PSU - Key Persons


Abby Burgbacher

Job Titles:
  • Events and Operations Manager

Abby Chroman

Job Titles:
  • Program Director
  • Program Director for Social Innovation and the Business
  • Program Manager, Social Innovation and Social Entrepreneurship
Abby Chroman is Program Director for Social Innovation and the Business Minor at �鶹С�� ý's School of Business. Her work includes academic oversight, and coordination of co-curricular and campus-wide activities including Map the System, the Ashoka U Changemaker Campus designation, and Presidential Foresight Initiatives. Abby is also a workplace mediator with XFORM and In-Accord, and serves on the Board of Advisors for The Impact Collective.

Abigail Van Gelder

Job Titles:
  • Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship
  • Director of the PSU Center for Entrepreneurship
Abigail Van Gelder Director of the PSU Center for Entrepreneurship a.vangelder@pdx.edu

Alan Cabelly

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus

Alan J. Resnik

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Marketing & Advertising

Aleah Romer

Job Titles:
  • Award Setup Coordinator

Alia Jewell

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant

Allen Thayer

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Professional Development
  • Professional Development Specialist
Allen Thayer is the Professional Development Specialist on the Career Management Team within Graduate Business Programs where he supports candidates in career exploration and preparation. Previously, Allen served as an independent social impact consultant working with Social Venture Partners and Northwest Social Venture Fund. Prior to that, Allen spent five years working with Stanford's Graduate School of Business Center for Social Innovation as their Associate Director and lead on career services. Allen has experience in public, private and hybrid sectors and earned his Masters of International Affairs from Columbia University.

Alyssa Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Content Marketing Manager

Amanda Hutchison

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Amanda Sugimoto

Job Titles:
  • Assessment Coordinator

Amaradri Mukherjee

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Amy Crelly

Job Titles:
  • Executive Assistant to the Vice President for RGS
Rick Tankersley Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies rtankers@pdx.edu 503-725-9944 Read Rick's bio here Amy Crelly Executive Assistant to the Vice President for RGS acrelly@pdx.edu 503-725-9944�� Thom Bally-Larkin Executive Office Administrator thomlark@pdx.edu 503-725-3423 Dawn Boatman Assistant Vice President, Research Administration dboatman@pdx.edu 503-725-8306 Margaret Rea Senior Fiscal Officer mrea@pdx.edu 503-725-4491 Daniel Moreau Transaction Specialist�� moreau3@pdx.edu�� (503) 725-6675 Asli Berhane Fiscal Manager asli@pdx.

Angela Liu

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Employer Engagement
  • Associate Director of Employment Engagement
Angela is the Associate Director of Employer Engagement in the School of Business Career Center. She works closely with employers who are interested in engaging with students and alumni at the School of Business. Prior to arriving at PSU, Angela worked with the many U.S. institutions' international admission offices as a client manager at IDP Connect. During her time at IES Abroad, she helped college students improve their career growth by completing international internships. She has also been an international student and scholar advisor at Kent State University where she advised international students on immigration regulations and created an impactful mentorship program to increase internationalization on-campus. Her passion for helping students has led her to the School of Business at PSU. Angela was born and raised in Dalian, China. She currently lives in Chicago, IL with her family.

Anisa Chisti

Job Titles:
  • Compliance Manager
  • Finance
  • Finance & Compliance Team

Anita Vermilya


Anna (Bichko) Kovtunova

Job Titles:
  • Projects Officer
  • Sponsored Projects Officer

Annie Lindgren

Job Titles:
  • Interim Associate Vice President for Research

Arsh Haque

Job Titles:
  • Director, Portland State Business Accelerator

Ashley Storey

Job Titles:
  • Career Coach - Human Resources & Management

Asli Berhane

Job Titles:
  • Fiscal Manager

Barbara Stedman

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Becca Lockwood

Job Titles:
  • Sponsored Projects Officer

Becky Einolf

Job Titles:
  • Career & Academic Advisor

Becky Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Student Success

Berrin Erdogan

Job Titles:
  • Professor

BJ Tomasko


Blake Turner

Job Titles:
  • Outreach Coordinator

Bonnie Amlin

Job Titles:
  • Campus Dispatch Supervisor

Bradi Van Atta

Job Titles:
  • Research Administrator

Brady M. Firth

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Dr. Firth‘s research focuses broadly on what enables individuals and teams to make effective adjustments to challenges at work. His research publications include articles in the��Academy of Management Journal��and the��Journal of Applied Psychology.��

