Fall 2023 TEPPER MAGAZINE 


Business board
of advisors

Chair
William M. Lambert (MSIA 1990)

CEO and Chairman of the Board (retired)
MSA Safety 

Vice Chair
Cindy Padnos (MSIA 1980)

Founder and Managing Director
Illuminate Ventures

Homaira Akbari (MSIA 1996)
President and CEO
AKnowledge Partners LLC

Darryl Britt (MSIA 1990, Trustee)
President and CEO
Apprio Inc.

Sebastian Ceria (MSIA 1990, Ph.D. 1993)
CEO and President
Qontigo and Fundar

Jenny Cordina (MSIA 2022)
Partner
McKinsey & Company

Mark A. Coblitz (MSIA 1982)
Senior Vice President, Strategic Planning
(Retired) Comcast Corporation

David A. Coulter (BSIM 1971, MSIA 1971, Trustee)
Chair, CMU Board of Trustees
Special Limited Partner Warburg Pincus

Lyenda Simpson Delt (MSIA 1997)
Head of Financial Institutions
Group (FIG) Americas
BlackRock

Stephanie Ercegovic (BSIM 1982, MSIA 1983)
Portfolio Manager
Alphadyne Capital Management

Paul Fonteyne (MSIA 1987)
Chairman and CEO (Retired)
Boehringer-Ingelheim USA

Onur Genç (MSIA 1997)
CEO
BBVA Group

Donald Heberle (MSIA 1994)
Head, Wealth Management
The PNC Financial Services Group

Keishi Hotsuki (MSIA 1989)
Senior Advisor
Morgan Stanley

Michael Hsu (BSIM 1986)
Chairman of the Board and CEO
Kimberly-Clark Corporation

Claudia Jury (BSIM 1988)
Managing Director, Co-Head of Global
Currencies & Emerging Markets
JP Morgan

Gunjan Kedia (MSIA 1994)
Vice Chairman of Wealth Management
and Securities Services
U.S. Bank

Jon R. Kinol (MSIA 1992)
Founder
Zenik Capital, LLC

Justin McElhattan (MBA 2005)
Group President, Enviornmental
Health & Safety
Fortive Corporation

Jack E. McGrath (MSIA 1961, Emeritus Trustee)
Senior Vice President (retired)
Booz, Allen & Hamilton

Brian Olsavsky (MSIA 1989)
Senior Vice President and
Chief Financial Officer
Amazon.com

Marc A. Onetto (MSIA 1975)
Principal
Leadership From The
Mind And The Heart LLC

James E. Rohr (Trustee)
Chairman and CEO (retired)
The PNC Financial Services Group

Amit K. Sachdev (BSIM 1990)
Executive Vice President, Chief Patient
Officer and Chief of Staff to the CEO
Vertex Pharmaceuticals

Manoj P. Singh (MSIA 1976, Trustee)
Chief Operating Officer (retired)
Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu Ltd.

David A. Tepper (MSIA 1982, Trustee)
President and Founder
Appaloosa Management L.P.

Cynthia Wang (MSIA/MSCF 1997)
Board Director
Global CCS Institute

ALUMNI BOARD

PRESIDENT
Bob DeAngelis (MSIA 1985)

Principal/ CEO
The Cartesian Group, LLC

Swetha Arbuckle (MBA 2009, MS/HC 2009)
Director, Talent Experience — Amazon Entertainment
Amazon

David Betts (MBA 2002)
Principal
Deloitte Consulting LLP

Cyanne Demchak (MBA 2009, MS/HC 2009)
Chief Strategy Officer
Evernorth Care Delivery, a subsidiary of
Cigna Corporation

John Dischner (MSIA 1994)
Managing Director
AlixPartners LLP

Paul Frank (MSIA 2000)
Partner
PwC

Otis Greene (BS 1996)
Managing Director
BlackRock

Melissa Horne (BS 2005, MBA 2005)
Vice President, Wealth Planner
Fidelity Investments

Jertez Hunter (MBA 2013)
Manager Commercial Strategy and Pricing
Union Pacific

Andrew Jones (MBA 2003)
Director of Engineering
Pratt & Whitney

Scott Jubeck (BS 2003, MBA 2008)
Vice President of Product Management
Flatiron Health

Catherine Mackinnon (BS/CIT 2001, MBA 2008)
VP Business Development
AMETEK Electronic Instruments Group

Jennifer Milacci (BS 1995)
Managing Director, Head of Client Service
Renaissance Institutional Management

Brittany Williams Mithra (MBA 2013)
Sr. Manager, Operations and Supply Chain
Amazon

Jack O’Malley (MBA 2007)
SVP and Managing Director
PNC Capital Markets, Inc.

Julia Schloss (MSIA 1997)
Founder and CEO
Bayview Residential Brokerage

Carol Scott (MSIA 1996)
CIO
Graham Packaging

Sujal Shah (MBA 2004)
President and CEO
CymaBay Therapeutics, Inc.

LaShaina Shakes (MBA 2015)
Director, Business Insights and Analytics
Bristol Myers Squibb

Balika Sonthalia (MBA 2015)
Senior Partner
Kearney

Eduardo Tobon (MBA 2000)
Director, Economic Equity Advisory Group
and Commercial Banking
BMO Harris Bank

Ekin Tutek (MSIA 1997)
Leadership and Teams Coach and Founder
Relations That Work

Pradeep UN (MBA 2003)
Founder CEO
The Stories and Wisdom Company

Administration

Isabelle Bajeux-Besnainou, Ph.D. 
Dean

Willem-Jan van Hoeve, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean, Education

Duane Seppi, Ph.D.
Senior Associate Dean, Faculty

Anita Williams Woolley, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Research

Kate Barraclough, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Masters Programs

Burton Hollifield, Ph.D.
Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs

David Major, Ph.D.
Associate Dean of Diversity,
Equity, Inclusion, and Belonging 

Jonathan Stern
Associate Dean, Advancement

Rhonda D. Fischer
Chief Operating Officer

Lynda Oliver
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer

Alan Montgomery, Ph.D.
Head, Ph.D. Program

Tad Brinkerhoff
Assistant Dean, Masters Programs

Jennifer Wegner, Ed.D.
Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Programs

Lars-Alexander Kuehn , Ph.D.
Head, Master of Science in
Computational Finance Program

Magazine Staff

Editor
Lisa Kulick

Assistant Editor
Abby Johnston

Design
Arshveen Gaghok, Andrew Galvan

Production
Karen Boucher, Arshveen Gaghok, Leah Schoolcraft, Nick Wright

Cover Story
Sally Parker

Writers
Suzi Morales, Courtney Ryan, Melissa Silmore

Contributors
Janice French, Dawn DiBartolo, Justin Jakovac, John Sengenberger

Photography
Howard Korn, Michael Olmsted, Ken Richardson, Stanton Stephens

Cover Illustration
Traci Daberko

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