WEHNER - Key Persons
Bert Cannella started his adult life as a farmer in middle Tennessee and north Georgia. He also had a small welding and machine shop that offered metal fabrication and general repairs. In 1984, he earned his MBA from the University of Northern Iowa. In 1986, he entered the strategic management Ph.D. program at Columbia University in New York. He joined the faculty at Texas A&M University in 1989, Arizona State in 2004, Tulane University in 2007, and returned to Arizona State in 2012 and to Texas A&M in 2016. Dr. Cannella's research is focused on executives, corporate governance, and entrepreneurship. His research has appeared in Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Management, and Journal of Financial Economics, among others. He teaches entrepreneurship, strategic management, and research methods.
He served as Director of the Texas A&M Center for New Ventures and Entrepreneurship from 2000 to 2004. Other service roles include President of the Business Policy and Strategy Division of the Academy of Management, Associate Editor of Academy of Management Review (1999-2002) and ASU Management Department Head (2006-2007). Honors and awards include an Association of Former Students Outstanding Teaching Award in 1994, College and Graduate School of Business Outstanding Research Award in 1996, a Fish Camp Namesake in 1997 and the Ricky W. Griffin Outstanding Research Award in 2020. He was elected as a Fellow of the Academy of Management in 2008.
Former Student Body President Amy Sharp '19, a business honors graduate who took the class previously, announced at the event that the two representatives present from The Philanthropy Lab-both Aggies-had decided to give an additional $10,000 in honor of Chancellor Sharp's visit.
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- Vice President - Lubricants / Phillips 66
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- Chief Executive Officer / WildFire Energy LLC
- Professor in Business
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- Business Honors Staff Member
- Program Manager & Advisor ( Last a - K ) Scholarships Coordinator
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- Professor of Business Administration / Department of Management
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- Assistant Dean for Finance and Administration
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- Professor Emeritus, Paul M. & James R. Whately Chair in Business
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- Associate Dean for Executive Education / Clinical Professor of Management
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- Jerry and Kay Cox Professor of Management
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- Global Lead Client Service Partner and Global Lead Tax Partner
- Partner / Deloitte
Pinto is committed to teamwork-and credits Mays for helping him learn to work collaboratively. "What inspires me is winning together as a team, working together to overcome some sort of challenge or to reach a goal," he said. "I look back at Texas A&M and all the opportunities I had to network and learn. That's really contributed to my success."
After graduating with a bachelor's degree in accounting and a master's degree in Tax, Pinto started at Anderson and then joined Deloitte in 2002, where he has had a stellar career. In his previous role as the global business change storefront leader, Pinto worked with mergers and acquisitions, post-merger integration, and value chain alignment. He also was the Central Region managing partner for International Tax and Transfer Pricing Services, as well as the national operations leader for the U.S. International Tax and Transfer Pricing practice.
Pinto currently serves as the Global Lead Client Service Partner and Global Lead Tax Partner on some of the firm's largest accounts. He also is the Global Leader for Mergers & Acquisitions for Deloitte's Tax and Legal business, the U.S. Tax Leader for the Technology, Media, and Telecommunications Industry team, and a member of the U.S. Global Business Council. He also has consistently been included as a leading tax professional in the Guide to the World's Leading Tax Advisors.
From his professional perspective, Pinto sees great opportunities for Mays graduates. "We're in a golden age of business, in terms of transformation, M&A, and regulatory change," he said. "Mays is preparing our students to lead the way."
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- CEO / PMG International, Ltd.
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- Co - Founder
- Managing Partner
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- Managing Partner / 3B Capital
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Director, Center for Human Resource Management / Lecturer
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- President & CEO / Oil States International Inc.
