Graduate Programs Leadership

Jack Cathey is a Certified Public Accountant in North Carolina whose professional experience includes working as a senior auditor with KPMG in Charlotte, N.C. He has published articles in a number of professional and academic journals. Dr. Cathey speaks frequently to academic and professional groups on topics related to financial reporting and information systems. Dr. […]

Professor Ethan Chiang’s research focuses on empirical asset pricing, portfolio management and performance evaluation, fixed income securities, and financial econometrics. He has published scholarly articles in leading financial economics and asset pricing journals, such as Journal of Finance, Review of Asset Pricing Studies, and Journal of Empirical Finance. His research has been recognized with best […]

Paul Gaggl joined the Belk College of Business after earning his Ph.D. from the University of California at Davis in 2012. His current research concentrates on the distributional effects of technology adoption, particularly concerning the heterogeneous effects on different types of workers and the distribution of income between labor and capital. This includes work on […]

Dr. Janaki Gooty is a professor in the Department of Management in the Belk College of Business, and Organizational Science, an interdisciplinary Ph.D. program at UNC Charlotte. She currently serves as the Director of the MBA Program (BCOB) & Director, Dual MBA Program with EGADE Business School, Monterrey, Mexico. Her research focuses on inclusion, values/ethics, […]

Dr. Yufeng Han joined the Belk College faculty as an associate professor of finance in 2016. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, he served as a faculty member at the University of Colorado Denver and Tulane University. Dr. Han’s primary research interests are empirical asset pricing, investment, mutual funds, and econometrics. He has published in Review […]

Franz W. Kellermanns is the Addison H. & Gertrude C. Reese Endowed Chair in International Business and Professor of Management in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. He holds a joint appointment with the Center for Family Business at the WHU–Otto Beisheim School of Management (Germany). He received his Ph.D. from the University of […]

David C. Mauer is the Torrence E. Hemby, Sr. Distinguished Professor in the Department of Finance in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. Previously, he was on the finance faculties of the University of Iowa, Texas A&M University, Southern Methodist University, and the University of Wisconsin at Madison. He has won numerous awards […]

Alan Turovlin joined the Belk College faculty in 2021. Dr. Turovlin received his DBA from UNC Charlotte. As a long-time practitioner (30+ years) in the corporate setting and as a C-level executive, his knowledge of project, program, and business management is firsthand and vast. He held the positions of Chief Transformation Officer for Canon Europe, […]

Daniel Wright teaches the principles and process of real estate development. He has been actively involved in the real estate industry since 2004 with roles as project manager for retail, office, medical-office, and multi-family developments and as asset manager for institutional land investments ranging from 10-3,000 acres. He has experience in all aspects of development […]