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Huy Tran

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Huy Tran brings over 15 years of public and private sector experience in technology leadership, business transformation, continuous improvement, project management and data analytics. He has a career that spans higher education, healthcare and, most recently, Fortune 500 Technology.

Tran focuses on using data to drive decision-making, improve processes and enhance the customer experience. He has led highly technical cross-functional teams to implement global projects focusing on strategic change and best

Beth Bechky

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Beth Bechky

Professor, Stephen G. Newberry Chair in Leadership

Ph.D., Industrial Engineering and Engineering Management, Stanford University, 1999Master of Arts (M.A.), Sociology, Stanford University 1992Bachelor of Science (B.S.) (with honors), Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University 1991

Research Expertise: Future of work, occupations and professions, collaboration.

As an organizational ethnographer, Professor Beth Bechky’s research reveals the technical complexity of the modern workplace. Bechky’s recent book, "Blood, Powder and Residue: How Crime Labs Translate Evidence into Proof," was published by Princeton University Press. In it, she

Meredith Roberts

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Meredith Roberts

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis
Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Entomology, UC Davis

Areas of Expertise

Marketing, Management & Organizations, Technology Management

Meredith Roberts is currently lecturing at the GSM and a startup consultant in the clean energy sector. Her consulting work focuses on supporting new renewable energy technology applications in California. She was previously the Director of External Relations at Sierra Energy, a waste-to-energy technology startup based in Davis.

Roberts earned her MBA and B.S. in Entomology at UC Davis and has worked in

Kayla Stajkovic

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Kayla Stajkovic

Visiting Professor

Ph.D., Organizational Behavior, University of Wisconsin - Madison, 2018

Areas of Expertise
Accounting, Management & Organizations

Kayla' Stajkovic's research focuses on gender and leadership, confidence, and goals – areas of inquiry in Organizational Behavior. She has used a multitude of designs and analyses (e.g., laboratory and field experiments, ANOVA, ANCOVA, Structural Equation Modeling, and Meta-Analysis). Her program of research has been reported in 13 publications (7 journal articles, 3 books, 2 online chapters, 1 AoM proceeding). She has co-authored with leading researchers in the

Monica Camarena

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Monica Camarena

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management, 2020

Kevin Mello

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Kevin Mello

Lecturer

Master of Education (M.Ed.), Johns Hopkins University, 2020
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Arizona State University, 2008
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Accounting, Santa Clara University, 1996

For nearly two decades, Kevin Mello has had the honor of teaching accounting, finance, and management courses to college students. Mello's educational philosophy includes purposeful and effective integration of technology into his teaching and learning process. He also employs differentiated instruction to address the varying preferred learning styles and abilities of his students. Mello's

Horacio Enriquez

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Horacio Enriquez

Lecturer

Master of Science (M.S.), Engineering Management and Leadership, Santa Clara University, 2004
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Mechanical Engineering, Santa Clara University, 1997

Research Expertise
Supply chain digitalization, supply chain risk and resiliency, supplier relationship management, FDA, ISO 13485:2016, and MDSAP regulations

Areas of Expertise
Business analytics, operations management, management & organizations, technology management

Horacio Enriquez is a dynamic and innovative operations management expert, inventor, entrepreneur, speaker, advisor and executive with over 25 years of

Kari Heidrick

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Kari Heidrick

Assistant Director, Master of Professional Accountancy

Kari Heidrick has been with UC Davis for over two decades, including 14 years as a program representative at UC Davis Professional and Continuing Education, Business and Leadership Department, and seven years as the business development manager with Conference and Event Services. Most recently, Heidrick joined the Graduate School of Management (GSM) as the Assistant Director of the Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc).

She has extensive experience managing programs and planning events and loves working with students, faculty, and colleagues across campus. Heidrick is responsible for

Guru Pundoor

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Guru Pundoor

Lecturer

Ph.D., Management Science, R.H. Smith School of Business (2005), University of Maryland, College Park
Master of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering, Institute for Systems Research (2002), University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (2000), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Analytics and technology professional at the intersection of business, data science and technology with 15+ years of industry experience driving supply chain innovation and transformation. Ph.D. holder, experienced in building data science teams to define business

JD Schramm

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JD Schramm

Lecturer

Ed.D. (Doctorate of Education), Higher Education Leadership, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

JD Schramm joined the UC Davis Graduate School of Management after more than 20 years of teaching graduate-level courses at Stanford, Columbia, and NYU. His focus in communication management is to mentor and support leaders in defining and then sharing the difficult stories which need to be told.

