SLU Connect LIVE
Created in lieu of in-person SLU Connect events during the COVID-19 pandemic, SLU Connect LIVE webinars allowed students to network with Laurentians in a number of industries.
Recordings of these events are available in the gallery below.
SLU Connect Live
Business & Finance: Young Alumni Session
Panelists: Joshua Cameron ’15, Senior Inbound Strategist, New Breed Marketing; Taylor Castator ’15, Manager of Finance, Planning & Analysis, Enthought; Alec Cote ’15, Associate, Carlyle Group; Madison Wilcox ’14, Director of Financial Planning Department, Northwestern Mutual; Bubacarr Fofana ’18, Senior Client Solutions Associate, Gerson Lehrman Group (GLG).
Healthcare Research Roundtable
Panelists: Kirk Donovan Ph.D. ’08, Scientist I, Biogen; Greg Lyng Ph.D.’03, Chief Operating Officer, Biomodels; Jaime Ross Ph.D. ’03, Assistant Professor in Neuroscience, University of Rhode Island; Dr. Karen Hoberg Wilson ’90, Debra and Leon Black Professor, Division Chief for General Pediatrics, & Vice Chair for Clinical and Translational Research, Icahn School of Medicine, Mount Sinai; Peter R Paradiso Ph.D ’72, Vaccine Consultant, Paradiso Biologics Consulting (recently retired from Pfizer as VP of Vaccines New Business and Scientific Affairs).
Healthcare Practitioners Roundtable
Panelists: Dr. Lori Benjes P’22, Dermatologist, Harvard University Health Services; Dr. Praveen Chatani ‘10, General Surgery Resident at SUNY Upstate Medical University; Dr. Glenn Schattman ‘83, Fertility Specialist & Associate Professor, Weill Cornell Medical College.
Breaking into the Healthcare Industry with Young Alumni
Panelists: Yvonne Boateng ’18, Research Study Assistant, Memorial Sloan Kettering; Alex Calderwood PA-C ’12, Critical Care Physician Assistant, Yale New Haven Health; Becky (Walsh) LaMay ’13, Acute Care Nurse Practitioner, Massachusetts General Hospital; Dr. Conor Peterson ’12, Dentist, Community Health Services of Lamoille Valley; Lia Pizzicato ‘14, Senior Researcher, HealthCore, Inc.; Dr. Amy Yao ‘14, Resident Physician in Plastic and Reconstructive Surgery, Montefiore Health System.
Media & Journalism Roundtable
Panelists: Ed Forbes ’02, Senior Director, News & Engagement, North Jersey Media Group; Peter Gailey P'18, '21, President & Co-Founder, BroadcastMed; Elizabeth Kadick ’11, Senior Public Affairs, ElectriCities; Dan Rusanowsky ’83, Play-by-Play Broadcaster, San Jose Sharks.
Marketing, Advertising and Public Relations Roundtable
Panelists: Sarah Cook-Raymond ’03, President and CEO, Impact Marketing + Communications; Molly Mullady Arbogast ’91, Founder, President & CEO, POV Sports Marketing LLC; Todd Haskell ’90, Senior Vice President & Chief Marketing Officer, Hearst; Scott Sneath ’88, P’22, Managing Director, Primal, A&G.
Breaking into Communications with Young Alumni
Panelists: Mary Baucom ’13, Marketing Manager, Healthline Media, Brandon Di Perno ’16, Content Marketing Manager, Sportlogiq; Nora Langan ’12, Corporate Communications Manager, Surescripts; Kitty O'Keefe ’13, Editorial Producer, CNN; Lexi Williams ’15, Account Executive for Group Events, New Jersey Devils.
Business Roundtable
Sean Daugherty ’02, Senior Managing Director, Guggenheim Partners; Melissa McDonald ’81, Principal, Providence Group; David Priebe ’81, Chairman, Guy Carpenter Reinsurance; Liz Hogan P’22, Business Development & Strategy, Edgar Strategic Consulting Services; Brijesh Jeevarathnam ’97, Partner & Co-Head of Global Venture Fund Investments, Adams Street Partners, Inc.
Finance Roundtable
Fatma Luy ’12, Director, CVC Credit Partners; Keith Henry ’84, Managing Director, Merrill Lynch Wealth Management; Dan Brindisi ’89, Senior Vice President, Fidelity; Evan Shifley ’14, Practice Manager, Baystate Financial.
Young Alumni: Breaking into the Environmental and Sustainability Industry
Thomas Hessney ’17, Customer Care Specialist, GreenSpark Energy: Jess LaMay ’18, Plastic Waste Program Officer, World Wildlife Fund; Bobbi Lesser ’15, Associate, ESG Reporting, Estee Lauder Companies, Inc.; Jesse Way ’12, Senior Analyst, The Cadmus Group.
