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Class notes 1981 Dragons. Jana is retired from General Motors. Ron Wharton business school to stephen Longo was recently profiled in works in management consulting. consulting and into executive Business Week in a story called ‘The hedge fund management at bloomberg hunger Games.’ longo won a recent investment Grace Lieblein, head of General Motors brazil in Manhattan. his speech competition. “for longo, 54, winning is more operations, was recently appointed as the covered some of the short- surreal. The former General Motors engineer held company's global purchasing czar. and longer-term trends in both on to his early lead in the launch category, giving “old” and “new” (i.e., Digital) the paper trader $1 million in real capital to raymond Bierzynski was appointed executive media, and was exceptionally well received by invest,” the story said. vice president of saIC-GM-Wuling, GM China's the hbs alums. manufacturing joint venture with saIC and 1982 Wuling Motors. Chris was reconnected to Paul after many years scott Gray was recently named a program in a true “small world” story. While visiting Dale manager at automotive Industry action 1984 Lammers in shanghai, Dale mentioned Paul’s Group. Gray has also worked for eaton Corp., Jacqueline a. Dedo, chief strategy officer new role at bloomberg to Chris, which led to freudenberg-noK General Partnership, borg- for Dana holding Corp. and a member of the the invitation to have Paul speak at the 2012 Warner automotive, Medeco security locks, Kettering board of Trustees, kickoff “President’s breakfast Club” event of the aVeX electronics, Motorola and General Motors' was elected chair of the harvard business school in Philadelphia, which buick Motor Division. board of directors of Chris chairs for the club. Dale and Chris were the original equipment able to find each other half way around the world 1983 suppliers association because of a posting that Dale made on facebook Jana Groom waters ’83 of (oesa) for the 2012-2013 relating a vacation made to Vietnam, where Chris Goodrich and ron rath ’91 term. had been traveling on business. Chris and Dale of swartz Creek, chatted conversed a few times, and were able to meet in with Kettering’s bob Chris Moye (left, in photo) and Paul Bascobert shanghai where Dale and his wife Kim live. nichols Jan. 5 during the ‘87 (right, in photo), lambda Chi alpha brothers, 2013 fIRsT Robotics kickoff met at the Union league of Philadelphia on Jerry slusiewicz, President and Portfolio event in McKinnon Theater. oct. 5, 2012. Paul joined the harvard business Manager of Pacific financial Planners llC., was Waters came to support her son, Jack, a junior school Club of Philadelphia to share his stories recently elected as a member of the laguna at Goodrich high school and a member of Team from his career and current opportunities and niguel, Calif, City Council. long active in his 70, the Goodrich Martians. Ron’s son, alex, challenges at bloomberg, where he is Coo, and community he is honored by his new part-time is a senior at Genesee Christian high school President of BusinessWeek. Paul’s speech covered job. In addition to a 25-year career managing and a member of Team 1243, the swartz Creek his path from electrical engineering at Tech to money, he hosts his own daily drive time investment radio program, “Your Money Talks,” heard throughout southern California (and online alum Helping improve surgical Devices at financialnewsandtalk.com). he is a frequent blogger on his website and spent two years har Puskala ’01 was the project manager for a team that penning a daily column for thestreet.com. he has Sdeveloped disposable laparoscopic scissors that are compatible lived in laguna niguel for the past 14 years with with a newly launched take-apart instrument line at Carefusion. his wife Vicki and two children, sierra (14) and Puskala, a Mechanical engineering graduate, is employed by Jaden (12). Carefusion in Chicago designing medical equipment. Carefusion 1985 is headquartered in san Diego and operates in more than 150 Trustee walter Borst is on the inaugural countries around the world, including a large presence in northern Chicago where Puskala is based. and elite listing of The Power 100 by aiCIo magazine – the “world’s most The disposable laparoscopic scissors are currently in a limited powerful asset owners.” market release. “We have released the scissors to a limited number borst has served for 2 of surgeons, so they can use the product and provide feedback 1/2 years as Ceo/CIo, prior to full market release,” said Puskala. General Motors asset Management in new “While testing the device in simulated situations takes us far, there may be tweaks that York City. borst is no. 67. are required when the product is tested in a real setting by surgeons in an operating room environment,” she explained. “so our company chooses to perform limited market releases Mary Barra, senior vice president of global on certain products to ensure we have met the end-customers’ requirements.” Puskala product development at General Motors, was said that if the surgical tests go well, Carefusion will fully release the product. the recipient of the sae foundation’s Industry Read more: https://www.kettering.edu/news/engineering- leadership award for her work supporting science, technology, engineering and math improvements-surgeons (sTeM) education. 32 Kettering Ma g azine