Brandon Reich

Job Titles:
  • Ahlbrandt Assistant Professor

Brian K. McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor II

Brielle Buckler

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Bruce Stern

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Marketing & Advertising

Caitlin Sweeney

Job Titles:
  • Career Counselor

Carlos Mena

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Cass Hausserman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Charles Nobles

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Marketing

Charlie Evans

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Cheryl Kose

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Intake Coordinator

Christelle Sheldon

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director

Christie Culp

Job Titles:
  • Clery and Records Coordinator

Christina Lambert

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Cliff Allen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Dean

Colleen Lee - CMO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Marketing

Colleen Sump

Job Titles:
  • Career Coach - Accounting & Finance

Cristina Kelly

Job Titles:
  • Research Integrity Administrator

Cristina Restad

Job Titles:
  • Career & Academic Advisor

Curtis Chinn

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Daniel Moreau

Job Titles:
  • Transaction Specialist

Daniel Wong

Job Titles:
  • Academic Director, Master of Science in Global Supply Chain Management

Darrell Brown

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Accounting

Dave Garten

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

David Bikman

Job Titles:
  • Faculty Services Coordinator

David Hansen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor II

David M. Raffo

Job Titles:
  • Professor

David W. Gerbing

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Dawn Boatman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Vice President, Research Administration

Deric Watson

Job Titles:
  • Public Safety Officer

Devdeep Aikath

Job Titles:
  • Technology & Analytics Area Director and Instructor
  • Undergraduate BTA Area Director
Devdeep Aikath conducts teaching and research in the domain of Business...

Donald Morgan

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Donna R. Philbrick

Job Titles:
  • Accounting

Doug Siegler

Job Titles:
  • Career & Academic Advisor

Edgar Barrera

Job Titles:
  • Career & Academic Advisor

Elizabeth Almer

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Elizabeth McCune

Job Titles:
  • Visiting Teaching Assistant Professor

Ellen West

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus

Ellie Varberg

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Development

Evan T. Green

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Justice, Equity, Diversity & Inclusion

Frederik Vos

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Gary Smeltzer

Job Titles:
  • Public Safety Officer

Gavin Cardenas

Job Titles:
  • Public Safety Officer

George Watson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Gerard Mildner

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Real Estate

Greg Flores

Job Titles:
  • Director of University Career Services

H. Thomas Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Accounting

Hailey Wright-Salinas

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Hande Ozer-Buyuksahin

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Ilka Bailey

Job Titles:
  • Business Pathway Advising Director

Jacob Suher

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs

James Beriault

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Janet Hamilton

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Undergraduate Finance Area Director

Jasmin Evans

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Jeanne Enders

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
  • Teaching Associate Professor
Jeanne's areas of interest include the umbrella concepts of meaning and happiness in work settings and innovation in work organizations and in teaching/learning. Her current research examines the life narratives of regional ethics award winners and the role of ePortfolio development in student identity formation.

Jenise Guiterrez-Ingleston

Job Titles:
  • Recruitment Marketing Manager

Jennifer Loney


Jennifer Robe

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Jennifer Ward

Job Titles:
  • SPA STAFF Member
  • Director of Sponsored Projects Operations

Jesse Dillard

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Accounting

Jing Zhao

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Jingjing Chen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Joe Janda

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Research Committee
  • Assistant Vice President for Innovation - Propel

Joel Owens

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

John Eckroth

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor

John Nguyen

Job Titles:
  • Chief Accounting and Budgetary Officer

John Settle

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Finance

Joleen Kremin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Undergraduate Accounting Area Director

Josh Avila


Josh Hendricks

Job Titles:
  • Physical Security Manager

Joshua Ward

Job Titles:
  • Public Safety Officer

Julia Freybote

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Academic Professor, Master of Real Estate Development

Julian Steele

Job Titles:
  • Enrollment Services Manager

Julie Gibson

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Center for Real Estate

Julie Hackett

Job Titles:
  • Academic Director, Master of Finance
  • Academic Director, Master of Taxation

Karen Sayago Sanchez

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor

Karena Bayruns

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst, Team Lead

Kate Thomas

Job Titles:
  • Intake Coordinator

Kathleen Choi

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Kathleen Rupley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Dean, Faculty & Research

