

Class Notes
1960s
Steve Kirschner ý69 was featured by New York Real Estate Journal as Executive of the Month. He is the founder of Principals Direct Group, a brokerage and consulting firm in Islandia, NY.
1970s
Harold Kaplan, JD, ý72, ý83 served recently as a Presiding Judge for the North Carolina Mock Trial Programýs regionals and finals, and as a volunteer attorney for Pisgah Legal Services in Asheville, NC, he recently won a case for the wrongful refusal to pay life insurance death benefits. He is principal of Kaplan Dispute Resolution located in Fairview, NC.
Alan Schachter ý72 has become a new senior managing director and leader of the Economic Damages and Business Valuation Practice at Guidepost Solutions, a compliance consulting firm in New York. Prior to that, he was a partner at Citrin Cooperman LLP.
Adriano F. Manocchia ý73 was featured in Grayýs Sporting Journal as a distinguished artist living in Oswego county, upstate New York.
John Diercksen ý75 was appointed independent board director of Accedian, performance analytics and end-user experience solutions company headquarters in Montreal, Canada. He is the former executive vice president of Verizon having served in various financial and operational positions.
Kevin Crawford ý77 joined the board of directors of Hudson Resources Inc., the Canadian British Columbia-based mining and exploration company. He is retired chairman of the board of SCR-Sibelco.
Anne Ross ý78 was elected chair of the National Federation of Municipal Analysts. She is the principal consultant at Muni Credit and Compliance Advisors in White Plains, NY.
John Jordan ý79, journalist and news professional from Middletown, NY, was named ýAffiliate of the Yearý by Hudson Gateway Association of Realtors in recognition of his 25 years of service in the community.
1980s

Marc M. Besca ý81, chairman of ý Board of Trustees, , was appointed to the board of directors at Markel Corporation in Richmond, VA. He is a consultant to EY having retired from the firm in June 2020 after a 42-year career.
Scott Corzine ý81 joined B. Riley Advisory Services as senior managing director and Compliance, Risk and Resilience practice co-leader. Prior to B. Riley, he worked at Ankura Consulting Group and FTI Consulting. Corzine recently relocated from New York and is currently based in Arlington, Virginia.
Teresa Jacobsen ý81 was named to the Forbes/SHOOK Research Top Women Wealth Advisors list for 2021. She is a private wealth advisor with the UBS office in Stamford, CT.
Eileen Mahoney ý83 was featured by Total Retail magazine in their Women in Retail Leadership Circle publication where she was interviewed about her career, women in tech, and leadership. She is executive vice president and chief information officer at PVH, the parent company of leading fashion brands such as Calvin Klein, Tommy Hilfiger, Van Heusen, and others.
Michael Mulcahy ý83 was appointed senior managing director at Peapack-Gladstone Bank in Bedminster, NJ. Previously, he was the senior vice president at Capital One Bank, North America.
Brian Zucker ý83 has joined the board of directors of NanoViricides, a leader in developing novel nanomedicines to treat viral diseases, in Shelton, CT, as an independent director. He is a partner at CFO Financial Partners.
Mary DeTurris Poust ý84 authored an article in Catholic New York on the inspirational effect that two Sisters of Divine Compassion, faculty at Paceýs then-undergraduate White Plains Campus, had on her writing career.
Kent Nevins, JD, ý85 became a member of the newly formed leadership team at Shipman & Goodwin LLP in Stamford, CT. The management committee was formed to replace an outgoing managing partner. Nevins has been a partner of the firm since 2007.
Christina OýNeill (née Gilsenan) ý85was elected a new member of the board of trustees at Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, NY. She is a wealth advisor with Wells Fargo.
Grace Vandecruze ý85 was appointed to the board of governors of the Doctors Company, the nation's largest physician-owned medical malpractice insurer, located in Napa, CA. She is the founder and managing director at an M&A advisory consulting firm and a member of Wharton Graduate Executive Board.
Jane Buckiewicz ý86 was appointed vice chairwoman of the board of trustees of NJ Sharing Network Foundation, the organization that promotes organ donorship. Sheýs a retired finance and HR executive.
Bud Hammer ý86 was named the new chairperson for United Way of Westchester and Putnam. He is president of Atlantic Westchester, a HVAC company in Bedford Hills, NY. Over the years, it received numerous awards and recognitions for being a good corporate citizen.

Betty Silfa ý86 was appointed to West Chester University Council of Trustees. She is vice president and commercial loan officer at Mid Penn Bank, which is based in Chester County.
