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REEL IMPRESSIVESophomore Brandon Matthews sinks a 15-yard chip-in for par —“the greatest shot I’ve ever hit in my life”— on the final hole of the U.S. Open sectional qualifier in June.

After serving as an alternate for the U.S. Open Championship (despite the impres-sive shot, the final player knocked Matthews out), the phenom golfer captured the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Open Championship in July and, less than a week later, won the U.S. Amateur qualifying round to earn a berth in one of the world’s most prestigious amateur events.

Photos courtesy of Barry Sloan/MGA

SWEET SPOTS Leading the Hershey Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility

Alumnus Todd Camp leads corporate social responsibility and community relations at the Sweetest Place on Earth.

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An entrepreneurship major is the brains behind the national Zombie Run series of the quick and undead.

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Temple Student Government President Darin Bartholomew has pushed for #CherryOn via social media.

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Alumni profiles include the CIO of San Francisco and the VP of HR for Turner Broadcasting Co.

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FALL 2013 VOLUME 2 ISSUE 1

Fox School of BusinessAlter Hall (006-17)1801 Liacouras WalkPhiladelphia, PA 19122-6083

FALL 2013

FOX FOCUS is published for alumni and friends of the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

M. Moshe Porat Dean

Rajan Chandran Vice Dean

Diana Breslin-Knudsen Associate Dean

William Aaronson Associate Dean, Executive Academic Director, Graduate Programs

Paul A. Pavlou Associate Dean, Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives; Chief Research Officer

Deborah Campbell Senior Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Programs

Christine Kiely Assistant Dean, MBA and MS Programs

Donald Kirkwood Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations

Jennifer Fitzgerald Executive Director, Communications and Strategic Marketing

Jodi Briden Brandon Lausch Co-editors

Josh Fernandez Christine Fisher Meg Frankowski Rosella Eleanor LaFevre Brandon Lausch Carl O'Donnell Maria Raha Joseph B. Schaefer Writers

Jodi Briden Photography editor

Ryan S. Brandenberg Chris Hartlove Jim Roese Photographers

For inquiries, feedback or comments, please contact: Office of the Dean Fox School of Business Alter Hall (006-7) 1801 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 USA 215-204-7676

www.fox.temple.edu

2 Message from the Dean

3 The Next Big Thing … MOOCs

4 Fox’s Power In … Philadelphia food and beverage

C OV E R STO RY

6 Sweet Spots How Todd Camp, MBA ’01, has helped the Hershey Co. make strides in CSR and community relations.

F E AT U R E STO RY

12 Thrill of the Chase David Feinman’s adage that “You always run faster when you’re being chased” inspired the Zombie Run.

O F F I C E H O U R S

16 Dr. Daniel T. Dempsey, MBA ’11 We shadow Penn Medicine’s chief of gastrointestinal surgery in a new day-in-the-life series featuring alumni.

ST U D E N T P R O F I L E

17 Darin Bartholomew This management information systems major leads Temple Student Government — and #CherryOn.

FAC U LT Y P R O F I L E

18 Paul A. Pavlou Meet the Fox School’s recently appointed chief research officer and associate dean.

19 Class Notes, Alumni Profiles

25 Donor Appreciation Profile

26 Alumni Association News and Events

27 News

30 Donor Appreciation Listing

Junior David Feinman’s Zombie Run is just your typical hometown 5K. That is, he adds, if your hometown is infested with an army of zombies.

ZOMBIE FUN

FALL 2013

FOX FOCUS is published for alumni and friends of the Fox School of Business at Temple University.

M. Moshe Porat Dean

Rajan Chandran Vice Dean

Diana Breslin-Knudsen Associate Dean

William Aaronson Associate Dean, Executive Academic Director, Graduate Programs

Paul A. Pavlou Associate Dean, Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives; Chief Research Officer

Deborah Campbell Senior Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Programs

Christine Kiely Assistant Dean, MBA and MS Programs

Donald Kirkwood Assistant Dean, Development and Alumni Relations

Jennifer Fitzgerald Executive Director, Communications and Strategic Marketing

Jodi Briden Brandon Lausch Co-editors

Josh Fernandez Christine Fisher Meg Frankowski Rosella Eleanor LaFevre Brandon Lausch Carl O'Donnell Maria Raha Joseph B. Schaefer Writers

Jodi Briden Photography editor

Ryan S. Brandenberg Chris Hartlove Jim Roese Photographers

For inquiries, feedback or comments, please contact: Office of the Dean Fox School of Business Alter Hall (006-7) 1801 Liacouras Walk Philadelphia, PA 19122-6083 USA 215-204-7676

www.fox.temple.edu

2 Message from the Dean

3 The Next Big Thing … MOOCs

4 Fox’s Power In … Philadelphia food and beverage

C OV E R STO RY

6 Sweet Spots How Todd Camp, MBA ’01, has helped the Hershey Co. make strides in CSR and community relations.

F E AT U R E STO RY

12 Thrill of the Chase David Feinman’s adage that “You always run faster when you’re being chased” inspired the Zombie Run.

O F F I C E H O U R S

16 Dr. Daniel T. Dempsey, MBA ’11 We shadow Penn Medicine’s chief of gastrointestinal surgery in a new day-in-the-life series featuring alumni.

ST U D E N T P R O F I L E

17 Darin Bartholomew This management information systems major leads Temple Student Government — and #CherryOn.

FAC U LT Y P R O F I L E

18 Paul A. Pavlou Meet the Fox School’s recently appointed chief research officer and associate dean.

19 Class Notes, Alumni Profiles

25 Donor Appreciation Profile

26 Alumni Association News and Events

27 News

30 Donor Appreciation Listing

Junior David Feinman’s Zombie Run is just your typical hometown 5K. That is, he adds, if your hometown is infested with an army of zombies.

ZOMBIE FUN

The Power of Fox is showing no signs of slowing.

This year, we enrolled the largest and most academically distinguished freshman class ever. We welcomed more than 1,500 trans-fer students and freshmen, who joined us with a record-high GPA average of 3.4 and SAT average of 1137. These students are also incredibly diverse, representing 27 states as well as 24 countries.

The Fox Honors Program more than doubled the size of its incoming class, to 68, while maintaining its impressive SAT average (1408). University-wide, Temple received nearly 22,000 applications for the 4,300 spots in the freshman class.

At the graduate level, overall enrollment increased by 28 percent. Interest in our expanding portfolio of Specialized Masters programs continues to grow, with a record intake of more than 150 new students.

Our full-time Global MBA, which enrolled its first cohort this semester, features 46 students, nearly half of whom are either from out of state or international, and three are Temple alumni. The cohorts in our other MBA programs — Executive, Part-time and Online — are equally impressive. For example, 43 percent of Online MBA stu-dents who started the program in August have already completed a graduate-level degree. At the PhD level, we received more than 270 applications from 31 states and 21 countries.

Twenty-one new full-time faculty joined each of our nine departments this fall, and I recently appointed Dr. Paul A. Pavlou as Associate Dean of Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives, as well as our Chief Research Officer, to further enhance our partnerships for research, grants and other strategic initiatives.

We can all share in the successes of being part of a school that attracts some of the world’s best and bright-est students, faculty, and staff and produces some of the world’s most innovative and driven alumni.

Clearly, we are on the move — onward and upward.

Regards,

M. Moshe Porat, PhD, CPCU Dean Laura H. Carnell Professor Fox School of Business

FORWARD MARCH

THE NEXT BIG THING...

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS)

There have been a number of players in this market in a variety of platforms. Why did Fox decide to enter it now?

We wanted to do it right. MOOCs are generally delivered as correspondence- like courses. There’s usually not much interaction or collaboration between students and professors. Some content has to be delivered asyn-chronously (not in real-time), such as our HD mobile-friendly lecture videos, but Fox online courses engage in synchronous (real-time) activities as well. We wanted to deliver the same collab-orative, interactive, community-based Fox online course to the masses. I’m not just talking about discussion boards and webinars. We’re talking about collaborative WebEx sessions where students are separated into virtual breakout rooms to show what they know. Professors prepare problems or activities for students that require deep understanding of the topics. After a speci-fied amount of time the professor brings all of the students back to the main WebEx room to submit and present their findings. While the Fox School has been using this andragogical approach — the virtual flipped classroom — to teaching online for several years, it took time to develop the platform for scale.

What’s your personal philosophy about MOOCs?

It’s an affordable way to learn from experts about a topic that is interesting or one that

can help increase productivity at work. Stanford’s first MOOC, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, launched only two years ago with more than 160,000 students. Since then several other renowned universities — including Penn, Princeton and MIT, to name a few — have launched MOOCs.The growth and increased popularity of MOOCs over the last two years is incred-ible. I think universities are all scrambling to develop a MOOC strategy. MOOCs are here to stay, but they are in their infancy and will continue to evolve into a mature and robust learning environment.

How do you combat the criticism that MOOCs aren’t that engaging or that there are high dropout rates?

It is difficult to deploy an engaging online course to 30 students, let alone thousands. Most MOOCs today are simply delivering information: Read/watch this or do that. Schools need to invest more time and resources into keeping students engaged, and faculty have to find ways to efficiently communicate and collaborate with MOOC students.

Having a compressed course with constant activities gives students an idea of what it’s like to be in the Fox Online MBA, to see if they can make it in a well-ranked, well-respected program.

How have MOOCs impacted higher education?

At first I thought it was a fad. There was no revenue model — only sunk costs. But schools are pushing forward with MOOC offerings and students continue to enroll. How’s it going to shake out? I don’t know. But I think schools are going to use these as advertising outlets to showcase their program, course or school to help drive enrollment.

You’re leading Fox online and digital learning efforts. Why are you so committed to it?

It’s [Temple founder] Russell Conwell’s access to education. Why do you need to be somewhere at a specific day and time to learn? Online education is for the hardworking, busy professional who doesn’t have time to fit in traveling to campus to attend class. Plus, the technology we have integrated in our teaching today is extremely “smart” and user-friendly. We have the red carpet approach to online education, from inquiry to enrollment all the way through to graduation. There’s so much noise in the online market, and when the dust settles it’s going to come down to qual-ity and customer service. And we have that. — Brandon Lausch

The Fox School delivered Temple’s first massive open online course (MOOC), a Quantitative Methods for Business class through the Online MBA program, this fall.

Darin Kapanjie, an assistant professor of statistics, designed and taught the free, four-week course. As managing director of Fox Online and Digital Learning and academic director of the Fox Online MBA and BBA programs, Kapanjie has a deep interest in distance learning. Here he discusses how MOOCs are changing the landscape of higher education and how schools and students are reacting.

32 FOX FOCUS FALL 2013 FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

DEAN'S MESSAGE THE NEXT BIG THING

The Power of Fox is showing no signs of slowing.

This year, we enrolled the largest and most academically distinguished freshman class ever. We welcomed more than 1,500 trans-fer students and freshmen, who joined us with a record-high GPA average of 3.4 and SAT average of 1137. These students are also incredibly diverse, representing 27 states as well as 24 countries.

The Fox Honors Program more than doubled the size of its incoming class, to 68, while maintaining its impressive SAT average (1408). University-wide, Temple received nearly 22,000 applications for the 4,300 spots in the freshman class.

At the graduate level, overall enrollment increased by 28 percent. Interest in our expanding portfolio of Specialized Masters programs continues to grow, with a record intake of more than 150 new students.

Our full-time Global MBA, which enrolled its first cohort this semester, features 46 students, nearly half of whom are either from out of state or international, and three are Temple alumni. The cohorts in our other MBA programs — Executive, Part-time and Online — are equally impressive. For example, 43 percent of Online MBA stu-dents who started the program in August have already completed a graduate-level degree. At the PhD level, we received more than 270 applications from 31 states and 21 countries.

Twenty-one new full-time faculty joined each of our nine departments this fall, and I recently appointed Dr. Paul A. Pavlou as Associate Dean of Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives, as well as our Chief Research Officer, to further enhance our partnerships for research, grants and other strategic initiatives.

We can all share in the successes of being part of a school that attracts some of the world’s best and bright-est students, faculty, and staff and produces some of the world’s most innovative and driven alumni.

Clearly, we are on the move — onward and upward.

Regards,

M. Moshe Porat, PhD, CPCU Dean Laura H. Carnell Professor Fox School of Business

FORWARD MARCH

THE NEXT BIG THING...

MASSIVE OPEN ONLINE COURSES (MOOCS)

There have been a number of players in this market in a variety of platforms. Why did Fox decide to enter it now?

We wanted to do it right. MOOCs are generally delivered as correspondence- like courses. There’s usually not much interaction or collaboration between students and professors. Some content has to be delivered asyn-chronously (not in real-time), such as our HD mobile-friendly lecture videos, but Fox online courses engage in synchronous (real-time) activities as well. We wanted to deliver the same collab-orative, interactive, community-based Fox online course to the masses. I’m not just talking about discussion boards and webinars. We’re talking about collaborative WebEx sessions where students are separated into virtual breakout rooms to show what they know. Professors prepare problems or activities for students that require deep understanding of the topics. After a speci-fied amount of time the professor brings all of the students back to the main WebEx room to submit and present their findings. While the Fox School has been using this andragogical approach — the virtual flipped classroom — to teaching online for several years, it took time to develop the platform for scale.

What’s your personal philosophy about MOOCs?

It’s an affordable way to learn from experts about a topic that is interesting or one that

can help increase productivity at work. Stanford’s first MOOC, Introduction to Artificial Intelligence, launched only two years ago with more than 160,000 students. Since then several other renowned universities — including Penn, Princeton and MIT, to name a few — have launched MOOCs.The growth and increased popularity of MOOCs over the last two years is incred-ible. I think universities are all scrambling to develop a MOOC strategy. MOOCs are here to stay, but they are in their infancy and will continue to evolve into a mature and robust learning environment.

How do you combat the criticism that MOOCs aren’t that engaging or that there are high dropout rates?

It is difficult to deploy an engaging online course to 30 students, let alone thousands. Most MOOCs today are simply delivering information: Read/watch this or do that. Schools need to invest more time and resources into keeping students engaged, and faculty have to find ways to efficiently communicate and collaborate with MOOC students.

Having a compressed course with constant activities gives students an idea of what it’s like to be in the Fox Online MBA, to see if they can make it in a well-ranked, well-respected program.

How have MOOCs impacted higher education?

At first I thought it was a fad. There was no revenue model — only sunk costs. But schools are pushing forward with MOOC offerings and students continue to enroll. How’s it going to shake out? I don’t know. But I think schools are going to use these as advertising outlets to showcase their program, course or school to help drive enrollment.

You’re leading Fox online and digital learning efforts. Why are you so committed to it?

It’s [Temple founder] Russell Conwell’s access to education. Why do you need to be somewhere at a specific day and time to learn? Online education is for the hardworking, busy professional who doesn’t have time to fit in traveling to campus to attend class. Plus, the technology we have integrated in our teaching today is extremely “smart” and user-friendly. We have the red carpet approach to online education, from inquiry to enrollment all the way through to graduation. There’s so much noise in the online market, and when the dust settles it’s going to come down to qual-ity and customer service. And we have that. — Brandon Lausch

The Fox School delivered Temple’s first massive open online course (MOOC), a Quantitative Methods for Business class through the Online MBA program, this fall.

Darin Kapanjie, an assistant professor of statistics, designed and taught the free, four-week course. As managing director of Fox Online and Digital Learning and academic director of the Fox Online MBA and BBA programs, Kapanjie has a deep interest in distance learning. Here he discusses how MOOCs are changing the landscape of higher education and how schools and students are reacting.


DEAN'S MESSAGE THE NEXT BIG THING

This new feature explores the myriad industries and sectors in which Fox alumni have staked their claim.

at Temple. He also began meeting with potential investors during his lunch hours.

“Most people said, ‘Kid, you have no experience.’ I’d come home deflated. I went to 93 people who said no. The 94th said, ‘This could make sense.’”

No. 94 was David Robkin, longtime advisor to restaurateur and fellow Owl Stephen Starr. (Starr is not affiliated with Rosenberg’s business.) They also brought in a third partner, Brook Lenfest.

Rosenberg’s legwork paid off when he launched Honeygrow, which serves healthful stir fries and salads made with organic ingredients that are “as local as possible” in a beautifully designed space. Rosenberg opened his first location—in Center City, at 16th and Sansom streets—in June 2012. He and his partners opened a second location in Bala Cynwyd earlier this year. — Maria Raha

Matt Mealey

KIWI FROZEN YOGURTMatt Mealey, MBA ’09, and one of his three sisters, Ryan, started exploring concepts and business plans for a frozen-yogurt company during his first year in business school. He graduated in May 2009, and the sibling co-owners opened their first Kiwi Frozen Yogurt in June of that year in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Fewer than five years later, Kiwi Frozen Yogurt has expanded to a dozen loca-tions — from Harrisburg to Moorestown, N.J. — and more than 200 mostly part-time employees.

From stir fries and salads to yogurt concoctions and a novel stationary-food-truck-in-a-beer-hall concept, here are three MBA alumni who are prominent figures in Greater Philadelphia’s food and beverage scene.

Justin Rosenberg

HONEYGROWSome people take leaps in their career paths. For financial analyst-cum- restaurateur Justin Rosenberg, MBA ’09, it was more of a swan dive over Niagara Falls. For five years at PREIT (Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust), he rose through the company’s financial ranks, earned his MBA while working and started thinking about opening a restaurant.

Matt Mealey focuses on operations, real estate and accounting while his sister’s strengths are in marketing, store design, and flavors and toppings.

Mealey said Kiwi was practically the first self-serve frozen-yogurt store to open in the region, allowing them to stay ahead of the competition. But as the market increasingly saturates, standing out becomes more challenging.

“We try to provide a great customer expe-rience,” Mealey said of Kiwi’s competitive advantages. “In terms of the product, that means the best-tasting, freshest, creami-est frozen yogurt, rotating every month with six or seven new flavors and a large variety of toppings. Providing the cleanest stores and friendliest atmosphere is what we do.”

It’s no wonder Matt and Ryan Mealey became entrepreneurs. Their father owned and operated Mealey’s Furniture, exposing them to entrepreneurship at a young age and serving as a mentor.

“Being one of the few businesses that’s growing during times like these and creating jobs is definitely very rewarding,” said Mealey, recognized with his sister in 2012 by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of 30 young entrepreneurs to watch. “And most important, I think we provide a very great work environment. Almost all of our employees would say they enjoy working for the company and enjoy the job.” — Brandon Lausch

“When I got my MBA, I could have worked on Wall Street, which would have been really cool, or I could have done what I’m really passionate about,” he said. “I thought, ‘Am I really going to do this?’ And I said, ‘I’d rather spend my life doing something I’m passionate about, like local food, design and building a business.’”

Rosenberg needed to learn the restaurant industry — all of it, and fast. He wrangled his way onto a kitchen prep line, traveled to Washington, D.C., and volunteered on Friday and Saturday nights.

“You name it, I was yelled at for it,” he said. “I screwed up everything, and even-tually, it built some confidence in what I was doing. I loved it.”

Rosenberg also began writing a restau-rant business plan—a skill he learned

Jason Evenchik

VINTAGE, TIME, BAR, GROWLERS, GARAGE

Situated right between Pat’s and Geno’s, one would think the recently opened Garage, which offers an array of canned beers and features a bring-your-own-cheesesteak policy, would be targeting out-of-towners.

Not so, says restaurateur Jason Evenchik, MBA/MS ’02. Garage, on East Passyunk Avenue, is the latest of his ventures aiming to fill neighborhood-level gaps in the market. In Garage’s case, it’s an inexpensive bar, aimed at the hipster set, with a variety of throwback games and a

novel stationary-food-truck concept that is expected to feature a rotating lineup of mobile-food purveyors.

Evenchik entered the restaurant industry shortly after business school, joining Le Bec Fin. From there, he started to go out on his own with an intention of finding what neighborhoods were missing in their restaurant scenes and filling those needs.

Vintage, at 129 S. 13th St. in Midtown Village in Center City Philadelphia, is a wine bar and bistro. Time, at 1315 Sansom St., is a restaurant, whiskey bar and taproom offering live music. Two doors down, there’s the low-budget and aptly named BAR.

Finally, Growlers, at 736 S. Eighth St. in the city’s Bella Vista section, describes itself as a “beer-centric neighborhood pub.”

