Stanford GSB Class of 1987

Sakie and Glen (AB ‘72) Fukushima were named Mr. and Mrs. International by the Wall Street Journal. “A high powered Tokyo couple, [they] could be poster children for globalization of corporate boards…Each one serves on the board of a business in the other’s home country, placing them among the small group of overseas directors at Japanese and American companies.” Sakie continues her role leading the Japan operations of Korn/Ferry International, conducting searches for clients, serving her fourth 3-year term on the firm’s board, and also serving on the boards of Sony Corp., Kao Corp., and Benesse Corp. In addition, this last year she published her third sole-authored book in Japanese, a guide for Japanese women who aspire to assume leadership positions in the still male-dominated world of Japanese business. Glen is now CEO of Airbus Japan and is the first American director of Mizuho Financial Group, Japan’s largest, and Fidelity International Funds.

Mari (Iizuka) Kondo is Associate Professor at Ritsumeikan Asia Pacific University’s Graduate School of Management, one of the few graduate schools to offer an internationally recognized MBA with a focus on the Asia Pacific Region. Mari enjoys her job, although she has a lot of work to do to bring the new business school up to speed. Her research now focuses on Corporate Social Responsibility, ethics and business. The school is located in one of Japan’s most famous hot spring resorts, Beppu, which makes it all worth it. She takes a dip every morning and evening. Now that’s work/life balance! Mari wants you to stop by the new international university, enjoy the hot spring, and get rejuvenated.

Bill Banks joined Quizam Media’s Advisory Board. Quizam is a computer-based study tool based on quizzes. Kids learn and dramatically improve their grades while having fun. Since business school, Bill has held senior management positions with several early stage technology firms. His extensive software domain experience and strong track record of building sales organizations and profitable businesses makes him the perfect fit. “Bill’s knowledge of the US market together with his creativity makes him a great addition,” says Russ Rossi, Quizam’s President.

Janet Abrams is now VP and COO of Eno Transportation Foundation in DC.

Atsuko D’Amour is now the Semiconductor Practice Leader for the San Francisco Consulting Group.

Nissan decided a few months ago to move its North American headquarters to suburban Nashville and it looks like Dave Price will be making the move with them. He’s there now doing some serious house hunting. Their new office will be in Franklin, just south of Nashville, but for about two years they will work out of temporary quarters in downtown Nashville (in “The Batman Building” for anyone who knows the city). They make the move this summer. Luckily, Dave’s youngest daughter (Liz - 17), will have just completed her senior year of high school by then. His oldest (Sabrina - 22) will likely stay in California. If anyone who has lived there has advice about living in Middle Tennessee, Dave would be happy to hear it.

Now for some sad news. For those classmates who knew Dave’s ex-wife, Marti (she was very active in BizPatners and Biz Kids while we were at the GSB), she passed away unexpectedly on January 15th. They do not even know the cause of death yet, but she was having some health problems the past few years.

In December 2005, Larry Buchalter left the hedge fund he founded in 2003 to try something new. He is now invested in and actively involved in a NYC-based company called Charity Folks “Charityfolks.com”:www.charityfolks.com which manages high-end online auctions exclusively for non-profits. While it is fun to be involved with all the celebrities who donate their time and access to sell at auction, the two best things about this project are: 1) helping to grow a for-profit business that is also benefiting so many non-profits; and, 2) getting to spend more time with the three of our GSB classmates who have co-invested with Larry in the company. Anyone connected to a nonprofit that may want to explore new fundraising techniques—please call or email!

The Enthovens, Tucker, Rich, and kids Matthew, Nick, Julia, and Alex, moved into their new house in Dallas last year after a-way-too-long construction period. Now that the house is done, Tucker is head of fund raising for Big Thought/Young Audiences—a local arts in education advocacy group. Rich ran his 10th marathon in December, this time with son Nick (14) who ran his first. Rich is still involved with managing his real estate company, building a new company in the area of prepaid electricity, and working as investor/board member of several other companies.

On October first, Antoinette (Annie) Jeanne Hurley was baptized in Dallas to the great delight of family and friends. While Mark Hurley (‘87) expressed his gratitude to his saintly wife, Mary, guests were able to confirm that Mark has tear glands that actually work. That alone was worth the flight out for Bart Narter. Mark has two beautiful daughters and we anxiously await the report on Mark’s interviews with any potential suitors. After the Baptism, Mark and Mary entertained their guests at their home in Dallas. (see photos)

Mary, Joni, Annie, and Mark Hurley.

