Head of Asset Allocations, American Family Insurance
American Family Insurance
John Caserta '01
President & CEO
Caserta & de Jongh, LLC
John Caserta is a leading Chartered Financial Consultant with a Masters in Financial Services and a highly-sought after authority on personal finances. In addition to regularly appearing on Good Morning Connecticut on WTNH, John has been featured in articles for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Business Insider, and more. He has traveled throughout the country educating thousands on how to take control of their personal finances at numerous universities including Yale, UConn, Ohio State, and more.
John's dedication is evident in his growing professional designations. As a Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP®), he helps clients with Social Security, pension plans, annuities, and tax-efficient withdrawal strategies. His Certified Life Underwriter (CLU®) designation adds expertise in insurance and risk management. He is also an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) .
John is an active member of the Yale community, serving on the Board of Governors and as the past President of the Yale Club of New Haven. He was awarded the Yale Alumni Association's Leadership Award. He lives in North Haven, CT, with his wife, Adriana, and their daughter, Karina.
President & CEO
Caserta & de Jongh, LLC
John Caserta is a leading Chartered Financial Consultant with a Masters in Financial Services and a highly-sought after authority on personal finances. In addition to regularly appearing on Good Morning Connecticut on WTNH, John has been featured in articles for numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, Business Insider, and more. He has traveled throughout the country educating thousands on how to take control of their personal finances at numerous universities including Yale, UConn, Ohio State, and more.
John's dedication is evident in his growing professional designations. As a Retirement Income Certified Professional (RICP®), he helps clients with Social Security, pension plans, annuities, and tax-efficient withdrawal strategies. His Certified Life Underwriter (CLU®) designation adds expertise in insurance and risk management. He is also an Accredited Investment Fiduciary (AIF®) .
John is an active member of the Yale community, serving on the Board of Governors and as the past President of the Yale Club of New Haven. He was awarded the Yale Alumni Association's Leadership Award. He lives in North Haven, CT, with his wife, Adriana, and their daughter, Karina.
Stephen Blum '74
Senior Director
Yale Alumni Association
Decades after graduating (B.A., Branford ’74), Yale still astonishes Steve. As Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Association of Yale Alumni (YAA), Steve has launched Yale’s Cross Campus online community, facilitated leadership forums, taught financial literacy, organized alumni-led skill-building events, and designed mentorship programs pairing thousands of Yalies every semester. He also serves as Trustee for the Yale College Council.
As Branford College Resident Fellow since 2012, Steve lives among students right here on campus. For relaxation, Steve loves outdoors activities in the Adirondacks. Joining KPMG after graduating from Yale, and then earning his Master's Degree (NYU/Stern) and CPA at night, led Steve to a long career as a US leader of KPMG Corporate Finance; and then to a private investment bank as Managing Director and eventually Chief Operating Officer. And, in 2011, finally back to Yale! Steve has led KPMG client merger/acquisition seminars, served on public and private corporate boards (including a solar firm, a rustic resort, a chain of 17 newspapers, and manufacturers), and has advised clients (and/or testified as an expert) in complex financial matters. Steve is a grateful and lucky Yale parent: Rebecca (Branford ’07) and Max (Branford ’09; MusM ’11). Their roles in Out of the Blue made Steve into a huge fan of Yale singing groups. Steve also loves books, traveling, racket sports, and game-playing. After serving as Yale's Fencing Captain, Steve competed nationally and internationally for another decade, earning five national championships in team saber.
Senior Director
Yale Alumni Association
Decades after graduating (B.A., Branford ’74), Yale still astonishes Steve. As Senior Director of Strategic Initiatives at the Association of Yale Alumni (YAA), Steve has launched Yale’s Cross Campus online community, facilitated leadership forums, taught financial literacy, organized alumni-led skill-building events, and designed mentorship programs pairing thousands of Yalies every semester. He also serves as Trustee for the Yale College Council.