H. Steven Vogel Jr. ý86 joined Dickinson Wright PLLC Fort Lauderdale, FL, office as member of the firm. Formerly, he was a shareholder at Baker & Poliakoff PA also in Ft. Lauderdale.
William Wresch ý86 was promoted to senior vice president of Turle & Hughes, electrical and industrial distributors in Linden, NJ. He leads the Industrial division, which includes the Rockwell Automation business in New York and New Jersey, and the companyýs operation in Southern California.
Larry Birnbaum ý87 was featured in Future of Retail series on Medium.com. He is the chief executive officer of the online accessories retailer ShopWorn, Inc., and is based in New York.
Jose Luis Castro ý88 was featured in the Authority Magazine on Medium.com in an interview about his leadership path. He is president and chief executive officer of the global health organization Vital Strategies with headquarters in Manhattan.
Georgia Keresty ý88 was appointed to the board at Solid Biosciences Inc. She serves as a senior advisor to Takeda, a global research and development biopharmaceutical company, based in Cambridge, MA.
Gregory Klang ý88 joined Zivaro, Inc. in Denver, CO, as banking and finance chief strategy officer. He spent most of his career working for tier one investment banks in advisory and technology development roles.

Susan Vallario, JD, ý88 became chair of the board of trustees of Ramapo College in Mahwah, NJ. She is a retired real estate legal executive and has served as vice-chair of the board.
Anthony Carleto, JD, ý89 has joined Gordon Rees Scully Mansukhani, LLP as partner of the firmýs Westchester office. He took a position with Commercial Litigation, Intellectual Property, and Product & General Liability practice groups. Previously, he worked at Wilson Elser.
Deirdre Cherry ý89 joined Bank of Texas as private wealth team lead based in Fort Worth, TX. As a banking executive for more than 20 years, she joins the team from her previous position as chief credit officer of Gateway First Bank based in Dallas, TX.
Sandra Denton ý89 was appointed vice president of channels and alliances at Pipefy, the business management processes solution in San Francisco, CA. Prior to that, she held executive positions in IBM, Nlyte and other companies.
1990s
Neale Bedrock, JD, ý90 joined the Metropolitan Nashville Airport Authority leadership team as its new executive vice president, general counsel and chief compliance officer. Previously, he served as assistant general counsel at Hertz Corporation.
Tim Fitzgerald ý90 appointed Retirement Plan Advisor at MJP Wealth Advisors in Connecticut. Previously, he was Vice President at Webster Investments.
John Shay ý90 has joined the board of directors of TruSight, a provider of third-party risk data for the financial industry. He is the managing partner at Capital MarketServices, Inc. in New York City and chairman of AcadiaSoft, an international risk flow solutions provider.
Raimundo Archibold Jr. ý91 joined the board of directors of Chemung Financial Corporation, the Capital Bank's parent company. He is the managing director of Schwartz Heslin Group in Latham, NY.
Deena Manion, PsyD, ý91 has joined the leadership team of Westwind Recovery, Los Angeles, CA-based addiction and mental health treatment facility as clinical officer. In addition to her extensive clinical and practice work, she has appeared on the past 16 seasons of The Dr. Phil Show and as an expert in addiction and treatment.

Dianne Aroh ý92 was appointed co-chair of the advisory board of College of Health Professions at Pace. She is the executive vice president, chief clinical and patient care officer of Hackensack University Medical Center in Hackensack, NJ. In addition to her recognition among New Jersey Business Journal 50 Best Women in Business recognition, Aroh has also been listed by Crain's New York Most Notable Women in Healthcare in 2018 and 2019.
Michael Corcione ý92 joined HKA, one of the leading consulting firms for the construction and technology industries, as partner specializing in cybersecurity and privacy located in New York, NY. With more than 25 years of experience, most recently he was managing director, cybersecurity and privacy advisory services at Treliant.
Ann Dennison ý92 assumed the role of chief financial officer at Nasdaq. Prior to joining Nasdaq, she worked at Goldman Sachs as managing director.
Jason Goodrich ý92 launched the ýGive the Gift of Livestream Theaterý initiative in his community in Portsmouth, NH, to boost the brand of his business while supporting local Seacost Repertory Theatre.
Maria Weaver ý92 was appointed president of WEA, Warner Recorded Music's global artist and label services network, based in New York, NY. She was most recently senior vice president and chief marketing officer at Comcast Advertising and previously held senior marketing and creative services posts at Interactive One, HBO and Showtime.
