Lindner welcomes new leadership, faculty and staff
Faculty and staff promotions, hirings, appointments and title changes announced
The Carl H. Lindner College of Business announces the following leadership, faculty and staff changes for the 2025-26 academic year.
Leadership
Jenn Wiswell has been named Senior Assistant Dean of Student Services. Wiswell started her Lindner career in 2002 as an academic advisor, before rising to director of undergraduate programs and now her current role on the Lindner Leadership Team. She has received the Phyllis Trosper Service Excellence Award and the Julie Menchen Distinguished Service Award, and has been a frequent presenter on the First-Year Experience at Lindner and UC.
Faculty
The following denotes new hires, known promotions, new appointments or title changes for full-time faculty in Lindner's academic departments.
- Rene Saran, MS Applied Economics Academic Director
- Colin Campbell, Online MBA Academic Director
- Mark Ferguson, Assistant Professor-Educator
- Chauncey Joyce, Mischell Endowed Professorship
- Eunjee Kwon, West Shell, Jr. Professorship of Real Estate
- Da Li, Assistant Professor
- Maeve Maloney, Postdoctoral Fellow in Finance (Real Estate and Urban Economics)
- Dana Telljohann, Visiting Assistant Professor of Finance (IRM)
- Eli Awtrey, Full-Time & Working Professional MBA Academic Director
- Rhett Brymer, PhD, Associate Professor
- Thomas Dalziel, PhD, Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Strategic Management, Distinguished Teaching Professor
- Inna Smirnova, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Michael Wagner, PhD, Associate Professor-Educator
- Scott Dust, PhD, Professor
- Elliott Manzon, PhD, Professor-Educator
- Summer Shelton, PhD, Assistant Professor-Educator
- Ann Sojka, Assistant Professor-Educator
- Iman Attari, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Kris Jones, MS-IS Academic Director
- David Rapien, Professor – Educator
- Robert Rokey, Associate Professor – Educator
- Binny Samuel, PhD, Professor
- Abhinav Shubham, PhD, Assistant Professor
- Brett Stowell, Assistant Professor-Educator
Centers & Institutes
The following denotes new hires, known promotions, new appointments or title changes for Lindner’s centers & institutes.
- Georgette Angulo-Ramirez, Executive Director, Center for Business Analytics
- Sarah Asebrook, Program Manager, Kautz-Uible Economics Institute
- Phil Collins, Executive Advisor, Johnson Investment Institute
- Murphy Combs, Career Coach, Career Services
- Charlene Garrett, Assistant Director, Warren Bennis Leadership Institute
- Heather Johnson, Program Manager, UC Real Estate Center
- Marilyn Kump, Associate Director, Center for Business Analytics
- Christine Riley, Program Manager, Center for Business Analytics
- Mehmet Sağlam, Academic Director, Johnson Investment Institute
- Ann Sojka, Academic Director, Grau Center for Professional Selling
- Mary Anne Tankersley, Program Coordinator, Carl H. Lindner III Center for Insurance and Risk Management
- Katherine Trent, Executive Staff Assistant, Real Estate Center
- Steve Valerius, Executive Fellow, Carl H. Lindner III Center for Insurance and Risk Management
Staff
The following denotes new hires, known promotions, new appointments or title changes for full-time staff.
- Shawn Adkins, Senior Academic Advisor, Academic Advising
- Melissa Baer, Senior Director, Admissions
- Susan Bailey, Assistant Director, Experiential Learning & Teaching Excellence
- Olivia Cameron, Assistant Director, Academic Advising
- Murphy Combs, Career Coach, Career Services
- Anna Deters, Associate to Business Affairs
- Ashley Fishwick, Senior Academic Advisor, Academic Advising
- Benjamin Hartman, Instructional Technologist 1, Instructional Design
- Pierre James, Senior Director, Academic Advising
- Amber Kuftic, Coordinator, Unit Operations, Management & Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems
- Ashley McFarland, Associate Director, Undergraduate Admissions
- Gavin Mitchell, Senior Academic Advisor, Academic Advising
- Jack O’Toole, Senior Academic Advisor, Academic Advising
- Holli Reinshagen, HR Director, Business Affairs
- Marleen Relling-Schaefer, Director of Marketing, Marketing Communications
- Erin Rhodes, Senior HR Coordinator, Business Affairs
- David Romp, Associate Director, Partnership Development
- Lorna Rose, Associate Director of Employer Relations, Partnership Development
- Ashley Smith, Senior Director, Principal Giving, UC Foundation
- Nicole Sturdivant, Senior Academic Advisor, Academic Advising
- Rebecca Williamson, Senior Director, Experiential Learning & Teaching Excellence
- Megan Zech, Assistant Director of Graduate Career Development & Placement, Admissions
Featured image at top: Lindner Marketing Communications file photo.
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At the Carl H. Lindner College of Business, we live our mission of empowering business problem solvers by pushing our students to lean into challenges that foster opportunities to learn, innovate and adapt.
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