graduate virtual recognition ceremony class of 2021
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Leeds School of Business
Graduate Virtual Recognition Ceremony
Class of 2021
Thursday, May 6, 20214 P.M. M.T.
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SHARON F. MATUSIK
Dean, Leeds School of Business
Dear Graduates,
Congratulations! All of us at Leeds are honored to celebrate this important milestone in your life with you, your friends and family.
Take a moment to refl ect on what you have accomplished. There are no more team projects due, no more late-night homework assignments to complete and no more exams to ace. Equipped with the education and experiences you have received at Leeds, you are ready to move on to that next chapter and positively impact the future of business. We are proud that you will be representing us in the world.
Thank you for all you have contributed to the Leeds community during your time here. We hope you will continue to fi nd us a source of inspiration and knowledge, and we look forward to staying connected with you over the years to come. We offer our most heartfelt congratulations and best wishes to you for success in all of your future endeavors.
Sharon F. Matusik, PhDDean, Leeds School of Business
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VIRTUALRECOGNITION
CEREMONY Thursday, May 6, 4 P.M.
Leadership RemarksSharon Matusik, Dean
Keynote SpeakerMichael Cordano (TRMG’87)
RecognitionGraduate Honors Teaching Awards
Presentation of Candidates• MS Accounting/Taxation• MS Business Analytics• MS Real Estate, MS Supply Chain, and MS Finance• Full Time MBA Program• Evening MBA Program• PhD Program
Norlin ChargeRichard Wobbekind, Associate Dean for Business & Government Relations, Senior Economist and Faculty Director of the Business Research Division
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Keynote Speaker
MICHAEL CORDANO
(TRMG’87)
Founder and Co-CEO, Prime Impact Capital
Mike has been pivotal in transforming traditional companies into digital giants. For over two decades, he has been a catalyst for growth and transformation. Mike has a proven track record of creating new markets by understanding and anticipating technology infl ection points and market disruptions. Using his unique blend of expertise in organizational dynamics, state-of-the-art operating models and a contemporary cultural ethos, Mike has successfully steered leadership teams into new business opportunities, while building strong operational foundations. He has founded, grown, scaled and sold multiple public and private technology companies.
A true business visionary, Mike has the heart of a technologist focused on real-world impact. With a passion for product ideation, design and development, Mike is focused on driving product value in nascent markets and disrupting the industry status-quo. At Maxtor, he introduced breakthrough product categories with the Maxtor OneTouch external storage backup solution and a Nearline hard disk drive product line, which ultimately defi ned their respective categories. At HGST, he championed the development of helium-based hard disk drives, resulting in one of the company’s most valuable innovations and setting an industry standard, driving nearly $4 billion in annual revenue.
Mike has led the successful turnarounds of multiple brands, including Maxtor and HGST. He founded Fabrik, raising over $85 million in venture capital and realized over $175 million in revenue run-rate in just three years resulting in a successful sale of the company to HGST. Mike’s deep understanding of market and technology drivers guided strategic investments and/or acquisitions in numerous technology leaders, including G-Technology, sTec, Virident, Tegile and Amplidata.
Mike was instrumental in Western Digital’s transformational $19 billion acquisition of SanDisk in 2016. The transaction was the catalyst for Mike and the leadership team to create a storage solutions company with global scale, extensive product and technology assets, and deep expertise in non-volatile memory. Mike led the successful integration of three Fortune 500 companies, SanDisk, Western Digital and HGST, to create a $20 billion data infrastructure leader, well positioned for long-term growth and value creation.
Ultimately, a growth mindset, re-shaping corporate culture, and creating high performing teams and organizations are bedrocks in Mike’s leadership style. Nothing is more critical to success for Mike than character and culture. It’s always about helping people, teams and companies be legendary. For over two decades, he has been a global business leader doing just that.
