52 Notable alumni of
Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
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Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus is 897th in the world, 328th in North America, and 306th in the United States by aggregated alumni prominence. Below is the list of 52 notable alumni from Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus sorted by their wiki pages popularity. The directory includes famous graduates and former students along with research and academic staff.
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Peggy Noonan
- Occupations
- journalistwriter
- Biography
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Margaret Ellen "Peggy" Noonan is a weekly columnist for The Wall Street Journal and contributor to NBC News and ABC News. She was a primary speechwriter and Special Assistant to President Ronald Reagan from 1984 to 1986 and has been right-leaning in her writings since leaving the Reagan administration. Five of Noonan's books have been New York Times bestsellers. Noonan was nominated for an Emmy Award for her work on America: A Tribute to Heroes.
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Zygi Wilf
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts in economics
- Occupations
- lawyerentrepreneur
- Biography
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Zygmunt "Zygi" Wilf is an American billionaire businessman and real estate developer. He is the chairman and co-owner of the NFL's Minnesota Vikings and the majority owner of Major League Soccer's Orlando City SC.
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John Gottman
- Occupations
- university teacherwriterpsychotherapistpsychologist
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John Mordecai Gottman is an American psychologist and professor emeritus of psychology at the University of Washington. His research focuses on divorce prediction and marital stability through relationship analyses. Gottman's work is centered on the field of relationship counseling: enhanced relationship functioning and mitigation of behaviors detrimental to human relationships. Gottman's work has also contributed to the development of important concepts on social sequence analysis.
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Jeff Van Drew
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Jefferson H. Van Drew is an American politician serving as the U.S. representative for New Jersey's 2nd congressional district since 2019. Formerly a Democrat, he has been a member of the Republican Party since 2020.
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John Legere
- Years
- 1958-.. (age 67)
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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John Legere is an American businessman, former chief executive officer (CEO) and president of T-Mobile US. He previously worked for AT&T, Dell, and Global Crossing. He resigned as CEO following the approval of the merger of T-Mobile and Sprint.
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Alejandro Bedoya
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Alejandro Bedoya is an American professional soccer player who plays as a midfielder for the Philadelphia Union of Major League Soccer, and serves as their captain.
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Christine O'Donnell
- Occupations
- writerjournalistpolitician
- Biography
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Christine Therese O'Donnell is an American conservative activist in the Tea Party movement best known for her 2010 campaign for the United States Senate seat from Delaware vacated by Joe Biden.
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Lisa Blunt Rochester
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- 1982-1985 graduated with Bachelor of Arts in international relations
- Occupations
- politiciancongressional staff
- Biography
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Lisa LaTrelle Blunt Rochester is an American politician serving since 2025 as the junior United States senator from Delaware. From 2017 to 2025, she served as the U.S. representative for Delaware's at-large congressional district. A member of the Democratic Party, she is the first woman and first African American to represent Delaware in both chambers of Congress.
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Seth Greenberg
- Occupations
- basketball coachbasketball player
- Biography
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Seth Vincent Greenberg is an American college basketball broadcaster who works as an analyst for ESPN.
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D. C. Fontana
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- Graduated with associate degree
- Occupations
- screenwriterstory editorwriterscience fiction writer
- Biography
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Dorothy Catherine Fontana was an American television script writer and story editor, best known for her work on the original Star Trek series.
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Ben Weinman
- Occupations
- guitaristrecord producer
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Benjamin A. Weinman is an American musician, most notable for being the lead guitarist and primary songwriter of the mathcore band the Dillinger Escape Plan (DEP). He is the founder and sole constant member of the DEP, he is currently playing rhythm guitar with the crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies and lead guitar in the progressive rock supergroup Giraffe Tongue Orchestra.
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Reinaldo Marcus Green
- Occupations
- film produceractorscreenwriterfilm directorfilm screenwriter
- Biography
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Reinaldo Marcus Green is an American director, producer and writer. His films include Monsters and Men (2018), Joe Bell (2020), and Bob Marley: One Love (2024). His 2021 film, King Richard, was nominated for Best Picture at the 94th Academy Awards.
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Richard Codey
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- Graduated with bachelor's degree in education
- Occupations
- politicianfuneral director
- Biography
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Richard James Codey is an American politician who served as the 53rd governor of New Jersey from 2004 to 2006. A member of the Democratic Party, he served in the New Jersey Senate from 1982 to 2024 and as the President of the Senate from 2002 to 2010. He represented the 27th Legislative District, which covered the western portions of Essex County and the southeastern portion of Morris County.