As Branford College Resident Fellow since 2012, Steve lives among students right here on campus. For relaxation, Steve loves outdoors activities in the Adirondacks. Joining KPMG after graduating from Yale, and then earning his Master's Degree (NYU/Stern) and CPA at night, led Steve to a long career as a US leader of KPMG Corporate Finance; and then to a private investment bank as Managing Director and eventually Chief Operating Officer. And, in 2011, finally back to Yale! Steve has led KPMG client merger/acquisition seminars, served on public and private corporate boards (including a solar firm, a rustic resort, a chain of 17 newspapers, and manufacturers), and has advised clients (and/or testified as an expert) in complex financial matters. Steve is a grateful and lucky Yale parent: Rebecca (Branford ’07) and Max (Branford ’09; MusM ’11). Their roles in Out of the Blue made Steve into a huge fan of Yale singing groups. Steve also loves books, traveling, racket sports, and game-playing. After serving as Yale's Fencing Captain, Steve competed nationally and internationally for another decade, earning five national championships in team saber.
Mrs. Yoshiko Inoue ’00
Head of Asset Allocations, American Family Insurance
American Family Insurance
As head of asset allocation at American Family Insurance, Yoshiko Inoue is responsible for strategic and tactical asset allocation of the firm's $32 billion investment portfolio, management of strategic projects, and oversight of external managers. Previously she was a fixed-income portfolio manager at PIMCO and PartnerRe, and prior to that, a sell-side credit research analyst at various global financial institutions. At Yale, Inoue majored in Economics and participated in the Research Opportunities in Mathematics and Economics program. She also spent a semester in Beijing as a Richard Light Fellow. She earned her MBA in Finance and International Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Inoue is a past president of the Yale Club of New York City, which has roughly 13,000 members and a historic clubhouse with guest rooms and dining services. She joined the Club upon graduation and served on various committees for over 20 years. After being named president in June 2020 — the club's first Asian woman to serve in that role — she guided the club through the pandemic, striving to ensure its relevance to both current and future Yale alumni. She was selected as one of BoardRoom magazine’s top 22 Private Club Presidents for 2021.
Head of Asset Allocations, American Family Insurance
American Family Insurance
As head of asset allocation at American Family Insurance, Yoshiko Inoue is responsible for strategic and tactical asset allocation of the firm's $32 billion investment portfolio, management of strategic projects, and oversight of external managers. Previously she was a fixed-income portfolio manager at PIMCO and PartnerRe, and prior to that, a sell-side credit research analyst at various global financial institutions. At Yale, Inoue majored in Economics and participated in the Research Opportunities in Mathematics and Economics program. She also spent a semester in Beijing as a Richard Light Fellow. She earned her MBA in Finance and International Management at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Inoue is a past president of the Yale Club of New York City, which has roughly 13,000 members and a historic clubhouse with guest rooms and dining services. She joined the Club upon graduation and served on various committees for over 20 years. After being named president in June 2020 — the club's first Asian woman to serve in that role — she guided the club through the pandemic, striving to ensure its relevance to both current and future Yale alumni. She was selected as one of BoardRoom magazine’s top 22 Private Club Presidents for 2021.
Rob Greenly '83 MBA
Executive Coach, Facilitator, & Organizational Consultant
Achieving Leadership ™ /The Greenly Group, LLC
Rob Greenly helps others apply the power of leadership to their own lives and careers. Rob’s coaching “transforms smart professionals and high achievers into influential leaders.TM” Clients give Rob rave reviews for his astute observations and assessments that shift their mindset and behavior for sustained leadership success. In addition to executive coaching, Rob offers clients a synthesis of team facilitation, organization development, leadership and management training, career development, and change management.
Rob draws upon his own firsthand experience as Director of Leadership at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of Organization Development and Training—Astra Pharmaceuticals, Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development—Boston Scientific, Chief Administrative Officer for Human Resources—Putnam Investments, and Senior Consultant at McBer & Company. Rob’s client engagements span multiple industries and organizations, from AstraZeneca to the U.S. Navy. He has a specialty in coaching physician leaders in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare.
With a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MBA from the Yale University School of Management, Rob is the only Harvard College alum to be elected President of the Yale Club of Boston. Rob was an Executive Officer for the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors and was the Co-Chair of the 2021 – 2023 global Yale Day of Service. He added an alumni-to-alumni focus to the successful Careers, Life and Yale Series. Rob was awarded the Yale Medal in 2024.
A native of South Carolina, Rob brings a soft-spoken southern charm and dogged client-centered assertiveness to his work. Rob resides in the Boston area and works with clients from around the United States and throughout the world. He continues as a member of the National Eagle Scout Association and was a licensed coach for Newton (Massachusetts) Girls Soccer while his daughters grew up playing.
