CommerceUVA Fall 2007 (Investors' Report) - McIntire School of ...
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ALUMNI News<br />
1990s<br />
Lisa Hamilton ’91 has been named<br />
President <strong>of</strong> The UPS Foundation. The<br />
Atlanta native has been with UPS for 10<br />
years and previously served as The UPS<br />
Foundation’s Program Director. She has<br />
also served as a public affairs manager<br />
(lobbyist) in Washington, D.C., and as<br />
a tax planning manager in Atlanta.<br />
(http://www.socialfunds.com/news/<br />
release.cgi/7525.html)<br />
Nicole Haywood ’92 recently had her<br />
second child, Justin Isaiah. Nicole is an<br />
actress, writer, and producer who has<br />
worked on “Law & Order,” has produced<br />
<strong>of</strong>f-Broadway plays, and has been seen on<br />
numerous commercials.<br />
24 • CommerceUVa<br />
Michael Pirron ’92 co-founded in October<br />
2006 Impact Makers, a not-for-pr<strong>of</strong>it<br />
venture “led by accomplished and experienced<br />
consulting executives who are dedicated<br />
to doing things differently.” Says<br />
Pirron, “Impact Makers is a new breed <strong>of</strong><br />
consulting firm that blends commerce and<br />
charity. We <strong>of</strong>fer services in information<br />
technology, management, and Web design<br />
and development and bid head to head<br />
with other companies for contracts in the<br />
highly competitive pr<strong>of</strong>essional services<br />
consulting world. Impact Makers, however,<br />
gives all its pr<strong>of</strong>its to charity rather<br />
than to shareholders.” Impact Makers’ first<br />
charitable partner is Safe harbor, an organization<br />
for victims <strong>of</strong> domestic abuse.<br />
For more information about Impact<br />
Makers, visit http://www.impactmakers.<br />
org or contact Pirron at mpirron@impact<br />
makers.org.<br />
Will Saunders ’92 has been appointed<br />
to the health Information Communication<br />
and Data<br />
exchange<br />
Taskforce<br />
<strong>of</strong> the State<br />
Alliance for<br />
e-health,<br />
which works<br />
to facilitate<br />
quality improvement<br />
and efficiency<br />
in health care through electronic health<br />
information exchange. The taskforce<br />
supports the State Alliance on issues<br />
regarding the roles for publicly funded<br />
health programs in interoperable, electronic<br />
health information exchange.<br />
Will, a Richmond resident, is Senior<br />
Vice President <strong>of</strong> Strategy and Product<br />
Development for Dallas-based Affiliated<br />
Computer Services. Will’s many contributions<br />
to the e-health field include helping<br />
the state <strong>of</strong> Missouri develop an electronic<br />
health record technology.<br />
Michael Young (M.S. in MIS ’93) is a<br />
Solution Architect at VeriSign. he works<br />
in New York City and lives in Connecticut.<br />
Amy (Harrison) Lalor ’94 and her husband,<br />
Dr. Michael Lalor, announce the<br />
birth <strong>of</strong> their daughter, erin Rae, born<br />
Jan. 23, <strong>2007</strong>, and weighing 5 pounds, 14<br />
ounces.<br />
Paula Chamoun (M.S. in MIS ’95) gave<br />
birth to triplet boys—Alexander, Christian,<br />
and Sebastian—on Dec. 29, 2006.<br />
Martin Engel ’95 has joined RS Investments<br />
as an Analyst in the RS Value<br />
Group in San Francisco. engel, with 10<br />
years <strong>of</strong> public investing, private equity,<br />
and investment banking experience, previously<br />
served two years as a Vice President<br />
at TenX Capital Partners and as a private<br />
equity affiliate <strong>of</strong> Cerberus Capital Management<br />
and subsequently continued his<br />
career as a generalist at hedge fund