Siebel Scholars Class Updates – May 2016
Compiled by Class Representative Ore Alebiosu (UIUC CS)
Compiled by Class Representative Ore Alebiosu (UIUC CS)
Ore Alebiosu (UIUC CS ’16) is currently writing his thesis and also preparing work for conference submissions. He will be graduating from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and begin working as a Full-time at Intel Corporation this summer.
Xinwo Huang (Princeton Energy Science ’16) is going to graduate in May 2016 from Princeton University with a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering. In August, he will join the Houston office of the Boston Consulting Group.
Ranjit Deshmukh (UC Berkeley Energy Science ’16) received the ITRI-Rosenfeld postdoctoral fellowship at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. This two-year long fellowship recognizes the contribution of Arthur H. Rosenfeld, Ph.D., to the advancement of energy efficiency, and is administered by the Energy Technologies Area of the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory. As part of the fellowship, he will explore the effects of climate change and water on both the supply and demand sides of the electricity system. He will begin his new job right after he completes his PhD thesis, expected in September 2016. During the past academic year, he, along with his team, completed a major study identifying Renewable Energy Zones for 20 different countries in eastern and southern Africa. The study along with interactive web and pdf maps are available at mapRE.lbl.gov. In collaboration with the National Renewable Energy Laboratory, he is now co-leading a study called Greening-The-Grid to understand the impacts of high penetration of wind and solar generation on the Indian national grid. The study is expected to be completed by the end of 2016.
Jack He (UC Berkeley CS ’16) is working towards a Master’s Degree at UC Berkeley’s EECS department. He will be graduating in Summer 2016 and will start working at Google’s Mountain View office in August as a Software Engineer. He has been to every local (i.e. San Francisco Bay Area) Siebel event in the past year. The experience has been amazing. He met with Mr. Siebel personally at the UC Berkeley Siebel Scholars awards ceremony and the Bay Area Siebel Scholars dinner. He learned a lot about his passion for making the world better through better connected devices and more advanced data analytic tools. He is very glad that his research and career goal align very closely to Mr. Siebel’s vision. Moreover, through Siebel Scholars events, he got to know past year Siebel Scholars who already started working at various Bay Area companies and is staying in contact with them. Overall, he thinks Siebel Scholars events are excellent opportunities to meet great people and extend Siebel Scholars’ knowledge and social horizons.
Benjamin Heymann (École Polytechnique Energy Science ’16) is looking forward to meeting more Siebel Scholars in France. He is currently writing his PhD thesis and finishing some articles.
Kunwoo Lee (UC Berkeley BioE ’16) plans to start his postdoc work at UC Berkeley following graduation.
Fede Weis (MIT Sloan ’16) is about to finish the last year of his MBA.
Nathaniel Cira (Stanford BioE ’16) is still a student in Stanford’s BioE dept.
Hao Dang (Johns Hopkins BioE ’16) got awarded a travel grant from the American Association of Physicists in Medicine last year (called The AAPM Expanding Horizons Travel Grant), which will give him a chance to attend the premiere clinical conference, (American Society of Neuroradiology) “ASNR Annual Meeting.” He will also give an oral presentation of his research work at this conference, which will be held in Washington DC this month.
Jordan Rabet (Stanford CS ’16) graduated with his Master’s degree from Stanford at the end of March and moved to Seattle to start working at Microsoft as a Program Manager II on their Offensive Security Research team. He’s been there for just about a month now and everything’s going great.
Amay Bandodkar (UC San Diego BioE ’16) has been recently awarded the 2016 Metrohm Young Chemist Award and the 2016 MRS Graduate Student Award (Silver). He also published two co-first authors papers in Nano Letters: (Impact factor: 13.59) and Nature Communications: (Impact factor: 11.47) Accepted manuscript (under press).
David Herzfeld (Johns Hopkins BioE ’16) received the 2016 Carol and Martin Macht Award for outstanding research by a graduate student at the Johns Hopkins Young Investigators’ Day. He also received a post-doctoral Science of Leaning fellowship from Johns Hopkins to continue his research.
Shadi Eshghi (Johns Hopkins BioE ’16) recently moved to the Bay Area and joined Genentech as an Associate Scientist. Another piece of exciting news is that a collaborative glycoproteomics study in her PhD lab at Johns Hopkins University got accepted for publication in Nature Biotech a few months ago.