Bijal Jani ý93 was appointed to the board of advisors of Assiduus Global USA, an international company in the field of e-commerce. She is a recipient of several prestigious awards including the "Excellence for the Future" awards in Jurisprudence and Jewish Law.
Emile Trombetti ý93 was named vice president and chief growth officer at CALIBRE Systems, Inc. in Alexandria, VA. He is a member of the advisory board for Paceýs Seidenberg School of Computer Science and Information Systems and has more than 19 years of experience with Booz Allen Hamilton.
Alice Chan ý94 was appointed chief financial officer and elected as a member of the board's first class of directors of CF Finance Acquisition Corp. III. She joined Cantor Fitzgerald in New York City in March 2015 and has served as its Global Controller and Managing Director since March 2019.
Bettye Perkins ý94 was honored as a member of Westchester Class 2020 Women in Business by Westchester Magazine for her leadership in the nonprofit sector. She is the founder of Todayýs ý Tomorrowýs Teachers, a White Plains-based nonprofit organization that runs programs in high schools to encourage and prepare students for careers in teaching.
Rodney Reese ý94 became general manager of projected Legacy Sports Park in Mesa, AZ. He worked for 16 years at ESPN Wide World of Sports in Orlando, FL, most recently as sports business development manager.
Lysa Scully ý94 was appointed senior adviser at the US Division of Ferrovial Airports, one of the world's leading building and public works groups headquartered in Spain. She is principal and president of LL Aviation Advisors in Glen Cove, NY.
Dr. Wolfgang Baiker ý96 was appointed chief executive officer of Adrenomed, AG in Germany. Prior to that, he served as chief executive officer of Boehringer Ingelheim USA Corp.
Julie Madnick ý96 joined Brean Capital, LLC in New York City as managing director. She was previously portfolio director at Ares Management.
Claude Wade ý96 joined AIG as executive vice president, global head of operations and chief digital officer. This is a newly created role based in New York. He joins the company from BlackRock where he most recently served as global head of client experience and head of the Atlanta Innovation Hub.
Thomas Ammazzalorso ý97 was recently named the 2020 Outstanding Educator by the University of Chicago. He was nominated by a former student who was recently accepted into the Universityýs undergraduate program. He is the chair of social studies at Suitland High School in Foresville, MD.
Christopher Jones ý97 was appointed vice president of corporate communications at FanDuel Group, an online gaming company. He is joining the company with 25 years of experience in marketing and media, and most recently he was the global chief communications officer for IPG Mediabrands.
Stacey Petrower ý97 was appointed co-chair of advisory board of College of Health Professions at Pace. She is president of NewYork-Presbyterian Hudson Valley Hospital in Cortland Manor, NY.
Bernadette Shopfer ý97, partner and director of taxation at Maier Markey & Justic LLP in White Plains, NY was named member of the board of directors of United Way of Westchester and Putnam for a three-year term. She is a founding member of United Way's Women's Leadership Council.
Ted Tulpan ý97 has joined Union Bank as managing director and team lead for the Financial Institutions Group within Transaction Banking. He comes to the bank from J.P. Morgan Chase, where he most recently was the sales group executive of its Global Funds Group and is based in New York.
Omolara Olaniyi, PhD, ý98 has been included in Marquis Who's Who. This is a biographical volume where individuals profiled are selected on the basis of the current reference value. She is a family nurse practitioner in Forest Hills and Manhattan, NY.
Shaheen Pasha ý99 was featured in The Philadelphia Sunday Sun in a series of articles covering her social initiative, The Prison Journalism Project. She is assistant professor at Pennsylvania State University in University Park, PA.
Heather Schneider ý99, partner with Willkie Farr & Gallagher LLP in New York, NY, was honored as a Pro Bono Attorney of the Year by Kids In Need of Defense (KIND), an immigrant childrenýs rights organization.
Ghenete Wright Muir, JD, ý99 was featured in South Florida Gay News as a founder of Thou Art Woman, a three-day weekend event that features visual and performing arts. She is a professor at Nova Southern University Shepard Broad College of Law in Davie, FL.
2000s
Stephen Riccardully, JD, ý00, an environmental litigator, joined Holla & Knight in New York office as partner. Prior to joining the firm, he practiced in the New York office of Buchanan Ingersoll & Rooney PC.
Wilson Tang ý00 was featured on foodnetwork.com sharing his experience as Pace alumnus and owner of Nom Wah, a Chinatown restaurant, about the Lunar New Year.

Cristina Alesci ý01 was appointed chief corporate affairs officer at Chobani. She was correspondent with CNN Money team prior to that.
