I’ve pursued two unique and successful careers during my professional work life.  In my first career, after graduating from the University of Pittsburgh with an engineering degree, I joined Schlumberger Limited and worked in oil and gold exploration for nearly 11-years.  My initial positions included field-engineering roles on offshore oil rigs. After four years as an engineer, Schlumberger sponsored my MBA at the University of Pittsburgh.  The MBA degree propelled me into international management positions with the company where I served as country manager in South Africa and Bolivia, corporate consultancy roles in France, and business development in The Netherlands and Germany. I held a life-long desire to pursue an academic career in teaching and research. Thus, after 11-years in growing corporate roles, I started my Ph.D. in Finance at Texas A&M University in 1992 and earned my doctorate in late 1996.

I maintain a strong interest and commitment to students through my teaching and administrative efforts. From a teaching perspective, I’ve had substantial experience working with undergraduate and graduate students. My portfolio of courses spans introductory finance courses as well as more advanced courses including Corporate Governance, International Finance, Corporate Valuation and Financial Strategy.  My teaching ratings consistently place me in the top 10% of all instructors in my school. On a five-point scale, my scores routinely fall in the 4.7 range (or better) for the question “Overall, instructor is”. Finally, I have received numerous Outstanding Teacher Awards at American University and Temple University. Since entering academia, I have strived to establish an outstanding and continuing record of research and teaching. My research agenda focuses broadly on corporate finance with a particular emphasis on corporate governance. Over the past several years, my work has appeared in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Accounting and Economics, and Administrative Science Quarterly.

Cindy Axelrod recently joined the Fox School of Business as an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department. Prior to joining Fox, Ms. Axelrod was a Senior Securities Analyst and Investment Professional with over 25 years experience in equity analysis and portfolio management. She has a successful track record of investing client assets utilizing value, growth, and GARP investment disciplines across all market capitalizations.

Ms. Axelrod is accomplished in equity analysis, with a sharp focus on the ability to assess important and timely business trends as they relate to corporate balance sheets, income statements, and cash flow statements. Cindy is a results oriented professional who has consistently demonstrated an expertise in identifying critical business trends and catalysts and their impact on stock performance.

Most recently, Ms. Axelrod was employed by Glenmede Trust Company as a Vice President, and covered the healthcare and consumer staples sectors of the S&P 500. During her 10-year tenure, she outperformed the S&P 500, developed diversification strategies for clients with concentrated investment positions, evaluated private investment opportunities that enabled effective and profitable analysis, and participated in new business development.

She holds an M.B.A. and B.S. from Drexel University, specializing in Investment Management and Finance. Ms. Axelrod earned the right to use the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation in June, 2000.

Gurdip Bakshi is the Marvin Wachman Professor of Finance. He joins the Fox School from the University of Maryland, where he was the Dean’s Professor of Finance at the Smith School of Business.

Bakshi’s research interests include stock valuation, option valuation, term structure of interest rates, asset pricing, capital, commodity, and currency markets, crashes, and international finance. His recent work focuses on studying risk premiums, incomplete markets, opaqueness of hedge fund investments, recovery theorem, and probability of stock market crashes.

His works have been published in the American Economic Review, the Journal of Finance, the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Management Science, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, among others. He serves co-editor for the Review of Derivatives Research, and editorial board roles with the Review of Financial Studies (term completed), the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and the Journal of Financial Econometrics (term completed), Journal of Banking and Finance, among others.

Steve Casper is an associate professor of finance in Temple University’s Fox School of Business, teaching both undergraduate and graduate students. For six years he was the Managing Director of the Fox Executive Doctorate in Business Administration program, which is offered in Philadelphia and Beijing.

Steve has more than 20 years of experience in marketing and management in the information technology industry. He has served as IBM’s senior executive in West Virginia and as a Business Unit Executive for the eastern United States. He also directed IBM’s distribution channels marketing on a global basis. Steve has earned numerous leadership, management, and performance awards from IBM. Currently, Steve serves as general partner in New Hope Property & Management, which develops, owns and manages commercial real estate in New Jersey and eastern Pennsylvania; and CEO of Avalon Development & Golf, Inc., which owns a golf course and restaurants in Cape May County, New Jersey.

