CU DENVER - Key Persons
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Strategic Accounts, Palantir Technologies
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- Clinical Senior Instructor of Finance / Finance
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- Student Recruitment Coordinator
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- Executive, Gates Rubber ( Ret. )
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- Director
- Member of the Global Energy Management Team
Senior Instructor • Program Director of Business Fundamentals Minor
Barry McConnell has over a decade of experience teaching at CU Denver. His professional experience includes 20 years consulting for Fortune 500 companies. He also has over ten years of B2B management and marketing experience. He also owns Homeworx Management Consulting.
Education
MBA, University of Colorado
MS Marketing, Colorado College
BS Business Administration, Colorado College
Areas of expertise
Entrepreneurship
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- Director of the International Health Management
- Professor Director of Managing for Sustainability
Blair Gifford is the director of the international health management certificate in the health administration MBA programs. Gifford is the founder, first director of the Center for Global Health (2003-6), and current executive committee member of the Center for Global Health at the University of Colorado. Gifford is also the founder and current board chair of Global Health Connections, Inc., a not-for-profit in Denver that serves to broaden health education globally. Gifford is also the principal of Health Beyond Borders, LLC, an international health consulting organization.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President and Owner, OfficeScapes
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- Senior Vice President, Corporate Banking Market Leader, PNC
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- Facility Manager
- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
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- Accounting
- Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs
Carol Callaway Dee is the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs and an associate professor of accounting. She served for one year as an academic fellow for the Public Company Accounting Oversight Board (PCAOB), conducting research on the economic effects of proposed auditing standards.
Dee's research focuses on auditing and forensic accounting. She has published in leading accounting journals, including The Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, Current Issues in Auditing, Issues in Accounting Education, and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Dee is an associate editor for the Journal of Forensic Accounting Research.
Dee is co-author with Cindy Durtschi and Mary Mindak of the auditing casebook "Alpine Cupcakes Inc.: Audit Case Study." Her accounting education cases, "Return of the Tallahassee BeanCounters: A Case in Forensic Accounting" (with Durtschi) and "Grand Teton Candy Company: Connecting the Dots in a Fraud Case" (with Durtschi and Mindak) are used by faculty around the world. She is a recipient of the CU Denver Business School's Outstanding Tenure-Track Teacher of the Year Award.
Education
PhD Accounting, Louisiana State University, Baton Rouge, 1999
BS Accounting with honors, University of Florida, Gainesville, 1983
Certified Public Accountant, Florida, License is active, 1984-present
Areas of expertise
Auditing
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- Accounting Instructor
- Instructor / Accounting
Carolyn Gleason has been an accounting instructor since 2015. Prior to teaching, she was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche for three years. Her current courses include Financial Accounting and Auditing.
Education
MS Accounting, University of Colorado Denver
BSA Accounting, BBA Finance, Loyola Marymount University
About the Business School
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- Vice President, Comcast ( Ret. )
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- Assistant Director, Enrollment
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Human Resources, Janus Henderson
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- Director of Undergraduate Advising
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Founder, TriMountain Corporation
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- Executive Director / Risk Management and Insurance
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Manager of Undergrad Peer Advising and Academic Advisor
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Program Manager
Colleen is BCC's first point-of-contact for business students, alumni, and employers. Before joining the Business School, she was the Executive Director of a technology-focused professional association. She has also led behind-the-scenes support for tech and pharma events of up to 600 attendees in the US, Malaysia, Japan, Italy, Portugal, Argentina, Columbia, Brazil, Panama, Costa Rica, Guatemala, and Mexico.
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- Assistant Dean of Finance and HR
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- Instructor of Accounting / Accounting
Education
MS Accounting, University of Colorado, Boulder
BS Accounting, University of Colorado, Colorado Springs
Areas of Expertise
Accounting, financial and managerial
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- Assistant Professor
- Member of the Management Team
- Assistant Professor / Management
Cyrus Dioun's studies the relationship between politics, culture, and the emergence and legitimation of new industries. His research covers a number of new and contested industries, ranging from legal cannabis markets to the do-it-yourself maker field. His work has been published in journals, such as Socio-Economic Review and Research in the Sociology of Organizations, and cited by Time Magazine, The Hill, ABC News, and The Chronicle of Higher Education.
