Prof. Dr. Carlos Alberto Martins Callegaro (1975) was just appointed Dean of the Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul.

Bill Thompson (1980) writes from sunny Florida about his current engagement: Trans Ocean Investment Services, LLC (TOIS) is a firm consisting of private investors pursuing current opportunities in South Africa, Mauritius and Ghana. His work at the present time is focused on organizing funding for ventures in the alternative fuels (ethanol and biodiesel) arena for ventures in the southern United States, South America and West Africa. TOIS fulfills a merchant banking / venture capital role by off-balance sheet investing in companies and raising additional capital for client companies.

He would very much like to make contact with fellow alums who reside in the Sunshine State, so please do forward any contact information that you have available. Bill and his wife, Sandra (Alston), formerly of ADL's old Energy Economics Library, have been living in South Florida since returning in November 2000 from living in Johannesburg, South Africa. They were drawn there by the birth of their first grandson, Aaron Frederick Bryan, who is now six. Aaron has since been joined by his brother, Evan Frederick Bryan, who will be two come January 1, 2007 as the fifth baby born in the state of Florida in 2006.

Francis Baffour (1980) is working for the Office for Thrift Supervision at the Treasury, based in New York City.

Antonio Claparols (1982) wrote recently: “I am the chairman, president and CEO of JRS Business Corporation, JRS EXPRESS Worldwide, Imperial Express Service Corporation, the Ecological Society of the Philippines. I was an IUCN Councillor for Asia for eight years--from 1996 when I was elected in Montreal during the first World Conservation Congress, re-elected in Amman, Jordan, in 2000, and my term finished in 2004 during the third World Conservation Congress. I am still involved in IUCN as a member of CEESP Commission on economics, environment and social policy, a member of SEAPRISE-Private sector engagement, part of CEESP. I still write and attend environmental forums from Alaska to Africa. After all, ADL was the first business school to put up an environmental management course during our time. Today it is part of every B school curriculum - but ADL was the first.” Tony was one of the members of the class of 1982 who attended the 25th reunion in Boston in June of this year.

Peter Rwelamira (1982) recently wrote an article published by the African Development Bank on microfinancing and public private partnerships as a means of reducing poverty in African nations.

Kedrick Brown (1988) recently reconnected with the school. He’s now working at IBM’s Global Telecommunications Center of Excellence after a long tenure with AT&T. Still based in New Jersey, Kedrick and his wife, Connie, are keeping busy with their five children (Judah at nine is the youngest) and six grandchildren.

Kazayuki Kasamaki (1991) was promoted in 2005 and has been in the U.S. having been dispatched to one of Hitachi Chemical’s U.S. subsidiaries as senior manager of corporate development. He’s living in the California Bay Area (San Francisco).

Ednah Tibe (1991) sent this photo of her 'baby', now 20 years old - who was just five when she attended the program.

Alejandro Galavis (1992) has returned to his home country of Venezuela, still working for AT&T as a regional sales director. He now has five children.

Alejandro Gumucio (1992) is also in Venezuela, working as the assistant director of financial institutions for Corporacion Andina de Fomento. He's been in touch with classmates Gustavo Castillo, Ruben Beneito, Carlos Fernandez, Alejandro Galavis and Claudio Bruzual.

Christian Kardashian (1993) writes that Pete Hammond (1993) visited for Thanksgiving and had a GREAT TIME! Here is a picture of Christian’s children: the twins, now six (Cosette & Ezequiel), Agnes (3) and Nicole (1). Christian is now working for Sprint - SBS International Markets - Southern Cone - back in Argentina after 10 years of working abroad.

