Carissa Bouwer
Lecturer
J.D., University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law
Carissa Bouwer is an associate at DLA Piper LLP in Sacramento. Bouwer assists clients in selecting, registering and protecting their trademarks and trade dress. She also advises clients on copyright issues, IP licensing, advertising, social media, sweepstakes, contests and gift card laws. Bouwer received her B.A. from George Washington University in Washington D.C. and her J.D. from University of Pacific McGeorge School of Law. She is on the Boards of the Sacramento County Bar Intellectual Property Section and Women Lawyers of Sacramento.
Robert Smelick
Ciocca Visiting Professorship in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, 2014 Visiting Faculty, 2011 Robert A. Fox Executive-in-Residence
Managing Partner and CEO, Headland Ventures, San Francisco, Calif.
Adjunct faculty at the Darden School of Business, University of Virginia. Visiting lecturer at University of Washington; Harvard University; Georgetown University; the University of San Francisco; Duke University; and the University of North Carolina–Chapel Hill.
Served on the boards of several private and public companies, including Kaiser Steel, Willamette Industries, King Broadcasting and The Wine Group (one of the world’s largest wine companies).
Workshops Taught
Leadership Series
Degrees
MBA, Harvard Business School
Shannon Kahn
Lecturer
J.D., Columbia Law School
Shannon Kahn is currently an associate director for private sector counseling and programs at UC Berkeley School of Law. From 2015-2019, she was an associate director of career services at King Hall. She received a J.D. from Columbia Law School in 2008. After graduation, she clerked for the Honorable Robert W. Sweet, U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, and then worked as an associate in the New York office of Debevoise & Plimpton LLP. During her six years at Debevoise, she represented public and private companies and private equity sponsors on
Cyrus Aram
Lecturer
MBA, UC Davis Graduate School of Management
Lecturer Cyrus Aram brings over 20 years of private and public sector experience in the areas of customer strategy, business transformation, planning, program, change and quality management. He has domain level expertise in customer strategy, business process transformation, lean sigma, program and change management, performance management and business controls, and thought leadership. He is also an adjunct faculty at the Sacramento State College of Business Administration.
Aram has 18 years of experience working with progressively responsible
Paul Bianchi
2019 & 2020 Robert A. Fox Executive in Residence
Masters in Management, University of Kent, Canterbury
B.S., Managerial Economics, UC Davis
Paul Bianchi is an experienced and successful human capital executive and consultant with over 25 years of high-technology leadership experience from innovative companies like NeXT, Apple, Ask Jeeves, PeopleSoft and Illumina.
Bianchi is an alumnus of UC Davis and serves on the Graduate School of Management’s Dean’s Advisory Council and has been a mentor for students and spoken to students at career workshops and events, including a panel of prominent business leaders addressing ethics and values-based
Judith Kjelstrom
Lecturer
Ph.D. in Microbiology, University of California, Davis
Judy Kjelstrom (aka Dr. Judy) has a rich background in health science and biotechnology education and training, clinical laboratory science, microbiology, program administration, mentoring and leadership. From 2004 to 2018 she directed the UC Davis Biotechnology Program (est. 1986), a novel program that partners effectively across the campus and with the life sciences industry. Although the program is small in the number of personnel, it is involved in a large number of cross-disciplinary projects:
- The NIH NIGMS T32 Biotechnology
Rachel Chen
Professor
Ph.D., Cornell University
Research Expertise
Operations and supply chain management, service operations and dynamic pricing
Professor Rachel Chen is an expert in operations research and supply chain management. Her work has been published in leading journals, including IIE Transactions, Management Science, Marketing Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Operations Research Letters and Production and Operations Management.
Chen has presented her research widely in the U.S. and internationally, including the International Annual Overseas Chinese Scholars Association in
Kelly Wilson
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Yale University
Wilson is a principal in EY’s strategy practice with more than 25 years of experience in the financial sector in both consulting and industry roles. Wilson's consulting background includes a broad spectrum of banking, payment and technology functional domains including strategy formulation, business assessment, marketing, performance improvement, operations and technology.
For nearly a decade she was a strategy partner with Accenture, and in industry she has served in SVP and CMO roles with Wells Fargo, Blue Shield, Paradigm and
Charles Ansbach
Lecturer
Charles Ansbach has worked with major corporations nationally and internationally representing not only their interests in discussions as donors to major nonprofits/NGOs but also in appeals for support and partnership made by community groups. In those many interactions, he learned why most corporate CSR programs fail and how to fix them. Ansbach has learned what CSR directors must do to manage their programs inside corporate structures and the practical sides of serving effectively in that role. He also was an early adopter of social entrepreneurism in the 1970s before the name of the field
Amber Beckler
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management
David S. Bunch
Professor Emeritus
Ph.D., Rice University
Research Expertise: Marketing research, marketing science, decision and management sciences, consumer choice behavior, choice modeling, new product development and introduction
Professor David Bunch is an internationally recognized expert on marketing research, marketing science and decision and management sciences. His research interests include consumer choice behavior, choice modeling, new product development and introduction, travel behavior, vehicle choice and alternative fuel vehicles.
