Whitman Class Notes
May 2023
NEW POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS:
James Jackson ’11 MBA: Director of Strategic Sales, Retail Dietitians Business Alliance, LLC.
Michael Jiang ’11: Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
Michael Daniello ’15: Senior Associate, Sound Mark Partners
Elmer Luke III ’15: Investment Banking Vice President, Mizuho
Ethan Rothschild ’15: HR Director, Org Design & Transformation, Unilever
Matthew Alnwick ’18: Associate, Athos Partners
Anweih Cox ’18: Designer, Narrative
Victoria Parker ’18, ’21 M.S.: Manager, Global Sourcing, Paramount
Lena Schermer ’18: Senior Revenue Accountant, Excelitas Technologies Corporation
Kenneth Mintz ’19: Senior Communications Manager, Gamefam
Gabriella Jimenez ’20: Electronic Trading & Liquidity Solutions, Bloomberg
Bryan Stocks ’20 MBA: Senior Director, Membership, Dairy Farmers of America
Michael Morse ’21 MBA: Budget Management Analyst, United States Department of Defense
AWARDS AND RECOGNITIONS:
Chelsea Ransom-Cooper ’15 (below), managing partner and financial planning director at Zenith Wealth Partners, and Young Whitman Advisory Council member, has been named one of Financial Advisor Magazine’s Young Advisors to Watch in 2023.
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS:
Jordan Fox ’13 (below) welcomed Sonny Isaac Fox on March 4th, 2023.

April 2023
NEW POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS:
David Guilmette ’09 MBA: Vice President, CHS Inc.
Megan McKenna ’10: Managing Director, Marketing and Media Strategy, The New York Times
Susane Shani ’94 (A&S), ’10 MBA: Director, Beam Suntory
Zachary Bear ‘11: Business Development, PitchBook Data
Michael Jiang ’11: Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners
Ali Fleischer ’13: Senior Manager Product Strategy, SharkNinja
Alyssa Breen ’15: Digital Brand Specialist, Michael Kors at Macy’s
Andres Diz ’16: Senior Associate of Finance, Balanced Rock Power
Eric Klein ’16: Director of Business Development, MontPac
Alexander Heller ’17: Associate, BBG Inc.
Matthew R. LaFlair ’17 (IST), ’19 MBA: Director, Integrated Planning and Solutions, National Grid
Sophia Cappelli ’18, ’19 M.S.: Senior Associate, Blue Owl Capital
Brian Friedman ’18: Account Executive, Mid Market, Uber
Mitchell Takeda ’18: Senior Project Manager, Sephora
Brendan Anderson ’19: Senior Analyst, Capital Markets, Hines
Michael Brenner ’19: HCM Account Executive, Paylocity
Samuel Gozinsky ’19: Commercial Manager, FanDuel
Quinn Hecker ’20: Associate Account Executive, Travelers
Zia Jackson ’20: Office Coordinator, Syracuse University – Maxwell School
John-Austin Ricks ’20: National Account Manager, Super Coffee
Ruth Bang ’21: Senior Consultant, FTI Consulting
Ishan Gajra ’21: Senior Associate, Partner Valuation Advisors
MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS:
Kateyln Meola ’10, director of brand marketing at PepsiCo and her husband Andrew Meola ’10 (NEW) welcomed their second child Cameron James Meola (below) on February 28th.
IN MEMORIAM:
William Hoyle Hannum passed away on July 11, 2022. Bill was a professor of statistics at the Whitman School for 30 years.
Michael Tripodi ’81 passed away on January 24, 2023.
March 2023
NEW POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS:
Jim Perkins ’88 MBA: Interim Chief Financial Officer, Flyspace Productions
Shannon Nulty Fitzpatrick ’04: Associate Director of Operational Excellence, Bristol Myers Squibb
Adam Green ’06: CEO of Asset Management, FNZ Group
Jonathan Davis ’08, ’10 MBA: Manager, Solution Engineering, Deltek
Scott Dittmeier ’11: Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Ariel Tavakoli ’15: Senior Analyst, Asset Management, Extell
Krista Librett ’16: Operations Manager - Senior Credit, Manulife Investment Management
Lauren Bogardus ’17: Vice President, BNY Mellon
Diana D. Correia ’17: Senior Associate, JPMorgan & Chase Co.
Jordan Evans ’17: Planning Consultant, Fidelity Investments
Joshua Karpinski ’17 MBA: Director Transformation Strategy, Liberty
Max Solomon ’17: Onboarding Success Manager, impact.com
Angela Anastasi ’18: Law Clerk, McCue Sussmane Zapfel & Cohen P.C.