Zhenya Kaliberova (Chicago Booth ’16) will be graduating from Chicago Booth School of Business in June. She is planning on staying in Chicago and returning to Bain & Company in mid-September as a Consultant. She is looking forward to meeting more Siebel Scholars this year – let her know if you’ll be in the area!
Sarah Wang (Stanford GSB ’16) will be joining a growth equity firm called TA Associates as a VP in their Menlo Park office. She is looking forward to connecting with other Siebel Scholars!
Xun Zheng (CMU CS ’16) is continuing as a PhD student in the Machine Learning Department of Carnegie Mellon University.
Svilen Kanev (Harvard CS ’16) is graduating from Harvard in a couple of months and will start working at Google in Mountain View, CA.
Erik Krogen (UC Berkeley CS ’16) will be graduating soon and will also hopefully be published soon.
Kathryn Fink’s (UC Berkeley BioE ’16) thesis is nearing completion, and she anticipates completing her PhD in May. She has begun interviewing for industry positions, and hopes to have updates on that front in the coming weeks and months.
Woobie Bello-Maldonado (UIUC CS ’16) has been working on a project titled “Parallel Computing for Simultaneous Iterative Tomographic Imaging by Graphics Processing Units” over the last few months that was published and presented at the SPIE conference in Baltimore. Also, he is doing a quarter day tutorial at the XSEDE conference in Miami this summer titled “The Things I Wish I Had Known When I Started in HPC”. Finally, he has secured a summer internship position at Sandia National Laboratory in New Mexico, where he will be working with a discontinuous Galerkin code and GPUs. In community news, he has been in contact with Neil Jhaveri (Harvard CS ‘09) about his work at Apple.
Federico de Bosio (Politecnico di Torino Energy Science ’16) received the Best Presentation Recognition at IEEE conference IECON 2015 in the session entitled “TS-120: Interfacing and control of Renewable Energy Generation IV” in Yokohama, Japan this past November. He also published two journal papers, as well as 1 magazine paper and 16 conference papers.
The end of Bradley Powell’s (Chicago Booth ’16) two years of MBA life is fast approaching, and he has been making the most of it. During this school year, he has represented Chicago Booth and won first place at two international finance competitions. The first was the inaugural Oxford Chicago Private Equity Competition, hosted at the Said Business School in Oxford. The second was the Ben Graham Centre for Value Investing Stock Picking Competition held in Toronto. Looking forward, he will be joining Fidelity Investments in their London, UK office following graduation. Links about the competitions are here, here, and here.
Jane Lai (MIT CS ‘16) will receive her Master’s degree this June and will then start an internship at Bose, working on audio signal processing, this summer. She will move on to get her doctoral degree and also become a brunch chair in her dorm in the fall. Jane has very much enjoyed meeting other Siebel Scholars and all 5 of her classmates in the EECS department at MIT have met up outside the official Siebel Scholars events. She’s also been contacted by Siebel Scholars outside of EECS as well. She really appreciates being part of the Siebel Scholars family.
Compiled by Class Representative Kathy Wei (Stanford BioE)
Alex Wright-Gladstein (MIT Sloan ‘15) is the Co-founder and CEO of Ayar Labs.
Kathy Wei (Stanford BioE ‘15) successfully defended her Ph.D. this year and received her degree in Bioengineering from Stanford. The paper she published on controlling the cell cycle with synthetic RNA devices was featured in Science Translational Medicine as an Editor’s Choice article. She is now working as a postdoc in Dr. David Baker’s lab at the University of Washington in Seattle and is learning a whole new set of skills in computational protein design.
Todd Johnson (UCSD BioE ‘15) moved to downtown Los Angeles last summer to start a new job as a Consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He recently published an article in The Journal of the American College of Cardiology: Basic to Translational Science.
Christine Anderson (nee Leach) (MIT Sloan ‘15) joined Walmart eCommerce in September, where she is currently managing their Pickup Today program (buy online, pickup in store). She is learning a great deal about eCommerce as well as retail store operations. She had the chance to meet with Hanson Li (Stanford GSB ‘04) and learn about the fascinating work he is doing with SF-based restaurants and chefs.
Cheen Euong Ang (Stanford BioE ‘15) is finalizing his PhD studies.
