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

Scott Oki, '74, '75
BS Accounting, MBA

Owner, Oki Developments, Inc.;
Former Senior Vice President,
Microsoft; Recipient,
Alumni & Friends Award

Margot Lane

Margot Lane, '82
BA History

Former Owner, Culebra Properties;
Former President, John E. Lane and
Margaret L. Lane Foundation

Yusef Komunyakaa

Yusef Komunyakaa, '75
BA Distributed Studies

Pulitzer Prize Winning Poet;
Professor, Princeton University;
Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award

Jim Gallogly

Jim Gallogly, '74
BA Psychology

Director, E. I. DuPont de
Nemours & Company

Mary Lou Makepeace

Mary Lou Makepeace, '79
Master of Public Administration

Executive Director, Gay & Lesbian Fund; First Female Mayor
of Colorado Springs

John Herrington

John Herrington, '83
BS Mathematics

First Native American Astronaut;
Ambassador, Chickasaw Nation

Becky Medved

Becky Medved, '87
MBA

Chief Operating Officer, RCSPros;
Co-Recipient, 2015 Lifetime Entrepreneurship Award; Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award

Charles Greer

Charles Greer, '71, '76
BA English, MA Psychology

Professor of Neurosurgery and of Neuroscience, Yale University

Robb Harleston

Robb Harleston, '83
BA Distributed Studies

Talk-Show Host, Assignment Editor, C-SPAN

Laura McGuire

Laura McGuire, '82
BA Distributed Studies

Founder and CEO, VineaGroup

Mike Fryt

Mike Fryt, '77
BA Accounting

Corporate Vice President of Tax,
FedEx; Recipient, Alumni &
Friends Award

Kathy Blake Carey

Kathy Blake Carey, '97
MBA

Senior Vice President,
Senior Equity Analyst,
Robert W. Baird & Company

Tamrin Apaydin

Tamrin Apaydin, '87
BS Accounting

CFO, Rocky Mountain
Health Care Services

Tom Saponas

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

Susan Edmondson, '03
Master of Public Administration

President and CEO, Colorado
Springs Downtown Partnership

Mark Hawkins

Mark Hawkins, '86
MBA

Chief Financial Officer, Salesforce.com

Pam McManus

Pam McManus, '00
MBA

President and CEO, Peak Vista Community Health Centers

Steve Bach

Steve Bach, '68
BS Marketing

Former Mayor of Colorado Springs;
Recipient, Alumni & Friends Award

Ted Sundquist

Ted Sundquist, 92
Master of Public Administration

President and CEO, Sports Virtual Training Systems

Kent Fortune

Kent Fortune, 89
BS Human Resources

Vice President/General Manager, USAA

Brenda Smith

Brenda Smith, '78

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

Linda Hogan

Linda Hogan, '73

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