Tulane Association of Business Alumni

Tulane Business Forum panel speakers for Artificial Intelligence at Work: Paulo Goes, Cliff Farrah, Steve Idoux, and Todd Marshall.
2024 Tulane Business Forum, photo by Cheryl Gerber.

While representing the more than 30,000 alumni of the A. B. Freeman School of Business, the mission of the Tulane Association of Business Alumni (TABA) is to encourage active alumni involvement in support of the school’s mission and goals. TABA strives to assemble and focus alumni resources to enhance and improve the areas of career management, development and external relations at the school.

For over 45 years, TABA has hosted the annual Tulane Business Forum. This signature event—the largest half-day business conference in the Greater New Orleans area—features talks by nationally and internationally renowned business leaders. The growth and success of the Forum has allowed TABA to support Freeman through capital gifts to building projects, partnerships with the Career Management Center, social and networking events for current students, and funding for events such as the Tulane Business Model Competition.

Executive Committee

  • President - Laura Beauchamp, B ’00, MBA ’04, Entergy Louisiana
  • Vice President - Ivy Robinson, MBA ’23, St. Thomas Community Health Center
  • Treasurer - Ryan Jones, B ’14,  MME ’15, Entergy Louisiana
  • Secretary - Reed Miller, MBA ’23, LCMC Health
  • Immediate Past President - Taylor Gilbert, TC ’05, MBA ’12, Chaffe & Associates, Inc.
  • Forum Chair - Will Mizell, B ’10, Stone Pigman

Forum Coordinator 

  • Jennifer L. McCausland 

Members-at-Large

  • Scott Armand, MBA ’13, Cave Communications
  • Natalie Barranco, MBA ’06, PRIME Business Advisory Solutions
  • Scott Barrios, MBA ’17, Shell
  • Shannon Brice, MBA ’04, Ochsner Health System
  • J.R. Comeaux, MBA ’24, NextEra Energy
  • Louis David, MBA ’11,  Blue Marsh Consulting
  • Nene Gianfala, B ’07, Chaffe & Associates
  • Bill Hudlow, MBA ’97, A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
  • Adrian Lopez-Salazar, MBA ’11, Port of New Orleans
  • Danielle Martin, MBA ’22, A. B. Freeman School of Business, Tulane University
  • Amy Mitchell-Smith, MBA ’21, Lionfish Studios
  • Evan Nicoll, 1834 Ventures (B ’12, MBA ’16, MSR ’21)
  • Christopher Saybe, MBA ’17, b1Bank 
  • Allie Shapiro Dandry, NC '03, MS '06, MBA '16, Shapiro Family Foundation
  • Malory Weir, L ’15, MBA ’15, Oxy
  • Chris Williams, MBA ’11, Lockton Dunning Benefits

Ex Officio 

  • Aimee Adatto Freeman, MBA ’95, Aimee Freeman Consulting
  • Larry Smith, MBA ’99, Auto-Chlor Services