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Master of ScienceAccountingBlake Kendrick Arnold
Abigail Audino
Eunhye Yu Beissinger
Kelly Renee Chamberlain
Chad Alden Clerke
Matthew Aaron Cohen
Brandon Douglas Dale
Keaton David Danielson
Dylan T. Dempsey
Robert Bruce Eckles
Jacob Feltz
Harrison Michael Finch
Gabrielle Monet Goedert Anguiano
Calvin Good
Spencer James Grant
Austin Julian Guidot
Reece L. Hartman
Xing Yuan He
Sierra Ruth Herrington
Andrew Scott Higgins
Brittany Jaros
John Kwiat
Jamie Michelle Lee
Carmine A. Lonardo
Paige Thorogood Macmillan
Rose Isabel McCullough
Daniel Richard Naes
Henry Newman
Clayton Nielsen
Patrick Michael O’Neil
Michelle Therese Piccone
Noel Ramirez-Ortega
Matthew Rielly
Peter Scott St. Clair
Philippa Steyn
Alan Jeremy Stolyar
Zachary Storm
Holly Sutherland
Bruk Selam Teshome
Matthew Ryan Thompson
Michelle Tseloikhin
Tenzin Tsewang
Brian Vaquera Garcia
Alexander Cole Whiteman
Kyle Dean Wobschall
Dian Xue
Andrew Mingjian Yang
Jiasheng Ye
Master of Business AdministrationJennifer Lyu
Master of ScienceFinanceUshna Mushtaq Ahmed
Gregory Markku Allan
Ethan Arvid Anderson
Timothy Burgess Herzog Andrews
Sophia Newbury Berglund
Victor Bjorlow
Alejandro Rafael Camargo
David Zachary Clark
Thalin James David Di Paolo
David Jacob Divjak
Mason Richard DuMonthier
Connor McMahon Estelle
Cicily Christine Fisk
Spencer Gordon
Mika Louis Grasso
Chase Headrick Haynes
Hannah Higgins
Ethan John Holguin
Joseph Jachimiak
Madison Rose Jarvis
Nicholas Jemigan
Christopher John Jillson
Lukas Johnson
Samuel Gregory Kail
Christian Kitchen
James Klein
WooBaek Ko
John Koclanes
Samuel Richard Kossak
Harry Max Kuskin
Jose Maguina
Jack Conley Marshall
Eric Cleveland McCarty Jr
Jordan Thomas Nelson
Bilal Omar
Ryan Carroll Paap
Arthur Eugene Padilla III
Ian Geary Phelps
Sumay Kirti Prabhu
Paula Andrea Pulido
Purushka Sofi a Rae
Jonathan Rutherford
Kyle Sardar
Clayton Skulski
Frederic Bailey Tellam
Christopher Irving Thomson
Ryan Connor Wetmore
Katherine Elizabeth White
ZiZhi Zhou
Master of ScienceBusiness AnalyticsYusuf AlArayedh
Abbie Amiotte
Ryan Anderson
Kofi -Sakyi Nyarko Assabil
Linda Avalos Mar
Jack Harrison Beck
Lucas Arthur Bedell
Peter Jacobs Brinkman
Allison Laura Bruhn
Ethan Todd Calamia
James Kentling Campbell
Jack Kelley Carr
Jaime Chaire
Neil Andrew Collins
Lorenzo Correa
Ethan Dark
Jennifer Dickson
Gabriel David Draxton
Patrick Mallary Durkin
Jason Engel
Isaac Chance Everitt
Spencer Fairbaim
Xiasong Fan
Megan Aline Fitzgerald
Aaron Brett Forman
Kenneth Freeman
Renee Gabrielle Gagne
Aileen Garcia
Charlie Geaves
Portia Alexandra Gifford
Nicholas James Glassmeyer
Alex Sterling Glover
Whitney Goit III
Joaquin Ignacio Gonzalez
David Jospeh Hebert
Erik Hiseler
Yichun Hong
Anuraag Hooda
Matthew William Hunter
Zane Franklin Jackson
Zachary Louis Johnson
Brandon Julian