Steve presently serves on the Board of Trustees of KIPP Philadelphia Charter Schools and is the past board president. He was also the KIPP board vice-president and board treasurer. He currently serves on the Board of Trustees of International House Philadelphia, serving as Chair of the Audit and Finance Committee. He is also a trustee and board secretary of the Cambodia Rural Students Foundation. Steve is a past board member of the West Virginia Business Roundtable and the Amateur Sports Hall of Fame. As a member of Big Brothers/Big Sisters, he was honored as the South Philadelphia Big Brother of the Year. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering and an MBA from Villanova University. He received his PhD, with a specialization in international business and finance, from Temple University.

Steve is married and has three children. Kristen teaches high school in north Philadelphia, formerly as part of the Teach for America program; David is an orthopedic surgeon at the Cleveland Clinic, and Tanya is a pre-veterinary medicine major at Auburn University. Steve’s interests include water sports, sailing, reading, travel, and working to improve education in Philadelphia and Cambodia.

Peter Chinloy’s research and teaching interests are in commercial and residential real estate. These interests include on the pricing and financing of houses and office, apartment and commercial properties. These include infrastructure investments in health care and education. The goal is to bring an experience of actual properties, investments and sites to the classroom and for students to visit them.

Dr. Jongmoo Jay Choi is Laura H. Carnell Professor of Finance and International Business at Temple University. He is the Ph.D. Director in International Business, a former Chair of Finance Department, and a member of the University International Advisory Council. He teaches international finance and corporate finance. He is a recipient of the Musser Award for Excellence in Leadership, and has been inducted to the Research Roundtable. Previously, he was on the faculty of Columbia Business School, an international economist at J.P. Morgan Chase, and a visiting faculty at KAIST, Yonsei, IUJ, Rikkyo, U. Sydney, Wharton, and others around the world. As an author of over hundred articles, books and presentations, he is an internationally renowned scholar in international financial management, global corporate governance and finance, corporate risk and capital markets, and Asian business and multinational firms. He is the founding editor of International Finance Review, and an editor of Journal of Economics and Business, and on several editorial boards. He is Eminent Scholar and former President of Korea-America Finance Association, and a board member at Philip Jaisohn Memorial Foundation; has been a consultant to Bank of Korea, City of New York, Campbell Soup, Yamaichi Securities, and others. He has a BBA from Seoul National University and an MBA and a Ph.D. from New York University. His biography is listed in Marquis Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in Finance and Industry, and others.

Ely Elyasiani holds a Ph.D. in economics from Michigan State University and is a faculty in the Finance Department at the Fox School of Business and Management at Temple University. His main areas of research include: banking and financial institutions, financial markets, central banking, macroeconomics, and financial econometrics. He has done research on bank, mutual fund, and insurance company stock return modeling, domestic and international contagion, BHC risk exposure and diversification, financial institution opacity, executive compensation, corporate governance of BHCs, production efficiency, fixed income security pricing, and institutional, minority, and foreign ownership effects.

His publications have appeared in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Markets, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Risk and Insurance, Real Estate Economics, Journal of Accounting, Auditing and Finance, and Energy Economics, among others. He has published more than 75 papers with more than 3000 citations. He has taught a variety of economics and finance courses at Michigan State University, Temple University, Hebrew University, and Bar Ilan University at the Ph.D., MBA, and undergraduate levels and has chaired fifteen Ph.D. dissertations. He has also served as the Ph.D. advisor and the chairperson of the Finance Department and as a chair or member of many school-wide and University-wide Committees.

He is a fellow of the Wharton Financial Institution Center, and a Visiting Professor and Dean’s Fellow at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. He serves as the banking and macroeconomics editor of the Journal of Economics and Business published by Elsevier publishers.

Dr. English has served as a professor for over 20 years creating and teaching courses designed for students at the undergraduate, graduate, and professional level. His experience in higher education has included teaching internationally in Prague for Texas Tech and The UAE with the University of Abu Dhabi. He received his PhD from the University of South Carolina, MBA and undergraduate degrees from Va Tech and has earned the right to use the (R) Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation of the CFA Institute. In addition, Dr. English has designed and delivered courses in a number of professional education programs including the South Carolina Banking School and the Southwest Banking School. Dr. English has also maintained an independent consulting firm, PE II, LLC specializing in finance instruction, training and consulting. PE II, LLC has created programs covering such topics as quantitative methods of investment analysis, the valuation of mortgage servicing rights, asset and liability management for financial institutions, credit analysis and credit risk management, counterparty credit risk assessment, and the relationship between financial institutions and the legal environment from the finance standpoint.

