George Mason Business Alumni

Thursday, June 6, 2013 | Founders Hall, Arlington Campus | 6:00pm to 7:45pm Gary Perlin joined Capital One, a Fortune 500 company headquartered in McLean, Virginia, from the World Bank in July 2003. Capital One is a diversified financial services company with more than 50 million customer accounts worldwide, and more than 900 bank locations in [...]

The Johnson & Strachan Distinguished Speaker Series has recently been renamed the Brown & Brown Distinguished Speaker Series to reflect the acquisition of the sponsoring company, Johnson & Strachan, by Brown & Brown Insurance. Established in 2009, the speaker series has brought a diverse group of guest speakers, ranging from corporate leaders to government officials, [...]

Besides providing what Patricia Roberts, BS Business Administration ’77, says was “a wonderful education,” George Mason University also gave Roberts an introduction to a professor who had a profound impact on her life. Roberts, this year’s Alumna of the Year Award recipient, received her degree in 1977, but soon after graduating, she found she wasn’t receiving the types [...]

The Washington Business Journal’s sixth-annual Minority Business Leader Awards were held on March 21, 2013 at the Washington Hilton and honored several George Mason constituents. The program annually recognizes the Washington region’s top 25 minority business leaders based on demonstrated business success over the past 12 to 18 months. George Mason School of Management Dean [...]