Ken Kunken ’73
Major: Industrial Engineering, then remained at Cornell for my Master of Education degree in Counseling and Student Personnel Administration
Hometown: Oceanside, NY
Current Home: Rockville Centre, NY
Employer: Nassau County District Attorney
Job Title: Deputy Bureau Chief of the County Court Trial Bureau
Job Responsibilities: Supervised Assistant District Attorneys prosecuting felonies. Retired in 2016, but have continued working part-time.
Most Interesting Aspect of Your Job: Prosecuting criminal cases.
Hobbies and Personal Interests: Serve on the Board of Directors at the Viscardi Center in Albertson, NY, an organization dedicated to helping people with disabilities. I have recently completed a book about my life, titled: “I Dream of Things that Never Were, The Ken Kunken Story,” which will be published before the end of the year. My triplet sons will be graduating high school this year. The best part of my life has been watching them grow up.
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: Camaraderie with the brothers.
Contact Ken at ken.kunken@gmail.com.
Vinny Serpico ’73
Major: Engineering, then remained for my MBA at Cornell after graduation
Hometown: East Meadow, Long Island, NY
Current Home: Princeton, NJ
Employer: I started my career in the beauty industry in 1975 after graduating B school, working for Estee Lauder, Max Factor and the last 28 years for L’Oreal. I retired in 2013 from the corporate world and I now work part time with private equity firms serving on industry boards and doing advisory work.
Job Title: My last position was Chief Operations Officer for L’Oreal North America (2006-2013).
Job Responsibilities: With 7 plants and 15 distribution centers in the North American zone, the team was responsible for engineering of new products, supply chain and production support with distribution to the final customer.
Most Interesting Aspect of Your Job: Finding the right talent and ensuring that there was career growth for new hires. In addition, L’Oreal was involved in many acquisitions during my last 15 years and the challenge was the integration of the new acquisitions into our global footprint and their adaptation to the L’Oreal culture.Truly an international company with a strong French heritage, North America was their second largest market. I was blessed to travel often to Paris and visit L’Oreal plants throughout Europe.
Hobbies and Personal Interests: Still trying to improve my golf handicap. We travel often and have experienced many cruises, both river and ocean. We were snowbirds for many years but sold our home in Naples, Florida in 2020 to spend more time with our kids (2 daughters) and grandchildren (four ranging in age from 4 years old to 20) with both families based in New Jersey. Approaching 48 years of marriage to my wife Claudia.
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: So many memories of the great parties we would have (that probably contributed to the need to renovate the house!). I loved the competition of intramural football with other fraternities. Our frequent visits to the Fall Creek House with memories that will last a lifetime. The camaraderie and brotherhood that we enjoyed was the gift that will always be remembered.
Contact Vinny at vjms1111@gmail.com.
Marc Bruno ’93
Major: Hotel
Hometown: Glen Ellyn, IL
Current Home: Rose Valley, PA
Employer: Aramark
Job Title: COO
Job Responsibilities: Celebrating 30 years at Aramark, started as an intern. Enjoy the travel, dealing with different cultures, challenges, and cuisines across the globe. But, always nice to be home and spend time with my wife, Brynne (also Hotel ’93), and three daughters (16, 14 and 12).
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: I miss House dinners, negotiating the bar tab with Nick at Dino’s at the end of every night during rush week, and throwing everything imaginable out of the windows into the dumpster during fall move-in. And Spring Breaks with 40 brothers, trying not to laugh during court, and determining just what was a joke vs. a riddle.
Contact Bruno at bruno-marc@aramark.com.
Darren Carpizo ’93
Major: Biology and Society
Hometown: Arlington Heights, IL
Current Home: Pittsford, NY
Employer: University of Rochester Medical Center
Job Title: Professor of Surgery – Chief, Division of Surgical Oncology, Vice-Chair of Research Department of Surgery
Job Responsibilities: Manage a division of 12 surgical oncologists, teach residents and medical students, principal Investigator of an NIH funded cancer research laboratory.
Most Interesting Aspect of Your Job: I perform complex liver and pancreatic surgeries on patients to treat cancer. I am also a scientist and develop new drugs to treat cancer.
Hobbies and Personal Interests: Running, golf, cooking and traveling.
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: Throwing huge house parties, hot truck and IM sports.
Contact Darren at darrencarpizo@gmail.com.
Mark Meulenberg ’93
Major: Business Management and Applied Economics
Hometown: Grand Rapids, MI
Current Home: Charlottesville, VA
Employer: Masonry Capital Management
Job Title: Chief Investment Officer
Job Responsibilities: Manage a hedge fund.
Most Interesting Aspect of Your Job: Searching for new investment opportunities.
Hobbies and Personal Interests: Coaching youth sports. I will be joining the faculty at the University of Alabama in the fall of 2023 to teach courses in Value Investing.
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: Hanging out with the guys. You could always find someone to do something with!
Contact Mark at vmark.meulenberg@gmail.com.
Jeff Woodring ’93
Major: AGEC, Applied Economics and Business Management
Hometown: Victor, NY
Current Home: Wilton, CT
Employer: Retired! I was a derivatives trader and ran single stock derivative trading desks at UBS, Wells Fargo and Goldman Sachs. Spending time in Frankfurt, Germany and Hong Kong, I “grew-up” in the dawn of high-frequency trading. I focused much of my time bridging the gap between programmers and trading. This proprietary trading transitioned into facilitating customer flow for some of the biggest hedge funds, institutions and high net worth customers. I still find myself trading a decent amount, especially being online to ”’trade the open” and recently got my son Parker involved.
Most Interesting Aspect of Your Job: Recently bought a Cayuga lakehouse. Spending more time in Ithaca fixing things up.
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: Spontaneous gathering of brothers to do things with, such as library hours from 8-11 pm before hitting C-Town, laundry at the Creeker, video store outings, to name a few. Regardless of what was on the list of things to do, or wanted to do, there were others in the house that wanted to do them also.
Contact Jeff at teamwoodring@gmail.com.
Sean Maloney ’18
Major: Hotel Administration
Hometown: Silver Spring, MD
Current Home: Los Angeles, CA
Employer: Nancy Silverton
Job Title: Director of Hospitality
Job Responsibilities: Running group of Italian restaurants.
Most Interesting Aspect of Your Job: Traveling and meeting fascinating people.
Hobbies and Personal Interests: Working out, eating pasta & drinking wine.
One Thing You Miss Most about Cornell or Sigma Nu: Messing around cooking late night at the house!
Contact Sean at vsm955@cornell.edu.