Getting ahead in the cloud
In 2011, David Olk teamed up with Jason Richelson to raise $2 million to build a company with the goal of taking small businesses where they’d never gone before: the cloud.
Passing the Baton
A scholarship made Tulane University possible for Baton Rouge native Jim Burke. That generosity — from someone he didn’t even know — transformed his life and ultimately led him to create the same opportunity for future generations of Tulane business students.
For alums, culture is key to private equity success
For Freeman alumni Steve Jarmel and John Findlay, the decision to strike out on their own in private equity presented an opportunity to not only generate superior returns but also to build a company where culture matters.
Class Notes: Spring 2021
Ralph Brennan (A&S ’73, MBA ’75) has been elected the 21st chairman of the board of the Culinary Institute of America.
In Memoriam: Spring 2021
Herbert Barton (BBA ’43)
Marion Zevely Mason (BBA ’44)
Thomas Carey Wicker Jr. (BBA ’44, L ’49, L ’69)
Charles Leverich Eshleman Jr. (BBA ’45)
August Joseph Selzer ( ’45)
Norman James Haupt (BBA ’46)
Alumnus returns to teach renewables course
As director of Make It Right Solar, the for-profit renewable energy subsidiary of Brad Pitt’s Make It Right Foundation, Pierre Moses completed more than 250 solar photovoltaic (PV) projects in New Orleans in the early 2010s. But when he began working on his MBA at the Freeman School in 2014, he noticed a gap in the school’s energy courses.
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