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David McDaniel '84
David McDaniel is the principal of Integra Land Company and brings with him over 23 years of land development and construction business experience. This experience and working knowledge benefits Integra and its partners wherever specialty development opportunities are sought.He graduated in 1984 with a B.A. in Economics and Political Science from Duke University. In 1985, McDaniel was a Financial Analyst for Security Pacific Mortgage Corporation in Denver. McDaniel was soon hired by Linpro, a real estate development company headquartered in Philadelphia, with offices in Denver, as a Commercial Leasing Agent.
Prior to forming Integra Land Company, he was a Partner and the Director of Development for Contravest, a multifamily development and construction company located in Lake Mary, Florida, and President and Qualifier of the ContraVest construction entities.
David McDaniel began his career with ContraVest in Tucson, Arizona in 1986 as a Construction Superintendent. He advanced quickly and was soon named Vice President of Construction. In 1993, he was promoted to President of ContraVest’s newly developed Construction Company, a separate entity of the parent company. In 1997, McDaniel became a partner in ContraVest and its related corporations.
He is proud to call Longwood, FL home and has been living there with his wife Cristy and their 4 children, for the past 17 years. Contact David at dmcdaniel@integralandcompany.com
Tod Sawicki '82
Tod is a partner in the law firm of Alston & Bird in Atlanta, and works in the Securities Litigation Group. He is one of the group's specialists in the representation of broker-dealers, investment advisory firms, hedge funds and other financial services providers in litigation, arbitration and regulatory matters. He has successfully represented a number of companies, financial services firms, investment managers, executives and professionals in a wide range of litigation matters arising out of securities offerings, securities transactions, and claims of executive and professional liability in class actions, derivative actions and individual actions. In fact, Tod has substantial first-chair trial experience in civil and criminal actions, including eight jury trials and more than a dozen arbitrations involving claims with multimillion-dollar exposure. Moreover, Tod’s practice is truly national in scope. He has entered appearances as lead counsel in federal and state court actions and NASD/FINRA arbitrations in 21 different states. He can be reached at email TSAWICKI@ALSTON.COM or phone (404) 881-7639
Stuart G Nash '87
In April 2010, the Senate unanimously confirmed the nomination of Stuart Gordon Nash, of the District of Columbia, to be an Associate Judge of the Superior Court of the District of Columbia for the term of fifteen years.
Nash, 43, was the associate deputy attorney general and director of the Organized Crime Drug Enforcement Task Force Program at the U.S. Department of Justice. He served as an assistant U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia from 1997 to 2004 and spent three years at Williams & Connolly LLP. He is a graduate of Duke University and Harvard Law School and clerked for Judge Sam J. Ervin, chief judge of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, and Judge T. S. Ellis of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia.
He can be reached at email NASHES5@VERIZON.NET.
John Musolino '87
John recently joined HLB LLC in Chicago as the Chief Operating Officer. This is the same company that invented such products as the iRobot Roomba Robotic Vacuum.
John was a Principal of Avondale Capital Advisors, a consulting firm he founded that provided strategic and corporate finance advisory services to independent and private equity sponsored middle market businesses in a range of industries. Prior to Avondale, he was Senior Vice President of Strategy and Business Development at True North Communications, Inc, a $1.5 billion publicly traded marketing services holding company. While at True North, John led a number of internal growth and restructuring initiatives and held the lead advisory role on over twenty domestic and cross-border transactions.
He can be reached at email JMUSOLINO@HOTMAIL.COM.
Dr. Mark Asperheim '82
Mark is a Orthopaedics Surgeon with Orthopedic Associates of Michigan in Grand Rapids. He attended and graduated from the University of Wisconsin Medical School in Madison in 1987. He completed his internship and residency at Georgetown University in 1993. Mark has been in private practice since 1994. A native of Grand Rapids, Mark attended Brookfield Central High School where he graudated in 1978. He was an assistant clinical professor at Michigan State University's Department of Surgery in 1998. Mark also is president of Mad Caves Bird Games, a company that makes high quality wood board games, ColorKu, Tic-Tac-Ku and 22 Ku-Du. He can be reached at MIBONEDOC@AOL.COM or office (616) 459-7101.
Evan Unger '87
Evan Unger has 20 years experience driving organizational change initiatives both as an executive in the pharmaceutical and healthcare industries and as an external consultant. He has worked with clients in small organizations and in Fortune 100 companies domestically and across Western and Eastern Europe, the Pacific Rim and South America.
Evan served in several key leadership positions for Merck, a global pharmaceutical manufacturer. More recently, Evan served as Vice President of Leadership, Change & Development for Centura Health, Colorado's largest healthcare provider. He has been consulting with organizations since 1998. He specializes in systemic alignment of business strategy, infrastructure and organization culture to deliver breakthrough business performance. Evan's expertise includes business process redesign, cultural transformation, change strategy implementation, leadership development, team development and dynamic meeting facilitation_
Evan received his BS in Psychology and Economics from Duke University and MBA from the University of Michigan. Evan has learned General Electric's Workout methodology directly from Noel Tichy while applying his and other leading academics teachings to real world business initiatives.
