Taco Bell has been a strongpartner with The Paul MerageSchool of Business for nearly20 years. We have a significantnumber of Merage SchoolMBA’s in leadership positionsand continue to actively recruiton campus each year. CorporatePartners offers significantnetworking opportunities via theDistinguished Speaker Seriesand other highly visible events.The program has helped TacoBell create quality, long-lastingrelationships with MerageSchool faculty, staff and manyother leaders within the OrangeCounty business community.

TOM WAGNER, VP - CONSUMER

INSIGHTS & BRAND PLANNING

TACO BELL

The Wet Seal is a young, vibrant, and fastpaced business and demands quickanalysis and decision making. We havehad two groups of MBA students fromthe Merage School in the MBAConsulting Program. With both groups,we benefited from their energy,perspective, and entrepreneurialapproach to our business. The entireExecutive team was very impressed. TheMBA teams’ findings from a marketingperspective were accurate and strategic.I know that the students learned fromthis hands-on experience and exposureto top level executives; however, the othervalue that was gained was to ourmanagement team here. We learnedfrom them as well. This continues to be agreat experience for all and we intend tostay involved in this program every year.

BARBARA ARNEKLEV, VP, HUMAN RESOURCES

THE WET SEAL INC.

Union Bank has been a proudpartner of The Paul MerageSchool of Business, CorporatePartners program for many years.The program has provided me withthe opportunity to meet some ofthe other key Business Leaders inthe Orange County businesscommunity. Additionally, access toworld renowned professors andtop level business students in thecommunity has been anotherbenefit of my involvement.Corporate Partners has been agreat resource both personally aswell as professionally.

JOE SWEET

SENIOR VP & REGIONAL DIRECTOR

UNION BANK

Sage North America has found itsrelationship with The Paul MerageSchool of Business very rewarding.As a company headquartered inIrvine, we have benefited from theability to tap into the School’sconsulting and intern programs. Therelationship has opened the doorsto improved business connectionswith other local firms and greaterlocal visibility through activities likethe Distinguished Speaker Series.Most importantly, as a companyfocused on serving millions of smalland medium-sized businesses, wesee our connection with this greatbusiness school enriching us withinsights facing this market and inconnecting with the emerging talentthat will lead it in the future.

DENNIS FRAHMANN

EXECUTIVE VP OF MARKETING

SAGE NORTH AMERICA

Top connections with executives who take their leadership roles from excellence to extraordinary success, exposure to thelatest research, and high performing MBA management consulting teams are just a few of the benefits companies enjoythrough The Paul Merage School of Business Corporate Partners. Your affiliation with some of the most successfulcorporate champions globally and one of the world’s top research institutions offers exceptional business opportunitiesand prestige. Our collaboration through this program has led a standard of excellence and placed the Merage Schoolamong the top 10% of MBA programs in the world.

Corporate PartnersABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS, INC.

Christine Darragh

ACCENTURE

Doug Cunningham

BAUSCH & LOMB

Robert Grant

THE BOEING COMPANY

Daryl Pelc

DARTBROOK PARTNERS

Kenneth Beall

EMULEX CORPORATION

Jeff Benck

EV3Betzy Estrada

EXPERIAN

Allen Anderson

GALLUP CONSULTING, INC.Larry Emond

GLOBAL BENEFITS GROUP

Mark Tomaszewski

HIRERIGHT, INC.Robert Pickell

IBM CORPORATION

Neil Sahota

JONES DAY

Lester Savit

KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY

COMPANY, INC.Darwin Chen

MAZDA NORTH AMERICA

OPERATIONS

James O’Sullivan

MICROSEMI

James Peterson

NEUDESIC

Parsa Rohani

PAAMCO (PACIFIC ALTERNATIVE

ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY)Jane Buchan

POINT B

Drew Aron

THE PRECEPT GROUP

Christopher Coulter, MD

PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS

Knute Kurtz

ROHL, LLC

Ken Rohl

SAGE SOFTWARE

Dennis Frahmann

STEELHEAD BREWERY CO.Steve Lewis

TACO BELL CORPORATION

Tom Wagner

UNION BANK

Joe Sweet

VIRTIUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.Phu Hoang

VOLCOM

Hoby Darling

WELLS FARGO BANK

John Evans

THE WET SEAL, INC.Steve Benrubi

YAMAHA CORPORATION OF

AMERICA

Brian Jemelian

Partner with the Merage School today. Visit merage.uci.edu/go/corporatepartners or call 949.824.4530

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