1993

Sanjay Joshi spent thefirst seven years of post-Kellogg life at McKinsey Dallas. During 1999-2000 he, like so many of us, was drinking the "Internet Kool Aid" and left to join an Internet startup as its chief marketing officer. The company raised lots of money, spent even more ... and then elected to close shop when the party was over. Following a stint at Infosys, Sanjay is now with Wipro Spectramind, a large outsourcing company, as the vice chairman responsible for worldwide business process outsourcing market operation. He is still based out of Dallas, but says "way too much international travel remains an occupational hazard" (and he thought McKinsey travel was bad). Sanjay and wife Shalini have a son, Suhav, 8, and a daughter, Pravika, 6.

	Alix Mayer ’93 and husband Dan Druker with 2-year-old twins Madeleine and Jackson Druker on a recent trip to Hawaii
	Alexandra de Vazeilles ’93
	Brett Jarvis ’93 with Zach, Haylie and baby Elise

After Kellogg, Cesare Zetti worked at Booz Allen Hamilton for five years, then went into private equity. He has been working for the last four years for Bridgepoint Capital, a U.K. mid-cap buyout firm, and thoroughly enjoys it. Cesare has been married to Anna for eight years. They live in Milan with their children Ludovica, 6, Cecilia, 5, and Pierfrancesco, 2.

Francois Nehama traveled around the world for six months after graduating. He went west, throughout Central America, Australia, Southeast Asia and East Africa, and says, "The trip was phenomenal." He landed in New York at the end of 1993 and got a job on Wall Street for a boutique money-management firm, but decided not to stay in finance. He became a waiter instead and had eight months of "pure fun and partying."

Francois then went to work in Paris for two years before moving to Miami, where he has been ever since. He works as one of three managers for a sugar-trading company. They trade physical sugar by the boatload and also deal in paper (speculative positions). He's enjoying Miami and travels extensively for pleasure and work.

Francois has learned to surf, and it has become a passion. He and his girlfriend are looking to buy some land in Hawaii, where they plan to build a house and live for a while. They hope to make the move in the next few years. Retirement will be his 40th birthday present!

After Kellogg, Mark Batory worked for five years for Advocate Healthcare, followed by University Healthcare Consortium and Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago. He retired early (and voluntarily) from health services management and went to medical school. He graduated with an M.D. from the University of Illinois in 2003 and entered residency in psychiatry at the University of Illinois Medical Center in Chicago. Mark married Marylyn (Gibson) Batory in 1997. They have a daughter, Elizabeth, 2, and live in Berwyn, Ill., where they are very happy.

In 2001 Dan Malven married Audi Melsbakas '94. They have two great, fun-loving boys: Talcott, 2, and Quinn, 1, and live in the Ravenswood neighborhood of Chicago.

After spending the last 12 years co-founding two technology companies and investing and serving on the boards of six others, Dan is back at the startup game as founder and chairman of a new technology-based business in Chicago. He is launching it by licensing technology developed by a company he had invested in while he was at the venture capital firm Flatiron Partners and as an independent angel investor. The new company does not have a name yet, but watch for a press launch sometime in the first half of 2005. After spending the last10 years doing management consulting and marketing with financial asset managementfirms, Audi is retiring to be a full-timemom.

John Hults has been in Seattle since graduation and spentthe first eight years in the telecom industry. He started with several different finance roles at McCaw Cellular/AT&T Wireless, then capped off his telecom days with the now-defunct CLEC, WinStar. He served briefly in a market development role in D.C. with WinStar,then came back west as GM of the Seattle market. Just as WinStar was going under, his old boss from McCaw Cellular called him (the power of networks!), and brought him over to his current position as vice president of financial planning and analysis at Getty Images. He loves the company,which runs very lean while generating more than $600 million in revenues frompre-shotimagery for advertising and commercial use, as well as editorial imagery for newspapers, magazines, etc. You can see Getty Images photo credits in virtually any newspaper.

On the home front, John and wife Lee have been married since their second year at Kellogg and have three daughters, who are 9, 7 and 3. "I always dreamed of being surrounded by beautiful women," John says, "so I guess I finally got my wish!" Lee surprised the family by choosing to throw in the towel on her legal career after Kellogg and become a full-time mom.John says "she is fantastic at it, and our girls get the benefit of her decision every day."