Evenchik says there are two words that bind these one-name ventures together: Diversity and quality.

“In style, in people, in interior design, in lighting and in music,” said Evenchik, who oversees 50 to 60 employees and who is exploring another opportunity in Northern Liberties. “And great food and drink. That’s the key.” — Brandon Lausch

Matt Mealey

Jason EvenchikJustin Rosenberg

FOOD&BEVERAGE

54 FOX FOCUS FALL 2013

FOX’S POWER IN...

This new feature explores the myriad industries and sectors in which Fox alumni have staked their claim.

at Temple. He also began meeting with potential investors during his lunch hours.

“Most people said, ‘Kid, you have no experience.’ I’d come home deflated. I went to 93 people who said no. The 94th said, ‘This could make sense.’”

No. 94 was David Robkin, longtime advisor to restaurateur and fellow Owl Stephen Starr. (Starr is not affiliated with Rosenberg’s business.) They also brought in a third partner, Brook Lenfest.

Rosenberg’s legwork paid off when he launched Honeygrow, which serves healthful stir fries and salads made with organic ingredients that are “as local as possible” in a beautifully designed space. Rosenberg opened his first location—in Center City, at 16th and Sansom streets—in June 2012. He and his partners opened a second location in Bala Cynwyd earlier this year. — Maria Raha

Matt Mealey

KIWI FROZEN YOGURTMatt Mealey, MBA ’09, and one of his three sisters, Ryan, started exploring concepts and business plans for a frozen-yogurt company during his first year in business school. He graduated in May 2009, and the sibling co-owners opened their first Kiwi Frozen Yogurt in June of that year in Cherry Hill, N.J.

Fewer than five years later, Kiwi Frozen Yogurt has expanded to a dozen loca-tions — from Harrisburg to Moorestown, N.J. — and more than 200 mostly part-time employees.

From stir fries and salads to yogurt concoctions and a novel stationary-food-truck-in-a-beer-hall concept, here are three MBA alumni who are prominent figures in Greater Philadelphia’s food and beverage scene.

Justin Rosenberg

HONEYGROWSome people take leaps in their career paths. For financial analyst-cum- restaurateur Justin Rosenberg, MBA ’09, it was more of a swan dive over Niagara Falls. For five years at PREIT (Pennsylvania Real Estate Investment Trust), he rose through the company’s financial ranks, earned his MBA while working and started thinking about opening a restaurant.

Matt Mealey focuses on operations, real estate and accounting while his sister’s strengths are in marketing, store design, and flavors and toppings.

Mealey said Kiwi was practically the first self-serve frozen-yogurt store to open in the region, allowing them to stay ahead of the competition. But as the market increasingly saturates, standing out becomes more challenging.

“We try to provide a great customer expe-rience,” Mealey said of Kiwi’s competitive advantages. “In terms of the product, that means the best-tasting, freshest, creami-est frozen yogurt, rotating every month with six or seven new flavors and a large variety of toppings. Providing the cleanest stores and friendliest atmosphere is what we do.”

It’s no wonder Matt and Ryan Mealey became entrepreneurs. Their father owned and operated Mealey’s Furniture, exposing them to entrepreneurship at a young age and serving as a mentor.

“Being one of the few businesses that’s growing during times like these and creating jobs is definitely very rewarding,” said Mealey, recognized with his sister in 2012 by the Philadelphia Business Journal as one of 30 young entrepreneurs to watch. “And most important, I think we provide a very great work environment. Almost all of our employees would say they enjoy working for the company and enjoy the job.” — Brandon Lausch

“When I got my MBA, I could have worked on Wall Street, which would have been really cool, or I could have done what I’m really passionate about,” he said. “I thought, ‘Am I really going to do this?’ And I said, ‘I’d rather spend my life doing something I’m passionate about, like local food, design and building a business.’”

Rosenberg needed to learn the restaurant industry — all of it, and fast. He wrangled his way onto a kitchen prep line, traveled to Washington, D.C., and volunteered on Friday and Saturday nights.

“You name it, I was yelled at for it,” he said. “I screwed up everything, and even-tually, it built some confidence in what I was doing. I loved it.”

Rosenberg also began writing a restau-rant business plan—a skill he learned

Jason Evenchik

VINTAGE, TIME, BAR, GROWLERS, GARAGE

Situated right between Pat’s and Geno’s, one would think the recently opened Garage, which offers an array of canned beers and features a bring-your-own-cheesesteak policy, would be targeting out-of-towners.

Not so, says restaurateur Jason Evenchik, MBA/MS ’02. Garage, on East Passyunk Avenue, is the latest of his ventures aiming to fill neighborhood-level gaps in the market. In Garage’s case, it’s an inexpensive bar, aimed at the hipster set, with a variety of throwback games and a

novel stationary-food-truck concept that is expected to feature a rotating lineup of mobile-food purveyors.

Evenchik entered the restaurant industry shortly after business school, joining Le Bec Fin. From there, he started to go out on his own with an intention of finding what neighborhoods were missing in their restaurant scenes and filling those needs.

Vintage, at 129 S. 13th St. in Midtown Village in Center City Philadelphia, is a wine bar and bistro. Time, at 1315 Sansom St., is a restaurant, whiskey bar and taproom offering live music. Two doors down, there’s the low-budget and aptly named BAR.

Finally, Growlers, at 736 S. Eighth St. in the city’s Bella Vista section, describes itself as a “beer-centric neighborhood pub.”

Evenchik says there are two words that bind these one-name ventures together: Diversity and quality.

“In style, in people, in interior design, in lighting and in music,” said Evenchik, who oversees 50 to 60 employees and who is exploring another opportunity in Northern Liberties. “And great food and drink. That’s the key.” — Brandon Lausch

Matt Mealey

Jason EvenchikJustin Rosenberg

FOOD&BEVERAGE

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FOX’S POWER IN...

Todd Camp, MBA ’01, has a framed poster in his office that serves as a reminder of the envi-

ronmental aspect of his position as the Hershey Company’s senior director of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community relations.

“Stop global warming now” it com-mands in capital letters. “Or all the Reese’s will melt.”

It’s a fun advertisement for some seri-ous business. Camp’s position involves integrating strategic CSR efforts across the 13,000-person company, such as firm-wide employee volunteerism, and coordinating initiatives from the local (including the company’s close ties to the Milton Hershey School) to global levels, with product-sourcing issues leading the pack.

With support of top executives and Camp’s leadership, North America’s

FEATURE SWEET SPOTS

THANKS IN PART TO ALUMNUS TODD CAMP, THE HERSHEY COMPANY HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT STRIDES IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

By Brandon Lausch Photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg

SW EETSPOTS

largest chocolate company has made considerable progress in recent years in establishing and attaining various CSR goals, compiling data to bench-mark progress and communicating advancements to company stakeholders. To those who believe CSR initiatives detract from instead of contribute to the bottom line, Hershey also reached a new high of $6.6 billion in net sales in 2012 with $341 million in dividends paid.

“Two and a half years ago, when I came into this role, there wasn’t a strong linkage between the financial performance of a company and how they managed their ESG [environ-mental, social and governance] issues,” Camp said. “But there’s been the real-ization that ESG performance, while it may not be financial, is material to financial performance because it has a

Todd Camp demonstrates an interactive display at Hershey’s Chocolate World that highlights the company’s efforts in environmental stewardship and ethical sourcing, including certified cocoa.


Todd Camp, MBA ’01, has a framed poster in his office that serves as a reminder of the envi-

ronmental aspect of his position as the Hershey Company’s senior director of corporate social responsibility (CSR) and community relations.

“Stop global warming now” it com-mands in capital letters. “Or all the Reese’s will melt.”

It’s a fun advertisement for some seri-ous business. Camp’s position involves integrating strategic CSR efforts across the 13,000-person company, such as firm-wide employee volunteerism, and coordinating initiatives from the local (including the company’s close ties to the Milton Hershey School) to global levels, with product-sourcing issues leading the pack.

With support of top executives and Camp’s leadership, North America’s

FEATURE SWEET SPOTS

THANKS IN PART TO ALUMNUS TODD CAMP, THE HERSHEY COMPANY HAS MADE SIGNIFICANT STRIDES IN CORPORATE SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY.

By Brandon Lausch Photos by Ryan S. Brandenberg

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largest chocolate company has made considerable progress in recent years in establishing and attaining various CSR goals, compiling data to bench-mark progress and communicating advancements to company stakeholders. To those who believe CSR initiatives detract from instead of contribute to the bottom line, Hershey also reached a new high of $6.6 billion in net sales in 2012 with $341 million in dividends paid.

“Two and a half years ago, when I came into this role, there wasn’t a strong linkage between the financial performance of a company and how they managed their ESG [environ-mental, social and governance] issues,” Camp said. “But there’s been the real-ization that ESG performance, while it may not be financial, is material to financial performance because it has a

Todd Camp demonstrates an interactive display at Hershey’s Chocolate World that highlights the company’s efforts in environmental stewardship and ethical sourcing, including certified cocoa.


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In 2012, the Hershey Company added six new zero-emission Nissan Leaf cars to its corporate fleet and installed or upgraded nine state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging stations in Hershey, Pa.

The Hershey Company

approaches corporate social

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marketplace, environment,

workplace and community.

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MARKETPLACEHershey is a member of the Cocoa Livelihoods Program, a five-year, $40 million initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to improve the livelihoods of approximately 200,000 cocoa farmers in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.

ENVIRONMENTAs of October 2013, six Hershey man-ufacturing plants, as well as Hershey’s Chocolate World, had achieved zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWL) status. At these sites, routine manufacturing waste has been eliminated from landfill disposal. These plants recycle about 90 percent of waste generated from operations, with the remainder con-verted to energy at nearby waste-to-energy incinerators.

WORKPLACEIn 2012, Hershey continued to empha-size meaningful employee-engagement opportunities by sponsoring more than 60 community events through its national sales force. Employees delivered more than 200,000 hours of volunteer time globally.

COMMUNITYHershey is partnering with the nongov-ernmental organization Project Peanut Butter to make and distribute vitamin-enriched nutritional packets to children in rural Ghana.

Through Project Peanut Butter, children in rural Ghana will receive nutrients to increase their strength, foster growth and reduce their vulnerability to dis-eases. Childhood malnutrition levels in sub-Sahara Africa, an area that includes Ghana, are the highest in the world.

Project Peanut Butter’s local partners source all peanuts within Ghana, providing local farmers a new market for their crops.

low incomes and other issues have long challenged the industry. In 2012, Hershey joined only two other com-petitors in pledging to source 100 percent independently audited and certified cocoa for all of its products sold across the world by 2020. It’s an aggressive goal: Only about 5 percent of the world’s cocoa supply is currently certified for labor and environmental practices.

The company also has invested sig-nificant resources in on-the-ground education programs such as CocoaLink, which capitalizes on the exploding pen-etration of cell phones in West Africa. CocoaLink sends simple, actionable text messages — when and how to apply fertilizer, weather forecasts, cocoa bean prices, appropriate labor practices — to help farmers avoid exploitation, raise yields and income, and reduce child labor.

direct linkage in terms of the risk that a company exposes investors and share-holders to.”

GOOD TO GIVE BACKIt’s a Tuesday in early August, and that morning a company-wide website launched to encourage employee par-ticipation in Good to Give Back Week, the company’s first focused volunteer week, which kicked off Sept. 13 to coincide with the annual birthday cel-ebration of its founder, the late Milton S. Hershey.

Focusing on Central Pennsylvania and with up to 300 volunteer sites from which to choose, the effort sought to attract approximately 500 employees and lead to an overall boost in vol-unteerism, which Camp said stands at about 20 percent of all employees. Within the first hour, 75 people had signed up.

In a recent employee survey, Hershey’s CSR programs received a 95 percent effectiveness rate, which Camp sees as evidence that his department’s various CSR and community rela-tions efforts are contributing to overall employee satisfaction and in recruiting top talent. CSR, for example, is the only department other than human resources to be involved in every Hershey employee orientation.

But workplace initiatives, such as safety programs and diversity and inclusion efforts, comprise just one of four CSR pillars on which Hershey is focused, with the others being commu-nity, environment and marketplace. Of those, Camp said, marketplace — essen-tially the company’s global supply chain — consumes most of his time.

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In 2012, the Hershey Company added six new zero-emission Nissan Leaf cars to its corporate fleet and installed or upgraded nine state-of-the-art electric vehicle charging stations in Hershey, Pa.

The Hershey Company

approaches corporate social

responsibility and community

relations across four pillars:

marketplace, environment,

workplace and community.

FEATURE SWEET SPOTS

MARKETPLACEHershey is a member of the Cocoa Livelihoods Program, a five-year, $40 million initiative, funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, to improve the livelihoods of approximately 200,000 cocoa farmers in Cameroon, Cote d’Ivoire, Ghana, Liberia and Nigeria.

ENVIRONMENTAs of October 2013, six Hershey man-ufacturing plants, as well as Hershey’s Chocolate World, had achieved zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWL) status. At these sites, routine manufacturing waste has been eliminated from landfill disposal. These plants recycle about 90 percent of waste generated from operations, with the remainder con-verted to energy at nearby waste-to-energy incinerators.

WORKPLACEIn 2012, Hershey continued to empha-size meaningful employee-engagement opportunities by sponsoring more than 60 community events through its national sales force. Employees delivered more than 200,000 hours of volunteer time globally.

COMMUNITYHershey is partnering with the nongov-ernmental organization Project Peanut Butter to make and distribute vitamin-enriched nutritional packets to children in rural Ghana.

Through Project Peanut Butter, children in rural Ghana will receive nutrients to increase their strength, foster growth and reduce their vulnerability to dis-eases. Childhood malnutrition levels in sub-Sahara Africa, an area that includes Ghana, are the highest in the world.

Project Peanut Butter’s local partners source all peanuts within Ghana, providing local farmers a new market for their crops.

low incomes and other issues have long challenged the industry. In 2012, Hershey joined only two other com-petitors in pledging to source 100 percent independently audited and certified cocoa for all of its products sold across the world by 2020. It’s an aggressive goal: Only about 5 percent of the world’s cocoa supply is currently certified for labor and environmental practices.

The company also has invested sig-nificant resources in on-the-ground education programs such as CocoaLink, which capitalizes on the exploding pen-etration of cell phones in West Africa. CocoaLink sends simple, actionable text messages — when and how to apply fertilizer, weather forecasts, cocoa bean prices, appropriate labor practices — to help farmers avoid exploitation, raise yields and income, and reduce child labor.

direct linkage in terms of the risk that a company exposes investors and share-holders to.”

GOOD TO GIVE BACKIt’s a Tuesday in early August, and that morning a company-wide website launched to encourage employee par-ticipation in Good to Give Back Week, the company’s first focused volunteer week, which kicked off Sept. 13 to coincide with the annual birthday cel-ebration of its founder, the late Milton S. Hershey.

Focusing on Central Pennsylvania and with up to 300 volunteer sites from which to choose, the effort sought to attract approximately 500 employees and lead to an overall boost in vol-unteerism, which Camp said stands at about 20 percent of all employees. Within the first hour, 75 people had signed up.

In a recent employee survey, Hershey’s CSR programs received a 95 percent effectiveness rate, which Camp sees as evidence that his department’s various CSR and community rela-tions efforts are contributing to overall employee satisfaction and in recruiting top talent. CSR, for example, is the only department other than human resources to be involved in every Hershey employee orientation.

But workplace initiatives, such as safety programs and diversity and inclusion efforts, comprise just one of four CSR pillars on which Hershey is focused, with the others being commu-nity, environment and marketplace. Of those, Camp said, marketplace — essen-tially the company’s global supply chain — consumes most of his time.

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“Todd just has a real level head on his shoulders. That’s advantageous because he’s dealing with some tough issues,” said environmental affairs Director Diane Alwine, a 35-year company vet-eran. “His demeanor serves him well in getting the job done, and he’s able to have conversations with all levels, up and down the chain.”

EDUCATION AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDRENFor a publicly traded company, the Hershey Company has a unique owner-ship structure that closely integrates it with its eponymous hometown. The Hershey Trust, a private trust company founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1905 to administer the Milton Hershey School in perpetuity, owns about a third of Hershey’s stock, and the dividends it

receives are the primary source of fund-ing for the school.

Camp is the company’s primary liai-son to the K-12 boarding school of 1,900 students. In addition to Hershey’s strong financial linkage to the school, Camp oversees the employee-student mentoring program Project Fellowship, as well as Hershey Honors Authentic Business Management, an honors course for seniors who take 40 classes — taught by Hershey employees — across business disciplines and present their capstone projects to the chair of the board and other senior leaders. Camp teaches the CSR class.

While the Hershey Company will continue to focus on its four CSR pil-lars, Camp said extensive stakeholder engagement has helped the company hone its efforts on the central cause of the education and well-being of

children, which Camp said “Milton Hershey picked for us and has become such a key piece of our legacy.”

“While we face many issues as a business and cost pressures and invest-ment pressures and activist pressures, ultimately the summation of all that, if we’re successful in terms of our approach to ESG and if we’re successful as a business, there’s a piece of that that benefits the Milton Hershey School,” Camp said. “That’s at our core. And it’s that benefit we’re trying to take globally.”

Mike Kinney, the school’s manager of community and media relations, works closely with Camp. “He gets it,” Kinney said of Camp. “The business, school and community all work together for the common good. And his efforts work toward that end of fulfilling Milton Hershey’s vision.”

MHS CONNECTIONSTodd Camp isn't the only Fox alumnus connected to the Hershey Company or the

Milton Hershey School. Here (from left to right), Dr. Anthony Colistra, EDU ’75, (then

president of Milton Hershey School) stands with Kaelem Camper (MHS graduate/

current Temple student); Robert Evans (MHS graduate/current Temple student); MHS

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter G. Gurt, BBA ’89; and

Drew M. Wolf, BBA ’91, who was named MHS Alumnus of the Year for 2013.

A METERED APPROACHAsk Camp to describe a recent envi-ronmental accomplishment of which he’s proud, and he’s torn. He points to Hershey’s introduction of water-conservation technologies in various manufacturing plants that led to a 58 percent reduction in consumption last year and the fact that Hershey now has seven zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWL) facilities, with about 70 percent of U.S. production occurring at those ZWL facilities.

When implementing new sustain-ability efforts in operations, Camp has a strong technical background on which to draw. With a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Penn State, Camp worked for Tyco Electronics for 15 years in various engineering positions and also led Tyco’s Global Operational Excellence Program.

From there, he joined Hershey’s man-ufacturing leadership team as a manager of industrial engineering and continu-ous improvement relationship manager.

“When we are working on sustain-ability measures, I understand the technical complexities of the processes, so I can bring a sense of realism to the proposals and programs we take,” he said. “It’s not to say we’re not aggres-sive in terms of goals, but I understand they have a specific job to do. Change is sometimes difficult, so I’m able to translate our sustainability goals into a language the folks on the factory floor understand all the way up to plant management.”

It’s not only language. It’s tone. Colleagues say Camp’s metered person-ality aids him in a position that requires navigating varied, and sometimes vocal, stakeholder groups.

Todd Camp is the Hershey Company’s primary liaison to the Milton Hershey School, a K–12 boarding school of 1,900 students. In addition to Hershey’s strong financial linkage to the school, Camp oversees an employee-student mentoring program, Project Fellowship.

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“Todd just has a real level head on his shoulders. That’s advantageous because he’s dealing with some tough issues,” said environmental affairs Director Diane Alwine, a 35-year company vet-eran. “His demeanor serves him well in getting the job done, and he’s able to have conversations with all levels, up and down the chain.”

EDUCATION AND WELL-BEING OF CHILDRENFor a publicly traded company, the Hershey Company has a unique owner-ship structure that closely integrates it with its eponymous hometown. The Hershey Trust, a private trust company founded by Milton S. Hershey in 1905 to administer the Milton Hershey School in perpetuity, owns about a third of Hershey’s stock, and the dividends it

receives are the primary source of fund-ing for the school.

Camp is the company’s primary liai-son to the K-12 boarding school of 1,900 students. In addition to Hershey’s strong financial linkage to the school, Camp oversees the employee-student mentoring program Project Fellowship, as well as Hershey Honors Authentic Business Management, an honors course for seniors who take 40 classes — taught by Hershey employees — across business disciplines and present their capstone projects to the chair of the board and other senior leaders. Camp teaches the CSR class.