Schramm holds his Ed.D. in higher education leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business, and his BFA in theater from Emporia State University in Kansas. In

Derek Thomas

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Derek Thomas

Lecturer

Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc), Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), University of California, Davis

Vanessa Errecarte

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Vanessa Errecarte

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing Emphasis, UC Davis Graduate School of Management, 2014
Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication, Mass Communication Emphasis, University of the Pacific, 2007
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication, University of California, Davis, 2004

Research Expertise
Brand Building, Digital Visibility, Martech

Vanessa Errecarte, M.A., M.B.A., is a lecturer in marketing at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, where she teaches Strategic Branding, Digital Marketing and Personal Branding, the latter of which takes an innovative approach to professional

John Werlhof

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John Werlhof

Lecturer

Master of Accountancy (MAcc), Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Brigham Young University, summa cum laude

John Werlhof is a Principal in the National Tax Office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA), the eighth largest CPA firm in the country. Werlhof provides tax research and planning services to privately held businesses and their owners and has expertise in business acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and restructurings. He works with clients in a variety of industries, including real estate, construction, manufacturing, technology, and investment funds.

James Stevens

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James Stevens

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), American University

James Stevens is a lecturer in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, teaching organizational behavior courses in the MBA program and leadership courses in Executive Education. He brings his more than two decades of leadership and senior management experience into the classroom. That experience includes leading diverse and successful teams, launching new programs and developing compelling curricula.

For 15 years, he served as senior assistant dean of

Jane Harrington

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Jane Harrington

Lecturer

J.D., U.C. Davis, 2007
Master of Arts (M.A.) Organization Development, Sonoma State University, 2013
Master of Arts (M.A.) Educational Technology, 2002

Jane Harrington is a trusted executive coach, organization development practitioner, educator, and attorney. She draws on her diverse experience in tech, law, health, education, media, and government. Her clients include entrepreneurs and organizations, large and small, private and public sector.

As an attorney, she advised on complex matters including employment, civil rights, contracts, public accountability and more. But in that work, she

Justin B. Siegel, Ph.D.

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Justin B. Siegel, Ph.D.

Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Visiting Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Justin Siegel is an associate professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the UC Davis Genome Center. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from UC Davis in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Biomolecular Structure and Design from the University of Washington in 2011, after which he returned to UC Davis to begin his research lab.

His scientific focus in the design and discovery of enzymes of interest to modern society. Through strong industrial and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Siegel has engineered enzymes for a wide range of applications, including therapeutics development

Gary Lew

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Gary Lew

Lecturer

Gary Lew has served as an adjunct lecturer in finance, investments, management and accounting at the University of California, Davis, Graduate School of Management; St. Mary’s College; and Holy Names University. He has more than 25 years of experience advising and consulting in the aviation finance industry, including as founder of Capitola Partners. Currently, Lew is the chief financial officer of Aquila Air Capital, a leading full-service aircraft leasing and financing platform backed by funds managed by New York-based global alternative asset manager Wafra.

Previously a principal and

Sophie Linnett

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Sophie Linnett

Lecturer

Sophie Linnett received her MBA from UC Davis Graduate School of Management with a focus in operations and strategy. After graduating from Columbia University with a B.A. in Classics, Linnett founded an educational services company that helps students access opportunities in higher education. Students of Linnet's program have earned over three million dollars in scholarship funds. For fun, Linnett enjoys hiking in her hometown of Oakland and playing pub trivia.

Emma O'Rourke-Powell

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Emma O'Rourke-Powell

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis
Professional Coaching for Life & Work Certificate, UC Davis Extension

Emma O'Rourke-Powell teaches Negotiations in Organizations as well as Articulation and Critical Thinking. A proud alumna of the full-time MBA program, O'Rourke-Powell is delighted to stay involved with the GSM community through teaching in the evening. She works for Johns Hopkins University, as the Associate Director for Hire Hopkins. O'Rourke-Powell proudly serves as a Utilities Commissioner for the City of Davis. You can often find her biking through Davis, emphatically

William Leo Cron

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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