MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston

Dave Harelick, MBA ’02
President

David B. Harelick, CFA is a Senior Vice President of Corporate Realty Investment Capital, LLC. Mr. Harelick is responsible for business, product, and strategic development including developing new transaction structures, launching new markets, and evaluating new acquisitions. Corporate Realty is a private equity fund investing in single-tenant net leased real estate.

Prior to joining Corporate Realty, Mr. Harelick was an associate in the Capital Markets Group of Lend Lease Real Estate Investments, where he focused on executing capital advisory engagements and mortgage financing. Before that, Mr. Harelick was a financial analyst for Wasserstein Perella & Co. (now Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein), a New York-based mergers & acquisitions boutique. In this capacity, Mr. Harelick was involved in a number of high profile transactions, including the mergers of Dean Witter with Morgan Stanley and Swiss Bank with Union Bank of Switzerland. Mr. Harelick also managed The Acqumen Group, LLC, where he consulted for Clark Realty Capital, LLC, Automatos, Inc., Technisys, S.A., College Coach, LLC and pi Technologies.

Mr. Harelick received his Bachelors of Science degree in Industrial Relations from Cornell University and a Masters of Business Administration from MIT Sloan School of Management. Mr. Harelick has been a director of the SACB since 2005 and currently serves as its president.

Jeremy Seidman, MBA ’03
Vice President; CFO Summit Co-Chair

Jeremy graduated from MIT Sloan in 2003 with a concentration in Financial Management, and was very active in alumni relations during his two years on campus. Most notably, Jeremy led the MIT Sloan Class Gift campaign that achieved over 80 percent participation and $230K pledged.

Since graduating, he has been influential on the Alumni Board with his planning and execution of the annual CIO Symposium and CFO Summit. Along with several of his MIT Sloan classmates, Jeremy is highly involved with the Boston Scholars Program, a non-profit dedicated to providing educational opportunity to disadvantaged Boston-area students through scholarships and student mentoring.

Jeremy also holds an undergraduate degree in Systems Engineering from the University of Pennsylvania, and currently works in the Private Client Services division of Credit Suisse where he advises high net worth families, executives and foundations on their personal financial situation.

Dave Magnoni, MBA ’99
Treasurer and President Emeritus

Dave started his career in the Navy, joining the nuclear-powered submarine force after graduation from the US Naval Academy. He served on the fast-attack ship USS Baltimore and led a shift of staff and students at a training reactor plant before leaving the service. After the military, Dave was a consultant at KPMG Peat Marwick's Federal Services Group before following his love of computer technology into an IT position at Polaroid corporation.

Dave attended the MIT Sloan from 1997-1999, actively participating in the entrepreneurial community and the MIT $50K Competition. Following MIT Sloan, Dave joined Intel in Oregon, where he managed the product marketing team in Intel's motherboard division. He and his family returned to the Boston area in 2002, where he works as Director of Claims Submissions for Athena Health, a rapidly growing electronic services provider to the health care industry.

Dave has a B.S. in Systems Engineering from the US Naval Academy, an M.S. in Computer Science from New York University and an M.B.A. from MIT Sloan.

Joanna Eldridge, SM ’93
Secretary

Joanna Eldridge runs the Global Human Resources Operations team at Akamai Technologies in Cambridge. In her role she focuses on HR Operational Excellence, Human Resources Technology and Global Workforce Planning.

Prior to joining Akamai, she was an HR Effectiveness and Technology consultant at Towers Perrin and she has also worked as the Manager of HR Technology for CDM. In these roles she designed HR processes selected, implemented and managed HR applications and developed comprehensive workforce metrics.

Joanna received her Master of Science degree from the MIT Sloan School of Management in 1993, where she was known by her classmates as “that woman from California with the little kid.” (That little kid, Julia, will be graduate from Bowdoin College in Maine in 2011.) At MIT Sloan, Joanna concentrated in Information Technology and Operations Management. Joanna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Information Systems from California State University, Los Angeles in 1989.