Bryan Delaney (1993) recently visited Boston and gave the following update on his life: “I am still living in New York and still owning and operating five bars in the city and one down in the tropical paradise of Belize. The plan of sipping fruity drinks in hammocks with umbrellas in them hasn’t exactly worked out, but business has been good stateside despite the hyper-scrutiny of the state and city authorities for everything under the sun. I’m married with one son and own a co-op apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan. I emailed the school as I was looking for someone to write a business plan for an alternative energy company in which I’m involved. The company has taken off and now needs to raise a substantial amount of capital. It would be a textbook business school case. The company is primarily involved in the use of building integrated photovoltaics (pv), power purchase agreement systems and is developing its own patented pv panel for use in commercial applications. I am going to see Iwan Faidi (1993) and Alberto Escobar (1993) as they are both coming into town for business.”

Yuko Kawai (1993) writes: “I am working fulltime at Mizuho Corporate Bank, Ltd., Americas Division, as vice president. I am raising two children, two and four years old. It is extremely busy in every aspect, but everyone in the family is in good health, so I am quite happy. I've attached the new year’s greeting picture of my children.”

Michinori Nakahara (1993) is now the manager of the ISV Solution Center for IBM Japan.

Adriana Ulivi (1993) wrote to update the school on her activities: “I am still in Venezuela working for CINES UNIDOS (the largest movie exhibition company in Venezuela) but already reducing my working hours to dedicate more time to my twins (six-year-old boys who require lots of attention). I have been in contact with some Venezuelan alumni, not as often as I would like but I guess life is too complicated at times. Maru Mendoza (1993) is living in Valencia; I have seen Reinaldo Alzaibar (1997) and Mireya Besson (1993). I know a bit about some others (I think Maria Elena Garcia is in Colombia) but some have sort of disappeared. I have also been in touch with Kevin Curtis (known to his class mates as Kamal Shayegui), Yuko Kawai, Shuji Tanaka, Mariza De Grano (all 1993 alumni). I have sent some unanswered e-mails to Christian Kardashian.” (Christian is also a 1993 alum, who is alive, well and working for Sprint back in Argentina).

Steve Goldberg (1994) writes about his life since graduation: “Here is what I have been up to the last 12 years. After leaving ADL, I went to work at a consulting firm headquartered in NYC helping companies with very early forays into Internet media. This led to a long consulting contract at Microsoft and I decided to move to Seattle and join Microsoft fulltime. My first job was to help launch MSN. As this evolved, I ended up running the ad team, with responsibilities for domestic and international sales, operations and strategy. I also was a founder of the first (and now largest) trade organization for Internet Advertising (IAB). MSFT found me a new job in Ireland (Dublin) where I ran the localization team for Office. I did that for two years, then left Microsoft at 4.5 years (when the stock vests) and joined a public Internet company called Go2Net. There I was senior vice president of the consumer division; we sold that company to Infospace and I left to begin AskGoldberg. The idea behind AskGoldberg was to help venture capitalists manage younger companies. I took on one of the companies fulltime, becoming CEO of a company in L.A. called Hiwire. After Hiwire, I joined Intellisync as Chief Strategy Officer. We sold the company to Nokia at the end of 2005. I decided to shift gears. I arranged to teach at USC, do some consulting with Microsoft and took on a couple of board seats. That’s what I am up to specifically now! Somewhere in all that, I get a little time to run on the beach, hang out with my wife and step-kids and eat a burrito.”

Tsuyoshi Kitamura (1994) writes, “As I update my profile on the alumni website, I am still working for West Japan Railway Company. I am now working as a manager of corporate planning section at a subsidiary running building management (Engineering, Cleaning, & Security Service) business. I married in 1997, and now I have two naughty sons aged eight and six. After graduation, I visited New York City two times in 2003 and this past February. But I have had no chance to visit Boston since 1994. Memories of days in Boston and stimulating experiments at MSM Program are one of the most precious treasures of my life. I hope Hult International Business School prospers more in the future.”

Hiro Fukao (1994) sent an email saying he is still working for ADL/TIAX for almost 10 years after graduating from the school.

