Our Graduates

Alumni share photos, stories and gratitude for friendships that started in dorms and elsewhere at Bentley. Send yours for a future issue. 1974 As students, from left: Barry Arntz ’74, MBA ’84; Paul Gagnon ’75; Paul “Tango” Tangusso ’75; Kenneth Sawicki ’74…

Listen to This Article   Emily Wilder, MBA ’19 is bringing a taste of the Pacific Northwest to customers near and far. Her 2-year-old online store, Salinity Seafood & More, features food and wares from Washington state.   “I’ve always been really drawn…

Listen to This Article   More than 80 years after Bentley’s doors opened to women, four of ‘the firsts’ tell their tales    Much of history is a book filled with the stories of men, written by men — and the Bentley of 1917 was no exception… In 1949, she took that Bentley wager herself. From their home above the family market, the sisters watched the Tobin Bridge rise and bemoaned the traffic it caused. “I was always late to class!” Eunice laughs. She, like Ros, loved math. In fact, a high school… The Stand-Up Standout Pat Flynn didn’t resign from her first full-time job because of the women’s liberation movement. She left the almost entirely male ranks at Paine Webber in 1972 because of something she knew…

Listen to This Article   Mentoring and Meaning Is it really all about the paycheck? For Gen Z, not so much. The Bentley – Gallup Force for Good survey found that 71% of young Americans say they’d switch jobs to work at a company that has a…

Listen to This Article   In 2015, Enis Karavil ’06 was chasing his dream, working and studying interior architecture in London and collecting kudos for redesigning his own home there.   But in their regular phone calls, Amir Karavil ’10 could tell that his…

Listen to This Article   Mythical lion-like creatures revered for their strength and loyalty, foo (or fu) dogs have been celebrated among Asian cultures for nearly 2,000 years. Jonathan Yu ’18, MSMA ’19 is turning these ancient symbols to a fresh new purpose…

When Tom D’Eri ’11 and his father were choosing a name for their South Florida-based car wash in 2013, they found inspiration in a popular saying often attributed to John F. Kennedy: “A rising tide lifts all boats.”   The decision to name their company Rising…

Kristina Ayanian ’19 understands that beauty pageants can be polarizing.   She knows some view such competitions with contempt, believing they objectify participants and perpetuate unhealthy, unrealistic and unenlightened ideals of womanhood. But Ayanian —…

Music has always been a source of self-discovery and connection for Bethany Barber ’22, who spent many nights of her childhood belting out songs with her family in the living room. That early musical inspiration stayed with her, even after she enrolled at…

“When we talked in 2020, I truly don’t remember where we were at,” says Tony Remington ’92. No surprise there. The CEO and co-founder of Gravity Diagnostics has been off and running since the start of the pandemic. Last we spoke, he was aiming for his biotech…