1993

	Albert Manzone ’93, his wife Nathalie, and three children Charlotte, Clemence and Philippe spent their summer holiday in sunny California
	Alan MacPhail ’93 and his wife Kim at the Italian MotoGP motorcycle race in Mugello this summer
	Karl Safft ’93 with his wife and daughter Priaynka in front of the Jacobs Center
	Karl Safft ’93 met with Dean Ed Wilson for lunch on his recent trip to Chicago.

Chris Dean is off to his next adventure after three years at Skype and selling it to Microsoft. Chris comments, “If anybody is looking for a senior startup exec in the Bay Area, let me know!” Chris also mentions that he and wife Lisi Dean ‘94 went to Italy this summer and had a family trip to Yosemite, where they climbed Mt. Hoffman (elevation:10,800 feet) with their three kids.

Chris also spoke with Ken Freeman and John Christakos this fall (and reports that both doing well). And, the night Chris wrote this Class Notes update, he was having Bill Cummings over for dinner!

Albert Manzone joined Novartis Consumer Health as president, South East Europe. He was recruited to lead the Novartis OTC South East Europe Region and accelerate growth as the No. 1 OTC Company in these markets. Albert is responsible for total Region P&L and more than 600 employees across Italy, Turkey, Greece and Romania. Albert, his wife Nathalie and three children Charlotte, Clemence and Philippe relocated to Zurich, Switzerland. The family spent their summer holiday in sunny California before Albert had to get back to work.

Geoff Hyatt doesn’t have any big news to report, but says he does keep in touch with a few people, including Steve Davies, who lives in Evanston with his great kids and is running Perfect Jobs Software. He also reports that Caleb Tower lives in Newton (near Boston) with his skateboarding twins and is running P3Software.

Alan MacPhail and his wife Kim celebrated their 30th wedding anniversary this summer (congrats!) with a trip to Italy. They spent two weeks in a tiny Tuscan village called Montalbino, making day trips to Florence, Sienna, Lucca, Montepulciano and many other hill towns. Alan comments: “For some reason, we spent most of our time searching out great wine and food. We were not disappointed!”

Alan and Kim also took time out to attend the Italian MotoGP motorcycle race in Mugello “with 80,000 of our closest Italian friends. What a spectacle! Unfortunately, the Ducati riders we were rooting for didn’t do too well, but it was still an unforgettable experience, especially when thousands of fans poured onto the track at the end of the race to cheer hometown favorite Valentino Rossi.”

Alan is now in his 19th year working for Grainger, focusing on international market development and comments, “So far so good!” Any of our Kellogg classmates can still find Alan and Kim in Evanston on Noyes Street or call 847.864.8073.

Alki Economou and Konstantinos Vossos, their two kids and two dogs moved to Madrid. Alki writes, “Anyone coming to Spain, please come visit!”

In August, Karl Safft and his wife visited Evanston with daughter Priyanka (7). Karl comments: “We spent a few joyful hours on the Evanston campus. The school is in great shape. The location for the new Kellogg building right next to the Allen Center is an excellent choice. To build on that site is money well spent, I would say.”

After dropping off some Swiss chocolates at the office of Dean Sally Blount ’92, Karl had lunch downtown with Ed Wilson, the former dean of alumni relations. He also spoke with some Chicago-based classmates by phone and had coffee with his four-quarter colleague, Andy Whitman, at his office. Karl says, “Overall, we had two fantastic weeks and it was great to be back on campus and see how Chicago has developed.”

John Hults just sent in his very first Class Notes update (thanks John!). In short, after John married Lee (just before our second year at Kellogg and they just celebrated 19 years of marriage — congrats!) and despite honeymooning in Kauai in the eye of Category 4 Hurricane Iniki, John says that “everything else has been pretty simple.” They’ve spent most of their post-Kellogg years in Seattle and had loved every minute of it. John says, “It’s a perfect place for an outdoors lifestyle. We brought three beautiful daughters into the world there in the Emerald City, and it is a special place for our family.”

