{"id":4022,"date":"2007-05-01T11:14:09","date_gmt":"2007-05-01T15:14:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/?p=4022"},"modified":"2014-11-14T16:03:26","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T21:03:26","slug":"affinity-alumni-groups-gather-for-networking-at-exclusive-havana-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/2007\/05\/affinity-alumni-groups-gather-for-networking-at-exclusive-havana-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Affinity Alumni groups gather for networking at exclusive Havana Club."},"content":{"rendered":"<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"310\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/business.fiu.edu\/newsletters\/BusinessNetworks\/2007\/05\/images\/USCBFIUMixer.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"350\" height=\"233\" \/><br \/>\n<em>From  left:\u00a0 Representing U.S. Century Bank, <strong>Dante Salas, Josue Rios, Karla Perenzuela,  Ruth J\u00edmenez<\/strong>, and <strong>Frank Fernandez<\/strong>; Business Alumni Chapter President <strong>Manny  Matal\u00f3n<\/strong>, and <strong>Larissa Ramos<\/strong>, director  of development, FIU Honors College<\/em><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>More than 100 alumni from the business, real estate, law, and Honors College chapters gathered on March 27, 2007, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at the exclusive Havana Club for a Networking Happy Hour where drinks and hors d\u2019oeuvres were graciously provided by U.S. Century Bank and the Havana Club.\u00a0 Raffle prizes were donated by U.S. Century Bank and Florida International University\u2019s (FIU) Alumni Association.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe venue&#8217;s panoramic views coupled with its Miami flair made it the perfect place for our alumni to make friends and engage in business conversations,\u201d said <strong>George  Corton<\/strong>, director of development for the College of Law.  \u201cIt set the tone for many more events to come.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Larissa Ramos<\/strong>, director of development for the Honors College, said, \u201cOur collaboration represents an effective and productive model for alumni relations partnerships among the university\u2019s schools and colleges.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Several alumni in attendance echoed that sentiment, and one mentioned that she appreciated the diversity of backgrounds of those present, which offered \u201can opportunity for an attorney to network with a real estate developer, a banker and an artist, all at once!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith so many wonderful events being offered in our beautiful city, it made sense to collaborate, share resources, and create a unique event that would truly offer spectacular networking,\u201d said <strong>Monique Catoggio <\/strong>(EMBA \u201903), director of alumni and partner relations in the college. \u201cI think we were successful, and we look forward to working more closely with the university&#8217;s many affinity groups and alumni chapters to organize meaningful events and programs in the future.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From left:\u00a0 Representing U.S. Century Bank, Dante Salas, Josue Rios, Karla Perenzuela, Ruth J\u00edmenez, and Frank Fernandez; Business Alumni Chapter President Manny Matal\u00f3n, and Larissa Ramos, director of development, FIU Honors College More than 100 alumni from the business, real estate, law, and Honors College chapters gathered on March 27, 2007, from 6:00-8:00 p.m. at [&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":[995],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022"}],"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=4022"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24277,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4022\/revisions\/24277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/biznews.fiu.edu\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}