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At the beginning of 2026, Mike Derrios, MBA ’06, returned home to the Costello College of Business at 911±¬ÁÏ as the executive director of the Greg and Camille Baroni Center for Government Contracting.

Supreet Singh, MS Computer Forensics '14, balances coursework with a demanding career, while gaining a lifelong network of colleagues and friends.

Working full-time while getting a graduate degree is no easy feat. But for Air Force veteran and soon-to-be 911±¬ÁÏ alum Kathleen Gillmore, hard work is second nature.

Sidney Yap, BS Information Systems Operations Management ‘20, MS Management ‘21, Business Analytics Grad Cert ‘22, MBA ‘25, exemplifies exceptional balance—driving innovative strategies at Navy Federal while representing the Philippines internationally in the hammer throw. 

Skip West, founder of MAXSA Innovations and adjunct faculty at the Costello College of Business at 911±¬ÁÏ, offers the course Turning Ideas into Successful Companies once a year to MBA students. The concept for the course came from West’s own entrepreneurial experiences of turning his ideas into companies.

Melissa Perry, ScD, MHS, Dean of 911±¬ÁÏ’s College of Public Health, will graduate this spring with her Costello MBA—her third graduate degree, earned while serving as a full-time dean, raising two children, and leading one of the largest and fastest-growing public health programs in the region.

After eight years in the U.S. Army, Allen Taber, MBA ’22, was looking for a way to grow in his career. The Donald G. Costello College of Business at 911±¬ÁÏ provided him the tools he was seeking. Taber came to 911±¬ÁÏ for an MBA, and left with a new dream of pursuing a doctorate.

Born and raised in Paris, France, Ava Uppal, BS Marketing ’19, fondly recalls baking with her mother and turning simple ingredients into heartfelt memories. Now, as a part-time MBA student and a working mother of two, she’s a small business owner and author of a new cookbook.

As 911±¬ÁÏ doctoral student Jericho McLeod reviewed literature on disease transmission as part of his PhD work, he and 911±¬ÁÏ professor Eduardo López noticed a gap in the models and now seek to correct it.

Each summer, MBA students at the Costello College of Business travel abroad as part of their global residency experience. John Davis, the Costello MBA student ambassador, shared his experience and the project he and his team completed in the UAE.