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- Business Honors Staff Member
- Director
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- Senior Vice President, Human Resources & Chief Diversity Officer / at & T Services
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- Senior Associate / Vinson & Elkins
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- Director of Corporate Relations
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- Founder & Managing Partner / Opportune LLP
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- Clinical Professor / Director, Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership Program
- Professor
David Flint is a professor, mentor, musician, world traveler, and as an entrepreneur, a habitual risk taker. He has been engaged in entrepreneurial activities since the early 1980s across multiple industries and is presently involved in board, leadership, or advisory positions across business endeavors in software applications, real estate, and insurance. David serves on the board of several not-for-profit organizations with both domestic and international activities and is passionate about helping businesses, entrepreneurs, and individuals succeed.
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- President / NorCap Advisors, LLC
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- Business Management Director / the Boston Consulting Group
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- Assistant
- Member of the MS Business Team
- Program Director
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- Communications Coordinator
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- System Regents Professor
- Texas a & M University System Regents Professor
Dr. Arvind Mahajan is Texas A&M University System Regents Professor, Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence, Piper Professor for Scholarly and Academic Achievement, Lamar Savings Professor of Finance at Texas A&M University. He served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, Director of the CFA Institute Affiliation Program, Director of the Aggies on Wall Street Investment Banking Program, Director of the MS Finance Program, Associate Director of the Center for International Business Studies and the Center for International Business Education and Research. His articles have appeared in the leading finance and international business journals. He is or has served as associate editor/editorial board member of Journal of International Business Studies, Global Finance Journal, Journal of Advances in Management Research, Journal of Asia-Pacific Business, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, International Journal of Economic Sciences and Applied Research, Journal of International Finance, International Journal of Global Business and Competitiveness and North American Journal of Economics and Finance. He was Vice President of the North American Economics and Finance Association, served on the Fulbright Scholars Awards Advisory Committee as well as on the Board of Directors of The Washington Campus in Washington, D.C.
Amid the promotions and accolades that Jones has received during his academic career, the Mays marketing professor and former Dean of Mays Business School ultimately sees himself as an educator. "What inspires and motivates me is watching leaders grow," Jones said. "I love developing leaders, and I love the fact that we are all in on transformational leadership because we get the chance to watch students develop. They go on to be very successful; the cream rises to the top."
Among the first generation in his family to attend college, Jones initially worked in sales and sales management for three Fortune 500 global companies before moving into higher education. He held faculty and administrative roles at the University of Houston before serving as dean at Louisiana State University's E.J. Ourso College of Business and at the University of Arkansas's Sam M. Walton College of Business.
Yet, throughout these experiences, Texas A&M and Mays Business School remained home. He returned to Texas A&M to become Mays Business School's dean in 2015. "When I think about Texas A&M, I think about the people-it's the people that we hire, it's the people who are impacting our lives," he said. "When I would leave Mays Business School to go off and do something else and then come back-and I did that several times-every time I came back, I reconnected with those folks who actually touched my life in a dramatic way. Now it's my opportunity to give back to them and recognize them, and that part is really special."
In the role of dean, he oversaw the launching of a campaign to fund the BEC and collaborated with others to help Mays reach 147% of its Lead by Example campaign goal. He also led efforts to develop Mays' strategic plan in 2016, which still influences the school today. Jones expanded Mays' media and communications capacity, and also facilitated the establishment of several centers.
The Peggy Mays Eminent Scholar's work as a leading academic also has received widespread recognition. Jones' research in sales and sales management has been published in top academic journals, and he has written several published books. Jones also has received numerous Excellence in Teaching awards at the university, national and international levels for his work teaching undergraduate, MBA, and executive education students.
He has been recognized as the 2009 Outstanding Doctoral Alumnus by Mays' Department of Marketing and the 2016 Lifetime Achievement Award by the American Marketing Association (AMA) Sales Special Interest Group. Jones was inducted into the Ph.D. Project Hall of Fame and recognized as a "Most Influential Black Corporate Director" by Savoy magazine in 2021. That same year, the Association of Former Students' Black Former Students honored Jones with the Aggie Impact Award. In 2022, Jones received the AMA-Irwin-McGraw-Hill Distinguished Marketing Educator Award and the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) CUTCO/Vector Distinguished Marketing Educator Award.
