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Veterans Job Creation Program to
help former homeless, disabled
and unemployed veterans in
Phoenix, Arizona. Field, who served
eight years in the U.S. Navy prior
to attending Thunderbird, is a
Phoenix-based mortgage banker.
… Andre Doumitt ’95 was
recently featured in a report by the
Defense Advanced Projects Agency
for his business, Geosemble
Technologies. … Alison Keller
’95 has joined AMR Management
Services as programs coordinator.
… Gita Patel ’96, a New Jerseybased
consultant, recently traveled
to El Salvador as a researcher for
the Business Council for Peace,
a nonprofi t organization that promotes
women’s empowerment. …
Peter Mulroy ’96 was recently
elected chairman of Factors Chain
International, a global association
of factoring companies located in
65 countries. … Philip Graham
’96 was recently profi led in the
San Diego Business Journal online
edition. He is vice president of
institutional advancement for Sanford-Burnham
Medical Research
Institute in California. … Kurt
Gusinde ’96 was featured in the
News-Register for his mountain
climbing record and his attempt at
climbing Mount Everest. … Peter
Zapf ’96 has been appointed chief
operating offi cer of Global Sources,
a leading business-to-business
media company and primary
facilitator of trade in greater China.
The company’s chairman and CEO,
Merle Hinrichs ’65, is also a
T-bird. … Michael Cardone III
’97 has been appointed president
of Cardone Industries. He is the
third generation of the family to
serve as president of the company.
His appointment became effective
Jan. 3, 2011. … Jay Neuhaus
’98 recently accepted a role as
head of marketing for the 2014
FIFA World Cup offi ce in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil. … Michael
Kaplan ’98 teaches a course at
the University of Utah’s Parks, Recreation
and Tourism Department
called “Introduction to Ski Resort
Management.” Kaplan has worked
at resorts in Utah, Colorado, New
Hampshire, Sweden, Austria and
Switzerland. … Chakrit Benedetti
’99 was recently featured in
the Bangkok Post in an article detailing
how a family tragedy thrust
the T-bird into taking over his
family businesses, Italasia Electro
and Italasia Trading, at age 23. …
Gonzalo de la Melena ’99 was
recently promoted from interim
president and CEO of the Arizona
Hispanic Chamber of Commerce to
the permanent president and CEO.
2000s
Melanie Markwell ’00, an
assurance senior manager in
the Los Angeles offi ce of BDO
Seidman LLP, was named the
Ranked #1* among business schools as
having the best “potential to network.”
*The Economist
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