Adjunct and Part-time Faculty

Omar Ritter is a part-time professor of finance and accounting, a decorated combat veteran and a certified public accountant (CPA). He is also a Certified Exit Planning Advisor (CEPA) and Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR). Ritter brings extensive experience from his career as a Wall Street finance executive at JPMorgan Chase and as Chief […]

Jackie Robinson joined the Belk College faculty in fall 2021 as a lecturer. She teaches in the undergraduate marketing program. Jackie has over 25 years of marketing experience in consumer products, service, non-profit and government business sectors. She has worked for Hanesbrands, Hillshire Farm, Aramark Higher Education and the U.S. Government. Prior to joining UNC […]

Dr. Lisa Rolan is a Full-Time Professor of the Belk College of Business. Dr. Rolan joined the Belk College of Business with a primary teaching focus of business, management, and marketing. Her research interests include family firms, succession planning, generational differences, entrepreneurship, and relationships between generations. Dr. Rolan previously worked as a CFO for municipalities […]

Ashley Samaroo is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and adjunct professor of accounting in the Turner School of Accountancy at UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. She also works in corporate accounting at Nuveen, where she serves as a subject-matter expert in areas including consolidation accounting, acquisition accounting, asset management analysis, and cash forecasting. Samaroo […]

Luc Setzer is an adjunct professor in the Belk College of Business and an IT and Business Application Analyst at UNC Charlotte. With nearly a decade of university-level teaching experience, he brings expertise in project management, data analysis, blockchain technology, and Python programming. Setzer holds a B.A. in Software and Information Systems and an M.S. […]

Hamid Reza Baradaran Shoraka is an economist with more than 40 years of experience in academia, research, and consulting. His areas of expertise include macroeconomics, microeconomics, managerial economics, money and banking, financial systems, corporate finance, planning and budgeting, international trade, and futures studies. His career spans academic leadership and applied policy work. At Allameh Tabatabai […]