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Alumni Spotlight: Christine Lee MPAc 16
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Alumni Spotlight: Christine Lee MPAc 16

Apercen Partners LLC

Christine Lee MPAc 16 shares why teamwork is one of the most important aspects of building a high-performance accounting firm—and how she honed her skills while a student in the Master of Professional Accountancy program. 

Lauren Davis Works and Plays Hard with Heart and Passion
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Lauren Davis Works and Plays Hard with Heart and Passion

Sports and Marketing Interests Lead to Internship at Adidas

Like a hard, game-winning spike that leaves a big impression, Lauren Davis has never forgotten the inspiring words of her junior high school club volleyball coach. “He said, ‘play with heart.’ Everything you do in life should be done with passion.”

Jenny Hebets Pursues Career in Supply Chain Sustainability
Jenny Hebets, MBA 16
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Jenny Hebets Pursues Career in Supply Chain Sustainability

Jenny Hebets MBA 16 discovered international development as a teenager, but didn’t know it yet. Hebets’ high school required her to volunteer. So for four years, she would truck down to the same community in Tijuana from her Southern California home

Jeff Ansley Builds a Soaring Solar Career
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Jeff Ansley Builds a Soaring Solar Career

Jeff Ansley embarked on his planet-saving career in 1993 in East Africa, where he installed remote photovoltaic systems and taught residents how to install and service solar equipment. Today he is president of Natron Resources Inc., a Moraga, Calif

Blazing New Trails in Brazil with Fabiana Alves
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Blazing New Trails in Brazil with Fabiana Alves

Assuring sustainability and financial health south of the equator

After a decade in Brazil’s food industry, agronomist Fabiana Alves and her husband, Andre Zeitlin, a veterinarian, were ready for new horizons. In 2004, Andre left his practice to enter the UC Davis MBA program, uprooting with Fabiana and their two young sons from São Paulo to Davis.

Alumni Spotlight: Benigno Salazar MBA 98
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Alumni Spotlight: Benigno Salazar MBA 98

Marketing Analytics Strategist, Rabobank

Now at Rabobank, Sacramento MBA alumnus shares about marketing analytics in the financial services industry, including his 12-years experience at Wells Fargo.

Now at Rabobank, alumnus Benigno Salazar MBA 98, shares about collaboration as a

Building Beautiful Algorithms for Walmart
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Building Beautiful Algorithms for Walmart

My journey with Engage3 led to a new role with Walmart

Earlier this month, I was offered an exciting opportunity to work as an advanced analytics specialist at Walmart eCommerce in San Francisco. Fresh from the Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) program, I’ll now have the opportunity to offer

Postcard from Switzerland: Future-proofing Logitech
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Postcard from Switzerland: Future-proofing Logitech

Teaming up with grad students in Zurich to keep Swiss tech firm on bleeding edge

UC Davis MBA students and grad students in Zurich strategize with their global partners at Logitech to keep the company on the forefront of digital innovation.

A world leader in consumer technology for digital experiences, Logitech has grown into a

Spotlight: Ted Reiterman MPAc 16
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Spotlight: Ted Reiterman MPAc 16

Audit and Assurance In Charge, Deloitte

Ted Reiterman MPAc 16, shares about collaboration in the accounting industry, the biggest challenges and his tips for new business students.

Alumni Spotlight: Michael Mayall MBA 17
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Alumni Spotlight: Michael Mayall MBA 17

Program Manager at Intel

Now thriving in supply chain management at Intel, alumnus Michael Mayall MBA 17 shares his thoughts on global collaboration and offers advice for new business students.

I'm a Program Manager at Intel. I focus on Strategic Supply Chain capabilities

5 Ways to Become a Design Thinker
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5 Ways to Become a Design Thinker

Human-centered design starts with empathy for yourself

IBM design thinker and Part-Time MBA student Justin Owens helps global Fortune 100 companies transform their businesses to meet customers’ needs.

Tiago Cavagnaro: From Chile to UC Davis
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Tiago Cavagnaro: From Chile to UC Davis

Entrepreneurship academy helps UC Davis alumnus reconnect and build his network

Graduate School of Management alumnus Tiago Cavagnaro MBA 10 returned to campus to attend the 2019 Food, Ag + Health Entrepreneurship Academy. While in Northern California he also met with other UC Davis alumni, angel investors and venture

Career-Switcher: MBA Student Meghan Laffin
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Career-Switcher: MBA Student Meghan Laffin

With the skills and knowledge she learned in the Sacramento Part-Time MBA, career-switcher Megan Laffin made the jump from the high-pressure CBS newsroom producer to her new business of buying, training and selling horses.

4 Questions with MSBA Alum Dane Hamlett
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4 Questions with MSBA Alum Dane Hamlett

We ask MSBA alumnus Dane Hamlett about work, school, tips for students and more.

"Storytelling is the most important skill."

I recently caught up with Dane Hamlett, a Master of Science in Business Analytics (MSBA) alumnus of the charter class in 2018 and a senior business analytics leader at Adobe.

His transition from a full

True Grit: New Passion Leads to Accounting Career
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True Grit: New Passion Leads to Accounting Career

"At 12, I declared I would one-day be an NCAA D1 swimmer"

As a child I was single minded. My parents often tell stories about my childhood, when I would make a “decision” to do something and would never back down. Fear or failure were not options. I attacked my goals and never backed down.

When I was

Michelle Leyden Li JD 93 MBA 95
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Michelle Leyden Li JD 93 MBA 95

2019 GSM Alumni Association Distinguished Achievement Award

A Silicon Valley semiconductor industry marketing executive for more than 20 years, Michelle Leyden Li JD 93 MBA 95 shares how her UC Davis MBA prepared her for a successful career at Intel, Qualcomm and GlobalFoundaries and the growth in tech

Louis Biggers MBA 08
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Louis Biggers MBA 08

Intel Corporation

Louis Biggers MBA 08 reflects on industry challenges and collaborative solutions. As a senior application engineer at Intel Corp., UC Davis MBA alumnus Biggers is helping the chip giant move into a data-centric world. He's working on enabling sensor

Alfonso Patiño Nava MPAc 13
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Alfonso Patiño Nava MPAc 13

Deloitte

Now thriving at Deloitte, Alfonso Patiño Nava, alumnus of our Master of Professional Accountancy program, shares the biggest challenges in the industry, his most valuable course at UC Davis and his advice for new business students.

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Student Entrepreneur Wins Startup Pitch Competition at National Conference
Professor Tony Simon launches tech startup with business student
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Student Entrepreneur Wins Startup Pitch Competition at National Conference

Sara Howard MBA 19 accelerating digital therapeutics startup

Digital therapeutics startup Cognivive, based on UC Davis research, is on a roll with seed funding.

Sara Howard MBA 19 recently won a national pitch competition with "digital medicines you want to take," the mission of a medtech startup she helps lead