Brandeis Magazine

Sean Dillon is a managing director and the head of the securities finance portfolio management team at State Street Global Advisors. A former United States Marine who served in Operation Desert Shield/Desert Storm, he lives on Boston’s South Shore with his wife and three children, and has worked in the financial services industry since 1994. William Friedman is a trial attorney in the U.S. Department of Justice’s Criminal Division, Money Laundering and Asset Recovery Section. Jonah Kaplan oversees the consumer reporting markets program in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s Division of Research, Markets and Regulations, covering big data and risk analytics markets. He is the author of the bureau’s 2021 List of Consumer Reporting Companies, which helps consumers understand the data companies like Equifax and Experian collect about them. Scott Kessler is global sector lead in technology, media and telecommunications for Third Bridge’s Forum business, helping clients make better investment decisions. He and wife Michele Reiss ’96 celebrated the bat mitzvah of daughter Emma in December. Jay Kim is the executive director of the Foundation for MetroWest, which connects philanthropic opportunity with demonstrated need in Greater Boston’s MetroWest region. Nina Simon is a general pediatrician practicing in Long Island, New York. Since 2003, Larissa (Pelc) Symbouras has run a party and event entertainment business, Face and Body Art by Larissa. When the pandemic began, she added custom paintings, murals and window art for homes and businesses to the business’s offerings. Matrimonial law attorney Amanda Trigg is an equity partner at Cohn Lifland Pearlman Herrmann & Knopf. Super Lawyers named her one of the Top 100 Lawyers and one of the Top 50 Women Lawyers in New Jersey.