Crayton Vernon Larson
Danielle Elizabeth Latimore
Michael Jonathan Lau
Stephen Lipsky
Jamie Liu
Jerry Allen Manning Jr
Collin Hart Marsden
Robert William Massey
Ross Conor McDonald
Alexander Abbott McLaughlin
Kyle Miller
Nick Milliken
Stefan Mocevic
MacKenzie Layne Murphy
Stephen Chandler Nerem
Chidid Donald Nzerem Jr
Joshua Marcel Ortega
Michael Patrick O’Shea
Curtis Oxman
Molly Pagden
Akshat Pandey
Hayden James Parr
Neeha Patel
Mallory Elizabeth Plachy
Olivia Myriah Ponrick
Jacob Samuel Pulitzer
Erin Quinn
Nick Anthony Ralston
Emma Richard
Bryce Morgan Schwartz
Emma Tess Segaloff
Jennifer Ann Shelby
Roshni Singh
William Andrew Tardif
Vahe Tascian
Tyler Ray Tinker
Christopher John Tredeau
Jaden Orlando Rain Tuma
Christina Kraus Uhlir
Caitlyn Jennifer Van Heest
Ashton Kole Wagner
Mrunal Wakode
Jordan Nicole Waldroop
Rylie Whistler
Emma Maire Wilson
Jackson Wittenberg
Huaiqian Yan
Linyi Yao
Jackson Jospeh Jung Hoon Yee
If a student’s name is not listed in the program, they did not apply by the April 1 deadline.
Bruk Selam Teshome Samuel Gregory Kail Jaime Chaire
CANDIDATESMaster of Science and Master of Business Administration
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Master of ScienceReal EstateJesus Adolfo Banuelos-Rivera
Benjamin Barron
Christopher George Bornhorst
Thomas Michael Calvert
Ross Michael Carpenter
Paula Anne Chavarria
Kyle Clinton
Harrison Stefan Colby
William James Cord
Skyler Douglas Dapuzzo
Jessica Rachel de Haan
Simon Nicholas Egerton
Dylan Ari Esquenazi
Grant Evans
Charles Edward Grasso
Rob Hamm
Cole Patrick Heilman
George Tyler Hurst
Paul Boukwou Jang
Jennye Jarbawi
Melissa Lauren Lee
Ross Alistair Macdonald
William Robert McAllister
Myles McGinnis
Edward Justin Miller
Christopher Benjamin Missroon
Weston Warren Moran
Nicolas James Motta
Trevor Pope
Zachary B. Rosswork
Thomas Lee Salkeld
Jonathan Pearce Tschetter Jr
Peter Yoder
John Michael Zeiser
Master of Science Supply ChainFaisal Ayedh Mareai Al-Shabebi
Collin Michael Ambrose
Shane Daniel Bogan
Oliver Marco Chow
Jamie Chang Cooney
Karlie Nicole Cummins
Cian Eli Shillman Delahunty
Willem Henry Dickinson
Johnathan Hiatt Dressel
Fleur Eggink
Emerin Ferreiras
Ryan Michael Flynn
Edna Chun-Yi Goodrich
Seiji Dollison Hayashi
Herman Frederick Hess IV
Ane Johnsen
Ashley Nicole Johnson
Julia Rose Jungquist
Clint LaBattaglia
Ryan Millendez
Alexa Porter
Mac Walker Presnal
Brooke Clemons Pulver
Angelica M. Rolong
Diego Heriberto Rubio Urena
Natasha Sheila Scott
Galen Ryder Sloss
Colin Wade Smith
Angelina Christine Southcott
Alexandra Rostad Weil
Yue Yin
Jiahao Zhen
Master of ScienceTaxationAlexis Renae Clark
Madeline Ann Ostrowski
Henry Schaefer
Colin Smith
Matthew Chandler Voiles
Jared Richard Webster
If a student’s name is not listed in the program, they did not apply by the April 1 deadline.
