Fave Five Podcast

Ann lives in Columbus, Ohio, where stays active by attending classes, playing music, and helping with her two grandchildren. Her department at the Cleveland Public Library won the 2007 Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections. She co-wrote a book on music, edited a book on flowers, and published articles on archiving.

Ann attended three universities and three high schools:

* Kent State University – MLS, Library Science, 1974 – 1975

* Princeton University – MFA, Music Theory, 1970 – 1973

* University of Chicago – BA, Music, 1966 – 1970

* Tenafly High School, Tenafly, New Jersey – 1964 – 1966

* Clayton High School, Clayton, Missouri – 1963 – 1964

* Central High School, Omaha, Nebraska – 1962 – 1963

Recorded on February 3, 2026.

Links for this episode:

* LinkedIn

* Facebook

* 2007 Award for Outstanding Commitment to the Preservation and Care of Collections

* Beyond Brittle: Preserving Theatre History at the Cleveland Public Library

* Growing Perennials in Northern Ohio

* Information on Music: A Handbook of Reference Sources in European Languages, Volume 2: The Americas

* Information on Music: A Handbook of Reference Sources in European Languages, Volume 3: Europe

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As freshmen, we lived on the same dormitory floor and became friends and bridge partners. His roommate was my long-time friend, Bill Sterling, a previous podcast guest.Jeff is Georgia Bankers Association Chair and Josiah Meigs Distinguished Teaching Professor in the Department of Finance, Terry College of Business, University of Georgia. He is also Adjunct Professor of Law at the University of Georgia Law School.

He held three prior professional positions:

* Visiting Professor of Finance, School of Business Administration, University of Michigan, 1991-1993

* Senior Research Scholar, U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, 1986-1988

* Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, 1981-1983

Jeff earned four academic degrees:

* J.D. 1985 - Emory University Olin Fellow in Law and Economics

* Ph.D. 1980 - Ohio State University - Economics

* M.A. 1976 - Ohio State University - Economics

* B.A. 1974 - Northwestern University - Economics

He received these awards:

* 2025 Eastern Finance Association Readers’ Choice Best Paper Award for “Dual-Class Shares and Firm Valuation: Market-Wide Evidence from Regulatory Events,” published in The Financial Review

* Josiah Meigs Award for Excellence in Teaching, University of Georgia, 2002

* Terry College of Business Research Award, University of Georgia, 2000

* Terry College of Business Distinguished Teacher Award, University of Georgia, 1992

Recorded on January 29, 2026.

Links for this episode:

* University of Georgia

* CV

* With microeconomics, Jeffry Netter finds his niche

* What caused the 1929 stock market crash? Scholars still debate to this day

* Faculty Focus

* Facebook

* Instagram

* Twitter

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Yal played Division II basketball at University of New Haven in West Haven, Connecticut and Division III at Moravian University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania. He works as a tech and a monitor in a cardiac catheterization lab, supporting interventional cardiology.

Recorded January 16, 2026.

Links for this episode:

* Facebook

* Hounds Welcome Back Men’s Basketball Alumni for Annual Game

* Rich Yaldizian runs up the court

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Tim worked at the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, and the Health Communication Research Laboratory at the George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. I worked with him at Clayton High School when he was News Editor of CLAMO (the newspaper) and General Manager of KHRU (the radio station).

We share a love of each of the Fave Five topics (books, food, music, sports, and humor). We like to play bridge together online, vacation in the Leelanau Peninsula of Michigan, and dine together at Fischer's Happy Hour Tavern in Northport or Art’s Tavern in Glen Arbor.

Recorded January 13, 2026.

Links for this episode:

* LinkedIn

* Facebook

* Celebrating Tim Poor’s Retirement

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Doug is Director of the Musculoskeletal Research Center at the Marcus Institute for Aging Research and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School and Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. We met in 7th grade at Tenafly Junior High School in Tenafly, New Jersey.

Doug earned his BS at Duke University and his MD at the University of North Carolina, which makes for an interesting conflict of interest between these two bitter rivals. He played soccer at Duke. At Tenafly High School, Doug played soccer, basketball, and baseball.

We reconnected when we were both spending time in Florida. We stay in touch regularly over Zoom and meet in person whenever possible.

Recorded January 5, 2026.

