Mark your calendars for Alumni Weekend 2023! Join fellow alumni on April 21 – 22 in Chapel Hill as we recognize the milestone reunion years for our ’3 and ’8 graduating classes, all MAC Alumni, Consortium at UNC graduates, and donors to UNC Kenan-Flagler at the Dean’s Circle level of $2,000 or more.
Take a look back at Alumni Weekend 2022, which brought more than 400 alumni to Chapel Hill for two days of learning, celebrating, and reconnecting.
Photo Album from 2022
In-Person Event in Chapel Hill
Expect numerous opportunities to reconnect with classmates and other members of our alumni community in-person at the class receptions and on campus.
Registration for Alumni Weekend 2023 is now open.
Alumni Weekend 2023 will celebrate the reunions of our ’3 and ’8 graduating classes and all of our 2022 graduates.
Friday, April 21 – Saturday, April 22, 2023.
5:30 PM - 8:30 PM | Welcome Reception & student club events |
9:00 AM - 11:15 AM | Events with volunteer leaders |
11:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
9:30 AM - 1:00 PM | Inaugural Undergraduate Alpha Competition |
1:00 PM - 1:50 PM | Alumni Weekend Kickoff with Interim Dean Conrad |
2:00 PM - 2:50 PM | Breakout Session 1 |
3:00 PM - 3:50 PM | Breakout Session 2 |
4:00 PM - 4:30 PM | Breakout Session 3 |
4:30 PM - 6:00 PM | Happy Hour Reception |
6:00 PM - 9:30 PM | Dean E. Smith Center Celebration |
10:30 AM - 11:10 AM | Breakout Session 1 |
11:15 AM - 11:55 AM | Breakout Session 2 |
12:00 PM - 1:00 PM | Lunch |
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | Keynote Session |
2:30 PM - 5:00 PM | Choose your own Carolina experience |
6:00 PM - 8:30 PM | Class Reunion Receptions |
He is on the board of three public companies, one private company, and two academic institutions. He also has half a dozen advisory roles and is an active angel investor, with an emphasis on technology platforms and green tech. He earned his BSBA ('87) and MBA ('89) from UNC Kenan-Flagler, which awarded him the MBA Alumni Merit Award in 2004. He gave the commencement address for Kenan-Flagler in 2016. He is a CPA.
• PVH (NYSE): since 2014 (member of the Corporate Responsibility Committee)
• Baidu (NASDAQ): since 2015 (Chair of the Audit Committee)
• Rubicon Technologies (NYSE): since 2015 (Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee).
• Acorns (Private): since 2022 (member of the Audit Committee).
• Mayfield Senior (Private school in LA): Board of Trustees and the Chair of the Finance Committee for his UNC daughter’s old High School.
• UNC Kenan-Flagler: Chair of the Innovation Committee.
Dr. Chirino-Klevans is a former Assistant Dean of Executive Education at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and founding member of Duke Corporate Education (DukeCE). She is a guest faculty at the International School of Management in Paris.
She holds a PhD in Psychology, a Master’ in Psychology, a Master’s in Business Administration and her undergraduate degree is in Psychology. She also has a specialization in Instructional Design focusing on integration of technology in training and development. A former elite gymnasts and All-American in gymnastics, she brings her expertise in sports to the classroom by designing high impact and transformative learning experiences aimed at developing competencies for teaching and learning in multicultural and global environments.
She is fluent in English, French and Spanish.
Conrad served as senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2011-2016, overseeing the work of the faculty and academic programs during the time when MBA@UNC and the Master of Accounting online format were launched. She also served two terms as area chair of finance, from 1995-1998 and 2000-2003.
She is widely recognized for her research on investments and finance, with a focus on asset pricing, capital markets, institutional investing and portfolio management.
She received a doctorate and MBA in finance and economics from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Butler University.
Jim is Professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, teaching Entrepreneurship to undergraduate students and was one of the founders of Launch Chapel Hill, and 1789 Venture Lab.
Over the past 30+ years, Jim has wandered through the remotest villages on the planet, across every single one of the world’s 193 United Nations recognized countries, and last year went to space, and to the very bottom of the Earth, in a submarine to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.
Megan most recently served as the Director of Career Coaching, working to coordinate and implement world-class coaching, programming, and relationship building across the MBA programs. Before coming to UNC Kenan-Flagler in 2017, she spent time as a career transition trainer for the U.S. Department of Labor as a government contractor helping over 1,800 active-duty military-service members successfully transition to civilian employment. Megan earned her M.Ed. in higher education from Arizona State University and her B.A. in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University.
Megan most recently served as the Director of Career Coaching, working to coordinate and implement world-class coaching, programming, and relationship building across the MBA programs. Before coming to UNC Kenan-Flagler in 2017, she spent time as a career transition trainer for the U.S. Department of Labor as a government contractor helping over 1,800 active-duty military-service members successfully transition to civilian employment. Megan earned her M.Ed. in higher education from Arizona State University and her B.A. in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University.
Please note additional speakers will be added. Last updated March 16, 2023.
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