While the Hershey Company will continue to focus on its four CSR pil-lars, Camp said extensive stakeholder engagement has helped the company hone its efforts on the central cause of the education and well-being of

children, which Camp said “Milton Hershey picked for us and has become such a key piece of our legacy.”

“While we face many issues as a business and cost pressures and invest-ment pressures and activist pressures, ultimately the summation of all that, if we’re successful in terms of our approach to ESG and if we’re successful as a business, there’s a piece of that that benefits the Milton Hershey School,” Camp said. “That’s at our core. And it’s that benefit we’re trying to take globally.”

Mike Kinney, the school’s manager of community and media relations, works closely with Camp. “He gets it,” Kinney said of Camp. “The business, school and community all work together for the common good. And his efforts work toward that end of fulfilling Milton Hershey’s vision.”

MHS CONNECTIONSTodd Camp isn't the only Fox alumnus connected to the Hershey Company or the

Milton Hershey School. Here (from left to right), Dr. Anthony Colistra, EDU ’75, (then

president of Milton Hershey School) stands with Kaelem Camper (MHS graduate/

current Temple student); Robert Evans (MHS graduate/current Temple student); MHS

Senior Vice President and Chief Operating Officer Peter G. Gurt, BBA ’89; and

Drew M. Wolf, BBA ’91, who was named MHS Alumnus of the Year for 2013.

A METERED APPROACHAsk Camp to describe a recent envi-ronmental accomplishment of which he’s proud, and he’s torn. He points to Hershey’s introduction of water-conservation technologies in various manufacturing plants that led to a 58 percent reduction in consumption last year and the fact that Hershey now has seven zero-waste-to-landfill (ZWL) facilities, with about 70 percent of U.S. production occurring at those ZWL facilities.

When implementing new sustain-ability efforts in operations, Camp has a strong technical background on which to draw. With a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from Penn State, Camp worked for Tyco Electronics for 15 years in various engineering positions and also led Tyco’s Global Operational Excellence Program.

From there, he joined Hershey’s man-ufacturing leadership team as a manager of industrial engineering and continu-ous improvement relationship manager.

“When we are working on sustain-ability measures, I understand the technical complexities of the processes, so I can bring a sense of realism to the proposals and programs we take,” he said. “It’s not to say we’re not aggres-sive in terms of goals, but I understand they have a specific job to do. Change is sometimes difficult, so I’m able to translate our sustainability goals into a language the folks on the factory floor understand all the way up to plant management.”

It’s not only language. It’s tone. Colleagues say Camp’s metered person-ality aids him in a position that requires navigating varied, and sometimes vocal, stakeholder groups.

Todd Camp is the Hershey Company’s primary liaison to the Milton Hershey School, a K–12 boarding school of 1,900 students. In addition to Hershey’s strong financial linkage to the school, Camp oversees an employee-student mentoring program, Project Fellowship.


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T here’s running, and then there’s running for your life.

That’s the concept behind the Zombie Run, which race organizers describe as your typical hometown 5K. That is, they add, if your hometown is infested with an army of zombies.

The brains (pun intended) behind the Zombie Run and president of its parent company, Philadelphia Racing Concepts, is David Feinman, a 21-year-old junior entrepreneurship major who transferred to the Fox School of Business this fall from Bucks County Community College.

This year, the Zombie Run’s inaugu-ral tour hit 16 cities and attracted tens of thousands of participants. Feinman anticipates that the Zombie Run’s second circuit in 2014 will invade 40 markets.

Beyond the cultural fascination with zombies and the apocalypse — think The Walking Dead or World War Z — the Zombie Run capitalizes on the increas-ing popularity of running. Runner’s World estimates that, in 2011, 5.3

THRILL OF THE

CH SEmillion people finished 5Ks, more than any other race distance.

Interest is also surging in themed runs and obstacle challenges. These include The Color Run, a 5K in which partici-pants are sprayed with various colored powders, and the 10- to 12-mile Tough Mudder, an obstacle course featuring hanging electrical wires and industrial garbage bins filled with ice water. These novelty runs — including direct com-petitors with zombie themes — generally emphasize comradery instead of the clock.

But the Zombie Run also involves an element of speed.

“You always run faster if you’re being chased,” Feinman said.

LIFE AFTER DEATH Before Feinman and childhood friend Andrew Hudis, now a student at the Wharton School, created the Zombie Run, Hudis founded and Feinman helped direct the Bucks County Half Marathon. They also founded the Trick-or-Treat 5 Miler — a Halloween race

in which costumes were encouraged and winners received pumpkin pies — in Tyler State Park in Newtown, Pa.

With those races as a springboard and a “fascination with the undead,” the pair dreamed up the Zombie Run over coffee at their local Starbucks. Since then, their team has grown to seven, including Chief Operating Officer Carrie Snyder, former co-founder and race director of the ODDyssey Half Marathon, an annual race in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park that features costume contests and optional obstacles.

“In this economy, people don’t necessarily want to buy a camera or a car. They want to have an experience that they can share across social plat-forms, and the Zombie Run gives people that vehicle by which to experience something and share it,” Feinman said two days before flying to a Zombie Run in Denver in late July. “I think people find the story behind the Zombie Run compelling, and they want to be in that experience.”

Entrepreneurship major David Feinman’s Zombie Run, a nationwide series, combines the quick and the undead for an apocalyptic 5K. BY BRANDON LAUSCHPHOTOS COURTESY OF AKHIL SRIVASTAVA/ZOMBIE RUN


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T here’s running, and then there’s running for your life.

That’s the concept behind the Zombie Run, which race organizers describe as your typical hometown 5K. That is, they add, if your hometown is infested with an army of zombies.

The brains (pun intended) behind the Zombie Run and president of its parent company, Philadelphia Racing Concepts, is David Feinman, a 21-year-old junior entrepreneurship major who transferred to the Fox School of Business this fall from Bucks County Community College.

This year, the Zombie Run’s inaugu-ral tour hit 16 cities and attracted tens of thousands of participants. Feinman anticipates that the Zombie Run’s second circuit in 2014 will invade 40 markets.

Beyond the cultural fascination with zombies and the apocalypse — think The Walking Dead or World War Z — the Zombie Run capitalizes on the increas-ing popularity of running. Runner’s World estimates that, in 2011, 5.3

THRILL OF THE

CH SEmillion people finished 5Ks, more than any other race distance.

Interest is also surging in themed runs and obstacle challenges. These include The Color Run, a 5K in which partici-pants are sprayed with various colored powders, and the 10- to 12-mile Tough Mudder, an obstacle course featuring hanging electrical wires and industrial garbage bins filled with ice water. These novelty runs — including direct com-petitors with zombie themes — generally emphasize comradery instead of the clock.

But the Zombie Run also involves an element of speed.

“You always run faster if you’re being chased,” Feinman said.

LIFE AFTER DEATH Before Feinman and childhood friend Andrew Hudis, now a student at the Wharton School, created the Zombie Run, Hudis founded and Feinman helped direct the Bucks County Half Marathon. They also founded the Trick-or-Treat 5 Miler — a Halloween race

in which costumes were encouraged and winners received pumpkin pies — in Tyler State Park in Newtown, Pa.

With those races as a springboard and a “fascination with the undead,” the pair dreamed up the Zombie Run over coffee at their local Starbucks. Since then, their team has grown to seven, including Chief Operating Officer Carrie Snyder, former co-founder and race director of the ODDyssey Half Marathon, an annual race in Philadelphia’s Fairmount Park that features costume contests and optional obstacles.

“In this economy, people don’t necessarily want to buy a camera or a car. They want to have an experience that they can share across social plat-forms, and the Zombie Run gives people that vehicle by which to experience something and share it,” Feinman said two days before flying to a Zombie Run in Denver in late July. “I think people find the story behind the Zombie Run compelling, and they want to be in that experience.”

Entrepreneurship major David Feinman’s Zombie Run, a nationwide series, combines the quick and the undead for an apocalyptic 5K. BY BRANDON LAUSCHPHOTOS COURTESY OF AKHIL SRIVASTAVA/ZOMBIE RUN



The Zombie Run backstory begins with a military-contracted biochemical experiment gone awry. Professor Levitsky’s Compound 894, designed to convert wounded soldiers into warriors of superhu-man strength, instead transformed them into zombies, a turn of events uncovered only as shipments of C-894 were making their way across the country. The real-life tie in to the fictional narrative is the Zombie Run’s support of Active Heroes, a military charity.

At the start of each race, a mad scientist atop a 20-foot scissor lift announces that area’s chemical mishap. Course obstacles include a broken-down tanker truck with barrels oozing the trial vaccine.

Zombies are also registered race par-ticipants who volunteer to play the undead. A team of 30 makeup artists converts the 350 to 400 volunteers within two hours.

The zombies are then bused to the race site and taught how to play the part: The limp is crucial (drag a leg), don’t talk, don’t break character and go after the brains — which in Zombie Run terms means the three life balloons fas-tened around runners’ waists.

Zombie slots almost always sell out early. “There’s actually a very large market for people to chase other people,” Feinman said. “Once they’re in that zombie mindset, a lot of times there’s no breaking them.”

When Feinman ran the course, he died within the first quarter mile. But he, like all Zombie Run participants and spectators living or dead, could attend the afterparty.

STREAMLINING OPERATIONSSince launching April 7 in FDR Park in South Philadelphia, the Zombie Run has continually refined its event opera-tions, trimmed costs and driven profits back into the company.

“We pride ourselves now on being able to come into a city the Friday before an event, Saturday is set up, Sunday is clean up, and we’re out by dinner,” he said.

While Feinman acknowledges that the cultural popularity of zombies is unlikely to sustain its current intensity, he said his company is flexible enough to change course if needed. What isn’t a fad is Feinman’s passion for creativity, which “business has really given me the opportunity to harness.”

“I really like the fact that I was able to create the Zombie Run and I was able to build it,” he said. “Whether or not it makes me $10 or a $1 million, the fact that other people are partici-pating in something I created, that’s pretty amazing to me.”

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Online ExtraFor a Fox Feed video report on the Zombie Run, visit fox.temple.edu/foxfeed.



The Zombie Run backstory begins with a military-contracted biochemical experiment gone awry. Professor Levitsky’s Compound 894, designed to convert wounded soldiers into warriors of superhu-man strength, instead transformed them into zombies, a turn of events uncovered only as shipments of C-894 were making their way across the country. The real-life tie in to the fictional narrative is the Zombie Run’s support of Active Heroes, a military charity.

At the start of each race, a mad scientist atop a 20-foot scissor lift announces that area’s chemical mishap. Course obstacles include a broken-down tanker truck with barrels oozing the trial vaccine.

Zombies are also registered race par-ticipants who volunteer to play the undead. A team of 30 makeup artists converts the 350 to 400 volunteers within two hours.

The zombies are then bused to the race site and taught how to play the part: The limp is crucial (drag a leg), don’t talk, don’t break character and go after the brains — which in Zombie Run terms means the three life balloons fas-tened around runners’ waists.

Zombie slots almost always sell out early. “There’s actually a very large market for people to chase other people,” Feinman said. “Once they’re in that zombie mindset, a lot of times there’s no breaking them.”

When Feinman ran the course, he died within the first quarter mile. But he, like all Zombie Run participants and spectators living or dead, could attend the afterparty.

STREAMLINING OPERATIONSSince launching April 7 in FDR Park in South Philadelphia, the Zombie Run has continually refined its event opera-tions, trimmed costs and driven profits back into the company.

“We pride ourselves now on being able to come into a city the Friday before an event, Saturday is set up, Sunday is clean up, and we’re out by dinner,” he said.

While Feinman acknowledges that the cultural popularity of zombies is unlikely to sustain its current intensity, he said his company is flexible enough to change course if needed. What isn’t a fad is Feinman’s passion for creativity, which “business has really given me the opportunity to harness.”

“I really like the fact that I was able to create the Zombie Run and I was able to build it,” he said. “Whether or not it makes me $10 or a $1 million, the fact that other people are partici-pating in something I created, that’s pretty amazing to me.”

PHILADELPHIA

LOUISVILLE

CHARLOTTE

ATLANTA

NEW ORLEANS

ST. LOUIS

DENVER

SEATTLE

NASHVILLE

INDIANAPOLIS

MIAMI

PORTLAND

Online ExtraFor a Fox Feed video report on the Zombie Run, visit fox.temple.edu/foxfeed.



DAY IN THE LIFE OF ALUMNI

The spiraling cost of a college education in America isn’t just theoretical for Darin Bartholomew. It’s personal.

“Like many students, I’ve had to take out loans to help pay for college,” said Bartholomew, a Fox School senior who was elected president of Temple Student Government in May. “The rising cost of college is a serious issue not just for stu-dents but also for our entire economy.”

Always politically minded, Bartholomew was inspired to run for office after he heard Temple President Neil D. Theobald speak about the university’s enhanced financial literacy initiative. It struck a chord with him.

“It’s important for us as students to know how to budget and navigate financial systems,” said Bartholomew, who got a taste of the national political arena last summer when he interned in U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s office. “I think with student leaders supporting this initiative we can make big progress.”

Bartholomew said he would like to see improvement in student loan-debt reduc-tion and an increase in the number of students graduating in four years. To do this, his team plans to advocate for more summer and online classes, an easier credit-transfer system and a more effec-tive priority-registration system.

On a much lighter note, Bartholomew is also spearheading a social-media-based student initiative called #CherryOn. The idea is to encourage students and alumni to wear their Temple colors on Fridays and then tweet pictures of themselves using the hashtag #CherryOn.

“The buzz is through the roof so far, and the hashtag has been trending in Philadelphia on Fridays,” he said. “There are so many Temple alums out there making an impact. #CherryOn is a way to show pride in who we are.”

Andy Smith

DARIN BARTHOLOMEWMajor:Management Information Systems

• Hometown: East Stroudsburg Pa.

• Future plans: Either the political field or IT — and perhaps finding ways to combine the two

PRESIDENTIAL SPIRITAs president of Temple Student Government, Darin Bartholomew is championing financial literacy — and fun.

DARIN BARTHOLOMEW STUDENT PROFILE

cherry

5:20 a.m. Wake up. Drive from Elkins Park, Pa., to 3400 Spruce St. in Philadelphia’s University City section.

6:30 a.m. Arrives at his office on the fourth floor of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s (HUP) Silverstein Building.

6:30–7 a.m. “Usually time for myself when nobody bothers me.” Organizes his thoughts and plans for the day, reads the Bible online, catches up on email. Occasionally, there is a 6:30 a.m. meeting to attend. On Mondays and Fridays, Dr. Dempsey sees his first OR patient in the pre-op area before 7 a.m.

DR. DANIEL T. DEMPSEY, MBA ’11Chief, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Assistant Director, Perioperative Services Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Professor of Surgery University of Pennsylvania

During his more than three decades practic-ing surgery, Dr. Daniel T. Dempsey has held a variety of prestigious faculty and adminis-trative positions, including the George and Louise Peters Endowed Professorship at the Temple University School of Medicine, where he served as chairman of surgery for 11 years, from 2000 to 2011.

In this new feature, Fox Focus observes a day in the life of alumni.

OFFICE HOURS DANIEL T. DEMPSEY

7 a.m. Meeting of the Perioperative Robot Committee, which discusses issues relevant to two highly used surgical robots.

7:45 a.m. Returns to his office to review material for the weekly meeting of the Perioperative Executive Committee. HUP’s Perioperative Services Department—which has more than 500 employees and handled about 40,000 procedures in 2012—includes the HUP operating rooms, the post-anesthesia care units, the ambulatory procedure unit at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, and the endoscopy suite.

9:46 a.m. Leaves for the Perioperative Information Systems and Executive Committee meetings.

9:52 a.m. Arrives at the meeting, which includes 11 colleagues from areas such as anesthesia, supply chain management, and nursing, in a fourth-floor conference room in the Maloney Building.

10:26 a.m. Discusses standardization procedures related to IV fluids for patients.

11:22 a.m. Reviews first-quarter progress toward goals for the fiscal year.

11:35 a.m. Jimmy John’s boxed lunches arrive.

12:05 p.m. The committee discusses processes related to discharge orders with the goal of decreasing average discharge time. “It’s an easily definable problem,” Dr. Dempsey says. “It’s a lot harder to fix it.”

12:48 p.m. Meeting adjourns.

1:05 p.m. Arrives at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, where he meets with two outpatients.

1:30–2:30 p.m. Attends a Multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference.

3 p.m. Meets with Diane Corrigan, HUP’s chief financial officer.

5 p.m. Attends a Patient Safety Review meeting, where findings of root-cause analyses (RCAs) are discussed among the hospital’s senior leaders. RCAs analyze serious adverse events.

6:30 p.m. Leaves HUP.

7:15 p.m. Dinner with his family at home.


DAY IN THE LIFE OF ALUMNI

The spiraling cost of a college education in America isn’t just theoretical for Darin Bartholomew. It’s personal.

“Like many students, I’ve had to take out loans to help pay for college,” said Bartholomew, a Fox School senior who was elected president of Temple Student Government in May. “The rising cost of college is a serious issue not just for stu-dents but also for our entire economy.”

Always politically minded, Bartholomew was inspired to run for office after he heard Temple President Neil D. Theobald speak about the university’s enhanced financial literacy initiative. It struck a chord with him.

“It’s important for us as students to know how to budget and navigate financial systems,” said Bartholomew, who got a taste of the national political arena last summer when he interned in U.S. Sen. Pat Toomey’s office. “I think with student leaders supporting this initiative we can make big progress.”

Bartholomew said he would like to see improvement in student loan-debt reduc-tion and an increase in the number of students graduating in four years. To do this, his team plans to advocate for more summer and online classes, an easier credit-transfer system and a more effec-tive priority-registration system.

On a much lighter note, Bartholomew is also spearheading a social-media-based student initiative called #CherryOn. The idea is to encourage students and alumni to wear their Temple colors on Fridays and then tweet pictures of themselves using the hashtag #CherryOn.

“The buzz is through the roof so far, and the hashtag has been trending in Philadelphia on Fridays,” he said. “There are so many Temple alums out there making an impact. #CherryOn is a way to show pride in who we are.”

Andy Smith

DARIN BARTHOLOMEWMajor:Management Information Systems

• Hometown: East Stroudsburg Pa.

• Future plans: Either the political field or IT — and perhaps finding ways to combine the two

PRESIDENTIAL SPIRITAs president of Temple Student Government, Darin Bartholomew is championing financial literacy — and fun.

DARIN BARTHOLOMEW STUDENT PROFILE

cherry

5:20 a.m. Wake up. Drive from Elkins Park, Pa., to 3400 Spruce St. in Philadelphia’s University City section.

6:30 a.m. Arrives at his office on the fourth floor of the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania’s (HUP) Silverstein Building.

6:30–7 a.m. “Usually time for myself when nobody bothers me.” Organizes his thoughts and plans for the day, reads the Bible online, catches up on email. Occasionally, there is a 6:30 a.m. meeting to attend. On Mondays and Fridays, Dr. Dempsey sees his first OR patient in the pre-op area before 7 a.m.

DR. DANIEL T. DEMPSEY, MBA ’11Chief, Gastrointestinal Surgery, Assistant Director, Perioperative Services Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania Professor of Surgery University of Pennsylvania

During his more than three decades practic-ing surgery, Dr. Daniel T. Dempsey has held a variety of prestigious faculty and adminis-trative positions, including the George and Louise Peters Endowed Professorship at the Temple University School of Medicine, where he served as chairman of surgery for 11 years, from 2000 to 2011.

In this new feature, Fox Focus observes a day in the life of alumni.

OFFICE HOURS DANIEL T. DEMPSEY

7 a.m. Meeting of the Perioperative Robot Committee, which discusses issues relevant to two highly used surgical robots.

7:45 a.m. Returns to his office to review material for the weekly meeting of the Perioperative Executive Committee. HUP’s Perioperative Services Department—which has more than 500 employees and handled about 40,000 procedures in 2012—includes the HUP operating rooms, the post-anesthesia care units, the ambulatory procedure unit at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, and the endoscopy suite.

9:46 a.m. Leaves for the Perioperative Information Systems and Executive Committee meetings.