Bo Zheng (UC Berkeley BioE ‘15) published two papers in the past year, and he and his wife are expecting a baby boy in August!
Yang You (Tsinghua CS ‘15) became a PhD student in the UC Berkeley CS department and won the IPDPS 2015 Best Paper award..
Yuan Yao (Stanford BioE ‘15) finished his PhD and went back to China to work for BCG as a Consultant.
Wen-Chin Huang (UC Berkeley BioE ‘15) will graduate from UC Berkeley in Summer 2016, and is going to be a postdoc in Prof. Song Li’s lab at UCLA in Fall 2016.
Anca Dragan (CMU CS ‘15) got a tenure-track position at UC Berkeley in EECS and started the InterACT Lab.
Katie Rehberger (Northwestern Kellogg ‘15) and her husband are excited to welcome their first child in June!
Lamyaa Eloussi (UIUC CS ‘15) moved to a new team and role in Salesforce last January, which is allowing her to learn some new, exciting skills and technologies.
Hermes Taylor-Weiner (UC San Diego BioE ‘15) received a Whitaker Post-doctoral Fellowship at the Karolinska Institute in Stockholm.
Compiled by Class Representative Seymour de Picciotto (MIT BioE)
Ben Lee (UC Berkeley BioE ‘14) lives in Santa Clara and is still working at Abbott Vascular Structural Heart in Menlo Park as Senior R&D Engineer, with emphasis in clinical engineering and human factors engineering. He meets from time to time old friends from UC Berkeley Bioengineering Siebel Scholars.
Carolyn Ibsen (UC San Diego BioE ‘14) was awarded a Whitaker International Fellowship and is now doing postdoctoral research at Imperial College London in the Biomaterials group of Molly Stevens.
Jeff Gole (UC San Diego BioE ‘14) recently moved back to San Diego, CA to join Singlera Genomics, a startup utilizing next generation sequencing technology for cancer diagnostics, as the Sr. Manager of R&D. He is working with fellow Siebel Scholar Athurva Gore (UC San Diego BioE ‘13) and very excited to be back in Southern California.
Seymour de Picciotto (MIT BioE ‘14) started working last year as a scientist at Moderna Therapeutics. He works in the New Venture Labs division, which focuses on exploring new applications for the messenger RNA technology of the company.
Ton Subsoontorn (Stanford BioE ‘13) has moved to the University of Cambridge to work as a postdoctoral researcher at the department of plant science.
Yi Zhang (Johns Hopkins BioE ‘13) is currently working as the research scientist at the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology.
Sriram Emani’s (MIT Sloan ‘13) startup, IndianRaga, won the 2016 Fractured Atlas Arts Entrepreneurship award, and placed second in the MIT Creative Arts Business contest recently. He also became a 2016 Global Fellow with the International Society for the Performing Arts (ISPA).
Laura Ensign (Johns Hopkins BioE ‘13) joined the faculty as an Assistant Professor at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine in 2014. She also just had her second child in July 2015. She was awarded her first grants as PI in 2015 as well, one from the Burroughs Wellcome Preterm Birth Initiative and an R01 from NIH.
Wei Wu (UC Berkeley CS ‘13) moved to Hamburg, Germany last year and has been working as an iOS developer at Yelp. She spoke at the inaugural App Builders conference in Zurich in April about frontend infrastructure for iOS.
Compiled by Class Representative Luis Pedro Coelho (CMU CS)
Dimitrios Antos (Harvard CS ‘12) is now a Senior Software Engineer in Verily Life Sciences (formerly Google[x] Life Sciences).
Daniel Coleman (MIT Sloan ‘12) works for Bechtel in San Francisco. He and his wife welcomed their first child in January, a healthy baby boy named Patrick.
Dan Kagan (UCSD BioE ‘12) was promoted to COO at Scientist.com. Their startup is rapidly expanding, hiring and looking to accelerate the way the pharmaceutical and biotech companies conduct preclinical research.
Ben Orton (Chicago Booth ‘12) is in Minneapolis, MN with his wife Christina of 5 yrs. They have a 4 year old son, a 2 year old son, and are expecting their 3rd son this month. Ben is working as a Global Product Marketing Manager for the Dow Chemical Company’s Water and Process Solutions business. He is commercializing an innovative water and wastewater filtration technology with a business they acquired in 2012 called Clean Filtration Technologies.