Prior to starting at the University of Colorado Denver, Professor Dioun was a Data Science Fellow at the Berkeley Institute for Data Science (BIDS). He has also worked with or consulted for tech startups, business incubators, and real estate developers.
Education
PhD, University of California Berkeley
MA, University of California Berkeley
MA, Columbia University
BA, Pomona College
Areas of expertise
Organization Theory
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chief Executive Officer, Ardent Mills
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- Executive
- Program Director
- Associate Professor of Management at the University of Colorado Denver Business School
David Chandler is Associate Professor of Management at the University of Colorado Denver Business School. His research focuses on understanding how organizations interact with their complex institutional environments. This research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly, Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, Academy of Management Review, and the Journal of Management. He has also written the textbook, Strategic Corporate Social Responsibility: Sustainable Value Creation (5th edition, Sage Publications, Inc., 2020) and the book, Sustainable Value Creation (2nd edition, Routledge, 2021).
Education
PhD Management, The University of Texas at Austin
MS Management, The University of Texas at Austin
MBA Management and International Business, University of Miami, Florida
MSc East Asian Business, University of Sheffield (UK)
BA American Studies: Politics and Government, University of Kent at Canterbury (UK)
Areas of expertise
Organization theory
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chairman, Business School Alumni Network, CU Denver Business School
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- Senior Executive, US West ( Ret. )
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- Adviser for the Business Student Ambassador Committee
- Senior Instructor / Management
Coming from a background in business and management, David Ruderman stresses the application of practical skills in his courses. These include critical thinking, effective communication, problem solving and team collaboration. He tailors his courses to challenge students, with the end goal of them becoming better employees, team members, and business leaders. He is demanding and has high expectations but is also laid back in his teaching style, is interactive, and works to make the learning experience fun and engaging. He looks to take on the roles of teacher, coach, and mentor.
In addition to teaching, Ruderman is the faculty adviser for the Business Student Ambassador Committee, a premiere student club within the Business School. In this role, he works to enhance the student experience and supervises student members as they participate in project management, fundraising, recruiting, and professional enrichment. He also volunteers for various committees within the Business School and CU Denver.
Ruderman is a certified Myers Briggs Type Indicator practitioner and a Dale Carnegie Leadership Training for Managers graduate. He also served on the Board of Directors for Phamaly, a local non-profit organization that promotes theatre opportunities for people with disabilities, from 2010 to 2011, where he led their Strategic Planning Committee.
Education
MBA Entrepreneurship emphasis, University of Colorado Denver
BA Broadcasting and Cable, Minors Business and Japanese Language, Pennsylvania State University
Areas of expertise
Entrepreneurship
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- VP, Finance & Operations, Denver Metro Chamber of Commerce
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- EVP, Global Strategy & Venture Platforms, VF Corporation
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- Director of Assessment for the Business School
- Professor Discipline Director for Information Systems Director of Assurance of Learning
Dawn Gregg is the director of assessment for the Business School. Prior to her current role she has served as the associate dean of programs and as the administrative director of the Bard Center for Entrepreneurship. While at CU Denver, she founded and was CEO of Developing Minds Software. Prior to her doctoral studies, she was employed for nine years as a research and development engineer. Her current research focuses on how to organize and maintain web-based content so that it can be used to better meet business and special education needs. Her work has been published in numerous journals such as MIS Quarterly, the International Journal of Electronic Commerce, IEEE Transactions on Systems Man, and Cybernetics, Communications of the ACM, and Decision Support Systems.
