{"618550":{"#nid":"618550","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Scheller College Student Named Poets \u0026 Quants\u2019 \u002210 Military Veterans to Watch From the MBA Class of 2020\u201d ","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EScheller College of Business student Ben Crom received accolades in \u003Cem\u003EPoets \u0026amp; Quants\u003C\/em\u003E\u0026rsquo; \u0026quot;10 Military Veterans To Watch From the MBA Class of 2020.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EThe United States Merchant Marine Academy graduate, who describes himself as an \u0026ldquo;avid bicyclist and rugby player, interested in the strategic impacts of business decisions,\u0026rdquo; served as flag aide to the director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency in the U.S. Navy before beginning Scheller\u0026rsquo;s Full-time MBA program in the fall of 2018.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003E\u0026ldquo;I had the opportunity to serve as a flag aide to two different three-star directors of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency,\u0026rdquo; Crom said last year. \u0026ldquo;I was able to travel with President Donald Trump; sit in on meetings with the Secretary of Defense and Secretary of State; prepare and accompany the Director of the Defense Security Cooperation Agency to testify before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee; and witness government and international relations at an extremely high level.\u0026rdquo;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ECrom praises Scheller\u0026rsquo;s \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/why-scheller\/career-development\/recruit\/mba-recruiting.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EJones MBA Career Center\u003C\/a\u003E and \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/degree-programs\/mba\/full-time-program\/meet-ambassador\/index.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EMBA Student Ambassadors\u003C\/a\u003E as two reasons he chose the College. Since his enrollment, he\u0026rsquo;s gotten involved with the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/www.scheller.gatech.edu\/degree-programs\/mba\/diversity.html\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003EScheller Veterans Club\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScheller MBA students Joseph Carothers and Daniel Jester are among veterans profiled in Poets \u0026amp; Quants\u0026#39; \u0026quot;Meet the Class of 2020.\u0026quot;\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003ERead more on the\u003Cem\u003E Poets \u0026amp; Quants\u003C\/em\u003E \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/poetsandquants.com\/2019\/02\/25\/10-military-veterans-to-watch-from-the-class-of-2020\/?submissionGuid=f0ca83dd-ab09-4e3b-b990-3496bb286482\u0022 target=\u0022_blank\u0022\u003Ewebsite\u003C\/a\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":"","field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Scheller College of Business student Ben Crom receives accolades in Poets \u0026 Quants\u2019 \u002210 Military Veterans To Watch From the MBA Class of 2020.\u201d"}],"uid":"28082","created_gmt":"2019-02-27 17:19:22","changed_gmt":"2019-02-27 17:33:03","author":"Lorrie Burroughs","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2019-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","iso_date":"2019-02-27T00:00:00-05:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1274","name":"Scheller College of Business"}],"categories":[{"id":"129","name":"Institute and Campus"}],"keywords":[{"id":"167689","name":"student veterans"},{"id":"55581","name":"military veterans"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ESusan Ambrosetti\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EDirector of Marketing and Communication\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n\r\n\u003Cp\u003EScheller College of Business\u003C\/p\u003E\r\n","format":"limited_html"}],"email":["susan.ambrosetti@scheller.gatech.edu"],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}