Leadership

Richard Buttimer

Dean
Real Estate

Richard Buttimer has built a strong record of success with broad-based experiences as a leader, researcher and educator operating in urban business schools. He joined the Belk College of Business as dean on July 1, 2024, following four years as dean of the Coggin College of Business at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville. […]

I-Hsuan Ethan Chiang

Associate Dean and Professor
Graduate Programs, Finance

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 […]

Natasha Randle

Associate Dean and Clinical Professor
Undergraduate Programs, Management

Dr. Natasha Wilkins Randle is the Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the Belk College of Business. She joined the college with a primary teaching focus of human resource management and organizational behavior, and previously served as Director of the Business Honors and Belk Scholars Programs and Dean’s Administrative Fellow. Her research interests include workplace […]

Artie Zillante

Senior Associate Dean and Professor
Economics

Artie Zillante joined the Department of Economics in the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte in Fall 2006. In 2004 he received his Ph.D. in Economics from Florida State University. From 2004-2006 he was the International Foundation for Research in Experimental Economics (IFREE) Visiting Post-Doctoral Scholar at the Interdisciplinary […]