Alumni Leaders

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Binghamton alumni are prominent in their communities and professions. They are also loyal to their alma mater, actively supporting it with donations of funds, time, effort and knowledge.

  • Today, approximately 50,000 Binghamton University alumni live and work in the state of New York, playing leading roles in business, medicine, law, education and politics. More than 1,400 alumni are involved in the investment and securities industry, playing a prominent role in the state’s economy. Some 2,200 others work in the legal profession, 1,313 are CPAs and 763 hold “CEO,” “president” or other top management titles in their companies.

  • Eighty-three percent of seniors who apply to law school are accepted, compared to the national-average acceptance rate of 71 percent. Sixty-one percent who apply to medical school are accepted, compared with 48 percent nationally. All told, two-thirds of alumni eventually pursue a graduate or professional degree, destined to assume leadership positions in their respective fields and to become the knowledge-creators of tomorrow.

  • Binghamton engineering students claim the highest pass rate for professional exams in New York. Our nursing graduates have the highest pass rate — 98.1 percent — in the state on their national certification exams. Our School of Education graduate programs attract the very brightest future teachers and educational leaders in the state.

Binghamton alumni are standouts. Included among them are:

  • Leaders in medicine.


    Dr. Joseph Eron ’80 pioneered the “cocktail” therapy combination of drugs that gave hope and extended life to thousands of AIDS patients.

    Dr. Andrew Siedman ’81, a breast cancer physician, teacher and researcher at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has been honored for his work to advance treatment, compassionate care and communications about breast cancer.

  • Leaders in business.

    Matt Ouimet '80 left California where he served as president of Disneyland Resort to return to New York as president of Starwood Hotels & Resorts Worldwide Inc.'s Hotel Group in White Plains.

    Mark S. Newman '71 is board chair, president and chief executive officer of DRS Technologies Inc. in Parsippany, N.J., a defense technology company named one of America's best-managed companies by Forbes in 2006.

    • Tonya Parris ’92, a vice president at Goldman Sachs, grew up in Bronx public housing projects and now manages a team of 40 global computer programmers.

    David Gdovin ’77, CEO of Diamond Visionics, partners with Binghamton University on business solutions and employs Binghamton engineering graduates to build a successful high-technology business that creates innovative aircraft simulators for the military, Lockheed Martin, BAE and others.

  • Prominent leaders in law and government.

    City councilman John Liu ’88 made history in 2001 when he became the first Asian American to win election to a major New York City office.

    Eric Schwartz '79 served as the U.N. Secretary-General's Deputy Special Envoy for Tsunami Recovery and is now executive director of ConnectUS, an organization that to enhance U.S. engagement in world affairs.

    Three alumni currently serve as representatives in the New York State Assembly: Michele R. Titus '90 (D-31), since 2002; Donna Lupardo '83 (D-126), since 2004; and Hakeem S. Jeffries '92 (D-57), since 2006.

    Lawyer Owen Pell ’80, a partner in the Manhattan office of White & Case LLP, specializes in public international law and as a volunteer has helped recover priceless art looted during the Holocaust.

  • Donors and supporters of Binghamton University.

    8,288 alumni donated funds as well as significant in-kind gifts to the University in 2006-07. These funds support 103 scholarships. Almost 1,700 alumni volunteered to assist with other admissions efforts. More than 150 served on Alumni Association boards and committees, and 3,163 gave thousands of hours to the Alumni Career Network to help students and alumni with their careers.