Kathy Grove

Job Titles:
  • Scheduling Coordinator

Katie Paolacci

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Development

Katrina Dahlke

Job Titles:
  • Sponsored Projects Officer

Kayla Paul

Job Titles:
  • Sponsored Projects Officer

Kerry Wu

Job Titles:
  • Business Librarian

Khaitan Allen

Job Titles:
  • Career & Academic Advisor

Khalid Low

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Kit Segura

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Kristi Yuthas

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Lacey Friedly

Job Titles:
  • Communications Coordinator - RGS and TREC

Laura Lazorski

Job Titles:
  • Patents Specialist & Operations Coordinator

Lauren Clark

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development

Leah Polhemus

Job Titles:
  • Research Integrity Administrator

Leighann Shields

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Lihong Qian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor, Cameron Professor of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Dr. Qian's recent research resides in the intersection of industry evolution, technological change, and firm strategy. Within these domains, she explores how firms make their technological choice, how firms design their boundaries upon entering a new market or a new industry, and how such strategic choices affect firm performance. Her work has appeared in the��Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of International Business Studies, European Management Journal, Managerial and Decision Economics,��and��Journal of Property Research.��

Lindsey Morse

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Center for Retail Leadership

Lisa McMahon

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Logan Judd

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Louise Paradis

Job Titles:
  • Career Counselor

Madelyn Parsons

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor I

Marc Moran

Job Titles:
  • Advertising Director

Marci Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Sergeant

Marcos Ordaz

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Admission

Margaret Rea

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fiscal Officer

Mario Zamora

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Marisa Miller

Job Titles:
  • Internships Coordinator

Mark Woods

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of the Graduate School

Marta Stelmaszak Rosa

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Mary Marshall

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Matt Kaufman

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Matthew Mitarnowski

Job Titles:
  • Compliance Officer
  • Finance

Meagan An

Job Titles:
  • Program Manager, Real Estate

Megan McCarthy

Job Titles:
  • Enrollment Specialist

Megan Zeazas

Job Titles:
  • Sponsored Projects Officer

Melinda Hendley

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Melissa Appleyard

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Associate Dean of Graduate Programs, Ames Professor Management of Innovation and Technology
  • Associate Dean, Graduate Programs
  • Professor
Dr. Appleyard's research focuses on how knowledge creation and diffusion catalyze economic growth and business longevity in technology-intensive industries. Over the past decade, she has concentrated on the global semiconductor industry's ability to achieve perpetual innovation in design, process integration, and manufacturing. She also has examined open innovation business models in the open-source software sector, as well as the payoffs to interdisciplinary R&D. Professor��Appleyard's work has been published in leading academic journals such as��California Management Review,��Industrial Relations, the��Journal of Product Innovation Management,��Managerial and Decision Economics, and the��Strategic Management Journal.

Mellie Pullman


Michael Anthony


Michael Dimond

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor II

Micheal Havlik

Job Titles:
  • Academic Director, Property Management

Micheal Schuster

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Accounting

Michelle Bickley

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Michelle Gano

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Miles Weatheroy

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Miranda Bartosz

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Molly Baer Kramer

Job Titles:
  • Project & Communications Management

Nancy Young

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor, Graduate Business Programs

Nathanial Garrod

Job Titles:
  • Director of Undergraduate Programs

Nicholas Chase

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Nick Crivello

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Nicole Braman

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director of Departmental Research Administration

Nora Hernandez

Job Titles:
  • Career Coach - Marketing, Advertising, & Real Estate

Pam Mitchell


Pamela Tierney

Job Titles:
  • Ames Professor of Management of Innovation & Technology
  • Professor

Patti Fylling

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Qin Lian

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Rachel Shelton

Job Titles:
  • Admissions Manager

Rachelle Richmond

Job Titles:
  • SPA STAFF Member

Raymond N. Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Accounting

Rick Tankersley

Job Titles:
  • Administration
  • Vice President for Research & Graduate Studies

Riley Chase

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor

Riëtte Carstens

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Robert R Harmon

Job Titles:
  • Emeritus / Marketing & Advertising

Rossitza Wooster

Job Titles:
  • Dean of the Graduate School

Ruby Beecham

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Sambit Tripathi

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Saori Clark

Job Titles:
  • Career & Academic Advisor

Sarah Engle

Job Titles:
  • Instructor

Savanna Watson


Scott DuHadway

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor

Scott Swingle

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Sejin Keem

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor
Through her research, Dr. Keem explores topics such as workplace creativity and unethical behavior. Her work has appeared in premier journals such as��Organizational Behavior and Human Decisions Processes, Journal of Applied Psychology, and Journal of Management.��

