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UNC Kenan-Flagler Alumni Awards

Our Alumni Award recipients represent the very best of the UNC Kenan-Flagler community. Each honoree has made a meaningful mark on their industry, community and the lives of those around them. Their accomplishments reflect the power of a UNC Kenan-Flagler education and our shared values of integrity, inclusion, innovation and impact.

Through their leadership, achievements, and generosity, these alumni demonstrate what it means to lead with purpose and create meaningful change. Their stories inspire students, faculty and fellow alumni to pursue excellence and make a lasting impact on the UNC Kenan-Flagler community and beyond.

Previous Alumni Award Winners

UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School Leadership Awards

2023 Leo S. Horey, III, MBA ’90
2021 William Seymour, BSBA ’64
2019 James H. Johnson Jr., BS ’75
2018 R. Steven Vetter, BSBA ’78
2017 Stephen M. Cumbie, MBA ’73
2016 William Starling, BSBA ’75
2015 Lonnie Craven Poole Jr., MBA ’64
2014 William M. Moore Jr., MBA ’67
2013 Steven D. Bell, BA ’67
2012 John P. Evans
2011 Julian Robertson, BSBA ’55
2010 Erskine B. Bowles, BSBA ’67
2009 Maurice Koury, BA ’48
2008 Leonard W. Wood, MBA ’72
2007 Wayland H. Cato Jr., BSCOM ’44
2006 R. Charles Loudermilk Sr., BSBA ’50
2005 Hugh L. McColl Jr., BSBA ’57
2004 Van L. Weatherspoon, BSBA ’54
2003 Rollie Tillman Jr., BSBA ’55
2002 William O. McCoy, BSBA ’35
2001 Paul Fulton, BSBA ’57
2000 Paul J. Rizzo, BSCOM ’50
1999 Frank H. Kenan, BSCOM ’35

Global Leadership Award

2023 K. James Pirouz, MBA ’98
2019 Paul Gray Parker, BA ’85
2017 Allen E. Gant Jr., ’70
2016 Raj Rajkumar, MBA ’93
2015 Jeffrey K. Tucker, MBA ’00
2014 Ajit Dayal, MBA ’83
2013 Rolf K. Hoffmann, MBA ’87
2012 Peter McMillan, BSBA ’81
2010 Derick S. Close, MBA ’90
2009 Mick Hawk, MBA ’90
2008 Jack N. Behrman, MA ’45
2007 Paul Fulton, BSBA ’57
2006 John D. Kasarda, PhD ’71
2005 William B. Harrison Jr., BA ’66
2004 John G. Medlin Jr., BSBA ’56
2003 J. Alston Gardner, BA ’77
2002 Owen G. Kenan
2001 Earl N. “Phil” Phillips Jr., BSBA ’62
2000 Lovick Corn, BA ’44, Elizabeth T. Corn
1999 David S. Van Pelt, BSBA ’63

Dwight W. Anderson Young Alumni Award

2025 George D. “Geordy” Johnson III, MBA ’13
2024 RD Gauss, MBA ’08
2023 Minni Marwaha, MBA ’08
2019 N. Adam Brown, MBA ’14
2018 Nick Black, MBA ’13
2017 Scott A. Quilty, MBA ’15
2016 Allison M. Hughes, MBA ’14
2015 Jim Jones, MBA ’06
2014 Phaedra Boinodiris, MBA ’08
2014 Ashok S. Jayaram, MBA ’11
2012 Callie Joyce Brauel, BSBA ’09
2011 Joi M. Ernst, BSBA ’98
2010 Amit Singh, Executive MBA ’03
2009 Henry M. T. Jones, MBA ’99
2007 Sindhura Citineni, BSBA ’04
2005 Courtney A. Brown, BSBA ’97
2004 Kayrn A. Aguirre, BSBA ’96
2003 David W. Jernigan, BSBA ’00
2002 Elizabeth Klompmaker Moshier, BSBA ’87, MBA ’92
2001 Jeffery K. Tucker, MBA ’00
2000 Dwight W. Anderson, MBA ’94
1999 Derick S. Close, MBA ’90