Andy Kyzyk (1995) writes, "I am vice president and executive director at Goldman Sachs currently at the SLK division. I work in equities and trading both domestic and international and head the energy, metals, mining and industrials coverage group. I spend a large amount of my time on the road developing and executing ideas for our clients. Lately I have taken on some new responsibilities that are keeping me in New York more than usual. It is a great role and I love it." Andy participated in our alumni expert panel on financial services.

DV Subramanyam (1995) is working as a vice president of sales at Intoto in Santa Clara, California.

Chiqui Morales (1996) is a contract management consultant who specializes in the development and roll out of new products and services for international organizations. Last year (2006), he led the implementation of management education programs for large private business education providers in Singapore, Hanoi,and Tokyo. In 2000, he moved to Toronto after working in Boston for four years; he has worked in over 18 cities all over the world since graduating from ADL in 1996.

Toru Araki (1996) is still at NEC in Tokyo, and still has the ADL keychain - so he thinks of the school every time he drives! He sends this photo of his three year-old son, Yuta, to share with us.

Ramiro Gonzalez Prandi (1996) writes: “I am in Chile, since 2001, months before Argentina’s crisis started...it was a good idea. I’ve been working at BankBoston since 1998, which is now a Bank of America Co but in two months will be Banco Itau, so we’ll have a new owner again. The best part of my life is my family, I have a boy, Felix who is a year old. I keep in contact with some of my ADL mates: Gonzalo Bell, Alexander Perez and Jim Hammond (all 1996 alumni)...the rest with some occasional emails.”

Senri Hashimoto (1996) writes: “I came back from LA last July after a six year assignment as a Japanese rep in the US and I’m now working for the claims department at our home office in Tokyo. I have been in touch with most of my Japanese classmates; Yoshihiko Kadoya, Tomomichi Kageyama, Toru Araki and Kyoichi Matarai (all 1996 alumni). Since I came back, I had dinner several times with them as well as Chiqui (Morales) when he was working in Tokyo.”

Alexander Perez (1996) was put back into contact with the school by his classmate Ramiro Gonzalez Prandi. He’s splitting his time between Miami (GPG Holdings) and Venezuela (Global Computer Sourcing de Venezuela) at present. In addition, he’s added a wife (Diana) and two sons to his family - Alex, five years, and Daniel two and a half years.

Andrew Whitney (1996) is now president of BigVintage.com, a wine importer based in Atlanta, Georgia. His brother Alex (1995) is now married, father of a little girl and living in Cambridge, MA, and his brother Francis (1995) is living back home in Argentina running the family business. He is also married with two sons.

Maria Bello (1997) wrote of her recent life events as well: “It is so nice to be in touch with you again since a very long time has passed. It is incredible how time flies and we are about to celebrate 10 years since we graduated from ADL! A quick review of my activities during these years would be: I worked with ExxonMobil for seven years, first as retail network coordinator during Mobil’s fuels entry in Venezuela, later as the convenience store network manager, and at the end I moved to the upstream business as the controls advisor at the procurement department. In the meantime, (May 99) Roman and I got married, so we’ve been together for more than 10 years... Later I made a difficult decision and decided to stop my career activities to have kids. Now we have our beloved Mariana Valentina, a five-month-old baby girl who has completely changed our lives. I’m a fulltime mom and I’m absolutely happy about it. We were really excited about the trip to Boston in October. However, given that Roman is looking for a new job as a result of the closing of ADL offices in Venezuela, we are not quite certain about being able to go there. Nevertheless we’ll do our best to be there and celebrate.”

Roman Velez (1997) writes, “After graduation, I came back to Venezuela, married Maria Alejandra Bello (1997) and worked in the energy business with international oil companies for several years (six years at BP and two at ConocoPhillips). After ADL’s chapter eleven (and the purchase by Altran), Venezuela’s office started to hire consultants mainly to manage the energy business, so two years ago, I decided to take the challenge and... I am here! So far, it has been an excellent experience. I went to Spain for training and, after that, have been participating in international energy projects jointly with the Houston Office. By the way, I recently wrote an article (do you remember PRISM? how to forget it...) that you may find interesting: http://www.adlittle.com/insights/prism/index.php?pYear= 2006. Unfortunately, Altran recently decided to close their South American offices. Roman and wife Maria Bello (1997) also shared photos of their beautiful daughter on her baptism day.

