William Leo Cron
Visiting Faculty
Research Expertise
Marketing, Sales & Sales Management, Channels of Distribution, Health Care
William Cron is Visiting Professor at the University of California-Davis; Guest Professor at Ruhr University - Bochum, Germany, and Professor Emeritus at the M. J. Neeley School of Business. During his 17 years at TCU, he has served as Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, the Deputy for Faculty Research at the Neeley School of Business and was the J. Vaughn and Evelyne H. Wilson Professor in Business. Professor Cron received a BSBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati and MBA and DBA from
Heather Whiteman
Lecturer
Ph.D., Human Capital Management, Bellevue University
Heather Whiteman, Ph.D. is an expert in People Analytics, Talent Transformation, and the Future of Work. Whiteman teaches business and data courses at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management as well as People Analytics at UC Berkeley Haas and UC San Diego Rady. She also serves as a Future Workplace Fellow and as a board advisor to organizations focused on using people data for good. She has held executive roles leading People Analytics, Talent Management, Learning & Development, HR Operations and HR Technology at companies like General
Jay Olenowski
Lecturer
Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Statistics, Villanova University
Jay Olenowski previously served as a faculty member for the Statistics Department at California Polytechnic State University for 5 years teaching statistics and data analytics. Olenowski currently works full-time as a data scientist for the online therapy company Betterhelp, where he performs optimization methods and predictive analytics involving machine learning and A/B testing. Professional interests include machine learning, health and nutrition analytics, and programming. Personal interests consist of golf, soccer, poker
Justin Virrey
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Justin Virrey brings over 15 years of Corporate Finance, Strategy, and Project Management experience to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has previously worked in the Semiconductor Capital industry and has recently transitioned to Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Virrey focuses on managing strategic initiatives related to next-gen financial systems as well as the ensuing training initiatives involved to onboard users and to accelerate adoption. He has led various international and cross
Gareth Keeves
Lecturer
Ph.D. Strategic Management, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan
Gareth Keeves' research interests include impression management and impression formation in the context of corporate leadership. His first stream of research draws from social and psychological theories to examine interpersonal interactions between top managers. The second stream of research examines the linguistics of organizational communications, using computational linguistics to characterize the nature of company filings.
Keeves' research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly and the
John D. Hancock
Lecturer
Lecturer John D. Hancock provides valuation consulting services in civil and business litigation through economic and financial analysis. He also teaches at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management as a visiting professor. Hancock's prior positions include office director at Spectrum Economics Inc.; office director at QED Research Inc.; manager of litigation support services at Arthur Young & Co.,; assistant professor of economics at Drake University; and co-founder of Economic & Financial Consultants, a Midwest forensic consulting firm.
Hancock has successfully managed and participated in
Sorin Maruster
Lecturer
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Sorin Maruster is a senior manager in KPMG’s Silicon Valley tax practice, with more than five years of experience in valuation of complex securities, including earnouts, convertible bonds, put/call arrangements and equity-based compensation, under ASC 718, ASC 805 and ASC 820.
Maruster is responsible for a broad range of engagements requiring development and implementation of pricing methods using Monte Carlo simulation, lattice models and closed-form solutions. Within the complex securities practice at KPMG, Maruster developed valuation models for earnouts
Pantelis Loupos
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Research Expertise
Social Customer Relationship Management, Digital Platforms, Business Analytics
Pantelis Loupos' research interests focus on understanding consumer behavior in digital platforms and in particular networked services. In particular, services whose value is a function of the number of customers they have and their underlying network topology.
For empirical investigation, Loupos is using data from Venmo, a peer-to-peer mobile payment application, to understand the impact of heterogeneous social networks on customer
Jim Olson
Lecturer, Robert A. Fox Executive in Residence, 2013
Jim Olson founded the WestShore Management Group in April of 2007, continuing a distinguished career after leading several high technology businesses for two Fortune companies and serving for nine years as CEO of SkyStream Networks, the top rated IPTV video head-end provider worldwide. WestShore Management Group provides Interim CEO, corporate consulting, and executive development services for both public, and private, venture-financed companies.
Most recently, Olson was executive vice president of video compression systems at TANDBERG Television. He became part of the company’s senior
Mike Ueltzen
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), California State University, Sacramento
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), California State University, Sacramento
Research Expertise
Forensic Accounting
Mike Ueltzen has testified as an expert witness in cases throughout the United States in federal and state courts in matters that involved both civil and criminal claims and in arbitrations. He has also served as a federal special master, court appointed expert, referee, mediator, and an arbitrator.
