Class Notes: Spring 2023

1970s

Douglas Lanner, ’73 BSB, started a new position as manager at Deloitte.

Denise Schornack, ’79 BSB, is retiring and closing her clothing store, Nadine’s, after 44 successful years in business in Perham, Minn. Known for its variety of brand-quality women’s clothing and lake life fashion, Nadine’s became a staple in the community and beyond. Schornack reflects fondly on the fun of running the shop and says she has “enormous gratitude” for her customers for choosing Nadine’s to be part of their lives for so long. She plans to continue Nadine’s as a vendor booth at the nearby P.S. I Love You boutique. Following retirement this spring, Schornack says she’s looking forward to spending more time with her family, including her seven grandchildren.

1980s

Tim LaLonde, ’86 BSB, was promoted to chief financial officer at Evercore.

Karen Olson, ’86 BSB, was elected as partner for Spencer Fane LLP.

Louis Berezovsky, ’89 BSB, was appointed as a board of director for Ascent Solar Technologies.

1990s

Peter Ahn, ’91 MBA, was appointed as a board director for Canterbury Park.

Jeff Seacrist, ’93 MBA, is now senior vice president, product & product marketing at Lytics.

Liam Shay, ’93 BSB, is now underwriting counsel at Alliant National Title Insurance Company.

Michael Sullivan, ’93 MBA, was appointed as a member of the advisory board at Waytek.

Chris Carlisle, ’93 BSB, ’98 MBA, started a new role as president and general manager of Calcutta Outdoors, a subsidiary of Peak Holdings LLC.

Renee Peterson, ’94 MBA, was appointed as a non-executive director of the board at James Hardie Industries. She is also currently vice president and chief financial officer for The Toro Company.

Wayne Roen, ’95 MBA, retired from 3M after a 38-year career in business management and engineering. He lives with his wife, Kris, in River Falls, Wisc.

Matthew Carrier, ’96 BSB, received the 2023 Five Star Wealth Manager Award from Five Star Professionals for the second year in a row.

Judd Nystrom, ’96 BSB, was appointed as chief financial officer at Caliber Collision.

Leslie Jones Arroyo, ’97 BSB, was appointed deputy city manager in South San Francisco, Calif.

Lynn Blake, ’97 MBA, was appointed chief financial officer at Nuwellis.

Andrew Flaherty, ’97 BSB, ’03 MBA, started a new role as global director of automotive aftermarkets and abrasives business at 3M.

Dominic Louwagie, ’97 MBA, started a new role as senior global product line manager at Reels Automotive Business.

Paul Reppenhagen, ’97 MBA, is now chief marketing officer at Chief Outsiders.

Jennifer Jorgensen, ’99 MBA, started a new role as president and chief executive officer of Back to Nature.

David Ruhland, ’99 MBA, started a new position as vice chancellor for finance and administration at University of Wisconsin-River Falls.

2000s

Ann Senne, ’00 MBA, is now U.S. chief administrative and integration officer at RBC.

Richard Rodgers, ’02 MBA, was appointed as an independent director at Novavax.

Kim Snow, ’02 MBA, started a new role as executive director at Franklin Center.

Micki (Dennison) Turner, ’02 MHRIR, is now chief human resources officer at CSafe.

Laura Rehfeld, ’03 MBA, has a new role as senior director of treasury at Kaiser Permanente.

Gabriel Garcia, ’04 MBA, was promoted to senior manager of information technology as a business partner at Molson Coors Beverage Company.

Henry Chang, ’05 MBA, started a new role as senior vice president and general manager for MKS Instruments Inc.

Stacey Churchwell, ’05 MBA, is now vice president and general manager, procedure innovations at Medtronic.

Brian Durmaskin, ’05 BSB, is now vice president of sales at Ecolab Healthcare.

KC Glaser, ’05 BSB, ’16 MBA, was recognized as Brand Innovators’ 40 under 40 for 2022 representing the Midwest. He is the senior manager, brand experience–loyalty and rewards for General Mills.

Gina Hawley, ’05 MHA-MBA, was appointed chief operating officer at the University of Utah Health Hospitals and Clinics.

Charlie Schaller, ’05 BSB, is now chief of staff to the chief medical officer–clinical policy at UnitedHealth Group, a promotion from senior director of business planning.

Tiffany Beitler, ’06 BSB, co-founded a new boutique creative marketing and advertising agency, Plaid Moose Creative.

