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ELECTIONSPU RDUE A LU MN I ASSO CIAT IO NBOARD OF DIRECTORS AND TRUSTEEFOR MORE THAN 140 YEARS, THE PURDUE ALUMNI ASSOCIATIONHAS EXISTED TO CONNECT GRADUATES TO EACH OTHERAND TO ADVANCE PURDUE UNIVERSITY.Through the Purdue for Life Foundation, the alumni association offersexciting ways for alumni and friends to engage with Purdue across a lifetime.With the responsibility to connect, inspire, and serve more than 575,000alumni, the board strives to represent the diversity and broad interestsof all Purdue alumni—in the United States and around the world.The board represents a wide variety of skill sets, executive competencies,and strategically aligned experiences to lead the organization.We thank Purdue Alumni Association members for helping to identifyand select the next class of alumni to serve in this vital role.PURDUEFORLIFE .ORG SP R IN G 2 02 239

YOUNG ALUMNIONE OPENINGVOTE APRIL 11-15PURDUE ALUMNIBOARD ANDTRUSTEE ELECTIONSThe 2022 Purdue Alumni Association boardand trustee elections will take place from8 a.m. ET on Monday, April 11, to 5 p.m. ETon Friday, April 15.The worldwide alumni populationis divided into geographic districts.Members are eligible to vote fora director from the district in whichthey reside; all members are eligibleto vote for the young-alumni directorand trustee.Members must first register to voteby creating a Purdue Connect onlineaccount. This website is managedby the Purdue for Life Foundationand verifies membership in thePurdue Alumni Association.Visit connect.purdue.edu/s/login to register.40P U R DU E A LUM N U SALLISON (GRUNINGER)MANIFOLD (ECE’17)SEAT TLE , WASHINGTONLIFE MEMBERManifold currently developsrouting algorithms for GoogleMaps and previously workedon cloud infrastructure at Microsoft Azure. Since graduating, she has been active in recruiting Purdue students for technology internships and full-timejobs and volunteers as an industry mentor to current students.She is a former director and class representative for the Purdue Alumni Association Board of Directors and served on thefinance committee during her term. As a student, she wasactively involved in campus organizations, including the Purdue Engineering Student Council. During her senior year, shefounded the Purdue Women in ECE club.SYED “SHAYAN”ZAHID (ME’19)CAMBRIDGE , MASSACHUSET TSANNUAL MEMBERZahid is currently pursuing hismaster ’s in aeronautics andastronautics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). He previously worked forCummins, an automotive engine manufacturing company.In collaboration with the Federal Aviation Administration, heis conducting research to reduce aircraft emissions. He is anadvisor to the MIT president, chancellor, and vice chancellor;a graduate student representative on the MIT Committee onStudent Life; and the vice president of the MIT Graduate Student Council, the governing body for all graduate students oncampus. He plans to join Apple as a product design engineerfor the iPhone subgroup when he graduates in May. As a Purdue student, he advocated for a resolution of diversity, equity,and inclusion issues on campus.

INDIANA(ALL 92 COUNTIES)U N I T E D S TAT E S E A S TONE OPENINGONE OPENINGJUSTIN BAITZ (T ’03)LAFAYET TE , INDIANALIFE MEMBERCYNTHIA (KAMMEYER)BAERMAN (T ’84)ACWORTH, GEORGIALIFE MEMBERBaitz earned his MBA from IndianaWesleyan University. He worked in avariety of capacities in the IT industrybefore joining the full-time faculty forthe School of Information Technology at Ivy Tech in Lafayette.He recently was appointed department chair of the school.He has served on the Purdue Technology Alumni Board, thePurdue Alumni Association Board of Directors, and the Purdue Alumni Association Advisory Committee. As a memberof the Purdue Alumni board and advisory committee, he wasinvolved in the establishment of the Purdue for Life Foundation. He received the Purdue Alumni Association Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2012. He and his wife, Amanda(Hopkins) Baitz (EDU’03), have four sons. An active volunteerwith Tippecanoe County 4-H, he enjoys raising and showinglivestock with his children.Baerman is CEO of ExecutiveAdvisory Services and is onthe board of directors for FPL Food and the Atlanta chapterof the National Association of Corporate Directors. She is acertified director, a governance fellow, and a leadership fellowwith the National Association of Corporate Directors. She hasserved in executive leadership and profit-and-loss management roles with many companies, including Kraft Foods, MillerBrewing Company, Anheuser-Busch, and TRW Automotive.She previously was on the board of directors for EPI Breads,Graphic Packaging International, the Human Resource Leadership Forum, and the north-shore region of the AmericanCancer Society. She has been active with the Purdue AlumniClubs of Chicago, Atlanta, and Southwest Florida and is amember of President’s Council and the John Purdue Club.GREG JUNG (M’94)WESTFIELD, INDIANAANNUAL MEMBERJung is the chief growth officer at SevenCorners, a travel insurance andbenefit-management company. He previously spent10 years as senior vicepresident of global marketing and corporate affairs at Bank ofAmerica. He will complete the executive MBA program at theUniversity of Notre Dame in May. He received his MBA fromButler University in 1998 and has served on the board of directors for the Butler University Alumni Association since 2018. Hehas been active with the Purdue Young Alumni Advisory Boardand the Purdue Alumni Clubs of Charlotte, San Diego, and Chicago; founded the Purdue LGBTQ Alumni Network in 2018;and is a member of the John Purdue Club. At Purdue, he was astudent representative on the West Lafayette City Council andparticipated in many campus organizations.PURDUEFORLIFE .ORG KARISSA DONNOEHODSON (L A’08)COLUMBUS, OHIOLIFE MEMBERHodson is senior litigation counsel at Grange Insurance. She islicensed as an attorney in thestates of Colorado and Ohio andhas focused her career on litigation for commercial insurance.She has served in volunteer roles with the Junior League,focusing on membership development and engagement. Shehas more than 13 years of volunteer experience with the Purdue Alumni Association; was president of the Purdue AlumniClubs of Colorado, Fort Wayne, and Central Ohio; and is amember of the John Purdue Club. She was recognized withthe 2014 Outstanding Young Alumni Award for her volunteerefforts. She and her husband have one son.SP R IN G 2 02 241