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Darren Young
- Occupations
- actorprofessional wrestler
- Biography
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Frederick Douglas Rosser III is an American professional wrestler and trainer. He is signed to New Japan Pro-Wrestling (NJPW), where he is a trainer at the NJPW Academy and a former Strong Openweight Champion. He is best known for his time with WWE under the ring name Darren Young.
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Tom Marino
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- In 1988 graduated with Juris Doctor
- Occupations
- lawyerpolitician
- Biography
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Thomas Anthony Marino is an American politician and attorney, who served as a United States Representative from Pennsylvania from 2011 to 2019. He represented the 10th congressional district from January 3, 2011 to January 3, 2019, and the 12th district from January 3 to January 23, 2019, when he resigned to work in the private sector. A member of the Republican Party, Marino was the United States Attorney for the United States District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania in his early career.
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Vito Russo
- Occupations
- film directoractorscreenwriterfilm historianwriter
- Biography
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Vito Russo was an American LGBT activist, film historian, and author. He is best remembered as the author of the book The Celluloid Closet (1981, revised edition 1987), described in The New York Times as "an essential reference book" on homosexuality in the US film industry. In 1985, he co-founded the Gay and Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation (GLAAD), a media watchdog organization that strives to end anti-LGBT rhetoric, and advocates for LGBT inclusion in popular media.
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Michael C. Stenger
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- Graduated with Bachelor of Arts
- Occupations
- law enforcement officer
- Biography
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Michael Conrad Stenger was an American law enforcement officer who served as the 41st Sergeant at Arms of the United States Senate from April 16, 2018, to January 7, 2021.
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Gregory Olsen
- Occupations
- engineerastronautentrepreneurprivate space traveler
- Biography
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Gregory Hammond Olsen is an American entrepreneur, engineer and scientist who, in October 2005, became the third private citizen to make a self-funded trip to the International Space Station with the company Space Adventures.
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Katlyn Chookagian
- Occupations
- karatekamixed martial arts fighterBrazilian jiu-jitsu practitionerkickboxer
- Biography
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Katlyn Cerminara is an American professional mixed martial artist. She formerly competed in the Bantamweight division and currently competes in the women's Flyweight division of the Ultimate Fighting Championship (UFC).
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Majid Ghassemi
- Occupations
- managerbankereconomist
- Biography
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Majid Ghassemi is an Iranian banker, business magnate, and investor. Ghassemi originally established his reputation as the governor of Central Bank of the Islamic Republic of Iran, from 1986 to 1989.
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Ron Blomberg
- Occupations
- baseball player
- Biography
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Ronald Mark Blomberg, nicknamed "Boomer", is an American former professional baseball player and minor league manager. He played in Major League Baseball as a designated hitter, first baseman, and right fielder. He played for the New York Yankees (1969, 1971–1976) and Chicago White Sox (1978), and was the manager of the Bet Shemesh Blue Sox in the Israel Baseball League (2007). He was the first designated hitter in Major League Baseball history. He batted left-handed, and threw right-handed.
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Bobby Dyer
- Years
- 1950-.. (age 75)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Robert M. Dyer is an American politician serving as the mayor of Virginia Beach, Virginia since 2018. A Republican, he served as a member of the city council for 14 years prior to his election as mayor. Dyer has also been a physical therapist for over 40 years and a professor of government at his alma mater, Regent University. He won the November 2018 election for mayor despite being outraised by his opponent Ben Davenport nearly 5 to 1.
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Steve Lonegan
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Steven Mark Lonegan is an American businessman and politician who served as mayor of Bogota, New Jersey, from 1996 to 2007. He was also the Republican Party's nominee in the 2013 Special Senate election in New Jersey, which he lost to Cory Booker.
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Loretta Weinberg
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- Graduated with Master in Public Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Loretta Weinberg is an American Democratic Party politician, who served as a member of the New Jersey Senate from 2005-2022, where she represented the 37th Legislative District. She also served as Senate Majority Leader. Weinberg served in the General Assembly before being selected to replace retiring Senator Byron Baer.
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Vince Naimoli
- Occupations
- businessperson
- Biography
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Vincent Joseph Naimoli was an American businessman, and the first owner of the Major League Baseball team the Tampa Bay Devil Rays.
