Steven Escobar
Assistant Director, Administration and Facilities
Responsible for workflow management for the business office. Provides facility management for Gallagher Hall.
Dawn May
Assistant, Development and External Relations
Supports all members of the External Relations and Development unit. Responsibilities include preparing informational packets, data entry, coordinating large mailings, correspondence and assisting with events.
Diana Vail
Program Manager, Online MBA and Online Master of Management
Diana Vail is the online MBA program manager, responsible for providing a positive student experience through the planning and execution of online MBA student programming. She serves as lead contact for online MBA student body, exercising oversight of student events, residential experiences, and online MBA student organizations. She is responsible for supporting the operations of successful program delivery with the overall functional focus on student experience.
Inger Maher
Senior Director of Student and Academic Services
Inger Maher oversees the student experience at the Graduate School of Management, from orientation to commencement. She plays a lead role in delivering varied programming to students, including international exchange programs and the GSM’s new Principled Leadership Program. Maher manages policies and procedures affecting student enrollment and academic advising and oversees the process for student scholarship awards.
Michele Goodman
Director of Administration and Human Resources
Michele Goodman manages fiscal affairs and provides administrative and operational direction of business services/resources for the school. Goodman serves as the human resources expert for the school. She is instrumental in organizing, planning and meeting key objectives to enhance employee on-boarding and business operations among students, faculty, staff and University affiliates.
Todd Mirell
Lecturer
Teaching Expertise
Real Estate Finance and Development
A vice president at Union Bank, where he manages relationships with several of the top real estate developers in Northern California, Lecturer Todd Mirell has held previous positions with Preferred Capital Advisors as a senior associate, McMorgan & Company as a real estate investment analyst and with CB Richard Ellis Inc. as a property tax assistant/marketing specialist.
Mirell earned both his MBA and B.S. in managerial economics from UC Davis.
Gregory Perelman
Lecturer
Ph.D., History, Russian State University for Humanities, 2006
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Yale School of Management, 1997
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Economics, UC Los Angeles, 1995
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
Alan M. Taylor
Professor
Ph.D., Harvard University
Research Expertise
International trade, finance, macroeconomics and economic history