Kari Heidrick
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Kari Heidrick

Assistant Director, Master of Professional Accountancy

Kari Heidrick has been with UC Davis for over two decades, including 14 years as a program representative at UC Davis Professional and Continuing Education, Business and Leadership Department, and seven years as the business development manager with Conference and Event Services. Most recently, Heidrick joined the Graduate School of Management (GSM) as the Assistant Director of the Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc).

She has extensive experience managing programs and planning events and loves working with students, faculty, and colleagues across campus.  Kari is responsible for working

Guru Pundoor
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Guru Pundoor

Lecturer

Ph.D., Management Science, R.H. Smith School of Business (2005), University of Maryland, College Park
Master of Science (M.S.), Systems Engineering, Institute for Systems Research (2002), University of Maryland, College Park
Bachelor of Technology, Mechanical Engineering (2000), Indian Institute of Technology, Madras, India

Analytics and technology professional at the intersection of business, data science and technology with 15+ years of industry experience driving supply chain innovation and transformation. Ph.D. holder, experienced in building data science teams to define business

JD Schramm
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JD Schramm

Lecturer

Ed.D. (Doctorate of Education), Higher Education Leadership, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.

JD Schramm joined the UC Davis Graduate School of Management after more than 20 years of teaching graduate-level courses at Stanford, Columbia, and NYU. His focus in communication management is to mentor and support leaders in defining and then sharing the difficult stories which need to be told.

Schramm holds his Ed.D. in higher education leadership from the University of Pennsylvania, his MBA from the NYU Stern School of Business, and his BFA in theater from Emporia State University in Kansas. In

Derek Thomas
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Derek Thomas

Lecturer

Master of Professional Accountancy (MPAc), Graduate School of Management, University of California, Davis
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), University of California, Davis

Vanessa Errecarte
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Vanessa Errecarte

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), Marketing Emphasis, UC Davis Graduate School of Management, 2014
Master of Arts (M.A.), Communication, Mass Communication Emphasis, University of the Pacific, 2007
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), Communication, University of California, Davis, 2004

Vanessa Errecarte is one of the top marketing consultants in Northern California with two decades of experience helping businesses reach their growth goals. Unique in her commitment and ability to create and customize campaigns for small to medium businesses and non-profits, she enables them to be competitive in a

John Werlhof
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John Werlhof

Lecturer

Master of Accountancy (MAcc), Brigham Young University
Bachelor of Science (B.S.), Brigham Young University, summa cum laude

John Werlhof is a Principal in the National Tax Office of CliftonLarsonAllen LLP (CLA), the eighth largest CPA firm in the country. Werlhof provides tax research and planning services to privately held businesses and their owners and has expertise in business acquisitions, dispositions, financings, and restructurings. He works with clients in a variety of industries, including real estate, construction, manufacturing, technology, and investment funds.

James Stevens
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James Stevens

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), University of Michigan Ross School of Business
Bachelor of Arts (B.A.), American University

James Stevens is a lecturer in the UC Davis Graduate School of Management, teaching organizational behavior courses in the MBA program and leadership courses in Executive Education. He brings his more than two decades of leadership and senior management experience into the classroom. That experience includes leading diverse and successful teams, launching new programs and developing compelling curricula.

For 15 years, he served as senior assistant dean of

Jane Harrington
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Jane Harrington

Lecturer

J.D., U.C. Davis, 2007
Master of Arts (M.A.) Organization Development, Sonoma State University, 2013
Master of Arts (M.A.) Educational Technology, 2002

Jane Harrington is a trusted executive coach, organization development practitioner, educator, and attorney. She draws on her diverse experience in tech, law, health, education, media, and government. Her clients include entrepreneurs and organizations, large and small, private and public sector.

As an attorney, she advised on complex matters including employment, civil rights, contracts, public accountability and more. But in that work, she

Justin B. Siegel, Ph.D.
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Justin B. Siegel, Ph.D.

Arthur and Carlyse Ciocca Visiting Professor in Innovation and Entrepreneurship

Justin Siegel is an associate professor of Chemistry, Biochemistry and Molecular Medicine at the UC Davis Genome Center. He received his B.S. in Biochemistry from UC Davis in 2005 and his Ph.D. in Biomolecular Structure and Design from the University of Washington in 2011, after which he returned to UC Davis to begin his research lab.

His scientific focus in the design and discovery of enzymes of interest to modern society. Through strong industrial and cross-disciplinary collaborations. Siegel has engineered enzymes for a wide range of applications, including therapeutics development

Gary Lew
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Gary Lew

Lecturer

Gary Lew is currently lecturing in finance, management and accounting at the University of California Davis, Graduate School of Management; St. Mary's College and Holy Names University and advises and consults in the aviation finance industry as the founder of Capitola Partners.

Previously a principal and executive vice president of finance and capital markets at Vx Capital Partners from 2002 to 2020, Lew was part of the founding team at Vx Capital Partners as its first employee and has over 20 years of experience in asset finance and investment management. He led corporate finance, capital

Sophie Linnett
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Sophie Linnett

Lecturer

Sophie Linnett received her MBA from UC Davis Graduate School of Management with a focus in operations and strategy. After graduating from Columbia University with a B.A. in Classics, Linnett founded an educational services company that helps students access opportunities in higher education. Students of Linnet's program have earned over three million dollars in scholarship funds. For fun, Sophie enjoys hiking in her hometown of Oakland and playing pub trivia.

