The Annual Olin Distinguished Alumni Awards Dinner is Thursday, April 4 at the Ritz-Carlton. We hope to see you there! To RSVP or arrange for corporate table sponsorship, please contact Cynthia Vanaman at (314) 935-5872 or Cynthia.Vanaman@wustl.edu. Below is a list of the extraordinary alumni we will be celebrating at this year’s event.
Dean’s Medalist: Roger L. Weston, MBA ’67, Chairman–GreatBanc, Inc.
Entrepreneur, investor, art collector, and philanthropist are just a few of the facets of Roger Weston’s long and successful career since graduating from Washington University. In 1986, he founded GreatBanc, Inc., a multi-bank holding company that was acquired by Citizens Financial Group Inc. in 2007. Weston’s involvement in the business school has contributed to Olin’s growth and reputation. He played a key role in the creation of the Hatchery entrepreneurship course and the founding of the Olin Cup business plan competition. With his support, the Weston Career Center was established in the 1980s and will expand in the new facilities in 2014. Weston is a member of Olin’s National Council and a life trustee of the Art Institute of Chicago.
Paulino Do Rego Barros Jr., EMBA ’91, President–Equifax International
Looking back on his career, Barros says that his EMBA experience gave him the foundation to understand how strategy, innovation and execution drive market leadership. “The program’s financial and leadership development training has been valuable in aligning business priorities with the right talent and managing change,” said Barros. Hispanic Engineer & Information Technology magazine named Mr. Barros one of the most important Hispanics in technology in 2004, 2005, and 2006.
John Dains, BSBA ’68, CEO Emeritus–Helm Financial Corporation
A Washington University Trustee, John Dains recently worked as CEO, President and Chief Operating Officer for San Francisco-based Helm Financial Corporation, North America’s largest privately held rail car and locomotive leasing company. A Benton, Ark., native, John began his business career at Petrolite Corporation in St. Louis. In 1977 he joined IC Industries in Chicago, his entrée into the railroad business, where he served as Vice President of Finance for subsidiary Abex Corporation’s Railroad Products Group. He moved to Helm in 1987 as Chief Financial Officer, assumed President and Chief Operating Officer duties in 2000, and added CEO responsibilities in 2005.
Mary Jo Gorman, EMBA ’96, Founder & Chief Executive Officer–Advanced ICU Care
Mary Jo Gorman is a nationally recognized leader in hospital and intensive care medicine. In 2005 she founded her third company, Advanced ICU Care, now the nation’s largest tele-ICU program provider. The company works to standardize and deliver to hospitals high quality intensive care previously available only in larger, regional hospital systems. Gorman was cited by Modern Healthcare magazine as one of the “Top 25 Women in Healthcare” and named one of ten winners of the 2011 Ernst & Young Entrepreneurial Winning Women competition.
Steven G. Segal, BSBA ’82, Co-founder and Special Limited Partner–J.W. Childs Associates L.P.
Steve Segal co-founded the Boston-based private equity firm J.W. Childs Associates in 1995. Since then the company has made $3 billion in controlling investments in more than 40 companies, including NutraSweet, Mattress Firm, Brookstone and Joseph Abboud. In recent years Segal has divided his time between the firm and Boston University’s School of Management, where he teaches a graduate course in private equity and leveraged buyouts, and oversees a student organization that actively manages a portion of the university’s endowment.