9:52 a.m. Arrives at the meeting, which includes 11 colleagues from areas such as anesthesia, supply chain management, and nursing, in a fourth-floor conference room in the Maloney Building.

10:26 a.m. Discusses standardization procedures related to IV fluids for patients.

11:22 a.m. Reviews first-quarter progress toward goals for the fiscal year.

11:35 a.m. Jimmy John’s boxed lunches arrive.

12:05 p.m. The committee discusses processes related to discharge orders with the goal of decreasing average discharge time. “It’s an easily definable problem,” Dr. Dempsey says. “It’s a lot harder to fix it.”

12:48 p.m. Meeting adjourns.

1:05 p.m. Arrives at the Perelman Center for Advanced Medicine, where he meets with two outpatients.

1:30–2:30 p.m. Attends a Multidisciplinary Gastrointestinal Cancer Conference.

3 p.m. Meets with Diane Corrigan, HUP’s chief financial officer.

5 p.m. Attends a Patient Safety Review meeting, where findings of root-cause analyses (RCAs) are discussed among the hospital’s senior leaders. RCAs analyze serious adverse events.

6:30 p.m. Leaves HUP.

7:15 p.m. Dinner with his family at home.


FACULTY PROFILE PAUL A. PAVLOU

1940sHerman Shooster, BS ’48 Received the Sun Sentinel newspaper’s Excalibur Award for his work as chairman and founder of Global Response, a Top 50 customer service center whose clients include David’s Bridal and Urban Outfitters. The award is given to distin-guished South Florida business leaders who have improved the region’s communities.

1950sBarton M. Banks, BS ’52, LAW ’55 Published his second book, What I Learned After I Knew it All: The Return of Bunky and “De’ Boys” with Xlibris Corp. His first full-length work, The Book I Wrote on Humility, remains available. He is a partner in the law firm of Banks & Banks in Lafayette Hill, Pa.

1960sBernard J. Milano, BS ’61 Awarded the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s 2013 Advocacy Award. Milano is president and trustee of the KPMG Foundation, and president and board member of The PhD Project and KPMG Disaster Relief Fund. The PhD Project, a nonprofit organization that the KPMG Foundation founded in 1994, recruits minority professionals from business into doctoral programs in all business disciplines.

1970sJohn F. Tierney, BBA ’75, MBA ’76 Elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of Wick Communications Co. Tierney, a certified public accountant, was a senior business executive for more than 30 years at multinational corporations including DineEquity, Dial Corp., Nestle Foods, Chevron Corp. and Perdue Farms. He is a member of the Fox School Dean’s Council. Wick Communications is a fam-ily-owned news company with 28 newspapers and 18 specialty publications in 12 states.

1980sStuart H. Fine, MBA ’81 Appointed to the Medical Advisory and Policy Board of the Gift of Life donor program, a Philadelphia-based organ and tissue transplant network serving eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. Fine is former presi-dent and CEO of Grand View Hospital.

Lori Bush, MBA ’85 Elected to a three-year term as a director on the Direct Selling Association (DSA) board of directors. Bush is president and CEO of Rodan + Fields Dermatologists. The DSA is the national trade association of leading firms that manu-facture and distribute goods and services sold directly to consumers. Approximately 200 companies are DSA members.

Justin P. Brooks, BBA ’86 Named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine. He is director of the California Innocence Project, executive director of the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy and director of the LLM in trial advocacy at the California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Vince Chirico, BBA ’86 Appointed chief revenue officer to lead large enterprise, reseller strategies and sales of 34 Commerce and Cinsay’s Smart Store technol-ogy. He brings more than 15 years of digital advertising and e-commerce experience to the 34 Commerce and Cinsay partnership. Most recently, Chirico worked for eight years at Google.

Judy Harrington, SMC ’84, MBA ’86 Received SmartCEO’s 2013 Executive Management Award. Harrington serves as Health Partners’ senior vice president, business devel-opment, and was among 30 Philadelphia-area executives who received the award.

Robert Shestack, BBA ’87 Appointed senior vice president, national practice leader of the new Voluntary Benefits Practice, specializing in coverage solutions for employer groups with 50 to 1,000 workers, of AmWINS Group Benefits, a leading wholesale distributor of employee benefits and professional services. In April, Shestack received the Fox School’s H. Wayne Snider Distinguished Alumni Award in Risk Management and Insurance. He is based in New Jersey.

Nico Willis, BBA ’87 Named president of Quality Attributes Software, a facility data management company specializing in energy management and sustainability and headquartered in Bayville, N.J. Willis is also president of Net Worth Services, a financial information services and software consulting company based in Phoenix.

(continued on page 20)

CLASS NOTES

CLASS NOTES

Neil J. Cassel, BBA ’83 Won the Select Breed award for his Cesky terrier, Gunther, at the 137th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Cassel owns and operates full-service pet-care provider TSS Enterprises.

Debra Chrapaty, BBA ’83 Named CEO of enterprise cloud storage company Nirvanix, where she is also executive chairwoman of the board. Chrapaty most recently served as chief information officer of Zynga, a leading provider of social game services, includ-ing FarmVille and Words With Friends. She has also served in senior executive positions at Cisco, Microsoft and E*Trade Technologies.

Thomas H. Harris, BBA ’83 Appointed executive vice president, distribution, at the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. Harris has previously served as senior vice president, distribution, and is also the chairman of Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Inc., a wholly owned broker/dealer subsidiary of Penn Mutual.

Tim Clemm, MBA ’84 Accepted a position as a mentor with the Savannah, Ga., chapter of SCORE, a nonprofit dedicated to helping small businesses succeed. Clemm has worked in product development for food and food-service companies, such as Campbell Soup Co. He also ran his own business for five years.

Paul A. Pavlou, a foremost scholar of management information systems and strategy, has been appointed associate dean for Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Fox School and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.

In announcing the appointment, Dean M. Moshe Porat said Pavlou will also serve as the school’s chief research officer, responsible for promoting research excellence, supporting spon-sored research, leading outstanding doctoral education and pursuing strategic research initiatives to enhance the school’s reputation.

“In addition to being a very influential scholar, Paul is ambitious, energetic and thoughtful,” Porat said. “He cares deeply about Temple University and the Fox School of Business, and he has the commitment to elevate our school’s research performance and reputation to new heights.”

The Office of Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives will oversee the research agenda of the Fox School, as well as external grants and the academic journals housed in

the school. The office will initiate, man-age and support the dissemination of research information, research awards and visiting scholars.

The office’s doctoral programs area will cover the school's two academic doctoral programs, the PhD in Business Administration and PhD in Statistics, as well as the recently established Executive Doctorate in Business Administration, an applied doctorate for executives and senior managers.

The office’s strategic initiatives func-tion will oversee a variety of inter- and multidisciplinary initiatives to build and enhance connections to other schools and colleges within Temple, as well as to other universities and industry.

“Our vision is to enhance the reputation and impact of the Fox School as a global leader in research, doctoral education, industry outreach and community engagement to better serve our diverse stakeholders—students, faculty, academia, industry, government, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and society in general,” Pavlou said.

Brandon Lausch

PAUL A. PAVLOUMilton F. Stauffer Professor of Information Technology and Strategy; Associate Dean for Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives; and Chief Research Officer

•Hometown: Nicosia, Cyprus

• Top scholar: Pavlou was ranked first in the world for publications in the top two journals in management information systems (MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research) during 2010–12.

RESEARCH EXCELLENCEPaul A. Pavlou, recently appointed as an associate dean and chief research officer, seeks to enhance the school’s global research reputation.


FACULTY PROFILE PAUL A. PAVLOU

1940sHerman Shooster, BS ’48 Received the Sun Sentinel newspaper’s Excalibur Award for his work as chairman and founder of Global Response, a Top 50 customer service center whose clients include David’s Bridal and Urban Outfitters. The award is given to distin-guished South Florida business leaders who have improved the region’s communities.

1950sBarton M. Banks, BS ’52, LAW ’55 Published his second book, What I Learned After I Knew it All: The Return of Bunky and “De’ Boys” with Xlibris Corp. His first full-length work, The Book I Wrote on Humility, remains available. He is a partner in the law firm of Banks & Banks in Lafayette Hill, Pa.

1960sBernard J. Milano, BS ’61 Awarded the American Association of Blacks in Higher Education’s 2013 Advocacy Award. Milano is president and trustee of the KPMG Foundation, and president and board member of The PhD Project and KPMG Disaster Relief Fund. The PhD Project, a nonprofit organization that the KPMG Foundation founded in 1994, recruits minority professionals from business into doctoral programs in all business disciplines.

1970sJohn F. Tierney, BBA ’75, MBA ’76 Elected to a three-year term on the board of directors of Wick Communications Co. Tierney, a certified public accountant, was a senior business executive for more than 30 years at multinational corporations including DineEquity, Dial Corp., Nestle Foods, Chevron Corp. and Perdue Farms. He is a member of the Fox School Dean’s Council. Wick Communications is a fam-ily-owned news company with 28 newspapers and 18 specialty publications in 12 states.

1980sStuart H. Fine, MBA ’81 Appointed to the Medical Advisory and Policy Board of the Gift of Life donor program, a Philadelphia-based organ and tissue transplant network serving eastern Pennsylvania, southern New Jersey and Delaware. Fine is former presi-dent and CEO of Grand View Hospital.

Lori Bush, MBA ’85 Elected to a three-year term as a director on the Direct Selling Association (DSA) board of directors. Bush is president and CEO of Rodan + Fields Dermatologists. The DSA is the national trade association of leading firms that manu-facture and distribute goods and services sold directly to consumers. Approximately 200 companies are DSA members.

Justin P. Brooks, BBA ’86 Named a 2013 Attorney of the Year by California Lawyer magazine. He is director of the California Innocence Project, executive director of the Institute for Criminal Defense Advocacy and director of the LLM in trial advocacy at the California Western School of Law in San Diego.

Vince Chirico, BBA ’86 Appointed chief revenue officer to lead large enterprise, reseller strategies and sales of 34 Commerce and Cinsay’s Smart Store technol-ogy. He brings more than 15 years of digital advertising and e-commerce experience to the 34 Commerce and Cinsay partnership. Most recently, Chirico worked for eight years at Google.

Judy Harrington, SMC ’84, MBA ’86 Received SmartCEO’s 2013 Executive Management Award. Harrington serves as Health Partners’ senior vice president, business devel-opment, and was among 30 Philadelphia-area executives who received the award.

Robert Shestack, BBA ’87 Appointed senior vice president, national practice leader of the new Voluntary Benefits Practice, specializing in coverage solutions for employer groups with 50 to 1,000 workers, of AmWINS Group Benefits, a leading wholesale distributor of employee benefits and professional services. In April, Shestack received the Fox School’s H. Wayne Snider Distinguished Alumni Award in Risk Management and Insurance. He is based in New Jersey.

Nico Willis, BBA ’87 Named president of Quality Attributes Software, a facility data management company specializing in energy management and sustainability and headquartered in Bayville, N.J. Willis is also president of Net Worth Services, a financial information services and software consulting company based in Phoenix.


CLASS NOTES

CLASS NOTES

Neil J. Cassel, BBA ’83 Won the Select Breed award for his Cesky terrier, Gunther, at the 137th Westminster Kennel Club Dog Show. Cassel owns and operates full-service pet-care provider TSS Enterprises.

Debra Chrapaty, BBA ’83 Named CEO of enterprise cloud storage company Nirvanix, where she is also executive chairwoman of the board. Chrapaty most recently served as chief information officer of Zynga, a leading provider of social game services, includ-ing FarmVille and Words With Friends. She has also served in senior executive positions at Cisco, Microsoft and E*Trade Technologies.

Thomas H. Harris, BBA ’83 Appointed executive vice president, distribution, at the Penn Mutual Life Insurance Co. Harris has previously served as senior vice president, distribution, and is also the chairman of Hornor, Townsend & Kent, Inc., a wholly owned broker/dealer subsidiary of Penn Mutual.

Tim Clemm, MBA ’84 Accepted a position as a mentor with the Savannah, Ga., chapter of SCORE, a nonprofit dedicated to helping small businesses succeed. Clemm has worked in product development for food and food-service companies, such as Campbell Soup Co. He also ran his own business for five years.

Paul A. Pavlou, a foremost scholar of management information systems and strategy, has been appointed associate dean for Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives at the Fox School and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.

In announcing the appointment, Dean M. Moshe Porat said Pavlou will also serve as the school’s chief research officer, responsible for promoting research excellence, supporting spon-sored research, leading outstanding doctoral education and pursuing strategic research initiatives to enhance the school’s reputation.

“In addition to being a very influential scholar, Paul is ambitious, energetic and thoughtful,” Porat said. “He cares deeply about Temple University and the Fox School of Business, and he has the commitment to elevate our school’s research performance and reputation to new heights.”

The Office of Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives will oversee the research agenda of the Fox School, as well as external grants and the academic journals housed in

the school. The office will initiate, man-age and support the dissemination of research information, research awards and visiting scholars.

The office’s doctoral programs area will cover the school's two academic doctoral programs, the PhD in Business Administration and PhD in Statistics, as well as the recently established Executive Doctorate in Business Administration, an applied doctorate for executives and senior managers.

The office’s strategic initiatives func-tion will oversee a variety of inter- and multidisciplinary initiatives to build and enhance connections to other schools and colleges within Temple, as well as to other universities and industry.

“Our vision is to enhance the reputation and impact of the Fox School as a global leader in research, doctoral education, industry outreach and community engagement to better serve our diverse stakeholders—students, faculty, academia, industry, government, the people of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania and society in general,” Pavlou said.

Brandon Lausch

PAUL A. PAVLOUMilton F. Stauffer Professor of Information Technology and Strategy; Associate Dean for Research, Doctoral Programs and Strategic Initiatives; and Chief Research Officer

•Hometown: Nicosia, Cyprus

• Top scholar: Pavlou was ranked first in the world for publications in the top two journals in management information systems (MIS Quarterly and Information Systems Research) during 2010–12.

RESEARCH EXCELLENCEPaul A. Pavlou, recently appointed as an associate dean and chief research officer, seeks to enhance the school’s global research reputation.


Jeffrey M. Arnold, MBA ’89 Appointed principal at Markeim-Chalmers, Inc. (MCI), a leading commercial real estate, appraisal and property management firm in the Philadelphia region. Arnold has a leading role in the sale and lease of office and industrial broker-age. His responsibilities also include commercial investment acquisitions.

Stan Musial, MBA ’89 Appointed chief financial officer of Egalet Ltd., a pharmaceutical company focused on developing abuse-deterrent medications. Previously, Musial spent six years as CFO of Prism Pharmaceuticals.

1990sCarmen D’Ascendis, MBA ’91 Appointed global managing director, vodka, at Brown-Forman. In this role, D’Ascendis will lead the vodka team, with emphasis on the Finlandia brand. In addition, he will work to grow the Chambord trademark around the globe. Previously, he was director of global mar-keting for Jack Daniel’s, which is also part of Brown-Forman, one of the top 10 largest global spirits companies.

Bret S. Perkins, BBA ’91 Received the 2013 Distinguished HRM Alumni Award from the Fox School’s Department of Human Resource Management. The honor is given to a professional who demonstrates commitment and substantial service to the industry, to their community and to Temple University. Perkins is vice president, external and government affairs, at Comcast; is immediate past president of the Temple University Alumni Association; and is a member of the university Board of Trustees.

Katayun I. Jaffari, BBA ’91, MBA ’92 Elected to the executive committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association Business Law Section. Jaffari, a partner in Ballard Spahr’s Business and Finance Department, has also been named co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Board Engagement on Sustainability and Social Responsibility Matters.

Matt Glantz, BBA ’92, MBA ’93 Developed the Parx Big Stax concept, a range of poker events that enjoyed its second successful run in May at the Bensalem, Pa., casino. Glantz is a professional poker player.

ALUMNI PROFILE MARC TOUITOU

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTAs the city’s chief information officer, Marc Touitou is leading IT planning and streamlining all aspects of government through technology. “There are a lot of people here who are hungry for coolness in technology,” he says.

CLASS NOTES (continued from page 19)

Jamie Gauthier, executive director of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, hopes to expand membership services and help businesses thrive.

COMMITTED TO COMMUNITY

JAIME GAUTHIER ALUMNI PROFILE


Mike Moore, BBA ’93 Joined WillowTree Apps as general manager, media and platform development. The Charlottesville, Va.-based firm specializes in mobile strategy, mobile design, native applica-tion development and mobile web optimization. Moore is a seasoned digital-media executive, having held executive roles in the U.S. and Europe including at AOL and Telegraph Media Group. Prior to joining Willow Tree Apps, he was global CEO at kgbdeals, Inc.

Nabil A. Tamimi, PhD ’93 Received the Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award from the

University of Scranton, where he chairs the Operations Management Department of the university’s Kania School of Management.

Stephen F. Simpson, BBA ’94 Joined Coupons.com as vice president of produc-tion operations. Simpson is responsible for the company’s site-reliability engineering function, including global data centers, disaster recovery, enterprise-systems compliance, security and more. He joined Coupons.com from Groupon, where he was the lead site-reliability engineering architect for global platform engineering.

Jamie Gauthier, BBA ’00, dreamt of a career that would help her give back to Philadelphia and its residents. After two years as an accountant at DuPont, she took action to make this desire a reality.

Gauthier enrolled in a master’s degree program in city planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and then worked for a community development nonprofit organization for eight years. Combining her financial background from the Fox School of Business with her nonprofit experience, Gauthier reached another milestone on her career path with her recent appointment as executive direc-tor of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) of Greater Philadelphia.

“I have always wanted to make an impact on the world,” Gauthier said. “When the position at SBN became available, I saw it as an opportunity to be with an organiza-tion whose mission I really appreciate and believe in, while also taking my career to the next level.”

Now at the helm of SBN, a 12-year-old organization that supports small, envi-ronmentally friendly businesses, Gauthier will carry the banner of sustainability for

the network’s membership of 450 locally owned businesses.

Her preparation for SBN stems from her work as program officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC), a national nonprofit that invests in revital-izing neighborhoods.

“I saw how important local businesses were to the communities and neighbor-hoods of the city,” Gauthier said of LISC. “They provide jobs, help entrepreneurs make a living for themselves and their families, and help build these beautiful and vibrant communities.”

Gauthier wants to continue making SBN a platform for engaging locally owned and sustainable businesses in the region, while expanding its fundraising abilities and increasing membership.

“As a result of my experiences at Temple, and the way it played into my nonprofit background moving forward, I was able to bring with me the nuts and bolts of running an organization from a financial perspective,” Gauthier said. “Though it was unintentional, it all came together in the end.”

Josh Fernandez

Although he didn’t always know technol-ogy was his true calling, Marc Touitou, EMBA ’00, always had an interest in how things work.

“As a kid, I wanted to be a helicopter pilot. By my teenage years, I was devouring all of the science fiction books that I could,” he said. “I wanted to figure out how to make technology work better.”

In April, Touitou was appointed San Francisco’s chief information officer (CIO) and director of the Department of Technology.

In this role, he advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and city departments regarding opportunities to provide higher quality and more cost-effective services; develop uniform policies and systems for the use, acquisition and implementa-tion of technology; and establish citywide standards for information exchange among various departments and from the city to residents and businesses.

Touitou started his career in Paris at Rohm and Haas, a chemical company acquired by Dow. While working at the firm’s Philadelphia location, Touitou found encouragement to pursue his MBA at Fox.

“If it wasn’t for the MBA program at Temple, I would not be where I am today. It’s a competitive market and you're up against some very sharp people,” he said. “My MBA allowed me to advance and leverage my experience and education.”

After receiving his MBA, Touitou became divisional CIO of Rohm and Haas and later served as senior vice president and CIO of ASML semiconductors in the Netherlands.

Touitou said serving San Francisco is the next challenge for which he has been searching.

“I couldn’t resist. It’s a beautiful city, and I feel that now is the time,” he said. “There’s a lot of people here who are hungry for coolness in technology.”

As CIO, Touitou’s goals include support-ing all of the “pillars of the city,” from education to transportation, and helping to transform them through technology.

“I have 30 years of experience, and I continue to challenge myself. I’m using my talents to make San Francisco a winning city in technology.”

