College of Business

Kelsey Chamberlin ’16

Kelsey is a senior marketing manager at Medline, a medical supply company, where she manages and implements the go-to-market strategy for various post-acute market segments. Kelsey started with Medline in the rotational assignment program, from there she received several promotions leading her to her current role. In 2022, Kelsey was awarded the Jim Mills Excellence Award, which celebrates those that have gone above and beyond in their role. During her time at ISU, Kelsey was the vice president of the American Marketing Association, and received the James E. Cox Jr AMA Scholarship.

In her free time, Kelsey volunteers for a dog rescue where she as a board member, and is responsible for managing social media and the rescues website. 

Keith Crow ’10, M.S. ’10 

Keith is currently the director of finance over AGCO Corporation's precision ag businesses including Precision Planting, Headsight, Appareo, and JCA Technologies where he is responsible for finance and IT leadership. He has been with Precision Planting for the last nine years. He partnered with the local government, EDC, and AGCO leadership team to build a brand new distribution center in Morton and in the last two years, he led the finance function in diligence and integration of five acquisitions for the AGCO Corporation. 

Prior to joining Precision Planting, Keith was a senior associate at PwC Peoria in the assurance practice working on manufacturing clients.     

Scott Davis ’07   

Scott began his career in financial services with Thrivent Financial in 2007 and began working for CliftonLarsonAllen in 2008. In 2019, he became a founding member and partner of Renaissance Wealth Management.

Scott is a Certified Financial Planner® practitioner and a chartered financial analyst. His focus is individualized comprehensive financial planning and asset management services for individual clients and small business owners. When working with clients, Scott believes that building a complete financial projection for a client helps him understand what a client is trying to accomplish and provides specific advice tailored to each client's needs.

Megan Harley ’20             

Megan is a senior assurance associate at RSM in Chicago, where she works with clients in the capital markets industry. Megan also serves on the local leadership committee for one of RSM's employee network groups and mentors associates and interns through RSM's navigator program. In 2022, Megan received the Elijah Watt Sells Award from the AICPA for outstanding performance on the Uniform CPA Examination.

Daniel Ireland ’16

Daniel's career began in risk management where he developed a deep connection with process improvement. As this connection evolved, Daniel saw that technology allowed his team to implement more impactful improvement efforts, and he has been working with those technologies closely ever since! Daniel currently leads a team of process engineers, internal consultants, and solution architects who are accountable for the automation strategy at Discover. Daniel was instrumental in designing the Robotic Process Automation (RPA) Program, which has been recognized internationally as the top operating model for the Americas. Currently, Daniel and team are driving strategy for advanced automation technologies including artificial intelligence, machine learning, and low code automation.

Johnnie Jasper ’16

Johnnie is an enterprise sales leader at Amazon Web Services (AWS). With an aptitude to learn and a passion for technology, Johnnie leads a team of account managers focused on helping customers achieve maximum business value and innovation through AWS cloud services.

Prior to joining AWS, Johnnie held sales roles at Saint-Gobain Abrasives and IBM in Boston. Presently, Johnnie resides in Seattle where he enjoys being active in the community through formal mentorship as a Big in Tech with Big Brothers Big Sisters - Seattle chapter and has offered virtual mentorship to the Off the Street Club (OTSC) - Chicago's oldest boys and girls club which serves more than 3,000 kids in Chicago's West Garfield Park neighborhood.

Brian Loiacono ’18

Brian is a senior compensation analyst at CF Industries. Outside of Brian's day-to-day work, he has been committed to growing as a professional. Over the last few years, he has earned several certifications within the HR space and is currently working toward an MBA from the University of Illinois.

He serves on the College of Business's MQM Advisory Council, giving his perspective as a young professional. In addition, following graduation, he worked with three recent alumni to create the Faith and Leadership scholarship. 

Daniel Lopez ’17

Daniel began his career in the business technology space at Discover Financial Services as a scrum master, helping build teams that continuously improve in delivering high-quality, customer-focused value. There he was awarded for being in the top two percent of contributors based on performance.

Now a product manager at Guaranteed Rate, he is the decision maker on product/platform vision, prioritization, development, and implementation internal and external to the organization. He assisted in training a Certified Scrum Master course at ISU and has met with students semi-annually.

Jenna Papesh ’08

As head of growth, acquisition at DISQO, Jenna is charged with leading global consumer growth acquisition to fuel DISQO’s CX platform. Jenna has been a critical driver of DISQO’s growth over the past two years while improving acquisition efficiency by 15%. This year she received the DISQO peer-nominated Innovation Award for her relentless pursuit to challenge the status quo and push forward innovative ideas.

Before joining DISQO, Jenna was vice president of digital acquisition for the healthy snack food startup, HighKey. There she successfully built the direct-to-consumer channel from scratch overseeing customer acquisition, retention, and channel financial performance. During this time, she generated 300% year-over-year channel growth while improving ROI by 500%.

Some noteworthy accomplishments include the 2015 Chicago Interactive Marketing Association award for Best Direct Response Campaign and serving as a panelist for the BrightRoll DSP Summit and FinCon Expo. 

Nathan Steckel ’18, M.S. ’18

Nathan started his career with PwC in the Chicago Office in the health industries sector performing audits for public, private and not-for-profit entities. Nathan is currently a trust solutions manager in the consumer and industrial products sector, working primarily with a global fortune 100 company overseeing various areas of the audit, with particular focus on international reporting. He is the primary point of contact for the Americas and Asia Pacific statutory audit teams and will be going on assignment to Switzerland next year where he will lead global audit efforts.

In addition to his auditing work, Nathan assists with recruiting efforts and PwC alumni relations in Chicago. He has participated on various discussion panels offering early auditing career advice and has presented on various topics for staff training and enrichment for his sector team. Nathan is also a member of the Early Career Accounting Advisory Board.

Joshua Throop ’13

As a principal product manager, Joshua believes focusing on making people great makes products great. Having spent the last 14 years at State Farm, USAA, and now Home Depot, he feels truly fortunate to have partnered with so many wonderful people and organizations to solve meaningful problems and build exceptional product solutions.

With a variety of work experiences including sales, product marketing, building lead and campaign management solutions, a variety of other MarTech experiences, organizational transformation coaching, building payments solutions, and creating delivery communications strategies, the persistent truth is that the more he emphasizes putting people first, the better the results.

Piotr Wietrzak ’12

Piotr is the director of accounting and top financial official at the National Pork Producers Council. In his role, he is responsible for all aspects of the organization's financial, federal election commission, and year-end tax reporting. Moreover, he is responsible for creating and maintaining the budget of the organization, the consolidation of all entities, managing the investment and cash flow of the organization's assets as well as creating and maintaining internal controls throughout the organization. Piotr spent the majority of his career in public accounting, beginning his career in KPMG's external audit practice and then transitioning to EY's Financial Services advisory practice. 

Additionally, Piotr has spent time back on ISU's campus in both a recruiting and mentoring aspect. He has also participated in a number of College of Business’s Business Week panels.