After spending the last six years working for Bear Stearns investment banking in New York City, Gerry Dorros recently relocated to Washington, D.C. He is vice president, corporate development, of Anteon International and focuses on mergers and acquisitions.

After four years of startups, Brent Bonthron is now working for Microsoft in San Francisco. He writes that "stability helps once you get over the transition from a company of 36 to 65,000." He has also started as an adjunct professor of entrepreneurship at the University of San Francisco. Brent's two kids and sailing (www.escapedaussies.com) keep him busy otherwise.

Lisa Aufranc and Cliff Sharples and gang (three kids, three dogs) just moved from Austin to Seattle.They had a great nine years in Texas and are sad they will be far away from Jamie O'Neill and his new bride, Laura Kelso, but they plan to visit the Lone Star State often. Wescott, 7, is excited to start elementary school on Mercer Island and hopes he will be in the same school as Scott Sedlik's son, David, who livesnearby.Yve, 4, and Otto, 2, are psyched for many trips to the "Space Noodle" in downtown Seattle. Lisa and Cliff ask that you keep in touch:lisa@aufranc.com and cliff@aufranc.com.

Steven Hersh is in year two of a new soda company he started with his wife based in New York City. It's called GuS --- Grown-up Soda --- a line of 100-percent natural sodas with real juice and extracts that are less sweet than typical sodas. They're now selling in 22 states with accounts including Whole Foods, Zabar's, Central Market and Dean & Deluca. They're very busy building distribution in new markets, doing tradeshows and helping out on the production line. If anyone wants to try a bottle, stores selling the product are listed on their Web site: www.drinkgus.com.

Steven isn't the only one in our class in the beverage business. Gregg Arends recently accepted a position as senior vice president of marketing for the carbonated (soda) division of Hansen Beverage Co. in Corona, Calif. Hansen's is a fast-growing company that develops and markets a successful line of premium all-natural sodas, juices and energy drinks under the Hansen's, Blue Sky, Junior Juice and Monster Energy brand names. Gregg will be leading the efforts to build on the success of Hansen's soda portfolio. You can check out the products at www.hansens.com.

Prior to Hansen's, Gregg held marketing positions with U.S. Marketing & Promotions Agency, ConAgra Foods, Alberto-Culverand Jim Beam Brands. After leaving Chicago, Gregg moved to California four years ago and is living in Orange County, Calif.

After a 16-year stint with P&G, Paul Bernstein recently joined The Clorox Co. asnational account manager, Kmart, based in the Naperville, Ill., office. Paul, his wife, Pam, and children Mara and Jack live in Deerfield, Ill.

For the lastyear, Louis Stauber has served asa board member of a unique drop-in center for homeless women in the Uptown neighborhood of Chicago. The center is called Sarah's Circle (www.Sarahs-Circle.org), and it is celebrating its 25th anniversary this year. The center is looking for people who are interested in helping out Sby serving as a board member, a member of one of the board's subcommittees or as a volunteer at the center. If you're interested, please contact Louis at lstauber@ameritech.

David Josephs joined Bank One's healthcare business development group two years ago, which has merged with JPMorgan. He is working with John Prince '91 and says "work is good." He's also coaching his daughter's travel soccer team while wife Holly finishes up her doctorate in psychology. He says, "I can't wait for her to diagnose me."

David was recently at a wedding with Paul and Karen (Dolfis) Wehner and their two boys. He says, "Paul and Karen are terrific, and the boys have the brains that Paul, at least, never had." Apparently, Allen handily beats his dad at Yu-Gi-Oh. Dave ran the Grandma's Marathon in Duluth in June with Bob Strozinsky. They had hoped to see Jim Owens (he was going to ride his bike from the Twin Cities to Duluth), but Jim had a training ride for his fall effort with "Lance somebody." Dave saw a lot of Bob's back as Dave was left in the dust at mile 13. Dave has also heard from John Sheputis, who says he and his wife, Susie Campbell, are doing well and that John absolutely loves fatherhood.

ThanoChaltas is surviving marketing Post cereal in today's Atkins-crazed America. He says it's amazing that he's still at Kraft 11 years after Kellogg. The Chaltaskids are 2 and 4 and growing up fast. You'll be happy to know that Thano's singing skills are being put to new tests, entertaining groups of toddlers. Both children sing and dance even better than their father!

