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Alumnus Spotlight - Art Weston Brother Art Weston came to the University of Michigan in the fall of 1994 in order to pursue a degree in economics. Once receiving his degree, Art went to Europe but soon returned to attend Indiana University’s MBA program. While striving for his MBA, Art had an internship that turned into a job at ABN AMRO, a Dutch bank located in the US. Post graduation, ABN AMRO offered him a job to kick off their Marketing Analytics/Modeling capability using a newly purchased neural-network application (basically artificial intelligence tool that predicts customer purchase behavior). Five years later, he was offered his current job to run Marketing Analytics for JPMorgan Chase, where he has been working for the past eight years. While Art was at Michigan, he held the Vice Archon position as an active brother of the Alpha Kappa chapter. One of his favorite memories, which happens to be from pledge term, was when he was locked in a Sorority house on campus looking for their composite photo, alone, while the rest of his pledge class stood on the sidewalk instead of helping him find the picture.
Art has become very involved this year, being at all home and away football games for the University of Michigan. He has enjoyed coming to tailgates and having the current actives make him feel like an active Pi Kapp again. Brother Weston now lives in Columbus, OH Brother Weston and friends at the with his wife Kristin, who he Michigan v. Illinois Game met at a Pi Kapps event, his five-year-old daughter Emery, and two-year-old son Roger. His final words of advice for all younger brothers and actives are to, “it’s a bit clichéd, but work hard and have as much fun as you can.” This year brother Weston came to many tailgates with other Alpha Kappa Alumni. He even donated (From Left to Right) Brothers Johnmultiple tickets to the game. son, Kowalski, Hazaray, and Mannesto Not only were these tickets at the Michigan v. Bowling Green to the game, but they were game on September 25th. tickets in the box seats. These tickets were a hot commodity to the brothers of Alpha Kappa, and we thank Brother Weston for his donation to our chapter. One of our senior brothers, Alexander Mitchell has even received a job from brother Weston and JPMorgan Chase as an Analytics Analyst. Thank you Brother WesAlumnus Art Weston with Univerton for your continued sity of Michigan football coach Rich generosity and support! Rodriguez