Dr. English’s primary research focuses on the performance assessment of mutual fund managers and the impact of the legal and regulatory environment on mutual fund performance and survival. An additional line of inquiry has focused on the performance of equity markets as a function of the differing legal foundations for the countries in which the markets exist. Finally, Dr. English has a stream of research examining the role of large institutional investor monitoring on firm governance and performance.

Dr. Ming Fang is an Assistant Professor of instruction in Finance at Temple University. Prior to joining Fox School of Business, he was a Lecture in Actuarial Science at Columbia University. His research interests include Theoretical, Empirical Asset Pricing, Financial Econometrics, and the application of Machine Learning in Finance and Insurance. He has taught courses in Financial Investments, Quantitative Risk Management, and Data Science in Finance and Insurance.

Dr. Fang is a veteran in financial service industry. He worked as a Vice President in AIG Investment Analytics and was responsible for the modeling of firm’s Strategic Asset Allocation and Performance Attribution. Before that he worked as a Portfolio Manager of market-neutral equity portfolios in Zacks Investments, Brevan Howard, and Partner-Re respectively. He was also a Sr. Quantitative Analyst in the Financial Engineering Group at Salomon Smith Barney.

Ming Fang holds a Ph.D. in Finance from Yale University and a Ph.D. in Applied Math from University of Washington. He graduated from Fudan University with his B.S. in mathematics.

Xiaohui Bakshi’s research explores empirical corporate finance; theoretical and empirical asset pricing; behavioral finance; entrepreneurship; and international finance. She has published in the Journal of Financial Economics, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Management Science.

She won the 2013 Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis William F. Sharpe Award, and first prize of the 2010 Journal of Financial Economics Jensen Prizes for Corporate Finance and Organizations.

Bakshi earned her Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Florida, where she also attained a Master of Science in Mathematics. She received a Bachelor of Science in Mathematics from Fudan University.

Xiaohui Bakshi also serves as the Assistant Director of the FOX-Tsinghua Doctoral of Science in Global Finance program.

Thomas Intoccia joined the Fox School of Business in 2019 as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance. An alumnus of Fox, Mr. Intoccia returned to his alma mater to teach the next generation of financial planners, advisors, and future business leaders. He instructs the Capstone Seminar in Financial Planning, Insurance Benefits & Retirement Planning and Financial Management.

In his 29-year financial services career, Mr. Intoccia most recently served as Senior Divisional VP for Charles Schwab and led the Eastern US Division of Schwab Advisor Services since 2013. In his 13-year senior leadership tenure at Schwab, Mr. Intoccia had the unique opportunity to be part of the evolution of the registered investment advisor (RIA) industry as it grew into the $4 trillion industry that it is today. Mr. Intoccia and his team worked with thousands of advisory firms to help them grow, compete, and succeed in a competitive marketplace. His primary responsibility had been to lead a Schwab division of managing directors, relationship managers, business consultants, and technology consultants to develop business strategies that support the RIA community. Before Charles Schwab, Mr. Intoccia has served in roles in investment product distribution and as a financial consultant.

Mr. Intoccia earned an MBA from Regis University and BBA from Temple University. He holds the Chartered Financial Consultant and Chartered Life Underwriter designations from The American College of Financial Services and is FINRA Series 24, 7 and 63 licensed (inactive status).

Dr. Cheng “Jason” Jiang is an assistant professor in the Department of Finance. He also serves as the director of quantitative software education, and the assistant academic director of China programs for Fox School of Business.

Dr. Jiang’s research interest lies in the fields of corporate finance, real estate, and financial econometrics. He has papers published or accepted by Journal of Real Estate Research, Energy, Asian Economic and Financial Review, and Quarterly Journal of Finance.