Caption: If you want to date one of my daughters, you need to better talk to me first.

Stanford GSB alumni attending Annie Hurley’s baptism (L-R): Bart Narter ‘87, Mark Hurley ‘87, John Hurley ‘93, Kamilla Bren Hurley ‘92, and Frances Hurley ‘96.

Bart Narter is a Senior Analyst for Celent and works out of his house in Redwood City—the best commute!

Clara Spalter Miller passed the CFA Level III exam and earned her Chartered Financial Analyst accreditation last fall. She celebrated in style with her husband, Lee Miller (MBA ‘71), and Rui Santos who hosted them and a group of friends for a fabulous week of sailing in the Greek islands. (see photo)

2005.09. Greece aboard Queen of Karia. Clara Spalter Miller (’87) with husband Lee (’71) & Rui Santos (’87).

John Harkey came out to Las Vegas last spring seeking thrills and excitement, so Ross Williams got him out on a dirt bike. The idea was to travel to Idaho last summer, which is the Mecca of technical mountain riding. However, an accident skateboarding on the half-pipe sidelined John until at least this summer. Some people never want to grow up. Ross adds that Harkey did amazingly well on his ride, although John didn’t think so at the time. He is used to riding down the riverbeds at his ranch in Texas. This was more of the real deal. He pulled through like a champ. (see photo)

Ross Williams ‘87 and John Harkey ‘87 halfway through a relatively easy warm-up ride south of Las Vegas.

Sanjay Patel moved to London this summer after six months of commuting. His wife Leslie and their two girls Alisha (13) and India (10) thankfully moved at the end of the summer, in time for the beginning of the school year. After a year hiatus spent taking time with the kids (exploring wonders of the Grand Canyon, etc.), fishing with friends and travelling (for example with the Levin’s Leaders Quest trip to Asia last summer), Sanjay decided to rejoin Goldman Sachs in February to run their private equity business in Europe. They have just raised a new $8.5 billion fund and are busily investing in Europe, Asia and the US. It’s nice to be in the same city with Elon Spar and David Levin, amongst others. Please call or visit.

Alfred Pang rejoices that finally more classmates are visiting Hong Kong and China. He had a big Peking duck dinner with the Cohens (Russell, Polly and their three wonderful children) in August, followed by another dinner with excellent food in front of a great harbour view with Stuart Leaf in September. Rich Tong is bringing over a big Tong clan (a 9-strong contingent) into town in Hong Kong later this month–and even Charles Wu will be braving China this next weekend. It is great to see many old friends here, writes Alfred, keep up the traffic.

Laurie Girand has written a book about their three years abroad and is working on getting it published. They’ve also become parents again for the third (”and last!”, exclaims Laurie) time. Aili Hope McGregor was born on 8/29/05. They moved to Orange County because her husband Scott took a position as President/CEO of Broadcom, a semiconductor company, and they have now bought a house in San Juan Capistrano, where they will be moving before the end of the year.

Larry Buchalter is the president of Chatham Asset Management, a hedge fund he founded in 2003, but he has set plans to try something new and different in 2006. His son Brett (16) is a high school junior who plays on his school’s basketball and tennis teams and is beginning to look at colleges; daughter Ali (13) runs the family.

Wally Walker claims to be applying lessons learned from raising his three kids, Joe (9), Sara (8), and Molly (5), to running a professional sports franchise (NBA’s Seattle Sonics) and vice versa, but that it’s not working very well.

Jeff Brown is still at FBB doing private equity investments although at a slower pace. Spencer (16) and Parker (11) are active in football and volleyball. His wife Diana spends lots of time cooking, golfing, biking. All is well in Newport Beach.

All is well in San Francisco for Jeffry Weisman. He’s adding to the roster of business school classmates–Jane Woodward and Kurt Ohms hired them to do the interiors of a new house. As if that isn’t fun enough, the architect is Heidi Hansen (Drew Dougherty’s wife). It is going to be the most green Fisher Weisman project to date! Their business is super busy and they are expanding their staff.

Jane Woodward got a great in-depth write-up in Rocky Mountain Institute’s Fall newsletter describing how she got started at Mineral Acquisition Partners (MAP) and the extraordinary Sustainable Energy Fellowship program she set up five years ago. She’s kept the quality of the program so high that top organizations take more Fellows than the official number of MAP slots, and often hire them as a result of the program. Funded by a hefty chuck (around 10%) of MAP’s profits taken from their core natural gas-based business, with this and similar investments, Jane has managed to effectively combine her passion for actively nurturing energy resources, the environment, and future leaders.