Ueltzen is currently semi-retired but continues to work as an independent forensic accounting consultant for
Jörn Boehnke
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Chicago
Research Expertise
Applied Microeconomics, Quantitative Marketing, Empirical Industrial Organization, Labor Economics, Online Market Platforms, Dynamics of Customer Behavior and Pricing
Jörn Boehnke's research primarily revolves around the dynamics of marketing, pricing, and consumer behavior in online platforms. These platforms foster direct interaction between retailers and their customers, reducing search costs, and enabling consumers to compare various products simultaneously. Through his meticulous data collection and analysis, Boehnke succeeds in revealing
Vince Vengapally
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Wharton School of Business
Vince Vengapally is currently working in Product Management for Google Workspace. Vince leads various Google efforts around digital whiteboarding and develops Google Meet Hardware for Meeting Rooms and Classrooms.
Vengapally was formerly the Vice President of Technology for the Oakland Athletics. He oversaw technology initiatives for the ball club, spanning fan facing technology and business systems. A major focus for the A's was a transition from a traditional on-premise enterprise software environment to a hybrid cloud
David Woodruff
Professor and Associate Dean of Academic Affairs
Ph.D., Northwestern University
Research Expertise
Business analytics, operations and management science, planning and scheduling under uncertainty, optimization
Professor David Woodruff's research concerns computational aspects of optimal decision making. He is particularly interested in problems with a mix of discrete and continuous choices with multiple time stages when there is significant uncertainty. His research includes solution algorithms, problem representation and modeling language support. He has worked on applications in operations, logistics, science, and has been involved
Victor Stango
Professor
Ph.D., University of California, Davis
Research Expertise
Consumer and firm behavior in banking markets, behavioral economics, industrial organization.
Professor Victor Stango’s research focuses on household financial decision making over both short- and long-term time horizons. His current work examines how behavioral influences on consumer decision-making are related to each other, to cognitive abilities and other demographics, and to financial decisions and outcomes. That work is supported by grants from the Michigan Retirement Research Center (MRRC), and by the Pension Research Council
Doy Charnsupharindr
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of California Berkeley
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Stanford University
Doy Charnsupharindr is a lecturer at UC Davis Graduate School of Management and UC Berkeley’s Haas Business School, teaching MBA-level courses focusing on developing leadership, communications, and coaching skills. He teaches High Impact Leadership courses at Berkeley Executive Education at UC Berkeley, and has been a guest lecturer at the Berlin School for Creative Leadership (Germany) and Nanyang Business School (Singapore). He coaches and leads workshops for some of the
Jim Wunderman
Lecturer
Lecturer Jim Wunderman serves as the president and chief executive officer of the Bay Area Council, a business-backed public policy organization in the Silicon Valley. Led by its CEO members, the Bay Area Council is the strong, united voice of more than 275 of the largest Bay Area employers, representing more than 500,000 workers, or one of every six private sector employees. Since becoming CEO in 2004, Wunderman has led the 64-year-old public policy organization to become one of the most influential, effective institutions of its kind.
Prior to the Bay Area Council, Wunderman held key
Alan M. Taylor
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Expertise
International trade, finance, macroeconomics and economic history
Professor Alan Taylor teaches economics and finance at the University of California, Davis, with appointments in the Department of Economics and the Graduate School of Management. He is also a research associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research in Cambridge, Mass., and a research fellow of the Center for Economic Policy Research in London. He serves as a co-editor at the Journal of International Economics.
His publications include numerous articles in a range of
Jerome Suran
Senior Lecturer Emeritus
Research Expertise
Corporate strategy, technology management, global strategy, budget control models, strategic planning, ethics
Senior Lecturer Emeritus Jerome J. Suran works at the Graduate School of Management and in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering at the University of California, Davis. He was awarded the Doctor of Engineering, honoris causa, from Syracuse University for his pioneering work in transistor and integrated circuit technology and for the development of the General Electric Company implantable cardiac pacemaker in 1976.
At the Graduate School of
Will Snyder
Senior Partner, Master of Professional Accountancy
Research Expertise
Financial and tax accounting
FAST FACTS
- Former partner at Deloitte, one of the Big Four global accounting firms
- 24-year faculty member, Charles W. Lamden School of Accountancy, San Diego State University
- More than three dozen awards for outstanding teaching, including “Most Influential Faculty Member” a record 12 times
- 2010 Outstanding Accounting Educator: 36,000-member CalCPA and California CPA Education Foundation for his “significant contribution”
- Professional experience: taxation of U.S. citizens working abroad, tax planning for professional athletes, taxation
Robert H. Smiley
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Stanford University
Research Expertise
Economics, strategy, public policy, competitive strategy, energy economics, public policy analysis, anti-trust policy, regulation
Consulting
Public utilities, telecommunications, wine industry, energy, strategy
Professor Emeritus Robert Smiley is an authority on competitive strategy, economics and economic trends, industrial structure, public policy analysis, antitrust policy and regulation. He can also comment on the impact that acts of terrorism, war and other major events can have on financial markets and business and consumer confidence.