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Ashley Samaroo is a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) and adjunct professor of accounting in the Turner School of Accountancy at UNC Charlotte’s Belk College of Business. She also works in corporate accounting at Nuveen, where she serves as a subject-matter expert in areas including consolidation accounting, acquisition accounting, asset management analysis, and cash forecasting. Samaroo […]

Krista J. Saral is an associate professor in the Department of Economics at UNC Charlotte. Her research interests broadly lie in auction markets, management/personnel economics, entrepreneurship, and experimental methods. Her research has published in leading journals including the Economic Journal, European Economic Review, among others, and has earned media attention in outlets such as the […]

Lisa Schulkind joined the Belk College of Business in August 2014. Before joining the Belk College, Dr. Schulkind began her career as an assistant professor of economics at Trinity College in Hartford, CT. Dr. Schulkind’s research focuses on understanding how parents’ decisions and circumstances affect their children and using this knowledge in order to make […]

Luc Setzer is an adjunct professor in the Belk College of Business and an IT and Business Application Analyst at UNC Charlotte. With nearly a decade of university-level teaching experience, he brings expertise in project management, data analysis, blockchain technology, and Python programming. Setzer holds a B.A. in Software and Information Systems and an M.S. […]

Hamid Reza Baradaran Shoraka is an economist with more than 40 years of experience in academia, research, and consulting. His areas of expertise include macroeconomics, microeconomics, managerial economics, money and banking, financial systems, corporate finance, planning and budgeting, international trade, and futures studies. His career spans academic leadership and applied policy work. At Allameh Tabatabai […]

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 […]

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 […]

Dr. William (Bill) Sofsky is a Clinical Associate Professor of Accounting in the Belk College of Business at UNC Charlotte. Dr. Sofsky joined the Belk College faculty as a Lecturer in 2015. Dr. Sofsky has over 30 years of accounting and industry experience. Prior to joining UNC Charlotte, Dr. Sofsky served as the chief accounting […]