Gordon Bloom is teaching at Harvard’s Kennedy School, where he moved his “Social Entrepreneurship Collaboratory (SE Lab)” for the creation and development of US and international nonprofits. It’s taken two hard, sometimes miserable years to get the lab into the curriculum at Harvard. His wife Sara Singer (GSB 93) has gone back to school, and is now in the third year of her very difficult doctorate in Health Policy at Harvard, and a Fellow at the wonderful Center for Public Leadership. Kids Audrey (6) and Jason (3) seem OK with swapping mostly sunny, innovative northern California for Massachusetts but Gordon wonders about this often…

Lenny Mendonca’s Half Moon Bay Brewing Company was awarded the “good neighbor award” by the National Restaurant Association as the best large restaurant in CA for supporting the community. They donate proceeds from the restaurant and from fundraisers that they host to local school districts to cover costs cut from the state budget. They also hold fundraisers and community events to help seniors, increase health insurance coverage for children and adults, and to clean up the environment.

Once again, I’m inspired. Wow! For those like me who think you’re too busy to contribute, stay in shape, travel, write a book–whatever it is you’ve always wanted to do–ask your classmates their secret and think again!

(Left-to-right) Wally/Linda Walker, Jeff/Diana Brown and Larry/Robin Buchalter,
taken in August 2005 on a bike trip just outside Seattle.

There are advantages to sticking with one firm: if you can survive you’ve proven you’re good!

Bob Lennox, US Army Brigadier General, has returned to his post at Fort Bliss, this time to take over as Commanding General. The Fort Bliss CG spot is a two-star position and it is expected that he will again be promoted during his tour in El Paso.

Bob Joss asked and Lenny Mendonca agreed to join the GSB Advisory Board.

Janice Warne is featured in the GSB website’s “Best Practice” section. http://www.gsb.stanford.edu/news/profiles/warne.shtml Janice shares her thoughts on single-company careers and the challenges of the Citibank-Salomon Brothers merger.
Since graduation, Janice has survived the investment banking roller-coaster ride. She now co-heads the global Collateralized Debt Obligations group in the Fixed-Income Division of Citigroup Global Markets. Her focus is on the United States. She also heads the Global Structured Bonds group, which includes structured credit, private placements, and aircraft financing.

Bill Gray sends his greetings from Japan! He’s moved there to take on a newly created position, V.P. Engineering, Delphi - Japan. He lives in Omotesando in Tokyo, (the chic section with lots of cafes—how fun is that!) and works out of two offices, one in Shinjuku and the other in Akishima. He bikes all over the city, eats fantastic food, enjoys the culture, and works seemingly infinite hours (Japanese style).
For our class, this may make the record books: 29 years with the same company (Delphi), and 4 children through school! Kathryn, who was born at Stanford (see The Reporter, Oct ‘86 article about her birth), recently graduated from high school. Jenny (NY), Hunter (NC), and Austin (CA) are geographically covering the US, so Jane and Bill are now “empty nesters” in Japan.

George Clothier is taking advantage of his time off to do some volunteer consulting for a non-profit, TechnoServe, whose CEO is Bruce McNamer (Stanford MBA 96). Right now they have George in El Salvador to develop a strategy to increase local production of fruits and vegetables as a source of additional income and employment for the rural population. It is certainly challenging given the structural problems that the country is currently facing. For example 25% of the population lives in the US and sends back over $2.5B annually (16% of GNP). This helps their standard of living, but at the same time it increases labor costs and hurts their economic competitivity.

Gottfried Leibbrandt earned his PhD, left McKinsey (is Lenny our last classmate there?), and moved to Belgium to join SWIFT, a financial industry-owned co-operative supplying secure, standardised messaging services and interface software to 7,650 financial institutions in over 200 countries. SWIFT’s worldwide community includes banks, broker/dealers and investment managers, as well as their market infrastructures in payments, securities, treasury and trade. Gottfried rewrote his dissertation into an entertaining and thought provoking booklet, “Why Americans still write checks” about the adoption (at varying speeds) of new technologies and the economics of networks and national standards. Ever wonder why the English drive on the wrong side of the road? It’s a fascinating read.

Steve Pollock is President of WetFeet Inc. and also leads their Research and Consulting Division. He’s recently published a study ranking Corporate Recruiting Websites, based on input from the real experts—actual candidates. With such real world focus groups at his fingertips, Steve has become a sought-after expert in the world of recruitment and talent management—his research findings and opinions are frequently citied in national media including the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Fortune and CNBC.

