COBA - Key Persons


Alana Coleman

Job Titles:
  • Compliance & Training Officer

Amanuel Tadesse

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Accounting

Arja Turunen-Red

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Bing Leng

Job Titles:
  • Grant Administration Specialist

Bridget M. Bordelon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor and Lester E. Kabacoff Chair in Hospitality Management

Burt Neal

Job Titles:
  • Contracts Specialist

Carol Lunn

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President for Research & Economic Development

Carol Mitton

Job Titles:
  • Grant Administration Manager

Charles Chaisson

Job Titles:
  • Accountant

Cherie Trumbach

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Management

Christy Corey

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Associate Professor of Management

David Manry

Job Titles:
  • KPMG Continuing Scholar Professor, Energy Accounting Conference Professor of Accounting

Debby Charrier

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable Manager

Dinah Payne


Dong-Jun (DJ) Min

Job Titles:
  • Department Chair, Associate Professor of Marketing, Freeport Mc - Mo - Ran Professor of Consumer Behavior and Decision - Making

Dr. Kathy E. Johnson - President

Job Titles:
  • President
  • 8th President
  • Acting Vice President for Research & Economic Development
  • President Johnson
�������� President Dr. Kathy Johnson became the Acting Vice President for Research & Economic Development at the �������� in February 2024. On Sept. 14, 2023, the Board of Supervisors for the University of Louisiana System selected Kathy Johnson as the 8th president of the �������� and the first woman to lead the institution in its 65-year history. President Johnson comes to the University from Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, where she most recently served for eight years as executive vice chancellor and chief academic officer. President Johnson has more than 30 years of higher education experience as a faculty member, researcher and administrator. She joined the IUPUI faculty in 1993 and ascended through the ranks as a department chair, dean and associate vice chancellor for undergraduate education, prior to her role as chief academic officer. She has a record of achievement in a number of areas including student success, enrollment management, faculty development, research, academic program quality, strategic initiatives and partnerships, equity and inclusion, and fundraising. President Johnson is deeply involved with a number of national organizations, including Complete College America, the Coalition of Urban Serving Universities, and the Association of Public and Land Grant Universities. The partnerships developed with these organizations, and others, have contributed to her institution adopting best practices and improving institutional effectiveness. President Johnson holds bachelor's and master's degrees in psychology from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst and a doctorate in psychology (cognition and development) from Emory University in Atlanta. President Johnson is married to Richard Foran; they have five children and two grandchildren.

Earl K. Long

Job Titles:
  • Library

Elizabeth "Liz" Sigler

Job Titles:
  • Assistant to the Vice President for Research & Economic Development Director of the Center for Undergraduate Research & Creativity

Erik Saunders Wahl

Job Titles:
  • Director of Contracts and Commercialization Research

Gene Durand

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Athletic Director ( Travel Card Questions )

Gerald Whitney

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Gina Rosa

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Accounting

Gordon Hosch

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Professor of Accounting
  • Inactive

Gordon Payne

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Gregory N. Price

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Gretchen H. Smith

Job Titles:
  • Program Administrator
  • Vice President & CBO

Hamed Ghahremani

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Management

Han Chen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Hao Su

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor of Management

Harsha E. Chacko

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Hesham Abdel-Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus Faculty
  • Louisiana Real Estate

Jaimee Carreras

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

James W. Logan Jr.

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Management

Janet Speyrer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Research, Professor of Economics

Jesse Sherrell

Job Titles:
  • Grant Administration Specialist

Joanne N. Terranova

Job Titles:
  • Comptroller

Julie Landry

Job Titles:
  • Research Development Administrator

Kendy Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Research Development Manager

Kenneth J. Lacho

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Management, Emeritus

Kyeong Sam Min

Job Titles:
  • Professor of Marketing, Sidney Baron Endowed Professorship in Marketing

Lisa Palumbo

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Marketing

Luca Pezzo

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Maggie Sunseri

Job Titles:
  • Accounts Payable Assistant Manager ( Travel and CBA Questions )

Mark Reid

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Accounting

Mark Rosa

Job Titles:
  • Adjunct Professor

Mark Springfloat

Job Titles:
  • Chef / Instructor

Matthew Field

Job Titles:
  • Laboratory Safety Officer

Matthew Zingoni

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Management

Michael Baskind

Job Titles:
  • Chef Assistant

Michael Easley

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Statistics

Michael Turner

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Milton Pressley

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Mohammad Kabir Hassan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Neal Maroney

Job Titles:
  • Professor, Graduate Coordinator

Oscar Varela

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Pamela A. Kennett-Hensel

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Dean, Henry Bernstein College of Business Administration

Paul J. Hensel

Job Titles:
  • Senior Associate Dean, Professor Emeritus

Randy D. Kearns

Job Titles:
  • Program Director BS Healthcare Management, Associate Professor, Healthcare Management

Ray Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Accounting Department Chair
  • Oil and Gas Professor of Accounting & Department Chair

Robert C. Penick

Job Titles:
  • Director, Institute of Economic Development and Real Estate Research, Instructor of Finance

Robert Parker

Job Titles:
  • Deloitte Accounting Professor, LL & E / Burlington Resources Accounting Professor

Scott Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor, Healthcare Management

Scott Wandler

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor of Accounting

Shayla Staley

Job Titles:
  • Coordinator, Disability Services

Sheila Judge

Job Titles:
  • Director

Susan Clade

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Svetlana Pizzati

Job Titles:
  • Office Manager

Tarun Mukherjee

Job Titles:
  • Professor, James R. Moffett Chair in Financial Economics, Editor of Review of Financial Economics

Tiffany Soublet

Job Titles:
  • Associate Vice President for Budget, Finance and Systems

Wade Ragas

Job Titles:
  • Professor Emeritus

Walter J. Lane

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department Chair

Yvette N.J. Green

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor, Department Chair, Director of Hospitality Research Center