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Alumni News & Notes

1990

Tod Kornfeld

Todd Kornfeld

Donna Bevacqua-Young was elected Magistrate Court judge for Santa Fe County in New Mexico. She will serve a four-year term. Todd Kornfeld joined Pepper Hamilton LLP as of counsel in the financial services practice group. He previously served as associate general counsel at Guggenheim Global Trading. Todd graduated magna cum laude from Boston University School of Law in 1996 and earned an LL.M. in corporate law from New York University School of Law in 1998. Carol Lawson Miller was named “School Counselor of the Year” by the New York State School Counselor Association, and was selected the 2016 New York State representative and semi-finalist for the American School Counselor Association’s School Counselor of the Year Award. She was honored at the White House this past January. She published her first book, StarBound, last summer.

1991

Aimee (Minbiole) Caruso was named 2014 Writer of the Year for a daily newspaper by the New Hampshire Press Association. She is a reporter for Valley News in West Lebanon, N.H.

Dominic Varrialle and son go shark diving

Dominic Varrialle ’91 recently went shark diving with his son.

1992

Gary Segrue

Gary Segrue

Gary M. Segrue of Lakewood, N.Y., has been appointed director of St. Bonaventure University’s Office of Safety and Security. He was recently named the 2015 Non-Commissioned Officer Supervisor of the Year at the New York State Troopers Police Benevolent Association Awards Dinner. Greg Hitchcock is a journalist and filmmaker. He freelances for the Houston Chronicle, The San Diego Union-Tribune, the Los Angeles Times, and the Times Union.

Dee Magnoni

Dee Magnoni

Dee Magnoni was elected 2017 president of the Special Libraries Association. She currently serves as research-library director at the Los Alamos National Library in New Mexico. Victor Tulchinsky completed an advanced structural acupuncture course for physicians at Harvard Medical School. Board certified in family medicine in private practice in Albany, he works with UAlbany pre-med students who observe family medicine and Japanese/classical acupuncture.

Latonia Williams-Spencer

Latonia Williams-Spencer

EOP alum Latonia Williams-Spencer received the 2015-16 President’s Award for Excellence in Professional Service and the Chancellor’s Award for Excellence. She has worked at the University in three professional roles over 20 years. She serves as director of Student Financial Services and is a fiscal officer for the Division of Enrollment Management. 

1993

New York Life Senior Vice President Carla Rutigliano was recognized in the 14th annual “Women Worth Watching” issue of Profiles in Diversity Journal. She resides in Dix Hills, N.Y. Wendy (Fortin) Roy was promoted to executive director at Ernst & Young. She is a member of EY’s tax practice. 

David Fischer

David Fischer

1994

Jonathan Kuttin has become the No. 1 adviser at Ameriprise Financial Services. He runs a financial-planning firm in Melville, N.Y. David Fischer of Sandler Training was recently featured in The New Yorker for his expertise in cold calling. Garry Murray is the community-relations specialist for the Northeast Kidney Foundation in Albany, N.Y. He is currently partnering with NFL alum Rashad Barksdale ’06 on the foundation’s Walk/5K/10K to be held this June. Garry has been with the organization since 2012.

Eileen Casey joined the Crittenton Women’s Union Board of Directors. She serves as the senior vice president of Tax and Finance with Kraft Group LLC, Boston. Stephen Cirami was named executive vice president and chief operating officer of Garden City Group, LLC., Lake Success, N.Y.  He has more than 20 years’ experience in executive operations and legal practice. 

1995

Richelle Konian, founder and CEO of Manhattan-based executive search firm Careers on the Move, was named “CEO of the Month” by Acquisition International magazine. She celebrated 15 years of business in 2015. Richelle is a member of the UAlbany Alumni Association Board of Directors and the School of Business Dean’s Advisory Board.

1997

Tara (Squazzo) Carthew was named assistant vice president of GEICO’s claims regional center in Katy, Texas. She previously served as branch manager for the operations center since its 2014 opening.

Adam Denenberg

Adam Denenberg

 

1998

Adam Denenberg was named iHeartRadio’s chief technology officer. He formerly served as vice president of Engineering at The Huffington Post.

1999

Ashwani Prabhakar

Ashwani Prabhakar

Ashwani Prabhakar joined Hodgson Russ as senior counsel in Buffalo, N.Y. He previously served as principal law clerk in the chambers of Surrogate’s Court Judge Margarita López Torres in Brooklyn, N.Y. Darice Polo is one of 40 Cuyahoga County, Ohio, artists working toward a $15,000 fellowship through the Creative Workforce Fellowship.

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