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Tepper School Degree and Program Codes
BS Bachelor of Science
IWM International Wealth Management
MBA Master of Business Administration
MSCF Master of Science in Computational Finance
MSEC Master of Science in Electronic Commerce
MSIA Master of Science in Industrial Administration
MSQE Master of Science in Quantitative Economics
PFE Program for Executives (Executive Education)
PhD Doctor of Philosophy
Carnegie Mellon College Codes
CIT Carnegie Institute ofTechnology
CS Computer Science
HSS Humanities and Social Sciences
HNZ H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy
& Management
MCS Mellon College of Science
Left to right: Jeffrey Meckler (BS ’89,
MSIA ’90); Sondi Pripstein (MSIA
’78), current chapter president;
and Beverly Baynard (MSIA ’89),
past president.
new
york
Three former and current
presidents of the New York
Tepper Alumni Chapter hosted
a special summer BBQ at
the home of New York alumni
leader and past chapter
president Jeffrey Meckler
(BS ’89, MSIA ’90) welcoming
summer interns from the
class of 2007 to the New York
alumni community.
1968
Carlos del Ama Gutierrez (MSIA)
just finished a book, Towards a New
World Order. It analyzes the Islamic
fundamentalism ideology, the
“American Empire” and the developments
in the European Union. It was
published in Spanish in December.
He is looking for an American publisher
who would be interested in its
translation and publication in English.
1969
Gordon Cohn (BS) is currently
teaching accounting, economics and
finance atTouro College and Baruch
College. He has a PhD in accounting
from Baruch College. He has published
several articles on theTalmudic
perspective on accounting and
accounting ethics.
Alan Hess (MSIA ’67, PhD) reports that
the undergraduate finance students at
the University of Washington voted him
“Faculty of theYear” for the 2005 – 2006
school year. A paper Alan coauthored
on Japanese banks was presented at
the Financial Intermediation Research
Society conference in Shanghai in June.
Later this fall, he will be presenting
a paper on international banking
at a joint Federal Reserve Bank of
NewYork/Wharton/Review of Financial
Studies conference at Wharton.
James R. Holland, Jr. (MSIA),
president and CEO of Unity Hunt Inc.
in Dallas, has been inducted into the
Oklahoma State University Hall of
Fame for Engineering.
Louis B. Mendelsohn (BS) is the
president and CEO of Market
Technologies, LLC, an Inc. 500 trading
software company he founded in 1979.
Louis is a world-renowned software
developer in the application of personal
computers to technical analysis of the
financial markets. In 1983, he pioneered
strategy back-testing for PCs and, in
the mid-1980s, was the first to introduce
intermarket analysis software. In the
early 1990s, he released his latest
program, VantagePoint Intermarket
Analysis Software, which forecasts
90 global markets, using artificial
intelligence to find hidden patterns
and relationships between them.
In 2005, he expanded his analysis to
encompass a new area that he calls
Hurricaneomics Ș M which analyzes the
impact that monster storms have on
the global financial markets. Louis has
authored two books on intermarket
analysis, including his second, entitled
Forex Trading Using Intermarket
Analysis, which was published in 2006.
His firm has received numerous awards
throughout the years. Recently it was
recognized as the 2006 Best Place
to Work and as one of theTop 25
High-Tech Companies inTampa Bay.
MarketTechnologies recently relocated
to a new state-of-the-art corporate
headquarters that was designed
with Hurricaneomics in mind.
Louis, Illyce, his wife of thirty years, and
youngest son, Lee, live on a ranch outsideTampa,
Fla., where they raise Paso
Fino horses and a variety of cattle and
other livestock.
1970
Cheryl and Paul Schenk (BS)
celebrated their 30th anniversary
last fall with a trip to the Provence
region of France. In November,
Paul’s second book, The Hypnotic
Use of Waking Dreams: Exploring
Near-Death Experiences Without the
Flatlines (Crown House Publishing),
was published.
RawleyThomas (MSIA) published a
paper entitled “The Discounted Cash
Flow Model: Using New Modeling to
Test Reasonableness” with Randy
Schostag in Valuation Strategies.This
follows a presentation to the Midwest
Finance Association on “Advanced
DCF Valuation Measurement
Methodology: Predictive Capability,
Accuracy, and Robustness.”
1972
John Bassler (MSIA ’68, PhD) retired
May 31, 2006 from his position as director
of the Master’s Degree Program in
Marketing Research atThe University
ofTexas at Arlington. Rather than head
directly to the hammock (it’s too hot in
Dallas to do that anyway), he has
formed Know/Go NPD LLC with a
partner, Jim Kindley.They are offering
early-stage market feedback to
new-product developers who have the
humility to recognize that potential
customers may not think their ideas
are as good as they do.These insightful
NPDers can save a lot of money by
killing the non-starters early.
1973
Zane Swanson (MSIA) is associate
professor for the Emporia State
University and advisor to the
university’s team entered in the 6th
Global XBRL Academic Competition.
XBRL, eXtensible Business Reporting
Language, is a technology for improving
access to the information in financial
reports. Zane’s winning team presented
a project using XBRL to do continuous
auditing. “In general, what bar codes
have done for retail packaging, XBRL
will do for accounting,” said Zane.
1974
Neil Charness (MSIA ’71, PhD)
was awarded the William G. Chase
Professor of Psychology at Florida
State University.
1977
After spending 28 years in corporate
banking, financial institutions, real
estate finance, global relationship
banking and global transaction
services, mostly in Citigroup – San
Francisco, NewYork and Hong Kong,
Albert Ip (MSIA) assumed a new
position as Asia Regional Investment
Finance Head for Citigroup’s Private
Banking, covering 11 countries:
Australia, India, Singapore, Indonesia,