Reunion 2025 Highlights

We welcomed nearly 1,000 Yale SOM alumni and guests to campus for Reunion Weekend 2025, celebrating 11 SOM classes who graduated between 1980 and 2024. SOM’s leadership, faculty, staff and the Alumni Relations team hosted dozens of receptions, tours, class sessions, dinners, and faculty sessions.

Thank you to our distinguished faculty for sharing your perspectives on the global trends shaping the future including:

• Heidi Brooks, Senior Lecturer in Organizational Behavior | IGB and IPD: A Powerful SOM Tradition of Learning Through Here and Now Experience

• James Choi, Professor of Finance | Personal Finance Mistakes You’re Probably Making

• Todd Cort, Senior Lecturer in Sustainability; Faculty Director of Sustainability Program, MBA for Executives; Faculty Co-Director, Yale Center for Business and the Environment | The Climate Ledger: How the Finance Industry will Weather a 2°C+ World

• Marc Freedman ’84, Lecturer in the Practice of Management and Faculty Director of the Executive Education Yale Experienced Leaders Initiative | The Multigenerational Moment: How the Generations Can Come Together to Solve Problems, Forge Bonds, and Find Deep Joy

• Jon Iwata, Lecturer in the Practice of Management & Practice Leader, Yale Program on Stakeholder Innovation and Management | The State of AI — Opportunities, Risks, and Responsible Innovation

• Fiona Scott Morton, Theodore Nierenberg Professor of Economics | Do We Have a Competition Problem in the United States? Prospects for Antitrust Enforcement of Digital Platforms

• Jeffrey Sonnenfeld, Senior Associate Dean for Leadership Studies & Lester Crown Professor in the Practice of Management | The Changing Paths for Business Leaders Navigating a Volatile Political Minefield Domestically and Globally

• Art Swersey, Professor Emeritus of Operations Research | My 42 Years Teaching at Yale: Classroom Highlights and Insights from Quantitative Models

• A. J. Wasserstein, Eugene F. Williams, Jr., Senior Lecturer in the Practice of Management | Exploring Entrepreneurship Through Acquisition — The Alternative Entrepreneurial Pathway

Reunion Outreach & Planning Committee Members

We would like to extend a sincere thank you to the SOM alumni who partnered with SOM Alumni Relations as Reunion Outreach & Planning Committee members for 2025, across each class. Your partnership, commitment to SOM, and connection to your classmates is essential to ensuring our reunion programming captures the hearts and minds of our alumni.

We are grateful to every member of this year’s committee members including:

• Class of 1980 alumni Cindy Albert Link, Mel Blake, Betsy Eismeier, Suzanne Francis, Tom Gage, Laurie Levitt Goodman, Steve Harty, Jim Levitt, Ed Moss, Bill Pace, David Patch, Matt Riklin, Rosemary Ripley, and Toddy Turrentine.
• Class of 1985 alumna Sandra Turner Bond.
• Class of 1990 alumni Laura Barriere, and Paul Gallagher.
• Class of 1995 alumni Michael Blum, Jay Erb, and John Putrino.
• Class of 2000 alumni Christine Bader, Susan Estes, Charles Inkeles, Tina Kao Mylon, John Merrill, and Randy Schieber.
• Class of 2005 alumni Colleen Curry, Charlie Gaetjens, Drew Haluska, Jenny Malseed, Gautam Nangia, Melissa Niu, Danielle Novak, Sean Olesen, James Parmiter, Mark Ribeiro, Pranjal Shukla, and Oscar Wilhelm.
• Class of 2010 alumni Tracey Chow, Michaela Daniel, Randi Hissom, and Sara Maffey.
• Class of 2015 alumni Igor Barros, Sagar Chhabria, Margaret Farquharson, Disha Patel, Jennifer Peterson, and Fiona Zhu.
• Class of 2020 alumni Sara Ackermann, Katherine Cattanach, Priya Dhaka, Amanda Hatheway, Lulu Lira, and Yaowen Yap.
• Class of 2024 alumni MiChaela Barker, Cinthya Garibay, Erin Manning, Padma Nayak, Joao Rocha, Nancy Song, and Michelle Xu.
• EMBA Class of 2024 alumni Diana Ge, Abhinav Jain, Karen Orjuela, Abbie Riley, and Lindsay Schindler.
• EMBA Class of 2010, 2015, 2020 alumni Catherine Everett, Raj Gorla, Sandee Couch, Daniel Galeon, and Ashley Lorenz

