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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 Indiana

Heather Whiteman

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

Jörn Boehnke

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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

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Vince Vengapally

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Wharton School of Business

Vince Vengapally is currently working in Product Management for Google Workspace. Vengapally 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

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David Woodruff

Distinguished Professor Emeritus

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Research Expertise
Business analytics, operations and management science, planning and scheduling under uncertainty, optimization

Distinguished 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

Victor Stango

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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/TIAA

Doy Charnsupharindr

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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

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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

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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

Robert H. Smiley

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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.