Cole Patrick Heilman Master of Science
CANDIDATESMaster of Science and Master of Business Administration
BETA GAMMA SIGMABeta Gamma Sigma (BGS) is a prestigious membership to recognize the highest level of academic achievement for students in an undergraduate or master’s program in business or management. For eligibility, undergraduates must rank in the upper 10% of both their junior and senior class.
Beta Gamma Sigma has three purposes:• To encourage and honor high academic achievement by students of
business and management through chapters in AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business.
• To foster in BGS members an enduring commitment to the principles and values of the society: honor and integrity, pursuit of wisdom, and earnestness.
• To support the advancement of business thought, at both the national and chapter levels, so as to encourage lifelong learning for the society’s members and other constituents.
Membership in BGS is an honor carrying a lifetime affi liation with vother outstanding graduates of business programs.
Masters StudentsGregory Markku Allan
Ethan Arvid Anderson
Sophia Newbury Berglund
Chase Headrick Haynes
Jordan Thomas Nelson
Michael Patrick O’Shea
Mallory Elizabeth Plachy
Karlie Nicole Cummins
Colin Wade Smith
MBA StudentsBridget Anne Brown
Brandon Carrigan Buse
Shannon Marie Flahive
Evan Eastman Godfrey
Austin Thomas Samuels Kellogg
Thaala Jane Bonolo Loper
Sarah Stafford
Luis Alfonso Villarreal Cantu
Jake Adams
Joseph Paul Anderson
John Fischer
Kevin Eric Hirst
Ernest Henry Konker
Logan William Mueller
Natalie Rose Todd
PhD StudentsNicholas Light
Members
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Full Time MBA
Shubhuka Agarwal
Christopher Miguel Aguirre
Rebekah Bailey
Ian Michael Barbarick
Zachary Baumann
Kallie Rose Beebe
John Tabor Bell
Zachary Birmele
Bridget Anne Brown
Davis Kingsley Brown
Stuart Randolph Brown Jr.
Kaila Micherra Bryzgalski
Dylan Burton
Brandon Carrigan Buse
Kevin Casey
Robert Longstreet Cleveland
Arianna Gianakopoulos Clinton
Lily Catherine Colley
Elise Collins
David John Cottone
Grace Dennis
Prashant Deshpande
Natalie Deuschle
Kathryn Marie Dortenzo
Jason Engel
Andrew Robert Felsch
Dylan Christian Finley
Shane Ryan Fitzgerald
Shannon Marie Flahive
Preston Kyle George Garland
Andrew Thomas Patrick Gendron
Mackinnon Giddings
Avery Glassman
Sarah Glickman
Evan Eastman Godfrey
Patricia Margaret Grindereng
Clayton Hall
Alexander Todd Halverson
Charles Alexander Henderson
Matara Rae Hitchcock
Timothy David Hulse
Grace Hayoung Jang
Megan Michele Johnson
Austin Thomas Samuels Kellogg
Weston Scott Kim
Galen Adam Kuney
Evan Michael Land
Nathaniel Baker Loch
William Shelton Lofton
Thaala Jane Bonolo Loper
Lauren Ellie Magin
Thomas Marriott Jr
Kathryn Eileen McClain
Anya Rose McGanty
Allison Carole McKinley
Alexander Abbott McLaughlin
Samantha Fairbank Miga
Ryan Millendez
Colten Miller
Ian MacKenzie Mills
Chelsea Myntti
Veerasak Nichayapun
Ian Maxwell Petersen
Ole-Gunnar Pettersen
Joseph Plastino
Andrew Nicholas Reswow
Cody Dillon Rogers
Anoud Saeed
Alexandre Secunda
Michaela Callie Shepherd
Raden Mangaraja Simangunsong
Susan Simon
James Blair Simpson
Laurel Snow