Dr. Jiang has a demonstrated record of success as an instructor at Temple University. He has received the Faculty of the Year Award for four consecutive years for the master program in finance. He is also the recipient of four Fox Crystal Apple Teaching Awards and is named as Dean’s Teaching Fellow. He also receives an MVP (Most Valuable Professor) Award selected by student athletes at Temple University.

Dr. Jiang innovatively founded and taught the school-wide online quantitative software education program. He has developed several online courses to teach students cutting-edge software such as SAS, Stata, R, etc.

Prior to joining Temple University, his work experience in the financial industry includes internships at Gurtin Fixed Income Management and UBS. Dr. Jiang earned his Ph.D. degree in Economics from University of California, Riverside on Dean’s Distinguished Fellowship.

Satyajit Karnik is an assistant professor of finance at the Fox School of Business. His teaching specialty lies in the fields of Derivatives and Risk Management. At the Fox School he has received the Faculty of the Year awards for the past three consecutive years in the MS programs in Finance.

Prior to joining Temple, he was Vice President of Research at the Global Association of Risk Professionals. He has taught at the Zicklin School of Business at CUNY and at the Gabelli School of Management at Fordham University. At Zicklin he was nominated for a distinguished teaching award. Dr. Karnik has held several positions in the finance industry, primarily in the field of fixed income. He managed the analytics at Option One Mortgage Corp. in California and was responsible for developing default and prepayment models among other statistical analysis. While in California he taught finance at the Paul Merage School of Business at University of California, Irvine and at the Graziado School of Business at Pepperdine University.

Dr. Karnik earned his Master’s degree in mathematics from the prestigious Indian Institute of Technology in India. He served as a research analyst at the Tata Institute of Fundamental Research in Mumbai. Dr. Karnik earned both a Masters degree in Applied Economics and a PhD in Mathematics from the University of Michigan in 2000.

Tom is an Assistant Professor of Practice in the Finance Department teaching upper level undergraduate finance courses. Prior to joining the Fox School of Business faculty he was a Managing Director in the Valuation Advisory group of Stout an international valuation, investment banking and dispute consulting firm. He has thirty years of experience providing valuation and financial opinion related services to private equity firms and both private and public companies.

Tom has served numerous industries and has provided services to a broad client base, including middle market businesses, multi-billion-dollar enterprises, private equity funds, law firms and high-net-worth individuals. His primary focus was on services to private equity funds and their portfolio companies. His clients included some of the largest private equity firms in the world including Apollo Global Management, The Blackstone Group, Bain Capital, Thomas H. Lee Partners and Warburg Pincus.

Prior to joining Stout, Tom was a Senior Managing Director at Murray, Devine & Co., Inc., where he provided solvency and fairness opinions and valuations for financial reporting purposes, valuations for tax purposes, and litigation support services. He also worked for the Campbell Soup Company in the areas of audit, tax and treasury as well as in the hospitality industry and public accounting.

He is a Certified Public Accountant, Accredited in Business Valuation by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants, and a Certified Management Accountant. He has an M.B.A. in finance from the Fox School of Business and a B.S. in accounting from Stockton University.

Dr. Li received her doctorate degree in Finance from the Stern School of Business, New York University. Prior to joining the Fox School of Business, Dr. Li worked at the Portfolio Management Group at BlackRock Inc in New York city. Dr. Li’s research interests include corporate finance, governance, and investment. Her papers have been published in various leading academic journals including the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. Her papers are also covered by media outlets such as the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. Currently she teaches both theoretical corporate finance course in the doctoral program and investments courses for undergraduates.

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Hosein Maleki joined the Finance Department in Fall 2016. His main research domain is on empirical corporate finance, in which he focuses on the political economy of finance, firm-bank relationship, financial distress, and corporate governance. Dr. Maleki’s research has been published in top finance journals such as the Journal of Financial Economics, and presented at international finance conferences such as the annual meetings of the American Finance Association (AFA), Northern Finance Association (NFA), and Financial Management Association (FMA). His works have been nominated for multiple best paper awards. Prior to joining Temple, he served as a visiting scholar at NYU Stern’s Finance Department. He holds a PhD from the joint program of Concordia, McGill, HEC and UQAM universities in Canada, and holds an MA in Economics from McGill University. He currently teaches Seminar in Corporate Finance at the senior undergraduate level, and also has designed and taught the Fox School’s online course in Intermediate Corporate Finance.