Art Shaw is now Chairman and CEO for Netblue, a profitable startup founded in 2002. They create demand for marketer’s products or services by building unique marketing programs and are now the number one marketer of credit cards and consumer subscriptions on the Internet.

Jennifer McFarlane CEO of The Women’s Technology Cluster in SF, is organizing their 5th Annual Entrepreneur Venture Conference to be held in November. Last year their conference was a tremendous success with 30% of the presenting companies receiving financing, two over $5 million. If you know of any women-led, technology-driven companies seeking Series A or B financing, send them to Jennifer.

David Roberts is now CEO of PopCap Games, a Seattle software startup founded in 2000. PopCap games can be found on numerous different platforms, from the web to PCs to Macs, to PDAs and cell phones, even mid-flight airline entertainment. There have been over 10 million downloads of their Deluxe games on various portals, and on any given day literally hundreds of thousands of people play the free web versions. Give it a try!

Jason Shih is now President of Valence Capital Group, formerly Chicago Analytic Capital Management. In this role, Jason manages the firm’s investment supervision and advisory programs, advising clients on matters relating to strategic policy and investment program design. If you want to learn “How to Meet Investment Governance Goals Within your Risk Budget” Jason is the guy to ask. Prior to joining VCG, Jason held a series of senior posts at Deutsche Bank.

Mark Schmaier is now Vice President of Levitt Fuirst Associates in NY, specialists in insurance for the construction industry.

Debbie Cohen is settling into her new home in Chapel Hill, NC. She recently auditioned and joined Women’s Voices Chorus after meeting chorus members at an improv singing workshop following a Bobbie McFerrin concert. You can imagine how good they must be…
Bruce and Debbie are enjoying spending time with their kin folk: a combined clan with 4 nieces, 2 nephews, and 6 great-nieces and great-nephews. Debbie and her mom get together almost daily. Her parents and younger brother and family live just a few miles away and Bruce’s family is close enough for frequent visits. Last week they went on a mission to the International Spy Museum with Bruce’s mom, who was an overt employee for the CIA. Debbie wasn’t able to get her drunk enough to answer all of her questions, but tickled a few tidbits from her.

John Graham was at Disney for nine months working with Tom Staggs (their CFO). He had previously helped sell the Angels baseball team and was working on the Mighty Ducks sale, but was leaving Lehman Brothers so Tom asked him to come for a short stint to help contend with a degree of shareholder and PR unrest. That wrapped up with a 92% positive shareholder vote this February at Disney’s annual meeting, so, with that job finished, John left Disney. But then he came back to write a little music for Disney’s ABC network. One of the other Disney executives introduced him to the promotions group as a composer and it worked out. Yesterday, they recorded a string section (violins etc.) to create a big sound for some music John wrote that will be airing on spots promoting a new show called, “invasion” that’s coming this fall. Stay tuned!

Mary Ng Dooley has just accepted an offer to be Senior Product Manager with Cisco’s Global Learning Network (GLN) internal start-up. “Every moment that I spent inside HP, Xerox, and Tegrity will be used during this assignment. From content “sense-making” applications to higher ed purchasing processes to partnering best practices, I am the beneficiary of the best work environments that this Valley has to offer. Now, I will do my best to create a high impact GLN with Team Cisco!” Go Mary!

Eric Rosen has been named a Partner and head of MSD Capital’s private equity investment group. MSD Capital exclusively manages the capital of Dell Inc. founder and Chairman, Michael Dell and his family, over $10 billion in a broad range of investments. For the last 16 years, Eric has been with Onex, a diversified holding company. Eric also serves as a Director of DRS Technologies, Commercial Vehicle Group, JL French Automotive Castings and Cypress Insurance.

John Harkey, chairman and CEO of Consolidated Restaurant Companies, joined the Board of Leap Wireless in March. He also serves on the Board of Directors of Total Entertainment Restaurant Corp. and on the Executive Board for Circle Ten Council of the Boy Scouts of America. John often works with Mark Rachesky. Guys, write in and tell us more!

After 15 years at the International Finance Corporation-about half that time leading an innovative environmental group, Louis Boorstin is taking a 2-year leave to work for the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. He’s joining a small team that’s developing potential new areas of engagement for the foundation related to related to improving the quality of people’s lives in the developing world. What an exciting opportunity! Many thanks to our classmates who’ve contributed to the Gates’ ability to establish the foundation! Louis will continue to be based in DC, with periodic trips to Seattle. On the home front, he’s raising three rambunctious boys, ages 9, 7 and 3 with his wife Alissa. They see Shanker Krishnan and his wife, Karen Mazze, Janet Abrams and other GSB classmates.

