Finance

Faith Neale

Associate Professor
Finance

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Eric Newman

Faculty, part-time
Finance

Taichun Piao

Clinical Assistant Professor
Finance

Eric Reichard

Lecturer, part-time
Finance

Eric Reichard is President and CEO of Rodgers Builders, Inc., a nationally ranked general contractor and construction manager based in Charlotte. With more than 34 years of experience at Rodgers, Reichard has led projects across commercial, cultural, higher education, K–12 education, and healthcare sectors. His portfolio includes signature projects such as the Charlotte 49ers Football […]

Patrick Smith

M.S. in Real Estate Program Director; Associate Professor and the John Crosland, Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate and Development
Finance

Patrick is an associate professor and the John Crosland, Sr. Distinguished Scholar in Real Estate in the Finance department at UNC Charlotte. Before graduate school, he worked for nearly a decade, holding various positions of increasing importance in corporate finance and business analytics. Patrick’s research interests include real estate finance and urban economics. His current […]

Benjamin Stegmann

Lecturer, part-time
Finance

Benjamin Stegmann is a financial professional with more than a decade of trading experience at Bank of America and Truist. His expertise spans foreign exchange (FX), U.S. and non-U.S. interest rate products, tenor basis, FX volatility, and U.S. rates volatility. Beyond trading, Stegmann brings deep knowledge in pricing, hedge accounting, and derivative system construction. Degrees:

Weidong Tian

Distinguished Professor of Risk Management and Insurance
Finance

Dr. Weidong Tian joined the Belk College faculty in 2008 and is currently a professor of finance and distinguished professor of risk management and insurance. Prior to coming to UNC Charlotte, Dr. Tian served as a faculty member at the University of Waterloo and a visiting scholar at the Sloan School of Management at MIT. […]

Judge Louis A. Trosch, Jr.

Faculty, part-time
Finance

Judge Louis A. Trosch, Jr., is a Superior Court Judge in the 26th Judicial District in Mecklenburg County, North Carolina. He served as District Court Judge, mainly in the Juvenile and Family Courts, from 1999 until his election to the Superior Court Bench in 2018. Judge Trosch has served as an Adjunct Professor in the […]

Kiplan Womack

Associate Professor
Finance

Dr. Kiplan S. Womack is an Associate Professor of Real Estate in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. His research focuses on applying the principles of financial option pricing to the valuation of real estate (real options), land values, development, redevelopment, as well as corporate finance issues (particularly mergers and acquisitions) faced by […]