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New Oswego Alumni Association Board of Directors
members are, from left, Steve
Messina ’91, Steve
Doran ’82, Don
Levine ’78, Michael
Cassidy ’98 (front) and Marcia
E. Thompson-Young ’81. |
The Oswego Alumni Association recently welcomed five
members to the Board of Directors beginning July 1.
Each member will serve a three-year term.
Steve Doran ’82
works with Merrill Lynch, assisting with their global
equity finance platform. He has completed two competitive
Wall Street training programs and has over 20 years
of stock market experience. His primary focus is on
promoting capital market products while providing margin
and short financing to large hedge funds. As an undergraduate,
Doran competed on the Oswego lacrosse team, serving
as captain in 1982. Doran earned a degree in business
administration and since graduating has been an active
volunteer for the School of Business Symposium, the
New York City area School of Business alumni group,
the Career Connections program and many others. He is
married with one daughter and lives in Bergen County,
N.J.
Michael Cassidy ’98
is the founder, president and CEO of Intercept Interactive,
an online advertising and marketing services firm. Inc.
magazine ranked Intercept Interactive 140th among the
500 fastest-growing companies in the country. Cassidy
also launched Undertone Networks to help clients achieve
their advertising goals and today the company has partnerships
with more than 350 top-ranked media properties and blue
chip clients. Before establishing Intercept Interactive,
Cassidy worked as vice president of sales for About.com,
an Internet search site. He participates in educational
panel discussions, speaks at conferences and has published
articles in industry publications. Cassidy also supports
the company’s commitment to the community by being
involved in its philanthropic activities.
Don Levine ’78
is a guidance counselor at Transit Tech High School
in New York City. While at Oswego State, Levine specialized
in percussion music performance and education and was
a member of Solid State jazz band, concert band, college
orchestra, Oswego Opera and musical theater. Levine
managed the college choir tours to Washington, New York
City and other areas in New York state . After graduation,
Levine lived in Oswego for several years working as
a professional musician and teaching music in the Oswego,
Fulton and North Syracuse school districts. He continued
to teach music after moving to the New York City area
as the band director at George Gershwin Jr. High School.
Levine returned to school and earned a master’s
degree in counseling and has since worked as a guidance
counselor in junior and senior high schools. He returns
to Oswego every June to volunteer for Reunion. “It’s
such a thrill for me to come back, visit with dear friends,
play music and work hard for the Alumni Association,”
Levine said. “It doesn’t get any better
than that.”
Marcia E. Thompson-Young ’81
is the Chief Administrative Officer for Citigroup Corporate
and Investment Banking. There she supports risk management
establishment and maintenance of a control infrastructure
for budget, talent management and development, continuity
of business, SOX 404 and communications. She was born
in Jamaica and moved to New York with her family in
the late 1960s. Thompson-Young has developed a strong
and diverse background in capital markets and banking
products during her 23-year career in the field, which
includes training at Chase Manhattan Bank, where she
was a senior credit officer responsible for financial
institutions’ counterparty risk management. Thompson-Young
graduated with a degree in communications and theatre
and has mentored individuals interested in pursing diverse
careers, from Wall Street to theology. She is active
in Oswego alumni groups and strongly supports the efforts
of the Alumni Association. “Your personal actions
should tell the story of who you are and your priorities
in life,” she said.
Steven Messina ’91
is an associate with Skadden, Arps, Slate, Meagher and
Floml in New York City, representing lenders and borrowers
in a wide range of secured and unsecured financial transactions.
He has previously worked with the Siemens Corp. and
O’Melveny & Myers LLP in the New York City
area. He also represented the National Hockey League
with sales of direct and indirect ownership interest
in NHL member clubs and other corporate matters. Messina
graduated with a degree in meteorology and from June
1992 until September 1997 prepared specific land and
marine forecasts for clients worldwide. While working
in the field he forecast weather reports for over a
dozen radio stations throughout the Northeast, including
1010 WINS-AM and WHUD-FM. Messina received legal training
at Pace University School of Law in White Plains in
1997.
“Each individual brings a unique strength to the
table,” Oswego Alumni Association executive director
Betsy Oberst said. “I am excited to see how their
ideas, support and energy will enhance the efforts of
the Alumni Association to address current needs of alumni
and provide a strong foundation for the future.”
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