Hannah Carter (Johns Hopkins BioE ‘12) had a baby on November 5th, 2015, and received a 2015 Outstanding Recent Graduate Award from the Johns Hopkins Alumni Association. Her lab also published a paper showing that mutations in cancer frequently target protein interactions.
After Harshitha Menon (UIUC CS ‘12) completed her MS in Computer Science from UIUC in 2012, she continued for a PhD in CS at UIUC. She has had a few publications in this time frame and her paper was nominated for best paper award at SC13 and another publication received best paper award at Cluster 2014. Harshitha was awarded George Michael fellowship in 2014, which is a highly prestigious award in HPC. She is also a recipient of Google Anita Borg Scholarship. They had a new addition to their family in Oct 2014.
Luis Pedro Coelho (CMU CS ‘12) is living half time in Heidelberg and half time in Luxembourg. He is working on marine ecology at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL). Some of their work was published in Science in 2015. His second daughter, Sarah, was born in November 2015.
Compiled by Class Representative Guillaume Fernet (MIT Sloan)
Sean Twersky (Northwestern Kellogg ‘12) was lucky enough to marry his beautiful fiancee Laura at a beautiful ceremony in LA last year. He left Bain to join Instacart and run their operations in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest. Since delivering food wasn’t enough, he also ended up investing in project led by fellow Siebel Scholar Hanson Li (Stanford GSB ‘04) called LocoL. It’s a restaurant concept led by super-chef Roy Choi that’s bringing great tasting and healthy food to lower income neighborhoods and prices cheaper than a typical fast food chain. The first location is already open in Watts, Los Angeles with locations in San Francisco and Oakland opening soon.
Lucas Smith (UCSD BioE ‘11) published some articles this year and received a significant grant, a K99/R00 award from the NIH National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases.
Angela Wu (Stanford BioE ’11) moved from California to Hong Kong, where she started a job at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology as an Assistant Professor, whilst still consulting for Agenovir, the company she helped to found with Jianbin Wang (Stanford BioE ’12) last year. She has been very busy setting up her lab and recruiting students. It’s been an exciting, terrifying, and very rewarding experience all in one. She would be happy to meet up anyone from the Siebel Scholars community in HK and show them the HKU campus, which is one of the most beautiful in Asia.
Lily Jeng (MIT BioE ’11) recently moved to St. Louis. She continues to work for Smith & Nephew as Manager of Strategic Programs for R&D and thus frequently travels to her previous home, Boston.
Anuj Patel (UC Berkeley BioE ’11) just started a new job as a scientist at DiCE Molecules, a startup in the Bay Area using a novel technology for the development of small molecule drug compounds.
Guillaume Fernet (MIT Sloan ’11) moved to Tokyo, Japan, to spearhead his company’s development in Asia. He established the Tokyo office and set up the team and subsidiary, Energy Pool Japan KK to help Japan sail through the post-Fukushima energy crisis by making electricity consumption more flexible and adaptable to real-time grid contingencies. In the last year he also started their business in South Korea in partnership with Hyosung Corporation. He is looking forward to the expansion of the Siebel Foundation’s partnerships in Japan and welcoming Siebel Scholars visiting Tokyo.
Kristen Naegle (MIT BioE ‘10) is an Assistant Professor in Biomedical Engineering at Washington University in St. Louis. Prior, she was at MIT for a postdoc.
Marcio von Muhlen (MIT BioE ‘10) and his wife Virginia welcomed Enzo von Muhlen to the world in 2015. He is cuddly, hilarious, and loves “swimming” with dad.
Somin Eunice Lee (UC Berkeley BioE ‘10) recently started as an Assistant Professor in EECS at the University of Michigan. Her laboratory focuses on pushing the limits of resolution to enable new spatial and temporal capabilities needed for quantification in medicine. She recently received the 2016 Air Force (AFOSR) Young investigator Program (YIP) Award and 2015 National Science Foundation (NSF) CAREER Award in recognition for her research.
Rachel Miller (MIT BioE ‘10), PhD was promoted to Assistant Professor in the Department of Internal Medicine at Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, IL as of Sept. 2015.