Board Members at Large

Lindsey Anderson, SM '79
Small Events Chair

Lindsey runs Puma's eCommerce operations and is responsible for driving more footwear and apparel sales through the online channel as well as managing the back end technology. Prior to Puma Lindsey did strategic planning at Sybase and was instrumental in the redesign of their eCommerce site.

Lindsey also founded the catalog company, CareerTAPES Enterprises. He started the company with the idea of recording business books on to audiocassettes for executives to listen to while they commute. Then he added training videos on Microsoft Word, Adobe Photoshop, and many other software applications as and business topics. CareerTAPES eventually had over 700 titles that were sold and rented through the mail. The audio books, including Confessions of an Advertising Man and The Concept of Corporate Strategy, are still available on Amazon.com.

After graduating from MIT Sloan, Lindsey was a senior member of the management team that turned around the soft contact lens business at American Optical, leading to its acquisition by Ciba Vision Care. Lindsey worked in Labor Relations at CBS after graduating from the School of Industrial and Labor relations at Cornell University. He also worked in project management on the Minuteman Missile Program.

Sean Brown, SM ’94
Leadership Committee Chair; Club Technology Co-Chair; Career Development Series Co-Chair

Audrey Daum, SM ’88
Financial Planning Interest Chair

Audrey Daum is Vice President and Financial Advisor in the Wellesley office of Merrill Lynch where she works with individual affluent clients and small to mid-size business owners.

Upon graduating from MIT Sloan School of Management in 1988, Audrey joined the Corporate Finance division of Citicorp, headquartered in New York, where she completed extensive credit training and remained in various capacities for 8 years. As a Vice President in Corporate Finance, her responsibilities included structuring various bank loan transactions, which included primary responsibility for Donald Trump's bank group (64 banks) which had invested in a number of substantial loan transactions. Audrey remained responsible for the Trump transactions for 5 years throughout Trump's restructuring and later transferred into institutional fixed income sales. In 1996, she joined Merrill Lynch as a Senior Manager in its Private Client headquarters headquartered in Princeton, New Jersey, responsible for a major business technology initiative.

Audrey relocated to the Boston area in April 1998 due to a medical emergency in her family. Merrill Lynch provided her with support in her transfer back to the area.

Audrey holds an MBA from Sloan School of Management in Finance and Corporate Strategy and spent two years at Harvard Graduate School as a Special Graduate Student. She also holds a BSBA from Northeastern University. Audrey's thesis work at MIT Sloan (1988) was on “Developments in the High Yield Bond Market” and was completed with Professor Franco Modigliani. Audrey served as Treasurer (and Past President) of the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston and has served as Co-Chair of the MIT Enterprise Forum Membership Committee.

Katie Manty, SM/MOT ’02
Marketing Interest Chair

Katie Manty graduated from MIT Sloan's Management of Technology Master's degree program in 2002. Katie is currently a Directory, Web Sales and Service, at Fidelity Investments. She is managing technology projects to enhance the online customer experience. She works with both business and technology partners to understand and translate business requirements.

Prior to Fidelity Investments, she spend more than 11 years in consulting with 9 of those years at Capgemini (formerly Ernst & Young). While at Capgemini, Katie gained a vast array of project management experience working for several Fortune 500 clients. She started as a systems programmer, then moved into managing technical teams, and after business school, managed a variety of consulting engagements in the strategic IT-initiative space, such as budget-cutting for CIOs, setting up PMOs, and piloting new technologies for business opportunity. Katie worked for two smaller IT consulting firms; one in the search engine optimization and marketing strategy space and another focused on commercial real estate applications.

Katie earned her initial IT experience working in the IT departments of Texaco and Air Products & Chemicals. Katie earned a Bachelor's degree from Smith College with a double major in Computer Science and Economics.

For fun, Katie enjoys meeting Sloanies, traveling, reading fiction, swimming, organizing events, visiting historical landmarks and taking long walks. Katie enjoys experiencing different cultures. She has lived in Germany, Pennsylvania, Belgium, California, Virginia and Massachusetts.