Sarah Stafford
Jennifer Swonger
Courtland Ryan Thomas
Christina Margaret Tonti
Malorie Krystina Torrey
Khai Quoc Tran
Sabrina Ann Umbaugh
John Austin Vaughn
Erika Marie Vette
Luis Alfonso Villarreal Cantu
Charles Smedley Wasson
Matthew Wich
Jiahao Zhen
Evening MBA
Jake Adams
Jason Shaun Aldridge
Joseph Paul Anderson
Michael Anderson
Kevin James Beck
Bryan Begun
Victoria Elizabeth Berzins
Lauren Elise Bogard
Sterling Boin
Colleen Callahan
Cerling
Bradley William Chalker
Angela Hana Cho
Anthony Rush Combs II
Kathryn Connolly
Genevieve Decker
Daniel Charles Delahunty
Javier Delgado
Lauren Alysse DeLong
John Davis Dunlop
Oluwadamilola Elegbede
Damon Timothy Ewen
Danielle Massari Firebaugh
John Fischer
Justin Michael Forbis
Colby Christopher Fountain
Rachel Marie Fowler
Kaylin Hunter Gafford
Pieter Gagnon
Amanda Jordyn Gillie
Christopher Morse Glen
Jordan Jacob Hardy
Jeffrey Harrigan
Brett Hatch
Tyler Dean Heister
Kevin Eric Hirst
Robert Lee Jacques
Nathan Jordan
Chaithanya Kumar Karuna
Ernest Henry Konker
Kaitlin Aubrey Lanter
Benjamin Ross Levin
Hua Hui Li
Jesus Lira
Stacie Marie Loidolt
Samuel Allen Loos
Megan Nicole Lorenzen
Gregory George Lukas
Amogh Sheetal Marathe
Eric Marquardt
Regina Ann McHugh
Jordan D. Meier
Robert Jospeh Meineke
Hannah Miller
Logan William Mueller
Carys Anne Murphy
Elizabeth Lian Nordlinger
Michael Polkow
Kumaraguru Prabakar
Udhayaprakash Ravindran
Joshua Repine
Daniel Francis Rickert
Donley Clayton Rogers
Utsab Sarkar
Sarah Marie Scott
Shawn Hillary Sendar
Emily Claire Carey Singer
Kailey Marie Slusher
Hayes Caughman Smith
Meredith Sarah Smith
Kelsey Staudacher
Tegan Kathleen Straley
David Michael Strouse
Sivarangan Subramanian
Nash Bryan Thomas
Natalie Rose Todd
Dianna Torgerson
Ashley Trupp
Daniel Thomas Urban
Sophia Kristine Volk
Wesley Raymond Whitaker
Peary Scott Wilson
Madonna Alexandra Witt
Jimena Zamora Iribarren
PhD
Brittany Keithlin Lambert
Nicholas Light
Victor Marsh
Phoenix Van Wagoner
If a student’s name is not listed in the program, they did not apply by the April 1 deadline.
James Blair Simpson
CANDIDATESMaster of Science and Master of Business Administration
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GRADUATION TRADITIONSAcademic Robing This practice originally began in the 12th century out of necessity as many European universities did not have heat. Students improvised by wearing long robes and hoods to stay warm. In 1895, the United States Intercollegiate Commission formalized a code to regulate the cut, style and materials of the gown and the color of the tassel by area of degree. Graduate gowns typically have oblong sleeves, open at the wrist. Doctoral gowns have bellshaped sleeves with velvet trimmings. Many students also adorn cords in recognition of specific achievements.
CordsBrown Cords – The brown cords are worn by undergraduates who have earned their Real Estate emphasis and graduate students who have finished their real estate emphasis in the MBA and MSRE. As these future leaders spring into their real estate careers, the brown cords will remind them of the richness of the earth and the legacy they will create in their communities. Congratulations to the Class of 2021!