Jidong Zhai (Tsinghua CS ‘10) is currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Computer Science and Technology, Tsinghua University. This year, he is visiting Stanford University and working on domain specific language. Generally, his research interests include performance evaluation for high performance computers, performance analysis, and modeling of parallel applications.
Amy Lee Hsieh Yuan (UC San Diego BioE ‘10) changed positions and is now working for a local Bay Area biotech startup.
Matt Skaruppa (Stanford GSB ‘10) has recently joined Goldman Sachs as an operating executive, where he is focused on improving performance in their late stage / growth equity portfolio. He and his wife welcomed their daughter, Anne Reese, to the world in December 2014.
Megan Palmer (MIT BioE ‘10) was appointed as a Senior Research Scholar at the Center for International Security and Cooperation (CISAC) at Stanford University. She’s leading a research program on policy and international security issues in biotechnology and other emerging technologies. She and her colleagues published an article in Science on the issue of risk governance in biotechnology in December 2015. This quarter at Stanford she’s co-teaching some new public policy classes at Stanford on ‘Science Policy and National Security’ and ‘Design Thinking for Public Policy Innovators’. Last year, she led the second iteration of the Synthetic Biology Leadership Excellence Accelerator Program (LEAP), an international fellowship program in responsible biotechnology development. She also helped lead the safety, security, and policy-related components of the international Genetically Engineered Machine (iGEM) competition, and advised on the design of the Building with Biology Project, a nation-wide synthetic biology public engagement project. Finally, she was on the faculty of a new Bio Academy course called ‘How to Grow (Almost) Anything’.
Compiled by Class Representative Neil Jhaveri (Harvard CS)
Daniel Shteremberg (Harvard CS ’09) started Viv labs in July, where he leads iOS development. Viv labs, founded by the original creators of Siri, is focused on radically simplifying the world by providing an intelligent interface to everything.
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Compiled by Class Representative Archana Venkataraman (MIT CS)
Lyndsy Stopa (UIUC CS ‘08) is now a Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft, Chair of the Women@NERD board for Microsoft, and the Board Clerk of Family Promise North Shore Boston. She also has a son, born May 31, 2015.
Compiled by Class Representative John Law (Chicago Booth)
Aditya Bhashyam (Northwestern Kellogg ’07) moved to the Bay Area and is working at C3 IoT, led by CEO Tom Siebel. His new role lies at the confluence of predictive analytics and big data in the growing IoT space. He found the opportunity through a meeting with Tom at a Siebel Scholars event in Chicago in November 2014. Prior, he was at McKinsey in Chicago.
William Baker (UIUC CS ’07) accepted a position at Microsoft as a Software Engineer in the Windows and Devices Group in September. His family moved from Chicago and is settling into Redmond, WA.
Ilyse Cody (MIT Sloan ’07) recently joined Wayfair in Boston to lead product management for their new Wedding Registry offering. She is now working with Steven Fransblow (MIT Sloan ’06) who also just started at Wayfair as a Director of Analytics.
Dan Hoeflinger (UIUC CS ’07) was promoted from Software Engineer to Chief Operating Officer at InstaRecon in October. As they are a small company, he is still involved in software development, but is also managing a team of engineers and running the day-to-day operations at the office.
David Garmire (UC Berkeley CS ’07) received tenure and a promotion in 2014 and is now Associate Professor at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. He also won several awards, including the 2014 UH System Frances Davis Award for Excellence in Undergraduate Education, the 2016 UH System Board of Regents Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2015 Distinguished Member award for the University of Hawaii Chapter of the National Academy of Inventors.
Compiled by Class Representative Neelay Shah (UIUC CS)
Bonnie Kirkpatrick (UC Berkeley CS ’06) has left the University of Miami to pursue opportunities in computer security. Dr. Kirkpatrick is the founder of Intrepid Net Computing, a new computer security and bioinformatics consulting firm.
Christopher Fosdick (Northwestern Kellogg ’06) is a partner at The Cambridge Group, a strategy consulting firm owned by Nielsen. He’s recently focused his attention on the media space, publishing an article and appearing on panels discussing how multi-cultural strategy is changing the game in television programming as seen by the success of shows like Empire. He’s also been actively developing new intellectual property for Cambridge / Nielsen. Stage Gate Zero is a program that helps companies refine the “fuzzy front end” of innovation and increase their odds of breakthrough innovation success.
