SUMMER 2001

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CONTENTS

Dean's Welcome

Around the School

Happy, Passionate Employees Key to Good Business

M.A. Wright Investment Fund Wins National Title

Students Head To Big Apple

Digital Technology Revolution

Third Annual Wine Tasting

Southwest Business Plan Competition

Class Gift Challenge

Perspectives on Women in Leadership

Employment Prospects in
Silicon Valley

Student Club Updates

ALP Profiled in Continental Airlines Magazine

Features

Second Annual All Class Reunion

Schuler's Mission at Enron

Getting the Word Out About the Jones School

Patrick Van Pelt: Paving His Own Path

Diary of an MBA: A First-Year Student Writes Journal for Business Week

Executive Education

International Trip: Singapore and Vietnam

Serving Unique Corporate Educational Needs

Life-long Learning

Offshore Technology Conference

Faculty News

Faculty News

Career Placement

Rice MBA 2001 Placement Report

Alumni

Alumni Association President's Letter

Class Notes

Alumni Leadership Challenge

2001-02 Alumni Association Board

Please send comments to:
Deanna Sheaffer, Editor
Director of Alumni Affairs
Jones School of Management - MS 531 Rice University
P.O. Box 1892
Houston TX 77251-1892
e-mail:JGSalum@rice.edu


Rice MBA 2001 Placement Report

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A T Kearney
Thomas Stein – Houston, TX
Aruna Viswanathan – Houston, TX

AIM Management
Jonathon McAdams – Houston, TX

AMD
Lettlie Du – San Francisco, CA
Jerry Yen – San Francisco, CA

Andersen
Jay Adkins – Houston, TX
Charlotte Linn – Houston, TX

Arthur D. Little
Lester Huang – Houston, TX
Winny So – Houston, TX

BCM Technologies
Upendra Marathi – Houston, TX

BMC Software
John Garrett – Houston, TX
Sharmeen Irani – Houston, TX
Anita Israni – Houston, TX

Booz Allen & Hamilton
Manuel Sanchez Sendra –
Houston, TX

BP Amoco
Neeraj Hingorani - Houston, TX
Gary Ingram – Anchorage, AK
Grant Johnson – Anchorage, AK
Wei Wu - Houston, TX

Calpine
Sean Churchill - Houston, TX

Cap Gemini Ernst&Young
Sean Ferguson - Houston, TX

Cirrus Logic
Srinivas Voleti - Austin, TX

Compaq
Natascha Colonelli – Houston, TX
Denton Dance – Houston, TX
Mark Eddings – Houston, TX
Brandon Fears – Houston, TX
Heith Rothman – Houston, TX

Conoco
Jennifer Fangue – Houston, TX

Continental Airlines
Enrique Espinoza – Houston, TX
K Mark Pearson – Houston, TX

Constellation
David Sims – Baltimore, MD

Credit Suisse First Boston
Garrick Behelfer – Dallas, TX
Ross Morgan – Dallas, TX
Mark Morehouse – Houston, TX
Joseph Pukaite – Houston, TX

Dain Rauscher Wessels
Kelly Loyd – Houston, TX

Deutsche Banc Alex. Brown
Kevin Hays – Houston, TX
Matthew Lewis – New York, NY
Michael Wieland – Houston, TX

Duke Energy
Stuart Hamel – Houston, TX
Jed Howard – Houston, TX
Tracy Pan – Houston, TX

Dynegy
Duane Maue – Houston, TX
Robert Sale III – Houston, TX

El Paso Corporation
Eric Stidman – Houston, TX

EnLink Geoenergy Services
Ric Dale – Houston, TX

Enron
Marty Blick – Houston, TX
Elena Chilkina – Houston, TX
Shruti Gandhi-Gupta – Houston, TX
Rakhi Israni – Houston, TX
Ken Jett – Houston, TX
Todd Litton – Houston, TX
Lynn Nazareth – Houston, TX
Shauwyn Smith – Houston, TX
Jason Sokolov – Houston, TX
Carlos Wheelock – Houston, TX
Julie Young – Houston, TX
Sarah Woody – Houston, TX

Entergy
Javier Lamas Diaz – Houston, TX
Nan Li – Houston, TX
Jeffrey Planck – Houston, TX

 

eQuantam
(Gulf States Toyota)

Edward “Ted” Nelson – Houston, TX

ExxonMobil
Matt Marcontell – Houston, TX
Sammy DeLeon – Houston, TX

Frosch International Travel
Paul Pua – Houston, TX

Goldman Sachs
Adam Goldenberg – New York, NY
Michael Walton – New York, NY

Hewlett Packard
Tarun Anand – Phoenix, AZ
Kayo Kubo – Mountain View, CA

iMimic Networking
Andrew Adams – Houston, TX

Intergen North America
Nicole Methena – Houston, TX
Sanjay Wankhade – Houston, TX

JP Morgan Chase & Co
Gregory Broussard – New York, NY
Colleen Chang – Houston, TX
Antje Klaer – Houston, TX
Alan Knust – Houston, TX
Kathryn Krips – Houston, TX

Lehman Brothers
Connally Burroughs – New York, NY
George Dikeman – New York, NY

L’Oreal
Katalin Berenyi – Paris

MBA Enterprise Corps

Tara Matzan – Kiev

MCI
Azita Bayat – Arlington, VA

McKinsey & Company
John Roe – Houston, TX

Newfield
Ning Zhang – Houston, TX

Natl Parks Conservation
Chris Campbell – Washington, DC

Phillips Petroleum
Damien Larson – Bartlesville, OK

Pittiglio Rabin Todd
& McGrath

Michael Hunt – Dallas, TX

PKF, Inc
David Smith – Houston, TX

PricewaterhouseCoopers
Craig Harwerth – Houston, TX
Brandon Smith – Houston, TX

Reliant Energy
Stuart Graham – Houston, TX
Orlando Taylor – Houston, TX
Eric Van Stone – Houston, TX
Allison Wright – Houston, TX

Sabre
Constantine Hallax – Dallas, TX
Paulo Yoshiura – Dallas, TX

Salomon Smith Barney
Paul Moorman – New York, NY

Savage Design Group
Bethany Andell – Houston, TX

Southern Company
Energy (Now Mirant)

Robert Gaudette – Atlanta, GA
Rishad Patel – Atlanta, GA
Marc Westmoreland – Atlanta, GA

Tanox Biotech, Inc.
Tammy Morehouse – Houston, TX

Texas Instruments
Jeremy Chio - Texas
Zac Menerey – Texas

Tristar Holdings
Hazem Megerisi – Houston, TX

TXU Corp
Felix Lu – Houston, TX

Williams

Joseph Helms – Tulsa, OK
Whitney Hough – Houston, TX