Alumni in the News

July 2024: Top 25 headlines

In this month’s top headlines, Karthik Rao is named Chief Medical Officer at agilon health; Diane Smith-Gander is named Chancellor of the University of Western Australia; Jinane Laghrari will join the Board of Bank of Africa; Andreas Schertzinger is named Group Chief Data, AI and Innovation Officer at AXA; Joao Paixao Moreira joins the Executive Board of Novo Banco; and more.

Abdulla Alhammadi (DUBA 10-13, 16-19) named Managing Director, Saudi Arabia at Snap Inc. (read more)

Neeru Arora (CBL, CHGO 03-07) joins Mazda as North American SVP, Chief Information Officer (read more)

Sabine Bendiek (FKL, HAMB 96-99) appointed an independent non-executive director of Sunlight (read more)

Thomas Coesfeld (MUNI 13-13, 14-15), CEO of BMG, named to Executive Board of parent company Bertelsmann (read more)

Takis Georgakopoulos (NYWT 00-07) joins Fiserv as a senior advisor and member of the Management Committee (read more)

Heyjeon Jeong (SEOU 17-21) named Deputy Secretary for Public Relations for the Office of the President of Korea (read more)

Gunjan Kedia (PITT 96-04) elected to Board of Governors of The American Red Cross (read more)

Jinane Laghrari (PARI, CASA 04-11, 18-23) to join Board of Directors of Bank of Africa (read more – in French)

Spencer Livermore (LOND 22) appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury in the UK Government (read more)

Andre Maciel (SAOP 06-08) elected to Board of Iron Mountain (read more)

Aaron Miller (PITT, NYWT 99-05) joins Acrisure as CFO (read more)

Jean Nabaa (GENE, SING 00-07) joins HSBC as COO, global private banking and wealth division (read more)

Joao Paixao Moreira (LISB, MADR 06-24) joins Executive Board of Novo Banco as Chief Commercial Officer, Retail (read more)

David Pinto-Duschinsky (LOND, LOX 98-98, 00-04) elected a Member of UK Parliament

Coralie Piton (PARI 00-05) named Head of Éditions du Seuil (read more – in French)

Karthik Rao (BOST 19-22) named Chief Medical Officer at agilon health (read more)

Arijit Roy (CHGO 07-13) promoted to expanded role; will lead Consumer and Business Banking products organization at U.S. Bank (read more)

Carolyn Ryan (LOND 12-16) named Chief Strategy Officer at Trustpilot (read more)

Andreas Schertzinger (DUSS, FRAN, NYWT, MUNI 01-01, 04-12) named Group Chief Data, AI and Innovation Officer at AXA (read more – in French)

Mario Schlosser (FRAN 02-03, 03-07) joins Board of Duolingo

Diane Smith-Gander AO (SUMM, WASH 00-07) named Chancellor of University of Western Australia, effective January 1, 2025 (read more)

Gunjan Soni (MUME, GURU 03-14) appointed to Board of CBRE Group (read more)

Cyrus Taraporevala (NYWT, COPE 90-04) elected to Board of Pfizer (read more)

Helen Whately (LOX, LOND 07-15) appointed Shadow Secretary of State for Transport in the U.K. Government (read more)

 

Obituaries

Sam Caley (LLL 00-10)

Sir Roderick Carnegie (NYTH 59-70) (read more)

Michael Cline (NYWT 81-86)

Michael Goldberg (NYWT, CHGO 76-80) (read more)

Christoph Schulte (DUSS, BERL 99-00, 01-07) (read more – in German)