U N I T E D S TAT E S C E N T R A LU N I T E D S TAT E S W E S T/I N T E R N AT I O N A LONE OPENINGONE OPENINGEMILY STAMPANATO (L A’08)SOMITA BASU (PG’11)CHICAGO, ILLINOISSAN JOSE, CALIFORNIAANNUAL MEMBERANNUA L M EMBERStampanato is a leader of globalcommercial practice at CannonDesign, an architecture,engineering, and designfirm. She acts as a clientleader, designer, and primary catalyst for the practice’s business development efforts. She has been involved with thePurdue Alumni Club of Chicago for many years and recentlyhelped found the Purdue Women’s Network of Chicago. Forthe past five years, she has served on the board of directorsfor the Illinois chapter of the International Interior DesignAssociation. In her most recent role as board president, shestrategically pivoted the chapter’s operation through thepandemic. She is philanthropically motivated through herinvolvement with Habitat for Humanity, Giant Steps, and Cityof Hope.Basu is a partner and cofounderat Norton Basu, an estate-planning and probate-service firm.She is the chair for the solo andsmall firm section of the California Lawyers Association and was a cochair of the DiversityOutreach Committee for the Purdue College of Liberal Arts.She previously worked at Prudential Financial, IBM, PricewaterhouseCoopers, and HSBC Bank USA. She is a graduate ofConcord Law School and William Paterson University of NewJersey. She gives back to her community through her role asa chair of the board of directors for Justice At Last, the BayArea’s only legal organization exclusively serving survivors ofhuman trafficking.ALMIRA YLL ANA (CHE’99)CHICAGO, ILLINOISBETH BOST WICK (MS M’89)FORT COLLINS, COLORADOLIFE MEMBERLIFE MEMBERYllana has worked in global quality,specifically in risk managementand analytics, with Accenturefor more than 20 years. Sheis the current central-regiondirector on the Purdue AlumniAssociation Board of Directors and serves on the leadershipdevelopment and nominating committee. She is a foundingmember and active leader of the Purdue Women’s Network ofChicago. She served as president of the Purdue Alumni Clubsof Chicago and the N/NW Suburbs of Chicago. She is involvedwith the Purdue for Life family as a member of President’sCouncil and the John Purdue Club. She serves on the development committee board for Adler Planetarium and supportsmany organizations that focus on youth, including UNICEFNextGen and Girls Who Code.42P U R DU E A LUM N U SBostwick is cofounder of RS11, anearly-stage startup that is buildinga platform to support small andmedium-sized businesses. After 15years with large corporations, shemoved to Silicon Valley, where she shifted gears and foundedseveral businesses, including a self-service point-of-salecompany that transformed the vending industry. She was anearly member of the Silicon Valley Boiler Innovation Groupand has worked with many early-stage startups at Purdue.She was a founding member of the International Council ofPurdue Women, now known as Purdue Women’s Network,and has participated in Purdue’s Executive-in-Residence program. She published the book You Can Choose, a collection ofthoughts and observations about interacting with the worldand leading an empowered life.