Alumni News and Recognitions
Check out some of the great things our Saunders alumni are doing around the globe. Submit your latest career move or latest achievement to communications@saunders.rit.edu.
August 2024
Kwong Voon (James) Wong ’23 (EMBA), will co-teach an international finance class in the Saunders Online Executive MBA program in fall 2024. He is the Director of Global NEMA Product Management for Pfannenberg USA.
Patrick Shoemay ’21 (finance, and management and information systems) recently donated bone marrow to help save the life of a teen with leukemia. Patrick joined the Gift of Life Marrow Registry while a student at RIT.
Zachary White ’17 (management information systems and marketing) was interviewed for an episode of the podcast CareerTea with Sohrab Memar. White spoke about his studies at Saunders; his co-op and internship experience; his career trajectory at Amazon, EY, and Highspot; and his summiting of Mt. Everest in 2022.
Robert D Allen ’16 (MBA) has published a novel, Kolnari Prologue, a science fiction adventure featuring two stranded Klingon anthropologists.
Jyothi Bhavani Bachu ’24 (MBA) has begun a product management internship role with GE Vernova.
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