“Job” Class Notes

Veronica Jones (Col ’96 L/M) earned her master’s degree from the University of Southern California in May 2018 and was recently named chief operating officer at the National Abortion Federation in Washington, D.C.

Hayden Lee (Col ’04 L/M) was named a partner at ShounBach, a Fairfax, Virginia, law firm dedicated to family law. Lee was admitted to the Virginia State Bar in 2007 and practices family law throughout northern Virginia and Washington, D.C.  

John Rickman (Engr ’92, Darden ’98) joined ReAlta Life Sciences, an early stage pharmaceutical company based in Norfolk, Virginia, as its chief financial officer. John and his wife, Mary Beth Sims Rickman (Col ’89), and their five children live in Norfolk.

Jill Reid Cummins (Col ’85) was appointed and sworn in as an associate judge on the Circuit Court for Montgomery County, Maryland, on Jan. 12, 2018. She was appointed by Gov.Larry Hogan to a 15-year term. 

Eric B. Johnson (Col ’99 L/M) was named executive director of Open Books in Chicago, Illinois. Open Books is a nonprofit education organization that provides literacy experiences for tens of thousands of readers each year through formative programs and the creative capitalization of books. Johnson lives with his wife and two daughters in Chicago.

Timothy Kitt (Com ’88 L/M) was named senior vice president, head of pricing and execution in Freddie Mac’s single-family business. For the last four years, Kitt has led the pricing and analytics team in single-family portfolio management.
 

Michael H. Jones (Engr ’05) was named partner at Rothwell, Figg, Ernst and Manbeck, an intellectual property law firm in Washington, D.C. Jones’ practice covers all aspects of patent law and a wide range of technologies.

Sarah Elizabeth Schmidt (Col ’09, Grad ’12) accepted the position of general manager at the Colonnade Club on UVA’s Grounds. She is thrilled to once again be in service to the University and back in the Academical Village where she met and later married her husband, R. Brennan Schmidt (Col ’06, Educ ’12). Sarah Elizabeth, Brennan, and their two children will relocate to Charlottesville at the end of the month. 

Austen Givens (Col ’04) was named director of graduate cybersecurity programs at Utica College. He lives in Clinton, New York, with his wife, Rachel, and daughters, Serafina and Augusta.

Megan K. Dhillon (Col ’08) joined Carlton Fields’ growing healthcare practice in Washington, D.C. as an adviser to healthcare providers. Her career in healthcare law includes experience in both the private and public sectors. Prior to joining Carlton Fields, Dhillon was an associate at Hancock, Daniel, and Johnson in Richmond, Virginia.

Geoffrey N. Gordon (Col ’68 L/M) has been named interim superintendent of schools in Riverdale, New Jersey. Gordon begins his 25th year as a superintendent of schools. During his time as superintendent of the New Providence district in Union County, the district soared to the top 10 of 309 districts in student achievement. In 1994, he became the first K-12 educator elected to the New Jersey Board of Governors of the National Conference for Community and Justice. Gordon was reelected and served for 8 years. Gordon also led the Port Washington district on Long Island for a decade and was selected as Long Island Educator of the Year. He was the first and only educator elected to the board of directors of the Long Island Red Cross for his philanthropic work during Hurricane Irene and Superstorm Sandy. Gordon received a unanimous citation for his public service from the New York State Senate in 2012.

Tresa Chambers (Col ’89) is now communications director at the American Heart Association national office in Dallas. In this role, she identifies and supports strategic growth opportunities and business partnerships aligned with the organization’s mission.

William F. Crozer (Col ’07) was appointed as special assistant to the president and deputy director of intergovernmental affairs by President Donald Trump.

Scott Cyphers (Arch ’97 L/M) was promoted from principal to design principal. In this role, he will help the firm’s founder lead the design efforts and aesthetic quality of all projects in the firm. His expanded role will also include a focus on cultivating client relationships.

Jack Copper (Engr ’72 L/M) launched NeuralStudio.ai®, which offers neural network-based artificial intelligence. Hollie Coleman (Engr ’19) played an important role preparing for the launch as an intern during the summer of 2018 at the company’s headquarters in the Cayman Islands. Copper first learned about neural networks in on of his engineering electives, titled “Problems in the Philosophy of Religion,” 50 years ago.

Chelsea Cullerot (Com ’10, ’11) was promoted manager in the audit practice of Baker Newman Noyes, an accounting and consulting firm. She joined the company in 2014 and specializes in internal control compliance, particularly detailed Sarbanes-Oxley testing.

