Since 1971, Leeds School of Business has honored alumni, faculty, and business school community members who have distinguished themselves with outstanding professional achievement, impact, leadership and/or exemplary service to the community.

The Leeds School of Business is proud to celebrate and give thanks to the people and corporate partners who are supporting the next generation of business leaders.

Leeds Alumni Awards 2018
Leeds Alumni Awards 2018
Leeds Alumni Awards 2018
Leeds Alumni Awards 2018
Leeds Alumni Awards 2018

2023 Winners

Braxton Carter

Distinguished Alumni Award

J Braxton Carter (BS ’80)

The highest honor bestowed upon our exceptional former Leeds students, this award recognizes alumni who have achieved excellence in their chosen professions and have made significant contributions to Leeds, their communities, and humanity. This award demonstrates the profound influence our alumni have on shaping their industries and making a positive difference in the world.

J Braxton Carter previously served as the executive vice president and chief financial officer for T-Mobile U.S. until July 2020, and was responsible for leading the financial functions and logistics of the company. Carter was one of the key architects of the turnaround of T-Mobile and creation of the Uncarrier. He was also a key member of the team negotiating and closing the acquisition of Sprint in April of 2020 and the acquisition of MetroPCS in 2013. Carter served as vice chairman and CFO of MetroPCS Communications, Inc., his second wireless startup, from 2005 until the merger with T-Mobile in May of 2013. From February 2001 to March 2005, he managed all corporate operations of MetroPCS Communications, Inc. where he led and built all back office operations including marketing, IT, customer service, and logistics.

Prior to 2001 he served as CFO of PrimeCo Personal Communications, his first wireless startup, up until the combination to create Verizon Wireless. Upon the creation of Verizon Wireless, Carter was COO and CFO of the successor entity of PrimeCo Personal Communications Inc. until January of 2001. He also has extensive senior management experience in the retail industry and spent 10 years in public accounting. Carter serves on the board of Assurant, Inc. and previously served on the boards of Research Now, Inc., Zayo Group and Digital Bridge. He is a certified public accountant.

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Corporate Partner Award

Deloitte

This award demonstrates gratitude for sustained support and commitment to cultivating the next generation of values-driven leaders from the Leeds School of Business.

Deloitte is a professional services firm that provides audit, tax, consulting, and advisory services to companies. Building on more than 175 years of service, its network of member firms spans more than 150 countries and territories. Together, Deloitte’s more than 415,000 people worldwide make an impact that matters. Deloitte is a recognized leader of top talent. Its culture is about inclusion, collaboration, high performance, and opportunity, and Deloitte is proud to be recognized as a great place to work.

Anne Dupont

Luminary Award

Anne Dupont (MBA ’78)

Inspired by the University of Colorado Boulder motto, “Let Your Light Shine,” this award recognizes individuals who serve as guiding lights for our community through their leadership, ethics, commitment to social responsibility, philanthropy, and service to the Leeds School of Business.

Anne Dupont is a retired consultant, having spent many years with Accenture, specializing in large-scale workforce transformation as senior partner in her latter years there. At the AthenA Group, she was a principal focused on executive coaching, corporate culture change and leadership development.

In addition to her MBA in finance from what is now known as the Leeds School of Business, Dupont also holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Arizona, Eller College of Management.

Dupont serves on the Leeds Advisory Board; most recently she served on the Dean Search Committee as one of two advisory board members, which culminated
in the hiring of our new dean, Vijay Khatri. She has a passion for elevating women and helping them find their voice in the working world. Dupont is in her fourth year
of facilitating a “Leadership Circle” for second-year MBA women, a mentoring process and trusted circle of women who discuss the challenges and opportunities of growing their leadership skills. She also works with the graduate program on hosting the Women’s Collective Forum each year to recruit talented women to the program and give them a sample of the leading-edge opportunities that Leeds can provide them. She is the chair emeritus and serves on the board of an international women’s organization, World Pulse, that is focused on accelerating the timeframe to close the gender gap and provides a technology platform to connect tens of thousands of women worldwide to share their stories and resources, and enact change initiatives in 200+ countries and territories.

Dupont has two daughters and associated son-in-laws and two granddaughters who all live in Northern Colorado, where she is currently building a home. Despite a move to Fort Collins, her loyalty and heart will still be with CU!