Patrick Meredith (UIUC CS ’06) completed his PhD in Computer Science from UIUC in 2012. His dissertation focused on formal systems and Efficient Runtime Verification. He’s now a software engineer at the financial analytics company Kanerai based in New York.
Sebastian Scherer (Carnegie Mellon CS ’06) is currently a Systems Scientist at the Carnegie Mellon University Robotics Institute and the co-founder of Near Earth Autonomy a spin-off of CMU focusing on safety, efficiency, and performance for near earth flight.
Jai Vasanth (UIUC CS ’06) has left Amazon and since 2014 is now working at Google. He’s currently a lead engineer in the Google Cloud Division working in the Google Cloud Deployment Manager team. On a personal front, he and his wife had their first child (a son) in June of 2015!
Neelay Shah (UIUC CS ’06) is now a lead architect in Intel’s Context Sensing team, which focuses on deploying machine learning algorithms to edge devices. The transition from enabling pre-silicon development vehicles to advanced sensor research has been challenging and exciting! Recently, Neelay presented his work at the 2016 Sensor to Cloud Architecture Workshop (SCAW) in Barcelona. Besides having a wonderful experience meeting and discussing topics with top researchers, he fell in love with Barcelona and fully expects to retire there someday.
Compiled by Class Representative Arel Cordero (UC Berkeley CS)
Arel Cordero (UC Berkeley CS ‘05) got engaged and moved to Cambridge, MA. He has joined a computer vision startup called Ditto Labs and is collaborating with Siebel Scholar Charlie Yeh (UC Berkeley BioE ‘15) on a project for his startup.
Guy Lebanon (CMU CS ‘05) is now at Netflix where he is currently a Director, working on recommendation systems.
Sam Yagan (Stanford GSB ‘05) took Match Group public (Nasdaq: MTCH), stepped down as CEO of MTCH, and is now Vice-Chairman of MTCH. He is wrapping up investment of his first venture fund, Corazon Capital, and raising his second fund, Corazon Capital II. He forced himself to take a six-month sabbatical (which ends 7/1/16)!
Jeff Liaw (Harvard Business ‘05) has a new job as the CFO of Copart (Nasdaq: CPRT). He moved to Dallas in 2013 and has 3 boys, ages 6, 4, and 1.
Jason Hong (UC Berkeley CS ‘04) developed PrivacyGrade.org, a website that presents the privacy analysis of a million Android apps. This work is part of a longer-term research push to improve the entire ecosystem around privacy for smartphones and the Internet of Things.
Hanson Li’s (Stanford GSB ‘04) company, Salt Partners, continues to grow and develop new food and beverage companies. One of them LocoL, has been recognized as the best restaurant in 2016 by Food and Wine and his cofounder, Roy Choi, was recognized as a TIME 100 honoree. LocoL is revolutionizing the fast food industry. They opened their first restaurant in Watts in Los Angeles with locations planned in Oakland and Tenderloin district in SF. They are actively addressing the issue of social justice around the food system and food access. Another one of his companies, Humphry Slocombe Ice Cream was recognized as Top 5 ice cream shop in the US by the Food Network and they recently started distributing on the shelves of Whole Foods and other grocery stores. Petit Crenn was recognized as a top 100 restaurant in the SF Bay area and his partner, Dominique Crenn, was recognized as Top female chef in the world. Her flagship Atelier Crenn is a Michelin-2-star restaurant and she was the first woman in the US to receive 2 stars. Saison continues to maintain its Michelin 3-star status and its position as one of the top restaurants in the world.
Compiled by Class Representative Chris Dupre (Northwestern Kellogg)
Erik Kolstoe (Chicago Booth ‘03) is leaving RWE, one of the leading European energy companies, where he has worked for the past 12 years. During his time at RWE, Erik worked in a number of commercial functions with different commodities in different countries across Central and Eastern Europe, most recently having been responsible for RWE’s successful renegotiations of its long-term gas supply contracts with Gazprom. He is currently enjoying spending time with his wife and 3 sons and enjoying the well-deserved time off while on a six-month “gardening leave.” Next up: a return to Prague when he formally joins a Czech gas pipeline company later this year to help them expand their transit pipeline portfolio
Yuri Ashuev (Chicago Booth ‘03) just began a new job as Sr. Manager of Reporting & Analytics at a commercial real estate company called Boxer Property in Houston, TX. Every so often he hangs out with Anton Derkatch (Chicago Booth ‘03), who is also here in Houston and living the high life of frequent flier as a McKinsey partner.