Katsuyoshi Namba (1998) is now managing director of Bonchi Corp. He met earlier in 2007 with Emilie Ramshorn (1998) and Juan Barrero, (1998) who traveled from Colombia. He meets occasionally at a Japanese pub with his classmates from 1998: Hisao Toeda, Takeshi Hioki, Shoko Suzuki and Hiraoki Hirai. (see photo)

Mahesh Bhandari (1998) recently wrote (in response to an email asking his whereabouts): “I am very much in Mumbai, India, and have recently moved from the Tata Group to the Essel Group. I am currently the chief executive officer for the group's infrastructure and telecom businesses.”

Cesar Buendia (1998) writes that in 2006 he was promoted to country manager for South Andean region for Eli Lilly Interamerica, which includes Peru, Ecuador and Bolivia.

Consuelo del Castillo (1998) has moved to a new job at CDM in Cambridge in the corporate treasury department.

Alexandre Durazzo (1998) wrote to update the school on what he's been doing since graduation: “I am quite well, fighting through the battle of life. I am in a second marriage, now planning to raise kids at this time. By the way, we have spent a couple weeks in the U.S. during past New Year's Eve. We hung around New York City and at the very beginning of January we landed in Boston. After already 10 years, I have returned to the city. It was definitely amusing as well thrilling! How many reminiscences I was able to revive during those days. It may look silly for you, but after prolonged years I could taste again a bowl of New England clam chowder, the typical dish of this part of the world. I have been running my own business for the last seven years. I am one of the shareholders in a medium size real state and construction local firm. This market is in a high trend in Brazil since lots of overseas investments are currently shoveling into the country. It will get better from now on, since the country is one step to achieve the status of “investment grade” awarded from well-reputed international credit and investment ratios firms. Besides that, for the last five years, I have been operating a trade and commodity business between Brazil and Italy. As you know, I have dual citizenship and I have built up a consistent business network in the north of Italy, especially in the Veneto area, where the major Italian fruit and agricultural importers are located. Well, these above are my stream of livelihood sources. Businesses are doing well, but most importantly is that my private and family life is doing terrifically good as well.”

Sergio Echeverria (1998) writes in: “I am still in Saudi Arabia but I went to Spain for the holidays. This is the first time in 6 years that I spent Christmas in Spain but when I returned to Jeddah, I am beginning to have a feeling of returning home. I am just now informed that my resident visa has been renewed for 2 more years.”

Salvatore Falleta (1998) I am fine. The political situation in Venezuela right now is difficult, but we hope that could change in the near future. I am working in Venezuela with Harvest Vinccler C.A (oil and gas company). Partners Harvest Natural Resources, Inc. is an independent American energy company with 80% share and Vinccler Venezuelan General Contractor with 20% share.

David Simpson (1998) sent the attached photo of his family in the spring with this note: “We are even late for the Chinese New Year! However, a friend just told me that the Burmese New Year is not for another month! So it is great to learn that on someone’s calendar we are still early! Apart from the wishful thinking, we meant to get this out in December. In 2006, Fabiola started teaching cooking classes at Brooklyn College and enrolled in a course to become a certified nutritional counselor. My business, Mindful Media, increased the number of productions, and I also became a partner in a new venture called MM Content, which provides customized, combined video and software for training. And to keep busy, I am also working with a product designer to create a video camera, sound adapter. Lucas (my son) turned three in the springtime.”

Shoko Suzuki (1998) is working for Dell Computer in Singapore. She is director of AsiaPacific-Japan HSB marketing operations.

