{"id":151,"date":"2008-10-01T13:28:25","date_gmt":"2008-10-01T17:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=151"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:01:13","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:01:13","slug":"alumni-notes-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2008\/10\/alumni-notes-5\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni Notes"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li class=\"copy2\"><strong>Cecilia Duran Simmons<\/strong> (BBA \u201986) is practicing  commercial litigation at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff &amp;  Sitterson, P.A.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"copy2\"><strong>Jermaine A. Lee<\/strong> (BBA \u201996) has been added as an  associate to Bilzin, Sumberg, Baena, Price &amp; Axelrod. Previously, Lee was an  associate at Shook Hardy &amp; Bacon.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"copy2\"><strong>Micheal Houser<\/strong> (EMBA \u201998) is director of Studio  Initiatives Entertainment Imaging for Eastman Kodak Company. Houser has worked  for Kodak for eighteen years. A recent project included Kodak and Universal  Pictures partnering to promote <em>The Mummy: Tomb of the Dragon Emperor<\/em> at  the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Chicagoland Speedway on July 12, 2008.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"copy2\"><strong>Arturo Neto<\/strong> (MSF \u201998, BBA \u201993), CEO of Neto  Financial Group, Inc., has been selected by Goldline Research as one of \u201cThe  Most Dependable\u2122 Wealth Managers of The Southeast United States\u201d for 2008. The  list is published in the September 29, 2008 issue of <em>Forbes<\/em> magazine.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"copy2\"><strong>Zameer Upadhya<\/strong> (BACC \u201903), co-founder and CEO  of BabySpot, was featured in <em>Hispanic Entrepreneur<\/em> for the launch of  the beta version of BabySpot Latino, a social networking site for Latino parents  and their families. The company also debuted on the #1 Hispanic morning show,  Univision\u2019s <em>Despierta America<\/em> in September.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<ul>\n<li class=\"copy2\"><strong>Shirley Lowe<\/strong> (IMBA \u201906) has joined New England  Financial (NEF)-Miami. She founded the first women&#8217;s group at NEF-Miami, The  Women&#8217;s Financial Network. Lowe is a member of Women&#8217;s Movement Now (WMN) and  volunteers for Junior Achievement at Palmetto Senior High School, where she has  been teaching entrepreneurship and leadership to seniors since 2007.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cecilia Duran Simmons (BBA \u201986) is practicing commercial litigation at Stearns Weaver Miller Weissler Alhadeff &amp; Sitterson, P.A. Jermaine A. Lee (BBA \u201996) has been added as an associate to Bilzin, Sumberg, Baena, Price &amp; Axelrod. Previously, Lee was an associate at Shook Hardy &amp; Bacon. Micheal Houser (EMBA \u201998) is director of Studio Initiatives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[51,186,285,370,1887,2433],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151"}],"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\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=151"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24117,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/151\/revisions\/24117"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}