2019-2020 Economics Mentors

Ken Altena
Senior Vice President, Media & Communications Division, U.S. Bank
UW Economics BA ’83
Mentor since: 2013

David Carroll
Vice President of Retail Banking, Banner Bank
Mentor since: 2015

Alison Riddell Davis
Director, Product and Commercial Strategy, Belena
UW Economics BA ’11, Political Science BA '11
Mentor since: 2013

Robert Delharo
Environment, Health and Safety Financial Analyst, Boeing
Mentor since: 2018

Gerilyn Denny
Financial Advisor, Morgan Stanley 
UW Economics BA 
Mentor since: 2016

Fred Dong
Research Professional - Empirical and evaluation research in public health
UW Economics BA ’75
Mentor since: 2012

Scott Easter
Attorney (Partner), Montgomery, Purdue, Blankinship & Austin PLLC
UW Economics BA '71
Mentor since: 2017

Andrew Everett, MS *based in Ithaca, New York
M.Eng.: Systems Engineering, Computer & Information Systems concentration, Cornell University
UW Economics BS '09, BA Mathematics '09
Mentor since: 2016

Alex Feng
Finance Manager, Google Play
UW Economics BS ’09
Mentor since: 2015

David Griswold, JD
General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer, Pacific Current Group
UW Economics BA '79
Mentor since: 2011

Brent Grundberg
Co-Founder, Glendale Energy Ventures
UW Economics BA '06
Mentor since: 2011

Mark Hamilton
Managing Partner, MRH Capital
UW Economics BA '76
Mentor since: 2012

Gabe Hanzeli
Director of IT (retired), The Boeing Company
UW Economics BA ’76
Mentor since: 2011

Kevin Ho
Digital Business Integration Consultant, Accenture
UW Economics BA '16
Mentor since: 2016

Logan Lemberger
VP Business Development, WireCash
UW Economics BA '09, International Studies BA '09
Mentor since: 2014

Jeff Lewis 
Channel Sales Manager, eOriginal
UW Economics BA ’89
Mentor since: 2012

Jordan Louie
Vice President, Capital Markets - Multi Family, JLL
UW Economics BS '11, French BA '11
Mentor since: 2015

Catalina Marini Fichera, JD, MSFS - based in New York, NY 
Managing Director, PwC
UW Economics BA '90, International Studies BA '90
Mentor since: 2019

Steve Mitchell
Managing Account Executive, Traveler's
UW Economics BA '97
Mentor since: 2015

Tom Olson
Counsel, Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, Business and Estate Planning
UW Economics BA '61
Mentor since: 2012

Cary Oshima
Associate Vice President, Cognizant Technology Solutions
UW Economics BA ’90
Mentor since: 2012

Jolene Parisio
Director of Marketing, Genie
UW Economics BA '01, Sociology BA '01
Mentor since: 2011

Julie Parisio-Roy
Director of Financial Planning and Wealth Manager, Badgley Phelps
UW Economics BA ’97
Mentor since: 2012

Matt Ravet
Senior Analytics Manager - FBA Supply Chain, Amazon
UW Economics BS '09
Mentor since: 2017

Jeff Roe
President and CEO of Premera 
UW Economics BA '88, Political Science BA '88
Mentor since: 2012

Steven Sankaran *based in the Bay Area, CA
Technical Infrastructure Finance, Google
UW Economics BS ’12
Mentor since: 2014 

William C. (Bill) Severson, JD
Owner and Partner, William C. Severson PLLC
UW Economics BA ’71, UW JD ’74
Mentor since: 2012

Merrile Sing, PhD
Senior Economist, U.S. Government Accountability Office
UW Economics BA ’78
Mentor since: 2014

John Stephanus
President, The ARMCO Group
UW Economics BA ’80
Mentor since: 2012

Kyle Stewart
(most recent) Project Manager, Hotel Division, Clise Properties
UW Economics BA ’09
Mentor since: 2014

Craig Swanson
Founder/Owner, Redside Partners, LLC
UW Economics BA '89
Mentor since: 2015

Gene Tien, PhD *based in Palo Alto, CA
Director of Economics, Baker & McKenzie Consulting
UW Economics BA '94
Mentor since: 2016

Zhi Wan
Performance Marketing Lead, Alibaba
UW Economics BA '10
Mentor since: 2016

Eileen Wang
Microsoft (previous), Econ VC (current)
UW Economics BS '01
Mentor since: 2015

Brenden West
Senior Software Engineer, CBRE Dev
UW Economics BA '87
Mentor since: 2015

Austin Wolfe
Analyst, Spencer Stuart
UW Economics BS '15
Mentor since: 2016

Stephen Wu
(Last Job) Retail Vendor Manager, Amazon
UW Economics BS '14
Mentor since: 2015

Olga Yang
Senior Underwriter, Philedalphia Insurance Co.
UW Economics BA ’82
Mentor since: 2011

Clalissa Yi
Associate, Project Leadership Services, Point B
UW Economics BA '16
Mentor since: 2018

The Department of Economics is grateful to our outstanding group of volunteer mentors, who, as busy professionals, nonetheless find time in their schedules to meet with Economics undergraduates to provide career guidance and help them develop the skills that will help them succeed after graduation. Thank you!