Dr. Connie X. Mao is a Professor of Finance and Joseph E. Boettner Senior Research Fellow at Temple University Fox School of Business. She holds a doctorate in Finance from The Johnson School of Management at Cornell University (Ithaca, NY), and a doctorate in Biomedical Science from Cornell University Medical School (New York, NY). Her research expertise is corporate finance. Her primary research interest is in the areas of debt contracting, agency conflicts, innovation, and social corporate finance.

Specifically, Dr. Mao’s research examines the effect of agency conflicts on the financing decisions of firms and debt contracting, and how the resolution of these conflicts influences firm performance, corporate innovation, and the efficiency of security markets. She has published papers in Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Management Science, The Accounting Review, Journal of Law and Economics, etc. She has been named multiple times to the Fox School Dean’s Research Honor Roll, and is a recipient of the Andrisani-Frank Undergraduate Teaching Award and the FMA Outstanding Finance Professor Award.

Dr. Lalitha Naveen is Associate Professor of Finance at Temple University. She has degrees in Chemical Engineering and MBA, and a PhD in Finance from Arizona State University. Her field of expertise is empirical corporate finance. Her primary research focus is in the areas of corporate board structure and executive compensation.

Specifically, Dr. Naveen’s research investigates the factors that determine the particular corporate governance mechanisms adopted by firms and how these mechanisms, in turn, affect firm policies and firm value. Her research papers have received Best Paper Awards and have been published in top finance and accounting journals including Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, and Journal of Accounting and Economics. She has taught in the undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral programs and has received the Outstanding Faculty of the Year Award as well as the Temple University Lindback Distinguished Teaching Award in recognition of her teaching excellence. She has previously taught at Purdue University and Georgia State University. She has presented or discussed papers at various conferences and academic venues including the American Finance Association, the Western Finance Association, New York University, Columbia University, and the S.E.C. Before doing her PhD, Dr. Naveen worked for four years in the financial services industry primarily in credit analysis and equity analysis.

Dr. Bora Ozkan is an assistant professor of finance at Temple University’s Fox School of Business, where he also serves as academic director of the school’s Online MBA and Online BBA programs. He joined the Fox School in 2014 from Tulane University, where he served as an adjunct lecturer of Economics, and Southeastern Louisiana University, where he functioned as an adjunct lecturer of Accounting and Finance.

Ozkan’s research interests are corporate finance, emerging markets real estate, and business education. His work has earned publication in journals like the International Journal of Economics and Finance, the International Journal of Business and Society, Management Research Review, and the Journal of Education for Business.

Ozkan has taught courses like Financial Modeling and Applied Corporate finance at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, where he implemented latest experiential learning tools into his curriculum. He has been a frequent speaker at educational conferences like Bloomberg for Education and Equity Markets Seminar.

Professionally, Ozkan worked as the director of international marketing at Alexander & Hamilton, Inc., in New Orleans, where he oversaw the international marketing and credit reports departments, while also managing international legal cases and expansion strategy. He completed his bachelor’s degree studies in Science and Economics at Hacettepe University in Ankara, Turkey, and he obtained his master’s degrees in Financial Economics and Business Administration from the University of New Orleans, where he also earned his PhD in Financial Economics on a Dean’s Scholarship.

Dr. Yue Qiu joins the Fox School on a tenure-track appointment within the Department of Finance, upon the completion of his doctoral studies at the University of Minnesota.

While pursuing his doctoral degree, Qiu led undergraduate courses in finance, and served as a teaching assistant for MBA and undergraduate-level courses at Minnesota.

His research interests include labor economics, capital structure, corporate governance, and empirical corporate finance. He received the Best Finance PhD Award at the 2016 Washington University of St. Louis Conference on Corporate Finance and Cubist Systematic Strategies Ph.D. Candidate Award for Outstanding Research at the 2017 Western Finance Association (WFA) Conference.

Qiu earned a PhD in Finance from the University of Minnesota, and a Master of Science degree in Economics from Arizona State University. He also studied at Renmin University of China, where he received a Bachelor of Arts degree in Finance and a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics.

