Tippie Magazine (Winter 2022) - Tippie College of Business

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2000s
Kyra Seay (BA15) is the director of social innovation
and transformative initiatives at Bumble.
Jennifer Hovda (BBA12)
was promoted to senior
finance manager for Gap.
Adam Keune (CER10),
along with Higher Learning
Technologies cofounders
Alec Whitters and Ben
O’Conner, won the 2021
Young Alumni Entrepreneur
of the Year Award from the
John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial
Center.
Michael Korobov (BBA15)
works in finance and capital
markets at Better Place Forests
in San Francisco, Calif.
Katie LaCroix (BBA18) is
manager of innovation at
4FRONT in Chicago, Ill.
Jon Langel (BBA17) joined
the Tippie Young Alumni
Board. He is the founder of
Langel Consulting Group in
New York, N.Y.
Rachel Langholz (BBA17)
joined the Tippie Young
Alumni Board. She is a
consultant with Deloitte in
Washington, D.C.
Santino Morena (BBA17)
is a corporate development
and transaction services
specialist with Accenture in
Chicago, Ill.
Michelle Nessa (PhD14)
won an Accounting Review
Outstanding Reviewer Award.
The award was given in
August 2021 by the American
Accounting Association.
Nessa is an assistant professor
at the Broad College of
Business at Michigan State
University.
Isaac Oberlin (BBA17)
joined the Tippie Young
Alumni Board. He is currently
an MBA candidate at Northwestern
University.
Faviola Santana (BBA19) is
a consulting campus recruiting
specialist for Deloitte in
Chicago, Ill.
Jake Schafer (BBA19)
was promoted to deals senior
associate, capital markets
and accounting advisory services
at PwC in Dallas, Texas.
Amy Schembari (BBA18)
joined the Tippie Young
Alumni Board. She is global
solutions lead for compete
and case studies for Google
in New York, N.Y.
Katherine (Boyle) Smith
(BBA17) is channels strategy
manager for BMO Financial
Group in Dallas, Texas.
Jordyn Steinkritz (BBA18)
joined the Tippie Young Alumni
Board. She is a private equity
associate at Osceola Capital
Management in Tampa, Fla.
Jonathan Swaim (BBA10)
has joined Dentons Davis
Brown as an attorney in Des
Moines, Iowa. Swaim is a
business transaction and
securities lawyer, previously
advising on compliance
matters at Principal Global
Investors.
Gabriele Villarini (MBA18)
was named one of the
world’s most influential climate
scientists by Reuters.
Villarini is a University of
Iowa engineering professor
and the director of the IIHR—
Hydroscience & Engineering.
Jeralyn Westercamp
(BBA14/MBA20) accepted
a position as economic
development manager for
the John Pappajohn Entrepreneurial
Center.
Neil Zhang (BBA16) was
promoted to associate
director at UBS Asset Management,
Multi-Managers
Real Estate in Chicago, Ill.
HAWKEYE memories
Brent Banwart (BBA08)
was named vice president
of human resources for Ferrellgas,
one of the nation’s
largest propane retailers.
He was previously human
resources director at PepsiCo.
Steve Bensema (BBA06)
helped launch a new church
in Marshalltown, Iowa, on
Easter Sunday 2021. He cites
his involvement in the Tippie
College of Business, Dance
Marathon, and founding Beta
Theta Pi fraternity at the University
of Iowa as experiences
that helped him become an
entrepreneur—first in the business
world and now into the
world of vocational ministry.
Kerrie Carroll (BBA09)
is vice president of human
resources at Intelligent Medical
Objects in the greater
Chicago, Ill., area.
Jessica Cole (BBA08) won
the 2021 Young Alumni
Entrepreneurial Leadership
Award from the John Pappajohn
Entrepreneurial Center.
Cole is president and CEO of
Becker’s Healthcare, a health
care media company specializing
in multimedia, live
events, and virtual events.
18 YEARS AGO
Iowa MBA
students
presented
Warren Buffett
with an
Iowa Hawkeyes
football jersey.
Sandra Davis (BBA04)
received the University of Iowa
Hickerson Recognition Award.
Davis is co-head of global
client marketing and communications
for the Investment
Banking Division in Goldman
Sachs’ New York, N.Y., office.
Matthew Decker (BBA04)
was promoted to partner with
PwC in Minneapolis, Minn.
Andrew Hosmanek (BBA01/
MBA05/JD05/PhD15) has
been appointed to the Iowa
Supreme Court’s Grievance
Commission by Chief Justice
Susan Christensen. In
this role, he will investigate
and hear ethical complaints
brought against attorneys in
Iowa. Hosmanek is an associate
professor of instruction
at the Tippie College of Business
where he researches
professional ethics and
teaches business law and
ethics at the undergraduate
and MBA level.
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