In San Francisco, Suzanne DiBianca (Comm) is executive vice president of corporate relations and chief philanthropy officer at Salesforce. She is a hall of fame member of the San Francisco Business Times’ Most Influential Women in Bay Area Business. 

Posted Mar. 1, 2018

Lisa Mutschler (Law) opened the Denver-area real estate brokerage Expert Real Estate. She practiced law earlier in her career.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

Kevin Keelan (Mktg) was hired as a senior account executive at Virsys12, a healthcare technology firm based in Denver. Kevin and wife Kathleen have three children.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

After CU, Bart Lone (MusEdu) taught music in Colorado public schools for three years. In 1994, he and wife Jeanette joined the U.S. Army Bands and were initially stationed in Bamberg, Germany. Jeanette left the army to raise their sons, Jason and Brandon. Bart served 21 years and retired in September 2015. Upon Bart’s retirement the couple purchased two businesses in Grand Lake, Colo. — Grand Lake Wine & Spirits and Cabin Quilts & Stitches.

Posted Dec. 1, 2017

In February, Matthew Alvarado (Span) spoke at the second annual Latin America Port Expansion Summit in Cali, Colombia. Matthew works for Musco Lighting, a company that specializes in sports arena and event lighting. His role is promoting brand development in South and Central America.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Steve Fleischli (Econ, EPOBio) is senior attorney and director of the water program for the Natural Resources Defense Council. His work focuses on water quality, the role of water security in climate-preparedness programs and the relationship of water to energy production.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Albert Flynn DeSilver (Art), a poet and nonfiction writer, has written a new book, Writing as a Path to Awakening: A Year to Becoming an Excellent Writer & Living an Awakened Life. It is scheduled for release in September. His memoir, Beamish Boy, recounts his struggle with addiction and how he overcame it. Albert returns to Colorado every year to teach at the Shambhala Mountain Center.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Emmy Award-winning journalist Tim Wieland (Jour) has been news director at CBS4 in Denver since 2004. He serves as guest faculty at the Poynter Institute and on the board of Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver. He was recognized in 2010 by the Denver Business Journal as a 40 under 40 winner for his work in the community.

Posted Jun. 1, 2017

Sarah Dawson Rothenbuhler (Comm) is owner, president and CEO of Birch Equipment Co., Inc., in Seattle. She is in charge of strategic positioning, employee development, financial marketing and customer outreach. Once upon a time, she worked as an intern for the Seattle Seahawks.

Posted Mar. 1, 2017

After practicing family medicine in Auburn, Ind., for the last 17 years, Todd Page (Mus) has become medical director of the Sweetwater Medicinal Clinic on the campus of Sweetwater Sound, a dealer of musical equipment. Todd provides medical care for Sweetwater’s employees and their families.

Posted Mar. 1, 2017

Katie Writer (Geog) lives in Alaska and recently started a recycling program in her small community of Talkeetna. In its first year, Talkeetna Recycling Works diverted more than 14 tons of material from the landfill to a recycling center and made it possible to drop off recycling for free.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

Santa Clara, Calif.-based Gigamon Inc. named Fred Studer (Fin) chief marketing officer. He oversees all aspects of global marketing, including creative marketing and product management.

Posted Dec. 1, 2016

In June, Robert Rody (ArchEngr) was promoted to associate principal for Treanor Architects | H+L Architecture. He lives in Denver.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

After almost nine months of traveling between Panama and Italy to solidify the design requirements for the expansion of the Panama Canal, Octavio Franco (MCivEngr) is back in Panama City, Panama, where he lives and works as a leader overseeing the expansion of the Panama Canal with the Panama Canal Authority.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

Last year Elyssa Pallai Nager (IntlAf) co-founded Resort Books Ltd. and launched the now bestselling book series Eli and Mort’s Epic Adventures. The books, which are illustrated by local children, tell the tale of the main characters exploring the world of ski resort towns. In 2016, the Vail Valley Partnership voted the company Vail Valley small business of the year.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

Manhattan resident and Broadway actress Leenya Rideout (Mus) performed in the Public Theater’s first all-female “Shakespeare in the Park” production of The Taming of the Shrew. Leenya played the Widow in addition to being an onstage musician and music director. She has been performing on Broadway and in theaters all over the country for the past 21 years.

Posted Sep. 1, 2016

For 20 years Todd Millick (Hist) has served in the U.S. Foreign Service, working mostly in Africa and South Asia. He is the author of a book of poems called Short and Sweet, and his memoir, Nasty, Brutish, and Short, will be published this summer.

Posted Jun. 1, 2016

Tamara Brady (Law), a chief trial deputy for the Colorado Public Defenders Office, represented James Holmes, the Aurora, Colo., theater shooter, sparing him the death penalty. After the case, Tamara took five weeks off, spending time with family and helping her daughter move into college. She is an advocate for proper treatment of mental illness and removing its stigma. Tamara and husband Mark Rapp (Law’91) live in Greeley, Colo., with their daughter.

Posted Mar. 1, 2016

Nick Stavrianoudakis (MEcon) was named athletic director of Modesto Junior College, where he leads more than 4,000 MJC athletes and 21 teams. Previously he worked as a player agent in pro football, as a baseball card collector and business owner, as economic advisor to three counties and one city and as director of public affairs for the Yosemite Community College District. He was a student at CU when the Buffaloes won the 1990 NCAA Division 1-A football title and credits that exciting time as the inspiration for his career in collegiate athletics.

Posted Mar. 1, 2016

´ˇłŮłŮ´Ç°ů˛Ô±đ˛âĚýSteve Fleischli (Econ, EPOBio) is director of the water program at the Natural Resource Defense Council. He focuses on water policy, climate change, curbing water pollution and water management. This spring he gave a talk at Southern California’s Hammer Museum about the threats to the world’s rivers.

Posted Sep. 1, 2015

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