Mikhail Tarakanov (1998) has been working at Varian Semiconductor Equipment in Gloucester, Massachusetts, for the last year, as an R&D finance manager doing budgeting, planning, reporting, etc. In other words - crunching the numbers in many different ways. “I’m still living in Acton, Massachusetts, these days. My eldest daughter will be graduating from high school this year, and we expect another child in April. I did have a chance to attend HULT’s Summer Alumni College course a couple of years ago on international negotiations; it was a nice and warm experience of getting back to the classroom. Please keep me posted on the alumni activities/events in the future, I’ll be very glad to participate!”

Consuelo del Castillo (1998) is currently working as treasury manager at Fresenius Medical Care, the world's largest provider of dialysis products and services. The company is now located in Waltham, Massachusetts. She has been with the company for more than five years. Consuelo is still in touch with Gustavo Bikkesbakker, Camila Dias, Thomas Kortmoller and Mary Hernandez (1998), as well as with Juliette Lefebvre (2000).

Arthur Roggeband (1998) with his wife, two children and parents on moving day. He's now based in Reston, Virginia.

Armando Loynaz Machado (2000) writes, “I'm glad to announce that Ana Maria gave birth to our third child in October. His name is Juan Diego. Ana Maria and Juan Diego are doing great - little sleep though…just a quick note to let everyone know that family is growing.”

John (Yanni) Vardis (2000) met with classmate Juliette Lefebvre du Prey, her husband and two-year-old son, Axel, in Greece, while vacationing this year.

Isabel Cuellar (2000) recently wrote to her classmates (and the school) about her activities since graduation: “Here I am and still alive. A little update on my life, I have three kids now: Isabella, six, Blas Rene, four, and Nicolas, almost three. After ADL, I worked for CEMEX Mexico for three years in the human resources department and at the same time, I was starting a little jewelry store. I quit CEMEX to develop my business. Now I have three stores and hopefully by this November, I'll open another one. If anyone is in this business (gold, diamonds, watches, etc.), please let me know.” (Turns out, Isabel's classmate Yanni Vardis is in the diamond business.)

Philippe Rosier (2000) sent along this adorable photo of his daughter Eleanor.

Yukitoshi Tanno (2000) is now with Amazon Japan in the sourcing area.

Jens Walther (2000) writes: “I am still living and working in Germany, close to Heidelberg, with my wife Doris and my children, Nina (12) and Marc (11). For more than five years, I have been working for Porsche close to Stuttgart. In fall 2004, I transferred to the motorsport department; I am now managing all activities that Porsche has around the FIA Formula 1 World Championship. Porsche organizes support races at almost all races of Formula 1, the most prestigious among them the Porsche Supercup (For more details, you may check out www.pmsc.info.) Apart from meeting with Ahmed (Abdulwahab) in Bahrain twice and Robert Brouwer in Stuttgart, I follow the communication on yahoo on a regular basis. (The class of 2000 has a listserv on yahoo.) Doris and I miss Boston very much and we are planning to visit the city again soon.”

Zywia Wojnar (2000) visited Arizona last spring and had the chance to spend some time with Andres Londono, who is now living in the area. She sends this message: “I was visiting my cousin who lives in Scottsdale, Arizona, in February, so I had the opportunity to also visit with Andres and his family. They are all doing well and look great. Andres seems quite satisfied with his position at Honeywell. Matias (Andres’ son) is adorable, smart, and exceptionally good-natured. We spent the afternoon at the Desert Botanical Garden in Phoenix, and Matias (~9 months old) was fascinated with his surroundings: birds, squirrels, people. A joy to watch and spend time with. The same goes of course for his parents.”

Agustin Arzeno (2000) sent an email to his classmates with the following greeting: “I hope this email finds you well. It's good to know that everybody is doing well and specially contributing to the world's population growth rate. Hazem, you started this!!! (See notes from fellow classmates below - lots of babies!) I'm still in South Dakota (where?), working for South Dakota State University and Cooperative Extension Service as a farm management specialist and I can't believe it's three years now! As for Marina and myself, we don't think we'll participate in this 'baby-hype' that you guys are in; Candy (9) and Francisco (5) are the exact number for us to handle.” Agustin is traveling to Guatemala in June of 2007 on a charitable mission for his church. He'll be acting as the official translator, among other things.”

