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Eric Coonrod, BSBA ’03, a veteran and innovator of the investment banking industry, was appointed managing director and senior vice president of Iconic, where he will lead its sales efforts. Coonrod was managing partner and owner of Integral Capital Advisors, which was acquired by Iconic. In his new role, Coonrod will transition Integral’s growing mergers […]

Bill O’Neil, JD ’03, was named managing partner at Winston & Strawn’s Chicago office. He concentrates his practice on trial work and as a strategic adviser to some of the nation’s largest corporations and private equity funds.

Edward Carr, MBA ’03, wrote and self-published Time of Departure: A Time Travel Story (June 2024). In the book, Carr asks: What would happen if a modern jumbo jet and its passengers and crew mysteriously landed at the St. Louis airport in the days of propeller planes? How would the passengers adapt to a society […]

David Busby, MBA ’03, is a senior credit officer at Midland States Bank.

Karen L. Branding, MBA ’03, was named president and CEO of the Regional Business Council by its board of directors. Branding is a 13-year veteran of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, where she has served as senior vice president for external engagement and corporate communications. She is a member of the St. Louis Fed’s Management Committee. Before […]

Ashwin Unnikrishnan, LA03, was awarded an inaugural “Breakthrough Fellowship” by the Leukemia Foundation to support his lab’s research to develop more effective treatments for the blood disease. The valuable funds will help his lab pursue cutting-edge research for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) by targeting RNA slicing, a molecular pathway that Unnikrishnan’s lab has discovered is frequently […]

Jason Simon Sheinkopf, EN03, is completing a master’s degree in computer science at Georgia Tech with a specialization in machine learning.

Renée Robichaux, LA03, penned a debut novel, Agent Gatz: A Great Gatsby Prequel (Loredan Publishing, September 2023). In the book, which Goodreads called “amazing historical fiction,” a young Jay Gatsby finds himself working as a foreign spy. The unexpected appearance of a woman from his past, famed journalist Ella Kaye, soon complicates his mission. Robichaux […]

Lynne R. Perkins, LW03, was retained as associate circuit judge for the 22nd Judicial Circuit Court in the City of St. Louis by Missouri Gov. Mike Parson in November 2020. Perkins has served the associate circuit bench since October 2017. Since the start of 2023, he has been one of two associate judges assigned to […]

Kjell Erik Brekke, GR03, moved with his family in July from Nairobi, Kenya, to San Francisco to start a new diplomatic posting as a consul at the Norwegian Consulate General.