Class Note 1997
Issue
Nov - Dec 2015
Congratulations to Grayson Allen, who married Lorraine Hanley on April 18 in Warwick, Rhode Island, at the Aldrich Mansion overlooking Narragansett Bay. Dartmouth alums attending include David Bruder, Marc Lewinstein ’98, James Panero ’98 and Rohit Chandra ’98. The couple honeymooned in Saint Barthelemy before returning to Boston.
Grayson writes: “I met Lorraine in 2012 at a social event in Boston I attended with some friends. I immediately knew she was a great match for me, but it took me some time to win her over. I am very thankful to my friend Richard Hornblower and her friend Karma Longtin, a yoga instructor here in Boston, who helped convince her that I was indeed a good match for her. We got engaged in Tenants Harbor, Maine, last summer. Lorraine loves lobster, so our engagement actually took place over a home-cooked lobster dinner. The weather that day didn’t exactly cooperate, but, in the end, the rain subsided, and I proposed to her under a double rainbow.
“From a professional standpoint, I’ve been a chief financial officer of a couple of different companies and, during the past three years, I’ve been a consultant at Tatum, where I have served as interim chief financial officer for several companies, primarily in the software, medical device and healthcare industries. Through Tatum I’m serving as interim chief financial officer at Maxwell Health, a Boston-based startup in the healthcare benefits management industry.
“I’m also a founder of LaunchPad Medical, a startup working to commercialize a novel bone adhesive technology. Brian Hess, a classmate from MIT Sloan School of Management, invented the technology several years ago when he previously worked at Stryker Corp. After we graduated from Sloan’s mid-career M.B.A. program last summer, we worked on exclusively licensing the technology from Stryker. Earlier this summer we executed the license agreement and won a finalist spot at MassChallenge, a Boston-based accelerator for technology companies. We are really excited about our prospects and the current trajectory for our company.”
Camille (Masini) Barreto now calls Mexico City home. Camille writes: “After graduation I headed back to Toronto and worked with a startup called Workbrain until heading to Columbia Business School in 2002. I had the fortune of meeting my husband, Luis, also a Columbia Business School grad, and we worked together at Citi for more than six years. While we initially worked in the investment bank, I switched over to the private bank when our son, Damien, was three as our combined schedules were intense.
“Citi moved us temporarily in 2007 for a few years to London, where our daughter, Sofia, was born. Little did we know our adventure would continue across the globe!
“Our next stop was to Lima, Peru, in early 2010 (Luis spent his early childhood there), when Luis opened Brookfield Asset Management’s offices for its infrastructure group. It was definitely an adventure for the kids and me. I resigned from Citi and managed to learn Spanish quickly enough to take a position as group head for a large private bank after getting the kids settled in to our new country. Peru is a beautiful place and I recommend taking the time to visit the Sierra, the jungle and all of Peru’s other wonders. The food is divine as well.
“We were in Peru just shy of five years until Luis was asked to open Brookfield Infrastructure’s Mexico office. So the Barreto clan was off again and now and we are settled in Mexico City. What a fantastic place! There are many misconceptions about this beautiful city of 20 million people and we welcome our friends to visit anytime.
“Hope to see you all at our 20th reunion!”
—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com
Grayson writes: “I met Lorraine in 2012 at a social event in Boston I attended with some friends. I immediately knew she was a great match for me, but it took me some time to win her over. I am very thankful to my friend Richard Hornblower and her friend Karma Longtin, a yoga instructor here in Boston, who helped convince her that I was indeed a good match for her. We got engaged in Tenants Harbor, Maine, last summer. Lorraine loves lobster, so our engagement actually took place over a home-cooked lobster dinner. The weather that day didn’t exactly cooperate, but, in the end, the rain subsided, and I proposed to her under a double rainbow.
“From a professional standpoint, I’ve been a chief financial officer of a couple of different companies and, during the past three years, I’ve been a consultant at Tatum, where I have served as interim chief financial officer for several companies, primarily in the software, medical device and healthcare industries. Through Tatum I’m serving as interim chief financial officer at Maxwell Health, a Boston-based startup in the healthcare benefits management industry.
“I’m also a founder of LaunchPad Medical, a startup working to commercialize a novel bone adhesive technology. Brian Hess, a classmate from MIT Sloan School of Management, invented the technology several years ago when he previously worked at Stryker Corp. After we graduated from Sloan’s mid-career M.B.A. program last summer, we worked on exclusively licensing the technology from Stryker. Earlier this summer we executed the license agreement and won a finalist spot at MassChallenge, a Boston-based accelerator for technology companies. We are really excited about our prospects and the current trajectory for our company.”
Camille (Masini) Barreto now calls Mexico City home. Camille writes: “After graduation I headed back to Toronto and worked with a startup called Workbrain until heading to Columbia Business School in 2002. I had the fortune of meeting my husband, Luis, also a Columbia Business School grad, and we worked together at Citi for more than six years. While we initially worked in the investment bank, I switched over to the private bank when our son, Damien, was three as our combined schedules were intense.
“Citi moved us temporarily in 2007 for a few years to London, where our daughter, Sofia, was born. Little did we know our adventure would continue across the globe!
“Our next stop was to Lima, Peru, in early 2010 (Luis spent his early childhood there), when Luis opened Brookfield Asset Management’s offices for its infrastructure group. It was definitely an adventure for the kids and me. I resigned from Citi and managed to learn Spanish quickly enough to take a position as group head for a large private bank after getting the kids settled in to our new country. Peru is a beautiful place and I recommend taking the time to visit the Sierra, the jungle and all of Peru’s other wonders. The food is divine as well.
“We were in Peru just shy of five years until Luis was asked to open Brookfield Infrastructure’s Mexico office. So the Barreto clan was off again and now and we are settled in Mexico City. What a fantastic place! There are many misconceptions about this beautiful city of 20 million people and we welcome our friends to visit anytime.
“Hope to see you all at our 20th reunion!”
—Jason Casell, 10106 Balmforth Lane, Houston, TX 77096; jhcasell@gmail.com