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Mensun Bound
- Years
- 1953-.. (age 72)
- Occupations
- anthropologistarchaeologist
- Biography
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Mensun Bound is a British maritime archaeologist born in Stanley, Falkland Islands. He is best known as director of exploration for two expeditions to the Weddell Sea which led to the rediscovery of the Endurance, in which Sir Ernest Shackleton and a crew of 27 men sailed for the Antarctic on the 1914–1917 Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. The ship sank after being crushed by the ice on 21 November 1915. It was rediscovered by the Endurance22 expedition on 5 March 2022.
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Marques Townes
- Occupations
- basketball player
- Biography
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Marques Townes is a Dominican-American basketball player. He played college basketball for the Loyola Ramblers, after beginning his career with Fairleigh Dickinson.
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Andrea Crosariol
- Occupations
- basketball playerbasketball coach
- Biography
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Andrea Crosariol is a former Italian professional basketball player and who last played for Pistoia Basket of the Italian Lega Basket Serie A (LBA). At 211 cm (6 ft 11 in), he plays the center position. In the years 2003–2006 he played for the Fairleigh Dickinson University in the NCAA's Northeast Conference.
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Tomer Chencinski
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Tomer Chencinski is an Israeli-Canadian soccer player who plays the position of goalkeeper. He played college soccer at Robert Morris University, where in 2004 he ranked 16th in the nation in saves per game, and at Fairleigh Dickinson University. He most recently played for Irish club Shamrock Rovers. He also played one match for the Canada men's national soccer team.
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Garry Kitchen
- Occupations
- engineerprogrammer
- Biography
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Garry Kitchen is a video game designer, programmer, and executive best known for his work at Activision during the early years of the company's history. He has developed games for the Atari 2600, Commodore 64, Nintendo Entertainment System, and Super Nintendo Entertainment System, as well as co-founded Absolute Entertainment with ex-Activision developers. His port of Donkey Kong for the Atari 2600 was a major hit for Coleco, selling over 4 million copies. His other 2600 work includes Keystone Kapers and Pressure Cooker for Activision and Space Jockey for U.S. Games. He also wrote Garry Kitchen's GameMaker and The Designer's Pencil for the Commodore 64.
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Desi Wilson
- Occupations
- basketball playerbaseball player
- Biography
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Desi Bernard Wilson is an American former professional baseball player. He played part of one season in Major League Baseball for the San Francisco Giants in 1996, primarily as a first baseman. He also played one season in Japan with the Hanshin Tigers in 1998. He is currently the hitting coach of the Iowa Cubs, an affiliate of the Chicago Cubs.
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Jedh Colby Barker
- Occupations
- military personnel
- Biography
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Jedh Colby Barker was a United States Marine Corps Lance Corporal who posthumously received the Medal of Honor for heroism during the Vietnam War in September 1967.
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Shavonda E. Sumter
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- Graduated with Master of Business Administration
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Shavonda E. Sumter is an American Democratic Party politician who has represented the 35th Legislative District in the New Jersey General Assembly since taking office in January 2012.
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Eric Jackson
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Eric Jackson was the 48th mayor of Trenton, the capital of New Jersey, having assumed office on July 1, 2014 for a four-year term. In January 2018 he announced he would not seek re-election.
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John Kefalas
- Occupations
- politicianlobbyist
- Biography
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John Michael Kefalas is a politician in the U.S. state of Colorado. An educator and lobbyist before first running for the legislature in 2004, Kefalas defeated a Republican incumbent to win election to the Colorado House of Representatives as a Democrat in 2006. Kefalas won election to the State Senate in 2012 and represented Senate District 14 until early 2019. In 2018, Kefalas ran for and won a seat on the Larimer County Board of County Commissioners. He resigned his Senate seat, and a vacancy committee nominated Joann Ginal to replace him.
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John W. Douglass
- Biography
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John Wade Douglass is a retired Brigadier General, United States Air Force. He served as the United States Navy's Assistant Secretary of the Navy (Research, Development and Acquisitions) from 1995 to 1998. In 2012, Douglass ran for election to the United States House of Representatives for Virginia's 5th congressional district as a Democrat, losing to incumbent congressman Robert Hurt.
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Janeen Uzzell
- Born in
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United States - Occupations
- engineer
- Biography
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Janeen Uzzell is an American global technology executive and CEO of the National Society of Black Engineers.
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Gilbert M. Gaul
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- journalist
- Biography
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Gilbert Martin Gaul is an American journalist. He has won two Pulitzer Prizes and been a finalist for four others.
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Jim Boyd
- Occupations
- journalistactor
- Biography
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Jim Boyd was a weekend, early morning and midday news anchor and reporter for WCVB-TV. He is currently working as an actor in major motion pictures and television productions.