Bob Rajewski is an Assistant Coordinator for the Fox School’s Real Estate Management Programs.

Rajewski is a seasoned real estate professional with range, exhibited by broad and extensive experience in asset management (directing property, construction and leasing teams), and project financing in both commercial real estate and multi-family. He has worked as an appraiser, lender, asset manager and CFO. His strengths include the ability to quickly identify issues, dissect those issues into parts, and resolve those issues by use of critical reasoning.

Rajewski attained a Master of Science in Real Estate Finance & Development from The Johns Hopkins University. He also received a Bachelor of Science in Finance from the University of Baltimore.

Dr. Samuel Rosen is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance. He received his PhD in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and a BA in economics from Cornell University. Prior to his PhD program, he worked in the Financial Stability division at the Federal Reserve Board.

Rosen’s research focuses on the intersection between macroeconomics and finance. You can read more about his research and find links to his papers on his website.

Dr. Oleg Rytchkov joined the Fox School of Business in 2009. He earned a doctorate degree in Financial Economics from the Sloan School of Management, MIT in 2007 and a doctorate degree in Physics from Steklov Mathematical Institute in 2001. Prior to joining the Fox School of Business, Dr. Rytchkov taught at the McCombs School of Business, University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Rytchkov’s research interests include theoretical and empirical asset pricing and capital markets.

His research has been published in top academic journals including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Economic Theory, and Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis and presented at many seminars and conferences.

Jonathan A. Scott, Ph.D. is a professor of finance and department chair at the Fox School of Business, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA. He currently serves as the managing director of the Fox School’s William C. Dunkelberg Owl Fund.

Dr. Scott also serves as an independent director and chair of the Office of Finance of the Federal Home Loan Bank System. His current research focuses on community bank funding and risk management with publications in the Journal of Financial Economics, Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of Money Credit and Banking, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Journal of Small Business Management, Journal of Business Venturing, and Financial Review.

Dr. Scott teaches in the undergraduate, MBA and EMBA programs in Philadelphia and Tokyo. He has received numerous teaching awards at the Fox School and Temple, most recently the Christian R. and Mary F. Lindback Foundation Distinguished Teaching Award in April, 2008 and the Temple Great Teacher Award in April, 2010.

Prior to joining Temple, Dr. Scott was a senior financial executive at the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas during the thrift crisis. He received his B.A. in economics from the University of Cincinnati (1972) and Ph.D. in economics from Purdue University (1980).

Dr. Amir Shoham is an Associate Professor of Finance and International Business at the Fox School of Business Temple University. Dr. Shoham received his Ph.D. from Ben Gurion University, Israel. He also holds a Master degree in economics and a MBA. In recent years Dr. Shoham’s main research area is dealing with the impact of linguistic gender marking on gender role in society. His gender related research has appeared in a number of academic journals, including the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Organizational Behavior, and Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization. He was awarded twice the SSE/WAIB Award for Increased Gender Awareness in International Business Research. In addition to teaching finance and economic courses at the undergraduate and graduate level, he has extensive experience in executive education programs in the US, Europe and Asia. He has taught and conducted executive programs at Ben gurion university, Israel; Hebrew University, Israel; The College of Management Academic Studies, Israel; Rutgers University, China and Singapore; Baruch College, Taiwan, China and Singapore; The International School of Economics, Georgia; International School of Management, France; Jiao Tong University, China; Temple University, USA and Columbia. He was on the Board of Directors of two public firms, worked has a consultant with a number of corporate and government clients, and provided legal opinion to courts.

Dr. Ofra Bazel-Shoham is a Research Assistant Professor in the Department of Finance and the Academic Director of Part-Time MBA Conshohocken
 
Her research explores the impact of gender on businesses risky activities such as capital structure, M&A, and R&D. She brings a wealth of professional experience in management and finance. She was a sales and contract manager at Israel Aerospace Industries and a director of operations and finance at a successful Israeli Strat-Up company.
 
