University at Buffalo School of Management

2010s Thomas Beauford Jr., EMBA '08, MS '11, was named president and CEO of the Buffalo Urban League. Kristen Lopez, PMBA '11, was promoted to account director at Praxis Communications LLC. Shyam Nair, MBA '11, was promoted to director of in- dustrial products at Vesuvius. Joel Cropp, MBA '12, was named senior platform integration spe - cialist at Reliance Standard. Dennis Currie, EMBA '12, was promoted to vice president of service operations at John W. Danforth Co. Spring 2021 Buffalo Business 27 Julia Jornsay- Silverberg, BS/ MBA '12, joined NOW Marketing Group as relation - ship marketing manager. Anthony LaRosa, BS '10, MBA '12, was promoted to assistant vice pres- ident and project manager III at M&T Bank. George Narby, EMBA '13, MD, was named chief medical officer at Southeast Health. Pierre Pelletreau, EMBA '13, was named vice president of engineering at Rand-ASC Holdings. Vince Polino, EMBA '14, was promoted to business develop- ment manager of brewery, bever- age and food (USA) at Alfa Laval. Nida Beig, MS '15, was named senior product manag- er of tech for the AWS Snow Family at Amazon Web Services. Drew Gaczewski, BS '15, was promoted to business develop- ment manager at ACV Auctions. Michael Patterson, BS '00, was named assis- tant vice presi- dent for student affairs at SUNY New Paltz. He also earned his doctor- ate of education in higher education administration from Northeastern University. Robert Keller, EMBA '02, was named director of marketing and product manage - ment at Comar, a specialty packag- ing, dispensing and medical device provider in Voorhees, New Jersey. Muhammad Chandasir, EMBA '03, was named compliance engi- neering manager at Hillphoenix. Matthew Wagner, BS '03, was named senior vice president of development, sports and leisure for North America at Sodexo. Brooke Cianfichi, BS/MBA '04, chief operating officer and direc - tor of business development at AscendAmerica, became an acti- vator at SheEO, a global community of women building a $1 billion fund to sup- port and mentor female-led phil- anthropic startups. Samantha Bonano, BS '05, was appointed to the board of DermaRite, a lead - ing producer of skin care, wound care and nutri- tional products. Jon Pancerman, BS '05, was pro- moted to senior di- rector of business operations at ACV Auctions. Adam Dunning, BS '06, was named chief analytics officer at axial - Healthcare, a care optimization company focused on managing substance use treatment and social determi- nants of health issues. Chet Spivey, EMBA '06, was named senior vice president of clini- cal sales at Ivoclar Vivadent Inc. Thomas Ulbrich, CEL '03, EMBA '06, was named president and CEO of Goodwill Industries of WNY and executive in residence for entrepreneurship in the School of Management. Sara (Pendergast) Basko, BS '07, was promoted to partner at KPMG in Pittsburgh. Patterson Keller Chandasir Wagner Cianfichi Bonano Beauford Jornsay-Silverberg LaRosa Narby Pelletreau Beig Gaczewski Lopez Nair Cropp Pancerman Dunning Spivey Ulbrich Carly Battin, MBA '09, was promoted to director of marketing at CleanCapital. Nikhil Cherian, MS '09, was named senior director of integrat- ed planning at Sam's Club. Battin

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