Inna Kleynburg ý02 was featured in nasdaq.com Women in Technology series of interviews. She is head of compliance and legal technology at AllianceBernstein in New York, NY.
Davis John Abraham ý03 joined the board of directors of Feeding Westchester in Elmsford, NY. He currently serves as a Director at the Cognizant U.S. Foundation and has worked in the philanthropic and international development sector for 19 years.
Denise Molina Capers ý03 was appointed first-ever racial and social justice director of the town of Sommerville, MA. A Brooklyn native, she was most recently the executive director of the nonprofit organization South Boston en Acción.
Sibil Sebastian ý03 was recognized as a Rising Star by the Defined Contribution Institutional Investment Association. She is vice president for strategy and corporate development of American Century Investments in Kansas City, MO.
Katrina Shindledecker ý03 became the new executive director of Hudson Highlands Land Trust.
Alex David ý04 was appointed president and chief executive officer of Stifel Independent Advisors in St. Louis, MO. Most recently, he was head of branch development and marketing at Wells Fargo Advisors Financial Network.
Wilmer Flores ý04 was promoted to senior vice president of STV, a construction management services company located in New York. He joined the company in 2016.
Benjamin Renzin ý04 joined WME Sports as co-leader of the football business. He is an NFL agent based in New York.
Christina Farinacci-Roberts ý05 won the Albany-based Center of Economic Growthýs Pitch Your Pivot grand prize for successfully developing her consultancy over the past year. She is the founder of Head Heart Hands Consulting in Latham, NY. Prior to that, she was principal and chief executive officer of the Albany Leadership Charter High School for Girls in Albany, NY.
Leonard Townes ý05 was appointed commissioner of the Westchester County Department of Social Services. He began his career with Westchester County 34 years ago as an eligibility examiner and worked his way up through the ranks. Townes was appointed deputy commissioner in January 2018.
Lana Bailey-Tamaro ý06 joined ý Board of Trustees. She is the CEO and owner of CASO Document Management, a national document scanning and document services automation company in New York. Prior to CASO, she worked as a police officer in the New York Police Departmentýs Detective Bureau in the Forensic Investigative Division.
Doug Bleszinski ý06 started in the position of vice president of sales in North America with Bambuser, a live video shopping provider in New York, NY. He has held a variety of executive roles at Salesforce, Salsify, Elastic, and Ionic Security.
Sean Byrnes ý06 was appointed chief accountant officer at Kearney Bank. Before joining Kearny Bank, he was senior accounting officer for Amboy Bank, in Old Bridge, NJ.
David DeMilia, JD, ý06 was named president and chief operating officer of Tompkins Mahopac Bank in Brewster, NY. Most recently, he served as senior vice president and before that has held other positions since joining the bank in 2008.
Zeynep Ekemen ý06 was profiled on Medium.com as a part of our series about cutting-edge technological breakthroughs. She is the managing partner and co-founder of Silver Defender, a woman-led business that provides cleaning solutions, located in Fort Lee, NJ.
Jonathan Garbar ý06 was named Florida International Universityýs new womenýs soccer head coach. He spent the last four years at Franklin Pierce University as their head coach.
Michelle Richter ý06 was promoted to Senior Agent at Fuse Literary, New York office. This literary agency brings innovation to book publishing. She joined the company in 2014 after working as an acquisitions editor for St. Martin's Press, where she worked on a variety of fiction and nonfiction titles.
Charles Rizzuto ý06 was honored as 2020 Secondary Physical Education Teacher of the Year, awarded by the New York State Association of Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance. He is physical education and health teacher at Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, NY. Rizzuto also was named New York State Health Education Amazing Person of the Year in 2017.
Gennady Spivak ý06 joined Clear Thinking Group in Hillsborough, NJ in the capacity of managing director. Prior to that, he was senior manager in the corporate recovery & litigation services practice of a major accounting firm.
Phionah Brown ý07 has been included in Marquis Who's Who. This is a biographical volume where individuals profiled are selected on the basis of the current reference value. She is a financial service litigation attorney with Eckert Seamans Cherin & Mellot in White Plains, NY.
Claire Cox ý07 debuted with her novel Silver Beach, which won the Juniper Prize for Fiction of University of Massachusetts Press.
Douglas Jones, JD, ý07 joined Husch Blackwell, LLP in Austin, TX as a partner. He joins the firmýs Tax, Tax Controversy, and Nonprofit Organizations & Religious Institutions groups and its Energy & Natural Resources business unit.