David Hartingh (Col ’95 L/M) was named president and CEO of International Executive Service Corps in Washington, D.C. IESC was founded in 1964 by American business leaders, entrepreneurs and philanthropists, including David Rockefeller, who believed that businesses are the engines that drive economic growth and innovation, and that supporting them can lift countries out of poverty. David, his wife Erika and their son live in Arlington, Virginia.

Charles Wolverton (Col ’91 L/M) was named a partner at BDO USA, a professional services firm. Wolverton will continue to lead the firm’s public sector practice, which he helped launch several years ago. The practice, which is based in McClean, Virginia, provides guidance to the federal government sector on many fronts. 

Robert “Bob” Sell (Col ’75 L/M) taught management for five years at Elmira College in New York after retiring in 2009 from a 30-year-career at Corning Inc. He is now a commissioned ruling elder (lay pastor) in the Presbyterian Church USA.

Mark Angle (Educ ’98, ’02) has accepted the position of education services coordinator with Southern Oregon Education Service District. In his new role, he will be coordinating curriculum, instruction, and assessment for the service district’s thirteen component school districts, which serve more than 50,000 students in 100 schools across three counties.

Corbin M. Campbell (Col ’03) received tenure and was promoted to associate professor of higher education at Teachers College, Columbia University in New York City, New York.

Libby Williams Larsen (Col ’90 L/M) was promoted to professor at California University of Pennsylvania, where she serves as director of the sociology and social science programs. 

Katie Bo Williams (Col ’09) has taken a position with Defense One, a subsidiary of The Atlantic, and will be covering the Pentagon. She has spent the last three years covering national security for The Hill.

Bill Gladden (Arch ’89 L/M) has been named executive director of the French & Pickering Creeks Conservation Trust, which preserves, stewards and connects people to the land in northern Chester County in Pennsylvania. Gladden brings more than 30 years of public and private sector experience in land use, preservation and management to French & Pickering. 

Ed Sabanegh (Med ’85) became president of the Cleveland Clinic Hospital System. In this role, he is responsible for the clinical care provided by over 35,000 caregivers at 11 hospitals and 19 family health centers across the health system. He is having a blast and missing his friends from the medical school class of ’85.

Sarah Rumbaugh (Darden ’15) and Zach Mayo (Col ’08, Darden ’15) are co-founders of RelishCareers, a hiring platform for graduate level job candidates and the companies that hire them, which acquired TransparentCareer in June 2018. As students at the Darden School of Business, Rumbaugh and May formed RelishCareers in the UVA iLab in 2014.

Serena Fill (Col ’97) founded the Musicians Against Gun Violence Super PAC. The organization empowers musicians and fans to advance sensible gun reform by financially supporting candidates who will further policy to keeps schools and communities safe from gun violence. The organization joins the final Vans Warped Tour on select dates this summer, and will carry on fundraisers leading up to the midterm elections in November.  

Robert Scearce (Engr ’13) was promoted to group operations manager of Monogram Foods in Martinsville, Virginia. He is responsible for all production operations.

Kate Heilpern (Col ’82) has accepted the position of senior vice president and chief operating officer of New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center. Dr. Heilpern recently served as the Ada Lee and Pete Correll Professor and Chair of the Department of Emergency Medicine at the Emory University School of Medicine. 

Ben Butler (Engr ’99 L/M) is the global manager of the cloud innovation center and accelerator program for Amazon Web Services Worldwide Public Sector. He evangelizes the culture of innovation at Amazon as well as work with governments, schools, cities, startups, and other public sector entities to solve innovation challenges with cloud computing technologies.  

Marlene Hall (Col ’96), a real estate agent licensed in Virginia and Washington, D.C., joined eXp Realty. An Air Force veteran, Hall promotes entrepreneurship and veterans’ causes and also enjoys freelance journalism. She recently interviewed “Sex in the City” and “My Big Fat Greek Wedding” star John Corbett for the PBS National Memorial Day Concert. She is a member of the reunion committee for the class of 1996.

Barbara Olcott Malone (Nurs ’77 L/M) is an assistant professor at the University of Colorado College of Nursing.

Brian Eley (Col ’93) has joined NBCUniversal as vice president of communications for USA, SYFY and Universal Cable Productions, serving as press lead for the networks’ and studio’s marketing, digital, ad sales, distribution, international and business development/ventures divisions. Prior to that, he spent 13 years at Discovery, Inc. in senior roles at Discovery Networks International, Animal Planet and TLC.  Eley is based in New York City.