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BRYANT EDUCATES YOU FOR THE WORLD YOU WILL INHERIT Our world is changing rapidly and dramatically. This generation of university graduates can expect to hold 10 to 15 jobs in a lifetime – some of which will be in fields yet to be imagined. You’ll use technologies still to be invented, building your success on a keen drive for critical inquiry and problem solving. And that demands a different type of education – one that’s not business as usual. BRYANT UNIVERSITY IS THE ONE. By shattering the thinking that Liberal Arts and Business are separate paths, Bryant provides an education like no other, delivering the highest standards of academic excellence in a distinctive 3600 learning environment. The Bryant experience is purposefully designed with an imperative for character and ethics, and to develop leadership skills within a global, real-world context. Academic choices are abundant and include a capstone experience. One hundred percent of graduating students earn both a major and a minor. More than 70 percent of Bryant students graduate in four years. Within six months of graduation, 95 percent are employed or enrolled in graduate school. At Bryant University, our students are challenged to achieve even more than they can imagine, propelled by world-class
resources and powerful support networks to enable their success. Bryant’s nonstop campus life is empowering and transforms lives. Many of our students begin making their mark on the world even before they graduate. Bryant is their proving ground, the place where they explore possibilities, examine beliefs, expand their abilities, and test their best selves. Dedicated faculty and staff challenge and cheer as well as engage and educate, providing limitless opportunities for students. They lead learning and service programs abroad, invite students to collaborate on their research, and remain mentors long after commencement.
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ANDREW GOLDBERG ’02 VP / Senior Market Strategist J.P. Morgan Asset Management
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New York, NY As a vice president and senior market strategist for J.P. Morgan Asset Management, one of the largest mutual fund businesses in the world, Andrew Goldberg travels the country every week “sharing our view with J.P. Morgan’s clients.” “Every day is different and the markets move fast,’’ he says. “Our clients are demanding, and curious.” Goldberg recalls that “in a point-by-point comparison – classes, activities, living quarters, technology, corporate recruiting – Bryant matched or beat most competitors. But for me, it just felt like home.” With the help of the Amica Center for Career Education, Goldberg, a business administration major with a concentration in finance, found a summer internship at Goldman Sachs in New York City. Smart networking allowed him to parlay that experience into a job at J.P Morgan after graduation.
“Bryant’s faculty and staff are dedicated to preparing students who gain a competitive edge by experiencing our curriculum within a learning environment of meaningful and purposefully designed student life experiences.”
TARANG PATEL ’07 Advisory Associate PricewaterhouseCoopers Boston, MA After a 10-week internship in General Electric’s Financial Management Program in Los Angeles, Tarang Patel was offered a full-time job before he started his senior year. After a year with GE in New York, Patel, an accounting and finance double major, was wooed by Pricewater-
houseCoopers, and returned to work for one of the world’s largest accounting firms, where he had interned for two summers. “In this job market,” says Patel, “if you want to go after highly sought-after positions, especially coming straight out of college, you need to have internship experience.” Bryant’s nationally recognized Amica Center for Career Education is the connection to that experience.
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Enrolled in a Ph.D. program in applied mathematics and actuarial science University of Iowa Sathiavanee Veeramoothoo’s goal is to teach at the college level, and securing a teaching assistantship at the University of Iowa is a stepping stone to accomplishing that. For two and a half years at Bryant, she was a tutor in statistics, finance, mathematics of finance, calculus, and French. The excellent tutoring coaching she received there was one of the reasons she won this assistantship. “Classes at Bryant are small, professors know their students personally and don’t stop caring about you when you’ve finished their class. My honors thesis super
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visor and my other advisor worked with me to get my thesis published in the International Journal of Business and Economics. Bryant then generously sponsored me to present the paper to scholars from around the world at the International Academy of Business and Economics Conference in Las Vegas,” says Veeramoothoo. And, even after graduating, the dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and the Mathematics Department Chair continue to be supportive and helpful. One professor shared advice about how to prepare for the conference. And Veeramoothoo is collaborating with another Bryant professor on a new paper. “Bryant is one of the greatest boosts you can give yourself to reach the job of your dreams, but the University also prepares students for life – not just a career.”
Senior VP, ING Investment Management New York, NY
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NICHOLAS BOHNSACK ’00 Operating Partner / Sector Strategist, Strategas Research Partners LLC At 26, Nicholas Bohnsack launched a macroeconomics and policy research start-up with five people in a borrowed conference room. Today his company, Strategas Research Partners LLC, has 21 employees; offices in New York City, Washington, D.C., and Geneva, Switzerland; and counts among its clients some of the world’s largest mutual funds, investment advisors, pensions and endowments, and hedge funds. Bohnsack’s knack for taking advantage of opportunities as they come is a direct reflection of Bryant: “The University is making a name for itself by preparing graduates who have the confidence and ability to take risks in this new century of business, maximizing the value of every student’s diploma. What more can you ask for?”
