Profiles of GLBT Alumni/ae
Terry Allen-Rouman, MBA '93
Managing Director, IncuBay
Terry has over fourteen years experience in business leadership. He is currently a Managing Director of IncuBay, a company he
co-founded in 1999. IncuBay has two business lines: management consulting services to Fortune 500 companies and creation of new
ventures based on IncuBay-generated business concepts. Terry is the former CEO and President of Achex, Inc., an Internet payments
company founded by IncuBay in 1999 and sold to First Data Corporation in 2001. Prior to IncuBay, Terry was a consultant with
Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting) in its Strategic Services practice. Focused primarily in financial services, he led
high-profile teams to develop a wide array of payment products and strategies. Terry also co-founded the National Endowment for
AIDS Research and was a regional product manager for Westvaco. Terry holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford Graduate School of Business
and a Bachelor's degree in Biology from Harvard College.
David J. Blumberg, MBA '85
Managing Partner, Blumberg Capital
David Blumberg brings more than 21 years of investing experience in venture capital backed technology companies including Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP), Creo Products (CREO), DSP Group (DSPG), Electronics For Imaging (EFII), AbirNet - sold to Computer Associates (CA), Conduct Software, Freshwater Software, and Allerez - all sold to Mercury Interactive (MERQ), Security-7 - sold to Computer Associates (CA), and ABIC - sold to Teva (TEVA).
Prior to founding Blumberg Capital, Blumberg managed technology investments with Claridge Investments, Adler & Co., Apax Partners, and T. Rowe Price Associates. Blumberg's operational experience includes launching the highly successful business development, marketing, and public relations efforts for Check Point in the U.S. and Japan, helping build a substantial revenue stream prior to its IPO.
Blumberg earned his AB in Government, cum laude from Harvard College and his MBA from the Stanford Graduate School of Business and
INSEAD.
Dennis DeCoste, MBA '79
Entrepreneur
and Investor
Mr. Dennis DeCoste is
the Chairman & CEO of Homeland Security Technology Corporation (HSTC),
a company providing cutting edge technologies to provide security
services and products to the global enterprise and large governmental
organizations with offices in Israel, the EU, Canada, the U.S, and
China.
Over the last 25 years, Mr. DeCoste has served in a
variety of executive positions, including Chairman, CEO, President and
CFO, for a prolific list of high technology company startups. Companies
that Mr.DeCoste has played a principal role include Cyclone Commerce;
InterHDL (sold to Avant! Corporation), High Level Design Systems (sold
to Cadence Design Systems), Fact Software International (sold to a
Canadian computer software manufacturer), The Santa Cruz Operation (SCO),
and the American Learning Corporation. Mr. DeCoste formerly served,
among others, on the board of Aptitude (sold to HIFN), and Cyclone
Commerce, SCO (now Tarantella—the UNIX business having been sold to
Caldera) and Novadigm (NVDM) (sold to HP in 2004). He was also a member
of the Band of Angels, a group of about 150 former and current high tech
executives and entrepreneurs who provided counsel and capital to startup
companies for many years. Prior to his business career, Mr. DeCoste was
a teacher at the Boston and Marblehead Public Schools, and was voted as
Boston's Teacher of the Year. Mr. DeCoste received an MBA from Stanford
Business School, an M. Ed in elementary education from the University of
Massachusetts and a BA cum laude from Harvard College.
Zoe Dunning, MBA '93
Project Manager, Chestnut Company
Ms. Dunning is currently the only known openly gay member of the U.S. military, after successfully fighting her discharge under the Don't Ask, Don't Tell policy. She has been serving openly since January, 1993, when, while a second-year business school student, she "came out" at a political rally to support overturning the ban on homosexuals serving in the armed forces.
Zoe is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy and Stanford University's Graduate School of Business. Prior to Webvan, Zoe was a management consultant with Deloitte Consulting and A.T. Kearney. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for Servicemembers Legal Defense Network, the sole national legal aid and watchdog organization that assists servicemembers hurt by the Don't Ask, Don't Tell, Don't Pursue policy. Ms. Dunning resides in San Francisco.
Don Howard, MBA
'90
Partner, Bridgespan Group
Don Howard is a Partner in Bridgespan's San Francisco office. At Bridgespan, Mr. Howard works with nonprofit organizations to help
them refine their strategies, improve their operating models, and increase their economic sustainability. His clients have included
direct service organizations, technology-based nonprofits, and foundations.
Mr. Howard joined Bridgespan with more than ten years of experience helping leaders of private and social sector enterprises
formulate strategy and improve the effectiveness of their organizations. Immediately prior to joining Bridgespan, Mr. Howard was
a Managing Director at Scient Corporation where he advised startup e-businesses on strategy, customer experience and technology.
Prior to Scient, Mr. Howard was a Principal at Booz-Allen & Hamilton where he worked with Global 2000 clients in the US,
Latin America and Europe on issues concerning strategy, organization and operations.
In the social sector, Mr. Howard has acted as an advisor to the boards of community-based organizations. He is a long-standing
activist working on HIV and other health-related issues, and has served on advisory boards at the San Francisco Department of
Public Health, UCSF, and the National Institutes of Health. Mr. Howard has also worked extensively outside the US including a
volunteer posting with a US AID-sponsored initiative to provide business advice to private enterprises in Central Europe.
Mr. Howard earned his BS from Stanford University in industrial engineering where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa. He earned
his MBA from Stanford University's Graduate School of Business.