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Clifford Meth
- Occupations
- comics critic
- Biography
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Clifford Meth is an American writer, editor, and publisher best known for his dark fiction, as well as his publishing imprint Aardwolf Publishing. He has said that his work is often "self consciously Jewish."
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Nader Sayegh
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Nader J. Sayegh is a Jordanian-American politician, attorney, and educator from the state of New York. A Democrat, Sayegh has represented the 90th district of the New York State Assembly, based in Yonkers, since 2019.
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Harold C. Hollenbeck
- Occupations
- judgepoliticianlawyer
- Biography
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Harold Capistran Hollenbeck is an American lawyer and Republican Party politician who represented New Jersey's 9th congressional district in the United States House of Representatives for three terms from 1977 to 1983.
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Mark A. Meyer
- Occupations
- economist
- Biography
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Mark A. Meyer is the founder and President of the Romanian-American Chamber of Commerce (1990) and the Moldovan-American Chamber of Commerce (1993). In recognition of his contributions to the business relations and cultural understanding between these respective nations and the United States, he was awarded Romania's National Order of Merit in the rank of Commander in 2004, and Moldova's highest civilian decoration, the Medal of Civic Merit, in 2006. He is a practicing attorney and an adjunct professor of law at St. John's University School of Law among other positions.
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Mary Pat Angelini
- Years
- 1954-.. (age 71)
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Mary Pat Angelini is an American Republican Party politician who served in the New Jersey General Assembly for the 11th legislative district from 2008 to 2016.
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Gale D. Candaras
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Gale D. Candaras was a Democratic member of the Massachusetts Senate from 2006 to 2014, representing the First Hampden and Hampshire District. She is an attorney and a former five-term member of the Massachusetts House of Representatives, where she served as a Division Leader.
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Howard M. Guttman
- Years
- 1951-.. (age 74)
- Occupations
- business consultant
- Biography
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Howard M. Guttman is an American management consultant and founder of Guttman Development Strategies, a consulting firm. Guttman is best known for his theories on corporate organizational hierarchies, positing that the traditional, top-down model of management is less effective than the horizontal, high-performance organization, where decisions are made by cross-functional teams with equal authority.
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Bob Schmetterer
- Occupations
- chief operating officerbusiness executive
- Biography
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Bob Schmetterer is an American business executive and author. He is past chairman and CEO of Euro RSCG Worldwide and past president and COO of communications group Havas.
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Jennifer Graylock
- Occupations
- photographerfashion photographerphotojournalistjournalist
- Biography
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Jennifer Graylock is an American fashion and entertainment photographer. Her work has been published in Vogue, Glamour, Us Weekly, People, TV Guide, and InStyle. In 2017, she won the Timothy White Award for Photography at the Hollywood Beauty Awards.
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Julia Ralph Scott
- Occupations
- association football player
- Biography
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Julia Ralph Scott is a Scottish female international football midfielder. She currently plays for Scottish Women's championship team Inverness Caledonian Thistle Women, having previously played in the FA WSL for Doncaster Rovers Belles. Ralph Scott made her senior Scotland debut in 2000 and made 14 appearances for the national team.
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Lily Albino Akol Akol
- Years
- 20th Century
- Occupations
- politician
- Biography
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Her Excellency Lily Albino Akol Akol is a South Sudanese politician who holds the constitutional post of National Deputy Minister of Information and Communication. She also serves as a Member of the South Sudan National Dialogue Steering Committee. She is the director of communication for the South Sudan Women empowerment network, and is an assistant professor at the University of Juba and serving as the director of International Cooperation, Communication and Alumni Affairs, as well as a lecturer in the College of Arts and Humanities / Department of Mass Communication.
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Mel Schrieberg
- Biography
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Melvin Schrieberg was an American businessman, best known for co-founding Election.com, where he acted as the project manager for the first major political election ever run over the internet, the Arizona Democratic Primary of 2000, won by Al Gore. He later served as acting Chief Executive Officer of SpiralFrog, one of the first ad-supported free music services during 2007-2008.
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Barry Stevens
- Enrolled in Fairleigh Dickinson University - Metropolitan Campus
- In 1972 graduated with Bachelor of Science
- Occupations
- entrepreneurscientistwriter
- Biography
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Barry Stevens is an American technology business developer, scientist, author, speaker and entrepreneur in technology-driven enterprises; Founder of TBD America Inc., a technology business development group (1997).
