Alumni Profile

Wendell Brooks '87

Wendell Brooks '87 is a Managing Director with Allen & Company in London, England.  Wendell and his wife Karin have four children:  Bethany (15), Jillian (14), Tommy (11) and Peter (9).  They have lived in London for the past eight years.  Wendell enjoys travel, skiing, sailing and coaching youth sports.  He and the family get back to Michigan for two months each summer.

Current Work Status?

After fifteen years of investment banking at Citigroup, I left to open the European business for Allen & Company.  Allen is the leading media industry M&A advisory firm.  I work with companies in the internet, broadcast television, cable, film production and publishing sectors.  I've been fortunate to work on several high profile transactions including the sale of Universal to NBC and the merger of MGM and Mirage.

With whom do you keep in touch?

The Delts of the mid 1980s are a great group of friends. Living in the UK makes it challenging to maintain regular contact. Thankfully, Chris Tzetzo has done a spectacular job keeping us all together through the annual Delt Golf Outing. The outing offers a great time both to regress to our college behavior and renew old friendships. It offers me a chance to catch up with a group of 20-30 brothers from my era. Outside of the golf outing, I keep in touch with Jeff Burmester, Steve Glass and my brother in law, Paul Mack, who somehow let me marry his sister.

What are your favorite Delt memories?

Tough Question. Among the many; rolling Karl B's Jeep while he was on his honeymoon, my pledge retreat to OSU (and the ensuing rumble with the Phi Delts), our weekly Sunday pilgrimage in Sweet Lou's Rambler, contentious Chapter meetings, attending Karnea in the Swinger Van, the Tahitian Party, "roses and thorns", sparring with Skippy, driving to sailing practice with Dave G., blowing out my knee during synchronized swimming, attending the midget convention formal, and dealing with Mrs. Bush and Ann Arbor's finest during loud parties.  All in all, my experiences in Delta Chapter provided far more real education than all of my classes at Michigan.