Our Graduates

As a high school basketball point guard growing up in Springfield, Mass., Yusuf Abdul-Ali ’08 was a bit of a big fish in a small pond. One of the best players at a small school, he didn’t get the college recruiting attention some of his peers across the city…

For one, it’s the same land. For the other, it’s the same dream. For both, it’s a natural way to make a living — and a life. Meet Justin Chase, MBA ’09, a 12th-generation family farmer, and Thomas Wilkins ’81, the eighth-generation operator of a family-owned…

Holly (Aydar) Gagnon ’85, P ’20 graduated in accounting, but fell in love with the gaming industry during an auditing job at Foxwoods Resort Casino. She rose through the ranks at Harrah’s Entertainment, MGM Mirage and Seneca Niagara Resort, among others, and…

Vasilia Vasiliou, PhD ’20 teaches equity and inclusion to her college students (Above: Vasilia Vasiliou, her husband Christos and their son Alexandros celebrate her PhD degree during a graduation ceremony for the…

Georgianna Meléndez ’94 was shocked to hear that she was named to Get Konnected!’s inaugural list of the region’s 50 Most Influential People of Color in Higher Education — sitting among talented people in Boston’s higher education scene (including her former…

Jim “Pouli” Pouliopoulos, MBA ’95, founding director of the Professional Sales Program at Bentley and a senior lecturer in the Marketing department, is the 2021 recipient of the Dr. Dave Landers Faculty Mentor of the Year in the Northeast-10 Conference.  …

Graduates’ success underscores importance of closing the gender gap When it comes to gender parity, finance is one of the last frontiers.   Since 3000 BC, when the Babylonians created the world’s first banking…

A fundamental rule of accounting is the “full disclosure principle,” which posits that a company’s financial statements must include all data points necessary for shareholders to make informed…

Suchithra Vengalil’s master of Business Analytics was a graduate degree 16 years in the making.  So, after waiting so long to see her dream come true, Vengalil promised herself she was going to make the most of it.   “Having got an opportunity to do my …

Bill Pappas ’94, MBA ’95 believes in fostering diverse talent and an inclusive culture to build strong and effective global teams. Executive vice president and head of technology and operations at MetLife, he has a proven track record of integrating technology…