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Founder
Cascade Leadership
Fuqua gave me a lifelong network of supporters, not just a network of acquaintances. I am proud to take a stand for anyone of my classmates, and I trust that they would do the same for me. From this place, I am more able to take risks and make my highest and best contribution to my family, my team, and my community.
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Managing Director and General Manager
United Airlines Cobrand Cards at JP Morgan Chase
#TeamFuqua means that we are stronger together than we are individually, and that we can all learn something from one another, so let’s work together and collaborate.
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Executive Director
Orthopedic Surgery Center
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Service Line Vice President of Musculoskeletal and Spine Service
Duke University Health System
#TeamFuqua means that we are here for each other to support, encourage and promote our alumni and Fuqua overall. This mindset is the underpinning of Fuqua’s success and one of the things that I value most about my time at Fuqua and afterward. It’s what keeps me engaged and feeling so strongly about this community.
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CEO & Co-Founder
The Sylvia Brafman Mental Health Center
#TeamFuqua means taking a diverse set of skills, personalities, and experiences and combining them to yield synergies impacting the greater good. It’s sort of a magic formula that doesn’t always make sense rationally, but that we have empirical evidence works. It’s 1 + 1 = 3. It focuses not only on process or outcome but how we show up to life – in a way that is courageous and impactful.
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Managing Director
Ga^3In Ventures
#TeamFuqua, for me, means holding myself to the highest standards and fostering an environment that encourages others to do the same.
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Managing Director of Digital Insights and Risk Management
FTI Consulting, Inc.
"When I think about conveying “TeamFuqua” to people outside of our network, I immediately think about a tolerant and welcoming group committed to supporting the authentic pursuit of any number of societally and personally productive passions. Basically, we empower our own while positively contributing to the broader communities in which we operate."
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Chief Marketing Officer
Divert
#TeamFuqua means developing skills to accomplish your goals and dreams, collaborating with outstanding individuals, and forever friendships.
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Chief Marketing Officer
Crunchyroll
Team Fuqua means solving for the collective success versus yourself.
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Director of Market Strategy and Insights
McKesson Medical-Surgical
Team Fuqua means a loyal, collaborative, and supportive community that motivates you to grow professionally, inspires you to act with integrity, and empowers you to make a positive impact on the world.
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Senior Business Consultant
Neudesic LLC
Team Fuqua means support, collaboration, education, lasting friendships, and fun!
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Mergers and Acquisitions, Professional Coach, Entrepreneur, Investor, and Philanthropist
Equalize, Snack ‘n Fun, and Fun Media Designs
Team Fuqua means a family of brilliant individuals who come together collectively to make a monumental impact on society.
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Founder and CEO
Safewell Essentials
For me, Team Fuqua represents two things: invaluable resources and a forever like-minded professional community of members who are always there to support one another.
Hari Garhwal MBA '12
Co-founder
Garhwal, Chan & Williams
"I have a great sense of gratitude to Fuqua for the finest education in ethical leadership."
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Founder and CEO
Yitto Paws
"Now more than ever, we understand that teamwork has far greater potential to unlock transformational growth than authoritarian leadership styles. Fuqua has been ahead of the curve in terms of recognizing the power of teams, and I’m so thankful that Team Fuqua helped inspire my leadership style."
Dina Coker MBA '93
Keller Society Leadership Circle member and former Alumni Council member
Founder and CEO of AKCEL Partners & Founder and CEO of Blink LLC
"Supporting the Annual Fund is a gift in more ways than one. For me, it’s a personal ‘thank you’ to a community that made an enormous difference in my life. Fuqua helped to launch a career that I am proud of, refine leadership skills that I still rely on, and foster a love for innovation and curiosity that enriches both my professional and personal life to this day."
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Dating & Relationship Coach
From Casual to Serious
"Team Fuqua means family. Family all over the world doing incredible things to make it a better place."
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Founder & Designer
EDALOU PARIS Multi Lux Versatility Leather Goods & Accessories
"It [Team Fuqua] means family. The Fuqua community will always be there to have my back."
Erwan Le Roy
Principal
Amazon
"To me, Team Fuqua means to have made forever connections."
Kelly Dyer
Founder & Executive Chairman, Inventory Source, and Co-Founder & Co-CEO, SourceFuse
"To me, Team Fuqua means a diversity of experience and desire to share that experience to learn and grow, and to help others do the same."
Aliza Hanif
Dentist
Windham Dental Associates
"Part of being a member of Team Fuqua is having the ability to put aside your own implicit bias to create an environment where everyone can come together to problem solve issues that plague an industry. Team Fuqua is not just a mere idea. It is a powerful movement that creates changemakers globally."
Raja Gosula
Digital ASIC DSP Technical Leader, Luxtera Silicon Photonics – Carlsbad Site
Cisco Systems, Inc.