Business & Energy Roundtable
Greg Cameron ’90, President & CFO, Bloom Energy; Neil Chatterjee ’99, Former Commissioner, Federal Energy Regulatory Commission; Diane Kelley P’22, Financial Planner & Analysis Manager, Eversource Energy; Carol Maxwell ’79, CEO, MICROrganic Technologies, Inc.; Sloane Wildman P’23, Partner, PerkinsCoie (environmental law & regulation).
Conservation, Land Management & Research Roundtable
Jessa Davis ’08, Botanist, Bureau of Land Management; Pete Geddes ’84, VP & Chief Relations Officer, American Prairie Reserve; Ross Gibby ’89, Chief Operating Officer, CRDC Global Limited (solutions to plastic crisis); Jacob Malcomb ’10, PhD Candidate, Graduate Research and Teaching Assistant at the University of Virginia Department of Environmental Science; Ashley Pettus P’23, Founder and Director, Global Hearthworks Foundation, Inc. (international sustainable fuels in developing world communities).
Environmental Networking Keynote
J.T. Horn ’93, Senior Project Manager and National Trails Initiative Lead, The Trust for Public Land.
Young Alumni: Breaking into Social Impact Careers
Danzel Blash ’13, Program Manager, Sheltering Arms, Bronx, NY; Sean Kelly ’15, Grants Specialist, USAID’s Child Blindness Program, Washington, D.C.; Emily Reiniger ’16, Citizenship Program Manager, Massachusetts Immigrant & Refugee Advocacy Coalition (MIRA), Boston, Mass.; Chris Rich ’18, Thomas R. Pickering Foreign Affairs Fellow, U.S. Department of State, Boston, Mass. (recent Peace Corps volunteer in Morocco); Poonam Sidhu ’18, Elementary School Teacher, Springfield Prep Charter School.
Government, Policy and Law Roundtable
Andrew Dabalen ’90 , Lead Economist, Poverty, The World Bank, Washington, D.C.; Bill Levin P’21, Attorney, Levin Simes Abrams, San Francisco, Calif.; Elizabeth Pimentel ’07 , Chief of Staff, Boston City Councilor Andrea J. Campbell, Boston, Mass.
Non-Profits, Education and Counseling Roundtable
Emily Anne Gullickson ’08, Founder & CEO, A for Arizona; Executive Director, Great Leaders, Strong Schools, Phoenix, Ariz.; Ned Breslin ’88, President & CEO, Tennyson Center for Children, Denver, Colo.; Lynne Byrne ’88, Licensed Professional Counselor Associate, The Feeling Good Center, Darien, Conn.; Don Danforth ’89, P'20 , President & Co-Founder, City Academy, St. Louis, Mo.
Young Alumni: Breaking into Technology and Data Science Careers
Julia Croyle ’12 Manager of Technical Recruiting, Coursera (Environmental Studies & French) (moderator); Jake Hurlbut ’15, Lead Developer-Hockey Analytics, Philadelphia Flyers (Computer Science); Paul Nakamura ’18, Treasurer FX Analyst II, eBay (Economics & Business in the Liberal Arts); Nevaan Perera ’18, Software Engineer, Veoci (Major: Computer Science, Minors: Statistics & Psychology); Elley Symmes ’14, Product Operations Manager, Global Drivers Experience, Uber (Economics & Spanish).
Data Science Roundtable
Harry Johnson ’11, Head of Partnerships, Starburst (data accessibility solutions) (Government, African Studies); Daniel Montbriand ’97 Data Scientist, Volta Energy (Physics); Jolanta Morrison ’03, Chief, Intelligence Data and Modeling & Simulation Requirements, The Joint Staff, US Pentagon (SLU Major: Government, Georgetown University Masters: Organizational Leadership); Emily Sheldon-Waniga ’06, Associate Director of Biostatistics, bluebird bio (SLU Major: Mathematics, Virginia Commonwealth University PhD: Biostatistics).
Technology Roundtable
Andy Chan ’14, Director of Product Management, Avalara (SLU Major: Economics, John’s Hopkins University Masters: Analytics, Duke University Masters: Business Administration); Nancy Decker ’11, Senior Product Manager, Conductor (search & content intelligence platform) (Majors: Computer Science and Mathematics); Nick Fernandez ’02, President, Servex-US (3D visualization & electronic cataloging) (Major: History, Minor: Speech & Theater); Felix Gondwe ’14, Senior Software Engineer-Core Services, Rivian (SLU Majors: Computer Science & Economics, Harvard Extension School Masters: Information Management Systems); Patrick Sweeny ’98, Head of Equity Portfolio Management Technology, Fidelity Investments (SLU Majors: Economics & Computer Science, MIT Sloan School of Management Executive Program & AI Intelligence).
Technology and Data Science Keynote
Emre Kulali ’97, VP of Business Development, Acalvio (Physics & Mathematics).