Robert H. Smith School of Business

Jonathan Claiborne ’77

Former UMD football safety, retired partner of Whiteford Taylor Preston

Since graduating, Claiborne has served as president of UMD’s former Young Alumni Organization and the M Club and funded the university’s Incentive Awards Program.

David C. Quattrone MBA ’05

Co-founder and chief technology officer, Cvent

Under Quattrone’s direction, Cvent has become a leading meetings, events and hospitality technology provider with nearly 4,000 employees and more than 23,000 customers worldwide.

Audrey Awasom ’18

Founder, Noble Uprising

A graduate of the Robert H. Smith School of Business, Awasom founded Noble Uprising to empower women in shelters through job readiness skills training and job opportunities.

Post graduation, Hallie Schwartzstein ’22 has her eyes set on a marketing career in the entertainment or sports industry.

One day in the early 1950s, Chuck Day ’53 tagged along with a friend of his on an unusual outing: as part of an assignment for an applied psychology class at the University of Maryland, Day’s friend and several of her classmates were heading to St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., a psychiatric facility. 

Michael Kurlander ’99 was drawn to business school by the straight-forward nature of accounting and his own comfort with numbers.

As a child, Brandon Zarco ’13, MBA ’19 loved to build on a blank canvas – a space where his creativity could soar.

Devin Regan ’09  founded Rayward Apparel with a mission that goes beyond clothing production. 

When Alex Wood ’21 was applying to colleges as a high school senior, her parents insisted on a simple rule: apply to at least one in-state school.