IN FOCUS Before coming to New Orleans to pursue his MBA at the Freeman School, Vignesh Krishnan (MBA ’10) spent three years working as an engineer with Dell Perot Systems. The company was anything but a startup, but Krishnan says the experience helped lay the...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT David Olk (BSM ’98) In 2011, David Olk teamed up with Jason Richelson to raise $2 million to build a company with the goal of taking small businesses where they’d never gone before: the cloud. As co-owner of a specialty grocery store and wine shop in...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Jim Burke (A&S ’91, MBA ’91) A scholarship made Tulane University possible for Baton Rouge native Jim Burke. That generosity — from someone he didn’t even know — transformed his life and ultimately led him to create the same opportunity for future...
ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT Steve Jarmel (BSM ’93) and John Findlay (BSM ’07) For Freeman alumni Steve Jarmel and John Findlay, the decision to strike out on their own in private equity presented an opportunity to not only generate superior returns but also to build a company...
1970s Ralph Brennan (A&S ’73, MBA ’75) has been elected the 21st chairman of the board of the Culinary Institute of America. Brennan is owner and operator of the Ralph Brennan Restaurant Group, which includes Red Fish Grill, Ralph’s on the Park, Café NOMA, Ralph...
Herbert Barton (BBA ’43) Marion Zevely Mason (BBA ’44) Thomas Carey Wicker Jr. (BBA ’44, L ’49, L ’69) Charles Leverich Eshleman Jr. (BBA ’45) August Joseph Selzer ( ’45) Norman James Haupt (BBA ’46) Kenneth G. Blackwell Sr. (BBA ’47, MBA ’48) Val D. Hickman (BBA ’47)...
