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Tepper School Alumni Awards

The Tepper School Alumni Awards recognize excellence in our alumni community for outstanding career accomplishments or achievements and for impressive service to the school and alumni community.

2026 Alumni Awards Nominations Are Now Being Accepted

The 2026 Tepper School Alumni Awards nomination process is now open. Please submit nominations! The nomination form will be open until Tuesday, January 10, 2026.

The Tepper School Alumni Board Awards Committee will review the pool of nominations submitted by the Tepper School community. The awards will be presented at the Tepper Reunion weekend celebration in 2026.

Submit Your Nominations

2025 Alumni Awards

An awards committee of the Tepper School Alumni Board selected the 2025 winners from a pool of nominations submitted by the Tepper community. Our 2025 alumni awardees accepted their awards at a celebration ceremony on May 3, 2025.

Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award

The Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award is intended to recognize both the longevity and consistency of professional achievement of the highest caliber over one's professional lifetime. These distinguished graduates have contributed significantly to their industries, companies, and communities and brought honor to the Tepper School of Business by upholding the highest values and traditions of the school.

Alumni Achievement Award

The Alumni Achievement Award recognizes the nominee's outstanding accomplishments and leadership in his or her profession, which brings honor to the Tepper School of Business upholding the highest values and traditions of the school. Alumni may be nominated for contributions such as industry innovation, significant impact in one's field or substantive value creation.

Alumni Service Award

This award recognizes volunteer service to the Tepper School community or its alumni organizations, including active participation in alumni or university affairs; faithful and continued effort in maintaining class, chapter, interest group or other alumni organizations; or assistance in expanding the influence and prestige of the Tepper School and Carnegie Mellon University. Breadth, length, and impact of volunteer service to the school will be considered.

Recent Alumni Awards for Achievement or Service

The Recent Alumni Award is intended to recognize either outstanding professional accomplishment and/or service to the Tepper School community by those who have graduated within the last 10 years.

The committee will award both a Recent Tepper Graduate Alumni Award and a Recent Tepper Undergraduate Alumni Award.

2025 Award Recipients

John Levinson (MSIA ‘80)
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award

Tom McCarthy (MSIA ‘80)
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award

John O’Neill (MSIA ‘80)
Tepper Alumni Service Award

Monel Amin (MBA ‘05)
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award

Eduardo Tobon (MBA ‘00)
Tepper Alumni Service Award

Stephen Feyer (MBA ‘15)
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award

Anna Lawrence Fuller (MBA ‘18)
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award

Preston Bryant (BS ‘19)
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award

Past Alumni Award Recipients

2024

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Eric Butler (BS/CIT 1981, MSIA 1986)
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Achievement Award

Ted Fetterman (BS/CIT 1968, MSIA 1974)
Tepper Alumni Lifetime Service Award

Mark Zacur (MSIA 1997)
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award

Laurie Barkman (MSIA 1999)
Tepper Alumni Service Award

Bruce Gebhardt (MSIA 1984) - Presented to Celeste Gebhardt on behalf of her late husband.
Tepper Alumni Service Award

Michelle Crottier (MBA 2014)
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award

Todd Medema (BS 2014)
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award

2023

Group of Alumni Awardees

Ted Decker (MSIA 1993)
Tepper Alumni Achievement Award

Ozgur (MBA 2005) and Mugé Erdirik Dogan (Ph.D./ENG 2007)
Tepper Alumni Service Award

Owen Parker (BS 2013)
Tepper Recent Undergraduate Alumni Award

Heather Rae Martin (MBA 2013)
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award

Craig Saldanha (MBA 2013)
Tepper Recent Masters Alumni Award