Alumni in the News

February 2024: Top 25 headlines

In this month’s top headlines, Andrew Irvine is named CEO of National Australia Bank; Susie Cranston Hamilton is named President of Cresset Asset Management; Ndidi Nwuneli is named President and CEO of The ONE Campaign; Jenny Osterhout is named CFO of OneMain Financial; Lara Yocarini is named CEO of Rabobank subsidiary DLL; and more.

Alice Bentinck (LOND 09-12) named CEO of Entrepreneur First (read more)

Gaston Bottazzini (BAI, BUEN, SANF 96-96, 97-08) joins El Corte Inglés as Advisor to the Presidency and the Delegate Committee (read more— in Spanish)

Zachary Carpenter (SUMM 14-19) and Luca Naef's (ZURI 18-19) AI health company VantAI to partner with Bristol Myers Squibb, will be eligible for up to $674 million total in research milestone payments (read more)

Susie Cranston Hamilton (SANF 01-02, 02-13) named President of Cresset Asset Management, effective April 23 (read more)

Gioia Ghezzi (LOK, LOX, LOND 01-06, 07-12) pens article for FT intelligence unit fDi Intelligence, "The world needs more women in STEM" (read more)

Arjun Ghose's (GURU, MUME 04-07, 09-11) startup Veera raises $6 million in seed funding (read more)

Ankit Gupta (0NYB, GURU 05-19) joins Brookfield Properties as President

Thomas Hinnerskov (COPE 01-02) named CEO of Valmet, effective later this year (read more)

Andrew Irvine (TORO 01-01, 02-08) named CEO of National Australia Bank (NAB), effective April 2 (read more)

Antonio Muñoz's (MADR 16-16, 18-21) company Zepo one of 17 startups chosen to join Google's Global AI for Cybersecurity Program (read more)

Dina Nayeri's (NYWT 01-03) book "Who Gets Believed? When the Truth Isn't Enough" named as a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle list of the best books of 2023 (read more)

Ndidi Nwuneli (CHGO, NYTH, NYWT 94-94, 95-00) named President and CEO of The ONE Campaign, effective April 2 (read more)

Jenny Osterhout (MEXI, NYWT 08-14) named CFO of OneMain Financial (read more)

Viktoria Otero del Val Danics (0BUD 98-02) named Chief Strategy, Marketing and Sales Officer, and Chief Revenue Growth Officer, U.S. and U.K. at Pluxee (read more)

CJ Prober (SLVY 04-06) named CEO of Netgear (read more)

Paul Sheng (LOX, AUST, HONG, HOUS 98-23) and Eric Bielke (BOST 10-11) launch Fathom Fund, a deep tech venture capital fund (read more)

Michael Simonds (BOST 01-01, 02-03) named President and CEO of TriNet (read more)

Naveen Tahilyani (GURU, MUME 97-14) named CEO of Tata Digital (read more)

Marketa Wills (CLEV 05-05, 06-09) named CEO and Medical Director of the American Psychiatric Association, effective June 1 (read more)

Lara Yocarini (AMST, PARI 13-17) named CEO of Rabobank subsidiary DLL, effective May 1 (read more)

 

Obituaries

Rachael Brookman (98-10, 16-24) (read more)

Robert Byrne (COPE, NYWT 79-91) (read more)

Christopher Saunders (LOND 62-67) (read more)

Noboru Shimizu (SEOU, TOKY 91-96)