Alumni Spotlights
2012 Spotlights
Virginia “Gina” Coleman Drosos
Gina Drosos, the former head of Procter & Gamble Beauty, recently spoke to attendees at Terry’s third annual Professional Women’s Conference. Drosos (BBA ’85) is a board member at Signet Jewelers Ltd. and shared her insights on “leading from the outside-in.”
Margaret Davis Vaughn
Margaret Davis Vaughn made history as Terry’s first female African-American graduate. She is retired from the IRS, but does consulting work as a certified public accountant. Her son, A. David Vaughn III (BBA ’00), is also a Terry grad.
Wendy Brannen
Wendy Brannen wears a number of hats as executive director of the Vidalia Onion Committee, from managing marketing tie-ins with Universal Music Group and the Shrek franchise to literally being "the face of Vidalia onions."
Robert P. Brooks
Robert Preston Brooks was UGA’s first Rhodes Scholar, its first alumni secretary, and as dean of the School of Commerce he helped put the state’s flagship business school on the map.
Anthony Moore
Anthony Moore founded his jobTopia recruitment firm in 2007, and it has evolved into the No. 1-ranked company on this year’s Bulldog 100 list of the fastest-growing UGA alumni owned/operated businesses.
Tom Ricks
As vice president of development for ESPN Local, Ricks’ job is to turn on the revenue spigot with local advertising to fund ESPN web sites in Chicago, New York, Boston, Los Angeles, and Dallas.
Bartley Miller
When he was a standout football player at UGA, Bartley Miller shielded quarterbacks from harm. Today, Miller works for Sterling Risk Advisors, where he protects the medical community from malpractice suits.
2011 Spotlights
John Addison
Four years in the making, Addison and his co-CEO Rick Williams took Primerica public last year. In April 2011, they rang the bell at NYSE, commemorating Primerica Inc.'s initial public offering.
Martin Killgallon
As senior vice president of marketing and product development for Ohio Art — home of that time-honored kids favorite, the Etch A Sketch — Killgallon spends his days dreaming up the next wave of hot, new toys and then circling the globe to promote them.
Doug Ivester
The former CEO of The Coca-Cola Company operates Deer Run Plantation in south Georgia. Twice a year, a group of eight Terry students go there to soak up time-honored wisdom amidst the clarity of nature.
Mark Mahoney
Ex-Gym Dog Mahoney created Jackrabbit Technologies to provide a web-based management and accounts receivable system for dance and martial arts studios, and music and gymnastics schools.
Bakari Brock
College band impresario. Harvard Law. Kilpatrick Stockton. YouTube. Google. And now legal counsel to Twitter. At age 30, Bakari Brock's résumé begs the questions, “What sky? What limit?”
Christina Harris
Christina Harris (BBA ’07) credits her experience as a Leonard Leadership Scholar with her success in working with international consulting teams in Dubai and other regions of Africa and Asia.
Bhupinder Bhalla
In his post at the Indian embassy in Washington, Bhupinder Bhalla (MBA ’02) is helping the world’s largest democracy flex its new-found economic might.
Doug Benn
Doug Benn (BBA ’76, MAcc ’82) was attracted to the Cheesecake Factory because it has been entrepreneurially run for 31 years and because the person who started the company was still CEO.
Christine Shepherd
Christine Shepherd (BBA ’05) has been busy since graduation, pursuing master’s degrees in Paris and Boston, doing IT work in earthquake–ravaged Haiti, and writing a blog for Bloomberg BusinessWeek.
Jerry Trapnell
As the “chief missionary” for advancing excellence in international management education, Jerry Trapnell (PhD ’77) helps institutions set standards and conduct development programs for faculty and administrators.
Phil Casey
Phil Casey’s (BBA ’67) adventure-filled career reads like a best-selling novel, but the international steel executive has lived every minute of it. Even the CIA stuff.
2010 Spotlights
Daniel Zeplain
Daniel Zeplain (BBA ’07) was closing his first commercial real estate deal in Atlanta, when his father — a successful insurance agent in Texas — passed away. Zeplain reversed his career path, moved to Houston, and has breathed new life into TreyLed Insurance.
Ruth Bartlett
Ruth Bartlett (BBA ’76) has been a trailblazer for women in the accounting profession. She was the first female president of the Georgia Society of CPAs and she recently became the first woman to receive the society’s Meritorious Service Award.
Robert Hatcher
State Board of Regents chairman Robert Hatcher (BBA ’64) has finance in his blood — and it’s a good thing, given the large-scale budget cuts that are currently threatening Georgia’s university system.
Matt Walls
Its shirts are funny and its startup scenario sounds like a sitcom script, but Matt Walls’ (BBA ’03) SnorgTees is all business.
Tom Cousins
Tired of spending millions on philanthropic causes that didn't improve the basic fabric of society, Atlanta real estate icon Tom Cousins (BBA ’52) is taking his East Lake revitalization model nationwide.
Tom Scott
A familiar face around Athens, Tom Scott (BBA ’86) has devoted his career to growing his public accounting firm, Trinity Accounting Group, as well as other development projects and community improvement ventures.
Jerry Wilson
Jerry Wilson (AB ’78) may understand the customer better than anyone at The Coca-Cola Company, and his book, Managing Brand You, is a personal roadmap for success.