Alumni Merit Award

2025
Meredith S. Friga, BSBA ’99, MAC ’00

2024
Kathryn W. Black, MBA ’99
Kevin J. Clark, BSBA ’99

2023
Kit Fisher Bredrup, MBA ’93

2022
Frank Sutton, BSBA ’82

2021
Charles R. Brindell Jr., BSBA ’71
Landson Robbins, BSBA ’87

2019
Lynn Lewis, MBA ’86

2018
Meredith Hawley Garwood, MAC ’89
Joseph C. High, BSBA ’76
Jason T. Liberty, MBA ’15

2017
Lewis Mallet Burton, BSBA ’65
Vanessa Wittman, BSBA ’89

2016
Susan E. Cates, MBA ’98
C. Scott Hultman, EMBA ’08
Richard “Stick” Williams, BSBA ’75

2015
H. Paul Chapman, BSBA ’74
Janet L. Davis, MBA ’79
Richard L. Michaux, MBA ’73

2014
William J. Armfield IV, BSBA ’56
Michele G. Buck, MBA ’87
Gary L. Monroe, MBA ’98
Charles Edgar Sams Jr., BSBA ’71

2013
Jeffery A. Allred, MBA ’80
Kel Landis III, BSBA ’79, MBA ’82
Cam Patterson, Executive MBA ’08
William D. Perreault, PhD ’73
Coleman D. Ross, BSBA ’65

2012
Lee Ainslie III, MBA ’90
Anne Harris Lloyd, BSBA ’83
Tesa Buck Oechsle, OneMBA ’06
Duke Steinemann, BSBA ’70

2011
John A. Allison, BSBA ’71
Allaudeen Hameed, PhD ’92
Thomas W. Lewis, MBA ’73
C. Martin Nassif, BSBA ’61
Penny Oslund, Executive MBA ’90

2010
Jason Kilar, ABJM ’93
David Kirkpatrick, Executive MBA ’91
Nancy S. Millett, BSBA ’83
John C. O’Hara Jr., MBA ’79

2009
Donna J. Dean, MBA ’78
R.Trent Gazzaway, BSBA ’90, MAC ’91
Ronald L. Martin, OneMBA ’04
William G. Seymour, BSBA ’64

2008
Claire Babrowski, Executive MBA ’95
David M. Carroll, BSBA ’79
William F. Ezzell Jr., BSBA ’73
Tom Harvey, MBA ’72
Roland T. Rust, MBA ’77, PhD ’80

2007
Dwight W. Anderson, MBA ’94
Ralph L. Falls Jr., BSBA ’63
Diane E. Wilfong, BSBA ’83
Jesko A. von Windheim, Executive MBA ’96

2006
Philip D. Ameen, BSBA ’69
Thomas M. Belk Jr., MBA ’81
Valerie M. Parisi, Executive MBA ’04
William N. Starling, BSBA ’75

2005
Thomas M. Brantley, BA ’73
Daryl G. Brewster, MBA ’82
Elizabeth B. Matthew, Executive MBA ’95
Gary W. Parr, BSBA ’79

2004
Charles S. Ackerman, BSBA ’55
Brent Callinicos, BSBA ’87, MBA ’89
Sandford A. Cockrell III, BSBA ’82
Richard J. Rendleman, PhD ’76
Phail Wynn Jr., Executive MBA ’89

2003
Kimberly P. Brunson, BSBA ’83
Christopher T. Speh, Executive MBA ’91
Edwina D. Woodbury, BSBA ’73
George Smedes York, MBA ’68

2002
Susan K. Acker, Executive MBA ’97
S. Philip Harris, BSBA ’54
Thomas L. Jones, BA ’73, MBA ’77
Robert H. Litzenberger, PhD ’69
William Lee Rogers, BSBA ’69

2001
M. Nixon Ellis, Executive MBA ’92
Van L. Weatherspoon, BSBA ’54
M. Allen Wilson, BSBA ’77
Leonard W. Wood, MBA ’72

2000
Thomas W. Hudson Jr., BSCOM ’46
R. Charles Loudermilk Sr., BSBA ’50
John L. Townsend III, BA ’77, MBA ’82

1999
William O. McCoy, BSBA ’55
Richard W. McEnally, MBA ’65, PhD ’69
William M. Moore Jr., MBA ’67
S. Thomas Moser, BSBA ’69

Hall of Fame Award