Jones and his wife, Fern, have four children and 10 grandchildren. He also currently serves on the boards of Insperity, Invesco Funds, and First Financial Bank.
The former dean encourages everyone he meets-and especially the students he interacts with-to embrace faith. "When I look back at the incredible things that have happened to myself and my family, faith has always been embedded in that," he said. "When I started believing in a higher power, I started building the confidence to do some things out of my comfort zone. But I had to have a foundation, and that became the foundation."
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- Professor
- University Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Regents Professor
Dr. Leonard L. Berry is University Distinguished Professor of Marketing, Regents Professor, and holds the M.B. Zale Chair in Retailing and Marketing Leadership in the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He also is a Presidential Professor for Teaching Excellence. As a Visiting Scientist at Mayo Clinic in 2001-2002, he conducted an in-depth research study of healthcare service, the basis for his book, Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic (2008). He also has done field research at Gundersen Health System, ThedaCare, and Bellin Health System, all in Wisconsin, and at Henry Ford Health in Michigan. Concurrent with his faculty position in Mays Business School, Dr. Berry is a Senior Fellow of the Institute for Healthcare Improvement studying service improvement in cancer care, and is an Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Southern Denmark.
Professor Berry has written ten books in all, including: Discovering the Soul of Service; On Great Service; Marketing Services: Competing Through Quality; and Delivering Quality Service. He is the author of numerous academic articles and an invited lecturer throughout the world.
Professor Berry's teaching and research contributions have been widely recognized with honors that include The Sheth Gold Medal; The American Marketing Association (AMA) William Wilkie "Marketing for a Better World" Award; the Paul D. Converse Award; the AMA/McGraw-Hill/Irwin Distinguished Marketing Educator Award; the AMA Career Contributions to Services Marketing Award; and the Academy of Marketing Science Outstanding Marketing Educator Award. He is a Fellow of both the American Marketing Association and the Academy of Marketing Science. Texas A&M awarded him the Distinguished Achievement Award in Teaching (1990) and the Distinguished Achievement Award in Research (1996 and 2008), the highest honors bestowed upon its faculty members. In 2014, he was inducted into Arizona State University's Carey School of Business Hall of Fame, the first doctoral graduate to be selected, and in 2015 the Mays Business School at Texas A&M awarded him the Lifetime Achievement Award for Research and Scholarship.
A former national president of the American Marketing Association, Dr. Berry founded the Center for Retailing Studies at Texas A&M in 1982 and served as its director through 2000.
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- Managing Director / Houlihan Lokey
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- Professor Emerita of Management
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- Managing Director / Rockefeller Capital Management
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- Clinical Professor / Director, Master of Science in Entrepreneurial Leadership Program
Brauchle did his homework before making his college decision. "I chose Texas A&M after having visited a number of other colleges and universities," said the honoree, who graduated cum laude with a bachelor's degree in accounting in 1995, followed by a master's degree in accounting in 1996. "I couldn't think of a better place for me than Mays and Texas A&M, and how they prepared me for my career."
His career started with a bang-being selected as one of four graduates nationally to participate in the Financial Accounting Standards Board's internship program in Norwalk, Connecticut.
He went on to work in PricewaterhouseCoopers' energy audit practice in Houston from 1997-2003. Then he continued being promoted to roles of increasing responsibility, including Director of Internal Audit, and Vice President and Chief Accounting Officer at Houston-based McDermott International, a NYSE-listed global engineering and construction company. He served as Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Tallgrass Energy, a Kansas-based NYSE-listed multi-billion-dollar midstream energy infrastructure partnership from its inception in 2012 until 2020, when he and his family returned to Texas. Brauchle currently is President and member of the Board of Directors of PERENfra, a private water infrastructure company.
Professionally, he believes in empowering others. "Thinking back on my career, I'd say there are a few highlights that I look back on with gratitude and pride," he said. "All of those opportunities involved the ability to assemble and work with high-performing teams. I gave deserving team members opportunities to succeed-and that was more rewarding than any individual title of mine."
