UNC - Key Persons
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Professor of Operations, Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar and Area Chair of Operations
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- Julian Price Distinguished Professor of Finance and Area Chair of Finance
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Mary Farley Ames Lee Distinguished Scholar
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Director, Development Aria Development Group
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- Senior Executive
- Professor
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- Vice - President of Development AMLI Development Company
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- Assistant Dean, Donor Engagement and Advancement Services
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Professor of the Practice and Former Bain Consultant
Alex Dickey, Professor of the Practice, former Accenture partner, 30+ years in consulting and UNC Kenan-Flagler alum
Bob Fellows, Professor of the Practice, partner in marketing and brand strategy company, former Hanesbrands and Sara Lee Corp executive
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- Professor of the Practice, Partner
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- Senior Associate
- Director of the Center
- Professor of Operations
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- Senior Director of Development
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- Assistant Director of Alumni Engagement
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Professor of the Practice, Former Healthcare Executive With Blue Cross NC, UNC BA Alum
Andy Podolsky, Professor of the Practice, senior executive in strategy consulting and financial services and UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA and BSBA alum
Randy Myer, Professor of the Practice of Strategy and Entrepreneurship and former consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton
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- Senior Associate Dean for Faculty and Research and Richard "Dick" Levin Distinguished Professor of Finance
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- Visiting Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Phillip Hettleman Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Assistant Dean of Strategy and Innovation and Area Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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- Founder & CEO Shelter Acquisition Corp
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- Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean of Advancement
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- Clinical Marketing Professor, Former McKinsey Consultant and UNC Kenan - Flagler MBA and PhD Alum
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- Associate Dean of the Master of Accounting Program and Clinical Professor of Accounting
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- CFO Shelter Acquisition Corp
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- Senior Associate Dean of UNC Executive Development and Hugh L. McColl, Jr. Distinguished Professor of Leadership and Organizational Behavior
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- CEO Morningstar Properties
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- Director, Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies
Dr. Hartzell and Andrew Baum wrote Global Property Investment: Strategies, Structures, Decisions (Wiley Blackwell, 2012), which is used by both students and practitioners of real estate. The book has been adopted for use at many universities in the United States and the U.K. including the University of Cambridge and Oxford University, where they have teaching appointments.
He brings valuable experience as a former vice president at Salomon Brothers Inc. in New York, where his primary focus was on institutional real estate finance and investments. His group was the first to bring commercial mortgage backed securities (CMBS) to market.
He also worked as a research associate for The Urban Institute and as a financial economist for the U.S. Office of the Comptroller of Currency. He served as president of the leading academic real estate group, The American Real Estate and Urban Economics Association (AREUEA), in 2000.
Dr. Hartzell serves on the board of directors of Highwoods Properties, a publicly traded real estate investment trust (REIT) that focuses its investment and development in the office sector in southeastern markets in the United States. He serves on the investment committee and the audit committee of the board.
He has worked with numerous companies on a consulting basis, notably Heitman Capital Management in Chicago, with whom he has been affiliated since 1994. Additional consulting engagements have included the board of directors of Citigroup, CB Richard Ellis, Weil Gottschall, Cornerstone Research, Henderson Asset Management (U.K.), PRA Securities, Heitman/JMB Advisory Corp., JMB Institutional Realty Corp., Salomon Brothers Inc., Prudential Real Estate Investors, American Council of Life Insurance, Travelers Realty Investment Corporation, GE Capital, Metropolitan Life and ABP (Dutch Public Employees Pension Fund).
Dr. Hartzell served in many administrative roles since joining the faculty. He was the associate dean for MBA Programs, with administrative responsibility for the full-time MBA Program and all Executive MBA Programs from 1994-1998. For most of his years at UNC Kenan-Flagler, he served as director of the Real Estate Program and coordinator of the Real Estate Concentration in MBA Program.
He received his PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and his MA and BS from the University of Delaware.
