May MAC Alumni Newsletter continued....

We are starting to plan for some of our fall MAC activities, such as Tour of Cities and Meet the Firms.  The first stop on the Summer 2007 MAC Tour of Cities is Greensboro, NC, and we will be visiting on Wednesday, June 20th.  In addition to the meet the firms activities that day, we will be hosting an alumni social from 5:30 pm – 7:30 pm that evening.  If you are located in the Greensboro area, we would love to see you!  We will be at Natty Green’s Pub & Brewing Company  at 345 South Elm Street in Greensboro.  Complimentary hors d’oeuvres and soft drinks will by served, and a cash bar will be available.  Dress is business or business casual attire.  Please click here to RSVP or contact Andrea at andrea_young@ncsu.edu or 919-515-1007 by June 6th if you are interested in attending.  Also watch future letters for information about other Tour of Cities dates!

During the next few months, we may be hiring someone for limited periods of time to assist with special projects and event planning, just like Christine Barcay assisted with the details for the Accounting Banquet last fall.  If any of you are interested in working part-time for special projects to help promote the MAC Program, please let us know.

Our featured alumni of the month is Grant Johnston, MAC Class of 2003:

Grant is one of the members of our NC State MAC Alumni Board.  A native of Raleigh, NC, he received BAs in Spanish and Business Administration at NC State. During his extended time as a Wolfpacker, he was a member of the Men's Swim Team (Team Captain his senior year) and spent a semester abroad at La Universidad Ortega y Gassett in Toledo, Spain.

After graduation, Grant worked for Wachovia Bank for 5 years as a retail branch banking manager and small business lender in Winston-Salem and the RTP. He received a Masters in International Business from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in 2002, which included 3 month study abroad in Mexico followed by 6 months working as an internal auditor for TRW, Inc in Latin America, Europe and Asia.

Grant received a MAC from NC State in 2003 and was hired into GE Commercial

Finance's Risk Management Leadership Program for two years. Currently, he is a Risk Manager with GE Healthcare Financial Services specializing in asset based and cash flow lending to healthcare companies. Grant currently resides in Washington DC.

Thank you to everyone who has submitted their contact information for our new alumni advisor network and directory.  This information will be added to our new database in the next few weeks and we hope to get it up and running on our website soon after.  If you still would like to be included in this directory, go to the alumni webpage:
(http://mgt.ncsu.edu/mac/alumni/mac_news.php) and click on the link for MAC Alumni Contact Information.  We hope this tool will be helpful to students and alumni in the future.

Andrea has also set up a job postings section on our alumni web site.  Please visit the webpage to see what postings have taken place over the past month or so.  We will be updating this site as soon as new postings come in, in addition to passing them on to you in our monthly newsletter!  Check it out with the link above!

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