As senior vice president and head of equities trading at ING Investment Management in New York, Nanette Buziak is responsible for managing all of her company’s broker relationships on Wall Street. “My job is dynamic,” she says. “I am excited to come to work on Monday morning because I know each day will hold a new challenge!” Buziak’s mastery of actuarial math allows her to understand the details of trading systems, market structures, volatility, and risk – concepts that fly over the heads of many people. She’s used this ability, along with good management and leadership experience, to climb the ranks in the financial industry. “At Bryant, I learned how to stay focused, manage my time, and prioritize projects,” she says. “These skills are essential in my career.”
ston, MA • ALEX GRANDE ’09, Associate Financial Analyst, Fidelity Investments, Marlborough, MA • KRISTEN STEIN ’05, Analyst, Citigroup Private Bank, New York, NY • LYNN MAG
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DAN SCHMITT ’73 Partner, KPMG LLP New York, NY At the very top level of one of the most prominent accounting firms in the world, Dan Schmitt has spent 35 years at KPMG, an accounting firm with partner offices in 140 countries. He respects the character of the firm, his supervisors, and his colleagues. “Auditors perform a critical role,” he says. “We are charged with upholding the highest standards of professionalism, quality, integrity, and independence.”
SHARON GARAVEL ’85 Vice President of Global Operations & Quality, GE Capital Danbury, CT Sharon Garavel has spent more than 20 years at GE, most recently as vice president of Global Operations & Quality for GE Capital, a commercial and consumer lender with products ranging from private-label credit cards to financing for commercial aircraft. Garavel, who majored in accounting, has been honored as one of GE’s new generation of leaders
for possessing the traits of external focus, clear thinking, imagination, inclusiveness and expertise. Bryant prepared her well to be an entrepreneur in a large company, which Garavel says requires “a passion for solving problems, being a curious learner about things occurring outside your environment, selling your ideas, and generally being both innovative and flexible.”
Schmitt learned to do the right thing in the right way with a focus on integrity as a student at Bryant, laying the foundation for his succesful career. He gives back to the University as a way to show his appreciation. This former Bryant trustee and Alumni Association president is a frequent visitor to the campus, generously sharing his experience with students.
“The Bryant experience is absolutely different from what our students would have gotten anywhere else, with more situational context for learning, more interaction, and an exceptionally strong rapport between students and faculty.” LORI COAKLEY, ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR OF MANAGEMENT
NUS ’99, VP, Goldman Sachs, New York, NY • SCOTT VOSS ’92, Principal, HarborVest Partners, LLC, Boston, MA • DAVID BEIRNE ’85, Partner, Benchmark Capital, Menlo Park, CA •
ANN-MARIE HARRINGTON ’86 President and Founder Embolden Design
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Pawtucket, RI At 5:37 a.m. recently, Ann-Marie Harrington was up and tweeting. “Spending the day w a fab client consulting on online comm strategy. love my job,” she wrote in “twitter speak.” Founder and President of Embolden Design, a Pawtucket-RI Web development and consulting firm, Harrington and her team spend their days devising online communication plans for nonprofit organizations. Social media tools, like Twitter and Facebook, and blogging are major components of her job. Three days later, she tweeted that she was leading a Web workshop for 44 nonprofit organizations in Boston. Later that week she was in California meeting with another client. Recently named Rhode Island Small Business Person of the Year, Harrington was honored at the White House where she tweeted right after President Obama lauded the contributions of small business people.
“In the classroom and on the playing fields, I gained experience in leadership, teamwork, entrepreneurship, multitasking, and public speaking. Now, I’m doing what I love to do – and Bryant helped me get here.”
DELIA GLOVER ’09 Field Reporter / Blogger Nike Shrewsbury, MA Delia Glover has taken her prowess on the field to press row. A former captain of the women’s volleyball and lacrosse teams, Glover, a marketing major, is a field reporter for Nike, a company that sets the standard for sportswear and athlete performance. Her job, she explains, is not to just introduce her readers to athletes and events. “I’m going to show you what we can learn from these people and take away from these events.”
She sharpened her skills in Bryant classrooms and on the court / field where her leadership ability and tenacity shone as she helped lead the Bulldogs into their first year of Division I competition. She credits a professor with being instrumental in helping her secure the Nike gig, which allows her competitive spirit to soar. “Once you’re an athlete you’re always an athlete, and the successful ones continue to compete in new ways, in new sports, and in life,” blogged Glover. “Maybe I’m not CEO material just yet but all the values I learned over the years at Bryant have prepared me for life. If there’s an open net, I’m taking the shot.”