Links for this episode:

* LinkedIn

* Facebook

* Harvard Catalyst

* Marcus Institute for Aging Research

* Hebrew Senior Life

* Elected to the Association of American Physicians: Honor recognizes leading physician-scientists for outstanding contributions to biomedical research

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Causes of osteoporosis and much more

Curtis earned three degrees from Northern Illinois University: Doctor of Education (EdD) in Adult Education and Knowledge Management, Master of Business Administration (MBA), and B.S. in Organizational Business Management. He works at the intersection of KM, AI, and the digital employee experience—at companies including LinkedIn, Blend, Zendesk, Amgen, Kellogg, and Deloitte.

Curtis worked at Deloitte from 2008 to 2012 as collaboration analyst and community coordinator. I knew of him through his blog and website before we became colleagues. In the community coordinator role, he was a valuable member of the communities team that I led. He was active in the KM Chicago community, helped facilitate the Midwest KM Symposium, and recorded calls for the SIKM Leaders Community.

Recorded December 22, 2025.

Links for this episode:

* LinkedIn

* Instagram

* Facebook

* Website

* Profiles in Knowledge

* Chicago Pizza and Oven Grinder (offers Pizza Pot Pie)

* Pequod’s (Chicago Deep Dish Pizza)

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Sean sits at the intersection of AI and knowledge strategy. His work spans content governance, metadata architecture, AI/RAG integration, stakeholder alignment across senior leadership, and building the organizational cultures that make knowledge programs sustainable long-term. Sean’s interests include homebrewed beer, homemade pizza, home-cooked food, Phillies baseball, fly fishing, his dog, and restoring and upgrading his 1860ish farmhouse.

I met Sean in 2008 when we both worked for PwC in Tampa. After I left PwC, I was in his native Philly for a Deloitte meeting, and he led me on a food crawl. Soon thereafter I referred Sean for a job at Deloitte, where he still works. We reconnected at KMWorld 2025 in Washington, DC.

Recorded December 19, 2025.

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* LinkedIn

* Instagram

* Facebook

* The Lone Bellow

* Philly Food Specialties

* Sean takes first place in a brewing competition

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We both moved to Northville, Michigan in 1986. Now retired, Mark was a successful restaurant owner and operator. He owned five Arby's restaurants in metro Detroit. He also offered authentic barbecue at the Kensington Grill in Lyon Township.

We share a love of food and music, and frequently go on food crawls together. Mark also likes to play golf and racquetball, go fishing, work on his collection of old cars, cook, travel spontaneously, and spend time with friends in South Haven, Michigan.

Recorded December 17, 2025.

Links for this episode

* Facebook

* The Pony Man - the Gordon Lightfoot song that Mark likes

* Kensington Grill closes after a decade serving customers in New Hudson

* A new restaurant in the area - by Norm Werner (who once worked for me at DEC)

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Lee has deep expertise in knowledge management (KM) technologies, including search, content management, taxonomy, and artificial intelligence. We collaborated at Deloitte and continue to do so in local and global KM communities. His interests include running, trivia, and music.

Recorded December 13, 2025.

Links for this episode:

* LinkedIn

* Blog

* Profiles in Knowledge

* Facebook

* Fermat’s Enigma: The Epic Quest to Solve the World's Greatest Mathematical Problem by Simon Singh — the story of how Sir Andrew Wiles for proved it

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Marc and I have been connected for many years through the SIKM Leaders Community and the SIKM Boston local chapter. We met up at KMWorld 2025 in Washington, DC in November and had some interesting conversations. We share an interest in baseball history.

Marc describes himself as a consummate designer of human/AI alignments to deliver standards-based ESG reporting solutions. For Generative AI Modeling, he focuses on the importance of selectivity in determining business outcomes, the collaboration model between AI and human inputs, and the need for accuracy in spotting and correcting default programming biases. His specialties are prompt engineering; data normalization; entity extraction; competitive benchmarking; knowledge management; business analysis; taxonomy and metadata capture; competitive intelligence; enterprise search; content management; training and development; professional investigations; and curriculum design.

Recorded December 11, 2025.

Links for this episode:

* Hampshire College Closure and Marc’s letter to the editor

* Michael Pollan and Tracy Pollan

* A Stranger Among Us (the movie Marc mentioned with Tracy Pollan)

* Friendly Persuasion (the movie Marc mentioned with Gary Cooper)

* NHL teams that have overcome 3–0 series deficits (The 1975 Islanders were the second team ever to do it; the 1942 Maple Leafs were the first.)

* Hayley Reardon

* LinkedIn

* Searching Out Loud Blog

* KMWorld

* SIKM Leaders Community Presentation: Content Supply? Meet Knowledge Demand! The Case for Knowledge Planners

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