Alumni
M&T alumni have founded companies including StubHub, Flixster, Traffic.com, Register.com, Half.com, and AQR Capital.
Garrett Reisman, an astronaut who traveled to the International Space Station, is an M&T graduate.
On January 6, 2009, Internet Capital Group Inc., a venture capital firm founded by Ken Fox and Walter Buckley, announced that it had promoted M&T '83 graduate Doug Alexander to the position of president. Alexander had previously served as ICG's managing director, working with portfolio companies and analyzing potential investment opportunities Alexander joined ICG in 1997 and served on the original advisory board. Before joining ICG, Alexander co-founded Reality Online in 1989, a company developing financial planning tools and online services for investors. In February 1994, Alexander sold Reality Online to Reuters.
In 2009, Alex Mittal was named by BusinessWeek as one of America's Most Promising Social Entrepreneurs for his work with Engineers Without Borders on microbial technology. Mittal started the company Innova Materials in 2007 after graduating from M&T with a dual degree.
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