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In March the FDIC announced that Joseph Jiampietro was appointed a senior advisor for markets to FDIC Chairman Sheila Bair. “In this new position Mr. Jiampietro will provide the chairman with policy and legal advice relating to complex financial transactions, bid structures and capital markets.” In announcing the position Chairman Bair said, “I believe that the FDIC will benefit greatly from Mr. Jiampietro’s extensive markets and transactional expertise.” Jiampietro previously served as managing director at J.P. Morgan in New York since 2007 and prior to that he was a managing director of UBS Investment Bank, where he was head of financial institution capital markets.
Drew Chagrin writes that he lives with his wife, Ségolène Finet, and three daughters just outside Paris in Saint-Germain-en-Laye after leaving the Bay Area in 2000. Since 2005 they have run a business devoted to the fashion needs of breastfeeding women, www.mamanana.com. He and his wife met thanks to a series of ’87 connections—she was in Danielle Declerq’s class in business school at Berkeley and Danielle introduced her to Amy Baker, who introduced her to Alex Cuthbert, who had them both over to dinner at his house one evening. Before Mamanana Chagrin spent a few years as a stay-at-home dad and part-time professor at some Paris-area schools (Sciences-Po and HEC) and before that he was a partner in a Bay Area law firm. He last saw Chris Marquardt when he passed through town a year or so ago. “There’s a Dartmouth community in France, but as far as I know we’re just two ’87s, Rodrigo Acosta and me. Rodrigo was recently elected to the city council of his town a few towns over.”
As the director of fellowships at the University of Rochester since 2000, Belinda Redden writes, “I have the privilege of working with academically outstanding college students, recruiting and shepherding them through the application process for prestigious, competitive awards.” She has been married for 10 years to Jeffrey Tucker, whom she met while in graduate school at Princeton, and they have a dynamic daughter, Elizabeth, who will soon be 3 years old. Her husband is a professor of English at the University of Rochester. She spent time with Todd Cranford ’85 and his family in the Washington, D.C., area in summer 2007 after attending a conference.
Michael Smithing writes, “After graduation I worked as a waiter in Hanover for six months to make $2,000, then I moved to Hungary to seek fame and fortune and avoid corporate recruiting. At the time I thought they spoke Russian everywhere in Eastern Europe, but in 1989 when the wall fell I figured out that I was wrong and so I learned Hungarian. For a while I led a Forrest Gump life—I was at Hungary’s last May Day parade, and I was in Berlin on the day the wall fell. Of course I had to go back through Checkpoint Charlie to get a stamp. After I got married in 1990 I ran a Hungarian software company in Texas, but then the recession hit, the company failed, and I ended up being a waiter again. While it was warmer in Austin, Texas, than in Hanover, I figured it might be a good idea to go back home, so we moved back to Budapest. Since then I’ve been working in commercial real estate for Colliers. I find Dilbert to be great inspiration for my current management job and Zippy to help me understand life. Yesterday it was snowing so I sent my staff a Pooh song (the more it snows, tiddley pom…). Managing a company is good practice for having kids—at home I only have three, but at work I have more than 40.”
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