On the professional front, John spent several years in various operational finance roles in telecom (McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless and then CLEC startup WinStar), and then switched industries to Getty Images, the leading provider of pre-shot imagery for advertising and editorial use. After almost six years at Getty, Lee and John started Blue Jean Images, a digital production company based in Beijing to develop stock imagery targeting the emerging advertising market in mainland China. After starting Blue Jean, John went back to a “day job” as CFO at GlobalScholar, an education software company in Seattle.

Blue Jean Images celebrated its five-year anniversary this summer, so Lee and John took the family to Beijing and Shanghai to celebrate, commenting, “It was a fantastic trip, a great blessing and a wonderful way for the girls to get a glimpse at a culture and a country that will likely have a significant place in their future.” Furthermore, the company has grown enough that John is now working full time to “help it grow to the next stage — whatever that may be!”

John, Lee and the kids moved back to the D.C. area last year to be closer to family, but have kept their Seattle house to keep their options open. They would love to connect with any classmates in the D.C. area, or alumni anywhere that have an interest in China and the rapidly growing ad market there.

After 18 years at BCG, Paul Orlander joined TD Bank Group’s wealth management executive as SVP, products, services and strategy. He enjoyed a relaxing month before starting the new role, including a family vacation in U.K. with wife Helayna and kids Joanna, Ethan and Sydney.

Bob Kunkler and his family moved back to the Chicago area after seven years in Princeton, where he enjoyed being in touch with classmate Rick Herwig and his family. Bob continues to work for Abbott and took a position earlier this year running commercial operations for Abbott Molecular in Des Plaines. The Kunkler family lives in Wilmette and looks forward to reconnecting with classmates in the Chicago area.

Brett Bonthron accepted a position as a director in the technology vertical at Deloitte Consulting. He also just moved to a new house in San Francisco in the Inner Sunset district and comments, “We’ll be spending Christmas in Australia as usual since I married an Aussie a scant 11 years ago.”

Dominic Rispoli had a great summer, including a weeklong family trip to San Francisco followed by a week in Napa. On the work front, Dominic joined Canaccord Genuity as the co-head of the consumer and retail group. Canaccord is a well-established Canadian firm that is rapidly expanding in the U.S. Dominic will provide merger and acquisition advice and assist companies in raising equity capital through private placements and public stock offerings. His group will be focused on private companies as well as small and mid-cap public growth retail and consumer products companies, “which is a segment of the market I very much enjoy working with. It’s an exciting opportunity as Canaccord only has 80 employees in the U.S. so it is certainly entrepreneurial and there is a tremendous growth opportunity in front of us.”

Steve Schultz recently got together with Mark Jowell in New York. Steve comments, “Mark was passing through for a couple of days, and we took some time over lunch (and, yes, a glass of wine!) to discuss our respective projects.”

Steve’s project is Moveable Feast Mobile Media. After a long time in various roles around the merger of strategy and technology, Steve decided to strike out on his own with his idea for a new location-based media platform. He writes: “I’m very excited about it, and the only question that remains for me is: What took me so long?!

“I’d be happy to field any kinds of questions about Moveable Feast, which, by the way, has nothing (directly) to do with food. The company is actually named for Ernest Hemingway’s masterful memoirs of his early life in Paris, and the quote that gave that book its title.”

In short, Moveable empowers storytellers. Steve is especially interested in telling classmates in the film or magazine business more about it. But for the rest of us, Steve says, “Look for us on a social network near you soon!”

In August, Luke Parker flew from Australia to San Francisco for the sailing world championships, competing in the laser (boat) and masters (old farts) divisions. He ended up 15th in the master worlds, which was even more impressive given his training habits, which included a Saturday night out with Dave Darragh (who flew in from New Orleans), a Wednesday afternoon Giants baseball game with Beth MacLean, Alix Mayer and John Sheputis (didn’t we used to have Wednesdays off?) and a Sunday night dinner with me, Heather Forsythe.

Take care, everyone and enjoy the holidays!

Chris Dean ’93 and his family in Yosemite, where they climbed Mount Hoffman at 10,800 feet

John Hults ’93 (in the red shirt) with his wife Lee (kneeling on the left), daughters Bailey, Hannah Sue, and Libby (in front of John) with some of the team from Blue Jean Images following a delicious dumpling dinner in Beijing