Christopher Johnson ’18 MBA: Director of Marketing, Ashland Greene
Carmen Nepa ’18: Senior Associate, Inverness Graham
Michelle Watson ’18 M.S.: Associate Accountant, Rochester City School District
Christina Ambalavanar ’19: Marketing Associate, Grubhub
Cassie Kramp ’19: AVP, Commercial Banking Associate, Citi
Jamie Martin ’19: Founder, Cosmic Pursuit LLC
Claire Stocum ’19: AVP, Senior Relationship Liaison, M&T Bank
Audrey Yoo ’19: Sales Development Manager, athenahealth
Jacob Cestari ’20, ’22 MBA: Staff Account, SeaChange International
John Jaroslawski ’20: Territory Representative, Milwaukee Tool
Kylie Maher ’20: Assistant Vice President, US Institutional Credit, Tradeweb
Rebecca Millman ’20: Editorial Specialist, Walmart
Spencer Stein ’20: Audit Associate II, CBIZ Marks Paneth
Samantha Walters ’20: Experience Management Senior Associate, EY
February 2023
NEW POSITIONS AND PROMOTIONS:
Nick Gustin ’85: Senior Vice President and GMM, Apparel, Hudson’s Bay
Rob Liberty ’94: Managing Director, Bank of America
Thomas Murphy ’87 MBA, ’95 Ph.D.: Chief Executive Officer, Green Carbon Nanostructures Corporation
Chad Wainman ’04: Senior Claims Consultant, Stephenson+Brook
Emily Doran ’07: Senior Lead Expert Risk Specialist, Office of the Comptroller of the Currency
Brittney Papke Frick ’07: Senior Principal Contract Manager - Marine Systems Business Unit US Navy, Northrop Grumman
Trevor Marsteller ’09: Controller, Bear Flag Robotics
Max Moskovitz ’12: Director, Golden Vision Capital
Kyle Hoffstein ’13: Strategic Account Executive, Quickbase
Alec Barnett ’14: Principal, TSG Consumer Partners
Yi-Nien Lai ’14 MBA: Senior Manager, Business Intelligence, Klaviyo
Katherine Ristau ’14: Executive Director – Sr. Strategy Manager, JPMorgan & Chase
Jessica Matos ’15: League Finance, Manager, NBA
Ben Uhing ’15: Vice President – Private Banker, J.P. Morgan
Dana Ewanechko ’16: Demand Planner, Henkel
Angela Herrera ’16: Alliances Marketing Manager, Special Projects, PwC
Jake Horowitz ’16: Associate Vice President | Retail Leasing, Colliers
Peggy Nairin ’16: Vice President, Delos
Michael Shaw ’16: Business Intelligence Manager, Yahoo
Corey Dender ’18: Billing Manager, Initiative
Blair Greenwald ’18: Senior Project Manager, Unified Partnerships, iHeartRadio
Brett Klein ’18: Audit Senior, CBIZ Marks Paneth
Derek Lepore ’19: Senior Business Development Representative, FloQast
Erin Sciortino ’19: Associate, Blackstone
Daniel Wetreich ’19: Financial Planning Analyst, Omnicom Media Group
Sarah Ferranti ’20: Equity Research Associate, BMO Capital Markets
Justin Nee ’20: Anti-Money Laundering Investigator, Standard Charter Bank
Andrew Southard ’20: Business Partner Specialist, IBM
Victor Carrafiello ’21: Assistant Manager, Precision Advertising Planner, L'Oréal
IN THE MEDIA:
Derrell Smith ’10 (IST),’13 M.A. (NEW), CEO of 99EATS, host of Tastemade’s “Mad Good Food” and member of the Young Whitman Advisory Council, shared savory super bowl favorites on NBC’s Today and to promote his upcoming “Mad Good Food” NFL special.
Chris Marino ’13, global head of performance marketing and media at Bloomberg News and member of the Young Whitman Advisory Council, shared marketing insight in the “Intelligent Creative Spotlight Series” on vidmob. Marino was also featured by “Marketing Brew” in the weekly series, “Coworking.”
Chelsea Ransom-Cooper ’15 (below), managing partner and director of financial planning at Zenith Wealth Partners and member of the Young Whitman Advisory Council, was featured by Financial Planning Magazine in the article, “Black-owned RIA Leader: How wirehouses can improve on DEI.”
