Alumni in the News

December 2023 & January 2024: Top 25 headlines

In December and January's top headlines, Livia Chanes is named CEO, Brazil at Nubank; Matthias Aellig is named CEO of Swiss Life; Vanessa Lau is named co-COO at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX); Cristina San Jose is named Chief Credit Officer at Santander; Ramanan Raghavendran is named Chair of the Board of Trustees of the University of Pennsylvania; and more.

Matthias Aellig (ZURI 00-03) named CEO of Swiss Life, effective May 16, 2024 (read more)

Agustin Amoretti (SNTG 14-16, 14-16) named Country Manager, Chile at Tesla

Steffen Baetjer (BERL, SLVY 96-02) named CFO at Fielmann Group AG (read more)

Gil Bolotin (STAM 14-18) and Yoav Mordowicz's (CHI 13-17) startup Sploot Veterinary Care raises $40 million in Series A funding from L Catterton (read more)

Livia Chanes (SAO, SAOP 05-15) named CEO, Brazil at Nubank (read more— in Portuguese)

Patrice Clausse (LOX, LOND 07-10) named Group Chief Investment Officer at ACEN (read more)

Ted Devine (CHGO, DALL 92-92, 93-05) named EVP, Chief Administrative Officer at AIG (read more)

Claire-Marie Coste-Lepoutre (PARI, VIEN 04-11) begins role as CFO of Allianz (read more)

Amit Dhingra (LOX, CHGO, MINN 04-10), Chief Enterprise Payments Officer at Huntington Bancshares, elevated to Executive Team, effective March 1 (read more)

Mirit Eldor (LOX, LOND 00-02) named Managing Director, Life Sciences Solutions at Elsevier (read more)

Stefan Falk (STO 98-01) publishes book, "Intrinsic Motivation: Learn to Love Your Work and Succeed As Never Before" (read more)

James Gorman (MELB, NYWT 85-85, 86-86, 87-99) appointed to Board of Walt Disney (read more)

Teresa Gutiérrez (MEX 06-07) named Country Manager, Mexico at Tesla (read more)

Deborah Honig (LOX, LOND, TORO 97-99, 04-09) joins Samsung Electronics as Chief Customer Officer, UK and Ireland (read more)

Eddie Huang (SHZ, BEIJ, SHAN, SHEN 04-16) named President, Greater China at Prologis (read more— in Chinese)

Yongsoo Kim (SEOU 12-17) promoted to Chief Strategy Officer at Webtoon Entertainment (read more)

Chris Klein (CHGO 92-00) joins Board of Grainger (read more)

Vanessa Lau (LOX, HONG, LOND 01-07) named co-COO at Hong Kong Exchanges and Clearing (HKEX), effective May 2024; will remain group CFO (read more)

David Lee (CHGO 98-00) joins Webtoon Entertainment as CFO and COO (read more)

Jennifer LaClair (CLEV 01-07) named head of Global Business Solutions at Fiserv, effective January 1 (read more)

Vishal Mahadevia (NYWT 94-96) promoted to Head of Asia Private Equity at Warburg Pincus (read more)

Aamir Malik (JOHA, SUMM 97-21) appointed Chief U.S. Commercial Officer of Pfizer's new non-oncology commercial division (read more)

Fabrice Morin (MTRL, SANF 02-02, 03-06, 08-16) to join Executive Committee of Great-West Lifeco as President and COO of Canada Life's Canadian operations (read more)

Walter Oblin (VIEN 94-08) named CEO of Oesterreichische Post, effective October 2024 (read more)

Ed Petter (LOX, LOND 07-09) named Chief Corporate Affairs Officer at Haleon

Darren Pleasance (SVA, NYTH, SANF, SLVY 98-12) publishes book, "True North: A Handbook for Inspired Living" (read more)

Ramanan Raghavendran (NYWT 89-92) named Chair of the Board of Trustees of University of Pennsylvania (read more)

Maxime Saada (PARI 99-04) named Vice-President and a member of the Executive Committee at Lagardère; will remain CEO of CANAL+ (read more)

Salvino Salvaggio (BRUS 00-03) publishes new book, "Orchestra Management in Practice" (read more)

Cristina San Jose (MADR, SYDN 01-03, 05-15) named global head of credit risk (Chief Credit Officer) at Santander (read more – in Spanish)

Jason Schenker (FRAN, HOUS 07-09) named an official "Top Voice" by LinkedIn (read more)

Jens Schulte (CLGN, FRAN 97-00) named CFO at ThyssenKrupp Group (read more)

Antonio Simoes (LOK, LOX, LISB 97-07) begins role as CEO of Legal & General (read more)

Tidjane Thiam (PARI 86-89, 90-94, 00-02) elected leader of the Democratic Party of Ivory Coast (read more)

Søren Westh Lonning (COPE 02-04) joins Pleo Technologies as CFO (read more)

 

Obituaries

Bob Champion (SANF 63-69) (read more)

Ron Daniel (NYWT 57-23) (read more)

Jen Dryburgh (TOR, VAN 13-23) (read more)

Frances Hershkowitz (NYWT 64-98) (read more)

Jack Holton (SANF 74-80) (read more)

Pavel Jonczy (PRAG 10-15) (read more)

Allan Kennedy (NYWT 70-83)

Manfred Mack (LOND, NYWT, PARI 64-74) (read more)

Mike Stone (DALL 81-82) (read more)