Alumni in the News

December 2021: Top 25 headlines

In this month’s top headlines, Eva Berneke is named CEO of Eutelsat; Sandra Dembeck will join Zalando as CFO; Renato Andrade and Guilherme Nosralla’s startup Merama hits unicorn status; Dominic Barton is named Chairman of Rio Tinto; Chee Ping Yap joins HSBC as global head of investor services; and more

3 alumni receive titles in Queen's New Year Honours List: Kate Grussing (LON, NYO 91-97), Emily Lawson (LON, LOX 98-13), and Nigel Wilson (LON 83-86) (read more

Renato Andrade (SPO 16-21) and Guilherme Nosralla’s (SPO 10-19) startup Merama hits unicorn status less than a year after creation (read more

Dominic Barton (LON, LOX, MEL, SEO, SHA, SHH, TOR 86-19) named Chairman of Rio Tinto, effective May 5 (read more

Eva Berneke (COP, PAR 93-07) named CEO of Eutelsat (read more

Ellen Bracquiné (BRU 07-20) publishes new book, "Wildfire" (read more

Reggie Chambers (NYO 14-17) named CFO and Head of Strategy of Commercial Banking at JPMorgan Chase (read more

Ian Davis (LOK, LON, LOX, NYO 79-16) joins Board of Xlinks (read more

Francesco De Ferrari (MIL 96-99) joins Executive Board of Credit Suisse as CEO, Wealth Management (read more

Sandra Dembeck (HKO, MUN 99-05, 09-09) to join Zalando as CFO (read more

Sastry Durvasula (current Firm member) to join TIAA in February as Chief Information and Client Services Officer (read more

Dominic Engels (BOS, SFO 99-99, 00-00, 01-04) named CEO of Revolution Foods (read more

Karen Gordon (NYO 85-91) publishes new book, "The Last Letter: A Father’s Struggle, a Daughter’s Quest, and the Long Shadow of the Holocaust" (read more

Cécile Guillou (PAR 05-09) awarded Prix de la Femme d'Influence Economique ("Prize for Woman of Influence in Economics") (read more – in French) 

Alasdair Hamblin (LON, LOX 03-11) promoted to Chief Strategy and Customer Experience Officer at Brambles

Ruedi Kubat (NYO, ZRH 97-02) named CEO of Allianz Suisse (read more – in German) 

René Kuijten's (AMS 92-94, 94-01) venture firm LSP acquired by EQT (read more

Paul Mango (PIT 88-91, 96-17) publishes new book, "Warp Speed: Inside the Operation That Beat COVID, the Critics, and the Odds" (read more

Tobias Meyer (FRA, SIN 01-13) to succeed Frank Appel (FRA 93-00) as CEO of Deutsche Post DHL Group, effective 2023 (read more

Felipe Navio Garcia's (MAD 05-05, 06-08) startup JobandTalent raises $500 million in Series E funding round (read more

Atish Nigam (NYB 04-07) joins Blackstone as Chief Investment Officer, Blackstone Alternative Asset Management's special situations investment business (read more

Amit Paley (NYO 11-17), CEO of The Trevor Project, named NonProfitPro's Nonprofit Professional of the Year (read more

Jaime Ramirez (NYO 05-10) appointed General Manager of Falabella.com for Latin America (read more – in Spanish) 

Thomas Schmidt's (COP, LAN, SAG, SAN 91-20) company 21st.BIO receives EUR 86 million in investment from Novo Holdings (read more – in Spanish) 

Atul Varadhachary's (HOU 94-01) startup Brevitest Technologies covered in Houston Chronicle for its point-of-care COVID-19 quantitative antibody test (read more

Siddharth Vohra (MEL 11-12) appointed a Public Member of the Australian Press Council (read more

Chee Ping Yap (BEI, HKO 03-05) joins HSBC as global head of investor services product, markets and securities services (read more

Obituaries

Bob Holland (AMS, CLE, NYO 68-81) dies at 81 (read more

Matt Luban (HOU 94-01) dies at 46 (read more

Paul Risher (NYO 65-69) dies at 86 (read more