{"id":12607,"date":"2011-06-30T15:38:41","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:38:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=12607"},"modified":"2011-06-30T15:38:41","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T19:38:41","slug":"alumni-notes-june-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2011\/06\/alumni-notes-june-2011\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Notes: June 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Opper (MS \u201983), CPA and managing member of Levie-Opper, LLC, was interviewed by Belkys Perez on <em>Coral Gables Now<\/em>. His topic was<em> <\/em>\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=6XwLP6FcBPc\" target=\"_blank\">How a Small Business Can Create Value<\/a>.<em>\u201d <\/em>The interview begins at 14:21 and ends at 18:44.<\/p>\n<p>Bank United has named Mary Harris (BBA \u201984) senior vice president, director of marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Martin Cerda (BBA \u201986), who founded and led the award-winning Hispanic research firm Encuesta Inc., has become strategic director in the quantitative\/business consulting hub at Cheskin Added Value, part of the Kantar (WPP) group of companies. In an interview in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.portada-online.com\/article.aspx?aid=8176\" target=\"_blank\">Portada<\/a>, he talks about the research industry, the company he founded and his new role at Cheskin Added Value.<\/p>\n<p>Voices for Children Foundation has named Vivian C. Lara (BBA \u201994) to its board of directors.<\/p>\n<p>Frank Gonzalez (BBA \u201990) principal in the audit department of Morrison, Brown, Argiz &amp; Farra, LLC, recently was appointed president of the South Florida Banking Institute for the 2011-2012 fiscal year.<\/p>\n<p>Jorge Flores (MACC \u201998) recently was hired by Ocean Bank as a vice president and audit manager in the internal audit division. He had been working as an independent banking advisor as a consultant.<\/p>\n<p>Monique Renee Catoggio (EMBA \u201903), director of advancement and alumni relations in FIU\u2019s business school, presented \u201cCreate Your Life, Instead of Having Your Life Create You\u201d at an event sponsored by the Women\u2019s Healthcare Executive Network on May 4, 2011. As an adjunct guest lecturer, Catoggio delivers the presentation to students in both the Executive MBA and Healthcare MBA programs in FIU\u2019s Chapman Graduate School.<\/p>\n<p>Olga Rojas (BBA \u201905) was promoted in February 2011 to assistant vice president and SBA operations officer at TotalBank.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Opper (MS \u201983), CPA and managing member of Levie-Opper, LLC, was interviewed by Belkys Perez on Coral Gables Now. His topic was \u201cHow a Small Business Can Create Value.\u201d The interview begins at 14:21 and ends at 18:44. Bank United has named Mary Harris (BBA \u201984) senior vice president, director of marketing. Martin Cerda [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12607"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12607\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12607"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12607"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12607"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}