Tariq Khan was a featured speaker at the annual MBA Media and Entertainment Conference, hosted this year by New York University’s Stern School of Business. The event was attended by hundreds of students from dozens of business schools, with the goal of exploring the future of media and entertainment. His remarks focused on Oscar punditry, and how technology has changed campaigning and competing for various film awards. 

Here is a link to the article – 

http://www.mbamec.com/oscar/

Chris Bisaillon ’93 talked with FSR Magazine about his future plans with Bottleneck Management and its growing business.

Here is a link to the article –

https://www.fsrmagazine.com/owner-operators/new-strategy-place-bottleneck-management-looks-ahead-bright-future

Thank you for being All In For Wesleyan in so many ways.

You’ve Done Well, and Done Good!

Today is All In for Wesleyan at IWU.  Dr. Randy Reed ’73 has offered to give $500 for each class year with 30 donors today, and an additional $500 for each class with 60 donors. Seriously – every dollar counts! Help the class of 1993 meet this Challenge.  Click this link to donate https://www.iwu.edu/all-in  You can also see how 1993 is doing in the challenge.

You can see All In on campus by clicking here.

Jeff Fisher has been promoted to defensive coordinator for the football team at Washington University in St. Louis.  The following is a link to an article about Jeff and his new position.  Congratulations, Jeff.

http://bearsports.wustl.edu/sports/fball/2015-16/releases/20160209xrv5q3

Zuzu’s Petals, a debut novel by high school English teacher Jeff Jarot ’93, will be published by Lit Fest Press in May 2016.

To read more about this publication, please visit the link below:

http://patch.com/illinois/plainfield/plainfield-teacher-publish-book-0

Congratulations Jeff!

Restaurateur Chris Bisaillon ’93 of Bottleneck Management was invited to a roundtable of experts by the Metropolitan Planning Council to talk about the latest developments at Chicago’s Union Station and the next steps for realizing its reinvention.

To read more about this discussion, please visit:

http://www.metroplanning.org/news/7273/Amtrak-seeks-master-developer-to-lead-bold-rethinking-of-Chicago-Union-Station

Shaye Mandle ’93 is the head of the Minnesota Organization, The Medical Alley Association (formerly Life Science Alley), which is where Bridget Wall ’08 spent a summer consulting at while writing her doctorate in biological engineering from MIT.

David Priess ’93 received his PhD from Duke and then was with the CIA for years which included him being a part of the President’s Daily Briefings on Intelligence. David has a new book coming out soon called “The President’s Book of Secrets: The Untold Story of Intelligence Briefings to America’s Presidents from Kennedy to Obama”. The release date for his book is set for March 1, 2016.

Congratulations David. . . can’t wait to read the book!