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- Professor of the Practice of Marketing
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- Founder & CEO Preiss Companies
Dudley Lacy, Professor of the Practice and former president of a major architectural firm
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior and Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar
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- Adjunct Professor of Management and Corporate Communication
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- Director of Alumni Career Management
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- Managing Director JP Morgan
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- President Johnson Management, LLC
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Senior Managing Director and Head of Capital Strategies & Formation DivcoWest
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- Leadership and Organizational Behavior and Senior Associate Dean of UNC Executive Development
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- Clinical Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Advancement Assistant, Events
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Senior Associate Dean of Business and Operations, Associate Professor of Accounting, EY Scholar in Accounting
Brad Staats
Senior Associate Dean for Strategy and Academics, Professor of Operations and Faculty Director of the Center for the Business of Health
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- CIO Peachtree Hotel Group
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- Executive Director, Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies
Jeff Tucker (MBA '00) has been named the new executive director of the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies. Tucker is a long-time friend of the program, an engaged alumnus of UNC Kenan-Flagler, a dedicated leader, and an experienced professional within the real estate private equity arena.
Tucker has more than 20 years of private equity experience with the last 16 focused specifically on real estate. He has most recently worked as the co-chairman and chief operating officer of Century Bridge Capital, a Beijing and Dallas-based private equity real estate firm focused on middle-class residential developments in China. Since starting the firm in 2007 with his partners, he has built and managed Century Bridge's operations, which included building the firm's investment team in Beijing, designing and implementing an investment strategy and process, raising institutional capital, and overseeing investor relations with the firm's Limited Partners around the world. Under the leadership of Tucker and his partners, the firm invested approximately $650 million of equity and debt in 19 developments and co-developed 22,679 residential housing units in 16 cities across China.
Along with his industry experience, Tucker brings a vast knowledge and intimate understanding of the business school to this role. He has been the chair of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Advisory Board since his appointment in 2019 and he is the former chair of the UNC Kenan-Flagler Alumni Council. He received UNC Kenan-Flagler's Outstanding Young Alumni Award in 2001 and its Global Leadership Award in 2015. In 2001, he also formed the Rollie Tillman, Jr. Development Fund, an endowment fund aimed at enhancing UNC Kenan-Flagler's development efforts.
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- Associate Director of Individual Giving
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- Assistant Dean of the Master of Accounting Program
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- Partner Longfellow Real Estate Partners
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- Clinical Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Adjunct Associate Professor, Former Chief Operating Officer, Piedmont Health, and Chief Finance and Operating Officer, UNC School of Medicine
Markus Saba, Professor of the Practice of Marketing; Executive Director of the Center for the Business of Health, former Eli Lilly executive and UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA alum
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- Director of the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies
- Director, Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies
Jim Spaeth serves as Director of the Leonard W. Wood Center for Real Estate Studies at UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School in Chapel Hill, North Carolina. In this capacity, he is responsible for supporting the faculty, academic programs, students and extracurricular activities of UNC Kenan-Flagler's nationally-recognized real state program. Prior to joining the Wood Center in 2013, Jim spent two years in UNC Kenan-Flagler's MBA Career Management Center, where he worked with students and employers in the real estate and investment banking industries.
Originally from the Washington DC area, Jim earned undergraduate degrees in Finance and Political Science along with an MBA from the University of Florida. Prior to his arrival at UNC Kenan-Flagler in 2011, Jim held positions in investment banking (Raymond James and CNL) and real estate development (Remora Partners), gaining development expertise in the office, retail, multifamily, hospitality and senior housing sectors.
During his time in Florida, Jim was also involved with the University of Florida's Center for Real Estate Studies, and has been active in ICSC, NAIOP, and ULI during his real estate career.
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Founder & Principal / Founder Clark Ventures
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- Assistant Dean of the Undergraduate Business Program
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Clinical Professor of Management and Corporate Communication and Area Chair of Management and Corporate Communication / Dean
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Julian Price Distinguished Professor of Finance and Area Chair of Finance
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- Associate Director of MBA Affairs
- Associate Director, MBA Real Estate Program
Julie Paul is the Wood Center Associate Director of MBA Affairs. She works with MBA students from first inquiry all the way to alumni status. She connects our students to industry and school resources that will contribute to their success during their time as at Kenan-Flagler, as well as post graduation.
Julie brings to the Wood Center more than a decade of experience in the real estate industry and holds her NC real estate broker license and ARGUS Enterprise Certification. She is also a member of Urban Land Institute and CREW, as well as active in the community through current and former board service on Marbles Kids Museum, DHIC Affordable Housing Develop er, Hillsborough Street Community Service Corporate, CAM Raleigh, among other organizations.