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- CEO / Luna Strategies, LLP
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- University Distinguished Professor of Management
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- Clinical Associate Professor / Department of Management / Attorney
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- University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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Ph.D. - University of Texas at Austin, 2007
M.Acc. - Brigham Young University, 2002
B.S., cum laude - Brigham Young University, 2002
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
Dr. Stevens brings more than 20 years of academic and corporate experience to Texas A&M University. He holds a Ph.D. from Texas A&M in EHRD and an AACSB Post Doctorate Bridge Program Certificate from the University of Florida in international business & entrepreneurship. Dr. Stevens has published several academic articles and has taught at various universities in the United States. His research interests include strategic management, entrepreneurial ecosystems, as well as small business innovation, creation, and management. Within the corporate sector, Dr. Stevens has worked in and has been a key player in building companies in various industries such as manufacturing, medical, IT, professional sports, and distribution, among others. He was also a senior manager in multiple companies that went public in industries such as IT and medical, among others. Since 1991 Dr. Stevens has been the president of a highly successful international consulting company. He is a veteran of the US Army and as a disabled veteran, he works with other veterans on educational and business initiatives. He has been married to Gloria since 1990 and they have 2 children, Amanda who is at Arizona State University, and John who recently graduated from Texas A&M.
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- Director, McFerrin Foundation
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- Chairman of the Board and President / Cox & Perkins Exploration Inc.
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- Associate Dean for Graduate Programs / Interim Head, Adam C. Sinn ‘00 Department of Finance
Jiayi is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Texas A&M's Mays Business School. Prior to joining Mays, she was on the faculty at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She received her PhD in Business Economics and Public Policy from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. Her research focuses on human capital forces that drive entrepreneurial participation, performance, and innovation from three lenses-institutional and societal environments, firm strategy, and diversity. Jiayi's research has been published in various academic journals such as the Strategic Management Journal and Organization Science. She has won a number of awards for her research, including the Kauffman Knowledge Challenge grant for the study of entrepreneurship and a National Science Foundation award for investigating the impacts of social safety net policies on STEM entrepreneurship and innovation.
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- Associate Professor
- TJ Barlow Professor of Business Administration
Joel Koopman is an associate professor and TJ Barlow Professor of Business Administration at the Mays Business School. Prior to joining Mays, he was on the faculty at the University of Cincinnati for 3 years. He received his Ph.D. in Management from Michigan State University, and earned a B.S. and M.A. from the University of Florida. His research interests include prosocial behavior, organizational justice, motivational processes, and research methodology. His research has been published in outlets such as Academy of Management Journal (AMJ), Academy of Management Review (AMR), Journal of Applied Psychology (JAP), Personnel Psychology (PPsych), and Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes (OBHDP). He serves on the editorial boards for these journals, and is currently an Associate Editor at OBHDP. He has won multiple awards from Academy of Management's HR Division (Early Career Achievement Award and David P. Lepak Service Award) along with the 2022 SIOP Distinguished Early Career Contributions award. He has also won "best reviewer" awards from several of the above-mentioned journals (JAP, PPsych, AMR, and OBHDP). He currently serves on the Leadership Committee for the HR Division of the Academy of Management.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
Originally from Jackson Hole, Wyoming, John Sanchez is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Management in the Mays School of Business teaching Business & Corporate Strategy and Project Management courses. John received his Bachelors degree in Business Administration from Azusa Pacific University, his Masters degree in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and his Doctoral degree in Business Administration from Liberty University.
John spent 26 years in the high-end luxury wholesale and retail industries in management, marketing, operations, procurement, sales, and training. Before his extensive business experience, he served as a secondary school teacher in Los Angeles, CA and worked as a collegiate baseball coach and professional coach within the Los Angeles Dodgers camp system.
John's teaching experiences in higher education include the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, High Point University, and Elon University in a variety of subjects (Strategy, Organizational Behavior, International Business, Marketing, Business Policy, Management, and HR Management).
John is an accomplished and award-winning executive, trainer and coach and is passionate about facilitating his student's learning with real-world industry exposure.