Debbie Cohen and her husband Bruce moved to North Carolina for 5 years to be closer to Debbie’s family. (I’ll miss seeing their smiling faces at my concerts.) Debbie, who founded ACT (Alumni Consulting Team) in ‘87, finished an ACT project with the Mid-Peninsula Housing Coalition II before her move.

Sanjay Patel is moving to London. He is now co-Head of the Private Equity Business of Goldman Sachs in Europe, returning back to his old group after a seven year hiatus. He recently had dinner with the Levins, who are providing much needed advice on the move, as well as the Spars, and met the Enthovens, Jordans, Poplawskis and Walkers who were visiting. Reach Sanjay at Goldman Sachs. He’s looking forward to other visits!

Eddie Poplawski completed the sale of his company, Anderson Chamberlin, Inc., on March 1st after working there for nearly 12 years-serving as its President/CEO for the last 7 years and owning it for the past 3. While he’s still not certain where his career path will lead him next, in the immediate future he’s very much looking forward to spending more (day) time with his wife, Kim, and their three boys.

David Dodson returned from a 3-4 month adventure around the world with his family. They took their kids out of school and had a blast. They stayed with the Spars for a few days in London, which was their only brush with luxury. Most of the nights were in tents and sleeping bags. They travelled to Nepal, Bhutan, Vietnam, Cambodia, Tanzania, Zanzibar, Chile, Argentina, and Antarctica. What lucky children and what a great way to bring the family together! Here’s a photo of their Christmas in Hanoi. David’s got some fabulous photos of children in the countries they visited as well.

Ajay Singh’s start-up of 7 years (ProactiveNet) seems to have survived the down turn and continues to make progress. They had their first profitable quarter in Q4 of 2004. His wife, Nidhi, works as a school psychologist in Castro Valley, CA. Nidhi, Ajay and the kids, Vikram 13 and Vijay 10, are planning a trip to Angkor Wat, Cambodia and India this summer.

Jeffry Weisman and his partner Andrew spent a fantastic 3 weeks in India and a week in Laos and Bangkok over the holidays. They’ve started construction on a new weekend house in Healdsburg (Sonoma), where they built a guest house and a tree house over the past several years. (Also home to all those roses I love!) They can’t wait for the house to be finished, around Christmas. Work is crazy. Beth and Paul Bartlett are carrying on the tradition of classmates keeping Fisher Weisman busy with a new addition to their Portola Valley digs, as is Wes Sterman with a large project in Pacific Heights. New projects across the country (Los Angeles, Palm Springs, Dallas, New York) are keeping their frequent flyer miles growing. All is well!

Dave Price just celebrated 14 years with Nissan North America in February. His workgroup broadened their responsibilities beyond just the web last year and he went from being Senior Manager, eBusiness to Senior Manager, Interactive Marketing, but he continues to do pretty much the same function for Nissan (Business Intelligence, Budgeting & Forecasting). After a little health scare last year that put him on notice that he’s actually AGING and needs to strike a better work/home life balance, his most adventurous activity this year has been driving practice with his 16 year old, Elizabeth. “We have not tackled the freeway yet, but she is actually doing quite well (no nicks, dings or dents in either the car or its passengers).”

Ken Kelley, Howie Rosen, Steve Zuckerman, and Tony Stayner all bicycled the Tierra Bella Century (100 mile) ride on April 9, 2005! All four of them made it with smiles on their faces after figuring out how to run a pace line without crashing. They followed Howie to the finish again as in past years with a whopping average speed of 16 mph on the move. The more interesting statistic is that Ken measured the time from start to finish as 7 hours and 30 min in the saddle; ouch.

Sheri Miksa has been promoted to CEO of Rubio’s Fresh Mexican Grill. She’s been President and COO since September 2002. Prior to that, she held major leadership roles at Seattle Coffee Company, LSG Sky Chefs and Taco Bell, where she led over 225 restaurants. Earlier in her career, she gained key brand experience at
General Foods and Frito Lay.

David Levin has been chosen to lead United Business Media as CEO. David has been CEO of Symbian since April 2002. He joined Symbian from Psion, the handheld computing company, where he was CEO from February 1999.

