Board of Advisors

• Beth Allen – Partner, Client Accounting Services | GreerWalker LLP
• Nicole Benford – Interim Director of Niner Finances | UNC Charlotte
• Alex Burris – Managing Director, IT Operations | Quarterra
• Susanne Dixon – Audit Partner, CPA | KPMG LLP
• Cheryl Greer – Director, Tax lead | Forvis Mazars
• Rich Hoffmann – SVP, Senior Finance Manager | Bank of America
• Ben Hume – Managing Director, Audit & Assurance | Deloitte
• Eric Jenkins – Executive Financial Consultant
• Teag Jones – Partner, Tax Services | RSM US LLP
• Barry Pronier – Magaing Director | Sherpa
• Resh Reese – Executive Consultant
• Chris Summer – Principal, Grant Thornton Advisors | Grant Thornton LLP (US)
• Holly Trotter – Tax Partner, Financial Services | PwC
• Chris Truitt – Partner | Cherry Bekaert
• Brittany Wallbridge – Principal, Client Accounting and Advisory Services | CLA
• Bryant Whitsutt – Managing Partner, Charlotte office | Prager Metis
• Scott Wilkerson – Chief Investment Officer | Ginkgo Residential

Executive Committee

• Kris Fetter, Chair, Faison Properties
• Fred Klein, Childress Klein Properties
• Peter Fioretti, MREC
• Landon Wyatt, Childress Klein Properties
• Richard Buttimer, Belk College of Business
• Bradley Smith, Vice Chair, Bank of America Merrill Lynch

Board of Advisors

• Landon Wyatt – Partner, Childress Klein Properties 
• Henry Atkins – President, Atkins Properties
• H.C. (Smoky) Bissell – Chairman & CEO, The Bissell Companies, Inc. 
• Robert Brinkley – Partner, Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, LLC
• Bryan Brooks – Vice President, Medalist Capital, Inc.
• Jefferson W. Brown – Member, Moore & Van Allen
• Shippen Browne – Executive Vice President, Bellwether
• John Caruso – Managing Director, Global Head of Fund Finance, Nuveen Real Estate
• Walker Collier – Managing Partner, Trinity Capital Advisors
• Alyson H. Craig, AICP – Director, Charlotte Planning, Design & Development
• John Culbertson – Managing Partner, Cardinal Real Estate Partners, LLC
• Geoffrey Curme – Managing Member, Mt. Vernon Asset Management, LLC
• Anne Marie DeCatsye – CEO and General Counsel, Charlotte Regional Realtor Association
• Darryl Dewberry – CEO, The Spectrum Companies 
• Fred Dodson – COO and EVP, Dreamkey Partners
• Tracy Dodson – Assistant City Manager, City of Charlotte
• Jubal A. Early, Senior Vice President, Lincoln Harris
• Kris Fetter – President & Chief Executive Officer, Faison Properties
• Peter Fioretti –  Chairman & CEO, MREC
• Walter D. Fisher Jr. – Managing Partner, Troutman Sanders LLP, Charlotte Office
• Paisley Gordon – President, Allen Tate Companies
• William Harrison – Managing Director, TH Real Estate
• Doug Irmscher – Chief Operating Officer, Beacon Partners
• Leslie Johnson – Assistant County Manager, Mecklenburg County Government
• Shawn Kimble – Head of U.S. Real Estate Capital Markets, Barings
• Fred W. Klein – Senior Managing Partner, Childress Klein Properties
• Kevin Lambert – Chief Financial Officer, Crescent Communities 
• Daniel Levine – President, Levine Properties
• Ken Loeber – Executive MD, Market Leader, Transwestern
• George Maloomian – President, Cambridge Properties, Inc. 
• Fulton Meachem Jr. – President & CEO, INLIVIAN
• Brent Milgrom Jr. – Partner, Real Estate & Commercial Development Department Chair, Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP
• Chase Monroe – Carolinas Market Director & Charlotte Brokerage Lead, Jones Lang LaSalle
• Rob Nanfelt – Interim Executive Director, REBIC
• Dionne Nelson – President & CEO, Laurel Street
• Compie Newman – Managing Director, CBRE
• John Ockerbloom – Managing Director, Head of US Real Estate Equity, Barings
• Keith Poettker – Chief Executive Officer, Poettker Construction Company
• Perry Quick – Senior Vice President, Fifth Third Bank 
• David Ravin – President & CEO, Northwood Ravin
• Curt Rigney – Senior Vice President, Batson-Cook Company
• Pat Rodgers – President & CEO, Rodgers Builders Inc.
• Ed Rose – President & CEO, Shelco, Inc.
• Arthur Samet – President & CEO, Samet Corporation
• Glen Sherill – President, SteelFab, Inc.
• James Scruggs – Founder and Managing Partner, Kingdom Development Partners
• Thomas K. Sittema – CEO, CNL Financial Group, Inc. 
• Tim Sittema – Managing Partner, Crosland Southeast
• Bradley A. Smith – Senior Vice President, Bank of America Merrill Lynch
• Shannon Smith – CEO, Abundant Power
• Frank Warren – Director of Development, Helen Adams Realty
• Marcie Williams – Chief Executive Officer, RKW Residential
• Todd Williams – Chief Investment Officer, Grubb Properties
• Jane Wu – Founder & CEO, Panorama Holdings 

Program Committee

The M.S. in Mathematical Finance team includes faculty from three departments within UNC Charlotte: the Department of Finance and the Department of Economics from the Belk College of Business, and the Department of Mathematics and Statistics from the College of Science.

• Steven Clark, Associate Professor of Finance
• Yufeng Han, Program Director and Professor of Finance
• Sebastien Bossu, Assistant Professor of Mathematics
• Igor Kheifets, Assistant Professor of Economics
• Tao-Hsien “Dolly” King, Rush S. Dickson Professor of Finance
• Christopher M. Kirby, Professor of Finance and Economics

Advisory Committee

The Math Finance Advisory Committee is comprised of executives who give valuable perspective, meaningful insights and forward-looking advice on the curriculum, as the program looks to meet demands of the financial market.

• Azamat Abdymomunov (Federal Reserve)
• John M. Carpenter (Bank of America)
• Rob DeMilio (Bank of America)
• Zhang Feng (Ernst & Young)
• Maciej Ombach (Wells Fargo)
• Paul Romanelli (Wells Fargo)
• Benjamin I. Rogers (Wells Fargo)
• Mike Vandenberg (Bulls-Eye Solutions)
• Yimin Yang (Loyal Trust Bank)
• Han Zhang (Wells Fargo)