Glover is also in a Human Resources Future Leaders Program at Hanover Insurance.
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“I didn’t realize until after I graduated how carefully Bryant designs its curriculum and programs. I was ready to enter the corporate world. My colleagues cannot believe I am only 25.” SADDI W ILLIA M S ’0 6 AERO S PA C E TE C H N IC A L R EC R U I T E R WYL E LA B O R ATO R IE S
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Aerospace Technical Recruiter Wyle Laboratories Washington, D.C. An aerospace technical recruiter for Wyle Laboratories, Saddi Williams is charged with “bringing on the best talent possible to fulfill the promises we make to our customers,” which include the Department of Defense, NASA, and a variety of commercial clients. Williams, who majored in marketing with a minor in communication and distinguished himself on the football field as co-captain of the Bryant Bulldogs varsity team, is a former Young Alumni Trustee. He recalls talking to his roommate about putting together a program about faith for students of all perspectives. He mentioned the conversation to an Intercultural Center counselor. “She said: ‘Do it.’ ” And before he’d finished the conceptual conversation, she had booked an auditorium and set a date for an actual play. “It forced us to put our words into action,” says Williams. “From concept to production, we had six weeks. We put together a cast and crew of more than 30 people and performed ‘Spoken Faith’ as a fundraiser for the Make-A-Wish Foundation.” “Dreams can happen,” says Williams. “That’s the kind of environment Bryant is.”
OLLE NORDELL ’94 Founder / Copywriter, Nordell & Nordell Stockholm, SWEDEN Olle Nordell thought his finance major and summa cum laude degree would catapult him onto the fast track on Wall Street. After an internship at Merrill Lynch his senior year, he started interviewing at big investment banks in New York and Stockholm. But, says Nordell, “advertising got me before they did.” Nordell, who has also lived in Kenya and the south of France, has spent 15 years as a copywriter at various agencies in Stockholm. That includes a stint as
partner and creative director at ANR BBDO, considered one of the best advertising agencies in Sweden and part of the BBDO worldwide advertising agency network. His work has been honored nationally and internationally. Nordell’s entrepreneurial spirit prompted him to found Nordell & Nordell, a freelance operation where he works as writer, creative director, and photographer. “An undergrad experience at Bryant is about being empowered to solve problems and face challenges,” says Nordell. “The professional path is wide, and you should follow your gut feeling.”
hicago, IL • CHRISTA BABCOCK ’03, Project Manager / Marketing Operations, Sirius Satellite Radio, New York, NY • ERICA NELSON ’99, Senior Manager of Consumer Insights, NetFlix, S
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Marketing Manager / Blogger, Condé Nast Digital / Wired.com
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Jim Hopkinson caters to today’s progressive consumers and their insatiable appetite for information in his role as associate director of marketing for Condé Nast Digital, publisher of such recognized magazines as The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and Vogue.
Walsh studied accounting at Bryant because he knew the tough coursework would yield big returns for his future. Two years out of college he was working at KPMG – one of the “Big Four” accounting firms – and he later spent six years in Europe in senior roles for Raychem and Novartis. His big career shift came when he switched to the service industry to become an executive VP and CFO at Hill Holliday, Boston’s largest advertising agency. You can find Bryant students walking the halls of Hill Holliday – Walsh and his firm often extend internship opportunities to marketing concentrators. He notes that there’s still a strong connection between his work and what he learned as an undergrad. His memories also include the friends he made. “The campus was small so I had the opportunity to make lots of good friends. Bryant has expanded its infrastructure and capabilities but still has that warm feeling compared to large universities.”
“They want to watch or read what they want, when they want, and where they want,” he mused recently on his blog. “They want to have the ability to comment on and respond to what they are seeing. In some cases, they want to be content creators in their own right.” His job is to generate buzz and drive traffic to Wired.com, the online home of WIRED Magazine. He does this through social media such as Facebook and Twitter, and his weekly podcast at The Hopkinson Report, which takes a fresh and funny look at the marketing trends that matter. A partner in a multimedia start-up and a former ESPN.com and Mobile ESPN executive, Hopkinson developed his skills at Bryant, where he majored in Computer Information Systems.
“Bryant gave me the background to succeed through my classes and work with faculty; the confidence that I could succeed through the leadership development program and student-run clubs and organizations; and astounding opportunities to succeed through internships and study abroad.” TA RY N BE A UDOI N ’ 0 8 HUMA N RE S OURCE S L E A DE RS HI P DE VELOPMENT PROGRAM E MC CORP ORAT I ON, HOP K I NT ON, MA
“The skills I learned at Bryant,” Hopkinson says, “have paid me back many times over.”