Education
PhD Information Systems, Arizona State University
MS Information Systems, Arizona State University
MBA, Arizona State University West
BS Mechanical Engineering, University of California at Irvine
Areas of expertise
Decision Support Systems
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- Associate Professor
- Director
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- DH Kelsall and Associates & Sr. Consultant With LLR Partners and Harkness Capital
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
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- Assistant Director of Enrollment Management
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- Program Manager / J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities
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- Assistant Professor / Information Systems
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- Senior Instructor / Researcher / Marketing
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- Discipline Director for Accounting
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- Clinical Assistant Professor / Information Systems
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- Vice President and Chief Human Resource Officer, Arrow Electronics, Inc
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- Executive Director and CEO, Habitat for Humanity of Metro Denver
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- Director of Daniels Fund Ethics Initiative Senior Instructor
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- Center for Commodities Finance
Jian Yang is J.P. Morgan endowed chair and Research Director at J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities, discipline director/department chair of finance, and founding director of Center for China Financial Research at the University of Colorado Denver. He is also a Research Fellow of the National Institute of Financial Research at Tsinghua University in China, and previously held positions of visiting fellow at People's Bank of China and visiting scholar at St. Louis Fed. Prior to his joining CU Denver, he worked as an assistant professor/associate professor at Prairie View A&M University in Texas.
Yang is recognized as one of the most prolific authors in finance during the past 50 years based on core finance journal publications, and one of 15 commodities friendly professors in the world. He has published about 70 refereed journal articles on such journals as Management Science, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Econometrics, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, and Journal of Banking and Finance.
Yang's research has been reprinted in a four-volume major finance work reference book, won a number of research awards including Asian Finance Association PBFJ Best Paper Award, cited in many textbooks and policy reports of international organizations and governments around the world, and featured by over 50 media outlets including New York Times, Reuters, The Washington Post, Daily Mail (UK), CNBC, US News and World Report, and Economic Daily(Chinese). His research has also been presented at European Central Bank, FDIC, People's Bank of China, EIA, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, and CSRC. Yang's research-based comments also have been published by Reuters, Financial Times, Bloomberg, China Daily and other media outlets in dozens of countries and in multiple languages.
Education
PhD Agricultural Economics, Finance Minor, Texas A&M University
MS Finance, Texas A&M University
MA International Economics, Nankai University
BS Chemistry, Nankai University
Areas of expertise
International Finance
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- Associate Dean of Faculty, Staff and Operations
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- Center for Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator
- Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship Program Coordinator
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- Senior Digital Design Marketing Professional / Marketing / Communications Staff
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Undergraduate Advisor
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Director, Diversity Business Partner, Schwab
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Director, Denver Mountain Complex, Merrill Lynch
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- Chief Financial Officer, Custom Made Meals
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Initiative Engagement, Charles Schwab, Co
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- Discipline Director Senior Instructor / Management
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- Course and Data Coordinator
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- Human Resources and Payroll Coordinator
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- Chairman
- Director
- Chairman and Research Director at J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities
Lecturer • Director, Reynolds Program for Global Business
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- Instructor
- Member of the Management Team
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- Broker / Founder, the Kentwood Company
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- Manager / Executive Programs
- Manager / Executive Programs / Finance
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- Director, Public Sector, Slalom
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- Senior Instructor / Finance
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- Senior Instructor / Finance
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- IT Senior Professional / Information Technology
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- Instructor / Information Systems / Information Technology
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Stantec
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- Partner, PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP ( Ret. )
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- Admissions and Operations Coordinator
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Program Director
- Associate Professor of Accounting, Director of MS Accounting, CU Denver Business School
Program Director for MS Accounting • Associate Professor
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- President and CEO, Delta Dental of Colorado ( Ret. )
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Marketing and Member Experience, Delta Dental of Colorado
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- Assistant Director of Recruitment & Alumni Relations
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- Senior Program Coordinator
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- Professor Director of Management
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- Clinical Track Assistant Professor of Finance / Finance
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- Human Resources and Payroll Manager
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- Member of the Management Team
- Instructor / Management
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- Instructor / Information Systems
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Charles Schwab Co