Yonca Ertimur

William H. Baughn Faculty Service Award

Yonca Ertimur

The William H. Baughn Award for Faculty is awarded to a Leeds faculty member for exceptional service to the Leeds School of Business, and for consistent and ongoing commitment to its students, faculty, and programs.

Yonca Ertimur is the senior associate dean for Faculty and Research and the Tandean Rustandy Esteemed Professor at Leeds. Prior to her current role, Ertimur served as the acting dean of the Leeds School of Business and as the chair of the Accounting Division. She is an editor at the Review of Accounting Studies and an associate editor at the Journal of Accounting Research.

Ertimur earned her PhD at New York University in 2003, her MBA at the University of Rochester in 1998, and her BS in Business Administration at Bosphorus University
in 1992. Before joining Leeds, Ertimur was an assistant professor of a ccounting at Duke University (2006 – 2012) and Stanford University (2003 – 2006).

Ertimur’s teaching interests and experience include financial accounting and graduate seminars in MBA and PhD programs, and she was recognized with the MBA Teaching Excellence Award in both 2015 and 2017. Her research focuses on two major themes. The first is corporate governance and the impact of direct monitoring by shareholders via shareholder voting in resolving agency problems. The second is the production and disclosure of information by firms and by intermediaries who provide information and advice to investors to guide their investment decisions.

Ertimur’s work has appeared in such publications as the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Management Science, Review of Accounting Studies, and Review of Financial Studies.

Mark Yabut

Young Alumni Award

Mark Yabut (BS ’16)

The Leeds Young Alumni Award recognizes a graduate of the last ten years who is excelling in their profession and has embraced their role as a responsible global citizen. This award honors the accomplishments of young alumni who embody the values and ideas instilled by their Leeds education, using their skills and knowledge to do good in the world.

Mark Yabut is an antibias and antiracist edupreneur who enjoys bringing laughter and lightheartedness into spaces he enters. Yabut currently serves as the dean of students and culture for Alliance College-Ready Public Schools, one of the largest and most successful nonprofit public charter school networks in the nation. His work as a dean has led to a significant decrease in exclusionary suspensions for Black and Brown students, which disproportionately impacts students of color due to racism and bias. He is a passionate, innovative and transformational leader who advocates and works towards education equity for underserved and underestimated students of color.

Yabut is the founder of Free Malaya, a nonprofit organization that aims to protect, praise and promote the power of LGBTQ+ youth, especially queer youth of color, through critical mentorship, professional development for educators, and advocacy for LGBTQ+ inclusive school policies. He has over seven years of experience in education ranging from teaching, coaching, consulting and designing curriculum. Yabut holds multiple degrees in business and education from the University of Colorado, Loyola Marymount University, and the University of Pennsylvania.

Yabut continues to explore the intersection of his identities in order to take up as much space as possible as a queer Filipino immigrant in America. He is at his most peaceful and joyful when he is out running, hiking and spending time with his dog!

Previous Award Recipients

2022
The Bascom Group​
Peter B. Cushman
Walter A. (Buz) Koelbel, Jr. 
Katherine Lewis
Lori Seward
Adam Warner

 

2021
Ball Corporation
Dr. Robert C. Hummel (in memoriam)
Dan Ivanoff '86
Stephen Katz '71
John Lynch
Axton Salim '02
Dr. Jerome D. Williams '86 (in memoriam)

2019
Russell Cropanzano
Carol Frank
Mary Hunter Kimble '60
Eric Kramer '81
R. Jordan Papé '01
Zayo

2018
Richard M. Burridge Jr. '84
Michael A. Hitt '74
KPMG LLP
Katie Kramer '97
Manuel Laguna
Jane S. Miller
Al Olson '62 & Carol-Ann Olson '64

2017
Steve Bosley '68
Charles Schwab
Stratton R. Heath, III '87
Steve Rock
Chantal Veevaete

2016
Arrow Electronics
Cathleen S. Burns
Kile Morgan, Jr. '69
Lisa A. Pauley '87
Mary M. Sullivan and the late Sherman R. Miller, 4th '79
George S. Writer, Jr. '57