2009 Spotlights
Mark Martin
Mark Martin (MBA ’07) enrolled in Terry’s MBA program to learn how to sculpt a business plan for a charter school he planned to start in Atlanta. When Hurricane Katrina laid waste to New Orleans, he saw a chance to give a failing school district a new lease on life.
Dana Lupton
When Dana Lupton’s (BBA ’86) nationally renowned Moving in the Spirit dance company ran into financial trouble, she didn’t have to rely on the kindness of strangers to bail her out.
Steve Fallon
Fallon’s new Atlanta-based independent insurance agency specializes in employee benefits. It has been so successful in such a short period of time that Benefits Selling magazine honored him as one of their five “Broker of the Year” finalists for 2009.
Bryan Calhoun
If you were Map Questing the journey that Bryan Calhoun has taken through the music industry since he began taking finance classes at the Terry College in 1990, you would start by typing in the address for UGA’s campus radio station, WUOG, whose cubbyhole offices on the top floor of Memorial Hall did not afford Calhoun a view of where he has ended up nearly two decades later at the modern, glass-walled SoundExchange offices on 14th Street in Washington, D.C.
Adam Wexler
Adam Wexler (BBA ’07) says Terry’s ILA program — in particular, its emphasis on team building — has had a profound impact on the way he leads his new music-oriented website team.
David Greene
Former Georgia football standout David Greene (BBA ’04) has joined forces with another former Bulldog star, Matt Stinchcomb (BBA ’98), to open the Atlanta office of Savannah-based Seacrest Partners, a privately owned insurance brokerage and consulting firm.
Sam Holmes
CBRE Vice Chairman Sam Holmes has been brokering deals of the year in Atlanta’s office leasing market for more than a decade, and he’s now lending his keen business sense to his alma mater as chairman of the UGA Foundation.
Will Jones
During his 16-year career at the Augusta National Golf Club, Will Jones (BBA ’88) has developed into an important part of the senior management team that has tripled the number of countries that view the famed Masters golf tournament.
Allison O’Kelly
O’Kelly is a spokeswoman for working moms, flex-time issues, and work-life balance. She’s done stints on the Today show, and Mom Corps now offers full-service staffing in Atlanta, Charlotte, New York, Boston, and Washington, D.C.
2008 Spotlights
Sam Lorenzo
Lorenzo developed his urgent care clinic idea with help from EMBA classmates who work in telecommunications, transportation, recruiting, and banking.
Holly Meidl and Chelley Schaper
Meidl and Schaper, honored at a luncheon at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, credit Terry for their career direction and job placement in the risk management and insurance industry.
Frank Brumley
Plenty of partners have pulled a rope with Frank Brumley. He’s fired the dreams and balanced the interests of bankers, realtors, planners, contractors, politicians, environmentalists, civic groups, churches, educators, administrators, restaurateurs, other developers — any and everybody it takes, in fact, to build and foster successful communities.
Steve Green
Green is helping the Georgia Ports Authority develop broad-based Congressional support for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Program, which will allow the next generation of super-sized cargo vessels to navigate into the Port of Savannah.
Chris Welton
Welton (BBA ’81, JD ’85) cut his teeth in international sports marketing at the 1996 Olympics in Atlanta, and the former academic All-American is now CEO of Atlanta-based Helios Partners Inc., an international Olympics branding and sports marketing company that also has an office in London, site of the 2012 Summer Olympics.
Steve Jones
Steve Jones is using his knowledge and experience as a Superior Court judge to address poverty in Athens-Clarke County as chairman of the Athens Area Community Foundation.
Tom Viera
An animal lover who once considered becoming a veterinarian, Viera was a regional financial manager for a large publishing company before leaving the rat race to open a do-it-yourself doggie detailing business.
Dan Amos
Amos (BBA ’73), the 56-year-old head of Georgia’s fourth-largest public company — and a perennial Fortune magazines choice as one of the best places to work in America — has made a career of his powers of persuasion.
2007 Spotlights
Ryan Gembala and Garrett Gravesen
Ryan Gembala (BBA ’03) and Garrett Gravesen (BBA ’03) were BMOCs in college and they could have written their own ticket in the international business world. Instead, they came home from distant ports of call to create a non-profit that improves the quality of life for Georgia children affected by HIV/AIDS.
Jay Mullis
Mullis modified his late grandfather’s home-brewed roach killer into a pet-friendly product and earned more than $200,000 in orders. Green Dragon Roach Kill is currently awaiting EPA approval.
Joe Tereshinski
Raised in Athens as the grandson and son of Georgia football stars, Tereshinski is smart, personable, comfortable talking to adults — and happy he was able to graduate with a double major in risk management and finance, though he never anticipated being a business major.
Bill Griffin
The $17 million restoration Griffin brought about at storied Oakmont Country Club, site of the 2007 U.S. Open Golf Championship, might be his greatest accomplishment in a storied career.
Sheila Taormina
Taormina, at age 39, is the first female athlete from any country to make the Olympic Games in three different sports, spanning four Olympiads. A former All-American swimmer at UGA, she’s set to compete in modern pentathlon at the 2008 Beijing Games.
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