Mobile April Wednesday
  Published on 4/12/2001 - Page 1 of 4

One of the night's sponsors was Chicago-based law firm Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal, which touts famous author Scott Turow among its partners. Manning the booth were J. Ross Docksey, Kathleen J. Brangan and Jill Stephanie.
Here's Aimee Gerloff of EDM with accomplished runner and esteemed Wisconsinite Steffanie Luther of Loop Capital Markets.
Robin Cook is an independent "organizational development consultant." He's with Frank Brletich, president and CEO of Schaumburg-based WirelessInfo Tech. His company helps businesses make wireless versions of their Web sites.
John Hackett and Susan Caplan of SC Associates. It's her own marketing and communications consultancy.
TV anchor hair-sporting Jay Sorensen is president of Shorewood, Wisc. based Wingscape.com. Jay is talking with a gleaming Matthew Frederick.
Jostein Baustad represented another sponsor of the evening consulting giant Accenture. To his right is Chicago-based WirelessResumes.com's Al Katz.

 
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Ruder Finn's Michelle Nolan and Fleishman Hillard's Lawerence Larsen are in the business of publicity. I personify publicity, which is why they are so giddy.
Fancy-suited and shiny-tied James Kolbusz of Morgan Stanley Dean Witter and Damon Skinner of Salomon Smith Barney were fine with getting their picture taken. That is, so long as I wasn't asking for their money.
Accenture staffers Chris Pierce, Kelly Meyer, Jessica Nyman and Georgia Kefalas.
Kellogg MBA student Robert Barry is going to be "the next Bill Gates," according to his friend Nick Dragisic, who serves as a VP for Naperville-based Business Systems Online. If I were Robert I'd rather be the next James Van Der Beek.
Narimon Safavi works for Principia Jewels, which I assume has something to do with gems and not groceries. Matt Hartzman is president of Web development firm Nexiv.
I.C. Stars' David Starr leads this fearsome threesome. He's with Lori Erikson of Fleishman-Hillard and Rick Summer of wireless software firm Auvo Technologies.

 
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The Executive's Club of Chicago had a presence. Here's Per Norander and Michelle Scott.
Sonnenschein's David Jacobson is the second most famous person at his law firm. Katie Kaufman was the second employee at First Tuesday.
Julie Rallo was just HIRED by Accenture. Congrats! She's schmoozing with Pocket DBA's VP of Sales Lyle Wells and CEO Ari Kaplan.
Strategic Interlinks' Stefan Levy toasted the camera with a fine glass of Mad Dog 20/20. Just kidding-- I am sure it was some kind of high-brow Merlot.
Elliott Baretz just left Xpedior for the Pulse Agency. Peter Brooks is a VP at Barrington-based Syclo.

 
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John Haulick works for the Pulse Agency. Susan Furlong is a marketing consultant.
David Yanda and Jason Putnam are account executives for Restaurantpro.com. They sell software to restaurants.
Richard Ross runs his own marketing firm. He was talking with vCapital's Steve Trybus and Kristin Peters.
PriceWaterhouseCoopers Paul Donnellan gabbed with commercial real estate expert Barbara Ellis of Cushman & Wakefield.
Team Heineken. Here's Andrea Farris of Accenture, entrepreneur Rich Cohen and Accenture's Hung Vo.
Ruder Finn's Brian Connolly is my favorite picture pal. He's gracing TV House's Kathleen Behof and David Jacobson with his presence.


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