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. […]

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 […]

Reginald Silver

Associate Dean and Clinical Professor
Graduate Programs and Executive Education, BISOM, Data Science and Business Analytics

Reginald A. Silver joined the Belk College of Business in August 2014. Prior to his appointment at the Belk College of Business, Dr. Silver accumulated 18 years of experience in healthcare operations and finance. He has served as a senior operations executive for a number of for-profit and not-for-profit institutions, focused on the development of […]

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 […]