Tom Blower (1989) joined the Army in 1997 following a Masters in Environmental Sciences, a spell in London and an expedition to Borneo. This led him overseas to Nepal, Croatia, France, Germany, South Africa and finally Brunei. Tom left the Army at the end of 2005 and is now Project Director for the Inspirational Development Group (IDG) at the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. The partnership between IDG and Sandhurst runs leadership and team building programmes for the corporate world at the academy which is widely recognised as a centre of leadership excellence.
Ian Gardiner (1989) is currently living in sunny Sydney with his Aussie wife and two boys Jasper and Felix. He is loving the beach and outdoor lifestyle. On the work front he has founded and is running an internet broadcasting company called Viocorp.
Vassilis Vasdekis (1988)is Assistant Professor at the Department of Statistics, Athens University of Economics and Business. Vassilis has been married to Gianna Theodoraki since 1991 and they have two children, Giorgos (12) and Konstantina (7).
Robert Nordstrom (1988) is moving back to the US after almost a decade in Thailand. He will become Central States Regional Director for OMF, Intl. He and his wife, Laurie, have two children: a newborn and a three year old.
Aurelian Lis (1987) founded a high performance cosmeceutical line called PRESCRIBED solutions [Customized Skincare] in New York a few years ago. The company sells exclusively to doctors, primarily dermatologists and plastic surgeons. The business is expanding rapidly across the US and into international markets and has been featured in many of the magazines for its unique approach to letting doctors adapt the skincare for patients’ individual needs. Old members should get in touch when in New York. (www.prescribedsolutions.com).
Richard Marsh (1986) has been appointed Finance Director of Bunzl Continental Europe and was relocated, with Pascale, Alex and Jack, to Amsterdamin July 2006.
James Calver(1985) There are some exciting changes this year in the Calver family. Alan James was born on a cold and snowy March 3 morning. At 4 months old now he is now enjoying the warmer summer weather in Connecticut, USA. His big sister Miranda now 2 3/4 years old, is pleased with her new baby brother and hopes that he will become more "interactive" soon. James’ wife, Kristi, took a few months off to be with both children and is now back to work in her sales training business, Versability.
James took over Hooper Holmes as CEO in January. Hooper is a publicly traded (ticker: HH) healthcare services company. Hooper is the market leader, with $330 million in revenue, in medical examinations and tests for the insurance industry, completing over 3 million medical exams a year in the US and UK.
The Calvers continue to enjoy living in Stamford, Connecticut in the US: for James, his 16th year ‘across the pond’. Contact James.
Mr Paul Farmer (1984). The mental heath charity, Mind, welcomed Paul as its new Chief Executive in May 2006, during the charity's 60th anniversary year. Previously the Director of Public Affairs for Rethink and Chair of the Mental Health Alliance since 2001, Paul brings a wealth of mental health knowledge and experience to his new post.
Mrs Dahlia Wilde (1984) is a writer and director living in Los Angeles is making a film about her college days at St Peter’s. Filming begins in Oxford this autumn so watch this space for updates.
Stephen Wilson (1983) began a three-year term as Head of the Department of Mathematics at the University of Strathclyde on 1st August 2006. He is also completing the first year of a three-year spell as External Examiner for the MSc in Mathematical Modeling and Scientific Computation in Oxford, completing an interesting full circle back to the course he himself took in 1986-87. Away from work, Stephen qualified for the "A" final at the World Masters Orienteering Championships held in Austria in July, and can now officially claim to be the 73rd best orienteer of his age in the world!
Daniel Zelikow (1983) is Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) Group. The IDB is the world's largest regional development bank and the leading source of multilateral financing for Latin America and the Caribbean.
Daniel was previously at JPMorgan, where he was Managing Director of the Government Institutions Group. Daniel handled transactions ranging from multibillion dollar restructurings of sovereign commercial debts to the securitization of microfinance loans.
Prior to joining JPMorgan in 1999, Daniel held key positions in the U.S. Treasury, where he was Deputy Assistant Secretary responsible for financial policy towards countries in the Americas, Asia and Africa. At Treasury, Daniel was also the founding director of the Office of Technical Assistance, which became one of the largest providers of policy and technical advice to the countries of Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. He also served for two years as the Senior Economic and Financial Adviser to the President and Minister of Finance of Albania.
Mark Shorey (1981) is living on the island of Guernsey and spending part of his time working as a geophysical surveyor and the rest of my time looking after his children while sending his wife out to work. Mark would be interested in hearing what has happened to Yashwant Bajaj if anyone has news of him as it must be 20 years since he last heard news of him. If anyone who knows Mark has to come to Guernsey to deal with their offshore finances then drop him a line and he will be happy to point out some of the better fish restaurants; contact Mark.
Prof Daniel Woolf (1980) was recently elected to the Royal Society of Canada (the equivalent in Canada of the British Academy). He is Professor of History and Dean of the Faculty of Arts at the University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada. He took his DPhil at St Peter’s in the early 1980s under the supervision of the then Master, the late Gerald Aylmer.
Steve Palmquist (1980) is currently on sabbatical in California, where he is working on a research project related to Immanuel Kant's book, Religion within the Bounds of Bare Reason. Steve has taught in the Religion and Philosophy Department at Hong Kong Baptist University for the past 19 years. He has published eight books and about 80 articles, book chapters and book reviews, mostly on topics related to Kant's philosophy. In 1999 he also founded the Hong Kong Philosophy Cafe, which now has five branches and a mailing list of about 600 interested participants.