Tippie Magazine (Winter 2019-20) - Tippie College of Business

ALUMNI News
GUSTAFSON
FLYING HIGH
IN THE WMBA
Hard work pays off
– just ask Megan
Gustafson (BBA19).
In her final season
playing basketball
for the Hawkeyes,
she set record after
record and was
named ESPNW
National Player of
the Year, AP Player
of the Year, and was
a Naismith Trophy
winner. She now plays
for the Dallas Wings.
“Her work ethic is just
off the charts,” coach
Brian Agler told The
Dallas Morning News.
Leyuan Li (BBA19) is a
property accountant with
Cushman & Wakefield.
Madeline J. Lindquist
(BBA19) is a marketing intern
with WSB & Associates in Golden
Valley, Minnesota.
Kelsi Ludvicek
(BA16) is an
associate regional
marketing
manager for
Integrated DNA
Technologies in Coralville, Iowa.
She reports her undergraduate
experience as vice president
of marketing and executive vice
president of the University of
Iowa Women in Business has been
critical to her career success.
Jaison Marks (BS17), a
current Masters of Finance and
biomedical engineering student,
led a team that won $25,000
in the 2019 Pappajohn Iowa
Entrepreneurial Venture
Competition. They placed
second overall with their medical
technology startup CartilaGen,
which is commercializing an
intra-articular injection of a
small-molecule drug capable
of preventing posttraumatic
osteoarthritis.
Ashley L. Moore
(BBA13) was
named to the
Corridor Business
Journal’s “Forty
Under 40” 2019
list. Moore is the events and
social media marketing manager
at the Corridor Business Journal.
Matt T. Moran
(BBA18) received
a 2018 Elijah Watt
Sells Award. To
qualify for the
award, CPA
candidates must obtain a
cumulative average score above
95.50 across all four sections of
the Uniform CPA Examination,
pass all four sections on their
first attempt, and have completed
testing in 2018. The award was
established in 1923 by the
American Institute of CPAs.
Moran is a capital markets and
accounting advisory services
associate with PwC in Chicago.
Jenna K.
Pokorny
(BBA19) was
awarded the
Distinguished
Student Leader
Award at the 102nd Finkbine
Dinner on April 23, 2019.
Matthew T. Sadler (BBA19)
is an associate financial analyst
with Exelon. He lives in
Lockport, Illinois.
Mallory M. Smith (BBA17)
recently attended Deloitte
University for an annual training
with a fellow Tippie alumnus.
Rachael Mullins Steiner
(MBA15) was recently named
president and CEO of the
Putnam Museum & Science
Center in Davenport, Iowa.
Sydney G.
Verdi (BBA18)
is a financial
advisor at Baird
in Davenport,
Iowa.
Jeralyn G.
Westercamp
(BBA14) was
named to the
Corridor Business
Journal’s “Forty
Under 40” 2019 list. Westercamp
is a member of the Tippie
Young Alumni Board.
Sydney E. Wientjes (BBA19)
joined Power Equipment
Direct, an e-commerce
company, as a search engine
optimization specialist. She
lives in Aurora, Illinois.
2000s
Doug J. Bottorff (MBA08)
was named vice president and
office director with Shive-Hattery
in Iowa City. He has held a
variety of management roles in
his 23 years with the company.
John P. Eggum
(BBA05/JD08)
was recently
awarded the
2019 President’s
Commendation
by the Illinois Defense Counsel.
Adam M. Ellis
(BBA06) was
recently promoted
to chief operating
officer for Aon’s
commercial risk
solutions claims organization
based in Chicago, focused
on target operating models,
talent management, and data
and analytics.
Mayuri N.
Farlinger
(BBA04),
director
of revenue
management
with Alliant Energy in
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, was
recently recognized by
the nationally distributed
Public Utilities Fortnightly in
its list of “Fortnightly Under
Forty 2019.”
Roberto
Gutierrez
(BBA04)
was named
director
of finance
of 3M Brazil in January 2019.
He and his family are on
a two year assignment in
Sumaré, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
Clint D.
Hinderaker
(BBA03)
was named
to the Corridor
Business Journal’s
“Forty Under 40” 2019 list.
Hinderaker, a former member
of the Hawkeye football team,
is now the senior managing
director at Principal Financial
Group’s Eastern Iowa
Business Center.
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