Graduate Awards Ceremony Honors the Class of 2026

Three members of the Babson College graduate Class of 2026 earned multiple recognitions during the Graduate Awards ceremony.  

Drin Govori MBA’26, Derek Gawrys MBA’26, and Christelle Brandt MBA’26 each won two awards, which honor the excellence of the graduating cohorts at the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson.

Govori received the prestigious Roger W. Babson Award, as well as the Lewis W. Mustard Award (for the highest grade-point average in the Two-Year MBA Program). Gawrys received the Graduate Student Alumni and Friends Award, as well as a Dean’s Leadership Award. And, Brandt, who delivered the graduate student Commencement address on Saturday, received the John Shank Award and a Dean’s Leadership Award.

For the second year in a row, Brigitte Muehlmann, professor in the Accounting and Law Division, was named the Thomas Kennedy Professor of the Year. Muehlmann appeared last year on an episode of Babson’s podcast, “From Problems to Possibilities: Entrepreneurial Leadership in Action.”

Here are all 2026 Graduate Awards recipients: 

Abdul Ali Award — MSBA Program Highest GPA

• Kaanchi Rajeev Gupta MSBA’26

Award for Academic Excellence — MSF Program Highest GPA

• Pablo Calvo Robles MSF’26
• Patricio Martin Chiriboga MSF’26
• Ashwin Vishwambharnath Pandey MSF’26

Award for Academic Excellence — MSEL Program Highest GPA

• Joseph Robert Carrea MSEL’26

Award for Academic Excellence — One-Year MBA Program Highest GPA

• Tianhao Zhou MBA’26

Lewis W. Mustard Award — Two-Year MBA Program Highest GPA

• Drin Govori MBA’26

Award for Academic Excellence — Blended-Learning MBA Program Highest GPA

• Carlo Fernandini MBA’26

Helen O’Brien Award — Part-Time MBA Program Highest GPA

• Rebecca Noble McShane MBA’26

Accounting Division Award

• Marco Gerardo Marrero Gomez MBA’26

Roger W. Babson Award

• Drin Govori MBA’26

Charley Osborn Management Information Systems Division Award

• Julie Ann Arloro-Mehta MBA’26

Dean’s Leadership Award

• Wollign Bellevue MSEL’26
• Christelle Belinda Brandt MBA’26
• Vasco Thomas Breysse MSF’26
• Tomás De La Guardia Viggiano MBA’26
• Derek Gawrys MBA’26
• Romania Amanda Hunter MBA’26
• Marcia Marie McIntyre MBA’26
• Ashaa Vigashini Murali MBA’26
• Nana Kwame Opoku MSBA’26
• Daniel Stephane Zock MSF’26

Economics Award

• Ekaterina Ergasheva MBA’26

Entrepreneurship Division Award

• Joseph Michael Constanty MBA’26

Fairleigh S. Dickinson Jr. Foundation Inc. Global Manager Award

• Priyanka Prakash Tambe MBA’26

Finance Division Award MBA

• Ryan Christopher Porter MBA’26

Finance Division Award MSF

• Carlos Roberto Dias Neto MSF’26

Global Student Leadership Award

• Chouly Thy MSBA’26

Graduate Student Alumni and Friends Award

• Derek Gawrys MBA’26

Management Division Award

• Francis Xavier Lee Ma MBA’26

Marketing Division Award

• Roberta Maldonado Sistos MBA’26

John Shank Award

• Christelle Belinda Brandt MBA’26

Ralph Z. and Charlotte R. Sorenson Scholarship Award

• Adebukonla Bernice Adeniyi MBA’26
• Maria Jose Zuniga MBA’26