Leavey Alum. Named VP of Marketing at RiseSmart
Karin Bootsma Leavey School of Business MBA ’89 alumnus, has been named the new vice president of marketing at RiseSmart, a leading company in enterprise career management solutions. In this position, Bootsma will build upon RiseSmart’s market leadership and focus on creating marketing programs that grow the foundation for ongoing customer, sales and channel success in each of the company’s markets.
Bootsma brings over 20 years of high-tech, HCM and SaaS marketing experience, including seven years as vice president of marketing at public and private companies. She joins RiseSmart from Monster Worldwide, where she led Product Marketing, HR Alliances and Monster’s Talent Management Suite. Bootsma also drove product marketing for several new products, such as Monster’s semantic resume search products.
Leavey Student Leaders Elected
Santa Clara University’s Leavey School of Business recently held elections to designate student leaders for the 2014-2015 Inter-Network Council (INC) and its various graduate student networks.
Leavey Executive Professor Retires
Linda Alepin, Dean’s Executive Professor and member of the Dean’s Advisory Board at the Leavey School of Business has officially retired. Alepin joined the Leavey School Dean’s Advisory Board in February 1996 where her impact on the business school has made a world of difference.In partnership with the Business School, Alepin founded the Global Women’s Leadership Network, bringing the ideals of Santa Clara University to an international forum as she recruited women leaders locally and abroad to discover their skills and abilities to make change in their communities. In the 10 years since its founding, the Global Women’s Leadership Network has grown to become a separate non-profit organization supporting and developing women leaders around the world. Continue reading…
