Maine Business School

Student Profiles

2008 MBS Undergraduate and Graduate Student Awards

Award for Highest Ranking Senior by Major:

• Anh H. Do: Accounting & Finance
• Dianne R. Grade: International Business
• Heather S. Gray: Management
• Eric L. Chambers: Management Information Systems
• Daniel R. Arsenault: Marketing

Graduate Awards for Highest Ranking:

• Ana Zivanovic: Master of Business Administration
• Lewis A. Fletcher: Master of Science in Accounting

Other Student Awards:

• Anh H. Do: Chicago Board of Options Exchange Award for Excellence in the Study of Options
• Michael Boucouvalas: L.L. Bean Award for Outstanding Performance in Business Policy and Strategic Management
• Pamela S. Patterson: Wall Street Journal Award

Congratulations to our exceptional students!!

We also congratulate Professor Wendy Coons for her Excellence in Teaching Award and Mr. Richard (Dick) Gleason for his Achievement in Business Award!

Highlight on MBA 2001 Graduate Dedra DeLilli

I am currently working in New York City for Citigroup, specifically working in the Citi Cards Division. I am a Vice President Associate Program Manager in the Marketing Acquisitions group here at Citi. I enjoy my work here immensely and have some great UMaine MBA Professors to thank for preparing me for this challenging, but rewarding career. To give you a high-level overview my objective is to attract and acquire new, profitable customers to become Citi cardmembers through direct marketing, specifically direct mail. A great deal of my time is spent on developing marketing strategy in efforts to acquire customers in a most cost-effective, targeted manner. It's really a continuous learning curve here as we create, test, retest, and tweak our strategic marketing initiatives everyday. I'm happy to report that I really love my job and my company and hope to continue to grow and develop my career here for years to come.

Please let me know if there is anything that I could do to help promote the UMaine MBA Program and/or new graduates looking for some advice/job.

Thanks again,
Dedra M. DeLilli
Consumer Value & Growth Markets
VP Associate Program Manager,
Marketing Acquisitions

Business School Exchange Students Share Experiences Here and Overseas

Some of the best insights concerning international relations and the Maine Business School come from exchange students visiting here or enrolled here and visiting overseas. Tomohiro Shimoyama is an exchange student from Hirosaki University in Japan. He is impressed at how classes are conducted and the amount of homework at MBS.
Read more about the overseas exchange.

$PIFFY Students In Ohio

$PIFFY students Zack McGuir, Ben King, Joe Friesel, and Scott Reynolds visited with Bob Froehlich, Vice Chairman of Scudder Investments.  The $PIFFY students were participating in the RISE symposium held at the University of Dayton and were accompanied by Professor of Finance Robert Strong (not pictured).