Hey everybody, by the time you read this magazine, our 20th
reunion will have come and gone. I hope we had fun! I know we look
great.
Congratulations to my old friend Kevin King! Lieutenant Commander King is recently retired
from active service in the Navy after 20 years. He most recently served at the
Naval Aviation Schools Command in Pensacola, Florida.
Eitan Yudilevich (Ph.D. '88) is the Executive
Director of the Binational Industrial Research and Development Foundation
(BIRD), established in 1977 to fund joint U.S.Israeli teams in the development
and subsequent commercialization of innovative, non-defense technological
products from which both the Israeli and American company can expect to derive
benefits commensurate with the investments and risks. Since its inception, BIRD
has approved 776 joint high-tech R&D projects through conditional grants
totaling more than $255 million. Products developed from these ventures have
generated direct sales of $4.5 billion. Recently, BIRD has emphasized issues
related to sustainability, such as renewable energy and water technologies. In
addition, Eitan leads a tri-national fund named TRIDE, which supports joint U.S.-Israel-Jordan
projects. Eitan was recently in Troy to give a talk for the New Horizons
Speaker Series, sponsored by the Rensselaer Office of Entrepreneurship. Eitan,
who is originally from Chile, lives now in Karmiel, located in the Galilee,
Israel. He is married to Bruria and they have three children: Gali (1976), Ori
(1980) and Dan (1986). Dan was born in Troy, while Eitan was studying at RPI.
Michael Shamma (B.S. '88, M.S. ??) was
recently promoted to the position of Regional Director for Region 2 at the New
York State Department of Transportation. Mike is responsible for the
operation and maintenance of the transportation infrastructure in the beautiful
Mohawk Valley region. Mike lives in New Hartford, NY.
Congratulations to Sharon Tasman and her lucky groom
Mark Prysant. Sharon is a counsel with Hogan & Hartson in Washington,
DC specializing in technology-related legal transactions.
Sharon sent us her wedding update via the RPI alumni website:
"We had the whole big wedding planned, but sanity got the better of us and
my fiance (now husband) Mark Prysant and I decided to elope! Six phone
calls to the Bellagio Hotel in Las Vegas later, the whole wedding was planned -
Rabbi, chuppah, flowers, photo and video! On Friday, July 13th (a lucky day for
us) we got married with three friends as witnesses, and thanks to the
Bellagio's live webcam option, the rest of our friends and family around the
world could watch the wedding live! It was great - we were the only
couple getting married that day since everyone else was being superstitious so
the hotel was extra attentive. The only drawback? The 110 degree
heat when we took photos outside by the hotel's lake!"
Steve Mushero (B.S. '88, MBA '90) is living in
Shanghai where he is the CTO of Tudou.com, the world's largest video web site.
Before that he served as CTO, CIO, and/or Chief Architect of a variety of
Silicon Valley and global companies, and worked on projects for the World
Health Organization and Grameen Bank's Technology Group. An avid
globalist, Steve published a 2007 book on Globalization and speaks both
Japanese and Chinese. He's enjoying life in China and traveling whenever
possible. He can be found on the web at www.SteveMushero.com
Jeffrey N. Brown (MBA ’88) was recently promoted to Chief
Administrative Officer at Webster Financial Corporation. Jeffrey is responsible for Webster's
information technology, operations, human resources, communications, public affairs,
strategic planning, facilities and Internet functions. Prior to joining
Webster, he held several senior management positions with the former Fleet
Financial Group. Jeffery is a member of
the Advisory Board for the Yale School of Management Center for Customer Insights.
He serves on the Board of Trustees for The Bushnell Center for the Performing
Arts and on the Glastonbury Education Foundation Board. He is president of the
Harold Webster Smith Foundation and is a director of Webster Insurance. He is
also a representative for Webster to the Financial Services Roundtable.
If you have read this class update then you obviously want to know more about your old friends. Well, your classmates want to know more about you too.
We want to hear the usual (and incredibly important) facts such as where you live and work, married/kids etc, and we also want to hear something about you that reminds us of you. (Examples: Still carousing/no longer carousing; still in engineering/no longer in engineering; still fighting for world peace/fighting for peace in your household; building the backbone of the Internet/ working on a vaccine for malaria/ helping to promote spam in India/ just working your tail off.... )
Send me your news or even a “hello world” email and I’ll
help you with the rest of the text. Bonnie Rind (nee Woronoff),
bonnie@bonfireda.com
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