Reunion Giving Co-Chairs & Committee Members

We would like to extend a sincere thank you to the SOM alumni who partnered with SOM Development as our 2025 Reunion Giving co-chairs and committee members. Your commitment to SOM and connection to your classmates is the driving force behind the generous class gifts to the Yale SOM Alumni Fund. These investments have an immediate impact on the school’s ability to advance cutting-edge faculty research, expand SOM’s scholarships, and accelerate the school’s priorities and mission to educate leaders for business and society.

We are grateful to every member of this year’s Reunion Giving Committee across classes including:

• Class of 1980 co-chairs Suzanne Francis, Jim Levitt, Cindy Albert Link, and Ed Moss, and committee members Mel Blake, Betsy Eismeier, Tom Gage, Laurie Levitt Goodman, Steve Harty, Bill Pace, David Patch, Rosemary Ripley, Matt Riklin, and Toddy Turrentine.

• Class of 1985 co-chairs John Conley, and Daniel Weiss, and committee members Danguole Spakevicius Altman, Sandra Turner Bond, Steve Chapman, Jonathan Mason, David Paltiel, Debby Satten.

• Class of 1990 co-chairs Lauren Blum, Richard Freedman, Steve Knight, and Julien Mininberg, and committee members Denny Brennan, and Hiroshi Jinno.

• Class of 1995 co-chairs Jeff Feldman, Seth Goldman, Arthur Mizne, and Andy Pfaff, and committee members Flora Donovan, Harlan Eplan, Jay Erb, Margaret Jones Fraser, Ilter Karakullukcu, Rob Novick, and John Putrino.

• Class of 2000 co-chairs Becky Vitas Schamis, and Rick Schaupp, and committee members Giovanna Ban, John Carron, Ricardo Cervera, Heather Coughlin, Chris Hanrahan, Jon Kim, Annachiara Marcandalli, Chris Oliver, Dylan Simonds, and Karen Tsay.

• Class of 2005 co-chairs Kyle Jones Baker, Eric Bass, Michael Blue, Brendan Kennedy, and Julia Travers Rickert, and committee members Kayode Aje, Kavitha Bindra, Laura Vickers Chittick, and Kate Huntington.

• Class of 2010 co-chairs Maggie Chen, Brian McCurdy, and JF Thye, and committee members Julie Chen, Jessamine Fitzpatrick, Bill Ford, Jason Grimm, Leandro Javier Margulis, Sarah Smith, and Selina Xing.

• Class of 2015 co-chairs Joe Bonanni, Meaghan McGrath, Anne-Claire Roesch, and Thomas Selby, and committee members James Di Bartolo, Ben Freedman, Peter Grunert, Xulin Guo, Ria Harracksingh, Christina Mainero, Yong Shuai, Alexandra Tennant, and Ashlee Tran.

• Class of 2020 co-chairs Reeve Harde, James LaVela, and Rachel Lefsky, and committee members Sara Ackermann, Elizabeth Davidson, Yuwa Ikhinmwin, and Bill Quirk.

The Yale SOM Alumni Relations team is incredibly grateful to the hundreds of SOM staff, across departments, who partnered with us to welcome our alumni to Evans Hall and the broader Yale campus during reunion weekend. A special thank you to our colleagues in facilities, hospitality, campus security, IT, and media services. We could not have done it without you!