Steve Kenner moved from DCX to Ford Motor Company, taking the role of Chief Engineer. He’s joining classmates Bill Kennedy and Mark-Tami Hotta. Steve plays USTA tennis and has four daughters: Stephanie (17), Stacey
(14), and twins Amanda and Andrea (10).

Karen Jordan , a Portola Valley school board member, has enjoyed learning about California’s public education system and the need to reform it. She also continues on Starlight Children’s Foundation’s Board.

Jeff has a new job at eBay running their Paypal subsidiary. When he’s not working, he continues to careen through the local hills on his mountain bike and still plays a weekly game of basketball. He’s making progress cultivating a love of the outdoors in their twins, Ali and Connor (10).

Rich Tong has just published a book with John Zagula called The Marketing Playbook: Five Battle-Tested Plays for Capturing and Keeping the Lead in Any Market. Check out the rave reviews on Amazon.com.

Lauri Kien Kotcher has joined Pfizer’s Consumer Healthcare as the head of Global Marketing. This transition has been exciting and smooth, since Pfizer was one of her clients at McKinsey. Now she can focus
on growing their leading global brands (Listerine, Sudafed, Benadryl, Nicorette, Rogaine) with over $2 billion in sales.

Howie Rosen has been appointed to the Board of Pharsight. Recently, Howie joined Gilead Sciences, Inc, a biopharmaceutical company, as VP of Commercial Strategy, responsible for global brand strategy, new product planning, and project management.

George Overholser has joined the Board of VistaPrint. He continues to serve as a part-time strategic advisor to Capital One and other for-profit growth companies. George is also working to establish a capital market that serves the nonprofit sector.

Charlie Lannin has started his own private equity fund with two friends.

Photos of the Francis Family’s year-in-review looks like a Stanford Family Travel brochure. Nevertheless, Peter does work. J.M. Huber Corp. increased its size by nearly 30% last September when it acquired C.P. Kelco. Jen continues her Arctic climate research at Rutgers University.

Sakie Fukushima made the front page of the Nikkei Shimbun (Japan’s equivalent to the Wall Street Journal) for convincing former NTT DoCoMo senior executive Shiro Tsuda to join rival cell phone service Vodafone as President—a real coup! Sakie also serves as an outside director of Kao Corp. and Sony Corp.

Clara Spalter Miller is Director of Semandex Networks, a company she founded in 2000 in partnership with Sarnoff Labs. Clara joined the Board of Trustees of CalTech in April 2004. She passed the CFA Level II exam in
June 2004 and is now preparing for Level III. Clara and her husband Lee (MBA ‘71) joined Rui Santos and Marcelino Elosua (MBA ‘81) and his wife on a sailing trip to Turkey in July 2004.

Caryn Ginsberg ran the Marine Corps Marathon (her first) in D.C. in October. “The Marines were great,” she says, “organizing, cheering, even taking the chip off your shoe and retying at the end when you’re so sore you can’t reach your feet!”

Sam Lackey is planning to trek to Everest Base Camp in Nepal this year with his partner Julie.

Molly Wittenberg drove her kids all over the Southwest at boot camp pace to hike in national parks. They stayed at Grandma’s beach house in California, drove to Mexico for tennis, beach time and fun with friends and family, then returned to Colorado, again at boot camp pace, with stops at more national parks.

Sharon Thomsen’s sons, John Michael (2nd grade) and David (Kindergarten) continue to be the joy of her life. They all love to swim, paint, camp, and ski race. Sharon’s a substitute teacher for the Bellevue School District and for
Bellevue Christian School.

Pam and Bruce Gallaher moved to Spokane, Washington to be with Bruce’s dad. Bruce finished his teaching degree in December and will look for a job teaching 7th grade math. Pam left her position in the school library but hopes to help out in the class room until they get settled in and she finds something else.

Laurie Girand has moved back to Southern California from the Netherlands.

Jennifer McFarlane returned to Palo Alto in 2003 after 5 years in Australia in an intense start-up company experience. After an extensive search, Jennifer is now CEO of the Women’s Technology Cluster, a non-profit
incubator, and her husband is Dean of Golden Gate University Business School. Daughters Lianna (7) and Kaelyn (5) are now happily settled in local schools.

Wei Yen Ho moved to Singapore from Hong Kong and continues to work for Cardinal Advisors Ltd.

James Cowderoy noted with interest my move to Ben Lomond, CA. He is graced with a magnificent view of [the real Ben Lomond from his house in Scotland (see "Glassert.com":http://www.theglassert.com). James welcomes visitors who can row [crew] and has started a rowing club on Loch Ard in front of his house.