The Chaltas' big news is that Alison '94 has created a new marketing firm after consulting for eight years. The firm, called Interscope, has on its staff sales and marketing experts from P&G, J&J, Unilver and Nestlé. She says the change has been terrific, personally and professionally, and clients seem quite pleased too. Interscope's sweet spot is at the intersection of theretail customer and the consumer. The company specializes in ways to build consumer brands through today's increasingly sophisticated retail channels. Theyalso bring tremendoushealthcare industry experienceacross all trade channels --- retail, mail order, managed care and professional. Contact Alison at 203.255.3375 or alison.chaltas@interscopellc.com to learn how Interscope can help you accelerate your business goals.

Guy H. Ausmus ’93 in Timeratau, Kazakhstan

Now that Guy Ausmus' kids are off to college, he's been doing a bit of traveling. In addition to his day job at Ispat Inland, he has been leading a best practices team for his company's global procurement division.

Andrew Rankin writes that he is living and working in Vancouver, B.C. He says there's "nothing much to report right now, but I'll be in touch."

Fred Hagedorn was in Athens this summer as the team leader of the USA Olympic Sailing Team. We're looking forward to hearing more details, Fred, hint, hint.

Kurt Kaliebe recently returned to SAS, the world's largest privately held software company and consistently rated as one of Fortune's best companies to work for, after a brief stint at a startup as vice president of business development. (He advises anyone who needs to capture responses on the Web to check out www.FormRouter.com.) He now is the marketing specialist for the health and life sciences business, providing leading software solutions for pharma, biotech, healthcare payers and providers. He relocated to Cary, N.C., from Portland, Ore., two years ago when SAS bought ABC Technologies. On the family front, Kurt and his wife are proud parents of Mohala, 4, and Koa, 2.

Mac Hines and wife Cammy recently moved to a new home in Northfield along with their four children --- hopefully Classes of 2028, 2030, 2030 and 2034. Mac works at the family business, Edward Hines Lumber Co., as vice president of sales and hopes to catch up with a lot of Kellogg friends this fall at Jamie O'Neil's wedding in Austin.

Scott Muschany and wife Harriet still live in Frontenac, a suburb of St. Louis. Scott operates an environmental engineering firm, Trileaf Corp., with offices in St. Louis, Chicago and Des Moines. Harriet and Scott were blessed with their second son, Hayes, last year. Theodore, 9, is very happy to have a baby brother.

The Muschany family had a busy summer, which involved Scott's political campaign for the 87th Missouri state representative seat. He won the primary and at press time was gearing up for the general election in November.Good luck, Scott!

Beth Maclean has been working at Gap since graduating from Kellogg. She, her husband and two little girls just moved into their new home, a nice 1910 fixer-upper, on the island of Alameda, just across the Bay from San Francisco.

In a recent meeting at work, Beth met someone who knows Don Bullock. Don is still in Shanghai with Eaton. The big news is that Don and wife Kathy had a baby girl recently.

We have quite a few proud new parents in our class. Bill Woodson is the "bewildered and sleep-deprived" father of 9-month-old twins, Natalie and Bill V. He works for astartup business intelligence company in Evanston called Sg2, which tracks the future of healthcare technology. Wendy Will works for Sg2 in California.

Dave Mullarkey and his wife, Kim, had their third daughter, Christina Irene, on June 27. Kara is 5 and Jillian is 3. Kim and Dave work at Johnson & Johnson in marketing and live in Skillman, N.J. Dave is the global commercial leader for a new pharmaceutical product in development that is on track to become the first approved drug to treat the most common male sexual dysfunction, premature ejaculation (PE).

	Dan Malven ’93 with wife Audi, children Talcott and Quinn and dog Grover
	Wayne Chang ’93 and wife Alice with daughter Anika
	Heather Forsythe ’93 in Yosemite
	Eric Menke ’93 with daughter Peyton

Ginger Shimp is working for SAP America as director of marketing for industrial manufacturing and construction, and loves it. She is the proud mother of Alan Gill Shimp, 3, and has been happily married for more than 19 years to her high school sweetheart. She considers herself very, very lucky.