Shannon Aniciete

Job Titles:
  • Director of Business Career Services

Shannon Dix

Job Titles:
  • Public Safety Officer

Shannon Roth

Job Titles:
  • Director of Research Integrity & Compliance Operations / Shannon

Shanta Adams

Job Titles:
  • Grants & Agreements Analyst

Shruti Koley

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Shung Jae Shin

Job Titles:
  • Associate Professor
  • Associate Professor, Cameron Professor of Management
Dr. Shin's main research areas are employee creativity at work, leadership, human side of corporate mergers and acquisitions, and cross-cultural studies. His studies have been published in leading academic journals including Academy of Management Journal, Journal of Applied Psychology, Journal of Management, Journal of Organizational Behavior, Journal of International Business Studies, Academy of Management Learning and Education, and Journal of Management Studies. He currently serves as a principal reviewer for Journal of Applied Psychology and Management and Organization Review.

Siobhan McDonald

Job Titles:
  • Departmental Research Administrator

Stacey Hoshimiya

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Director
  • Assistant Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship

Stan Heister

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor I

Stephani Jeronimo-Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Student Success Coordinator

Sully Taylor


Talya Bauer

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Management Team
  • Gerry & Marilyn Cameron Professor of Management
  • Management & Leadership and Human Resources Area Director, and Professor of Management
  • Professor
  • Undergraduate HRM Area Director
  • Undergraduate Management Area Director
Dr. Bauer conducts research about relationships at work. More specifically, she works in the areas of leadership, selection, and new employee socialization which have resulted in dozens of journal publications. She has acted as a consultant for government, Fortune 1000, and start-up organizations. She has been a visiting professor in France and Spain and at Google, Inc. Dr. Bauer is involved in professional organizations and conferences at the national level such as serving on the Human Resource Management Executive Committee of the Academy of Management and SIOP Program Chair, member-at-large, and President. She is an Associate Editor of Journal of Applied Psychology and is on the editorial boards for the Journal of Management, Personnel Psychology and Industrial and Organizational Psychology: Perspectives on Science and Practices. She is a Fellow of SIOP, APA, IAAP, and APS. She has co-authored four textbooks "Organizational Behavior," "Human Resource Management: People, Data, and Analytics", "Principles of Management," and "Psychology and Work: Perspectives in Industrial and Organizational Psychology."

Tamara Navone


Tanya Romaniuk

Job Titles:
  • Career Counselor

TC Dale


Tessa Paulsen

Job Titles:
  • Award Setup Coordinator

Theodore Khoury

Job Titles:
  • Professor
  • Professor of Management & Strategy
Dr. Khoury's research focuses on how institutions and social forces guide entrepreneurship and innovation processes. Within these domains, he explores how both formal (i.e., reforms; legal and political systems) and informal (i.e. social, cultural features) institutions enable or constrain the pursuits of entrepreneurial actors within developing countries and emerging industry settings. His theoretical and empirical work has been published in such outlets as��Journal of Business Venturing,��Strategic Management Journal,��Journal of Management,��Research Policy,��Entrepreneurship Theory &��Practice,��Journal of World Business,��Global Strategy Journal,��Business &��Society,��and��Academy of Management Perspectives. He currently serves on the editorial board of the��Journal of Business Venturing.

Thom Bally-Larkin

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Office Administrator

Tichelle Sorensen

Job Titles:
  • Director

Tien James

Job Titles:
  • Teaching Associate Professor

Tom Gillpatrick

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Tory Blake

Job Titles:
  • Campus Police Officer

Travis Woodland

Job Titles:
  • Director, Innovation & Intellectual Property

Wanying Shi

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor

Willie Halliburton

Job Titles:
  • Chief of Police

Xuan Cen Cheng

Job Titles:
  • Design Consultant

Yazhen (Sophie) Xiao

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Professor

Yesha Malla

Job Titles:
  • Agreements Specialist

Zach Wells

Job Titles:
  • Manager of Technology

Zafrin Rahman

Job Titles:
  • Senior Instructor I