Santa Clara, CA • DANIEL LABRECK ’96, Senior Manager / Marketing and Retail Development, National Basketball Association • MICHAEL GRECO ’93, Executive VP / Research, Lifetim
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MERRY LE ’08 Marketing Analyst, Sikorsky Aircraft Corporation
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Stratford, CT As part of the team collecting consumer input for Sikorsky Aircraft’s next generation helicopter, Merry Le is “really excited to help make history.” Having made a powerful impression during internships, Le was offered a fulltime job before starting her senior year helping to forecast deliveries, conduct research, and assess commercial and military markets. “In an engineering and operation-dominant company, one of the most exciting and rewarding parts of my job is making marketing matter,” says Le. Of Bryant, Le says “every group project, paper, and deadline prepared me beyond the requirements I needed to do my job. I learned to understand group dynamics, resolve issues, and deliver on time.” During the fall semester of her senior year, Le – with help from Bryant’s Amica Center for Career Education – landed an internship with the Environmental Protection Agency in Washington, D.C., working on climate-change outreach. “I was surrounded by passionate and influential leaders and peers,”she says.
“Bryant offered me a positive environment for learning, great professors, a network and family. The academic and life lessons I learned helped me grow and also improved my character and business skills, which will stay with me forever.”
BRIAN COWLEY ’82 General Manager, Velti North America San Francisco, CA Advertisers need to go where eyeballs go, according to Brian Cowley. “When you think about how much time people look at their cell phones,” says Cowley, a marketing major, “you can see it’s a crucial and vibrant medium.” His company, AdInfuse, the leader in personalized mobile advertising, was acquired in 2009 by Velti, making London-based Velti the world’s largest mobile marketing and advertising
company. Cowley is now general manager of Velti North America. He has nearly 30 years experience in the mobile, Internet, and direct marketing industries, including managing a $140 million business at eBay and helping Looksmart grow from a start-up to a multi-billion dollar online search advertising company. Says Cowley, “Bryant helped me to develop a practical, solid business foundation, while at the same time, opening my imagination to the many possibilities I could accomplish as a businessperson and an entrepreneur.”
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JASMINE KAMBER ’08 Private Client Advisor Credit Suisse Zurich, SWITZERLAND As a relationship manager for Credit Suisse, the Zurich-based financial services giant, Jasmine Kamber advises clients from northern Europe and England about their investments. “Majoring in international business at Bryant was good preparation to work in
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the dynamic financial world,’’ says this native of Switzerland. “It is critical to understand the interrelatedness of the global economy.
VP of Strategy and Business Development, Blue Shield of California
“I benefited from Bryant’s emphasis on developing students’ awareness of global opportunities,” says Kamber. “The international backgrounds and experiences of my professors, along with the opportunity to work closely with them, added a dimension to Bryant’s International Business major that is not readily available in most programs.”
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MARIO SHILIASHKI ’96 General Manager, PayPal Southeast Asia and India If you shop online, there’s a good chance you’ve paid using PayPal. Mario Shiliashki joined the online payment service in 2003. A finance major who found that Bryant prepared him well to succeed at Harvard Business School, Shiliashki previously worked as a consultant at Bain & Company, a global business consulting firm. At PayPal, he has held a variety of leadership positions and recently helped it expand into Asia Pacific, the company’s fastest-growing region. “Competition forced us to innovate both in the U.S. and around the world,” he says. “Now we’re ahead by leaps and bounds.”
As the debate for health care reform rages on, Vincent Coppola, vice president of strategy and business development for Blue Shield of California in San Francisco, has a seat at the table. Coppola and Blue Shield have been proposing health care reform and planning for it for years. “We’re the first health plan in the nation to come out in favor of universal health coverage,” he explains, “because we believe it is the right thing to do for this country’s citizens.” Blue Shield garnered an invitation to the table from policymakers. With more than $12 billion in revenues and 3.5 million members, Blue Shield of California is a heavy hitter, and Coppola, who majored in finance, is there to provide critical input on health care reform at the state and federal level. “Bryant instilled in me the importance of team building and gave me the experience of leading groups which, served my career well,” he says.
aris, FRANCE • LILY HIMMELSBACH ’09, International Coordinator / Middle East, American Eagle Outfitters, New York, NY • RYAN REDDY ’02, Director of Market Development, GTECH,
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communications skills is so important.” Public speaking class had the unanticipated benefit of building her confidence to speak in front of older and more experienced professionals. Working in the Admission Office, giving campus tours to prospective students and their parents, further honed DeViney’s communications skills. “Throughout my career, strong interpersonal skills have enabled me to tackle tough challenges in a very collaborative manner,” she says. “And that's been a difference maker.”