"Team Fuqua means respect earned from working hard together during classes, getting together online or in person through the years with the same camaraderie that we had from being all over the world together, and celebrating and rooting for each other’s career success and personal fulfillment."
Rob Wertheimer
Founding Partner and Machinery Analyst
Melius Research
"Fuqua opened up huge opportunities that have made my life more successful and enjoyable. The talents and capabilities of my classmates were an inspiration, and the knowledge that hard work and self-direction can get you anywhere was hugely impactful for me."
Rhea Norwood
Senior Director, HR Consulting, Small Business at Capital One
Member, Fuqua Minority Alumni Advisory Board
"Because of the knowledge, experiences, and friendships I got out of Fuqua, I seek to ensure other individuals who may look like me or grew up like I did also get the opportunity to experience the same thing. I am so grateful for those who helped me hone my skillset, and I want to give that to others as well."
Afreen Allam
Founder and CEO
SiNON Therapeutics
"You have access to a vast network through your Fuqua connections—not only your immediate classmates, but alumni from all programs and classes."
Rodney Schulz
Finance Author, Owner
Schulz Financial, LLC
"Something I believe most people overlook is that when you earn a Duke MBA you get an education that applies to a broad range of endeavors. The Fuqua experience has opened many opportunities for me."
Andrea Christian Parks
Physician, Obstetrics and Gynecology
Kaiser Permanente
"Team Fuqua means learning to work to solve and create as a group. Each member has a contribution and the collective effort creates a greater product than any one individual. I'm very thankful for the lessons I learned at Fuqua—they still serve me today!"
Michelle Egger
Co-Founder and CEO
BIOMILQ
"Don’t focus on what you want as your 'perfect job,' and instead find what little joys you experience every day in different jobs. As you sum up your career, continue to steer towards more little wins and you will find yourself in an amazing role you would have never imagined!"
Julian Kim
Chief Financial Officer
Kainos Medicine
"Team Fuqua and the Duke University affiliation have been a proud badge of honor for my entire professional career."
Rohma Zubair
Senior Analyst, Customer Intelligence Analytics
The Home Depot
"Team Fuqua is about accepting and celebrating diversity of ethnicities, thoughts, and ideas. It is being able to use these perspectives to design meaningful projects and produce impactful decisions."
Caitlin Chrisman
Product Manager, Artificial Intelligence
Bank of America
"Team Fuqua means inclusivity and finding creative ways for every person you interact with to have a chance to share their voice. It means collaborating across all borders, between differences, and throughout hardships."
Luis Garcia
Vice President of Emerging Technologies
Full Sail University
"I really enjoyed my time at Fuqua. While I was attending I felt that every day was a learning experience. All the hard skills knowledge was relevant and I still use a lot of the knowledge acquired. On the soft skills side, I felt the overall experience was very profound. I’m most grateful for the knowledge and care I received from my classmates."
Taylor Llewellyn
Founder
The Hoodie
"Classmates with whom I haven’t spoken in years consistently reach out to check in and see how they can help. They’re genuinely interested and never looking for anything in return. It’s actually been this way since day one at Fuqua!"
Paul Wick
Fund Manager
Seligman Investments
"Fuqua was a key enabler of my career success; I’d like to help others afford a Fuqua education so they can realize their potential in our dynamic, capitalist system."
Devika Srimal Bapna
Founder and CEO
KANABIS
"It’s the relationships one builds that last a lifetime. It was great to be in a classroom of accomplished professionals from different industries and geographies. Apart from the lifelong friendships, we built a great support system that one can count on."
Steve Solomon
Professional Athlete and Enterprise Associate at Uber Eats
"Team Fuqua, to me, is all about bringing the best out of one another. Sharing success, together."
Gamini Singh
Data Scientist
Red Hat
"Team Fuqua is about embracing a collective identity and keeping an indomitable spirit."
Grace Huang
Managing Director
Wantings & Company
"Team Fuqua is my agent of shield around the world. It really means a fantastic global network helping and guiding me."
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Founder and CEO
Voyij
"I can stand here today living out my dream of building and growing a company in part because Fuqua, specifically Team Fuqua, supported my ambition. Thank you!"
Trent Agnew
Design Assurance Engineering Manager
Medtronic
"Your decisions are only as good as the data that you bring in. Collaboration, diversity, and inclusion are critical to being a successful leader."
Andrea Weinberg
Founder and CEO
The ANDI Brand
"Team Fuqua: A trusted and forever-connected group of leaders of consequence."
Brent Xu
Protocol Business Architect
ConsenSys
"Team Fuqua is recognizing the strength that a community can bring to various business settings and scenarios, especially in support of the professional endeavors and developments in innovations and new technology."
