Alumni Profile

2013 Wilbur Parker Distinguished Alumni Award recipient In his 40-year career in global branding and marketing, De Verges Booker Jones, MBA ’74, launched products ranging from Clairol hair coloring to […]

The best of both worlds: Influential thought leader and masterful teacher What if sales promotions aren’t having the effect companies think they have? Are consumers really switching brands or are […]

Passing the torch When M. Scott Crocco, MBA ’90, first interviewed with Air Products in 1990, he could hardly have imagined that 23 years later he would succeed his interviewer, […]

Fighting Poverty in Central Asia When Hakim Feerasta was a senior financial analyst at IBM in Toronto, he was invited to visit the Aga Khan, the spiritual leader of the […]

Deliberate and Bold When Wendy L. Schoppert mentors young professionals hoping to follow in her footsteps, she always offers the same advice: “Make yourself uncomfortable,” she says, “because if you’re […]

Greenhouse Growing in China China has 22 percent of the world’s population but only about eight percent of its arable agricultural land. How to generate enough food to supply the […]

Blazing a trail in healthcare When Percy Allen II joined the University Hospital of Brooklyn as CEO in 1989, the state facility was losing money and struggling with employee morale. […]

The Right Person for the Right Job Ann Killian has always preferred working on the “people side” of business, which is what led her on a 30-year-career path in corporate […]

Switching Gears in Women’s Products For 11 years, Cathleen Tobin marketed products for women — from Snuggle Fabric Softener to Revlon Lip Color — at multinationals, including Unilever and Johnson […]

Taking on Bollywood Saurabh Arora had never heard of Star TV USA before a crew member from the entertainment company approached him at New York City’s South Street Seaport during […]