President of Environmental and Combustion Controls, Honeywell International Minneapolis, MN
Joe Puishys oversees a $2.5 billion business that employs a rigorous process for advancing innovative and updated products to market for Honeywell, the century-old technology and engineering services company. But as a 20-year-old finance and accounting student, Puishys was just looking for a good job. While at Bryant, he learned from a professor about an opportunity to work part-time with Fram, an automotive products corporation. Over the years, the company went through a series of acquisitions and its ultimate merger with Honeywell. As the company evolved, Puishys did so as well. He segued from financial services to operations and eventually to management. With more than 35 percent of Honeywell’s annual revenue coming from new products released in the past three years, Puishys and his team have been busy. “I was good at accounting, but I always wanted to be CEO,” he says. “My education at Bryant helped me get there.”
NANCY DEVINEY ’75 VP of Organizational Change Management, IBM Somers, NY As vice president of organizational change management at IBM, Nancy DeViney is charged with ensuring that transformational change initiatives that affect IBM’s more than 400,000 employees are adopted across the business. IBM works with clients around the world to help their businesses grow “smarter” as the planet becomes more instrumented, interconnected, and intelligent. Through its software, hardware, services, consulting, and R & D expertise, IBM helps create systems that lead to less traffic, healthier food, cleaner water, and safer cities.
DeViney never forgot key lessons learned at Bryant, where she is now a trustee, including the importance of continuous learning, bringing passion to a job, exciting people around a shared vision, and nurturing teams to deliver their best. “Leaders,” DeViney says, “pave the way for their teams to reach goals that others would dismiss as impossible.” On her most recent visit to Bryant, DeViney reflected on key courses she took on written communication and public speaking that gave her a strong foundation for being a clear communicator in business. “These are critical skills for business leaders, to be able to communicate succinctly both internally with colleagues and externally with clients and business partners. The fact that Bryant requires business students to polish their
During more than 34 years at IBM, DeViney has held a variety of leadership roles including General Manager for IBM's global IT product training and education services businesses. In 2002, before online learning had taken hold, DeViney put together a global team that advanced the company’s leadership in the e-learning market, work that established her as one of the world's foremost authorities on e-learning. “IBM is a performance-based company,” says DeViney. “You’re expected to deliver business results and role model our core values, and if you do, people notice, and you get new opportunities. There’s a commitment to unleashing the creative energy of all employees so they can do their best work.”
Providence, RI • DAVID LASALLE ’98 MBA, COO, OMNI Life Sciences, Raynham, MA • JEFFREY GENTINE ’93, Executive VP / Business Operations, Master Gallery Foods, Plymouth, Wis
MATT VEVES ’10 Co-organizer, Social Enterprise Rhode Island Summit
“Bryant does a great job helping you understand the ways of the world on so many different levels. After Bryant, I had a better grasp on everything from global trading to diversity. The message I convey to “my kids” is how critical it is to be a student-athlete, that being a great player is not enough to get you by in school or in life.” LORENZO PERRY ’07 YOUTH PROGRAM COORDINATOR, MOUNT HOPE NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION, PROVIDENCE, RI
Smithfield, RI Bryant has a wide variety of programs designed to support student initiatives and leadership. Matt Veves ’10 helped organize the first Social Enterprise Rhode Island Summit, bringing nearly 300 leaders from business, nonprofit organizations, academia, and government to Bryant to discuss the role “double-bottom line businesses” have in the Rhode Island economy. “Entrepreneurship is about finding new ways to marshal resources together to create something sustainable,” explains Veves, a finance and entrepreneurship major. “Social entrepreneurship is when this is done for a motive other than profit. There are many social ventures that are for-profit, but the money is not the primary reason. “To be successful, many social ventures are small and agile,” says Veves. “They also tend to have a flat management structure typical of most entrepreneurial start-ups. This means that recent graduates have more of an opportunity to make an impact than they might at a larger corporation.”
KEVIN MARTIN ’06 Outreach Coordinator, Tufts University / Institute for Global Leadership’s Justice in Times of Transition Medford, MA Studying marketing and political science, at Bryant, Kevin Martin became driven to make a difference. He now serves as outreach coordinator for the nonprofit Project on Justice in Times of Transition, which hosts conferences to bring together leaders from conflict-ridden societies with leaders from nations that have successfully negotiated similar issues.
Martin’s introduction to the nonprofit sector came when he established the Linda R. Martin Foundation in honor of his mother, who died while Kevin was a sophomore at the University. Business in the nonprofit world is more similar than different from for-profit business, he says, and he uses the skills he learned at Bryant daily.
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MICHELLE DUPREY ’90
ANGELO FRATTARELLI ’86
Director of Disability Services
Assistant Chief / Tax Division U.S. Department of Justice
City of New Haven, CT
Washington, DC
In the United States, more than 54 million people have disabilities, making them the largest minority group in the country. As director of disability services for the city of New Haven, CT, Michelle Duprey works to make life more manageable for people with disabilities. Like some of the people seeking help from her office, Duprey, who has a genetic bone disease, uses a wheelchair to get around.