Julie has her MBA in Marketing, Management and International Business from Columbia Business School, as well as her Bachelors in French Language and Literature from the University of Southern California.
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- Chief Development Officer JBG Smith
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- Associate Director of Alumni Relations
- Associate Director, Employer Relations and Alumni Engagement
Katie Hambrick is the Associate Director of Alumni Relations and Employer Engagement. Her primary roles include working with employers to hire Tar Heel real estate program talent, developing strategy to engage UNC real estate alumni and serving as a liaison to the Wood Center Advisory Board. She brings to the team ten years of experience working in higher education at the University of South Carolina, most recently leading alumni engagement efforts for the alumni association. She has a decade of experience in planning large-scale events, customer service, external relations, and program and team management.
Katie received her M.Ed. from the University of South Carolina in Higher Education Administration. She also has her Bachelor of Arts in Human Services from Elon University.
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- Communications and Events Manager
- the Communications and Events Manager of the Wood Center
Kelsey Faulkner is the Communications and Events Manager of the Wood Center. She updates the Center's website and social media, as well as handles internal and external marketing initiatives. She joined the staff in 2021 after working as the Publications Coordinator at Vance-Granville Community College, where she conceptualized, designed and printed the marketing materials for the school.
Prior to transitioning to the higher education sector, she worked in print media, and designed and edited newspapers all over the country. Her first love is writing and she won awards from NC Press Association during her time as a news reporter.
She received her Bachelor of Science from East Carolina University in Communications with a concentration in media studies.
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- Managing Director PHICAS Investors
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- Chief Executive Officer JLL Hotels & Hospitality, Americas
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- Managing Director Alliance Residential
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- Chief Investment Officer HEM Family Office
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- Alumni and Student Giving Officer
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- Partner Taurus Investment Holdings
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- Vice - President of Alternatives Capital Markets and Strategy Goldman Sachs
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- Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Partner GLJ Partners
- Senior Managing Director Trammell Crow Residential
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Associate Director of Donor Strategy and Engagement
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- Senior Vice President AvalonBay
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Associate Director of Undergraduate Affairs
Lynn Tocci is the Wood Center Associate Director of Undergraduate Affairs. She works with all things real estate education for undergraduates, including: career coaching and advising students completing the real estate coursework, promoting and handling admissions for the new real estate minor, overseeing the Undergraduate Real Estate Club (UREC) and the Wood Center's diversity initiatives with undergraduates. Lynn has been a fixture on UNC's campus for more than a decade, with a tenure working in Kenan-Flagler admissions and academic advising.
Lynn has her Masters in Social Work from UNC and Masters in Counseling Psychology from Marist College. She also has her Bachelors in Psychology from the State University of New York - Albany.
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- Clinical Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Assistant Director of Donor Relations
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- Professor of Organizational Behavior and Edward M. O'Herron Scholar
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- Professor of the Practice of Marketing
Mark McNeilly, Professor of the Practice of Marketing, former global marketing executive with IBM and Lenovo and author of strategy books
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- Professor of the Practice of Marketing
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- Development
- Interim Senior Associate Dean of Advancement
The academic interests of Mary Margaret Frank include the integration of business principles and public policy objectives, cross-sector collaboration and leadership, and sustainable investing. These interests stem from her research on the effects of regulation - specifically tax, financial accounting, and patent reporting - on the strategy of corporate management, investors and entrepreneurs.
An award-winning teacher and researcher and academic leader, Dr. Frank was named dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler effective Aug. 15, 2023.
She is a Triple Tar Heel, an academic fellow at the UNC Tax Center and has taught in the Master of Accounting Program.
Dr. Frank returns to UNC Kenan-Flagler from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where she was senior associate dean for faculty development, John Tyler Professor of Business Administration.
She also was co-founder and academic director of the Institute for Business in Society. In that role she led the development of the P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading cross-sector collaboration to improve communities around the world, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State's Office of Global Partnerships and Concordia. Her passion for cross-sector collaboration also led her to establish the Tri-Sector Leadership Fellows program, which brings together graduate students from business, law and public policy.