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- Chancellor of the Texas a & M University System
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- Principal & Managing Partner / Byebrook Group
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- Clinical Assistant Professor / Department of Management
Ken McFarland is a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at Mays Business School-Texas A&M University. For more than 25 years, Ken has provided focused insight, innovation and inspiration to corporations, governmental agencies, and community leaders in more than 30 countries on 5 continents. Specializing in Executive Turnarounds and Intensive Strategy Overhauls. Ken's experience in CEO coaching, change management, crisis leadership, globalization, and as a CXO of technology and international development organizations provides him with unique perspectives on human potential and organizational execution.
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- TJ Barlow Professor of Business Administration
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- Vice President Finance / Midcoast Energy
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- Media Contact
- Communications Manager, McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship, 979 - 845 - 1724
Media Contact: Lara Robertson, communications manager, McFerrin Center for Entrepreneurship, 979- 845-1724, lrobertson@tamu.edu
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- President / OMS Strategic Advisors, LLC
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- Associate Professor With Tenure
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- Visiting Professor of the Practice
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- Partner & COO / Kildare Partners
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- President & CEO / EBR Energy LP
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- Principal, North America Litigation & Government Enforcement Practice Group / Baker & McKenzie
Mary Lea McAnally is a Professor of Accounting at Mays Business School Texas A&M University. She served as Director of Innovation and Strategic Planning from 2015 till 2017. Before that (from 2011 till 2015) she served as Associate Dean for Graduate Programs. Dr. McAnally earned her Ph.D. from Stanford University and B. Comm. from the University of Alberta. She worked as a Chartered Accountant (in Canada) and is a Certified Internal Auditor. Prior to arriving at Texas A&M in 2002, Professor McAnally held positions at University of Texas at Austin, Canadian National Railways, and Dunwoody and Company.
Her research interests include accounting and disclosure in regulated environments, executive compensation, and accounting for risk. She has published articles in the leading academic journals including Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review, Review of Accounting Studies and Contemporary Accounting Research. Professor McAnally received a Mays Business School Research Achievement Award in 2005.
At Texas A&M, Professor McAnally teaches financial reporting in Mays Full-time, Professional, and Executive MBA programs and in the MS Business program. Through the Center for Executive Development, she works with corporate clients across the U.S. She has taught at the Indian School of Business in Hyderabad and Mohali since 2010. She has received numerous faculty-determined and student-initiated teaching awards. Professor McAnally co-authors three textbooks that are widely used in MBA and executive programs in the U.S., Canada, Europe, and Asia.
Professor McAnally is a Certified Appreciative Inquiry Facilitator who implements the S.O.A.R. framework to assist academic units craft strategic plans and implement organizational change. She currently serves as the Faculty Development Fellow at A&M's Office of the Dean of Faculties where she hosts professional development seminars in "Best Practices For Strategic Planning in Academic Departments."
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- Clinical Assistant Professor / Department of Management
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- Director
- Member of the MS Business Team
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- Director, Finance & Strategy
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- Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship / Associate Professor
Professor Nate Sharp is Dean of the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He holds the Adam C. Sinn '00 Dean's Leadership Chair and previously served as Head of the James Benjamin Department of Accounting at Mays Business School.
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- Dean
- Dean of Mays Business School / Professor and Adam C. Sinn '00 Dean 's Leadership Chair
Dr. Sharp's research interests include corporate financial reporting, financial analysts, financial journalism, and financial misconduct. His research is published in leading scholarly journals and has received multiple best-paper awards, including the 2021 Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Association. His research has also been discussed extensively in financial media, including by The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, CNBC, Forbes, CFO.com, and the Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance and Financial Regulation. He was named a Texas A&M University Presidential Impact Fellow in 2018 and became Department Head in 2020.