Nick Benedict (Wharton ‘o3) just sold his company, Love Systems, which he started in 2004, to Agile Wings. Love Systems is a professional dating advice and dating coaching company. He is looking for new career opportunities and further engagement with the Siebel Scholars community.
Compiled by Class Representative Mark Giordino (MIT Sloan)
Doug Monro (Northwestern Kellogg ‘02) has been living in London since 2002, and working in tech startup land. After Bain, eBay and Gumtree, he joined a real estate startup called Zoopla in 2008 as COO and employee number 5, which after lots of VC rounds, M&A, and general growth subsequently went public in 2013. Instead of chilling out, he went straight back at it as Co-founder and CEO of Adzuna.co.uk, Europe’s fastest-growing job search engine – up to 50 employees, 11 countries, and growing fast. His wife Kim and boys (Thomas 9 and Arthur 7) are keeping him on his toes – and he ran his first sub-3-hour marathon in Brighton in April.
Duncan Young (Wharton ‘02) is CEO of Envision, the country’s leading provider of career exploration and leadership development programming for middle and high school students. He took the position in early 2015 after almost 10 years in a variety of roles at Scholastic. Duncan relocated to the DC area last summer and lives in northern Virginia with his wife and three girls.
Amar Shah (Northwestern Kellogg ‘02) moved to Atlanta recently to open an office for The Keystone Group. He would love to connect with any Siebel Scholars in the area.
Miriam Walker (UC Berkeley CS ‘02) is Director of User Experience and Strategy at Digital Arts Network, Auckland, New Zealand and Mum to Alex (1 year old). Three days a week she helps her highly skilled team create digital products and services that are useful, pleasurable, and deliver great business value. Four days a week she plays peekaboo, reads stories, and makes cardboard boxes into cars. Seven days a week she tries to encourage learning, develop cooperation, and create happiness.
Ed Tolson (MIT CS ‘02) still lives in NYC, and got married in August 2015. After giving his best shot to growing his own quant investment fund, last year he joined Citadel where he leads trading technology. He tries to find time to remain active in the NYC startup scene and is still a member of the NY Angels and a director or adviser to a few tech startups.
Andrea Longo Carter (MIT Sloan ‘02) was recently elected to the School Committee in Needham, MA, where she lives with her husband and two children (Ted 11 and Andrew 9). Andrea has been an active volunteer in the Needham community for many years and recently reconnected with fellow Siebel Scholar Matt Lockwood Mullaney (MIT Sloan ‘03) when their sons joined Cub Scouts together. Andrea has been working as a freelance financial analyst for small non-profits and recently became Business Manager for an interior design/build firm.
Compiled by Class Representative Rajesh Krishnan (Chicago Booth)
Jeanne Bickford (Stanford GSB ‘01) continues to be a Partner & Managing Director at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG), where she is a member of BCG’s Financial Institutions leadership team in North America, focusing on retail financial services and regulatory compliance. She leads BCG’s Change Enablement Center globally, which emphasizes client capability building in the area of complex program and change management for large, multi-faceted transformation efforts. In 2014, Jeanne joined the National Board of the Girl Scouts of the USA, where she serves on the Finance Committee. Her two daughters, now ages 7 and 10, are Girl Scouts and show their courage, confidence, and character as fiercely independent individuals. It’s a double-edged sword as they make their voices and opinions heard at home, where alas, Jeanne cannot just assert “Because I said so!”
Sundar Iyer (Stanford CS ‘01) sold Memoir Systems to Cisco in 2014, and is currently running a new Cisco funded Alpha startup, called Candid Systems. He is single and interested in connecting with other Siebel Scholars.
Mark Pearson (Stanford CS ‘01) is still at Google and just welcomed his second child to the world this past year.
Li Moore (Stanford CS ‘01) is still at Google – same job since graduating! He is working on Bigtable, a database. He has filed a patent for efficiently adding a Bigtable replica. He now has two kids, Iso (boy, 2) and Omi (girl, 0) and lives in Mountain View with his wife, Cat.
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