Brian Furlong:
CLASS OF 1985
Hersey High SchoolClass of 1985
Arlington heights, IL
Rice University - Chemical EngineeringClass of 1996
Houston, TX
Ohio State University - Chemical EngineeringClass of 1989
Columbus, OH
Brian's Story
Life
College finally ended in 1996. I got my Ph.D. in chemical engineering from Rice University in Catalysis. My project was "Selective Hydrogenation of 1,3-butadiene over Pd and Pd/Cu catalysts"
Around the time I graduated, I married Pascale Bianco-Levrin who was then and is still the Press Attache at the French Consulate and moved back to Chicago.
Soon after graduation, I decided to work part-time for Industrial Steel & Wire Company, my family's company, while trying to locate a position in my field of study. After several months of fruitless searching for a job in France, Belgium, and the US, I realized that I enjoyed working at Industrial and living in Chicago and so I decided to stay with the company.
In 1998, Pascale and I had a baby, Anne-Sophie Dorine Furlong, who proceeded to take over our lives in a wonderful, positive way. She is completely "daddy's girl"
I became Executive Vice President and National Operations Manager of ISW in 2001 and spent the next several years...Expand for more
painfully restructuring my company to become more efficient and profitable during the hard times that followed after 9/11. The changes worked and the company is now doing quite well.
In March of '06, after several years of difficulty in our marriage, Pascale and I divorced. The divorce went smoothly and we remain very good friends. We agreed to joint custody of Anne-Sophie with me being the primary residential parent.
In December of '07, I met and started dating Denise Molina. She is a MD OB/GYN and I admire and respect the work she does. We fell in love and were married August of '07 in Long Grove. The Honeymoon was spent in Istanbul, Athens, and a romantic cruise in the Greek Isles.
Currently we all live in a 3-BDRM house near I-55 and Harlem on the southwest side of Chicago. Anne-Sophie is now 10 and goes to Abraham Lincoln GS in Lincoln Park where they have a full-fledged French program. She is fluent in both French and English and enjoys Soccer and Irish Dancing.
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