Jim Tincher, ’06 MBA, was recently named a board member for the Customer Experience Professionals Association. He also recently published a new book, Do B2B Better: Drive Growth Through Game-Changing Customer Experience.

Benjamin Grabski, ’07 BSB, ’12 MBA, was appointed as chief financial officer at Lumeris.

J Michael Edwards-Toepel, ’08 BSB, was promoted to director of business development at RevUnit.

Frederik Eliason, ’08 MBA, started a new position as key account manager at Neogen Corporation.

Terry Haider, ’08 MBA, started a new position as finance director at Foley Public Schools.

Peter Hansen, ’08 BSB, and Mandy Schueller Hansen, ’08 BSB, met after their time at the Carlson School, despite graduating in the same year. Peter and Mandy have built a career around franchises. They started with owning Liberty Tax franchises. That led to their first Club Pilates franchise, which has since grown to 18 across the country and counting. Peter and Mandy also founded Franchise Ramp, a digital marketing agency specifically for franchises, which in 2022, was on the Inc. 5000 list in spot #49.

Patrick Barrett, ’09 MBA, was elected as a partner lawyer for Morrison Foerster.

Ryan Kromminga, ’09 BSB, ’14 MBA, was recently promoted from associate to vice president at Northborne Partners.

Scott Laroque, ’09 BSB, was promoted to director at Proviti.

Sam Tashima, ’09 BSB, ’17 MBA, is now head of cyber risk consulting and analytics at Aon North America.

Donna Wong, ’09 MBA, is now senior director of product management at Optum, a promotion from director of strategy and program management.

Kevin Yu, ’09 BSB, started a new position as principal at Neos Partners.

2010s

Robert Ed, ’10 MBA, was appointed to director of marketing strategy at Darcy Solutions.

Joshua Edgar, ’10 BSB, ’17 MBA, started a new position as senior principal at Slalom.

Ashley Johnson, ’10 BSB, started a new position as an accounting supervisor at Perforce Software.

Mitch Nesset, ’10 BSB, is now finance manager, AWS Infrastructure at Amazon Web Services.

Michelle Roemer, ’10 MBA, received a 2022 Twin Cities CIO of the Year ORBIE Award from the Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal. Michelle is the senior vice president of information technology at Cirrus Aircraft.

Robert Shields, ’10 BSB, associate marketing manager at AbbVie Pharmaceuticals, was awarded the 2022 AbbVie Chairman’s Award, the company’s most prestigious employee award, for his contributions to a product launch within the U.S. Dermatology franchise.

Adrine Chung, ’11 MBA, was appointed executive director of clinical operations at TORL Biotherapeutics and 1200 Pharma.

Adrian Cook, ’11 MBA, is now strategy and business development director at 3M Health Care Business Group.

Archana Desai, ’11 MBA, started a new position as director of strategy, Image Guided Therapy Devices at Philips.

Mike Ingebrand, ’11 MBA, started a new position as director of global services at WorldCare Clinical.

Prachi Mishra, ’11 BSB, is now product marketing director at Docusign, a promotion from senior product marketing manager.

Jessie Morsching, ’11 MBA, started a new position as chief financial officer at Accanto Health.

Jesse Ng, ’11 BSB, passed the Society of Actuaries (SOA) Investments & Financial Markets exam as part of the SOA’s associateship credentialing pathway.

Christian Zimprich, ’11 BSB, started a new role as global IBP & strategy leader at Sherwin-Williams.

Bradford Brennan, ’12 BSB, is now finance manager at Optum.

Elizabeth Guest Kibler, ’12 BSB, started a new position as associate manager OMNI shopper marketing Blue Buffalo at General Mills.

Kentale Morris Sr., ’12 MBA, started a new position as director of commercial sales at Land O’Lakes, Inc.

Kristen Kranzler Steigauf, ’12 BSB, ’18 MBA, started a new position as director of global sourcing at MTS Systems Corporation.

Katie (Vogel) Twelves, ’12 BSB, is now director of client experience and marketing programs at Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC.

Donald Hunter, ’13 MBA, is now branch manager at Ameriprise Financial Services, LLC.

Hollies Winston, ’13 MBA, was elected mayor of Brooklyn Park, Minnesota.

Brandon Bigelbach, ’14 BSB, ’21 MSSCM, is now a supply chain analytics solution architect at 3M.

Anthony Cannon, ’14 MBA, was promoted to managing director at Accenture.