Hazem Farra (2000) sent this email message: “I did move to Lebanon 18 months ago, and it has been a roller coaster from the first few months. It is such an unstable environment. I am not sure how long I can take it … may be moving somewhere else come this summer. I have not added to my bunch of devils, still at four kids. I am not planning on adding any more. (To the right is a picture of my most precious treasures.) I am still working for the family business, but I have become less active in the U.S. (down from 80% of my time to 50%) and more involved in our business development in the MENA region. I was an interim CEO for our tile distribution company in 2005. It is today the second-largest independent ceramic tile distribution operation in the U.S. with about $200 million in sales. Fortunately, I was able to find a good CEO from the floor covering industry that has taken charge for 2006. The industries and geographies that I am currently working on are: retailing in India, building material manufacturing in the GCC, home financing in Saudi and real estate in Algeria. The above ranges from startup to acquisition--quite a broad scope. I expect us to move forward with two out of the four opportunities.”

Andres Londono (2000) wrote that he has elected to leave Ford. He accepted an offer from Honeywell to become new product development program manager in the aerospace division. Therefore, he will be moving to Phoenix, Arizona. His family plans to stay for as long as it takes to sell the home and after that, they will join Andres there. He urges friends to contact him in case they are close to the Grand Canyon or Las Vegas. Andres and his wife have a son, Matias, born in 2006.

Celso Maranzini (2000) and Maria Luisa Labernia (2000) had their second child, a boy, Celso Jose, last year. They sent this photo (right) of the angelic-looking Celso Jose with his big sister, Mari Gaby

Claudia Mojica (2000) sent an email with the following report: “I am in Miami, Aventura more exactly, doing fine. I'm working for two companies--one imports tile and marble, the other furniture. Same owners and located in the same lot, two separate showrooms. The furniture one moves more through the Internet, so I set up and manage the website, the E-bay store and all marketing. And for both I do accounting and administrative tasks. It's good. I have learned a lot, only that is family-owned and it's not easy, but manageable. I just met Gabriela (pictured below), Alex Moreira (2000) and Kim's daughter. She is adorable. I went with Natalie Franco (2000) and then we all had dinner in Coral Gables. They are all doing fabulous. Natalie lives near me, few blocks apart, and we see each other quite often and speak on the phone daily. Who else? Patty and Gustavo Olano (2000) are here in Miami. Well, Gustavo seems to be more in Mexico than here now, but they decided that Patty and the kids stay here in Miami for school, extra classes, friends, etc..

Mark Tan (2000) writes, “My daughter's name is Corinne Tan Shu Wen and her birthdate is 3 July 2006. I was hoping for the Fourth of July, but obviously she had other plans.”

Amulya Kapoor (2001) writes, " I am in Bangalore with a division of Infosys Tech (Nasdaq: infy), working on corporate credit risk for Deutsche Bank. Things have been generally good with us." Amulya had the chance to meet with Hult President Steve Hodges on his last visit to India.

Oscar Bonfil (2001) recently accepted a position with WalMart Mexico as operation director in charge of all the logistics in the country of its supermarkets, restaurants and clothing stores. He returned to Mexico in June of 2002 after working for Nestle US for one year after graduation. He received an offer from Nestle Mexico to manage part of its logistics operations and moved back. He writes, “I married my classmate Carla Panizo (2001), whom I'm sure you remember very well. Now we are happily married with one son named Alessandro (three and a half years old) and a little girl who was born in April. About other classmates, I have lost contact with most of them, and the only one that I knew was here in Mexico was Pablo Gomez from Colombia who moved to Stockholm with Ericcson some months ago.”