Executive Coach, Facilitator, & Organizational Consultant
Achieving Leadership ™ /The Greenly Group, LLC
Rob Greenly helps others apply the power of leadership to their own lives and careers. Rob’s coaching “transforms smart professionals and high achievers into influential leaders.TM” Clients give Rob rave reviews for his astute observations and assessments that shift their mindset and behavior for sustained leadership success. In addition to executive coaching, Rob offers clients a synthesis of team facilitation, organization development, leadership and management training, career development, and change management.
Rob draws upon his own firsthand experience as Director of Leadership at the MIT Sloan School of Management, Director of Organization Development and Training—Astra Pharmaceuticals, Vice President of Leadership and Organization Development—Boston Scientific, Chief Administrative Officer for Human Resources—Putnam Investments, and Senior Consultant at McBer & Company. Rob’s client engagements span multiple industries and organizations, from AstraZeneca to the U.S. Navy. He has a specialty in coaching physician leaders in biotech, pharmaceuticals, and healthcare.
With a bachelor’s degree from Harvard College and an MBA from the Yale University School of Management, Rob is the only Harvard College alum to be elected President of the Yale Club of Boston. Rob was an Executive Officer for the Yale Alumni Association Board of Governors and was the Co-Chair of the 2021 – 2023 global Yale Day of Service. He added an alumni-to-alumni focus to the successful Careers, Life and Yale Series. Rob was awarded the Yale Medal in 2024.
A native of South Carolina, Rob brings a soft-spoken southern charm and dogged client-centered assertiveness to his work. Rob resides in the Boston area and works with clients from around the United States and throughout the world. He continues as a member of the National Eagle Scout Association and was a licensed coach for Newton (Massachusetts) Girls Soccer while his daughters grew up playing.
Sam Sneed '72
Founder, Career Consulting
AI Job Search Guru
William "Sam" Sneed focuses his career consulting practice on helping his clients conduct focused, effective job searches in the AI driven 2020’s and particularly in the challenging 2026 job market.
Sam gave his first talk on AI and the impact on our lives and particularly on career management at Yale in 2013. In 2014 he began his career consulting practice.
Sam has worked extensively with Yale's Office of Career Strategy (OCS) and the Yale Alumni Association (YAA) on developing career programming. In the spring of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic was identified he developed a program with OCS and OCS's Julia Bourque and YAA staff on Career Management in the Time of COVID-19 for Yale students and alumni which was widely seen via live Zoom sessions and viewed in its recorded form.
In the summer of 2020 Sam worked with YAA staff to develop a way to engage with Yale alumni during Covid-19. Sam developed an idea for a series of "shows" utilizing Zoom and conducted a successful pilot show for YAA called "The Career Hour". Working closely with an amazing YAA team they developed a series of shows for the inaugural YAA Yale, Life and Careers network. He served as the anchor/moderator of season 1 of Career Pivots on the YAA Careers Life and Yale network - a monthly, live Zoom show on career management in the AI driven 2020's - from September 2020 to May of 2021. Watch a show Sam did with his classmate and friend, Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins and formerly on the Board at Amazon among other companies, including how he came up with the name "Amazon Prime" ( visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRerqQGpmr4 ).
Prior to his career consulting he was an Internet pioneer and visionary. In 1994, he co-founded his first venture-funded Internet company. There he created award-winning web brands and led them into the market and secured innovative, content provider agreements with industry leaders such as Microsoft and AOL.
Later, he co-founded a second venture-funded Internet company. There he oversaw the development and launch of one of the first blog technologies, political social networking sites and online giving sites. He secured innovative affinity agreements with industry leaders such as Amazon.
Sam produced some of the early political shows on the Internet including the first Internet show from the nation’s capitol on AOL, and one of President Clinton's first online appearances on MSN.
In each of Sam's roles he has been a sought-after program leader and speaker including at large events such as at Temple University's B. Batsheva Friedman Lecture Series in Philadelphia on AI and the Impact on Our Lives (Sam garnered the best reviews in the fifteen years of the lecture series), at Internet World at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on Government Regulation of the Internet, and at the Annual American Bar Association Meeting in Chicago on Cost Containment in Complex Litigation. He has delivered many other talks, for example, an assembly to some 800 students, faculty and staff at Phillips Exeter Academy's Exeter Summer on AI and the Impact on Our Lives and for YAA and the Yale Club of Philadelphia on various career topics.