Meg Frankowski

Jamie GauthierBBA ’00Executive Director, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia

•Hometown: West Philadelphia

• Strong foundation: “I was prepared not only because of my experience working in communities and economic development, but because I had a foundation in accounting, finance and management.”

Marc TouitouExecutive MBA ’00Chief Information Officer and Director of the Department of Technology, San Francisco

•Hometown: Paris

• Up for the challenge: “I have 30 years of experience, and I continue to challenge myself. I'm using my talents to make San Francisco a winning city in technology.”


Jeffrey M. Arnold, MBA ’89 Appointed principal at Markeim-Chalmers, Inc. (MCI), a leading commercial real estate, appraisal and property management firm in the Philadelphia region. Arnold has a leading role in the sale and lease of office and industrial broker-age. His responsibilities also include commercial investment acquisitions.

Stan Musial, MBA ’89 Appointed chief financial officer of Egalet Ltd., a pharmaceutical company focused on developing abuse-deterrent medications. Previously, Musial spent six years as CFO of Prism Pharmaceuticals.

1990sCarmen D’Ascendis, MBA ’91 Appointed global managing director, vodka, at Brown-Forman. In this role, D’Ascendis will lead the vodka team, with emphasis on the Finlandia brand. In addition, he will work to grow the Chambord trademark around the globe. Previously, he was director of global mar-keting for Jack Daniel’s, which is also part of Brown-Forman, one of the top 10 largest global spirits companies.

Bret S. Perkins, BBA ’91 Received the 2013 Distinguished HRM Alumni Award from the Fox School’s Department of Human Resource Management. The honor is given to a professional who demonstrates commitment and substantial service to the industry, to their community and to Temple University. Perkins is vice president, external and government affairs, at Comcast; is immediate past president of the Temple University Alumni Association; and is a member of the university Board of Trustees.

Katayun I. Jaffari, BBA ’91, MBA ’92 Elected to the executive committee of the Philadelphia Bar Association Business Law Section. Jaffari, a partner in Ballard Spahr’s Business and Finance Department, has also been named co-chair of the American Bar Association’s Task Force on Board Engagement on Sustainability and Social Responsibility Matters.

Matt Glantz, BBA ’92, MBA ’93 Developed the Parx Big Stax concept, a range of poker events that enjoyed its second successful run in May at the Bensalem, Pa., casino. Glantz is a professional poker player.

ALUMNI PROFILE MARC TOUITOU

SAN FRANCISCO GIANTAs the city’s chief information officer, Marc Touitou is leading IT planning and streamlining all aspects of government through technology. “There are a lot of people here who are hungry for coolness in technology,” he says.


Jamie Gauthier, executive director of the Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia, hopes to expand membership services and help businesses thrive.

COMMITTED TO COMMUNITY

JAIME GAUTHIER ALUMNI PROFILE


Mike Moore, BBA ’93 Joined WillowTree Apps as general manager, media and platform development. The Charlottesville, Va.-based firm specializes in mobile strategy, mobile design, native applica-tion development and mobile web optimization. Moore is a seasoned digital-media executive, having held executive roles in the U.S. and Europe including at AOL and Telegraph Media Group. Prior to joining Willow Tree Apps, he was global CEO at kgbdeals, Inc.

Nabil A. Tamimi, PhD ’93 Received the Excellence in the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning Award from the

University of Scranton, where he chairs the Operations Management Department of the university’s Kania School of Management.

Stephen F. Simpson, BBA ’94 Joined Coupons.com as vice president of produc-tion operations. Simpson is responsible for the company’s site-reliability engineering function, including global data centers, disaster recovery, enterprise-systems compliance, security and more. He joined Coupons.com from Groupon, where he was the lead site-reliability engineering architect for global platform engineering.

Jamie Gauthier, BBA ’00, dreamt of a career that would help her give back to Philadelphia and its residents. After two years as an accountant at DuPont, she took action to make this desire a reality.

Gauthier enrolled in a master’s degree program in city planning at the University of Pennsylvania, and then worked for a community development nonprofit organization for eight years. Combining her financial background from the Fox School of Business with her nonprofit experience, Gauthier reached another milestone on her career path with her recent appointment as executive direc-tor of the Sustainable Business Network (SBN) of Greater Philadelphia.

“I have always wanted to make an impact on the world,” Gauthier said. “When the position at SBN became available, I saw it as an opportunity to be with an organiza-tion whose mission I really appreciate and believe in, while also taking my career to the next level.”

Now at the helm of SBN, a 12-year-old organization that supports small, envi-ronmentally friendly businesses, Gauthier will carry the banner of sustainability for

the network’s membership of 450 locally owned businesses.

Her preparation for SBN stems from her work as program officer for the Local Initiatives Support Corp. (LISC), a national nonprofit that invests in revital-izing neighborhoods.

“I saw how important local businesses were to the communities and neighbor-hoods of the city,” Gauthier said of LISC. “They provide jobs, help entrepreneurs make a living for themselves and their families, and help build these beautiful and vibrant communities.”

Gauthier wants to continue making SBN a platform for engaging locally owned and sustainable businesses in the region, while expanding its fundraising abilities and increasing membership.

“As a result of my experiences at Temple, and the way it played into my nonprofit background moving forward, I was able to bring with me the nuts and bolts of running an organization from a financial perspective,” Gauthier said. “Though it was unintentional, it all came together in the end.”

Josh Fernandez

Although he didn’t always know technol-ogy was his true calling, Marc Touitou, EMBA ’00, always had an interest in how things work.

“As a kid, I wanted to be a helicopter pilot. By my teenage years, I was devouring all of the science fiction books that I could,” he said. “I wanted to figure out how to make technology work better.”

In April, Touitou was appointed San Francisco’s chief information officer (CIO) and director of the Department of Technology.

In this role, he advises the mayor, Board of Supervisors and city departments regarding opportunities to provide higher quality and more cost-effective services; develop uniform policies and systems for the use, acquisition and implementa-tion of technology; and establish citywide standards for information exchange among various departments and from the city to residents and businesses.

Touitou started his career in Paris at Rohm and Haas, a chemical company acquired by Dow. While working at the firm’s Philadelphia location, Touitou found encouragement to pursue his MBA at Fox.

“If it wasn’t for the MBA program at Temple, I would not be where I am today. It’s a competitive market and you're up against some very sharp people,” he said. “My MBA allowed me to advance and leverage my experience and education.”

After receiving his MBA, Touitou became divisional CIO of Rohm and Haas and later served as senior vice president and CIO of ASML semiconductors in the Netherlands.

Touitou said serving San Francisco is the next challenge for which he has been searching.

“I couldn’t resist. It’s a beautiful city, and I feel that now is the time,” he said. “There’s a lot of people here who are hungry for coolness in technology.”

As CIO, Touitou’s goals include support-ing all of the “pillars of the city,” from education to transportation, and helping to transform them through technology.

“I have 30 years of experience, and I continue to challenge myself. I’m using my talents to make San Francisco a winning city in technology.”

Meg Frankowski

Jamie GauthierBBA ’00Executive Director, Sustainable Business Network of Greater Philadelphia

•Hometown: West Philadelphia

• Strong foundation: “I was prepared not only because of my experience working in communities and economic development, but because I had a foundation in accounting, finance and management.”

Marc TouitouExecutive MBA ’00Chief Information Officer and Director of the Department of Technology, San Francisco

•Hometown: Paris

• Up for the challenge: “I have 30 years of experience, and I continue to challenge myself. I'm using my talents to make San Francisco a winning city in technology.”


MELODY SMALLS ALUMNI PROFILE

Timothy Lain, BBA ’95 Promoted to vice president-controller and chief accounting officer at Carpenter Technology Corp. A certified public accountant, Lain has been with the company for six years, serving through-out that period as director of external financial reporting. Carpenter develops, manufactures and distributes cast/wrought and powder-metal stain-less steels and specialty alloys.

Sandy Pfeffer, BBA ’96 Named a 2013 40 Under 40 Award recipient from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Pfeffer serves as a director at Deloitte and a leader within Deloitte’s Women’s Initiative. She also is the Impact Committee chair for the United

Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s Women’s Initiative Leadership Committee.

Jason Ivey, BBA ’97 Inducted into the Etowah County (Alabama) Sports Hall of Fame. Ivey was a basketball star for Emma Sansom High School in Gadsden, Ala., where he led the team to the 1992 Class 5A state championship. He then starred at Temple.

2000sSteven Wittenberg, JD, MBA ’01 Named a 2013 40 Under 40 Award recipi-ent from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Wittenberg serves as director of estate and philanthropy services for SEI Private Wealth

Management. Prior to joining SEI, Wittenberg was a partner with Icon Realty Group. He is involved with volunteer work relating to educa-tion and children’s causes, such as serving as president and treasurer of Spells Writing Lab and contributing to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia’s Global Leadership Initiative.

Matt Pammer, MBA ’02 Named Executive in Residence by the Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology. Pammer, vice president of informa-tion systems in North America for AstraZeneca, joined the Fox IT Advisory Board in July 2012.

John Scaduto, BBA ’02 Named a vice president at Independent Insurance Advisors of Ardmore, Pa. He was been with the company since 2006.

Michael J. Winneker, BBA ’04 Named by Multichannel News as one of 40 movers and shakers under the age of 40 helping their companies succeed and shaping the future of multichannel video and telecommunications. Winneker has managed and expanded distribu-tion for Veria Living by 50 percent since March 2012 with plans to make the network available in more than 50 million homes by mid-2014. Veria Living is the leading media company devoted to wellness programming.

Karen M. Sanchez, MBA, LAW ’04 Selected for inclusion in 2013 Pennsylvania Rising Stars, the top up-and-coming lawyers in the Commonwealth. Sanchez, named to the list for business/corporate law, practices with the firm Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. Each year only 2.5 percent of lawyers receive the Rising Star honor.

Shadi Albert, BBA ’05 Appointed assistant vice president, reinsurance, at Selective Insurance Company of America, a subsidiary of Selective Insurance Group. Prior to that, he served as assistant vice president at Towers Watson.

Fyodor Kirsanov, MBA ’05 Appointed deputy CEO for procurement at Polyus Gold International Limited, the largest gold producer in Russia.

John A. Kristel, CHPSW ’95, MBA ’05 Appointed CEO of Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, a nationally recognized rehabilitation leader that provides services at 30 locations in eight eastern Pennsylvania counties. Before joining Good Shepherd, Kristel served as CEO of Carlisle Regional Medical Center in Cumberland County.

ALUMNI PROFILE JAY WEINSTEIN & LORI REINER

PASSING THE BATONOne Fox graduate took the reins from another in a transition that made EisnerAmper history.



In June, Jay Weinstein transitioned from partner-in-charge at accounting firm EisnerAmper’s Philadelphia-area offices to partner-in-charge of the recently combined 400-person New Jersey prac-tice. Lori Reiner stepped up as the new partner-in-charge for the Philadelphia practice, becoming the first female to head an office in firm history.

Weinstein’s and Reiner’s careers have long been intertwined. The two were admitted to the EisnerAmper partnership on the same day in 2000, and since then, they have worked closely. The duo has collaborated on how to grow the firm and innovate “only about a thousand times,” Weinstein said.

“We’ve grown together over the years,” Reiner added. “We really bring differ-ent things to the table, but we also work really well together.”

This leadership transition makes Reiner the first woman to head an EisnerAmper office, but this is not the only time Reiner has made firm history. When she was admitted to the partnership in 2000,

she became the first female partner at EisnerAmper legacy firm Goldenberg Rosenthal.

“It’s certainly very exciting, but what I’ve heard from my colleagues and my peers is that they felt I was the right person for the job, and it’s just a bonus that I’m a female,” she said.

Today, both Reiner and Weinstein know the value of quality internships. EisnerAmper has a long history as a top recruiter of Fox accounting students, and often that recruitment begins at the internship level.

“We hire a significant number of students from Temple each year because they’re of a high quality,” Weinstein said.

Christine Fisher

What began as a casual suggestion from a Fox School of Business classmate became a career that led Melody Smalls, BBA ’94, through two of Wall Street’s elite investment firms and into some of the world’s most influential media companies.

The suggestion was simple: major in human resources.

Today, Smalls is vice president of human resources for Turner Broadcasting Co., where she leads HR strategy for depart-ments in Turner’s corporate division, including finance, legal and research, and more.

“A lot of what I do is about helping others realize their potential,” Smalls said. “I feel the most satisfaction when offering someone a resource or putting two people with similar needs in touch with one another. It’s in my nature to want to jump in and help.”

Three weeks after graduating from Fox, Smalls landed a position at Chase Bank as a benefits assistant, and she soon found herself at J.P. Morgan recruiting

Wall Street traders. Her career took an abrupt turn when she got a call from a headhunter at MTV, which eventually led her to Turner.

She credits several aspects of her Fox education with preparing her for this path. For one, her graduating class provided a powerful network that she remains in close contact with to this day. Also, many of her professors were practitioners who brought tremendous experience from the real world into the classroom. Thanks to this focus on practical learning, Smalls transitioned into the professional world without experiencing any “culture shock” typical of some new grads.

“I am having the best ride of my life right now,” Smalls said. “Turner Broadcasting is an umbrella overseeing a tremendous number of businesses including TNT, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Cartoon Network and much more. That’s what keeps me engaged and interested: Every day I am tackling something different.”

Carl O’Donnell

Melody Smalls helps lead HR strategy for Turner Broadcasting, which includes TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies.

READY FOR PRIMETIME

Melody SmallsBBA ’94Vice President of Human Resources Turner Broadcasting Co.

•Hometown: Wheatley Heights, N.Y.

• Strong network: “This role allows me to delve into business across Turner and gain a bird's eye view of dozens of networks.”

Jay WeinsteinBS ’83, MBA ’90, Partner-in-Charge, New Jersey EisnerAmper LLP

•Hometown: Olney, Philadelphia

Lori ReinerBBA ’86, MBA ’90, Partner-in-Charge, Pennsylvania EisnerAmper LLP

•Hometown: Northeast Philadelphia


MELODY SMALLS ALUMNI PROFILE

Timothy Lain, BBA ’95 Promoted to vice president-controller and chief accounting officer at Carpenter Technology Corp. A certified public accountant, Lain has been with the company for six years, serving through-out that period as director of external financial reporting. Carpenter develops, manufactures and distributes cast/wrought and powder-metal stain-less steels and specialty alloys.

Sandy Pfeffer, BBA ’96 Named a 2013 40 Under 40 Award recipient from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Pfeffer serves as a director at Deloitte and a leader within Deloitte’s Women’s Initiative. She also is the Impact Committee chair for the United

Way of Southeastern Pennsylvania’s Women’s Initiative Leadership Committee.

Jason Ivey, BBA ’97 Inducted into the Etowah County (Alabama) Sports Hall of Fame. Ivey was a basketball star for Emma Sansom High School in Gadsden, Ala., where he led the team to the 1992 Class 5A state championship. He then starred at Temple.

2000sSteven Wittenberg, JD, MBA ’01 Named a 2013 40 Under 40 Award recipi-ent from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Wittenberg serves as director of estate and philanthropy services for SEI Private Wealth

Management. Prior to joining SEI, Wittenberg was a partner with Icon Realty Group. He is involved with volunteer work relating to educa-tion and children’s causes, such as serving as president and treasurer of Spells Writing Lab and contributing to the World Affairs Council of Philadelphia’s Global Leadership Initiative.

Matt Pammer, MBA ’02 Named Executive in Residence by the Fox School’s Institute for Business and Information Technology. Pammer, vice president of informa-tion systems in North America for AstraZeneca, joined the Fox IT Advisory Board in July 2012.

John Scaduto, BBA ’02 Named a vice president at Independent Insurance Advisors of Ardmore, Pa. He was been with the company since 2006.

Michael J. Winneker, BBA ’04 Named by Multichannel News as one of 40 movers and shakers under the age of 40 helping their companies succeed and shaping the future of multichannel video and telecommunications. Winneker has managed and expanded distribu-tion for Veria Living by 50 percent since March 2012 with plans to make the network available in more than 50 million homes by mid-2014. Veria Living is the leading media company devoted to wellness programming.

Karen M. Sanchez, MBA, LAW ’04 Selected for inclusion in 2013 Pennsylvania Rising Stars, the top up-and-coming lawyers in the Commonwealth. Sanchez, named to the list for business/corporate law, practices with the firm Obermayer Rebmann Maxwell & Hippel LLP. Each year only 2.5 percent of lawyers receive the Rising Star honor.

Shadi Albert, BBA ’05 Appointed assistant vice president, reinsurance, at Selective Insurance Company of America, a subsidiary of Selective Insurance Group. Prior to that, he served as assistant vice president at Towers Watson.

Fyodor Kirsanov, MBA ’05 Appointed deputy CEO for procurement at Polyus Gold International Limited, the largest gold producer in Russia.

John A. Kristel, CHPSW ’95, MBA ’05 Appointed CEO of Good Shepherd Rehabilitation Network, a nationally recognized rehabilitation leader that provides services at 30 locations in eight eastern Pennsylvania counties. Before joining Good Shepherd, Kristel served as CEO of Carlisle Regional Medical Center in Cumberland County.

ALUMNI PROFILE JAY WEINSTEIN & LORI REINER

PASSING THE BATONOne Fox graduate took the reins from another in a transition that made EisnerAmper history.



In June, Jay Weinstein transitioned from partner-in-charge at accounting firm EisnerAmper’s Philadelphia-area offices to partner-in-charge of the recently combined 400-person New Jersey prac-tice. Lori Reiner stepped up as the new partner-in-charge for the Philadelphia practice, becoming the first female to head an office in firm history.

Weinstein’s and Reiner’s careers have long been intertwined. The two were admitted to the EisnerAmper partnership on the same day in 2000, and since then, they have worked closely. The duo has collaborated on how to grow the firm and innovate “only about a thousand times,” Weinstein said.

“We’ve grown together over the years,” Reiner added. “We really bring differ-ent things to the table, but we also work really well together.”

This leadership transition makes Reiner the first woman to head an EisnerAmper office, but this is not the only time Reiner has made firm history. When she was admitted to the partnership in 2000,

she became the first female partner at EisnerAmper legacy firm Goldenberg Rosenthal.

“It’s certainly very exciting, but what I’ve heard from my colleagues and my peers is that they felt I was the right person for the job, and it’s just a bonus that I’m a female,” she said.

Today, both Reiner and Weinstein know the value of quality internships. EisnerAmper has a long history as a top recruiter of Fox accounting students, and often that recruitment begins at the internship level.

“We hire a significant number of students from Temple each year because they’re of a high quality,” Weinstein said.

Christine Fisher

What began as a casual suggestion from a Fox School of Business classmate became a career that led Melody Smalls, BBA ’94, through two of Wall Street’s elite investment firms and into some of the world’s most influential media companies.

The suggestion was simple: major in human resources.

Today, Smalls is vice president of human resources for Turner Broadcasting Co., where she leads HR strategy for depart-ments in Turner’s corporate division, including finance, legal and research, and more.

“A lot of what I do is about helping others realize their potential,” Smalls said. “I feel the most satisfaction when offering someone a resource or putting two people with similar needs in touch with one another. It’s in my nature to want to jump in and help.”

Three weeks after graduating from Fox, Smalls landed a position at Chase Bank as a benefits assistant, and she soon found herself at J.P. Morgan recruiting

Wall Street traders. Her career took an abrupt turn when she got a call from a headhunter at MTV, which eventually led her to Turner.

She credits several aspects of her Fox education with preparing her for this path. For one, her graduating class provided a powerful network that she remains in close contact with to this day. Also, many of her professors were practitioners who brought tremendous experience from the real world into the classroom. Thanks to this focus on practical learning, Smalls transitioned into the professional world without experiencing any “culture shock” typical of some new grads.

“I am having the best ride of my life right now,” Smalls said. “Turner Broadcasting is an umbrella overseeing a tremendous number of businesses including TNT, Turner Classic Movies, truTV, Cartoon Network and much more. That’s what keeps me engaged and interested: Every day I am tackling something different.”

Carl O’Donnell

Melody Smalls helps lead HR strategy for Turner Broadcasting, which includes TNT, Cartoon Network and Turner Classic Movies.

READY FOR PRIMETIME

Melody SmallsBBA ’94Vice President of Human Resources Turner Broadcasting Co.