Emma O'Rourke-Powell
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Emma O'Rourke-Powell

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis
Professional Coaching for Life & Work Certificate, UC Davis Extension

Emma O'Rourke-Powell teaches Negotiations in Organizations as well as Articulation and Critical Thinking. A proud alumna of the full-time MBA program, Emma is delighted to stay involved with the GSM community through teaching in the evening. She works for Johns Hopkins University, as the Associate Director for Hire Hopkins. Emma proudly serves as a Utilities Commissioner for the City of Davis. You can often find her biking through Davis, emphatically gesturing at automobiles

William Leo Cron
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William Leo Cron

Visiting Faculty

Research Expertise
Marketing, Sales & Sales Management, Channels of Distribution, Health Care

William Cron is Visiting Professor at the University of California-Davis; Guest Professor at Ruhr University - Bochum, Germany, and Professor Emeritus at the M. J. Neeley School of Business. During his 17 years at TCU, he has served as Senior Associate Dean for Graduate Programs, the Deputy for Faculty Research at the Neeley School of Business and was the J. Vaughn and Evelyne H. Wilson Professor in Business. Professor Cron received a BSBA from Xavier University in Cincinnati and MBA and DBA from

Heather Whiteman
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Heather Whiteman

Lecturer

Ph.D., Human Capital Management, Bellevue University

Heather Whiteman, Ph.D. is an expert in People Analytics, Talent Transformation, and the Future of Work. Whiteman teaches business and data courses at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management as well as People Analytics at UC Berkeley Haas and UC San Diego Rady. She also serves as a Future Workplace Fellow and as a board advisor to organizations focused on using people data for good. She has held executive roles leading People Analytics, Talent Management, Learning & Development, HR Operations and HR Technology at companies like General

Jay Olenowski
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Jay Olenowski

Lecturer

Master of Science (M.S.), Applied Statistics, Villanova University

Jay Olenowski previously served as a faculty member for the Statistics Department at California Polytechnic State University for 5 years teaching statistics and data analytics. Olenowski currently works full-time as a data scientist for the online therapy company Betterhelp, where he performs optimization methods and predictive analytics involving machine learning and A/B testing. Professional interests include machine learning, health and nutrition analytics, and programming. Personal interests consist of golf, soccer, poker

Justin Virrey
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Justin Virrey

Lecturer

Master of Business Administration (MBA), UC Davis Graduate School of Management

Justin Virrey brings over 15 years of Corporate Finance, Strategy, and Project Management experience to the UC Davis Graduate School of Management. He has previously worked in the Semiconductor Capital industry and has recently transitioned to Enterprise Software and Cloud Computing. Virrey focuses on managing strategic initiatives related to next-gen financial systems as well as the ensuing training initiatives involved to onboard users and to accelerate adoption. He has led various international and cross

Gareth Keeves
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Gareth Keeves

Lecturer

Ph.D. Strategic Management, Stephen M. Ross School of Business, University of Michigan

Gareth Keeves' research interests include impression management and impression formation in the context of corporate leadership. His first stream of research draws from social and psychological theories to examine interpersonal interactions between top managers. The second stream of research examines the linguistics of organizational communications, using computational linguistics to characterize the nature of company filings.

Keeves' research has been published in Administrative Science Quarterly and the

John D. Hancock
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John D. Hancock

Lecturer

Lecturer John D. Hancock provides valuation consulting services in civil and business litigation through economic and financial analysis. He also teaches at the UC Davis Graduate School of Management as a visiting professor. Hancock's prior positions include office director at Spectrum Economics Inc.; office director at QED Research Inc.; manager of litigation support services at Arthur Young & Co.,; assistant professor of economics at Drake University; and co-founder of Economic & Financial Consultants, a Midwest forensic consulting firm.

Hancock has successfully managed and participated in

Sorin Maruster
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Sorin Maruster

Lecturer

Ph.D., Northwestern University

Sorin Maruster is a senior manager in KPMG’s Silicon Valley tax practice, with more than five years of experience in valuation of complex securities, including earnouts, convertible bonds, put/call arrangements and equity-based compensation, under ASC 718, ASC 805 and ASC 820.

Maruster is responsible for a broad range of engagements requiring development and implementation of pricing methods using Monte Carlo simulation, lattice models and closed-form solutions. Within the complex securities practice at KPMG, Maruster developed valuation models for earnouts

Pantelis Loupos
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Pantelis Loupos

Assistant Professor

Ph.D., Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University

Research Expertise 
Social Customer Relationship Management, Digital Platforms, Business Analytics 

Pantelis Loupos' research interests focus on understanding consumer behavior in digital platforms and in particular networked services. In particular, services whose value is a function of the number of customers they have and their underlying network topology.

For empirical investigation, Loupos is using data from Venmo, a peer-to-peer mobile payment application, to understand the impact of heterogeneous social networks on customer