Education & Law Practice
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, NYU School of Law, and a judicial clerkship Sam quickly became a partner at a major, multinational, law firm where he concentrated his practice on complex litigation principally in the construction industry, co-authored three legal books and many articles and was a sought-after program leader and speaker. Before leaving the active practice of law he had obtained the largest judgment on behalf of a client for the firm, over 40 million in today’s dollars in federal court in a commercial matter and brought to the firm a major engagement that was singled out as one of the firm's 10 most important engagements at the firm's 100th anniversary. He left the firm after some 17 years to co-found the first of two venture funded Internet companies, the second of which he co-founded with Pete du Pont, former governor of Delaware. After the second was sold he consulted for many years on all things “Internet”.
Founder, Career Consulting
AI Job Search Guru
William "Sam" Sneed focuses his career consulting practice on helping his clients conduct focused, effective job searches in the AI driven 2020’s and particularly in the challenging 2026 job market.
Sam gave his first talk on AI and the impact on our lives and particularly on career management at Yale in 2013. In 2014 he began his career consulting practice.
Sam has worked extensively with Yale's Office of Career Strategy (OCS) and the Yale Alumni Association (YAA) on developing career programming. In the spring of 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic was identified he developed a program with OCS and OCS's Julia Bourque and YAA staff on Career Management in the Time of COVID-19 for Yale students and alumni which was widely seen via live Zoom sessions and viewed in its recorded form.
In the summer of 2020 Sam worked with YAA staff to develop a way to engage with Yale alumni during Covid-19. Sam developed an idea for a series of "shows" utilizing Zoom and conducted a successful pilot show for YAA called "The Career Hour". Working closely with an amazing YAA team they developed a series of shows for the inaugural YAA Yale, Life and Careers network. He served as the anchor/moderator of season 1 of Career Pivots on the YAA Careers Life and Yale network - a monthly, live Zoom show on career management in the AI driven 2020's - from September 2020 to May of 2021. Watch a show Sam did with his classmate and friend, Bing Gordon of Kleiner Perkins and formerly on the Board at Amazon among other companies, including how he came up with the name "Amazon Prime" ( visit: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRerqQGpmr4 ).
Prior to his career consulting he was an Internet pioneer and visionary. In 1994, he co-founded his first venture-funded Internet company. There he created award-winning web brands and led them into the market and secured innovative, content provider agreements with industry leaders such as Microsoft and AOL.
Later, he co-founded a second venture-funded Internet company. There he oversaw the development and launch of one of the first blog technologies, political social networking sites and online giving sites. He secured innovative affinity agreements with industry leaders such as Amazon.
Sam produced some of the early political shows on the Internet including the first Internet show from the nation’s capitol on AOL, and one of President Clinton's first online appearances on MSN.
In each of Sam's roles he has been a sought-after program leader and speaker including at large events such as at Temple University's B. Batsheva Friedman Lecture Series in Philadelphia on AI and the Impact on Our Lives (Sam garnered the best reviews in the fifteen years of the lecture series), at Internet World at the Jacob Javits Convention Center in New York City on Government Regulation of the Internet, and at the Annual American Bar Association Meeting in Chicago on Cost Containment in Complex Litigation. He has delivered many other talks, for example, an assembly to some 800 students, faculty and staff at Phillips Exeter Academy's Exeter Summer on AI and the Impact on Our Lives and for YAA and the Yale Club of Philadelphia on various career topics.
Education & Law Practice
After graduating from Phillips Exeter Academy, Yale, NYU School of Law, and a judicial clerkship Sam quickly became a partner at a major, multinational, law firm where he concentrated his practice on complex litigation principally in the construction industry, co-authored three legal books and many articles and was a sought-after program leader and speaker. Before leaving the active practice of law he had obtained the largest judgment on behalf of a client for the firm, over 40 million in today’s dollars in federal court in a commercial matter and brought to the firm a major engagement that was singled out as one of the firm's 10 most important engagements at the firm's 100th anniversary. He left the firm after some 17 years to co-found the first of two venture funded Internet companies, the second of which he co-founded with Pete du Pont, former governor of Delaware. After the second was sold he consulted for many years on all things “Internet”.