•Hometown: Wheatley Heights, N.Y.

• Strong network: “This role allows me to delve into business across Turner and gain a bird's eye view of dozens of networks.”

Jay WeinsteinBS ’83, MBA ’90, Partner-in-Charge, New Jersey EisnerAmper LLP

•Hometown: Olney, Philadelphia

Lori ReinerBBA ’86, MBA ’90, Partner-in-Charge, Pennsylvania EisnerAmper LLP

•Hometown: Northeast Philadelphia


Jeremye Cohen, MBA ’06 Wrote the July 2013 cover story, “Strike! Preparing Nursing Departments for Work Stoppage,” for Nursing Management, the journal of excellence in nursing leadership. Cohen, direc-tor of planning at Capital Health in Trenton, N.J., is president of the Temple University Healthcare Management Alumni Association.

Richard T. Kneski, BBA ’06 Working in Ghana through the Peace Corps to build a tourism center that offers information about the Hani Archaeological Site, one of the most studied archaeological sites in Ghana. The tourism center will include an office, information

in track for four years and made the Northwest Conference All-Academic Team multiple times. In 1994, she was All-Northwest Conference in the high jump. A year later, she was All-Northwest Conference in the high jump and long jump.

Sonja Claxton, BBA ’08 Featured in the June edition of Grid magazine for her position as organizational wellness manager for Common Market, a distributor of local foods to the Mid-Atlantic region. Claxton is also an advisory committee member for Get Healthy Philadelphia, an initiative of the city’s Department of Public Health.

2010sTerrence Barclift, EMBA ’10 Named a 2013 40 Under 40 Award recipient from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Barclift is senior vice president of Bank of America. His previous positions include senior vice president at United Bank of Philadelphia and senior vice president at Wachovia Bank.

Ryan Frain, BBA ’11 Named head coach of Temple’s ice hockey team. From 2006 to 2011, Frain became the univer-sity’s all-time leader in goals, assists, points and games played. He is the only Temple player in club history to have his jersey retired. He was formerly an assistant coach with the team.

Ashley LaRosa, BBA ’11 Appointed alumni communications specialist at Temple’s Kornberg School of Dentistry develop-ment staff. For the past three years she worked in the school’s Dean’s Office.

Patience Lehrman, EDU ’01, ’04, EMBA ’11 Received a 2012 Citizens Medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor, at a White House ceremony in February. Lehrman was one of just 18 recipients out of 6,000 nominations. The national director of Temple’s Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), Lehrman has also been named a White House Champion of Change.

ALUMNI PROFILE CHRISTINE BRADY

Christine Brady, CLA ’88, MBA ’96, can identify with the university’s Temple Made campaign. Currently the direc-tor of volunteers in the Office of Alumni Relations, Brady has worked at Temple for the last 24 years and feels as if her time at the university has shaped the per-son she is today.

“At Temple, I’ve been exposed to the best of the real world,” Brady said. “I do love the place.”

In a recent expansion of the Office of Alumni Relations, a number of new hires were made, allowing for the specializa-tion of positions.

Brady’s new position as director of vol-unteers — which she’s held for roughly a year — encompasses some of what she did for 16 years before the new title. That means supporting the Temple University Alumni Association (TUAA) Board of Directors and handling awards programs and alumni benefits. She is now also spending more time engaging lesser-involved alumni in short-term volunteer efforts across campus and the region.

One of her main focuses is reaching the large number of regionally based and

CONNECTION POINTA Temple employee of 24 years, Christine Brady directs volunteerism for the Office of Alumni Relations.


Alumnus Mark Kaplan endowed a scholarship to give future students the same good fortune he has enjoyed throughout his career.

SHARING HIS LUCK WITH OTHERS

MARK AND SHELLY KAPLAN DONOR APPRECIATION

On a warm spring day in 2013, Mark Kaplan, BBA ’68, and his wife Shelly walked around Temple.

As they saw the grounds buzzing with enthusiastic students, the couple felt overjoyed that they created an endow-ment to provide Fox School students the same access to opportunity Kaplan has had throughout his life.

“I’m glad I’m able to help give some-one the same experience because if I didn’t have people who believed in me, I wouldn’t be sitting where I am today,” he said.

Raised in Scranton, Pa., Kaplan worked throughout high school and graduated from Temple debt-free because of funds from his uncle, a local philanthropist and a senatorial scholarship.

He then worked as a marketing repre-sentative for Sun Oil Company and was relocated to Northern Virginia’s suburbs. In 1974, his uncle and a fellow Fox alum-nus loaned him $40,000 capital to buy his first service station—a Sunoco—from an independent dealer in Prince George’s

center and lodging. Kneski, whose Ghanian community will supply labor and raw materials for the building, has been living and working in Ghana since 2011. To donate to the project, visit 1.usa.gov/SiFmK0.

Ori Feibush, BBA ’07 Named to the board of the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia. Feibush is founder and president of OCF Realty.

Mandy Rival Bernt, MBA ’08 Inducted into the Berlin High School Hall of Fame. Bernt, who graduated from Connecticut’s Berlin High in 1997, played soccer and competed

unengaged alumni who have not felt a strong desire to participate. Engaging them to volunteer and moving them up a ladder of increased involvement is her goal.

Volunteers have helped new students with residence hall move-in, handled registration at Homecoming and Alumni Weekend, and partnered with interna-tional students to acclimate them to life in America. This year, the TUAA launched its first Global Day of Service (Saturday, Nov. 9), when alumni across the world unite to serve their communities in the name of Temple.

Rosella Eleanor LaFevre

County, Md. Over the next four years, he sold that initial station and bought a Mobil station in Kensington, Md., which he sold before buying another Mobil station in Herndon, Va.

In 1978, the Herndon station had little commuter traffic. Seven years later the Dulles Toll Road was built, and an exit was an eighth of a mile away from Kaplan’s station. The two-lane road in front of his station expanded to six. As commercial growth boomed in the area, so did Kaplan’s revenue.

The money he earned from that service station enabled him to buy his own land, and later landed him a major deal to sell his station to his first employer and then-distributor, Sunoco. He retired in December 2012.

“Friends would later tell me how smart I was for buying this service station, but it was dumb luck,” he said. “You can be smart, but if you don’t get some luck, it doesn’t make a big difference.”

Josh Fernandez

Christine BradyCLA ’88, MBA ’96, Director of Volunteers, Temple Office of Alumni Relations

•Hometown: Haddonfield, N.J.

• Stay connected: For volunteer opportunities and to sign up for Temple's volunteer listserv, visit alumni.temple.edu/volunteer.

Mark KaplanBBA ’68 Owner, Herndon Sunoco (Virginia)

•Hometown: Scranton, Pa.

• Access to opportunity: The Mark and Shelly Kaplan Endowed Scholarship Fund was established through a $50,000 donation to provide schol-arships for undergraduate students enrolled at Fox with financial need, with preference for students from Northern Virginia or Washington, D.C.


Jeremye Cohen, MBA ’06 Wrote the July 2013 cover story, “Strike! Preparing Nursing Departments for Work Stoppage,” for Nursing Management, the journal of excellence in nursing leadership. Cohen, direc-tor of planning at Capital Health in Trenton, N.J., is president of the Temple University Healthcare Management Alumni Association.

Richard T. Kneski, BBA ’06 Working in Ghana through the Peace Corps to build a tourism center that offers information about the Hani Archaeological Site, one of the most studied archaeological sites in Ghana. The tourism center will include an office, information

in track for four years and made the Northwest Conference All-Academic Team multiple times. In 1994, she was All-Northwest Conference in the high jump. A year later, she was All-Northwest Conference in the high jump and long jump.

Sonja Claxton, BBA ’08 Featured in the June edition of Grid magazine for her position as organizational wellness manager for Common Market, a distributor of local foods to the Mid-Atlantic region. Claxton is also an advisory committee member for Get Healthy Philadelphia, an initiative of the city’s Department of Public Health.

2010sTerrence Barclift, EMBA ’10 Named a 2013 40 Under 40 Award recipient from the Philadelphia Business Journal. Barclift is senior vice president of Bank of America. His previous positions include senior vice president at United Bank of Philadelphia and senior vice president at Wachovia Bank.

Ryan Frain, BBA ’11 Named head coach of Temple’s ice hockey team. From 2006 to 2011, Frain became the univer-sity’s all-time leader in goals, assists, points and games played. He is the only Temple player in club history to have his jersey retired. He was formerly an assistant coach with the team.

Ashley LaRosa, BBA ’11 Appointed alumni communications specialist at Temple’s Kornberg School of Dentistry develop-ment staff. For the past three years she worked in the school’s Dean’s Office.

Patience Lehrman, EDU ’01, ’04, EMBA ’11 Received a 2012 Citizens Medal, the nation’s second-highest civilian honor, at a White House ceremony in February. Lehrman was one of just 18 recipients out of 6,000 nominations. The national director of Temple’s Project SHINE (Students Helping in the Naturalization of Elders), Lehrman has also been named a White House Champion of Change.

ALUMNI PROFILE CHRISTINE BRADY

Christine Brady, CLA ’88, MBA ’96, can identify with the university’s Temple Made campaign. Currently the direc-tor of volunteers in the Office of Alumni Relations, Brady has worked at Temple for the last 24 years and feels as if her time at the university has shaped the per-son she is today.

“At Temple, I’ve been exposed to the best of the real world,” Brady said. “I do love the place.”

In a recent expansion of the Office of Alumni Relations, a number of new hires were made, allowing for the specializa-tion of positions.

Brady’s new position as director of vol-unteers — which she’s held for roughly a year — encompasses some of what she did for 16 years before the new title. That means supporting the Temple University Alumni Association (TUAA) Board of Directors and handling awards programs and alumni benefits. She is now also spending more time engaging lesser-involved alumni in short-term volunteer efforts across campus and the region.

One of her main focuses is reaching the large number of regionally based and

CONNECTION POINTA Temple employee of 24 years, Christine Brady directs volunteerism for the Office of Alumni Relations.


Alumnus Mark Kaplan endowed a scholarship to give future students the same good fortune he has enjoyed throughout his career.

SHARING HIS LUCK WITH OTHERS

MARK AND SHELLY KAPLAN DONOR APPRECIATION

On a warm spring day in 2013, Mark Kaplan, BBA ’68, and his wife Shelly walked around Temple.

As they saw the grounds buzzing with enthusiastic students, the couple felt overjoyed that they created an endow-ment to provide Fox School students the same access to opportunity Kaplan has had throughout his life.

“I’m glad I’m able to help give some-one the same experience because if I didn’t have people who believed in me, I wouldn’t be sitting where I am today,” he said.

Raised in Scranton, Pa., Kaplan worked throughout high school and graduated from Temple debt-free because of funds from his uncle, a local philanthropist and a senatorial scholarship.

He then worked as a marketing repre-sentative for Sun Oil Company and was relocated to Northern Virginia’s suburbs. In 1974, his uncle and a fellow Fox alum-nus loaned him $40,000 capital to buy his first service station—a Sunoco—from an independent dealer in Prince George’s

center and lodging. Kneski, whose Ghanian community will supply labor and raw materials for the building, has been living and working in Ghana since 2011. To donate to the project, visit 1.usa.gov/SiFmK0.

Ori Feibush, BBA ’07 Named to the board of the Building Industry Association of Philadelphia. Feibush is founder and president of OCF Realty.

Mandy Rival Bernt, MBA ’08 Inducted into the Berlin High School Hall of Fame. Bernt, who graduated from Connecticut’s Berlin High in 1997, played soccer and competed

unengaged alumni who have not felt a strong desire to participate. Engaging them to volunteer and moving them up a ladder of increased involvement is her goal.

Volunteers have helped new students with residence hall move-in, handled registration at Homecoming and Alumni Weekend, and partnered with interna-tional students to acclimate them to life in America. This year, the TUAA launched its first Global Day of Service (Saturday, Nov. 9), when alumni across the world unite to serve their communities in the name of Temple.

Rosella Eleanor LaFevre

County, Md. Over the next four years, he sold that initial station and bought a Mobil station in Kensington, Md., which he sold before buying another Mobil station in Herndon, Va.

In 1978, the Herndon station had little commuter traffic. Seven years later the Dulles Toll Road was built, and an exit was an eighth of a mile away from Kaplan’s station. The two-lane road in front of his station expanded to six. As commercial growth boomed in the area, so did Kaplan’s revenue.

The money he earned from that service station enabled him to buy his own land, and later landed him a major deal to sell his station to his first employer and then-distributor, Sunoco. He retired in December 2012.

“Friends would later tell me how smart I was for buying this service station, but it was dumb luck,” he said. “You can be smart, but if you don’t get some luck, it doesn’t make a big difference.”

Josh Fernandez

Christine BradyCLA ’88, MBA ’96, Director of Volunteers, Temple Office of Alumni Relations

•Hometown: Haddonfield, N.J.

• Stay connected: For volunteer opportunities and to sign up for Temple's volunteer listserv, visit alumni.temple.edu/volunteer.

Mark KaplanBBA ’68 Owner, Herndon Sunoco (Virginia)

•Hometown: Scranton, Pa.

• Access to opportunity: The Mark and Shelly Kaplan Endowed Scholarship Fund was established through a $50,000 donation to provide schol-arships for undergraduate students enrolled at Fox with financial need, with preference for students from Northern Virginia or Washington, D.C.


NEWS

Pallam Raju M. Mallipudi, MBA ’86, minister of India for Human Resource Development, described the challenges of his position and the ways in which he combines the American spirit of entre-preneurship with the traditional Indian philosophy of dharma in a keynote speech at the May 2013 commencement ceremony of the Fox School and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.

During his May 16 address to hundreds of graduates and their families at the Liacouras Center, Raju said management education seeks to produce innovators who are “creators of value instead of pro-cess maintainers.”

He also emphasized the hardwork-ing nature of Americans — an ethic he’s carried throughout his life — and how American entrepreneurialism can

complement the concept of dharma, or “doing the right thing in whatever role you play.”

As India’s minister of Human Resource Development, Raju oversees the national Department of School Education and Literacy and the Department of Higher Education.

The position is akin to the U.S. secre-tary of education, and Raju met with his American counterpart, Arne Duncan,

INDIA CABINET MINISTER DELIVERS

GRADUATION KEYNOTE

Before coming back to Temple, Raju met with his American counterpart, Education Secretary Arne Duncan (pictured at right), in Washington.

in Washington before traveling to Philadelphia for Temple’s commence-ment. From there, he visited New York and Boston.

Before delivering his keynote address to Fox School and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management students, Raju was one of three distinguished leaders to be recognized for their outstanding contributions at Temple’s 126th Commencement ceremony. Raju received an honorary doctor of humane letters.

Raju was first elected to the Parliament of India in 1989, the youngest member in the 9th Lok Sabha, India’s lower house. During his career in public service he has been an active member of the Indian National Congress and has held several important positions at both state and national levels, including chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, minister of state for Defense and chairman of the Department of Policy Planning and Coordination.

“I had really happy moments at Temple,” Raju said. “I really inculcated the right work ethic and approach to whatever I did in my life, and I think the foundation for that was laid at Temple.”

Brandon Lausch

Dear Fellow Alumni,

Getting your degree from Fox is a big achieve-ment, and with that degree you have earned membership

into the Fox School of Business Alumni Association (FSBAA) and an assortment of alumni benefits.

FSBAA programs give you the opportu-nity to meet professionals, business owners, and executives and to catch up with old friends. You can hear from accomplished leaders in their respec- tive fields and share and learn valuable professional and personal skills in a

workshop. You can also participate in a mentor program with fellow alumni or current Fox students.

Involvement in the FSBAA gives you the opportunity to develop your leader-ship skills and to have a direct impact on your alumni experience. Through the continued participation of alumni like you, our community will continue to grow and increase the value of your degree.

We invite you to join us and look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events!

Anthony Pastor, ’06FSBAA President

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERSPresident: Anthony Pastor ’06Vice President: Rob Wilner ’85Secretary: Jack CesareoTreasurer: Frank Muller

DIRECTORS AT LARGEKen Krell, Amy VanDerhei, Jennifer Trachtman Website: Rupal Patel ’06 Strategic Planning: Ernie Russom Mentorship: Mike Falvey Outreach: Scott Sampson Publicity and Events: Bo Birtwell Sponsorship: Devin Griffin

2013–14 FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EVENTS

• November 9: Temple Alumni Global Day of Service

• November 9: Temple vs. Penn basketball game and Bill Cosby performance @ The Palestra

• December 11: FSBAA Holiday Party @ The Racquet Club

• April 2014: Temple Alumni Weekend

• May 21: Accounting Alumni Reunion @ The Hyatt at the Bellevue

For a full events listing, visit http://alumni.temple.edu/fox

ACCOUNTING GRADSSAVE THE DATEDEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

REUNIONMAY 21, 2014 • THE HYATT AT THE BELLEVUE

Join your fellow alumni, students, and past and current faculty to mix, mingle and enjoy a fantastic reception.

And submit your nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Award by December 15.

Event details and award submission forms are at www.fox.temple.edu/accountingreunion.


NEWS

NEWS

Pallam Raju M. Mallipudi, MBA ’86, minister of India for Human Resource Development, described the challenges of his position and the ways in which he combines the American spirit of entre-preneurship with the traditional Indian philosophy of dharma in a keynote speech at the May 2013 commencement ceremony of the Fox School and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management.

During his May 16 address to hundreds of graduates and their families at the Liacouras Center, Raju said management education seeks to produce innovators who are “creators of value instead of pro-cess maintainers.”

He also emphasized the hardwork-ing nature of Americans — an ethic he’s carried throughout his life — and how American entrepreneurialism can

complement the concept of dharma, or “doing the right thing in whatever role you play.”

As India’s minister of Human Resource Development, Raju oversees the national Department of School Education and Literacy and the Department of Higher Education.

The position is akin to the U.S. secre-tary of education, and Raju met with his American counterpart, Arne Duncan,

INDIA CABINET MINISTER DELIVERS

GRADUATION KEYNOTE

Before coming back to Temple, Raju met with his American counterpart, Education Secretary Arne Duncan (pictured at right), in Washington.

in Washington before traveling to Philadelphia for Temple’s commence-ment. From there, he visited New York and Boston.

Before delivering his keynote address to Fox School and School of Tourism and Hospitality Management students, Raju was one of three distinguished leaders to be recognized for their outstanding contributions at Temple’s 126th Commencement ceremony. Raju received an honorary doctor of humane letters.

Raju was first elected to the Parliament of India in 1989, the youngest member in the 9th Lok Sabha, India’s lower house. During his career in public service he has been an active member of the Indian National Congress and has held several important positions at both state and national levels, including chairman of the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Information Technology, minister of state for Defense and chairman of the Department of Policy Planning and Coordination.

“I had really happy moments at Temple,” Raju said. “I really inculcated the right work ethic and approach to whatever I did in my life, and I think the foundation for that was laid at Temple.”

Brandon Lausch

Dear Fellow Alumni,

Getting your degree from Fox is a big achieve-ment, and with that degree you have earned membership

into the Fox School of Business Alumni Association (FSBAA) and an assortment of alumni benefits.

FSBAA programs give you the opportu-nity to meet professionals, business owners, and executives and to catch up with old friends. You can hear from accomplished leaders in their respec- tive fields and share and learn valuable professional and personal skills in a

workshop. You can also participate in a mentor program with fellow alumni or current Fox students.

Involvement in the FSBAA gives you the opportunity to develop your leader-ship skills and to have a direct impact on your alumni experience. Through the continued participation of alumni like you, our community will continue to grow and increase the value of your degree.

We invite you to join us and look forward to seeing you at one of our upcoming events!

Anthony Pastor, ’06FSBAA President

ALUMNI ASSOCIATION

FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION OFFICERSPresident: Anthony Pastor ’06Vice President: Rob Wilner ’85Secretary: Jack CesareoTreasurer: Frank Muller

DIRECTORS AT LARGEKen Krell, Amy VanDerhei, Jennifer Trachtman Website: Rupal Patel ’06 Strategic Planning: Ernie Russom Mentorship: Mike Falvey Outreach: Scott Sampson Publicity and Events: Bo Birtwell Sponsorship: Devin Griffin

2013–14 FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION EVENTS

• November 9: Temple Alumni Global Day of Service

• November 9: Temple vs. Penn basketball game and Bill Cosby performance @ The Palestra

• December 11: FSBAA Holiday Party @ The Racquet Club

• April 2014: Temple Alumni Weekend

• May 21: Accounting Alumni Reunion @ The Hyatt at the Bellevue

For a full events listing, visit http://alumni.temple.edu/fox

ACCOUNTING GRADSSAVE THE DATEDEPARTMENT OF ACCOUNTING

REUNIONMAY 21, 2014 • THE HYATT AT THE BELLEVUE

Join your fellow alumni, students, and past and current faculty to mix, mingle and enjoy a fantastic reception.

