Summer 2025: Morehead-Cains on the move

Published on August 28, 2025

Morehead-Cain Alumni landed new jobs, received accolades, stepped into new seasons of life, and more. Here’s who made a move this summer.

  • Dr. Timothy Smith ’82 retired in August after a decade of serving as Bishop of the NC Lutheran Synod. 
  • Robyn Hadley ’85 began a new role as an affiliate consultant with Dr. Rich Keeling at Keeling & Associates, a firm that specializes in enhancing the student experience from several perspectives, in August. 
  • After more than four years with the company, Dave Bernath ’89 was announced as the new CEO of Wurl, a company that helps deliver TV shows to streaming platforms, in August. 
  • Because Baseball, an organization founded by Kemp Gouldin ’02, was featured on Major League Baseball for the nonprofit’s fourth annual Play Ball Weekend in Egypt in June. The segment was the first live baseball broadcast from Egypt in history. Because Baseball seeks to bridge the East-West divide through the love of the game.  
  • Rachel Maczyk Pfeifer ’02 began a new role as chief program officer at the Morehead-Cain Foundation in August.  
  • Josh Lee ’04 was on the TODAY Show in July to share about founding Lucha Wrestling Club, the first and only all-girls freestyle wrestling club in New York City.  
  • Grant Heskamp ’14  is starting a new role at Clinton Health Accession Initiative as senior director of strategy and innovation, where he was most recently chief of staff and director of strategy. Don’t miss Grant at the Alumni Forum in October, where he’ll moderate the U.S. Engagement Abroad panel.  
  • Julian Goldner ’24 joined Well in June as a client success analyst, where he’ll work alongside Dave Werry ’06, Will Aiken ’03, Jared Sokolsky ’05, Jeff Hortman ’06, Stuart Luter ’20, and Sally Kuehn ’21.