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DAVID FREITAS
Life has been tumultuous since David graduated from IR/PS. He married Miyoko Koike, class of '96, worked for Solar Turbines in San Diego for eight years, enrolled in law school and graduated in 2003. He now puts his experience living and working in Japan to use by working as an attorney for Caterpillar in Chicago. If you are ever vacationing in the Midwest—or just stuck at O'Hare—contact David and Miyoko and join them in their endless search for a satisfying sushi restaurant in the Midwest.
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LISA FREEDMAN
After graduation, Lisa worked for Hewlett-Packard in Santa Rosa for six years. She aided the company first as a senior financial analyst and then as a marketing communications manager with the wireless test equipment division. In 2003, Lisa got her real estate license. To this day, she continues her career as a realtor in a part-time partnership with her mother while simultaneously working as a marketing consultant for Agilent. Lisa has two sons with her husband, Gregg: Larkin Josef, born in 2003; and Kelsey Clement, in 2006. She looks forward to catching up with everyone in the fall.
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LIVE LEER
Since graduating from IR/PS, Live has made a series of successful career jumps. She started at Apple Computer, then turned to a Norwegian advertising agency. She now finds herself happily settled with Opera Software ASA in Oslo, Norway. She served on Opera’s company board for two years as an employee representative, and loves how the position allowed her to work for such an internationally diverse organization on a personal level. In 2002, Live met her teenage sweetheart, Egil, again after many years. They wed in 2003 and now have two children. Live’s daughter, Iben, is two years old. Her son, Jorgen, was born just a month ago. Live is currently enjoying one of Norway’s greatest benefits: 9 months of paid parental leave.
Live regretfully cannot attend the reunion this year, but definitely hopes to attend the next one.
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JULIE (GARFINKLE) MANEVITZ
After Julie graduated from IR/PS, she worked for Edison International in Los Angeles for two years, spent a year in Israel, and moved back to the states for a business consultant position at Lucent in NYC. Currently she works at a hedge fund as VP of sales specializing in distressed debt. Julie lives in New Jersey with her husband Ben, and has two kids, Leah and Aryeh. She would love to hear from fellow classmates who might be passing through NYC on business.
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GARY KLUGMAN
Since Gary graduated from IR/PS, he has taken up residence in Tokyo as a senior strategic planner at an advertising agency, Grey Worldwide. He got married in 2000 to his wife, Keiko, had his first child, Joshua, in 2003, and welcomed his second son, Aiden, in 2007. He has plans for heading back to the United States in the next couple of years, but nothing has been made official yet.
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MARCY (HONNOLD) MORRISON
After graduating from IR/PS, Marcy married Rob, spent a couple years working at Qualcomm in marketing, and later decided that the high-tech world wasn’t where she was meant to be. She transitioned to the interpersonal side of business, chose to work at the Institute of the Americas where she could get the satisfaction of working closely with corporate members and sponsoring sales. Most recently, Marcy has launched two online businesses: marcymorrison.com, where she works with students and mothers to develop students’ career strategies, and businesswithwings.com, where she lists her business consulting services. She hopes to provide easily accessible online guidance for people wishing to find solutions to poverty, while simultaneously working from home and spending time with her two children, Cameron and Logan.
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JEFF RECTOR
After graduation, Jeff moved to Tokyo and worked for Bechtel until 2000. At Bechtel, he was a business development manager for large civil infrastructure projects and was also responsible for Japanese and U.S. government relations in Tokyo. In 2001, Jeff returned to the United States with his wife, Kaori, and worked for Hewlett Packard for a year and a half before attending Stanford Law School. Upon graduating and passing the bar, he moved back to Japan so he could work for a New York-headquartered law firm in Tokyo. He now puts his IR/PS education to good use by counseling primarily Japanese lenders to, and investors in, large energy and infrastructure projects. Jeff has one daughter, Mélissa, and lives with his family in Kamakura, an hour from Tokyo.
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WENDY RIMER
After graduating, Wendy worked for the World Bank out of Washington, D.C. for eight years, aided contractors to the U.S. Agency for International Development, and initiated an import business called Women’s World Market to support women micro-entrepreneurs and promote fair trade. Wendy later joined KPMG and now works as a global grants program manager in San Francisco. This year Wendy is celebrating her one-year wedding anniversary with her husband, Mike Dougherty. They met in Washington, D.C. in 2003, and have been enjoying the California weather since their move and engagement in 2005.
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MAX SOTO
After graduation Max did a short stint with an investment bank in NYC, worked as a project manager for a major restaurant development, and later decided to open a Mexican restaurant of his own in Danville, CA. He ran the restaurant for five years until another business opportunity grabbed his interest: event planning. He now does event planning in Los Angeles, specifically for fundraising events and party coordination at the Playboy Mansion. Max is engaged to be married and is expecting a baby girl this July.
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