And submit your nominations for the Distinguished Alumni Award by December 15.

Event details and award submission forms are at www.fox.temple.edu/accountingreunion.


NEWS

Three Fox School of Business under-graduate programs again rank among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 edition of “Best Colleges.”

The Fox School’s Risk Management and Insurance program ranks No. 5, International Business is No. 11 and Management Information Systems (MIS) climbed three spots to No. 14 in the country.

Overall, the Fox School’s undergraduate business program is 58th in the nation out of the 388 schools in this year’s ranking.

“We are constantly introducing innovations in our programs and services to improve upon the already stellar business educa-tion we provide — and to further enhance the value of a Fox degree,” Dean M. Moshe Porat said.

Brandon Lausch

STUDENT INVESTORS MAKE BIG GAINS IN TRANSITION TO

REAL FUNDS

The simulations are over. The term “shadow fund” no longer applies. The William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund is now, in a word, real.

That’s because the students who man-age the Owl Fund — a hands-on approach to investment education at the Fox School — have shifted from conducting mock trades to actual investing. The Owl Fund is a separately managed part of the Temple endowment in the name of Dunkelberg, a former dean.

In September, students began investing approximately $120,000 of the nearly $175,000 in donations the Owl Fund has received. Earnings from the fund will support a scholarship in real estate and finance.

The shift from a virtual to real portfolio has come with a host of related changes, including adjusting Owl Fund involvement to a six-credit, two-course sequence in the Department of Finance. A new mock fund, called the Fox Fund, has been established so underclassmen can learn investment basics and gain exposure to Fox's Capital Markets Room.

The Fox Fund has further emphasized the importance of teamwork when investing, both time and money.

Brandon Lausch

U.S. NEWS AGAIN RANKS THREE FOX UNDERGRADUATEPROGRAMS AMONG THE

BEST IN THENATION

FOX SCHOOL LAUNCHES

EXECUTIVE DOCTORATE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

The Fox School has launched an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), a part-time doc-toral program for executives and senior managers that combines theoretical and research methodology courses with personalized mentorship to connect academia and practice.

Starting in Fall 2014, the three-year, part-time Fox Executive DBA combines face-to-face residencies and online learning to deliver a rich, interactive experience. The program offers students a rigorous, research-focused curriculum

DIGITAL DIVIDE A KEY ISSUE AT FOX-SPONSORED

MAYORS’ INNOVATION SUMMITMore than 30 mayors and dozens of other top elected officials gathered at the Mayors’ Innovation Summit in May to share ideas on how civic innovation can increase citizen engagement, promote open government and improve services.

The Fox School hosted the summit at the Westin hotel with the City of Philadelphia and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. This year’s summit was the seventh in a series organized by Temple’s Center for Competitive Government.

City representatives also heard from executives from Google, Comcast, IBM, Knight Foundation and others, as well as academics and entrepreneurs, on how innovative public-private partnerships are solving local challenges.

For Professor Mitrabarun “MB” Sarkar, teaching is more than a career — it’s a call-ing, a moral imperative that drives him to continually understand what will make a true impact on his students both profes-sionally and personally.

It’s that level of investment that has led to his selection as a recipient of Temple’s 2013 Great Teacher Award, the univer-sity’s highest honor.

Sarkar serves as a professor of strategy and innovation and Stauffer Research

TEMPLE GREAT TEACHER AWARD WINNER MB SARKAR

KNOWN FOR HIS PASSION

Fellow. The award is the latest among several accolades, including numerous Professor of the Year awards from various cohorts of Fox’s MBA programs.

“[Temple] has given me the resources to nurture my passion, and the creative freedom to experiment and spend time in my learning laboratories in emerging markets,” he said. “I believe I’m here to make a difference at Temple.”

Joseph B. Schaefer

that equips executives with advanced skills to better address the vexing prob-lems that face organizations, to lead change initiatives, and to transform business practice.

The 54-credit cohorted program includes 10 foundational and methodological courses (taken during the first two years), three research projects leading up to the dissertation proposal and a year of intensive dissertation work under the guidance of a faculty mentor and a dissertation committee.

For more information, visit fox.temple.edu/dba.

Brandon Lausch

“We want to enable our students to be true evidence-based

managers who make better business decisions by rigorously

testing assumptions and comparing alternative solutions.” –Academic Director David Schuff

Clear themes emerged: Bridging the digital divide — both in expanding access to technology and in encouraging more people, particularly minorities, to create it — was a focal point, as was innovating constantly.

“In the world we live in, if you don’t inno-vate, the competition is just a click away,” said Milo Medin, Google’s vice president of access services.

Brandon Lausch

“Innovation isn’t the specialist’s job. It’s everyone’s job.” – Jennifer Pahlka (pictured),

founder of Code for America.


NEWS

Three Fox School of Business under-graduate programs again rank among the best in the nation, according to U.S. News & World Report’s 2014 edition of “Best Colleges.”

The Fox School’s Risk Management and Insurance program ranks No. 5, International Business is No. 11 and Management Information Systems (MIS) climbed three spots to No. 14 in the country.

Overall, the Fox School’s undergraduate business program is 58th in the nation out of the 388 schools in this year’s ranking.

“We are constantly introducing innovations in our programs and services to improve upon the already stellar business educa-tion we provide — and to further enhance the value of a Fox degree,” Dean M. Moshe Porat said.

Brandon Lausch

STUDENT INVESTORS MAKE BIG GAINS IN TRANSITION TO

REAL FUNDS

The simulations are over. The term “shadow fund” no longer applies. The William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund is now, in a word, real.

That’s because the students who man-age the Owl Fund — a hands-on approach to investment education at the Fox School — have shifted from conducting mock trades to actual investing. The Owl Fund is a separately managed part of the Temple endowment in the name of Dunkelberg, a former dean.

In September, students began investing approximately $120,000 of the nearly $175,000 in donations the Owl Fund has received. Earnings from the fund will support a scholarship in real estate and finance.

The shift from a virtual to real portfolio has come with a host of related changes, including adjusting Owl Fund involvement to a six-credit, two-course sequence in the Department of Finance. A new mock fund, called the Fox Fund, has been established so underclassmen can learn investment basics and gain exposure to Fox's Capital Markets Room.

The Fox Fund has further emphasized the importance of teamwork when investing, both time and money.

Brandon Lausch

U.S. NEWS AGAIN RANKS THREE FOX UNDERGRADUATEPROGRAMS AMONG THE

BEST IN THENATION

FOX SCHOOL LAUNCHES

EXECUTIVE DOCTORATE IN BUSINESS ADMINISTRATION

The Fox School has launched an Executive Doctorate in Business Administration (DBA), a part-time doc-toral program for executives and senior managers that combines theoretical and research methodology courses with personalized mentorship to connect academia and practice.

Starting in Fall 2014, the three-year, part-time Fox Executive DBA combines face-to-face residencies and online learning to deliver a rich, interactive experience. The program offers students a rigorous, research-focused curriculum

DIGITAL DIVIDE A KEY ISSUE AT FOX-SPONSORED

MAYORS’ INNOVATION SUMMITMore than 30 mayors and dozens of other top elected officials gathered at the Mayors’ Innovation Summit in May to share ideas on how civic innovation can increase citizen engagement, promote open government and improve services.

The Fox School hosted the summit at the Westin hotel with the City of Philadelphia and the U.S. Conference of Mayors. This year’s summit was the seventh in a series organized by Temple’s Center for Competitive Government.

City representatives also heard from executives from Google, Comcast, IBM, Knight Foundation and others, as well as academics and entrepreneurs, on how innovative public-private partnerships are solving local challenges.

For Professor Mitrabarun “MB” Sarkar, teaching is more than a career — it’s a call-ing, a moral imperative that drives him to continually understand what will make a true impact on his students both profes-sionally and personally.

It’s that level of investment that has led to his selection as a recipient of Temple’s 2013 Great Teacher Award, the univer-sity’s highest honor.

Sarkar serves as a professor of strategy and innovation and Stauffer Research

TEMPLE GREAT TEACHER AWARD WINNER MB SARKAR

KNOWN FOR HIS PASSION

Fellow. The award is the latest among several accolades, including numerous Professor of the Year awards from various cohorts of Fox’s MBA programs.

“[Temple] has given me the resources to nurture my passion, and the creative freedom to experiment and spend time in my learning laboratories in emerging markets,” he said. “I believe I’m here to make a difference at Temple.”

Joseph B. Schaefer

that equips executives with advanced skills to better address the vexing prob-lems that face organizations, to lead change initiatives, and to transform business practice.

The 54-credit cohorted program includes 10 foundational and methodological courses (taken during the first two years), three research projects leading up to the dissertation proposal and a year of intensive dissertation work under the guidance of a faculty mentor and a dissertation committee.

For more information, visit fox.temple.edu/dba.

Brandon Lausch

“We want to enable our students to be true evidence-based

managers who make better business decisions by rigorously

testing assumptions and comparing alternative solutions.” –Academic Director David Schuff

Clear themes emerged: Bridging the digital divide — both in expanding access to technology and in encouraging more people, particularly minorities, to create it — was a focal point, as was innovating constantly.

“In the world we live in, if you don’t inno-vate, the competition is just a click away,” said Milo Medin, Google’s vice president of access services.

Brandon Lausch

“Innovation isn’t the specialist’s job. It’s everyone’s job.” – Jennifer Pahlka (pictured),

founder of Code for America.


NEWS

TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE ($100,000 AND ABOVE)Saul A. Fox, Esq. SMC ’75

Herbert Jesse Cohen ’52 & Thalia Cohen

Irwin Lee Gross, Esq. ’65 & Linda Gross

FOUNDER’S CLUB ($50,000-$99,999)Stanley Merves ’51 & Audrey Stein Merves

Mark L. Kaplan ’68 & Michelle H. Kapla

PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ($25,000-$49,999)Robert L. Allen Sr. ’56 & Joy G. Allen

Christopher W. Alwine ’90 & Jeanette Alwine

Sharada Damaraju CLA ’93, EDU ’95

Venkatrayudu Damaraju, DMD CST ’90, DEN ’94

C. William Devaney ’50, ’63

Cindy Schairer Kalman ’82

Lakshmi Padgett

FELLOWS ($10,000-$24,999)Dennis Alter EDU ’66, HON ’99

Philip T. Argyris ’76, ’79 & Alexandra Wright Argyris CLA ’80

Raza Bokhari, MD ’01 & Sabina R. Bokhari, DDS

Mitchell Jay Cole ’70, ’72 & Margaret M. Cole

Joseph William Duffy ’87

Robert J. Fahey, Jr. SMC ’81, ’10 & Susan Carney Fahey

Larry L. Goldenberg ’59 & Ruth V. Goldenberg EDU ’62

Morton Goldfield ’49 & Elizabeth Goldfield

H. Richard Haverstick Jr. ’74

Kevin L. Johnson ’80 & Julie Johnson

Jerome Kaplan, Esq. ’47 & Edith Kaplan

Jordan A. Katz ’52 & Cynthia Katz

Leonard & Jane Korman

Edward B. Lipkin ’67 & Jean M. Lipkin

Niraj B. Patel ’90 & Cara Patel

Daniel H. Polett HON ’98 & Margo Polett

M. Moshe Porat, PhD ’81 & Rachel Porat, MD

Kenneth R. Rado ENG ’76, ’78 & Barbara J. Rado CLA ’75, ’78

Lester Rosenfeld ’49 & Helene Rosenfeld

John H. Shain ’73 & Melanie Maxwell Shain

Jonathan A. Shelon ’94 & Ifat Shelon

Frank Tidikis III ’72, ’74 & Judith Marie Tidikis EDU ’74

William W.S. Wei, PhD & Susanna Wei, PhD

BENEFACTORS ($5,000-$9,999)Stanley S. Altan, PhD MED ’74, MED ’77

Louise F. Buehler ’65 & Leo T. Buehler

Rajan Chandran, PhD & Chitra Chandran ’81, ’84

Anthony J. Conti ’73 & Linda R. Conti

Daniel F. Conway ’87

Stephen A. Cozen & Sandra Cozen

Cosmo T. DeNicola ’76 & Janet E. DeNicola

Hope M. Foote

Michael C. Forman, Esq.

Kenneth Gamble

Daniel Thompson Garrett Jr. ’79 & Marybeth Garrett

Joseph A. Gerber, Esq. & Beverly D. Gerber EDU ’68

Howard E. Goldberg, Esq. ’67 & Randy Goldberg

Robert D. Hamilton III, PhD & Jane Meier Hamilton

Earl W. Hannum ’68 & Phyllis Hannum

Leo A. Helmers ’93

Ronald A. Kapusta ’81 & Barbara G. Kapusta

Margaret Ann Kelley ’75

Dr. Joan A. Krieger & Fred C. Krieger ’69, ’77

Raman Mahadevan ’91

Douglas L. Maine SMC ’71 & Frances M. Maine

David H. Mc Elroy ’81

Margaret M. McGoldrick CLA ’74, ’76 & Richard W. Owens EDU ’76

Robert Needle, Esq. ’72, ’79, LAW ’76

Patrick J. O’Connor, Esq. & Marie M. O’Connor

Maris A. Ogg & Robert C. Smith

Gilbert C. Pierce Jr. CLA ’58, ’61 & Eva Marie Pierce CHPSW ’63

William A. Rosoff, Esq. ’64 & Beverly Rifkin Rosoff TFM ’64

Michael G. Shields ’87 & Stacy Shields

Gerald Shreiber

Mitchell J. Stein ’65 & Sherry Stein

Robert M. Tarola ’73 & Patricia Tarola

James P. Thompson ’76 & Stephanie P. Thompson

John F. Tierney III ’75, ’76 & Gwendolyn D. Tierney

James A. & Elizabeth Leebron Tutelman

Joseph H. Weiss, Esq. ’63, LAW ’66 & Sharon Pinkenson CHPSW ’69, EDU ’71

Sun Hee Won ’83 & John Won

M. Decker & Cheryl Youngman

FRIENDS ($2,500-$4,999)Lawrence M. Bell III ’89, ’91 & Jamie Lynn Bell ’91

Kurt W. Brunner ’82 & Carol A. Brunner

Charles W. Bushar III ’57, ’71 & Lauretta V. Bushar CLA ’57, EDU ’63

Harry J. Carpenter Jr. ’89 & Laura Davis Carpenter CLA ’93

Thomas W. Dobbins, PhD ’82, ’85, ’93

John Dugan

Michael A. Ernst ’92 & Denise Marie Ernst

Richard J. Fox

Samuel D. Hodge Jr., Esq. LAW ’74

Arthur A. Koch Jr. ’75 & Katherine Koch

Franklin C. Markle Jr. ’52 & Lois A. Markle

David J. McIlhenny Jr. ’81 & Susan Lynn McIlhenny, Esq.

Nicholas A. Rago CLA ’67, ’70, ’74 & Diane MacWilliams

Linda Shwab ’91

Paul & Aviva Silberberg

Craig R. Stine ’90

Charles Toll ’55 & Diane Toll

Jeanne Zweig ’53, ’54

MEMBERS ($1,000-$2,499)William E. Aaronson III, PhD EDU ’76, ’86 & Kathleen A. Aaronson

Robert B. Aglira CLA ’70 & Patricia M. Aglira

Knute C. Albrecht ’63 & Carolyn Albrecht

Richard A. Altschuler ’69, ’70 & Deborah Altschuler

Raymond F. Andruszko ’60 & Margaret M. Andruszko

Diane Beahan

Sandra B. Berger ’61 & Allan Robin

Michael C. Borislow ’82 & Jennifer A. Borislow

Timothy R. Bowders ’82

Edward J. Boyanoski III ’09 *

Michael E. Breeze ’96

Richard J. Brennen Jr. ’78 & Maureen Mahoney Brennen

Diana Breslin-Knudsen CLA ’88 & Ted Knudsen

Ed A. Brownley ’80 & Doreen Brownley

John R. Bunting Jr. ’50, CLA ’52, HON ’70 & Jane S. Bunting

Edward J. Burdsall ’84 & Dawn M. Burdsall

Joseph M. Cahill ’72 & Diane L. Cahill

Steven J. Casper, PhD ’10

Bob J. Centonze ’81 & Lynn Langendorf Centonze ’81

Noelle Codispoti ’05 *

Deborah Miffoluf Cohen ’72 & Alan M. Cohen CLA ’72

Mary Conran ’79, ’81

Jesse J. Cooke Jr. ’60 & Inez J. Cooke

Leonard A. Cupingood, PhD CST ’72, ’80, ’86 & Rita L. Cupingood

Amanda B. Dolan ’10 *

David M. Donato ’03 *

William C. Dunkelberg, PhD & Sharon Javie, PhD ’79, ’80, ’92

Robert F. Dunne Jr. ’84

Michael B. Faucher ’83 & Dennis Faucher

Daniel R. Fesenmaier, PhD & Julie Fesenmaier

Ann T. Field

Brian A. Flasinski ’06 * & Emily Flasinski ’07 *

Graeme Frazier ’98

Jerrold A. Frezel ’64 & Beth G. Frezel

Richard D. Gebert ’79 & Ann D. Gebert

Robert A. & Mary Jane Girondi

Harry R. Halloran Jr. & Kay Halloran

Edwin T. Headly ’53

Henry Herskowitz ’65 & Jacqueline Herskowitz

Paul J. Holloway ’61 & Anna Grace Holloway CHPSW ’61

Michael Hubbel

John A. Jackson Jr. ’49 & Elva B. Jackson

Susan M. Kaup, PhD ’03 & Michael E. Remshard, PhD EDU ’92, ’98 *

Jong-Ik Kim, PhD ’74, ’78 & Namyong Kim

Donald P. Kirkwood

Myroslaw J. Kyj, PhD ’74, ’85 & Larissa S. Kyj

Elaine Lax

Joan F. Loren ’84

Robert F. McCadden ’79

Paul M. McGovern ’87 & Sarah B. McGovern

Frank J. McWilliams Jr. ’77

Stuart D. Moiles ’66 & Kathleen P. Moiles

Jason E. Moskal ’99

Patrick J. Mulloy ’02

Bruce & Kathy Mulvey

Karen M. Murphy, PhD ’07 *

Daniel O’Connor ’83

Raluca Olteanu ’03 *

Scot D. Pannepacker ’90 & Heidi Wilenius

Anthony S. Pastor ’06 *

Michael C. Piper ’99, ’03 *

Robin E. Proctor ’07 *

Scott Rankin ’83 & Sharon Rankin

Jessica Renaud, PhD

John & Mary Ann Riesch

Emma C. Roberts ’82

Jerry S. Rosenbloom, PhD ’61 & Lynn G. Rosenbloom EDU ’63

Alan K. Rubin ’72 & Jeri Gaile

Bernard C. Rudegeair ’76 & Rosalie Rudegeair SSW ’76

Eric H. Salmansohn CLA ’80 & Marcia Bronstein

Marc A. Savasta ’98

Anne C. Scardino SMC ’86

Robert F. Schlager ’77, ’80 & Reina Loree Schlager ’77

Thomas J. Schmidt CLA ’88

Joseph Shanis ’40 & Carole P. Shanis

William J. Sifer ’78 & Marianne Sifer

Eve Slap ’81

Edward R. Solvibile ’63

Bernard Spain ’56 & Joan Spain

William Spang ’73 & Marylou Spang SMC ’73

Steven T. & Priscilla E. Stambaugh

Elizabeth Anne Stone ’06 *

Kailin Tuan, PhD

Michael Veloric ’80 & Cynthia Haveson Veloric TYL ’83

Bruce Waxman ’83 & Rosalie Waxman

James Wiley, PhD

Stephen T. Zaborowski ’78

Haiyan Zhou, PhD ’03

M. Michael Zuckerman, Esq. ’77, ’85 & Jan Paula Levine, Esq. LAW ’85

* Indicates Young Alumni Members

Gifts received from July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013

I am very grateful to the people who are named below for their leadership in supporting the Fox School of Business last academic year. Their generosity is helping to strengthen our teaching and research, and especially makes possible our commitment to easing students’ financial burdens through increased scholarship. To them, and to all of our donors, I say ‘thank you’ for including the school in your philanthropy.

