Class Notes

Yanzhe Zhu, EN14, is a postdoctoral scholar at the California Institute of Technology.

Reginald Nkansah, LA14, is in residency in integrated vascular surgery at the University of Washington.

Rachel (Smidt) Bridges, SW14, and Michael Bridges were married in a small ceremony in Overland Park, Kan., in January 2020. The couple lives in Arlington, Va.

Paul Tychsen, UC13, PMBA21, was promoted to vice president at ButcherJoseph & Co., a St. Louis–based investment banking firm. Tychsen plays an active role in the firm’s transaction management and executions efforts, advising middle-market companies on mergers and acquisitions and capital raising, as well as handling strategic advisory assignments.

Stella Kamm, LA13, LW16, and Kyle Christopher Mallinak were married July 25, 2020. Both are practicing attorneys in Nashville, Tenn.

Kyungbong Jung, GB13, is a senior manager at Woori Bank’s Dubai branch, where he works in the trade finance and syndication loan area.

Brooke Husic, LA13, and Sid Sivakumar, a graduate research assistant at WashU, had a crossword puzzle published in The New York Times on Saturday, Aug. 8, 2020.

Jessica Goldberg, LA13, and Louis Ernst, EN13, who met during the second day of orientation at WashU, moved their wedding date from 2020 to August 2021 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. After graduating from WashU, both went on to earn a master’s degree from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Goldberg is a product marketing manager at Microsoft, and Ernst is a corporate strategy manager at Life Fitness.

Sam Franklin, LA13, was named 2020 Seattle District Young Entrepreneur of the Year by the U.S. Small Business Administration. Franklin founded Greenvelope.com, a paperless stationery company, out of his dorm room at WashU. The company — offering custom-animated digital wedding invitations, birthday and holiday cards, and invitations — grew from a one-person startup to employ a full-time staff of 14 and now serves 5,000 business clients in 35 countries.

Jay E. Evans, LA13, is a tax associate in the New York City office of Debevoise & Plimpton.