ABOUT ALUMNI ALLIANCES

Thank you for your patience as we have put our hearts and souls into ENABLING all of us to “ Tap into the Power “ of Alumni Alliances.
This site is a collective for Alumni and Students.

To Raise Funds
For Businesses, Startups
And Non-Profits
To Invest
In Companies, Offerings
And Charities
For Jobs
By Connecting Job Seekers
With Recruiters
To Promote
Businesses
Products & Services
Among Your Alumni
To Generate
Leads
And Grow And Stabilize
Businesses
For Mentorship
By Connecting Mentors
with Mentees
To Rediscover Old Friends
And Build New Personal And
Professional Relationships
To Share Ideas And Knowledge
At Events, Conferences
And Workshops

Tap into the power of Alumni Alliances
If you are an Alumni or Student

TEAM

Tom Donahue

Chief Executive Officer

1982-1985
BS, Finance
University of Southern California

Jayesh Bajaj

Chief Technology Officer

2002-2004
MS, Computer Science
University of Southern California

Ernie Spears

Chief Revenue Officer

1985-1989
BA, Communication
University of Southern California

Doug Derringer

Chief Growth Officer

1985-1989
BA, Journalism
Ball State University

Tom Donahue

Tom is a real estate expert and entrepreneur and graduated from the University of Southern California with a B.S. in real estate finance.

Tom was very active while at USC. He was President of the Sigma Alpha Epsilon Fraternity and played baseball for two years until an arm injury sidelined him.

After graduating from USC, Tom went to work for TOLD Real Estate Development Co, based in Ventura, California. Grubb & Ellis Real Estate Company recruited him as a member of their elite office brokerage team.

Tom, at the age of 30 started a commercial real estate brokerage company AzCal, which in two years time transformed into an international real estate private equity Company, “International Capital Partners.” There, he raised capital worldwide for the acquisition and development of U.S based real estate.

During this period, Tom acquired and managed more than 10,000,000 square feet. Tom and Deloitte & Touche (Edinburgh, Scotland) formed the first investment platform enabling on-shore capital in the United Kingdom to be invested into real estate in the United States.

Today, Tom is the Founder and CEO of Alumni Alliances and is responsible for funding, strategy and capital markets.

Jayesh Bajaj

Jayesh is an accomplished engineer by qualification. Jayesh graduated from the University of Southern California with a Master's degree in computer science.

He later worked for Qualcomm Inc. in San Diego and was part of their Software Multimedia Application team, working closely with OEM's: Samsung, Motorola, LGE, ZTE, HTC to port and implement Qualcomm's multimedia software suite. He was later part of Google's core Android team ( 2007-2008 ) to port Qualcomm's Snapdragon chipset.

His strong liking for Web and Mobile, coupled with keen business acumen had him found Volga Infotech in 2008., which is now an award-winning 60 member engineering team specializing in developing quality customized software using the best in Web, Mobile, Cloud, BI technologies.

Jayesh's expertise lies in developing and managing Globally Distributed Software Technology teams; Software Outsourcing; Offshoring and International Business Development.

His latest article on USC's Viterbi School of Engineering's website, https://viterbischool.ta.edu/news/2018/07/mr-ta-how-to-launch-million-dollar-software-firm/ is worth a read.

Ernie Spears

Ernie is a serial entrepreneur with a background in magazine publishing and small business consulting. He graduated from the University of Southern California with a Communications degree and immediately after graduation, the New Orleans Saints in 1990 drafted him. At this time Ernie also started to discover his passion for investing and entrepreneurship.

A short time after leaving the Saints, Ernie worked for TransWorld Media (TWM) in the circulation department. After receiving his MBA, he was encouraged by the CEO of TWM to enter an MBA invite-only competition for a single highly coveted magazine publishing position in NYC. Four hundred MBA’s across the country competed, but Ernie won the post.

After his time with Times Mirror Company and Conde Nast both in NYC, Ernie decided to change gears and became a small business consultant. During this time he taught thousands of entrepreneurs how to write business plans, pitch investors and position themselves to succeed.

Currently, Ernie lives in the breathtaking snow-capped mountains of Vermont and is responsible for assisting Tom and Jayesh with the overall strategy and running day-to-day operations for Alumni Alliances.

Doug Derringer

Doug has served in various executive positions in sales and marketing. Most recently, he was Head of Growth for Lambda Chi Alpha national fraternity after spending 20 years in Higher Education with Pearson Education.

He has been building and innovating brands for over 30 years. He has implemented large scale SaaS platform programs for training, product distribution and customer engagement. He has a proven success record in growing organizations in the for-profit and member-based markets by cultivating strategic partnerships with large brands such as Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Follett, Ford Foundation and Google. Doug, 56, is a graduate of Ball State University, Muncie, Indiana, and resides in Zionsville, IN with his wife of 30 years Lisa. He also has four children – Andrew, 27, Rebecca, 24, Grace 20 and Veronica 15 years old.