Sofiia Sova (BBA ’25) and Viktoriia Avdeeva (BBA ’25) during the fall undergraduate commencement ceremony, held December 18, 2025.Franbert Jolteus (MSIS ’25) at the fall graduate commencement ceremony, held December 18, 2025.FIU Business finance students attended the South Florida Bond Traders Association Conference in Boca Raton, on January 31, 2026.Laura Takacs (BBA ’15), a principal at Blackstone, was named one of FIU’s 5 under 35. Takacs is pictured second from the left.Shawn Vithayathil (L) and Isabella Mina (R) won first place at the Blackstone Launchpad Idea to Impact pitch competition, held February 10, 2026.(L to R) Jerry Haar, clinical professor of international business at FIU Business; Ricardo Ernst, professor of operations and global supply chains at Georgetown University; Tom Hudson, senior economics editor of WLRN; and Santiago Gutierrez, executive editor of Latin Trade at the release of a new book by Haar and his co-authors Ernst and Gutierrez, at Book & Books in Coral Gables, February 1, 2026.(L to R) Angela Bullard, Alejandro Izaguirre, William Hardin, Ryan McDay and John Nykolaiszyn at a meeting between FIU leadership and S&P Global for the launch of BizLife Powered by S&P Global lunch-and-learn event on February 18, 2026.Jon Sastre (MSIS ’08, BBA ’01) shared feedback with students at the ATOM x AIS Technology Innovation 2026 Challenge, held February 9, 2026.Mark Thibodeau, professor at the Hollo School of Real Estate, gives welcome remarks at the 2026 CCIM Miami Commercial Real Estate Outlook Conference, held at the Graham Center on January 14, 2026.Marcos Kerbel (L), assistant teaching professor of finance at FIU Business, and Julio César Valentín Jiminián (R), superintendent of Insurance for the Dominican Republic during a meeting in the Dominican Republic to announce that FIU is bringing its FIBA Anti-Money Laundering Certified Associate (AMLCA) course to that nation, on July 18, 2025.
