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For Owen Alumni

Your Owen story doesn’t end at graduation. It’s just getting started.

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Alumni Events

Whether it's organizing an Event-In-A-Box in your region or joining Reunion in the fall, there are multiple ways to get involved with the Owen community near you.

Alumni Benefits

As an Owen alumnus, you are connected to a lifetime of career advising and coaching that includes assisting you in targeting functions and employers, helping you create your job search and personal marketing strategy, and guiding you in preparing for interviewing and negotiating opportunities.

Owen alumni also have access to Executive Education programs for individuals. We offer two- to three-day focused programs to help you develop and strengthen critical business skills.

Ways to Give

There are many payment options to fund your gift: online, by mail, through a bank draft, and even with stocks and securities. Multiply your impact and check if your company matches gifts.

Meet the Owen Advisory Council

The Owen Advisory Council comprises diverse communities of alumni and volunteer leaders that drive engagement and support for Owen’s mission to creating opportunities to discover, grow, and thrive in business and beyond.

Distinguished Alumni Award

Over the past 25+ years, the Vanderbilt Owen Graduate School of Management Distinguished Alumni Award has recognized one alum who has exhibited outstanding leadership and service in both the professional and philanthropic realms. The recipient contributes significantly to Owen by donating time, energy, talent, or philanthropic support, building networks through class activities, being of service to current students and faculty, hosting regional programs such as Closing Bells, or serving in volunteer leadership positions such as the Alumni Council.

  • Past Distinguished Alumni Recipients

    1991 - 2023

    2023 Prashant Khemka (MBA’98)

    2022 Jon Stevens (MBA’95)

    2020/2021 John Hawkins (MBA'92)

    2019 Paul Jacobson (MBA'97)

    2018 Adena Friedman (MBA'93)

    2017 W. Jackson (Jack) Long, Jr. (MBA'83)

    2016 Virginia “Gigi” Banks Lazenby (MBA'73)

    2015  Heiki Miki (MBA'96)

    2014 Brent Turner (MBA'99)

    2013 Eric Noll (MBA'90)

    2012 Jim Sohr (BE'86, MBA'90)

    2011 David B. Ingram (MBA'89)

    2006 A.J. Kazimi (MBA'84)

    2005 Amy Jorgensen Conlee (MBA'77)

    2004 William Douglas Parker, Jr. (MBA’86)

    2003 David C. Kloeppel (MBA’96)

    2002 James H. Herring, Jr. (MBA’89)

    2000 Kimberley G. Newton (MBA’99)

    1999 Brad Williams (MBA’94)

    1998 J. Smoke Wallin (MBA’93)

    1997 Donald E. Townswick (MBA’92)

    1996 Robert W. Davis (MBA’91)

    1995 Thomas Eckert (MBA’90)

    1994 James Welch (MBA’89)

    1993 Mark Hilling (MBA’88)

    1992 Brian M. Cote (MBA’87)

    1991 Carin L. Barth (MBA’86)

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