Bunch has consulted on transportation issues for public utilities, the Califo
Michelle Yetman
Professor
Ph.D., University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Research Expertise
Accounting, financial reporting and valuation
Professor Michelle Yetman's research interests are in financial reporting quality, governance and taxation. She expands beyond the boundaries of the commonly investigated U.S. for-profit corporation by investigating international and nonprofit settings. Her research has been published in the Journal of Accounting Research, the Accounting Review, National Tax Journal, Management Science, Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Quarterly, and the Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. She
Julie Morris
Lecturer
Master of Business Administration (MBA), Harvard University
Julie Morris is an experienced technology executive with over 25 years in leadership roles ranging from startups to large Fortune 500 companies. She is currently academic coordinator of the Food & Agriculture Industry Immersion at the Graduate School of Management, UC Davis, having previously served as director, technology innovation at the World Food Center at UC Davis. Prior to joining UC Davis, Morris was with Marrone Bio Innovations, Inc. (MBI), an ag biotech company based in Davis, California. She was CFO of MBI from its
Hemant Bhargava
Distinguished Professor, Jerome and Elsie Suran Chair in Technology Management | Director, Center for Analytics and Technology in Society
Ph.D., The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania
Research Expertise
Technology management, management information systems, economics of information technology industry, pricing and product design decisions, management decision technologies
Distinguished Professor Hemant K. Bhargava is an academic leader in economic modeling and analysis of technology-based business and markets. His research focuses on decision analytics and how the distinctive characteristics of technology goods influences specific elements of operations, marketing, and competitive strategy, and the
Keith Weissglass
Lecturer
Keith Weissglass joined the Graduate School of Management as a lecturer in Winter 2018. He brings to the GSM a wide range of marketing and consulting experience spanning the private, public, and non-profit sectors.
Weissglass has served in foundational leadership roles at two high-growth B2B software companies, where he specializes in product marketing. He currently runs a consulting practice that provides business strategy and marketing services to early-stage technology startups and social businesses.
Weissglass previously served at Gartner Consulting in their State and Local Government
Ashwin Aravindakshan Nair
Associate Professor and MSBA Academic Director
Associate Professor Ashwin Aravindakshan’s research interests center on learning how brands can better allocate their advertising resources (e.g., budgets, creatives, etc.) across different regions and/or multiple media over time. In addition to studying such dynamic advertising models, his research also investigates the dynamics of customer behavior and loyalty to help managers devise better communication and targeting policies in order to optimize their marketing mix at the individual level.
Mike Palazzolo
Assistant Professor
Ph.D., University of Michigan
Research Expertise
Choice, causal inference, retail, nutrition
Mike Palazzolo's research lies at the intersection of marketing and policy. Recently he has been focused on consumer nutrition, in an effort to learn how marketers can encourage healthier food selection.
Palazzolo teaches courses on causal inference and marketing analytics for the GSM's MBA programs.
Palazzolo earned his Ph.D. at the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business, and his MBA at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He received his B.S. in management science at UC San
Brett Saraniti
Lecturer
Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Brett Saraniti received his Ph.D. in managerial economics and decision sciences from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University in 1997. His dissertation chair was Roger Myerson, Nobel Laureate 2007. Saraniti is currently a visiting professor of managerial economics and decision sciences at Kellogg and a lecturer at Stanford in the Department of Economics.
Saraniti has taught MBA and executive courses at Kellogg every summer since 1995 and has been honored with three different teaching awards. He has also taught in
Jason Perez
Visiting Faculty
J.D., UC Davis
Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis
Jason Perez began his career in the United States Navy as a military police officer. He served approximately one and a half years in Bahrain and two years in New Jersey leading teams of police officers responding to emergency 911 calls. Perez was also given the opportunity to attend military detainee operations school, where upon completion, he worked for approximately one and a half years at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba as a prison guard.
After 5 years of military service Perez returned to college to complete his J.D. before passing
Prasad Naik
Professor
Ph.D., University of Florida, Gainesville
Research Expertise
Marketing and advertising strategy, integrated marketing communications, and dynamic market response models, including preparing for product harm crisis
Courses Taught
Integrated Marketing Communications, Marketing Management, New Product Development
Consulting
Sales and brand management
Fast Facts
- UC Davis Chancellor’s Fellow
- Led MBA International Study Trips to Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, China, Brazil and Argentina
- Co-founder of annual international Marketing Dynamics Conference
- Groundbreaking marketing research