Luciena Kirakosyan (2001) writes, “I work at an NGO, called Instituto Paradigma, focused on social inclusion of people with disabilities. I take care of finances, budget, planning. My Portuguese is good with a little accent that nobody can identify. My mom visited us in March, stayed for three months. She taught my son some basic Russian. It was fun watching them arguing in two languages without understanding each other on first days. Mauricio Zorzan’s (2001) parents are doing well. We see each other weekly. I moved out from their place two years ago, rented an apartment near my workplace. That’s all, I guess. Enjoy the pictures we took on our vacation with Donna in Cornwall and Kanta´s family in London. (See photos.)

Benoit Millet (2001) writes, “I unfortunately travel a lot - consulting life style - and have rare opportunities to hang out in the city anymore. I am working for a boutique firm since Jan 2004, UMT, doing business alignment / enterprise investment management utilizing portfolio management techniques. Process design, technology implementation, methodology, change management are the pillars of the work. The firm sold the software line of business to Microsoft last year, and we are now repositioning the firm purely on consulting - advisory and professional services - while expanding with a new office on the West Coast, after London, South Africa and more to come. I am part of the senior management team as an SVP, responsible for client acquisitions, sales, delivery with teams on site and at the same time, am also head of marketing with a small team in the office while I scout the country. I have long and intense days, but it's interesting and intellectually challenging.”

Siga Shagran (2001) writes: “I’ve been with Citigroup since graduation - one year in NYC, three years in London and the last two years in Singapore. I’m currently vice president for the Global Consumer Bank (operations and technology) managing consumer businesses in Central, Eastern and Middle East countries processed out of Singapore. I met Marcelo (Podoroisky) a few times when I was in NYC. He visited me in London, and I went to his wedding in Buenos Aires - along with Hulda Pjettersdotter, Luciena Kirakosyan and Joao Paris. We had a great reunion and wedding bash. Patrice N’koo and I keep in contact often. I made many visits to Paris during my three years in London, and we spent lots of time visiting together. I last saw Patrice in October 2006 and will be meeting him again this July. He works for Brown Brothers and Harriman in Luxembourg as a senior client and accounts manager. Martin Yupangco is now based in Singapore. We bumped into each other in town about a year ago. I had a chat with (Hult President) Stephen Hodges over the phone and attended several MBA fairs in Singapore and London. In my conversations with applicants, I often relate to them that the reality of the corporate world is not unlike the history of the school, which continues to evolve and shift with changes in the global market. How is Prof. Rambo? He made the most impact on me during the program. Almost 95% of what I do is about managing or leading people; and doing it across cultures makes it that much more challenging. So to keep up with the cutting edge of leadership, I’ve been accepted to an individualized PhD program with the Thierry Graduate School of Leadership in Brussels, Belgium. Four years of e-learning, telephone coaching and two weeks per year in Brussels for workshops, seminars, etc. and hopefully the PhD in leadership and mastery of change will gear me up to tackle more change. The buzzwords in the global community for now are: abundance, Asia and automation - and more right-brain thinking.”

Giorgio Donini (2003) – writes, “Arriving back home from the MBA, I was promoted to Marisol’s industrial directory. I then spent a year and a half in our shoes division (Rio Grande do Sul State) and the last two years at the headquarters in Santa Catarina State.

Akshaya Panda (2003) writes, “I am still in Minnesota and plan to be here for the next few years unless I get a very good offer from somewhere else. Now I am working on my green card that I should get within next five or six months. My kids and wife are nicely settled down in Minnesota and because of the excellent school education here, I do not plan to move out of here in the immediate future.”

Cesar Bustamante (2004) is now the service delivery manager for Huaiwei Technology Companies, Ltd. in Lima, Peru.

HanLim Lee (2004) is now working for Renault Samsung Motors in Seoul, Korea.

Shelly Saltzberg (2004) has just accepted a new position at The Garden Continuum in Medfield, Massachusetts. She says the commute is great, environment is beautiful and the owners are wonderful.