Steve Kutner recently learned that Rich Garcia is a direct descendent of King Kamehamehaa he chief that united the Hawaiian Islands and “greeted” Captain Cook and is also part of Queen Liliuokalani’s family (last Island monarch). Royal status notwithstanding, Rich is still busy with SoCal real estate.

Scott Richland sends his greetings from Israel, where he’s been attending board meetings as well as visiting charitable projects supported by his employer and their family. Seeing with his own eyes the complications of bringing together so many races, religions, cultures and ideologies on one piece of land smaller than the state of New Jersey, Scott highly recommends a visit.

Janet Abrams is delighted to announce the adoption of Jaynie-Sue, the world’s most wonderful Welsh Corgi, on Labor Day 2004. Mom and doggie are doing well and graduated (just barely) from basic obedience
training in January.

At the recent Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, Mike Feibus extended his winning streak at blackjack to 10 straight nights. “I hope this doesn’t jinx it,” Mike said of his first
double-digit win string. Mike, who attends two or three conventions a year in Vegas, last lost at the blackjack tables in November 2001. The streak has prompted Mike to consider shifting retirement funds into blackjack from
lottery tickets. Still, he’s reticent and would welcome advice from portfolio planners in the class. “Power Ball hasn’t hit yet,” he said. “But it just takes one, you know.”

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“Referrer Spam”:http://www.spywareinfo.com/articles/referer_spam/. There is no end to the spam disease. It ain’t just email. With all this self publishing, I’ve spent more time on comment, then trackback spam. Now I’m barraged by referrer spam. That is links of folks who have recently visited.

What is really needed is some sort of server side filter and some way to mark packets as really from a desitination rather than forgeries. Interesing computer science problem. Anyway in the mean time, I’m turning off referrers on tongfamily.com, geekfishing.net, etc.

Alex Vieux, considered by Time Magazine to be among the top 25 leaders shaping the European technology community, acquired Red Herring in April 2003 and has since been reshaping the company’s business plan, revenue structure, and editorial mission. He plans to create a network of online content, research and events that offer a broader perspective on the global technology sector. Way to go, Alex!

Steve Zuckerman left McCown De Leeuw & Co. after 14 years, and from the end of July

Gottfried Leibbrandt is still with McKinsey, living in the Netherlands in a suburb with his wife and 3 kids. All delightfully predictable and boring, he says demurely.

After 3 years as head of strategy and head of insurance for Poland at Accenture, Adam Anderson joined Nicom, the leading Polish consulting firm, as managing director. His wife, Magda, took a sabbatical from her work as dentist to build them a house in the country, not far from Warsaw. Two guest rooms and two guest bikes are awaiting all visitors from the Farm.

Flip Maritz and family packed up, left St. Louis, and moved to the mountains of Colorado. They now walk out their back door and ski down Beaver Creek Mountain — big lifestyle change, and the scenery is nicer! They are listed in the Avon, CO telephone directory, so call if you are out his way.

Teaching has been rewarding for Sharon Thomsen. Now she’s also getting back into tennis, swimming and skiing. In the summer, Sharon and her boys, David (5) and John Michael (7), hiked to Snow Lake and to a few lakes near Sunrise on Mt. Rainier.

Keith Ogden and Mona bought a house in Sausalito and will be working with Jeffry Weisman and his firm to do the interior decorating.

John Mooney is still at Goldman Sachs in San Francisco. He recently had a super-model looking daughter, Kristina, after four boys (aged 27, 25, 23, and 5) — it took two mothers…he was single for 10 years. He is probably the only one in ‘87 with children born in four different decades. But, he says he still acts young (or immature as others classify it), so things are good.

Lew Davies is in his 7th year running The Cambria Group in Menlo Park — busy with their portfolio of small operating businesses and always looking for new investment opportunities. He works with Chris Sekula, also ‘87, at Cambria. His three kids — one each in high school, middle school, and elementary school — are thriving. Lew’s 20th wedding anniversary to Pilar is coming up this summer.

Pam Gallaher is working with GATE (Gifted and Talented) students this spring doing an “Inventors Club”. She hopes to put together an “Invention Convention” in April or May.