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Assistant Director / Risk Management and Insurance
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- Chief Executive Officer, Denver Scholarship Foundation
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Partner, Bryan Cave Leighton Paisner
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- Director of Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
Director of Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship • Discipline Director for Entrepreneurship • Professor
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- Associate Professor
- Director
- Discipline Director & Associate Professor, International Business & Entrepreneurship, CU Denver Business School
- Discipline Director Associate Professor / International Business Entrepreneurship
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- Associate Professor / Business Analytics
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- Managing Director, Head of Communications, JPMorgan Chase & Co
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- Senior Instructor / Marketing / Marketing / Communications Staff
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- President, FirstBank
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- Vice President, Government Relations USA, Ovintiv Services Inc
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Graduate Advisor
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- Senior Instructor / International Business
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Human Resources West Division, Comcast
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President and Managing Director, Stifel
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- Assistant Director / Daniels Fund
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- Associate Director of Student Success and Analytics
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Corporate Risk & Broking Leader, Denver, Willis Towers Watson
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Senior Vice President, Chief Information Officer, Crocs
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- Vice President, Operations Accounting, Ovintiv Services Inc
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- Member of the Global Energy Management Team
- Executive Programs Coordinator / Executive Education
- Executive Programs Coordinator / Executive Education / Executive Programs
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- IT Operations Director / Information Technology
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- Chief People Operations Officer, Twilio ( Ret. )
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- Fellow, Rotary International Foundation, 2001
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Director of Graduate Advising
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- Clinical Track Assistant Professor of Accounting / Accounting
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- Instructor of Business Analytics
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- President & Chief Operating Officer, McWhinney
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- Associate Professor
- Finance
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Physician Healthcare Executive ( Ret. )
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- Chief Executive Officer, Outside
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- Associate Dean of Programs
Associate Dean of Programs • Faculty Director for Professional MBA Program • Associate Professor • Undergraduate Programs
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- Program Director for Graduate Programs in Health Administration
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Managing Director, PwC
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Manager, Economic Development Policy, Amazon
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- Shareholder, Greenberg Traurig, LLP
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- Executive Director
- Member of the Global Energy Management Team
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- Associate Director of Operations / Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
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- Marketing & Communications Manager / Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship
- Marketing & Communications Manager / Jake Jabs Center for Entrepreneurship / Management
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- Vice President & Sr. Portfolio Manager, the Northern Trust Company
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- Assistant Dean of Student Success
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- Member of the Global Energy Management Team
- Senior Marketing Professional / Marketing / Communications
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- Assistant Professor / Business Analytics
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chairman, Business School Board of Advisors
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- Director of Employer Relations and Business Career Connections
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- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
- IT Professional / Information Technology
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- Executive Vice President, Director of Commercial Banking, Vectra Bank Colorado
Executive Director - J.P. Morgan Center for Commodities • Lecturer
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Owner, Denargo Capital LLC
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- IT Director / Information Technology
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- Dissertation Research Fellowship, Texas a & M University, 1999
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- Associate Professor / Business Analytics
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- Assistant Vice President of Engagement & University Relations, Office of the President, University of Colorado
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- Independent Board Director & Strategic Advisor / Emeritus Members
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Vice President, Sales, Zayo
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- Academic Advisor
- Member of the Budget and Human Resources Staff
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- Director of Marketing
- Program Director
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- Executive, Arrow Electronics, Inc. ( Ret. )
- Vice President, Global Marketing and Chairman, President of Arrow 's Capstone Electronics Division ( Ret. )
As an executive officer of Arrow Electronics (NYSE: ARW), Wes Sagawa retired as Sr. Vice President, Global Marketing and served as Chairman and President of Arrow's Capstone Electronics Division. Wes served on the CU Denver Business School Board of Advisors from November 2012 through April 2020.
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- Member of the Board of Advisors
- Chief Executive Officer, Graebel Companies, Inc
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- Associate Professor Director of External Affairs in Finance Janus Henderson Research Associate / Finance
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- Assistant Professor / Business Analytics