Gold and Silver Cords – Worn by students who are part of the inaugural class of High-Growth Venture fellows and top entrepreneurship MBAs.
The other traditional academic regalia are the hoods and caps: Graduate students wear a traditional mortarboard cap anddoctoral candidates wear the tam, a fluffy velvet hat with a circular design inspired by an English Tudor-style bonnet. The size of the hood indicates the degree attained, with longer hoods representing more advanced degrees. Hoods are lined with the official colors of the university or college conferring the degree, and the edging accentuates the area
of emphasis for the degree. All Master of Science graduates will be wearing a gold hood and tassel for their cap and Master of Science in Business Administration will have a sapphire hood and tassel for their cap.
The Ceremonial Mace Maces, while once traditionally used as weaponry during the medieval period, have more recently been used as a symbol for peace, authority and importance in political and academic ceremonies. Leeds honors this tradition during graduation with the Ceremonial Mace, representing the values and ideals of Leeds through its design, construction and materials. The foundation that holds up the mace is a marble hexagon, each side representing one of the core principles of excellence, integrity, sustainability, value, globalization and ethics that uphold this institution. The top has a clear, etched glass lens that bears the seal of the University of Colorado and represents the value and vision that students receive from their education.Two handlike forms hold up the lens, cherishing and protecting the value of education.
The symbolism extends to the materials used to create the mace. The steel ball at the bottom of the mace was salvaged from a former gold mine in Boulder and was used to crush ore in the mining days. It’s an emblematic reminder of the progression of commerce over time and the creative repurposing of materials for sustainability. Eleven different types of wood from around the world were used to represent globalization. The rest of the mace uses a mix of zinc, copper, iron, lead and brass alloys that, together, represent teamwork.
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DOCTORAL PROGRAMResearch at leading business schools generates the knowledge and innovation to transform business practices globally. The PhD Program at the University of Colorado’s Leeds School of Business prepares students for research careers at leading universities. Our program is small enough to ensure that each student can receive the mentoring needed to innovate at the frontier of five business disciplines:
• Accounting• Finance• Marketing• Organizational Behavior and Information Systems• Strategy, Entrepreneurship and Operations
Our program also equips students with a deep understanding of the most influential research in their disciplines,as well as the tools necessary to contribute state-of-the-art research advancing these disciplines. In developing the next generation of thought leaders, our program also supports the dissemination of that knowledge from classrooms to the profession at large. This year’s doctoral candidates continue this long tradition of leading the way in research excellence.
#ForeverBuffsCongratulations! You are now a part of the Leeds alumni
community—a network of more than 42,000 Buffs around the world! Whatever career you pursue, whatever city you’re in, stay in touch
with your Buff network.
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“You are now certifi ed to the world at large as alumni of the university. She is your kindly mother and you her cherished sons and daughters.
This exercise denotes not your severance from her, but your union with her. Commencement does not mean, as many wrongly think, the breaking of ties and the beginning of life apart. Rather, it marks your initiation in the fullest sense into the fellowship of the university, as bearers of her torch, as centers of her infl uence, as promoters of her spirit.
The university is not the campus, not the buildings on the campus, not the faculties, not the students of any one time — not one of these or all of them. The university consists of all who come into and go forth from her halls, who are touched by her infl uence and who carry on her spirit. Wherever you go, the university goes with you. Wherever you are at work, there is the university at work.
What the university purposes to be, what it must always strive to be, is represented on its seal, which is stamped on your diplomas — a lamp in the hands of youth. If its light shines not in you and from you, how great is its darkness! But if it shines in you today, and in the thousands before you, who can measure its power?
With hope and faith, I welcome you into the fellowship. I bid you farewell only in the sense that I pray you may fare well. You go forth but not from us. We remain but not severed from you. God go with you and be with you and us.”
NORLIN CHARGE TO THE CLASS
University of Colorado President
GEORGE NORLIN, 1935