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Alumni NewsJoanne Ulnick (BA GeneralBusiness Administration ’83),partner at Ducker Worldwide,was honored among Detroit’sTop 10 Business Women by theNational Organization of WomenBusiness Owners. She receivedthe organization’s Global BusinessAward. The firm, which is a marketspecificconsulting firm, has officesin Shanghai (China), Berlin andParis. Ducker is headquartered inTroy, Mich.Charles “Chuck” Williams (MBAHuman Resources Management’86, PhD Business Administration’90) was named dean of theEberhardt School of Businessat the University of the Pacific,Stockton, Calif. He was formerlyan associate professor at the NeelySchool of Business, Texas ChristianUniversity.John Zarb (Executive MBA ’86) wasappointed chairman of the boardof trustees for Mercy MemorialHospital System in Monroe, Mich.He owns a professional servicescompany specializing in businessprocess improvement and strategicplanning.1990sMatthew J. Angner (BA Economics’95) has opened Expetec TechnologyServices, Inc., a franchise inSouth Denver, Colo. The company willJ e n n i f e r C h i z u k ( M B AMarketing ’91) has beenpromoted to senior assistantdean and chief operatingofficer at the Walter A. HaasSchool of Business, Universityof California at Berkeley. Shewas executive director of theEvening and Weekend MBAPrograms at Haas, a positionshe held since 2004. From1992 to 2004, she was thedirector of the Full-time MBAProgram at the Broad School.provide network administration andsecurity, data back-up and recovery,Web site design and computer/printerrepair services for small and mediumsizedbusinesses in the area.Linda Blair (Weekend MBA ’98),executive vice president and chiefbusiness officer of ITC HoldingsCorp., was named in Crain’sDetroit 2007 list of “Forty under40” for bringing the companyto the forefront of the businessworld. At ITC she is responsiblefor short- and long-term strategicplanning, regulatory affairs, internaland external communications andthe company’s human resourcesfunction. Prior to joining ITC in2000, she was a supervisor inDetroit Edison’s regulatory affairsdepartment. She also earned a BS inPublic Affairs Management at MSU.David Blaszkiewicz (Executive MBA’98), president, Detroit InvestmentFund, was a Broad School FinanceLecture Series speaker in the fall2007 semester, speaking on thetopic, “Economic DevelopmentInitiatives in SE Michigan.”Jodi F. Cooper (BA Finance ’96)has joined CareerBuilder LLC, inChicago, where she is a financials y s t e m s a d m i n i s t r a t o r . S h ecompleted the MBA program atLoyola University in 2005.Randall Dean (MBA MarketingM a n a g e m e n t a n d F i n a n c e’97), president, Randall DeanConsulting & Training LLC, led timemanagement training sessions inthe Czech Republic, as part of theUniversity of Pittsburgh’s ExecutiveMBA Program. Some 120 seniormanagers and executives based inPrague, along with 40 new ExecutiveMBA students, attended.Dave Franz (BA Finance ’98) joinedThe State Bank as an assistant vicepresident in the Commercial LoanDepartment of the Brighton (Mich.)office.Bryan Fingeroot (BA Finance’99) has been promoted tomanaging director principalat Bear Stearns Sales andTrading, Institutional Equities,in New York. He is a memberof the Broad School’s FinancialMarkets Institute AdvisoryBoard.Joel Wittenberg (BA Accounting ’83), has been promoted to corporatevice president, Treasury and Investor Relations at the Kellogg Company.In addition to his previous responsibilities overseeing treasury, Wittenbergnow leads Kellogg’s Investor Relations team, serving as the company’sprimary contact with institutional investors, investment analysts andbrokers. Wittenberg was named vice president and treasurer of the KelloggCompany in October 2001. He joined the company in September 2000as assistant treasurer. Prior to joining Kellogg Company, he held keytreasury roles with Dow Chemical Company and with Armstrong WorldIndustries.George Ross (BA GeneralBusiness Administration’75, Executive MBA ’90) nowserves as the vice presidentfor Finance and AdministrativeServices and treasurer atCentral Michigan University.24BROADBUSINESSwww.bus.msu.edu