Bruce Michelson and wife Ilanit now have four boys: Amit, Seevon, Leeor and Yaniv (born this year). Bruce continues to work in his family real estate business in St. Louis.

Wayne Chang and his wife, Alice, welcomed the arrival of their first daughter, Anika, on July 19. "It's such a great feeling to be a dad!" writes Wayne.

In December 2003, Michael Schwaeber and his wife welcomed their third child, Julia. She joins Sam, 8, and Ally, 6.

Ann Workman Brewster and husband John recently welcomedFrancis Alexander Brewster to the family. "I had no idea of the joy a child brings, and it just gets better every day," Ann says. John isthe stay-at-home dad, while Anne continues to work for her company, The Terebin Group, four days a week. They live in downtown Atlanta with their son, dog, cat and chicken!

Tina Laguio-Delatorre and her husband, Michael, recently had their second son. They live in the Chicago suburbs. Michael works in Evanston while Tina is the domestic CEO and runs an Internet business.

Alla (Grinshtat) Wexler gave birth to her first son, Sammy, on June 30. She and husband Michael are doing well, but as expected are very tired these days. Alla writes that she doesn't know how people deal with twins. She says, "It appears that working is easier than taking care of a newborn," and is planning to go back to work soon on a part-time basis. Alla introduced Sammy to Varun, Nancy White Ramamurthi's son, who was born in April. Nancy and Alla got together this summer before Nancy and her husband, Shiv, moved back to San Francisco after being in New York City the last couple of years. Welcome back, Nancy!

Eric Menke is pleased to report several "closings" in the last 12 months. First was the final closing on the birth of his first child, Peyton. "She was a tenacious negotiator during birth," he says, "ultimately forcing us to a C-section. But the deal worked out for all concerned."

Second, Eric and his partners held a final closing in May on their buyout fund, Champlain Capital, at $146 million. Since the initial closing almost two years ago, they have acquired three portfolio companies in the healthcare, toner cartridge and quilting ("don't laugh, its profitable") industries. They plan to acquire between 12 and 15 companies for the portfolio.

Robert W. Frentzel has been promoted from senior vice president to group senior vice president of LaSalle Bank's commercial lending division. His responsibilities include managing four specialized lending divisions within LaSalle's commercial bank: the Hispanic banking, insurance industry banking, construction and engineering banking, and power and energy banking divisions.

Joe Turk and wife Amy announce the Sept. 21, 2003, birth of Mary Kate, who joins Joseph, 6, Josh, 5, and Samantha, 2. Joe is vice president of marketing and sales for NxStage Medical, a medical device company specializing in end-stage renal disease. He keeps busy training for triathlons. Joe and family currently live in North Andover, Mass.

Julie Roth recently was promoted to president of Agency.com, a full-service interactive agency dedicated to creating world-class Web sites and effective online marketing campaigns. Julie also has some exciting news: She married Douglas Novack on June 27.

Many of you have been asking what I've been up to. Fair enough. After Kellogg I worked for a year in Warsaw through the MBA Enterprise Corps before returning to Chicago to work in advertising at Leo Burnett. During the dot-com boom, I moved out to San Francisco and joined the craze as director of marketing for a startup, AllAdvantage.com, where I helped launch a company and ultimately shut its doors. I am now director of brand marketing and communications for LeapFrog SchoolHouse, a division of LeapFrog. Many of you parents don't know it (yet), but we offer award-winning, research-based curriculum content for Pre-K to Grade 8 that comes to life using the same multisensory technology used in our consumer products. After just four years of sales we're in more than 40,000 classrooms, including all the top districts.

On the personal front, although I've kissed quite a few frogs, I haven't yet found my prince. I have many wonderful friends, though, whom I consider my extended family. Traveling is my passion. I take a big trip every year and get away on weekends whenever I can. In the last few months I've had a chance to explore some national parks ---camping and mountain biking in Moab, Utah, over Memorial Day; hiking Half Dome in Yosemite in June; and hiking in Zion and Grand Canyon over Labor Day weekend. (BTW, if you know of a smart, outdoorsy, fun-loving single guy in the Bay Area who shares my love of travel, send him my way!)

Well, that's it for now. Thanks for all the updates, especially from all the first-time contributors, and keep them coming. For those of you who send out annual holiday update letters to friends and family, just forward them on to me so I can update the class. Enjoy the rest of the year.