While at Bryant, Angelo Frattarelli helped put himself through school by working at Smithfield Diesel and Transmission Repair, a heavy-duty diesel repair shop founded and operated by his parents. That allowed him the invaluable privilege, he says, of seeing firsthand how hard his parents worked so he could attend not only college but law school as well.
At Bryant, Duprey recalls, “My fellow students made the experience what it was. The friendships I developed as a student have remained important, lasting relationships for 20 years.”
She is proud of what she’s achieved: New Haven was the first community in Connecticut to have wheelchair-accessible taxicabs. “Here in New Haven, we know that about 31 percent of people with disabilities weren’t working because of a lack of affordable transportation,” she says. “This is an important accomplishment.”
An attorney, Duprey, left a law firm to work for the city. “I’m fortunate to have the flexibility to choose those projects that will have the most impact.”
“My plan,” Frattarelli says, “was to become a tax attorney, which is what inspired me to first pursue a degree in accounting at Bryant.”
CARRIE DOWNEY ’88 City Councilwoman / Lawyer Coronado, CA Carrie Downey transferred to Bryant knowing she wanted to go on to law school. “I knew I’d need a degree that would allow me to earn the money for law school. Bryant gave me that and much more. I had the opportunity to study with experienced professors who shared their real-world lessons as well as with students from other countries and backgrounds. Bryant honed my skill of prioritizing my time. With so many
opportunities, I had to learn how to make everything fit. “I appreciated the history of Bryant,” says Downey, “and how cutting edge the technology and staff were. I was completely prepared for work and law school.”
The recipient of numerous outstanding attorney awards, Frattarelli has successfully represented the U.S. in several highprofile lawsuits involving significant tax administration issues. As assistant chief, he helps supervise and manage a trial section consisting of more than 25 trial attorneys handling tax cases. Bryant, Frattarelli says, “provided me with the knowledge and tools that allowed me to succeed in law school and on the national level at the Department of Justice.’’
NGAPORE • ALICIA HAELEN ’09, Research Assistant, Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD • RAY DICASPARRO ’78, Director of Entertainment Strategy, Microsoft Corporat
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ernmental Audit Forum and is past president of the National State Auditors Association and the Rhode Island Society of CPAs. Almonte, a former Bryant trustee, says “Bryant provided me with a strong foundation, a desire to learn and excel, and a network of friends and colleagues that are still called upon every day of my life.”
“Bryant provides undivided attention to its students, giving them the right tools and skills for the global world we live in today.” HA S S A N Z AWAWI ’ 0 9
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ERNEST A. ALMONTE ’78, ’85 MST, ’09H Chairman, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants Providence, RI Ernest “Ernie” Almonte is chairman of the nation’s largest body of CPAs, the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Almonte, who served as Rhode Island’s Auditor General until early 2010, was the first government official to serve as chairman since the organization’s founding in 1887. He now is a partner in the anti-fraud consulting and government financial and public policy practices at DiSanto, Priest & Co. Named one of the Top 100 Most Influential People in the Accounting Profession by Accounting Today in 2005 and 2008, Almonte was appointed by the Comptroller General of the United States to the Government Auditing Standards Committee. He is a member of the Department of Defense Audit Committee. He served as chairman of the New England Intergov-
ROBERT FISH ’68 President and CEO, PBS Providence, RI Robert “Bob” Fish assumed his current role of president and CEO of PBS of Rhode Island in 2005 – several years before the station was to celebrate its 40th anniversary. He decided to explore ways to fulfill its mission of promoting lifelong learning through a different medium: the Internet. The station forged a relationship with the Discovery Channel to create online video programs that teachers use to complement lesson plans, and Fish spearheaded an expansion of fundraising via the Web. “The market changes so rapidly,” explains Fish. His Bryant education, which focused on real-world applications, prepared him to respond. “Bryant brought out the best in me and that allowed me to advance in the business world.”
ion, Redmond, WA • SHANNON FINNING-KWOKA ’97, Associate Dean of Students, Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA • VANJA DUKIC ’95, Associate Professor of Biostatistics, Univers
PATRICIA KORDALSKI ’83 President, Long Elegant Legs Hillsborough, NJ
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In 1991, when Patricia Kordalski was exploring different business ideas, the notion of starting a clothing company tailored to the needs of tall women seemed like a perfect fit. Standing 5-feet 10-inches tall, she had learned to sew as a teenager just so she could make pants that were correctly proportioned to her height. Kordalski knew she wasn’t the only woman with this problem. Her basketball teammates at Bryant, where she studied business and marketing, had just as much difficulty finding suitable clothes. Today, Long Elegant Legs has grown to 22 full-time employees with annual revenues of $7.5 million. If there’s one piece of advice Kordalski would give any budding entrepreneur, it is: know how to reach your target market. Her Bryant education, which helped develop her entrepreneurial spirit and critical-thinking skills, showed Kordalski how.
