Sarah Audet
Medtronic
Director, Biomedical Sensors and Advanced Concepts
GAINING NEW KNOWLEDGE IN A HEARTBEAT While Sarah Audet's father and grandfather had earned business degrees at Wharton, her career seemed to be headed in a different direction. She received a bachelors in medical technology and a PhD in electrical engineering, with a focus on sensors. After workin....
Robert W. Boyce
Consultant
ENCOURAGING "UNFETTERED THINKING" After 26 years in the US Navy, commanding both a fast-attack submarine and a TRIDENT ballistic missile submarine, Bob Boyce joined PECO Energy in 1990 and began navigating the turbulent waters of industry deregulation. In addition to transferring his skills to the....
Alan K. Cox
M. Davis & Sons
Regional Vice President
KNOWLEDGE ON DEMAND Alan Cox understands the need to deliver knowledge when and where it is needed. "When a client calls us because their plant has shut down, we're the ones that have to get it up and running again," said Cox, vice president of an industrial contracting firm that specializes in bu....
Sofia Flores
Next Level Comms.
Program Manager
LEADING NEW-PRODUCT TEAMS As her career began to move from engineering to product development, Sofia Flores needed to expand upon her background in computer science to "understand the rest of the business." She looked to Wharton because of its reputation as a world leader in business education and....
Curtis R. Girod
Enterprise Tranformation Services, Unisys Corp.
Vice President and General Manager
CHANGE IS A WAY OF LIFE Good mentors and good performance are what took Curt Girod, in his 20s, from leading a sales team on the West Coast to the center of transformation of the company that would become Unisys. Girod was tapped by headquarters to become executive assistant to the president of th....