Chris Sword
President
PEARL iZUMi
"Put yourself out there, take chances, get involved, and good things happen. Have a personal vision, evolve it, but stick with it. Simple work ethic—when you’re passionate, work isn’t a burden."
Terrence Chavis
Management Consultant
Oliver Wyman
"I am very thankful that I attended a business school that focuses on creating well-rounded leaders. Having a specialty is great, but to be successful in business at the highest levels you must be able to apply that specialty holistically in a manner that maximizes the enterprise."
Lindsey Layer-Swope and Jon Swope
Lindsey, Consultant at Acsel Health, and Jon, Healthcare Investment Banker at Greenhill & Co.
"Giving back is an important way to recognize the foundation upon which we build our career."
Carol Williams
West Africa Director
Worldreader
"Fuqua taught me that great leaders never stop learning and that decisions should never be made in a vacuum. It's critical to draw upon the collective experience and expertise of your team, thought leaders within your industry, and insights from the local market you are operating in and the story the data tells."
Greg O'Neill
Co-owner and Co-founder
Pastoral Artisan Cheese, Bread, & Wine
"Team Fuqua embodies the credo that one's success is not mutually exclusive to that of your classmate, and, after Fuqua, to that of your colleague."
Charlene Fadirepo
Founder, Smartchoicenation
Author, Ayo's Money Jar
"For me, Team Fuqua translated to a diverse, supportive, and cohesive network of cheerleaders and confidants. In other words, my tribe."
Cody Chesneau
IT Director and Production Manager, Fuel Quality Services, Inc.
Festival Coordinator, Sets at Sunset
"Fuqua has consisted of some of the smartest people that I know who are also some of the most supportive people I have met. No matter how far apart we are or how long it has been since we've talked, we still consider each other family."
Erica Campbell
Executive Director
Pinky Swear Foundation
"As a leader it's my responsibility to surround myself with diverse people who contribute experiences and talents that make the whole team better."
Katie Koenig
Senior Vice President, Transformation
ATI Physical Therapy
"Take opportunities when they come, even if (really especially if) they feel intimidating. Growth happens when we challenge ourselves."
Andrea Fernandez
Director of Governance and Global Partnerships
C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group
"My first boss after Fuqua taught me so much about being a leader—the importance of having strong vision and conviction, being passionate and driven, shining through the success of your employees and of course, having fun in doing what you love."
Mark Reuss
Executive Vice President of Global Product Development and Global Purchasing & Supply Chain
General Motors Company
"I was used to working on projects alone, and Fuqua taught me a great deal about working in teams. It was highly rewarding to come together with people you didn't know and to figure out how to leverage each person's strengths to solve a problem together."
Bobby Vernon
Non-Executive Director and Founder
ProcessMaker Inc.
"I pursued my MBA at Duke specifically to acquire the skills (and courage) to start my own businesses. I wanted the freedom to pursue projects and opportunities that interested me, and I consider myself fortunate that it has worked out."
Chulmin Lee
Managing Partner
VIG Partners
"Team Fuqua is my creed in people management at work. Regardless of their background and expertise, I always try to get all of my co-workers deeply involved in deriving the best result."
Scott Lewis
Vice President of Marketing
D.C. United
"For me, it's been less specific advice and more in the way of opportunities to work with some incredible people that I was easily drawn to emulate as best I could."
Wendy Webster
Division Administrator, Department of Surgery
Duke University Medical Center
"Relationships are key. The time spent with your teammates discussing cases and problems is as important as the discussions you have about work and life in general. I miss the rigorous academics and the challenging discussions with classmates."
Sharon Bracken
President
Abbott Point of Care
"The most enjoyable part of the job is working with a group of people who all want to change the world for the better—I see many parallels with the Team Fuqua culture and aspiration."
Sergio Rios
Senior Financial Analyst
Amazon
"In this day and age nobody can succeed alone. Everyone, no matter how smart or educated, needs other people with different skill sets. The Fuqua experience provides the perfect environment to put yourself out of the comfort zone and learn from others while you are immersed in a group of extraordinarily talented and humble people."
Mary Sawyer
Senior Manager
Deloitte Consulting
"Team Fuqua means knowing that a team is stronger than the individual leader or each team member can ever be."
Marcus Shaw
Senior Director of Business Development
Management Leadership for Tomorrow
"Team Fuqua is a concept that encourages strong relationship building for the purpose of more effective, higher integrity outcomes that benefit the team members individually and collectively. Eleven years after graduation, this concept is more important to me than ever. I apply it in almost every facet of my professional and personal life."
Haley Gray
Chief Executive Officer
Extension of You Home Care
"My favorite memories are of one of our first clients, and staying up all night with him, talking, and holding his hand."
Greg Brandeau
Managing Partner
Slices of Genius
"Team Fuqua is genius! Fuqua is one of the few places that creates really exceptional team players who understand and value the power of diverse points of view."