Adjunct and Part-time Faculty

Meredith Suffron is a marketing professional with more than 20 years of experience across brand management, innovation and communications. She has led teams in global organizations, limited‑distribution brands and family‑owned and entrepreneurial environments. Her background includes work with major corporations such as Procter & Gamble, Kraft, Campbell’s and Nestlé. She has worked across the food […]

Dr. Camelia R. Taheri Protzel is a Lecturer in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte, with more than 10 years of experience teaching undergraduate courses in marketing and management. She is passionate about cultivating innovative leaders and professionals who drive positive impact in their communities. With over 20 years of professional experience, Dr. […]

Dr. Thill is an economic geographer whose research focuses on urban and regional transportation and mobility issues, processes of urbanization, and data-centric spatial modeling. His recent research focuses on modeling past urbanization trajectories of the Charlotte metropolitan area (land use transformation, local and regional drifts in neighborhood quality of life), livability, innovation and mobility in […]

Dr. John Tuders is an educator, consultant, and proud UNC Charlotte alumnus who has spent more than two decades helping students and executives maximize their two greatest assets: time and relationships. Guided by his philosophy to “deposit more into relationships than he withdraws,” Tuders brings this relational approach into every area of his work. He […]

Melissa I. Walton-Jones is an Adjunct Professor of Accounting Information Systems in the Turner School of Accountancy at UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. A finance and governance leader with more than 20 years of experience, she has worked across the public, private, and nonprofit sectors in corporate finance, internal audit, and enterprise risk management. […]

Howard Weissman is a former corporate controller and chief accounting officer with 35 years of experience leading accounting teams in companies typically with more than $1 billion in revenues. He has guided organizations through transformational change, including private‑to‑public and public‑to‑private ownership transitions, debt and equity transactions, entity recapitalizations, acquisitions and dispositions, earnings releases and SEC […]