“Bryant taught me to look beyond what you see and think about how the market is going to evolve.”
STEPHEN FITCH ’09 Owner, Moondust Macarons North Kingstown, RI While studying in Paris the summer of his junior year, Stephen Fitch was struck by the wild popularity of a cookie called a French macaron. “People were lined out the door to buy them, and it wasn’t hard to see why,” the marketing major recalls. “They were fun, colorful, eye-catching, and available in a number of flavors.”
The seeds for his company took root senior year, when he wrote a business plan for an Entrepreneurial Marketing class taught by a professor and mentor who continues to provide expertise and guidance. And less than a year later, Fitch was the owner of the fledgling Moondust Macarons. He’s already talked with representatives from several businesses, including a Fortune 500 company interested in licensing the idea for national distribution. “This venture has given me some great experiences,” says Fitch. “It is exciting to imagine what will happen next.”
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JOSEPH D’AMBROSE ’08
“When students ask me, ‘Why study liberal arts at Bryant?,’ I ask them, ‘Why would you study anywhere else?’ Our students get the same breadth and depth of knowledge and theory found at other schools, but they also gain marketable experience to make an impact immediately after graduation. Our graduates have more choices.” DAVI D LU X DEAN O F TH E C O LLE G E O F ART S AND S C IE N C E S
Founder / Principal Palm Tree Creative, LLC Middletown, CT Before Bryant University, Joe D’Ambrose “could not have imagined having a business with more than 200 clients before I was 23-years-old.” Palm Tree Creative, which has grown into one of Connecticut’s leading Web site design, Internet marketing, and creative studios, grew out of a business D’Ambrose co-founded as he was preparing to enter Bryant. An internship freshman year, where he designed the Web site for an insurance company, “made it clear I could do this professionally,” D’Ambrose recalls. As part of a Business 101 class, he and three friends created Expedient Laundry, which is still delivering folded, fresh laundry to the doors of Bryant students.
passions are,” says D’Ambrose. “And you come out a shaped person, a marketable package, ready to go out with confidence and take on the world.” The value of a Bryant education, D’Ambrose says, “is priceless. Where else could I be on a first-name basis with administrators and faculty? Where else would have fostered my entrepreneurial drive?”
JAMES A. WARNER ’99 Co-founder, WD Enterprises Madison, CT Self-professed “serial entrepreneur” James Warner launched his first business when he was in grade school. And through the
years, he’s introduced dozens more. Warner’s current organization, WD Enterprises, Inc., is a mini conglomerate that invests in and operates start-up companies in a variety of industries. Warner has been recognized as “Small Business Person of the Year” by Business New Haven, and one of the “40 Under 40” by Business Times, and featured in Entrepreneur Magazine and the New York Times. “Success,” says Warner, a management major, “comes from being in the right place at the right time and having the wisdom to capitalize on the opportunity. “The faculty worked to get the best out of every student. They took the time and actually cared about trying to develop each student based on his or her individual needs.”
“Every resource needed can be found through the Bryant network,” he says. “An alum from the class of 1980 helped me build my business.” “When you go to Bryant, you are building a network of peers, of friends, your circle of influence. You come to understand what you like, don’t like. What your
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KEN ORINGER ’94 Chef / Restaurant Co-owner, Clio
ERIC BERTRAND ’94 Managing Director, Greystone Private Equity LLC EJB Capital Management LLC New York, NY Having invested more than $400 million in 50+ companies over the last 15 years, Eric Bertrand is an experienced private equity professional, as well as a seasoned entrepreneur who has operated and managed a number of companies.
Boston, MA Bryant provided not only his superior financial background but also the exceptional hands-on experience of serving as vice president of retail and vending at BRYCOL, an independent, student-run corporation that provides services on campus. “We handled all the vending and managed the on-campus bar, pizza restaurant, and retail store. We employed more than 100 students. I learned really valuable lessons from that experience.”
Ken Oringer ’87 knew he wanted to be a chef at age six. But when it came time to choose a college, he decided a solid foundation in business at Bryant was the best place to start. “A lot of restaurants don’t understand that the restaurant business is a business. You need to make money. You need to keep your investors happy.” After majoring in management, Oringer went on to The Culinary Institute of America and has developed his culinary craft from New York to Providence to San
Francisco. Among many accolades, he is an Iron Chef Champion (vs. Cat Cora) and a recipient of the James Beard Award for Best Chef in the Northeast. He now has five highly-acclaimed restaurants in Boston: Clio, Uni, Toro, KO Prime, and La Verdad, with a sixth, Coppa, slated to open in the South End. “It’s really important to have a business foundation and framework,” says Oringer. “Now that I’ve built that, I have a lot of freedom to be creative and express myself.”