The Honorable Andrea Stewart-Cousins ý08 was re-elected as the Democratic Conference president pro tempore and majority leader of the New York State Senate. Following the 2018 elections, she became the first woman and African American woman to lead a legislative majority in New York.
Stephanie Andujar ý09 was interviewed by Thriveglobal.com as a part of their series about rising music stars. Sheýs an actress and producer based in New York City.
Olufunto Boroffice ý09 was profiled in The Nation, a Nigerian online publication in the Fast-Track Entrepreneurship section celebrating companies that have been thriving despite the pandemic. She is the founder of Chanja Datti, a waste collection and recycling social enterprise company based in Abuja.
Christina Tan ý09 was featured in The Suffolk Journal as president of the Interior Design Collective that has been offering internships to Suffolk University graduate students despite the pandemic.
2010s
Candice Brown-Saunders ý10 has been promoted to director of family court and mentoring services, Bronx and Manhattan, for the Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services, a non-governmental organization in New York.
Jessica Cardichon, JD, ý10 was appointed to serve as deputy assistant secretary, Office of Planning, Evaluation, and Policy Development of the U.S. Department of Education. Most recently, she directed the Washington, DC, office and federal policy arm of the Learning Policy Institute.
Zenon Christodoulou ý10 became trustee of Raritan Valley Community College in Branchburg, NJ. He is a New Jersey entrepreneur and also serves on the NJ Department of Homeland Securityýs Advisory Council.
Osas Ighodaro ý11 was featured in a publication on Thenet.ng, a website dedicated to the entertainment business in Nigeria that had a look at her successful career as an actress and TV host.
Whitney Macdonald ý11 joined Visit Napa Valley (Napa, CA) in the newly created position of senior manager. Previously she was hospitality manager at Stony Hill Vineyards overseeing immersive events and growing wine club membership.
Jeffrey Chua ý12 was promoted to Principal with Golden Gate Ventures, a Singapore-based early-stage fund. He has been with the firm for five years.

Maral Javadifar ý12, assistant strength and conditioning coach for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, was featured in an NBC article on women coaching in the NFL playoffs.
Henry Gordon, JD, ý13 was named in the list of 40 Under 40 in Wealth Management of American Bankers Association. He is vice president and trust real estate manager for First Horizon Bank in Memphis, TN.
Jesse James Keitel ý15 was interview by NBC on their groundbreaking role in the ABC drama Big Sky.
Jennifer Pacheco, JD, ý15 was promoted to senior staff attorney at New York Legal Assistance Group. She was also celebrated as a 2019 Advocate of New York City by NYC Mayorýs Office to End Domestic and Gender-Based Violence.
Opal Vadhan ý15 was named a personal aide to Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris. She previously served as executive assistant to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton.
Ana Bolivar ý16 received an award from ASPIRA of New York, an organization dedicated to the development of Latino youth, for her service within the Latino community at the organizationýs 2021 Virtual Circle of Achievers Gala. She is project manager at Con Edison in upstate New York.
Lauren Enea, JD, ý16, Westchester County elder law attorney, was honored by the Westchester County Bar Association with the Outstanding New Lawyer Award. She is associate at Enea, Scanlan & Sirignano LLP in White Plains and Somers, NY.
Philip Scheinfeld ý16 was named among 20 Entrepreneurs in 2020 by Healthtechnologynet.com. He is a partner with Compass Real Estate, based in New York, NY.
Vincent Valerio, JD, ý16 was featured by SI Live in an article about his unexpected career turn from lawyer to a professional gamer. He is Staten Island, NY, resident.
Sheila Arjomandi, JD, ý17 was appointed associate attorney in the commercial real estate department at Romer Debbas LLP, a New York-based law firm. Prior to joining the firm, she was in-house counsel for a real estate company.
Leigh Anne Clevenger, DPS, ý17 was named director of OpenStandards at Silicon Integration Initiative (Si2), a research and development joint venture focused on software interoperability and located in Austin, TX. Sheýs been with the company since 2018.
Lydia Rainey ý18 joined Wesley Clark and Peshkin in Rochester, NY as Associate Attorney.
2020s
Matt Carino ý20 was featured in Montclair Local News that tells about his passion for lighting decoration to an extent where his parents' house in Montclair, NJ, was declared local sightseeing in the Christmas season.
Michael Sandstrom ý20, a teacher at Chadron High School in Chadron, NE, was named one of only 15 educators who will create a valuable new classroom resource. These student guides will be the newest addition to the wealth of materials provided by the Library of Congress Teaching with Primary Sources (TPS) Consortium for educators in the United States and around the world.