Get to know your board members!
Jon Buchwald, WG’94
Jon develops revenue growth strategies for a broad base of businesses, from startups to Fortune 100 - industries include healthcare, high technology, food and chemicals. He was the co-founder & director of Infrasoft Corporation, a global civil engineering technology company prior to its acquisition. Jon is a past board member of Ronald McDonald House, San Francisco, and Chairman of SofTech an organization representing the interests of the North Bay Area technology industry. In his spare time, he enjoys competing in powerlifting, running, wines, mixology, and wowing audiences with close-up card illusions and poker cheating demos. Jon also is on the adjunct faculty of the Jindal School of Management at UT Dallas, teaching in the Innovation & Entrepreneurship Program, and is a member of the Wharton Alumni Angels, serving on its deal screening committee.
Richard A. (Rich) Fuchs, W’80
Rich retired as a partner with PwC in 2016 after a career providing transaction and accounting change management advice. Rich spent his 37-year professional career advising companies globally on capital market financing transactions, including IPO’s, secondary offerings and high-yield debt offerings. He also advised on corporate acquisition and disposition transactions including carve-out and spin-off transactions. Rich worked for PwC in New York, London, Hong Kong and Germany during his career. His clients included Deutsche Telekom, China Aluminum and China Netcom, and the United Nations. Rich has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School and a Bachelor of Applied Science from the School of Engineering and Applied Science. He is a CPA licensed in the states of New York and Pennsylvania and is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. Rich currently serves as a trustee of the Catholic Charities of Dallas endowment, as treasurer of the Stone Harbor Property Owners Association and as treasurer of the St Vincent Martyr parish finance committee. Rich served as treasurer of the board of trustees of the Shakespeare Theatre of New Jersey from 2010 through 2018.
Stacie Hyatt, WG’00
Stacie is the President & CEO of the Society for Alumni Club Leadership, a company she formed out of her passion for alumni organizations, and is the author of Fully Funded: Outrageously Successful Ways to Fund an Alumni Chapter. She is the current and a past president of the Wharton Club of DFW in addition to having served in other roles over the years and is also a co-founder of the Dallas Business Club, now representing 30 MBA alumni clubs. Prior to her full-time dedication to alumni leadership, Stacie enjoyed a career as an international medical technology executive with companies such as Medtronic and St. Jude Medical. In addition to her MBA from Wharton, she earned a BS in bioengineering from Texas A&M University where she has served academia through the Industry Advisory Boards for both the Dwight Look College of Engineering and the Department of Biomedical Engineering. Currently, Stacie serves on the boards of the Tech Titans and The Salvation Army, and is active in other organizations such as the Executive Women’s Roundtable and the Wharton Reunion Committee among others.
Rachel Ingerto, WG’01
Rachel Ingerto is Vice President at Bank of America's Global Commercial Bank and is responsible for assessing strategic needs and delivering integrated financial solutions to middle-market companies in the DFW area. Rachel has worked in a variety of finance and strategy roles across a number of industries, including energy, retail, and transportation. After moving to Dallas in 2003, Rachel joined the Wharton Club of DFW, and in 2017 joined the Board and became Director of Boardroom lunches. She
launched this new and highly successful initiative geared towards the Club’s CEO/President and CFO alumni. Rachel lives in Dallas with her husband, two elementary-aged girls, and three dogs. When not at family activities, Rachel enjoys sampling craft beers, watching movies, and foodie adventures when traveling.
Devon Pennington, WG'09; WPWP program
Devon is passionate about connecting people and has 10+ years’ experience in financial services where he worked on all sides of the investment management industry. Past experiences include working his way from a trading desk into equity research earlier in my career and stints at Driehaus Capital and Schlumberger Ventures before doing venture capital consulting. Currently, he performs private equity valuation for IHSMarkit and is a CFA Level 3 candidate. He loves to salsa dance, is on the board of Habitat for Humanity Young Professionals in Dallas, and volunteers with the American Heart Association.
Dare Rosebery, W’90
Since graduating from PENN, Dare Rosebery has enjoyed developing people and companies in the US and Europe. Inspired by the opportunity to design and lead programs for organizations that get beyond learning about leadership to developing the personality of a leader who can achieve predictable, repeatable, consistent, and sustainable results, Dare joined People Programs Group in 2015. Dare invests in our community through being an inspirational speaker and through leading Planning Intensives and/or being an Advisor for non-profit organizations like The Gathering Place, American Heart Association, Éstaine, Alliance to Lead Impact in Global Human Trafficking (ALIGHT), and Her Nexx Chapter. To help alumni connect and build meaningful relationships, Dare served on the Boards of the Wharton Club of Colorado and Colorado Ivy+ Women. She recently moved from Denver to Dallas with Kevin, her Love of 15 years, and their furry kiddos – Edison and Radar. All are excited to explore Texas!
Will Enger, WG’10
Will is a partner with McKinsey & Company, where he provides transformation and growth strategy consulting advice for clients in industrials and logistics. Will has worked across both Texas and Hong Kong offices during his 12 years with McKinsey, and served US/global multinationals as well as companies operating in China, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines and Thailand. In addition to his MBA from Wharton, Will has a BS from the United States Military Academy at West Point, where he was commissioned as an Infantry officer in 1998 prior to serving 10 years in the US Army. Will lives in Dallas with his spouse of 13 years and 3 elementary-aged daughters.
Joseph E. Williams, WG’78
Joe is a Financial Advisor in The Monk Wealth Management Group at Morgan Stanley in Dallas. He draws upon his over 30 years of finance, capital markets and investment experience to craft tailored investment solutions enabling his clients to achieve their financial goals.
Joe is passionate about board service and has held numerous leadership positions on Not-for-Profit and Public Sector boards including the Investment Committee at Catholic Health Initiatives, a multi-billion dollar healthcare system based in Denver, the Texas Pubic Finance Authority and the University of North Texas College of Music’s Advancement Board.
Joe was born in New York City and holds an MBA in Finance and Multinational Enterprise from The Wharton School and a Bachelor of Science degree in Finance from The Questrom School of Business at Boston University.
Chandra Gundlapalli, WG'23
Wharton CTO and BITS Pilani masters educated, Cloud certified, multilingual National Diversity Council top 100diverse tech leader, $400M P&L hands-on business transformation Marquis Who's Who in America executive, USA 100 top VPs and CIO award-winning leader with a decade of $2B-$20B Fortune 500 and $100M high growth leadership. Co-developed and delivered $200M-$1B Cloud/Data/AI strategy and 25% speed-to-market CRM/ERP architectures, built 50-2000 member teams, and modernized legacy applications/mainframe in Financial Services, Energy, and healthcare. Co-authored an Amazon top-rated leadership book sharing a 50% efficient TEAM of TEAMS operating model. Born with minimal resources in a small city in India, earned scholarships to learn from the top institutions, only South Indian player on the university cricket TEAM, and lifelong golf learner.
Honors & Awards:
• Top 100 diverse leaders, $400M cloud transformation - National Diversity Council
• Ex-Cricket Captain, First SuperApp Chief Cloud Architect - Halen®
• Forbes Tech Council & Leadership book author - Forbes Technology Council
• Multiple Fortune 300 CxO awards & United States' 100 Top VP’s - Charles Schwab