Jack McCullough, MBA ’97
CFO Summit Co-Chair

Jack holds an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management, where he studied entrepreneurship and finance. Since graduating from MIT Sloan, he has served as an advisory board member of the school's New Product and Venture Development track, and is a co-founder of the MIT Entrepreneurship Society, an organization formed to establish an entrepreneurial support networking between MIT students and alumni. He has lectured MBA candidates at Harvard Business School and the MIT Sloan School of Management on raising venture capital. He is a past treasurer of the MIT Sloan Alumni Club of Boston, and has served as the chair for the annual MIT CFO Summit.

Jack presently works as the business development officer for the CCR Group, the largest independent CPA and business advisory firm in New England. He was previously employed by AccountAbility Outsourcing as the Vice President of Business Development. Under Jack's leadership, AccountAbility Outsourcing was recognized as one of the fastest growing private companies in the country. Prior to his career in business development, he worked as a permanent or interim Chief Financial officer for several early stage companies.. He is well-regarded amongst entrepreneurs and venture capitalists, and has raised over $200 million in private equity from several investors. A certified public accountant, Jack spent several years at the multi-national accounting firm KPMG Peat Marwick, where his client base consisted largely of early-stage technology companies. He has been described as a friend to humanity, an intellectual giant, and a surprisingly good dancer for a big man. He lives in North Andover with his wife Beyonce and his sons Devon and Hunter.

Christopher Reichert, SM/MOT ’04
Club Technology Co-Chair; CIO Symposium Executive Chair

Christopher Reichert is an independent business strategy consultant, with an emphasis on leveraging technology for competitive advantage. He received his Masters from MIT's Sloan School of Management in 2004, followed by a Masters from the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard in 2005.

Following graduation, and during his year at KSG, Christopher was a member of the Sloan Fellows Board of Governors, and played an active role in the process of integrating two graduate level programs at the MIT Sloan. Prior to attending MIT Christopher started his own information technology company M-TEC which provided IT integration services to small-to-medium enterprises, in Sydney, Australia. He lived in Australia from 1989 until 2003.  He is currently working on a complete redesign of the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library online presence.

Outside of work, Christopher sang in the Sydney Philharmonia Choirs, Australia's largest choir organization. He was an active member of their Board of Directors during the critical period when the choir performed in the 2000 Sydney Olympics and toured the UK, performing at the BBC Proms in London. Throughout this period he was chair of their first-ever fundraising committee.

Dr. Graham Rong, SF/MBA ’06
CIO Symposium Co-Chair

Dr. Rong has been a leader in product innovation and corporate development. He has extensive experience in IT leadership, business strategy and collaborative research in North America, Asia and Europe. He is currently leading the development of a novel system for financial information and social analytics.

With excellent balance of business acumen and technical aptitude, Graham has proven leadership skills in key senior roles with Vignette Corporation and Harte-Hanks. He was on the faculty in JiangNan University and held an EU research fellowship in University of Edinburgh.

As an Alfred P. Sloan Fellow in MIT Sloan School of Management, Graham focused on corporate strategy, innovation leadership and global development. Graham lectures in Harvard, MIT and overseas. He is on the board of multiple organizations and also on the organizing committee of multiple international conferences.

Graham holds an MBA from Massachusetts Institute of Technology and PhD from University of Guelph, Canada.

Rebecca Schechter, SM ’96
Club Sponsorship Chair; Career Development Series Co-Chair

Rebecca graduated from MIT Sloan in 1996. She is currently the SVP of Product Development and Strategy for Global Link, part of the electronic trading arm of State Street Global Markets. Prior to that, she ran Product Operations at Thomson Financial after being a consultant for McKinsey in Zurich and in Boston. She holds an undergraduate degree from McGill University in Montreal, Canada. Rebecca grew up in France, is married to a fellow Sloanie, Alain Eudaric, and lives in Needham.

Other Committee Heads

Ishan Bhaumi, MBA'08 - Networking Co-Chair

Dee Magnoni - Membership Chair

Marissa Martinez, SM/MOT ’02 - Career Development Series Co-Chair

Arlene Sargent, MBA ’08 - Networking Co-Chair

Tanya Shnaydman - Biotechnology Industry Chair