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Lundquist College of Business alumni are making a difference all over the world. Below are updates
about recent news and achievements from your classmates and friends.
1970s
gustena (miller) thompson ’74 recently moved to Hilton Head, South Carolina, where she
works as a wine consultant with WineShop at Home.
1980s
gregory Brown ’82 lives in Washougal, Washington, with his wife Jennie Hunter and two
children, Kirk and Suzanne. He is a vice president and special assets officer for Riverview
Community Bank in Vancouver, Washington.
1990s
Josh ewing ’96 has spent the last three and a half years traveling frequently to Asia Pacific
for his company Synopsys. He recently began a part-time M.B.A. program at the University
of California Haas School of Business.
Bryan mercier ’97 for the Department of Treasury’s Community Development Financial
Institutions Fund, where he manages a federal grant program that develops community
banking services for American Indians, Alaska Natives and Native Hawaiians.
2000s
rob Bailey ’03 worked as a Peace Corps volunteer in Kyrgyzstan for two years. He
currently lives in Boston, Massachusetts.
adam Blair ’05 married Jackie Kelchlin in September 2007.
gina Bonfiglio ’03 is a mental health therapist and owns a private counseling and therapy
practice in Tigard, Oregon. Her husband Ryan owns a dental practice in downtown
Portland, Oregon. They recently celebrated their one-year wedding anniversary.
david Cummings ’03 worked as an accountant for three years before returning to school to
earn a master’s in education from Pacific University. He now teaches math and Spanish at
Columbia River High School in Vancouver, Washington.
James george ’05 is now a market growth and development consultant with Wells Fargo
Bank. He works for the company’s Corporate Trust & Escrow Services Department located
in Los Angeles, California.
timothy Irons ’00 recently accepted a position as executive director at Redburn Partners,
international financial research in New York, New York. He was previously a vice president
with Auerbach Grayson.
lenore matthew ’05 recently returned from traveling through South America where she
volunteered at a school for disadvantaged youth in Peru, learned Spanish in Argentina, and
explored Uruguay, Bolivia, Chile and Ecuador.
After nearly six years employed at Nike in a variety of analyst roles, Jeffrey martens
’00 recently became a senior strategic planning analyst with Synopsys, Inc. in
Hillsboro, Oregon.
melissa tilleman ’06 spent a year teaching English at primary schools in southwest France
before returning to the U.S. in July 2007. She now lives in Kalamazoo, Michigan.
Chak-yin tse ’05 was recently promoted to an associate at Citi Private Bank located
in Hong Kong.