Massimo Andriolo (2005) reports, "After graduation and 12 years out of Italy, I decided to move back to Italy (city: San Cassiano -near Cortina d'Ampezzo-) and start working fulltime for my private equity company. Currently I'm working at a couple of projects, most of them related to hospitality industry: a buy-out of a regional hotel-chain, restructuring of a very prestigious Italian hotel, and international positioning of a high-end beauty-spa franchise (www.steinercosmetics.com). Other projects are in cooperation with an "incubator" of innovative companies (http://www.bic-suedtirol.org) and related to three areas: digital communications (we just got £á 4.000.000 public funds for a project in Brazil and one in China, ehealth and cooperation with a company trying to merge Italian design and high-tech in the best possible way (e.g. lighting systems, furniture, etc.)

Andrew de Jesus (2005) says he is "currently working with Citigroup here in Asia as part of their management associate program. However, I am currently considering an offer by e-telecare to be a client manager for their U.S. clients. Etelecare is a global outsourcing firm serving Fortune 100 companies."

Erika Escartin (2005) is now working at Genzyme in Mexico. She recently gathered with some of her classmates in Miami for a reunion (see photo). December 2005 alumni gathered for a night out in NYC this spring.

Adrian Magram (2005) is currently working at Consist, an IT firm in NYC.

Andreas Obrist (2005) is employed as a consultant for Dyad Systems in Cambridge. The company provides consulting, project and data management to the healthcare industry related to clinical trials.

Mauricio Palao (2005) writes, “From my side, I can tell you that - as you know - I came back to Peru in February and started working for a local bank called Interbank in March as a relationship manager in corporate banking. A month ago, I was offered a position as product manager in a different area in which we handle all the products and services the bank has for companies. I'm very excited about my new job!”

Bin Chen (2006) is working as the sales manager for BYD America, a position he’s held since the fall of 2006.

Elio Hernandez (2006) is a marketing manager in the Marketing Leadership Program at W. R. Grace, based in Boston.

Guido Jilderda (2006) had the opportunity to travel after graduation and sent this note to the student services staff (and his classmates): “It has been three months already since we have seen each other. Too long ago and much has changed - for a lot of us - since then. Saying that I miss everybody and our time at Hult is an understatement. Although I was sincerely relieved that we made it through to graduation in one year, I also wish we could spend one year extra just for the fun of it. I just arrived back to the Netherlands two and a half weeks ago after an amazing trip with Rachel through Mexico and Central America. A whole new and old world that I did not know exists there in the jungle, at the Caribbean, at the Pacific and in the mountains. The Maya culture was overwhelming, and the Caribbean was very, very relaxed. And yes, Fede, Costa Rica was beautiful - but expensive. Did all your fellow Tica’s graduate with an MBA or something?!?!?! Panama and the Panama Canal was something spectacular too. Well, we have seen and witnessed so many things. I can write about it for an hour. It is nice to be back in same old same old Holland, but now I have to deal with a sense of homesickness to Boston. The economy is looking good here, so there are a lot of opportunities for me (and others…!).” Guido’s interviews must have gone well. He’s now working at KPMG Amsterdam.

Pallavi Keshri (2006) has accepted a position in recruiting at Hult’s new campus, soon to open in Dubai.

Nianchen Qiu (2006) is currently working at Deloitte Tax in New York City.

Mattia Santin (2006) is now a search marketing specialist at Iprospect in the Boston area.

Verena Stopp (2006) is working at McKinsey & Co in Munich, Germany, since several months after graduation.

Michaele Chan (2006) recently received an offer from HP as a senior marketing manager in the U.S.

Pankaj Gupta (2006) just received an offer from KPMG as associate - CFO advisory services in the U.S.

Ingrid McKenney (2006) is now working at iProspect, a marketing firm, as search marketing specialist, in the U.S.

Karla Velez (2006) is now happily working at WRGrace as senior business analyst here in Boston.