Blake Corson, ’14 MBA, is now vice president and senior relationship manager at Union Bank and Trust Company.

Courtney O’Donnell Finley, ’14 BSB, is now planning and operations lead at Target.

Kevin Krueger, ’14 MBA, is now a marketing director at Land O’Lakes, a promotion from senior marketing manager.

Ernie Lietzan, ’14 MBA, started a new position as a first officer at SkyWest Airlines.

Bryan McCallum, ’14 MBA, is now vice president of finance at Whirltronics, Inc.

Shawn Nelson, ’14 MBA, is now senior global account manager of digital solutions at Ecolab, a promotion from corporate account manager.

Darya Antanovich, ’15 BSB, started a new position as senior consultant at Launch Consulting Group.

Ally (Moeller) Braun, ’15 BSB, is now a strategy and consulting senior manager at Accenture, a promotion from strategy and consulting manager.

Laura-Lee Brown, ’15 MBA, was promoted to director of strategy in surgical robotics at Medtronic.

Andrew Rogers, ’15 MBA, was appointed as general manager for The Ritz-Carlton, Kapulua.

Drew Zinkel, ’15 MD-MBA, started a new position as senior medical director of emergency medicine at the University of Minnesota Medical Center.

Karyn Dossinger, ’16 MD-MBA, started a new role as an assistant professor at Loyola University Quinlan School of Business.

Nels Haugen, ’16 BSB, started a new position as director of growth and regulatory technology at Optum.

Kenny Ngo, ’16 BSB, started a new position as customer success manager at Elastic.

Douglas Paulsen, ’16 MBA, started a new role as senior director of operations at CFS Brands.

Chris Carlson, ’17 MHRIR, started a position as manager of employee relations at Medica.

Allison Hohn, ’17 MSSCM, of Naturally Minnesota, and Pete Kostroski, ’17 MBA, of Rokos Advisors were honored with a Minneapolis/St. Paul Business Journal 2023 40 Under 40 award.

Doug Shane, ’17 MBA, started a new position as senior marketing manager of product and portfolio strategy at Adagio Medical.

Jake Shoults, ’17 BSB, is now manager of business analysis at Optum, a promotion from business system analyst.

Heather Ambre, ’18 BSB, is now a senior planner at General Mills.

Kaia Anderson, ’18 BSB, is now digital commerce manager at Post Consumer Brands, a promotion from senior digital strategist.

Angela Hermanson, ’18 MBA, started a new position as oral care portfolio marketing leader for the U.S. and Canada at 3M.

Nicholas Justin, ’18 BSB, was promoted to senior analyst I at PRGX.

Lieutenant Commander Thomas Kaster, ’18 MBA, was named a specialty leader for Navy Medicine’s perioperative nursing community in November 2022. He has served all over the world and is currently Naval Hospital Bremerton Main Operating Room department head.

Natalia (Velenchenko) Kluis, ’18 BSB, is now consulting manager, Optum Advisory Services at Optum, a promotion from senior consultant.

Ram Rajagopalan, ’18 MBA, has been promoted to vice president in business consulting at Virtusa.

Elizabeth Schaefer, ’18 MBA, started a new position as senior product manager at Cardiovascular Systems.

Ashley Ver Berg Soukup, ’18 MBA, is now senior brand manager–fruit snacks at General Mills, a promotion from brand manager–cereal.

Yunzhao (YZ) Xiao, ’18 MBA, started a new position as senior consultant at ZoomRX.

Shannon McCormick, ’19 MBA, was promoted to chief of staff at Medtronic.

2020s

Elizabeth West, ’20 BSB, started a new role as an account executive at Gartner.

Nate Gomoll, ’21 MBA, started a new role as senior produce manager in upstream marketing at Medtronic.

Jeffrey Juul, ’21 MBA, was promoted to senior manager of international affairs at PepsiCo.

Crystal Osman, ’21 MBA, was promoted to senior regional development officer at the University of Minnesota Foundation.

Danielle Sackstein, ’21 MBA, was promoted to associate director of Optum Everycare at Optum.

Jason Butina, ’22 BSB, started a new role as an investment banking analyst at Crosstree.

Jennifer Rolfes, ’22 MBA, started a new role as senior LDRP associate at Medtronic.

Charlie Steveken, ’22 MBA, was promoted to senior LDRP associate in business development and strategy at Medtronic.