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EVERY DAY IN THE WORLD EVERYTHING CHANGES. Bryant was featured in the 2010 editions of the prestigious guides The Best 371 Colleges and The Best 301 Business Schools, published by The Princeton Review. BusinessWeek says Bryant’s accounting program is the 17th best in the country and ranks the University 30th nationally in a survey of employment recruiters.
Opportunities emerge, and opportunities disappear. At Bryant University, our students learn firsthand how to discern and seize emergent opportunities. Through the nationally recognized, award-winning programs of the Amica Center for Career Education, students develop exceptional poise as we work with them to hone the lifelong career skills that make them driven, accomplished, and competitive in the employment market. Throughout our 146-year history, Bryant has excelled at helping students build knowledge, develop character, and achieve success – as they define it. We focus on providing rigorous academic programs that integrate the arts and sciences and business to develop critical-thinking skills essential to every profession. Well-established relationships with several hundred corporate recruiters have ideally positioned Bryant’s Amica Center as a preferred sourcing avenue for young professionals ready to contribute to today’s global marketplace.
Our career education programs include: an academic internship program; an extensive and very well-established corporate recruiting program that draws hundreds of recruiters to campus each year; the Bryant Career Connection – an innovative online tool that matches students with prospective employers; a robust alumni shadowing program that pairs students with Bryant alumni who are prominent in their fields; and multiple career fairs annually.
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The University earned the number 16 spot in the Master’s Universities (North) category in rankings compiled by the U.S. News & World Report. This is the fifth consecutive year we have been ranked in the top 20.
Bryant students and alumni are making a powerful impact and meaningful difference in the world. They are entrepreneurs, captains of industry, public policy and community advocates, and Wall Street gurus. Some alumni have had several successful careers since walking through the Archway, and others are 40-year veterans and thought leaders in their fields. But no matter the path, each of these men and women carry forward the tradition of integrity, drive, and accomplishment embodied in all Bryant graduates.
BECOME PART OF THIS DISTINCTIVE GROUP OF ALUMNI. Join the Bryant community and you will gain the support of dedicated faculty who will challenge you to push yourself and expand your potential. You’ll have access to unmatched resources, giving you the chance to use the same technology as the New York Stock Exchange, or ESPN, all without leaving campus. Your connection to the world begins with the education you get at Bryant – through the U.S.-China and Confucius Institutes, The Chafee Center for International Business, and extensive study abroad opportunities – but it certainly won’t end here. Bryant alumni are making an impact on the global stage, and by joining their ranks you’ll become part of a worldwide network.
It’s a hallmark of Bryant University that its students have the passion and ambition to consider their future. Along with signing on as the newest members of student clubs and tackling those very first college exams, Bryant students head to the nationally recognized Amica Center for Career Education to explore the opportunities ahead. It’s here you’ll define your aspirations and begin to envision the path to your future success. Throughout these pages you’ve seen just a sampling of our alumni success stories. Bryant is the place where it all started – it’s the one place where The Character of Success is tangible. At Bryant we see only one responsibility: to prepare our students for the world ahead.
WHAT WILL YOUR STORY BE?
London, CT • ADAM FRANCIS ’03, Regional Vice President / Foreign Insurance, Accident and Health Division, AIG, Shanghai, CHINA • MARK D. SCHWARTZ ’97, Chief Financial Office
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ABOUT BRYANT UNIVERSITY Founded: 1863 Contemporary campus established in Smithfield: 1971 Safe, stunning acres: 428 Miles from Providence: 12 Miles from Boston: 49 Miles from Hartford: 85 Miles from NYC: 175 Convenient campus access to mass transit Student population: 3,632 Faculty: 257 Alumni network: 40,000+ College of Arts and Sciences College of Business Graduate School of Business Undergraduate degree programs: 20 Minors: 32 Areas of study: 80 Study abroad programs to choose from: 46 Students completing both a major and a minor: 100% Tuition for 2009 -10: $31,794 Room and board: $11,757 Freshmen receiving financial aid for 2009-10: 89% Average Financial Aid package for 2009-10: $20,343 Undergraduates residing on campus: 87% Progressive residential options include freshman halls, suites, and townhouses NCAA Division I athletic teams: 22 Clubs and organizations: 80+ Employed or enrolled in grad school within 6 months: 95% Corporate recuruiters visiting campus annually: 300+ Programs offered through the Amica Center annually: 2,492 Average starting salary: $43,177 www.bryant.edu
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