Ofra earned her Executive Doctorate in Business Administration from the Fox School of Business, where she also attained a Master of Science in Finance. She received a LL.M. in Commercial Law from Israel’s Bar Ilan University and a Bachelor of Arts in Economics from Israel’s Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Dr. John Soss has over twenty years of distinguished experience in the practice and study of international capital markets.  He leads the Fox Schools financial engineering program following a dynamic investment banking career in New York and London, including senior positions at S.G. Warburg and the Union Bank of Switzerland.  Dr. Soss managed derivatives franchise business in North America, Europe and Asia.  Additionally, his professional background includes spearheading specialized structured product and quantitative research teams.  Dr. Soss teaching and research interests focus on global derivatives and international financial markets.  He was the recipient of numerous awards for excellence in teaching, including the Fox School’s 2007 FMA Teacher of the Year.

Dr. Tang joins the Fox School of business as a research assistant professor in Finance, after serving as a tenure-track Assistant Professor of Finance at Clemson University. She has also been a visiting Assistant Professor of Finance at University of Georgia and at Southern Methodist University prior to joining Fox.

Dr. Tang’s research primarily focuses on empirical corporate finance and corporate governance. Her work has been published at major journals such as Journal of Accounting and Economics and International Review of Finance, and has been featured in the business press, including Wall Street Journal and the Economist. She was also the award recipient for the “Best Paper in Corporate Finance” in 2013 EFA Conference.

Her teaching interests include corporate finance, Investment, Derivatives, and international finance. She was awarded as “Learning Leader” for outstanding teaching and was recipient of University “HOPE” Award for Professors of Excellence.

Dr. Tang earned her PhD in Finance from Michigan State University. She also received a Master degree in Economics from Florida State University, and a Bachelor degree in Business Administration and Computer Science from Shanghai Jiao Tong University.

Dr. Justin Vitanza joins the Fox School on a non-tenure-track appointment within the Department of Finance.

Prior to his arrival, he served two years as a financial economist with the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation.

Vitanza’s research work exploring the rise-and-fall behavior of the Mexican peso against that of the U.S. dollar has been published by the Journal of International Money and Finance. His wider research interests include banking, asset pricing, and systemic risk.

Vitanza earned his PhD in Finance and a Master of Science degree in Business Analytics from the University of Rochester. He also received Bachelor of Arts degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Cornell University.

David is Assistant Professor of Finance and Director of the Real Estate Program at Temple University Fox School of Business. He has over 30 years of real estate teaching experience between the University of Delaware Lerner College of Business, Johns Hopkins Carey Business School, and Georgetown University.

Mr. Wilk is also a management consultant who creates value in today’s market for corporations, private equity firms, governments, universities, healthcare systems, and non-profits through asset optimization strategies that generate new earnings, valuations, market feasibility studies, “place-making” economic development strategies, and innovative marketing plans that reimagine underutlized real estate assets and urban neighborhoods.

He has over 35 years of experience with commercial, industrial, residential, agricultural, governmental, and institutional real estate projects, and has worked in 49 states in the U.S., Canada, Mexico, Europe, South America, the Caribbean, Asia, and the South Pacific.

Real estate consulting highlights from Mr. Wilk’s career include; Pebble Beach Company, Aspen Skiing Company, 20th Century Fox Studios, The Irvine Ranch, Madison Square Garden, Santa Anita Racetrack, Dover Downs, Elvis Presley Enterprises (Graceland), Hyatt Regency & Four Seasons Hotels in Hawaii, Baltimore’s Power Plant, Art Deco Hotels in South Beach, Pennsylvania Convention Center and Marriott Hotel, Comcast Cable Systems, Bikini Atoll in Micronesia (South Pacific), U.S. military locations in Hawaii and California, and NASA Wallops Island Space Port in Virginia.

David has presented RE Symposia on Asset Optimization and Place-Making Economic Development at the Universities of Delaware, Illinois, Salisbury, Florida Atlantic, Delaware State, Washington, and Johns Hopkins. Mr. Wilk also keynoted on RE Asset Optimization in April, 2015 at SAP’s National RE Conference where he co-innovated a new data analytics platform (“Corporate Real Estate Earnings Diagnostic” – CREED©) with SAP which is now available on iTunes and Google (www.creedapp.com).

David has a Bachelor of Science in Business Administration from the University of Delaware and a Master of Science in Real Estate and Infrastructure from Johns Hopkins University.