After months of “mid-life type thinking”, Rosalie Cornew decided to make a civilized career switch. Leaving behind 13 years of work for Sun, she has started with her husband Dan an Australian wine import business. She has always loved wine but didn’t have much theory behind the palate. So Rosalie and Dan and went back to school at UC Davis to learn the marketing and selling of wine. They’ll be introducing the wine, called “Pretty Sally Estate Wine” (www.prettysally.com), in February. Rosalie caught her 7 yr. old analyzing the color, nose & mouth of his glass of milk…are they taking this too far, she wonders. It’s been great fun.

Karen and Jeff Jordan tossed out their plans to build a house from scratch and moved across the street to a house with a full basketball court in the yard. Karen is recovering from knee surgery stemming from a volleyball injury last August. To fill her “extra” time she won a seat on her local school board in the town’s first contested election in 10 years. She will serve a 4-year term. She’d love to hear from anyone with experience working in the public school arena. Jeff is still at eBay, managing their business in the US and Canada. He has been at eBay for over half of the company’s life and marvels at how it’s changed over the years. Twins Ali and Conner are in third grade and still among the tallest in their class.

Janet Abrams is in Little Rock, working for the Wes Clark campaign. She has a fun mix of roles — Director of Operations and Director of Public Liaison. If any classmates would like to learn about Wes, please get in touch: jabrams@clark04.com.

Now that Chris Arrington is a media consultant, she’s decided to adopt the mission statement of one of her business partners: “Have Fun All the Time!” This past year she’s had fun working with several clients, including the National Children’s Book Project, doing an editorial overhaul of “Working Mother” magazine, hosting “Media Guru” breakfasts at the Harvard Club once a month, and taking classes at Columbia Business School , such as Strategic Management of Media. Daughters Alexis and Olivia are making Chris proud (and paying her back for the hard time she gave her parents in raising her — d

_I confess to being completley confused about when columns actually are in print, so I’ll just use Roxanne’s email date rather than guess. As a side note, boy there are some famous people in our class, the CEO of Symbian, Sony Board Director, CFO of GM, heads of BCG *and* McKinsey San Francisco Office, CEO of Alza…wow_

David Levin, CEO of Symbian, and Giles Goodhead recently returned from a ‘Leader’s Quest’ trip to Mozambique and South Africa organized by David’s wife, Lindsay. The goal was to better understand challenges faced by the developing world. They visited a sugar mill, for example, that can’t export their sugar due to quotas and subsidies in the EU and US. As a result, Mozambique absurdly imports sugar from places like France. More trade, less aid!

Giles’s first book has just been published, by Penguin. It’s called “Us v Them”:http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/0670913405/ref%3Ded%5Fart%5F440022%5Fri%5F1/026-9364273-0642018. It recounts eight crazy trips to see far-flung soccer matches. It’s a travel book in the Bill Bryson style. George Overholser guest stars in the Prague chapter, while David Levin hosts the London game. Available from www.amazon.co.uk. Thanks to Dave Maney for getting Giles started on the Reporter.

Dave Maney humbly admits that Russ Cohen firmly beat him at the final table to win the 2003 Stanford GSB World Series of Poker, hosted by last year’s champion Elon Spar in Tarrytown, NY. It’s Russ’s second championship (in the Series’s 17 year history) and pitifully, Dave’s fourth second place finish with no wins. Dave, by the way, recently turned 40 and threw himself a terrific party at the Elks Lodge (attendance was required for all Headwaters MB employees). David Dodson another intrepid poker player, recently hosted Elon at his home in Jackson Hole where they revisited a nearly 20 year-old tennis rivalry.

Linda Segre still runs BCG’s SF office (16 years in the same job!!!) and is still working at 60% (for 10 years now). She spends the rest of her time with kids, Laura (10) and Andrew (8). Her golf handicap is moving up a bit as she just doesn’t get to play as much as she used to, but she’s in better physical shape than she has ever been. She recently hiked to the top of Yosemite Falls and Nevada Falls during her daughter’s week-long field trip to Yosemite in May. Half Dome is next!

Lenny Mendonca, who runs McKinsey SF and McKinsey Global Institute, just had two big weeks of anniversary celebrations: his 20th wedding anniversary with Christine, his 20th college reunion and the 3rd anniversary of the opening of his Half Moon Bay Brewing Company (which he and Christine founded and own). Fun all around.

Peter Ohtaki married Julie Todd last October. Wes Sterman, Roy and Sarah Douglass, Keith and Mona Ogden, Charles Wu, John and Margi Graham, Roger Keating, and Bill and Nancy Shott attended the wedding.

Bill is President of Shott.com (which he started in July, 2001) now concentrating on software development.