At Texas A&M, Dr. Sharp has taught classes to undergraduate and graduate students, including a graduate course he designed that introduces master's of accounting students to scholarly research. He was recognized as the 2012-13 Texas A&M University Center for Teaching Excellence Montague Scholar in the Mays Business School. He is also the recipient of the 2018 David and Denise Baggett Teaching Award, the 2015 Association of Former Students Distinguished Teaching Award, the 2012 Ernst & Young Teaching Excellence Award, a 2010 Texas A&M University System Teaching Excellence Award, and he was a 2009 Texas A&M University Fish Camp Namesake. He received bachelor's (cum laude) and master's degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Business before receiving a PhD from the University of Texas at Austin's McCombs School of Business. Professor Sharp and his wife, Holly, are the proud parents of five children.
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- Credit Analyst / Susser Bank
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- Clinical Associate Professor
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- CEO / Posse Resources LLC
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- Owner & President / Phil Adams Company
Garner's love of Texas A&M was sparked while watching his first Aggie Muster on the banks of the Rio Grande River. "Watching the emotions and the profound reactions of my dad and other Aggies talking about their classmates and friends from A&M is what first motivated me and inspired me to say to myself-even at a young age-I want to be part of that," he said.
He enrolled at Texas A&M and earned a bachelor's degree in marketing before joining Hughes Tool Company. Two years later, he returned to Texas A&M as Field Director for The Association of Former Students and began to build an illustrious career.
Yet, one of his crowning achievements at The Association-being unanimously elected as chief executive, making him the seventh professional leader in The Association's 143-year history-was preceded by the fall of Bonfire in 1999. "Those were indelible moments in my career because I saw the Aggie Spirit at its finest moment," he said. "I saw the Aggie Network rally and support fellow Aggies, most of whom they never met and didn't know. But all that mattered was they were Texas Aggies-and that began to shape my early CEO years because I thought differently than perhaps I had before November 18."
During his 22-year tenure as the Association's president and CEO, Garner has helped the organization grow into the premier alumni organization through enhancing its programs and services and broadening its reach and relevance to the global Aggie Network. Additionally, The Association of Former Students' total assets have grown from $55 million to $190 million under Garner's leadership. The organization also has raised over $400 million to support Texas A&M and individual Aggies during his tenure as CEO.
What continues at the forefront is the importance of Aggie Traditions. "There's an old adage that the longer I live, the more I see both in my personal life and in my professional life-The more things change, the more they stay the same," Garner said. "And I've seen it come full circle at Texas A&M with traditions and experiences. And while we are on the cutting edge on so many fronts at Texas A&M, we're still doing things that are traditional, that are desired, and that are meaningful. I think it speaks to the value of tradition and why those many traditions are important to who we are as Texas Aggies."
An active member of the Bryan/College Station community, Garner serves on the board of Baylor Scott & White Hospital-College Station Region and has a lifetime membership in the Brazos County A&M Club. Garner and his wife, Lisa '91, are Endowed Century Club donors to the Association of Former Students, Eppright Distinguished Donors, and members of the Texas A&M Legacy Society. They also have three children, Claire '21, Callie '23, and Porter IV '26.
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- University Distinguished Professor Emeritus
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- Deputy Chief Financial Officer / Morgan Stanley
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- Program Director for the Full - Time
Richard Castleberry joined Mays Business School in early January 2019 as Program Director for the Full-Time MBA and MS Business programs. He brings a breadth of experience and seemingly boundless energy.
He explained his philosophy for doing his job. "Everything is about relationships, both external and internal, whether it's a CEO or the person vacuuming my office. I bring my advice, experience, and background into play, and I hope to plug it into the well-oiled machine that is already in place here."
Castleberry said he looks forward to meeting faculty, staff, and external partners, but most importantly, he wants to get to know the students. "I like to get the class schedules and just pop in to see what's going on," he said.
Most recently, Castleberry served as the university-wide head of business development for academic programs for Nazarbayev University (NU) in Astana, Kazakhstan. Prior to this, he served as the Director of Business Development and Assistant Dean of Marketing and Communications for NU's graduate business school. As a member of the leadership team, he was instrumental in the founding of NU's business school and worked very closely with its strategic partner - Duke University's Fuqua School of Business. He led recruiting efforts for all master's and Ph.D. programs. He also cultivated the university's corporate partnerships across the world and has also taught many business courses at various institutions.
