OUR NOTABLE ALUMS

Notable Alumni

Since our founding in 1965, UCCS has graduated over 56,000 alumni. Personal and professional lives have led our graduates in a variety of directions, and we are proud to highlight just a few of our success stories below. If you'd like to share your success story with us, please contact us at alumni@uccs.edu.

Looking for success stories from more recent graduates? Visit our Communique website.

Scott Oki, '74, '75
BS Accounting, MBA
Owner, Oki Developments, Inc.;
Former Senior Vice President,
Microsoft; Recipient,
Alumni & Friends Award



Margot Lane, '82
BA History
Former Owner, Culebra Properties;
Former President, John E. Lane and
Margaret L. Lane Foundation



Yusef Komunyakaa, '75
BA Distributed Studies
Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet;
Professor, Princeton University;
Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award



Jim Gallogly, '74
BA Psychology
Director, E. I. DuPont de
Nemours & Company



Mary Lou Makepeace, '79
Master of Public Administration
Executive Director, Gay & Lesbian Fund; First Female Mayor
of Colorado Springs



John Herrington, '83
BS Mathematics
First Native American Astronaut;
Ambassador, Chickasaw Nation



Becky Medved, '87
MBA
Chief Operating Officer, RCSPros;
Co-Recipient, 2015 Lifetime Entrepreneurship Award; Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award



Charles Greer, '71, '76
BA English, MA Psychology
Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience, Yale University



Robb Harleston, '83
BA Distributed Studies
Talk-Show Host, Assignment Editor, C-SPAN



Laura McGuire, '82
BA Distributed Studies
Founder and CEO, VineaGroup



Mike Fryt, '77
BA Accounting
Corporate Vice President of Tax,
FedEx; Recipient, Alumni &
Friends Award



Kathy Blake Carey, '97
MBA
Senior Vice President,
Senior Equity Analyst,
Robert W. Baird & Company



Tamrin Apaydin, '87
BS Accounting
CFO, Rocky Mountain
Health Care Services



Tom Saponas, '72
BS Computer Science & Electrical Engineering
Former Senior Vice President
and Chief Technology Officer,
Agilent Technologies; Former Vice President and General Manager,
Hewlett-Packard



Susan Edmondson, '03
Master of Public Administration
President and CEO, Colorado
Springs Downtown Partnership



Mark Hawkins, '86
MBA
Chief Financial Officer, Salesforce.com



Pam McManus, '00
MBA
President and CEO, Peak Vista Community Health Centers



Steve Bach, '68
BS Marketing
Former Mayor of Colorado Springs;
Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award



Ted Sundquist, 92
Master of Public Administration
President and CEO, Sports Virtual Training Systems



Kent Fortune, 89
BS Human Resources
Vice President/General Manager, USAA



Brenda Smith, '78
BS Accounting
Co-Founder, College of
Business Alumni Association;
Owner, Garden of the Gods Club;
Former Partner, BKP, LLP



Linda Hogan, '73
BA Psychology
Faculty at Indian Arts Institute;
Former Writer in Residence for the Chichasaw Nation;
Professor Emerita CU Boulder