Alumni
Alumni are most valuable members of our School of Management community, and we strive to always serve them best.
Our network is more than 13,000 alumni globally strong, and each one of them is important
to us. Not only are our dedicated professors, staff, and advisory council members
are ready to assist our alumni with advice or access to networks, but alumni have
proven many times that they are proud to help each other in the many ways listed below.
Annually, we also honor two alumni with our “Distinguished Alumnus/Alumna” and “Young
Alumnus/Alumna” awards.
What can I do?
Here are just a few of the different ways you can stay involved and continue to play an important role in the continued success of the School of Management:
- Update your information so we know how to reach you
- Share your Cal Lutheran story with others
- Join our alumni community on LinkedIn!
- Tell your colleagues, friends and acquaintances you are a Cal Lutheran alum. With the vast majority of our alumni living and working in the area, chances are good that there are Cal Lutheran alumni among your colleagues and friends.
- Refer prospective students, employees and friends to our programs.
- Attend School of Management events and continue your professional development with networking and lifelong learning.
- Mentor a business or accounting major.
- Hire a Cal Lutheran graduate who has been well prepared to shape the future.
- Maintain your ties to our faculty, staff and community.
- Volunteer to become a School of Management Executive Connection member.
- Support the School of Management by joining the Dean's Circle.
SOM Young Alumna of the Year 2024
Anastasia Martinez
Chief of Staff, Libra Leaders
Libra Leaders
Our Young Alumna of the Year is Anastasia Martinez. While at Cal Lutheran, Anastasia was a very active student in a variety of student clubs, including Delta Sigma Pi, our national co-educational student fraternity. Even more importantly, she was a stellar student who was also chosen to be part of the prestigious federal McNair Scholars program, funded at only around 150 institutions across the United States by the U.S. Department of Education. The program is designed to prepare undergraduate students for graduate studies through involvement in research and other scholarly activities focused on first-generation college students or members of a group that is traditionally underrepresented in graduate education. I am proud to say that I had the honor of being Anastasia’s mentor in that process during which she worked on research related to LatinX entrepreneurship. In 2022, she was invited to present her research paper “The Land of Limited Opportunity: The Challenges Latinx Entrepreneurs Confront in California” at the highly competitive National McNair Conference at the University of Maryland. After graduating from Cal Lutheran in 2022, Anastasia received a full scholarship for a graduate program in Business Analytics from Rensselaer Polytechnic University and she started to work for L’Attitude Ventures, a LatinX-focused venture capital firm where she sourced deals and built an extensive network of founders in Los Angeles and in New York. Recently, Anastasia moved on and on International Women’s Day co-founded Libra Leaders, a platform that empowers women investors and founders by providing access to capital, connections, and visibility. She has stayed in touch with her alma mater since graduation and has truly made us proud. We look forward to her continued success and to her increasing involvement in our work at the School of Management.
SOM Distinguished Alumnus of the Year 2024
Jeff Brouelette
Principal/President, Arroyo Capital, LLC
Jeff Brouelette graduated from the School of Management with a Bachelor of Science in Accounting in 1991. During his time at Cal Lutheran, he was Captain of our NAIA State Championship baseball team. After graduation, he went on to climb the corporate ladder in a number of companies and industries, mostly in the real estate sector. In 1998, he received an MS in Taxation from Golden Gate University and in 2012, he founded Strategic Financial Group, which he served as a CEO for several years. In 2015, he co-founded Arroyo Capital, a real estate finance and development company that provides finished lots to homebuilders in major homebuilding markets across the United States. Jeff is a Principal and the President of Arroyo Captal. He is actively involved in all financial aspects of the firm, underwriting new investments and oversight of projects during development, construction, and marketing. During his lifetime he has underwritten billions of dollars inreal estate across major homebuilding markets in the United States. Besides his success in industry, we value Jeff for his loyalty to and engagement with his alma mater.