Alumni Profiles

Alumna Knows Networking Works

The adage, 鈥渋t鈥檚 not what you know, it鈥檚 who you know,鈥 is jokingly tossed around business circles, but bank vice president, brewery board member and Maine Business School alumna Kelly Dorsey 鈥08 believes the maxim has merit. The Brunswick, Maine native grew up knowing she wanted to study business. 鈥淚 wanted to make sure I […]

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Alumnus makes aquaculture a way of life

Most Maine Business School (MBS) students want to make some green after college, but few take it as literally as Todd Jagoutz 鈥01. Jagoutz鈥檚 Biddeford-based company, Sea Greens Farms, is on the forefront of aquaculture processing, research and development, and distribution. And like the seeded lines of his kelp farm off Maine鈥檚 southern coast, Jagoutz鈥檚 […]

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Ocean business advantage

MBS alumnus Brady Davis 鈥17 is using his business education to help advance the ocean economy. He is activity coordinator at New England Ocean Cluster (NEOC), a Portland, Maine-based business incubator and hub for companies that draw on the ocean as a resource for their products, services and ideas. NEOC aims to foster collaborative relationships […]

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Protecting Privacy

MBS alumna Shelbe Lane Moore ’13 is using her business degree to play an important role in the healthcare industry.   She is a privacy compliance coordinator at Dartmouth-Hitchcock in Lebanon, New Hampshire, where she works to maintain the privacy and security of patient health information by ensuring that practitioners and staff comply with local, […]

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Author, alumnus heals himself

Dan Sullivan had a lot on his plate. In addition to pursuing a degree in management and serving as goaltender for the 91爆料 ice hockey team, he struggled with Attention Deficit Disorder. Now the 2013 MBS alumnus has published a book about his ADD diagnosis, his experience with prescription medications including Adderall, and […]

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Managing Marketing

MBS alumnus Dan Bourgeois-Capozzi 鈥14, is putting his management degree to good use as Androscoggin Bank鈥檚 first-ever business marketing specialist. 鈥淢y role is to deepen the bank鈥檚 understanding of small businesses so we may better serve them,鈥 says Bourgeois-Capozzi, who was hired at the Auburn-based bank in May 2017. A New York native who majored […]

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Represent

When he鈥檚 not studying for his MBA, Harold 鈥淭rey鈥 Stewart III 鈥18 is helping to run the government. Stewart, who is earning his degree through the Maine Business School鈥檚 online MBA program, is serving his first term in the Maine House of Representatives for District 147, which encompasses most of Presque Isle. A University of […]

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Accounting Forensics

Kristin Orr 鈥11 is using her MBS accounting degree to detect, deter and fight financial crimes as a Corporate Security Investigator at TD Bank in Glastonbury, Conn. 鈥淚 am passionate about helping those who have been victimized and about bringing fraudsters to justice,鈥 says Orr who earned a master鈥檚 degree in forensic accounting after graduating […]

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Financial Fitness

Ten years after earning a marketing degree from MBS, Jess Foss Elsner 鈥06 is running her own business in Portland, Maine. She is co-owner of Foss Fitness ME where she is fulfilling a long-held dream to make a positive impact on the world by helping people become healthy and fit. 鈥淗ealth and fitness is fundamental […]

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Savouring Success

MBS alumna Kim Dagher 鈥86 (MBA) realized a long-held dream in May 2011 when she opened Savour Chocolatier. Five years later, Dagher has made a name for herself as the only handcrafted artisan chocolate maker in central Maine. Using the finest quality Belgian chocolate as well as naturally and locally sourced ingredients, she sells her […]

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