Olin’s Marketing & Communications team bid a reluctant goodbye to Gabe Watson on Friday, Jan. 8. Watson, PMBA, has been a brand manager and social media strategist at Olin for five years. He has accepted a position with Emerson’s Climate Technologies division. In his new role as customer experience and communication leader, he will work on the Sensi Wi-Fi thermostat, part of the company’s consumer-product connected home HVAC devices.
Tracy Reiter considers herself a non-traditional IT executive. She is currently Director of the Information Technology Vendor Management Organization at Emerson where she has been learning all facets of the business since 2011. She has worked in sales, research and consulting since joining the company. Last year she served as Manager of Strategy, Compliance and Awareness. As her career has progressed, Reiter desired to broaden her business understanding to maintain momentum on the management track. Her mentors suggested she get an MBA to give her a solid edge in business management.
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Tracy Reiter, EMBA Class 43
Reiter says that her experience of the EMBA Program at Olin has been as good as promised. Reiter said, “I have loved it. With financial accounting and business analytics, I can now understand from an upper management level how we run the IT Department. I tell people all the time that it’s true what they tell you in the EMBA information sessions. These are skills you’ll learn on Friday and apply on Monday. I really do use the stuff right away. I’m looking at things differently, and asking questions I wouldn’t have asked before.”
Reiter went to the University of Tulsa on a Division I Soccer scholarship and earned a Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration Management in three years. Her scholarship allowed her two more years of school, so she set her sights next on a Bachelor’s in Information Technology Management. She interned at Price Waterhouse Coopers and worked at Ernst & Young and Gartner before landing at Emerson in 2011.
Reiter is looking forward to seeing what happens next and she’ll be ready for the challenge.
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