2015
Dan Caruso
Michael P. Huseby '76
Thomas G. Thibodeau
KeyBank
David J. Steiner '75
Melissa Young Brownstein '94

2014
Larry Jones
Bill Marolt '67
Sharon F. Matusik
Phillips 66
William W. Reynolds '60
Mary K. Rhinehart '80
Tandean Rustandy '87

2013
Ambassador David B. Bolen '50
John and Patrice Callies
EKS&H
Thomas Stix Guggenheim Family
Laura J. Kornish
Edward C. Mitchell, Jr. '69
Gordon Trafton '77

2012
Ellen M. Balaguer ‘82
Peter Behrendt
Peter M. Burridge ‘85
Jerry D. McMorris ’62 (in memoriam)
C. Page Moreau
Charles A. Parker ‘56
Dee J. Perry ’74, MS ‘81
George H. Solich ’83

2011
J. William Freytag
Jeanne Jackson ‘74
J. Chris Leach
Randy Nichols
Christy Bieber Orris ‘92
Lyal E. Quinby, Jr. ’55, MS ’58

2010
G. Chris Andersen ‘61
Richard Connor ‘71
Jo Marie Dancik
Walter A. Koelbel Jr. ‘74
Donald R. Lichtenstein
Michael S. Maurer ‘64
Mark Retzloff
Sarah Siegel-Magness ‘95

2009
Sanjai Bhagat
John Fischer
John E. Freyer ‘71
L. Calvin Fulenwider III ‘74
Richard Knowlton ’54 and
Nancy Van Derbur Knowlton ‘57
Sherri Leopard
C. Roderick O’Neil
Patrick Tierney ‘67
David Wolf JD/MBA ‘01

2008
F. Daryl Gatewood ‘70
Robert Gill
Marley Hodgson MBA ‘03
David Mallery JD/MBA ‘99
Bill Moore ‘54
Barbara Mowry
Blaine Rollins ‘89
Frank Selto

2006
Robert H. Deming ’56, MS ’59 and Beverly A. Deming
Larissa Herda ‘80
Walter A. Koelbel ‘47
Paul Larkins
Stephen Lawrence
Jeffrey Lovell ‘74
Storm Metzger ‘62
Joseph Piper MBA ‘98
Marcia Pryde ’66, MBA ‘72
John Shaw
Chris Wand

2005
Jerry Briggs ’63 (in memoriam)
Dick Burridge ’51
Ned Cooney
Dick Engebretson MBA ’72
John E. Freyer ‘71
Ann Heinz ‘80
Dan Japha ‘74
Ray Joyce ’49 and Dottie Joyce ’48
Steve Manaster
Lyal Quinby ’55, MS ‘58
Rod Slifer ’56 and Beth Slifer
George Writer ’57 and Judy Writer ’61

 

1998
Kevin J. Burns MBA ‘73
Larry D. Singell

1997
Ambassador David B. Bolen ‘50
Robert F. Charles Jr.
John “Ron” Moore ‘59

1996
Louis W. Menk
William W. Reynolds ‘60
Thomas M. Shane ‘70

1995
G. Chris Andersen ‘61
Richard Knowlton ‘54

1994
Jerry D. McMorris ‘62
Craig E. Weatherup

1993
John C. Crane ‘58
Duane C. Hansen ‘57
M. Ann Padilla

1992
Steven K. Bosley ‘68
Derek E. Faison ‘70
Roger V. Smith ‘64

1991
William H. Baughn
Barbara B. Grogan ‘69
D.D. “Dell” Hock ‘56

1990
G. Lee Thompson ‘57

1989
Henry E. Kates ‘60

1988
William R. Lennartz ‘63

1987
Dianne V. Ingels ‘63

1986
Roger L. Reisher ‘50

1985
Robert H. Deming ‘56

1984
Robert B. Decker ‘42

1983
William D. Johnson ‘42

1982
George B. McKinley ‘51

1981
Dwight L. Johnson ‘61

1980
Thomas M. Hallin ‘55

1978
Hank Brown ‘61

1977
Thomas S. Guggenheim ‘50

1976
Donald G. Brotzman ‘43

1974
Herschel R. Shwayder ‘31

1973
Robert G. Bonham ‘40

1972
Walter A. Koelbel ‘47

1971
Thomas S. Moon ‘44

 

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