His clients have included American Automobile Association, Catholic Health Initiatives, Covad Communications, Dow Chemical, ING, Merck, Merrill Lynch, Pinnacol Assurance, Shell, Prudential UK, Royal & SunAlliance, US Department of Education, US Fish & Wildlife Service and many others.
Jason M Mahler '87
Jason, located in Washington, DC, joined Oracle Corp as Vice President of Government Affairs effective Jan 2010. He served as chief of staff for Congresswoman Anna G. Eshoo (CA-14) from 2003 to the end of 2009.
Married to Kimber Colton, Jason has a law degree from UNC (1990) and Psychology degree from Duke. He can be reached at jason.mahler@oracle.com or phone (202) 686-1902.
Ralph Eads Appointed to Duke Board of Trustees
Ralph Eads, '81, was appointed to the Board of Trustees of Duke University on June 24, 2009.
Eads, 49, is vice chairman of Jefferies & Co., Inc., a U.S. investment bank, where he chairs the firm’s global energy section that advises on the sale and purchase of oil and gas assets. Eads also serves on the board of the American Clean Skies Foundation, a nonprofit charitable organization that provides information about environmental and energy issues.
Eads was the president of Randall & Dewey, which is the leading specialist investment bank in the oil and gas industry. The firm was acquired by Jefferies & Co. in 2005. Prior to joining Randall & Dewey in 2003, Eads was executive vice president of El Paso Corp., where he was responsible for its unregulated businesses.
Eads’ Duke service includes positions on the Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors, 2002-2006; the Trinity College Board of Visitors, 1996-2002; and the Terry Sanford Institute of Public Policy Board of Visitors, 1995-1998.
His civic activities include serving as chairman of Expectation Graduation, a program aimed at keeping young people in school that was started by Houston Mayor Bill White. Eads recently served as a trustee of St. George’s School in Newport, R.I., and has been active in the Nature Conservancy of Texas, the Houston Ballet, The Kinkaid School Foundation, and Small Steps.
Previously, he was managing director and head of the energy group at Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette. He has held senior positions at S.G. Warburg and Lehman Brothers. He is active in a number of educational organizations, serving on the boards of St. George’s School, the Kinkaid School Foundation, and Expectation Graduation, an outreach program to keep kids in school.
Eads is a native Houstonian who graduated from Duke with high honors in economics. He and his wife, Lisa, have five children. Their oldest child, David, is enrolled at Duke. Ralph can be reached at email RALPHEADS3@YAHOO.COM.
Andy Berndt, Managing Director, Creative Lab, Google
Andy Berndt, '89, and former co-president of Ogilvy & Mather in New York, departed the WPP Group agency in 2007 after eight years to head up a new global marketing unit at Google. The new unit is described as a lab focusing on “innovation” and dedicated to finding ways advertisers, agencies and entertainment companies can intersect.
Before his tenure at Ogilvy, Berndt helped create ads for Microsoft (NSDQ: MSFT) at Weiden & Kennedy. After that, he went to TBWA/Chiat/Day and was the account executive on Apple’s (NSDQ: AAPL) “Think Different” campaign.
—Adweek: Citing a Google representative, the new unit is called Google Creative Lab and Berndt will be its first managing director. As described in the Adweek article, Berndt will oversee the marketing of Google’s brand and services, and strike deals with agencies to use Google’s products as part of their campaigns.
—WSJ: Berndt’s hiring is likely to unnerve some on Madison Avenue, who may worry that Google intends to get into creative services (the task of designing ads), which is the ad industry’s bread and butter. A Google spokeswoman said the company was “not moving into the ad agency business” and wouldn’t work with marketers directly.
Court V Lorenzini '87
Lorenzini to Lead Biodiesel Startup
SEATTLE, WA (January 29, 2008) – DocuSign, the leading Web-based electronic signature service, today announced that co-founder and former Chief Executive Officer Court Lorenzini is leaving the company to become CEO and a co-founder of Seattle-based startup Rainier Energy Corporation. Lorenzini’s departure represents the conclusion of a planned transition of company leadership to Matthew J. Schiltz, who took over as President and CEO one year ago.
A locally known serial entrepreneur and startup specialist, Lorenzini played a critical role in developing, funding and commercializing DocuSign’s Web-based eSignature service.
Lorenzini founded DocuSign in 2003 together with Tom Gonser, who continues with the company as Vice President, Product Strategy. DocuSign has since gone on to help thousands of successful companies, including some of the world’s largest corporations, close deals in record time, improve profitability, streamline business processes, and increase customer satisfaction by using electronic signatures. DocuSign’s customers include two Fortune 10 companies, as well as Amica, Fidelity National Financial, Great Lakes Educational Services, Land America, Sony, Weyerhaeuser, Worldspan/Travelport and Yamaha, among other leading companies. DocuSign’s customers have successfully abandoned or greatly reduced their use of paper, printers, fax machines and overnight mail services by eliminating the need to collect wet-ink signatures.
At Rainier Energy, Lorenzini will be returning to his leadership roots and following a long-held passion to help society identify sustainable and renewable energy sources. The company, which plans to launch publicly in February, is developing solutions that will increase the profitability of existing agricultural companies by putting them into the biodiesel business. The new role will tap Lorenzini’s significant experience as a startup CEO as well as his education in mechanical engineering (Duke University) and manufacturing systems engineering (Stanford University).