Taco Bell has been a strongpartner with The Paul MerageSchool of Business for nearly20 years. We have a significantnumber of Merage SchoolMBA’s in leadership positionsand continue to actively recruiton campus each year. CorporatePartners offers significantnetworking opportunities via theDistinguished Speaker Seriesand other highly visible events.The program has helped TacoBell create quality, long-lastingrelationships with MerageSchool faculty, staff and manyother leaders within the OrangeCounty business community.
TOM WAGNER, VP - CONSUMER
INSIGHTS & BRAND PLANNING
TACO BELL
The Wet Seal is a young, vibrant, and fastpaced business and demands quickanalysis and decision making. We havehad two groups of MBA students fromthe Merage School in the MBAConsulting Program. With both groups,we benefited from their energy,perspective, and entrepreneurialapproach to our business. The entireExecutive team was very impressed. TheMBA teams’ findings from a marketingperspective were accurate and strategic.I know that the students learned fromthis hands-on experience and exposureto top level executives; however, the othervalue that was gained was to ourmanagement team here. We learnedfrom them as well. This continues to be agreat experience for all and we intend tostay involved in this program every year.
BARBARA ARNEKLEV, VP, HUMAN RESOURCES
THE WET SEAL INC.
Union Bank has been a proudpartner of The Paul MerageSchool of Business, CorporatePartners program for many years.The program has provided me withthe opportunity to meet some ofthe other key Business Leaders inthe Orange County businesscommunity. Additionally, access toworld renowned professors andtop level business students in thecommunity has been anotherbenefit of my involvement.Corporate Partners has been agreat resource both personally aswell as professionally.
JOE SWEET
SENIOR VP & REGIONAL DIRECTOR
UNION BANK
Sage North America has found itsrelationship with The Paul MerageSchool of Business very rewarding.As a company headquartered inIrvine, we have benefited from theability to tap into the School’sconsulting and intern programs. Therelationship has opened the doorsto improved business connectionswith other local firms and greaterlocal visibility through activities likethe Distinguished Speaker Series.Most importantly, as a companyfocused on serving millions of smalland medium-sized businesses, wesee our connection with this greatbusiness school enriching us withinsights facing this market and inconnecting with the emerging talentthat will lead it in the future.
DENNIS FRAHMANN
EXECUTIVE VP OF MARKETING
SAGE NORTH AMERICA
Top connections with executives who take their leadership roles from excellence to extraordinary success, exposure to thelatest research, and high performing MBA management consulting teams are just a few of the benefits companies enjoythrough The Paul Merage School of Business Corporate Partners. Your affiliation with some of the most successfulcorporate champions globally and one of the world’s top research institutions offers exceptional business opportunitiesand prestige. Our collaboration through this program has led a standard of excellence and placed the Merage Schoolamong the top 10% of MBA programs in the world.
Corporate PartnersABBOTT MEDICAL OPTICS, INC.
Christine Darragh
ACCENTURE
Doug Cunningham
BAUSCH & LOMB
Robert Grant
THE BOEING COMPANY
Daryl Pelc
DARTBROOK PARTNERS
Kenneth Beall
EMULEX CORPORATION
Jeff Benck
EV3Betzy Estrada
EXPERIAN
Allen Anderson
GALLUP CONSULTING, INC.Larry Emond
GLOBAL BENEFITS GROUP
Mark Tomaszewski
HIRERIGHT, INC.Robert Pickell
IBM CORPORATION
Neil Sahota
JONES DAY
Lester Savit
KINGSTON TECHNOLOGY
COMPANY, INC.Darwin Chen
MAZDA NORTH AMERICA
OPERATIONS
James O’Sullivan
MICROSEMI
James Peterson
NEUDESIC
Parsa Rohani
PAAMCO (PACIFIC ALTERNATIVE
ASSET MANAGEMENT COMPANY)Jane Buchan
POINT B
Drew Aron
THE PRECEPT GROUP
Christopher Coulter, MD
PRICEWATERHOUSECOOPERS
Knute Kurtz
ROHL, LLC
Ken Rohl
SAGE SOFTWARE
Dennis Frahmann
STEELHEAD BREWERY CO.Steve Lewis
TACO BELL CORPORATION
Tom Wagner
UNION BANK
Joe Sweet
VIRTIUM TECHNOLOGY, INC.Phu Hoang
VOLCOM
Hoby Darling
WELLS FARGO BANK
John Evans
THE WET SEAL, INC.Steve Benrubi
YAMAHA CORPORATION OF
AMERICA
Brian Jemelian
Partner with the Merage School today. Visit merage.uci.edu/go/corporatepartners or call 949.824.4530
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