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Welcome

NEW Grad Link App Now Available!

To further WPAOG’s vision for the Long Gray Line to be “the most connected alumni body in the world,” WPAOG has launched Grad Link to provide an enhanced level of connectivity with fellow grads.

Grad Link expands upon the familiar “Find a Grad” feature from the WPAOG website by combining data from WPAOG with information from your LinkedIn profile to help you quickly and easily find grads who share your interests. You will be able to conceal some of your personal information, such as your email address, location or your entire profile.

Access this secure platform today through the Google Play Store, Apple App Store or with your web browser.

To ensure an easy sign-up experience, please make sure the email address attached to your LinkedIn account is on file with WPAOG by contacting GradLink@wpaog.org. (And be sure to join the WPAOG LinkedIn Discussion Group – over 17,000 strong!)

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WPSA Events

Welcome to the West Point Society of Atlanta

Welcome to the WPSA website!

The Board of Governors has been busy over the summer working on the schedule of events for the next 12 months.  Please take a minute to review the new events recently added – from now through March of 2019.

More details will be added, but the dates are firm now.

Beat Navy!

-WPSA BoG

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Grad Spotlight

Grad Spotlight – April 2018

John Green ’09
John Green (USMA ’09)
John is currently at the top of his class at Emory Law. His work has been published in a prestigious Law Journal: “Averting an Inside Job: A Proposal to Change How Insiders Are Defined in the Bankruptcy Code.”
He was also Editor and Chief of the Emory Bankruptcy Developments Journal last year. John is also the recipient of several scholarships.
He served with distinction with the 3rd Infantry Regiment, “Old Guard” and with Arlington National Cemetery successfully updating and implementing important policies related to our Nation’s military funeral procedures. His full military background can be found here.
Topics he can help with: legal education / law school (especially at Emory), getting published in a journal, and bankruptcy law.
How to Contact: johnathandgreen@gmail.com
Each month, WPSA will highlight an Atlanta area graduate and WPSA​ member doing something professionally noteworthy in a business context. Please nominate a Grad you feel has accomplished or is accomplishing something worth sharing.
Each selected Grad agrees to help those that reach out to them seeking guidance or advice. Please respect their time. Nominations are voted upon ​
by the WPSA Board monthly. Nominations can be sent to President Elect Samir Patel ’08 at samir.t.patel@outlook.com
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West Point Society of Atlanta
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Grad Spotlight

Grad Spotlight for March 2018

Grad: Michael Boulegeris ’83

Michael G. Boulegeris (USMA ’83)

Boulegeris Investments, Inc.

 

Michael Boulegeris graduated from the United States Military Academy with a B.S. degree in Engineering and a minor in Eastern European and Soviet Studies. He served as a commissioned officer in the United States Army, achieved the rank of Captain and was entrusted with a high security clearance.

 

Mr. Boulegeris founded the firm, Boulegeris Investments, Inc., in 1992 and is the firm’s Chief Investment Officer. He also serves as a Trustee of the Annunciation Cathedral Endowment Foundation of the Greek Orthodox Church in Atlanta, GA. Mr. Boulegeris was recognized by the West Point Association of Graduates and inducted into the General Henry H. Arnold Society.

 

Mr. Boulegeris was a Co-Founder of MAP Pharmaceuticals Inc., a biopharmaceutical company that was acquired by Allergan, Inc. in March 2013.

 

Topics he can help with: Investment research, Portfolio management, Entrepreneurship and Philanthropy.

 

How to Contact: mgb@boulegeris.com

 

Each month, WPSA will highlight an Atlanta area graduate and WPSA member doing something professionally noteworthy in a business context. Please nominate a Grad you feel has accomplished or is accomplishing something worth sharing.

 

Each selected Grad agrees to help those that reach out to them seeking guidance or advice. Please respect their time. Nominations are voted upon  

by the WPSA Board monthly. Nominations can be sent to President Elect Samir Patel ’08 at samir.t.patel@outlook.com

 

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Board of Governors

West Point Society of Atlanta

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Grad Spotlight

Grad Spotlight – February 2018

Grad: Lee Rivas ’96

Grad: Lee Rivas ’96

 

About Lee: Lee started his career as an officer in the U.S. Army where he held several operational leadership roles in tank and armored cavalry units in the U.S. and abroad, and left active duty as a Captain. Lee graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point where he was a member of the academic honor society Phi Kappa Phi and holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School.

 

His professional career includes serving as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, a leading global strategy consulting firm. He led client teams focused primarily on overall strategy, mergers and acquisitions, and sales strategy. Lee then joined RELX group, a global provider of data and analytic solutions across industries and held a serios of commercial and general management role.

 

Lee Rivas is currently the President of RELX global healthcare businesses. He is responsible for over $1b of revenues and 2,500 employees across the Elsevier Clinical Solutions, Nursing and Health Education, and LexisNexis Risk Solutions’ healthcare data businesses. His business is dedicated to educating and training healthcare professionals, improving patient outcomes, and enabling high quality decisions through the use of, evidence-based content, technology and analytics.

 

How to contact: L.Rivas@elsevier.com

 

Topics he can help with: corporate leadership, mergers and acquisitions, corporate strategy and product management.

 

Each month, WPSA will highlight an Atlanta area graduate and WPSA member doing something professionally noteworthy in a business context. Please nominate a Grad you feel has accomplished or is accomplishing something worth sharing.

 

Each selected Grad agrees to help those that reach out to them seeking guidance or advice. Please respect their time. Nominations are voted upon  

by the WPSA Board monthly. Nominations can be sent to President Elect Samir Patel ’08 at stp@scottbx.com

 

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Board of Governors

Westpoint Society of Atlanta