Alumni Spotlight
Alum takes center stage at Kentucky Derby
Marshall Farrer (MBA ’98), executive vice president of Brown-Forman, welcomed jockey Junior Alvarado to the Winner's Circle at Churchill Downs on May 3 following the 151st running of the Kentucky Derby.
Alum balances finance and foxtrots
When Jazz Fest rolls around, David Bode (MBA '14) trades spreadsheets for sheet music as a member of the New Leviathan Oriental Foxtrot Orchestra, the 20-piece revival orchestra that’s been entertaining audiences with vintage American popular music for more than 50 years.
Alums serve up hogs and hope at annual fundraiser
As members of the Boar’s Nest, a team competing at the annual Hogs for the Cause fundraiser, Chris Puckett (MBA ’04) and Ryan Kenter (MBA ’04) are cooking up pork aplenty this year.
Changing the face of medicine
As a child growing up surrounded by poverty, food insecurity and crime, Russell Ledet (MD/MBA ’22) never dreamed he would one don a white doctor’s coat as a graduate of Tulane School of Medicine, but the Lake Charles, Louisiana, native has accomplished all that and more.
Mastering the art of personal branding
As AVP and head of Organizational Development and Change with Beth Israel Lahey Health in Boston, Bouvier Williams (MBA '93) drives organizational development initiatives across the 36,000-employee healthcare system, including talent management, change management, OD, leadership competencies and employee surveys.
Visionary Leadership: Alum hopes to transform optical services for marginalized communities
Jesse Devlyn (MBA '93) is CEO of Zoom Vision, which hopes to transform optometry in the U.S. by providing affordable, on-demand vision care to underserved populations, including the country’s large Hispanic community.
Neal Talaske
MBA program alum Neal Talaske (MBA/MSR ’21) is helping to create a sustainable future through the skills he acquired in Tulane’s MBA/sustainable real estate development program,
MBA alum shifts from TV news to economic development
In May, Louis David (MBA ’11) was named interim president and CEO of the New Orleans Business Alliance, the public-private partnership that serves as the City of New Orleans’ official economic development organization.
Class of ’72 celebrates past, present and future at 50th Reunion
For the members of the A. B. Freeman School of Business MBA Class of 1972, their milestone 50th reunion provided an opportunity to reconnect with friends, spend time in New Orleans and reminisce about everything that Tulane made possible in their lives.
Freeman alum competes on new season of ‘Survivor’
Freeman grad Owen Knight (BSM ’14, MBA ’18) survived his first Tribal Council, avoiding elimination on the season premiere of “Survivor.” Knight, Tulane University’s director of admission engagement, is one of 18 players competing for a $1 million grand prize on season 43 of the CBS reality-competition show.
