Freeman School of Business - Alumni

Alumni

• Ricardo Salinas Pliego, MBA 1979, Mexican businessman, CEO of Grupo Elektra, 154th wealthiest person in the world in 2008 (worth $6.3 billion)
• Neil Bush, MBA 1979, brother of President George W. Bush and son of President George H.W. Bush; ex-savings and loan executive
• Regina Benjamin, MBA 1991, Surgeon General of the United States
• Ray Nagin, MBA 1994, Mayor of New Orleans (D); former General Manager of Cox Communications
• Andrew Friedman, BS (Finance) 1999, became General Manager of the Tampa Bay Rays at age 28
• Shannon Burchett, MBA, CEO, Risk Limited Corp; developer of RiskRank credit rating systems
• Jordan Bratman, music marketer
• Chandler J. Rapson, BSM, CEO of FSAI
• Dominik Knoll, M.B.A., CEO of World Trade Center New Orleans
• John Runningen, MBA 1977, Managing Director, Runningen Associates, Atlanta; former Senior VP at WebMD
• John Koerner III, MBA/JD 1970, former President and Co-Owner of Barq's Root Beer Inc.
• Stanley E. Ellington Jr., MBA 1972, Managing Director, Dahlman Rose & Co.
• Jay Lapeyre, MBA/JD 1977, President of Laitram Corp.
• Nancy L. Shanik, MBA 1978, Managing Director, Alvarez & Marsal, New York
• Kevin Rafferty, MBA 1979, Executive Vice President, Iberiabank Corp., Houston
• Daniel L. Fink, MBA/MPH 1984, CEO of Riley Hospital for Children, the sixth-largest children's hospital in the United States
• Michael Barton, MBA 1985, KPMG partner (San Francisco)
• Christopher Callahan, BSM 2007, founder, nation's first Four-Year Triple Degree Program (JD/MBA/Tax LL.M) at the University of Miami
• Stephen J. Borders, BS Management / Accounting 1985, Principal, Advantage Capital Partners
• James Burke, MBA, CEO of TXU Energy
• David B. Davis, BSM 1985, Principal, Booz Allen Hamilton
• Gerald Lema, MBA 1986, President, Baxter International, Inc., Asia Pacific region
• A. M. Thurber, MBA 1985, Managing Director, Zurich Surety
• John Nolan, BSM 1986, CFO, Quadel Consulting
• Mark S. Livingston, BSM 1987, CFO, Emerson, Reid & Co. (New Jersey)
• Keith Blackwell, MBA 1988, Founder & CEO of Bristol Technology Inc.
• Vijay Parmar, MBA 1988, founder, president and CEO of GainSpan Corp.
• John Ragan, MBA 1988, Chief Operating Officer, NRG Energy
• Robert W. Mouton, MBA/JD 1989, New Orleans partner of Locke Lord Bissell & Liddell
• Douglas Downing, MBA 1990, CFO, Canal Barge Company, Inc., New Orleans
• John W. Hadden II, CEO of IRX Therapeutics
• Waajid Siddiqui, MBA/JD 1991, New York City partner of Hogan & Hartson
• Sagar Bhimavarapu, MBA 1992, Executive Director at JP Morgan Chase & Co. (New York)
• David Morris, MBA 1994, managing director of Oracle Capital Partners (Detroit); named one of the “Top 50 Under 50” by DiversityMBA Magazine
• Rick L. Rambo, MBA/JD 1994, Houston partner of Morgan Lewis
• Frank Russo, MBA 1992, Senior Manager, Deloitte & Touche LLP
• Michael S. du Quesnay, MBA/JD 1995, Los Angeles partner of Dewey & LeBoeuf
• Eduardo S. Espinosa, MBA/JD 1995, Dallas partner of K&L Gates
• Timothy W. Goodly, MBA 1995, Senior Vice President at CNN Worldwide
• Paul Friedman, MBA/JD 1996, Senior Vice President at Sony Pictures Entertainment
• Roth Kehoe, MBA/JD 1996, Atlanta partner of Hunton & Williams
• Andrew P. Schmutz, MBA/JD 1996, Philadelphia partner of Greenberg Traurig
• Tristan E. Propst, MBA/JD 1998, Houston partner of Mayer Brown
• Filip Verfaillie, BSM 1998, Vice President, Citigroup (NYC)
• Steven Halperin, BSM Economics and Finance 1999, Managing Director, Barclays Capital, New York
• David Rohrbach, MBA 1999, Director, Credit Suisse, Chicago
• Jairo Perez, BSM Accounting 1994 / MBA 2000, Finance Director, Emerson Process Management, Mexico City
• Colleen E. Laduzinski, MBA/JD 2000, New York City partner of Jones Day
• Duce Lazarov, BSM 2000, Vice President, Deutsche Bank (NYC)
• James O'Neil, MBA/MA 2000, Manager, Deloitte Financial Advisory Services LLP
• Ben Turner, MBA 2003, CEO, Ibelong Networks
• Mark Lumpkin, MBA 2004, Vice President, The Royal Bank of Scotland
• Rod West, MBA 2005, President & CEO of Entergy New Orleans
• Lara Seeburg, MBA 2005, Vice President, Morgan Stanley (NYC)
• Jacky Wu, MBA 2005, Vice President - Financial Planning and Analysis, American Tower Corporation (Boston); named one of the “Top 100 Under 50” by DiversityMBA Magazine
• Kurt Modarelli, MBA, Managing Director-Head of Fixed Income, Legend Merchant Group, New York
• Marc Lauricella, MBA, Chief Marketing Officer, Praetorian Financial Group, New York
• Lauren Haas, Vice President, J.P. Morgan (NYC)
• John M. Porter, CFO, Astrotech, Houston
• Ford F. Graham, MBA/JD, Vice-Chairman and President, Miller Petroleum, Inc., and Managing Partner of Vulcan Partners