Jon Huggett, MBA '85
www.huggett.com
Jon Huggett has spent over 20 years leading and advising on six continents. He helps CEOs get the full potential from their
international businesses. Recent assignments have included working with the CEO of DAI to develop the right global expansion
strategy, while at the same time managing its UK subsidiary, Bannock, as interim MD; helping the CEO of WK Health identify and
execute the key international priorities of the $800M health care publishing company; and, on behalf of the Open Society
Institute in NY, developing a sustainable growth strategy for Nurcha, a South African non-profit that finances the building of
homes for low-income families. He was previously a partner with Bain & Company, CEO of PlanetOut, President of PBH
International, and Brand Manager at Procter & Gamble. At Bain he co-founded the company's first officially-sponsored group
of lesbian and gay employees - B-GLAD - the Bain Gay & Lesbian Alliance for Diversity. In parallel, Jon was Board President of
the STOP AIDS Project in San Francisco from 1995 - 1997 after a number of years as a volunteer street outreach worker. He also
taught business in prison in South Africa and wrote an article on the experience published in Stanford Business. Born in the UK,
Jon has a BA/MA from Oxford and leads a nomadic existence based in San Francisco.
Rep. Jim Kolbe, MBA '67
U.S. Congressman (R-AZ), http://www.house.gov/kolbe
Jim Kolbe one of three openly gay members of the U.S. Congress, the only openly gay Republican in Congress, and arguably the highest
ranking openly gay politician in the U.S. Kolbe is serving his tenth term in the United States House of Representatives. He was
first sworn into Congress in 1985, becoming the first Republican to represent southern Arizona since statehood. He represents the
people of Arizona's Eighth Congressional District, which includes most of Tucson, eastern Pima County, all of Cochise County and
parts of Pinal and Santa Cruz Counties. Jim is one of eight Members of Congress from Arizona and ranks 67th in seniority in the House.
Jim became interested in politics at a young age when he served as a page for Senator Barry Goldwater in his high school years. His
keen interest in international affairs began during a one year global educational course while attending college.
Jim is the acknowledged Republican leader for free trade and open markets, an impassioned advocate of Social Security reform
including the creation of personal accounts, and a fierce proponent of smaller government, lower taxes and more individual
responsibility.
Scott J. Levokove, MBA '92
Managing Director, IncuBay
Scott has over sixteen years experience leading new businesses and improving companies' performance. He is currently a Managing
Director of IncuBay, a company he co-founded in 1999. IncuBay has two business lines: management consulting services to Fortune 500
companies and creation of new ventures based on IncuBay-generated business concepts. Scott is the former Chief Operating Officer of
Achex, Inc., an Internet payments company founded by IncuBay in 1999 and sold to First Data Corporation in 2001. Scott launched his
first successful business at the age of 24 when he started a food service company, Taste of the Town, in Boston. In addition, he has
expertise in product development, marketing, customer service, technology management, operations, and finance. Prior to IncuBay, Scott
was a consultant with CSC Index and Bain & Company where he focused on critical business issues for Fortune 500 companies across
many industries. He also was a Vice President in the Business Banking Group at Wells Fargo. Scott holds an M.B.A. from the Stanford
Graduate School of Business and a B.A. in Economics from Brandeis University.
Jason P. Lorber, MBA '95
Representative, Vermont State House
President, Aplomb Consulting
With a strong belief that business and community values can — and should — be intertwined, Jason founded Aplomb Consulting.
With an MBA from Stanford and more than a decade of experience in business and non-profit consulting, Jason assisted federal
efforts to improve nationwide accountability of HIV/AIDS programs, wrote and implemented company-wide marketing plans, helped
create statewide health departments create disease prevention guidelines, overseen research assessing nationwide HIV/AIDS needs of
African-American communities, developed GLBT community relations programs, established and nurtured ties for companies with
HIV/AIDS community activists and organizations, authored organization-wide strategic plans, launched new products and services,
and created and implemented corporate visibility programs for Hewlett-Packard, Vermont CARES, the AIDS Quilt, Home Access Health,
New York State AIDS Institute, Xerox Corporation, PlanetOut, AMFAR (American Foundation for AIDS Research), National Alliance of
State and Territorial AIDS Directors, and other organizations.
The New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Business Week, and numerous other media outlets profiled Jason for research studies he
designed and conducted. He was featured as a commentator on Public Radio International's Marketplace radio program remarking on
emerging trends in marketing to gay and lesbian consumer, and he has spoken at national conferences on the same subjects.
Jason is responsible for the Report on the Gay-Friendliness of the nation's top business schools, which has been credited for
helping the schools in the study make significant progress between 1995 and 2003. Jason also sits on the board of directors
of NetworkQ.
In 2004, Jason won election to the Vermont State House of Representatives. (see campaign website).
John F. McGrath, Jr., MBA '93
CFO/VP, Network Equipment Technologies
John F. McGrath, Jr. is in charge of the development and implementation of net.com's financial strategies. Prior to joining net.com
in 2001, McGrath was an independent consultant to enterprise software firm Niku Corporation. From 1997 to 2000, McGrath served in
various financial capacities at Aspect Communications, including VP of Finance where he oversaw all finance activities for a $600
million sales and service business, and Director of Finance for Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Prior to that he was Director of
Finance for TCSI Corporation. From 1986 to 1991, McGrath worked as a Manager in the High Technology/Manufacturing Group at Ernst
& Young.