Regards, M. Moshe Porat, Dean

A CIRCLE OF LEADING DONORS WHO PROVIDE CRUCIAL SUPPORT TO TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AND THE

FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND SET AN EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPY THAT IS INSPIRING TO THEIR

FELLOW ALUMNI AND FRIENDS.

FOX CONWELL SOCIETY JULY 1, 2012–JUNE 30, 2013

31FOX FOCUS FALL 2013 FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS30

DONOR APPRECIATION 2013

TRUSTEES’ CIRCLE ($100,000 AND ABOVE)Saul A. Fox, Esq. SMC ’75

Herbert Jesse Cohen ’52 & Thalia Cohen

Irwin Lee Gross, Esq. ’65 & Linda Gross

FOUNDER’S CLUB ($50,000-$99,999)Stanley Merves ’51 & Audrey Stein Merves

Mark L. Kaplan ’68 & Michelle H. Kapla

PRESIDENT’S COUNCIL ($25,000-$49,999)Robert L. Allen Sr. ’56 & Joy G. Allen

Christopher W. Alwine ’90 & Jeanette Alwine

Sharada Damaraju CLA ’93, EDU ’95

Venkatrayudu Damaraju, DMD CST ’90, DEN ’94

C. William Devaney ’50, ’63

Cindy Schairer Kalman ’82

Lakshmi Padgett

FELLOWS ($10,000-$24,999)Dennis Alter EDU ’66, HON ’99

Philip T. Argyris ’76, ’79 & Alexandra Wright Argyris CLA ’80

Raza Bokhari, MD ’01 & Sabina R. Bokhari, DDS

Mitchell Jay Cole ’70, ’72 & Margaret M. Cole

Joseph William Duffy ’87

Robert J. Fahey, Jr. SMC ’81, ’10 & Susan Carney Fahey

Larry L. Goldenberg ’59 & Ruth V. Goldenberg EDU ’62

Morton Goldfield ’49 & Elizabeth Goldfield

H. Richard Haverstick Jr. ’74

Kevin L. Johnson ’80 & Julie Johnson

Jerome Kaplan, Esq. ’47 & Edith Kaplan

Jordan A. Katz ’52 & Cynthia Katz

Leonard & Jane Korman

Edward B. Lipkin ’67 & Jean M. Lipkin

Niraj B. Patel ’90 & Cara Patel

Daniel H. Polett HON ’98 & Margo Polett

M. Moshe Porat, PhD ’81 & Rachel Porat, MD

Kenneth R. Rado ENG ’76, ’78 & Barbara J. Rado CLA ’75, ’78

Lester Rosenfeld ’49 & Helene Rosenfeld

John H. Shain ’73 & Melanie Maxwell Shain

Jonathan A. Shelon ’94 & Ifat Shelon

Frank Tidikis III ’72, ’74 & Judith Marie Tidikis EDU ’74

William W.S. Wei, PhD & Susanna Wei, PhD

BENEFACTORS ($5,000-$9,999)Stanley S. Altan, PhD MED ’74, MED ’77

Louise F. Buehler ’65 & Leo T. Buehler

Rajan Chandran, PhD & Chitra Chandran ’81, ’84

Anthony J. Conti ’73 & Linda R. Conti

Daniel F. Conway ’87

Stephen A. Cozen & Sandra Cozen

Cosmo T. DeNicola ’76 & Janet E. DeNicola

Hope M. Foote

Michael C. Forman, Esq.

Kenneth Gamble

Daniel Thompson Garrett Jr. ’79 & Marybeth Garrett

Joseph A. Gerber, Esq. & Beverly D. Gerber EDU ’68

Howard E. Goldberg, Esq. ’67 & Randy Goldberg

Robert D. Hamilton III, PhD & Jane Meier Hamilton

Earl W. Hannum ’68 & Phyllis Hannum

Leo A. Helmers ’93

Ronald A. Kapusta ’81 & Barbara G. Kapusta

Margaret Ann Kelley ’75

Dr. Joan A. Krieger & Fred C. Krieger ’69, ’77

Raman Mahadevan ’91

Douglas L. Maine SMC ’71 & Frances M. Maine

David H. Mc Elroy ’81

Margaret M. McGoldrick CLA ’74, ’76 & Richard W. Owens EDU ’76

Robert Needle, Esq. ’72, ’79, LAW ’76

Patrick J. O’Connor, Esq. & Marie M. O’Connor

Maris A. Ogg & Robert C. Smith

Gilbert C. Pierce Jr. CLA ’58, ’61 & Eva Marie Pierce CHPSW ’63

William A. Rosoff, Esq. ’64 & Beverly Rifkin Rosoff TFM ’64

Michael G. Shields ’87 & Stacy Shields

Gerald Shreiber

Mitchell J. Stein ’65 & Sherry Stein

Robert M. Tarola ’73 & Patricia Tarola

James P. Thompson ’76 & Stephanie P. Thompson

John F. Tierney III ’75, ’76 & Gwendolyn D. Tierney

James A. & Elizabeth Leebron Tutelman

Joseph H. Weiss, Esq. ’63, LAW ’66 & Sharon Pinkenson CHPSW ’69, EDU ’71

Sun Hee Won ’83 & John Won

M. Decker & Cheryl Youngman

FRIENDS ($2,500-$4,999)Lawrence M. Bell III ’89, ’91 & Jamie Lynn Bell ’91

Kurt W. Brunner ’82 & Carol A. Brunner

Charles W. Bushar III ’57, ’71 & Lauretta V. Bushar CLA ’57, EDU ’63

Harry J. Carpenter Jr. ’89 & Laura Davis Carpenter CLA ’93

Thomas W. Dobbins, PhD ’82, ’85, ’93

John Dugan

Michael A. Ernst ’92 & Denise Marie Ernst

Richard J. Fox

Samuel D. Hodge Jr., Esq. LAW ’74

Arthur A. Koch Jr. ’75 & Katherine Koch

Franklin C. Markle Jr. ’52 & Lois A. Markle

David J. McIlhenny Jr. ’81 & Susan Lynn McIlhenny, Esq.

Nicholas A. Rago CLA ’67, ’70, ’74 & Diane MacWilliams

Linda Shwab ’91

Paul & Aviva Silberberg

Craig R. Stine ’90

Charles Toll ’55 & Diane Toll

Jeanne Zweig ’53, ’54

MEMBERS ($1,000-$2,499)William E. Aaronson III, PhD EDU ’76, ’86 & Kathleen A. Aaronson

Robert B. Aglira CLA ’70 & Patricia M. Aglira

Knute C. Albrecht ’63 & Carolyn Albrecht

Richard A. Altschuler ’69, ’70 & Deborah Altschuler

Raymond F. Andruszko ’60 & Margaret M. Andruszko

Diane Beahan

Sandra B. Berger ’61 & Allan Robin

Michael C. Borislow ’82 & Jennifer A. Borislow

Timothy R. Bowders ’82

Edward J. Boyanoski III ’09 *

Michael E. Breeze ’96

Richard J. Brennen Jr. ’78 & Maureen Mahoney Brennen

Diana Breslin-Knudsen CLA ’88 & Ted Knudsen

Ed A. Brownley ’80 & Doreen Brownley

John R. Bunting Jr. ’50, CLA ’52, HON ’70 & Jane S. Bunting

Edward J. Burdsall ’84 & Dawn M. Burdsall

Joseph M. Cahill ’72 & Diane L. Cahill

Steven J. Casper, PhD ’10

Bob J. Centonze ’81 & Lynn Langendorf Centonze ’81

Noelle Codispoti ’05 *

Deborah Miffoluf Cohen ’72 & Alan M. Cohen CLA ’72

Mary Conran ’79, ’81

Jesse J. Cooke Jr. ’60 & Inez J. Cooke

Leonard A. Cupingood, PhD CST ’72, ’80, ’86 & Rita L. Cupingood

Amanda B. Dolan ’10 *

David M. Donato ’03 *

William C. Dunkelberg, PhD & Sharon Javie, PhD ’79, ’80, ’92

Robert F. Dunne Jr. ’84

Michael B. Faucher ’83 & Dennis Faucher

Daniel R. Fesenmaier, PhD & Julie Fesenmaier

Ann T. Field

Brian A. Flasinski ’06 * & Emily Flasinski ’07 *

Graeme Frazier ’98

Jerrold A. Frezel ’64 & Beth G. Frezel

Richard D. Gebert ’79 & Ann D. Gebert

Robert A. & Mary Jane Girondi

Harry R. Halloran Jr. & Kay Halloran

Edwin T. Headly ’53

Henry Herskowitz ’65 & Jacqueline Herskowitz

Paul J. Holloway ’61 & Anna Grace Holloway CHPSW ’61

Michael Hubbel

John A. Jackson Jr. ’49 & Elva B. Jackson

Susan M. Kaup, PhD ’03 & Michael E. Remshard, PhD EDU ’92, ’98 *

Jong-Ik Kim, PhD ’74, ’78 & Namyong Kim

Donald P. Kirkwood

Myroslaw J. Kyj, PhD ’74, ’85 & Larissa S. Kyj

Elaine Lax

Joan F. Loren ’84

Robert F. McCadden ’79

Paul M. McGovern ’87 & Sarah B. McGovern

Frank J. McWilliams Jr. ’77

Stuart D. Moiles ’66 & Kathleen P. Moiles

Jason E. Moskal ’99

Patrick J. Mulloy ’02

Bruce & Kathy Mulvey

Karen M. Murphy, PhD ’07 *

Daniel O’Connor ’83

Raluca Olteanu ’03 *

Scot D. Pannepacker ’90 & Heidi Wilenius

Anthony S. Pastor ’06 *

Michael C. Piper ’99, ’03 *

Robin E. Proctor ’07 *

Scott Rankin ’83 & Sharon Rankin

Jessica Renaud, PhD

John & Mary Ann Riesch

Emma C. Roberts ’82

Jerry S. Rosenbloom, PhD ’61 & Lynn G. Rosenbloom EDU ’63

Alan K. Rubin ’72 & Jeri Gaile

Bernard C. Rudegeair ’76 & Rosalie Rudegeair SSW ’76

Eric H. Salmansohn CLA ’80 & Marcia Bronstein

Marc A. Savasta ’98

Anne C. Scardino SMC ’86

Robert F. Schlager ’77, ’80 & Reina Loree Schlager ’77

Thomas J. Schmidt CLA ’88

Joseph Shanis ’40 & Carole P. Shanis

William J. Sifer ’78 & Marianne Sifer

Eve Slap ’81

Edward R. Solvibile ’63

Bernard Spain ’56 & Joan Spain

William Spang ’73 & Marylou Spang SMC ’73

Steven T. & Priscilla E. Stambaugh

Elizabeth Anne Stone ’06 *

Kailin Tuan, PhD

Michael Veloric ’80 & Cynthia Haveson Veloric TYL ’83

Bruce Waxman ’83 & Rosalie Waxman

James Wiley, PhD

Stephen T. Zaborowski ’78

Haiyan Zhou, PhD ’03

M. Michael Zuckerman, Esq. ’77, ’85 & Jan Paula Levine, Esq. LAW ’85

* Indicates Young Alumni Members

Gifts received from July 1, 2012–June 30, 2013

I am very grateful to the people who are named below for their leadership in supporting the Fox School of Business last academic year. Their generosity is helping to strengthen our teaching and research, and especially makes possible our commitment to easing students’ financial burdens through increased scholarship. To them, and to all of our donors, I say ‘thank you’ for including the school in your philanthropy.

Regards, M. Moshe Porat, Dean

A CIRCLE OF LEADING DONORS WHO PROVIDE CRUCIAL SUPPORT TO TEMPLE UNIVERSITY AND THE

FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND SET AN EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPY THAT IS INSPIRING TO THEIR

FELLOW ALUMNI AND FRIENDS.

FOX CONWELL SOCIETY JULY 1, 2012–JUNE 30, 2013

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Peter Adonizio ’13

Jacqueline Akpan ’15

Melanie Altomare ’15

Charles Anderson ’16

Essa Bahman ’13

Daniel Bastidas ’14

William Best Jr. ’15

Matthew Bonanni ’13

Carlzel Bostic ’13

Rachel Calvitti ’13

Dante Cambria ’13

Louis Cannataro ’13

Daniel Chang ’14

Joseph Chera III ’13

Joseph Ciliberti ’15

Ashley Donahue ’15

David Dupell ’14

Jason Eccleston ’15

Jesse Fields ’13

Brooke Freezman ’13

Cathleen Gabriel ’14

Vincent Galasso ’14

Girard Giorgio ’15

William Hagstotz ’13

Jacob Heckler ’15

Dana Hoffman ’13

Thomas Huang ’14

Muhammad Idris ’15

Amy Kessel ’13

Luke Kockott ’13

Maeve Koeltl ’14

Haley Kuhns ’16

Lucien Lamy ’14

Frederick Lesser ’13

Peter Lien ’13

Kyle Lockard ’15

Nicholas Leighton ’15

Hanae Lyons ’13

Sarika Manavalan ’16

Karla Hernandez Martinez ’13

Emilia McDevitt ’15

Jeffrey McMahon ’14

Anthony Minford ’16

Meir Miskin ’15

Rochelle Moore ’14

Raja Mustafa ’13

Emily Nagle ’15

Brian Nath ’13

Tuanh Nguyen ’13

Henry O'Neill ’15

Charles Paraboschi ’14

Dharmesh Patel ’15

Joseph Pickett ’15

Anthony Pyzikiewicz ’14

Otabek Razikov ’13

Richard Reichert ’14

James Roddy Jr. ’15

Jeffrey Rogers ’13

Brian Rose ’13

Nathaniel Rosen ’13

Matthew Rowe ’13

Zahra Safa ’14

Angelina Saputri ’15

Jenna Schaffer ’14

Christine Shearn ’13

Austin Shvarts ’15

Jason M. Siebott ’13

Luv Sodha ’13

Nicole Steinmuller ’13

Amtul Sufi ’14

Denisa Teme ’13

William Thorsson ’15

Alison Tutelman ’13

Lauren Wagner ’13

Brett Weiss ’15

Corey Weiss ’14

Elizabeth Welsh ’13

Taylor Whitson ’13

Alonna Whittle ’14

Celynna Ramos Zoleta ’16

Student Professional Organization Donor Competition Winner:

Sigma Chapter Gamma Iota Sigma

2012–2013 FOX CHERRY SOCIETYRECOGNIZING THE FOX SCHOOL’S CIRCLE OF STUDENT DONORS

WHO HAVE GIVEN BACK TO THEIR ALMA MATER, SETTING AN

EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPY THAT IS INSPIRING TO OTHERS.

CRAFT YOUR LEGACY WITH TEMPLE EASY. PERSONALIZED. MEANINGFUL.

giving.temple.edu/giftplanning

Working with you and your advisors, the Temple University Office of Gift Planning can help you achieve your long-term financial goals while contributing

to Temple’s legacy of highest quality, affordable education.

Office of Gift Planning215.926.2500 [email protected]

SUCCESS ISN’T GIVEN.IT’S MADE.

Fox School students work hard for every achievement; they take nothing for granted.

But the path forward isn’t always clear. Scholarships open the way.

Make a student’s success possible at giving.temple.edu/givetofox

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Peter Adonizio ’13

Jacqueline Akpan ’15

Melanie Altomare ’15

Charles Anderson ’16

Essa Bahman ’13

Daniel Bastidas ’14

William Best Jr. ’15

Matthew Bonanni ’13

Carlzel Bostic ’13

Rachel Calvitti ’13

Dante Cambria ’13

Louis Cannataro ’13

Daniel Chang ’14

Joseph Chera III ’13

Joseph Ciliberti ’15

Ashley Donahue ’15

David Dupell ’14

Jason Eccleston ’15

Jesse Fields ’13

Brooke Freezman ’13

Cathleen Gabriel ’14

Vincent Galasso ’14

Girard Giorgio ’15

William Hagstotz ’13

Jacob Heckler ’15

Dana Hoffman ’13

Thomas Huang ’14

Muhammad Idris ’15

Amy Kessel ’13

Luke Kockott ’13

Maeve Koeltl ’14

Haley Kuhns ’16

Lucien Lamy ’14

Frederick Lesser ’13

Peter Lien ’13

Kyle Lockard ’15

Nicholas Leighton ’15

Hanae Lyons ’13

Sarika Manavalan ’16

Karla Hernandez Martinez ’13

Emilia McDevitt ’15

Jeffrey McMahon ’14

Anthony Minford ’16

Meir Miskin ’15

Rochelle Moore ’14

Raja Mustafa ’13

Emily Nagle ’15

Brian Nath ’13

Tuanh Nguyen ’13

Henry O'Neill ’15

Charles Paraboschi ’14

Dharmesh Patel ’15

Joseph Pickett ’15

Anthony Pyzikiewicz ’14

Otabek Razikov ’13

Richard Reichert ’14

James Roddy Jr. ’15

Jeffrey Rogers ’13

Brian Rose ’13

Nathaniel Rosen ’13

Matthew Rowe ’13

Zahra Safa ’14

Angelina Saputri ’15

Jenna Schaffer ’14

Christine Shearn ’13

Austin Shvarts ’15

Jason M. Siebott ’13

Luv Sodha ’13

Nicole Steinmuller ’13

Amtul Sufi ’14

Denisa Teme ’13

William Thorsson ’15

Alison Tutelman ’13

Lauren Wagner ’13

Brett Weiss ’15

Corey Weiss ’14

Elizabeth Welsh ’13

Taylor Whitson ’13

Alonna Whittle ’14

Celynna Ramos Zoleta ’16

Student Professional Organization Donor Competition Winner:

Sigma Chapter Gamma Iota Sigma

2012–2013 FOX CHERRY SOCIETYRECOGNIZING THE FOX SCHOOL’S CIRCLE OF STUDENT DONORS

WHO HAVE GIVEN BACK TO THEIR ALMA MATER, SETTING AN

EXAMPLE OF PHILANTHROPY THAT IS INSPIRING TO OTHERS.

CRAFT YOUR LEGACY WITH TEMPLE EASY. PERSONALIZED. MEANINGFUL.

giving.temple.edu/giftplanning

Working with you and your advisors, the Temple University Office of Gift Planning can help you achieve your long-term financial goals while contributing

to Temple’s legacy of highest quality, affordable education.

Office of Gift Planning215.926.2500 [email protected]

SUCCESS ISN’T GIVEN.IT’S MADE.

Fox School students work hard for every achievement; they take nothing for granted.

But the path forward isn’t always clear. Scholarships open the way.

Make a student’s success possible at giving.temple.edu/givetofox

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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY FOX SCHOOL OF BUSINESS FALL 2013 VOLUME ISSUE

www.fox.temple.edu

Non-Profit Org.U.S. Postage

PAIDPhiladelphia, PAPermit No. 1044

REEL IMPRESSIVESophomore Brandon Matthews sinks a 15-yard chip-in for par —“the greatest shot I’ve ever hit in my life”— on the final hole of the U.S. Open sectional qualifier in June.

After serving as an alternate for the U.S. Open Championship (despite the impres-sive shot, the final player knocked Matthews out), the phenom golfer captured the Golf Association of Philadelphia’s Open Championship in July and, less than a week later, won the U.S. Amateur qualifying round to earn a berth in one of the world’s most prestigious amateur events.

Photos courtesy of Barry Sloan/MGA

SWEET SPOTS Leading the Hershey Company’s Corporate Social Responsibility

Alumnus Todd Camp leads corporate social responsibility and community relations at the Sweetest Place on Earth.

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An entrepreneurship major is the brains behind the national Zombie Run series of the quick and undead.

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Temple Student Government President Darin Bartholomew has pushed for #CherryOn via social media.

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Alumni profiles include the CIO of San Francisco and the VP of HR for Turner Broadcasting Co.

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