She also served on the faculty of University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she received its Phoenix Award in recognition of the faculty who, in addition to classroom responsibilities, has greatly enriched the learning experience of campus students.
Dr. Frank served as a board director and chairperson of the audit committee of a small publicly traded company, The Female Health Company, for 14 years, which merged with a biotech company in 2016 to become Veru Inc. The medical device company's mission was to empower women, most of whom were from developing economies, to protect themselves against HIV and AIDS.
She practiced as a CPA and senior tax consultant for Arthur Andersen in Washington, D.C, before she returned to UNC Kenan-Flagler to enroll in the PhD Program in accounting.
She received her PhD, Master of Accounting and BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.
Areas of Expertise
Accounting Financial accounting Tax
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- Executive Director of Alumni Engagement and Individual Giving
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Professor of the Practice
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- Senior Associate Dean for Innovation, Strategy and Partnerships
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- Professor of Organizational Behavior, Bell Distinguished Scholar and Area Chair of Organizational Behavior
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- Clinical Professor of Management and Corporate Communication, Background in Management, Sales, and Consulting in the US, Europe, and South America
Michael Meredith, Clinical Professor of Management and Corporate Communication, background in management, sales, and consulting in the US, Europe, and South America
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- Associate Dean of MBA Programs and Executive Director of Academics and Operations
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- Principal Morningside Capital
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Commissioner of the Public Buildings Service General Services Administration
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- Associate
- Professor of Finance and Executive Director
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- Corporate and Foundation Relations Officer
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- Clinical Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Former Consultant for PricewaterhouseCoopers and McKinsey & Company
Chris Gosk, Professor of the Practice, former Vice President of ABC Consortium and UNC Kenan-Flagler MBA alum
Meghan Gosk, Professor of the Practice, Honors Carolina director, former Associate Director of Career & Leadership and career coach in sustainability, healthcare and energy
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- Managing Director Wells Fargo
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- EVP, Co - Head of Washington, DC Region Boston Properties
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Phillip Hettleman Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Assistant Dean of Strategy and Innovation and Area Chair of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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- Executive Director
- Professor
Prof. Karin Cochran
Executive Director of STAR and Professor of the Practice of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
Email: Karin_Cochran@kenan-flagler.unc.edu
Phone: 919-962-8840
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- the Townsend Family Distinguished Professor of Marketing and Area Chair of Marketing
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- Professor of the Practice of Strategy
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- Founder & Principal Tulach Investments
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Executive Vice President the Brookdale Group
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- Principal Cowan Company LLC
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- Associate Dean of MBA Programs and Executive Director of Admissions and Student Recruitment
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- Assistant Dean of the Full - Time MBA Program, Professor of Operations and Sarah Graham Kenan Scholar
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- Senior Director of Engagement
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- Associate Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship
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- Professor of the Practice
Shannon McKeen, Professor of the Practice, data analytics and consulting, and consultant
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- Managing Director Barings Real Estate Advisor
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- Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Business Program and Associate Professor of Organizational Behavior
- Organizational Behavior and Associate Dean of the Undergraduate Business Program
Paige Ouimet
Associate Dean of the PhD Program, Professor of Finance and Executive Director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise
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- Associate Dean of the MBA@UNC Program and Professor of Marketing
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- President of UNC Executive Development
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- Adjunct Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Managing Director Eastdil Secured
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
- Construction
- Distinguished Professor
Construction has begun on Steven D. Bell Hall. This expansion is designed for today and the future of learning at UNC Kenan-Flagler with increased space for student life and community interaction, as well as enhanced technology that will meet LEED Gold standards as a baseline for sustainability.
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- Individual Giving and Annual Fund Strategist
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- Clinical Professor of Legal Studies
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- Advancement Services Manager
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Director of Donor Relations and Stewardship
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- Director of Multifamily Development Silverwing Partners
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- Associate Director of Development
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Assistant Dean of the Evening Executive MBA, Weekend Executive MBA and Charlotte Executive MBA Programs and Associate Professor of Operations
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- Executive Managing Director Greystar
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- Managing Director Berkeley Capital Advisors
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Professor of Organizational Behavior and Edward M. O'Herron Scholar
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- Member of the Emeritus UNC Kenan - Flagler Board
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- Chief Financial Officer Eller Capital Partners