to get another dog.”

Gene Quinn and his co-founders in Montreal and the U.K. celebrated the first anniversary of the launch of Tnooz-Talking Travel Tech with their 100,000th unique visitor and 1.1 million pages views in October. Tnooz provides news and analysis about travel tech, digital distribution and marketing, mobile travel and social media to the global travel, tourism and hospitality industry. A Web-only media site, tnooz.com, covers travel tech topics and issues across scores of industry business segments from the point of view of its B2B audience and advertisers.

Harold Anagnos is teaching “effective leadership” at the undergraduate level of the School of Continuing Studies of Northwestern. Harold comments, “It is a great experience, other than the grueling travel downtown.”

Walter Herbst says, “My life at NU is great, having started and continuing to run the master of product design and development program. We were ranked in the top 30 in the world this past year.”