Will Lead Admissions and Career Placement
NASHVILLE, Tenn. – Two business professionals are taking charge of essential parts of the Owen Graduate School of Management. John Roeder has been promoted to Owen’s director of admissions and Joyce Rothenberg is now director of Owen’s Career Management Center.
For three years Roeder (pictured at right) served as an associate director of admissions at Owen, consistently working with a positive approach. “Gaining entrance to one of the world’s finest business schools can be a demanding process filled with risk, uncertainty, and mystery,” said Roeder. “We’d rather it be transparent, open and honest instead.”
“John was able to step in to manage the department without missing a beat. He was part of the team that has delivered three years of increased applications in an environment where many top schools were seeing declining interest,” added Owen Associate Dean of Students Jon Lehman.
Before joining Vanderbilt’s staff, Roeder was the assistant director of undergraduate admissions at Southern Methodist University in Dallas. There he helped lead SMU to its highest enrollment in 22 years. Roeder also served as a consultant for Andersen Business Consulting where he traveled extensively throughout the United States, Sweden, France, Germany, China, Japan, the Philippines, Australia and South Africa. Roeder received his BBA and MBA from Southern Methodist University.
While Roeder works with students trying to get into Owen, Joyce Rothenberg helps students as they complete their graduate programs as the director of the Career Management Center. Rothenberg comes to Owen with more than 20 years of strategy, marketing and research expertise and a decade of senior management experience at Fortune 500 companies.
“Joyce is an extremely talented corporate executive and entrepreneur who will bring a fresh perspective to our career management function,” said Lehman. “An MBA graduate from a premiere program, she clearly understands the needs of business school graduates seeking career guidance and placement.”
Before coming to Vanderbilt, Rothenberg (pictured at right) was an executive at Marriott Corporation, where she led extensive marketing and strategic planning efforts. She received numerous awards as Vice President of Marketing for Luby’s Cafeteria in San Antonio, Texas. Rothenberg helped engineer a successful turnaround for Luby’s that resulted in her being named “Marketing Person of the Year” by the American Marketing Association's San Antonio chapter and was named a “Rising Star” by Restaurant Hospitality Magazine.
Rothenberg is also a highly successful entrepreneur. She founded a market research and consulting firm in 1995 and has worked with a diverse list of clients in the fields of health care services, medical devices, business software, retail, consumer packaged goods, restaurants and travel. Vanderbilt has also been a client of Rothenberg’s. Rothenberg holds an MBA from the Colgate Darden Graduate School of Business at the University of Virginia and a BA in foreign languages from Grove City College.
Lehman said he is thrilled to have Roeder and Rothenberg on board. “Both of them are dedicated professionals that understand and embrace Owen's mission of training and developing future industry leaders. They both bring tremendous energy, skills and enthusiasm to their positions.”