Castleberry earned an MBA degree from Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, Calif., with a concentration in marketing. He received a bachelor's degree with a concentration in international business and marketing from Northeastern University in Boston.
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- Executive VP - Corporate Development / the Reynolds and Reynolds Company
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Chief Marketing Officer
- Vice President
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- Trust Solutions Partner / PricewaterhouseCoopers
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs / Clinical Associate Professor
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- Board Chair for the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce
- Contributor
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- Senior Associate Dean of Mays Business School / Professor and Joe
Steve Arizpe '79, President and COO of premier professional employer organization (PEO), Insperity, credits much of the work ethic and relationship savvy that have shaped his success to his Hispanic heritage. Arizpe connects with Mays about Hispanic Heritage Month, coming of age in San Antonio, Texas, and what it takes to translate "good bull" into good business.
Steve Arizpe was born the third of five kids to parents of Hispanic descent in San Antonio, Texas. His father's ancestors came from Spain and his mother's from Mexico, but both grew up working alongside their siblings on family farms just outside of San Antonio. "My mom was one of 10 and my dad was one of 12; in that era as my great-grandparents built a family, they were really growing a workforce." To this day he marvels that his parents paid for all five of him and his siblings to attend college, and at his father's astuteness to invest in a home in Bryan as his oldest brother set off for Texas A&M.
Arizpe's father worked full time for the US Department of Defense by day, and moonlighted as an entrepreneur, steadily building a technology repair business. His mother was a self-taught math whiz with a fourth grade education, who worked to ensure the fledgling business was on budget and account balanced. Arizpe spent summers apprenticing in the family business and saw firsthand the hard work and dedication required to provide more for a family than preceding generations could offer. His dad helped him carry forward a tireless, generational work ethic and prudent financial management skills, while his mother cultivated a penchant for relationship and engaging others. This combination served Arizpe well as he embarked on his time in business school at Texas A&M - and, of course, beyond - as he began to shape his career.
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Chairman / Vinson & Elkins
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- Professor of Business Administration
- TJ Barlow Professor of Business Administration
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- Vice President, Development
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- Managing Partner / Dais Partners
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- Clinical Professor of Business Analytics
- Generation Professor
- Professor of Business Analytics
Trevor Hale is a clinical full professor of business analytics at the Mays Business School at Texas A&M University. He received a Ph.D. in operations research from Texas A&M University, a M.S. in engineering management from Northeastern University, and a B.S. in industrial and management systems engineering from Penn State University. Previously, he was a faculty member at University of Houston-Downtown, Ohio University, and Colorado State University-Pueblo.
Dr. Hale is a third generation professor and a fifth generation Texan. His father, the toddler in the picture below and the late Dr. Leslie C. Hale, Jr., was the A. Robert Noll Professor of Electrical Engineering at Penn State while his father's father, wearing the three-piece suit in the picture below, was a professor of economics at then Texas College of Mines, now UTEP.
Figure 1. From left to right: Leslie C. Hale, Mary Jane Hale, Leslie C. Hale, Jr., and Jesse W. Hale
His research interests are in the areas of location science, warehouse science, data analytics, and grid-scale energy management. Dr. Hale spends about a third of his summers as a Senior Faculty Research Fellow with the Office of Naval Research at Naval Base Ventura County in Port Hueneme, California. He is the managing co-author of Pearson's number one textbook in business analytics, Quantitative Analysis for Management, now in its 14th edition. His research has been published in the Annals of Operations Research, the European Journal of Operational Research, the International Journal of Physical Distribution & Logistics Management, and the International Journal of Production Research among other outlets. He is a senior member of both INFORMS and DSI.
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- Associate Dean for Executive Education / Clinical Professor of Management
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- Clinical Assistant Professor
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- Associate Dean for Research and Scholarship / Associate Professor
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- Professor Emeritus of Management
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- General Manager, Latin America / Bray International, Inc.