Meet our Experts

Stephanie Argentine

Executive in Residence, Center for Leadership and Organizational Effectiveness

Expertise: employee engagement, recruitment and retention; startups and employee stock ownership plans (ESOPs); compensation and benefits; the future of work; succession planning; board governance; strategic planning

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Stephanie Argentine most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Kate Bezrukova, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Organization and Human Resources

Expertise: team chemistry in business and sports; managing a diverse workforce; unconscious bias at work; negotiations and gender; work-life balance; conflict management; artificial intelligence in teams

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Kate Bezrukova most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Kevin Cleary

Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

Expertise: artificial intelligence (and machine learning) and AI interplay with cybersecurity and privacy; usage and concerns surrounding platforms like ChatGPT; cybersecurity; information security; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; automation technologies; cybersecurity pedagogy; AI pedagogy

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Kevin Cleary most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Michael Dambra, PhD

Associate Professor of Accounting and Law

Expertise: economic consequences of regulatory changes, initial public offerings (IPOs), pension accounting, valuation of privately held equity, executive compensation

Contact:
Media on deadline can reach Michael Dambra most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Veljko Fotak, PhD

Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise: international corporate finance, sovereign wealth funds, syndicated loan markets, currency markets, short selling, government interventions and equity bailouts, and the intersection of finance and politics

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Veljko Fotak most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Joana Gaia, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

Expertise: health information systems; business intelligence; digital security and privacy; data analytics; emergency management; girls and STEM careers

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Joana Gaia most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Indranil Goswami, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing

Expertise: motivation and self-control; incentive policies; charitable giving and pro-social behavior; cognitive biases; deadlines and procrastination; judgment and decision-making; market research; consumer behavior

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Indranil Goswami most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Emily Grijalva, PhD

Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources

Expertise: narcissism, gender, leadership

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Emily Grijalva most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Feng Gu, PhD

Professor and Chair of Accounting and Law

Expertise: financial reporting; mergers and acquisitions; intangibles; corporate governance; insider trading

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Inho Suk most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Kyle Hunt, PhD

Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

Expertise: machine learning, operations research, game theory, homeland security and defense, information management, health care analytics, fake news/misinformation

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Kyle Hunt most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Joshua Khavis, PhD

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law

Expertise: financial accounting and reporting, auditing and crowdsourcing

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Joshua Khavis most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Scott Laing, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: global economics, including inflation, the impact of taxes and tariffs; international trade; job growth and employment; and corporate finance

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Scott Laing most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Arun Lakshmanan, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing

Expertise: sensory marketing and visual perception; consumer attention and learning; new product use and design; advertising and social media

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Arun Lakshmanan most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

G. James Lemoine, PhD

Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources

Expertise: servant leadership; business ethics and moral leadership; gender and leadership; leadership and motivation; entrepreneurial leaders; managing under volatility, uncertainty, complexity and ambiguity (VUCA)

Contact: Media on deadline can reach James Lemoine most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Charles D. Lindsey, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing

Expertise: consumer behavior, advertising, marketing strategy and research, brand loyalty, serving and package sizes

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Charles Lindsey most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Timothy Maynes, PhD

Associate Professor of Organization and Human Resources

Expertise: employee-driven innovation and change; employee productivity, engagement and performance; effective team functioning (especially in sports)

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Timothy Maynes most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Thomas Murdock

Clinical Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship

Expertise: emerging entrepreneurship, business incubation, economic development (particularly technology-based), startups as economic drivers, startup business plans/business models, customer discovery, social entrepreneurship

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Thomas Murdock most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Robert Neubert

Director of Entrepreneurship Academic Programs

Expertise: entrepreneurship; intrapreneurship and corporate innovation; business model development for early-stage firms; lean startup methods; mentoring early-stage technology companies

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Robert Neubert most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Dominik Roesch, PhD

Associate Professor of Finance

Expertise: arbitrage, liquidity, international markets, market efficiency, market microstructure

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Dominik Roesch most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Dominic Sellitto

Clinical Assistant Professor of Management Science and Systems

Expertise:  Artificial intelligence (and machine learning) and AI interplay with cybersecurity and privacy; usage and concerns surrounding platforms like ChatGPT and image generators like stable diffusion; cybersecurity; data breaches; data privacy and security regulations; ethical data usage; cyberwarfare; data analytics; health care analytics; automation technologies

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Dominic Sellitto most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Natalie Simpson, PhD

Professor and Chair of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: emergency services and disaster response; supply chain risk and resilience; creative and temporary operations; complex networks

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Natalie Simpson most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Sanjukta Smith, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Management Science and Systems

Expertise: online social networks, cloud computing, data center operations

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Sanjukta Smith most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Susan Steffan

Executive Director, Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Expertise: entrepreneurship; small business; startups; finance for entrepreneurs; consulting; negotiations; adult and online learning

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Susan Steffan most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Inho Suk, PhD

Associate Professor of Accounting and Law

Expertise: corporate voluntary disclosures; accounting fraud; environmental, social and governance (ESG) accounting; artificial intelligence (AI) applications in accounting; mergers and acquisitions (consolidation) accounting; executive and employee turnover; accounting-marketing interface 

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Inho Suk most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.  

Nallan C. Suresh, PhD

UB Distinguished Professor of Operations Management and Systems

Expertise: global supply networks; supply chain disruptions; U.S. and global manufacturing; international trade; logistics; infrastructure; economic development

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Nallan Suresh most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Brandon Szerwo, PhD

Assistant Professor of Accounting and Law

Expertise: financial reporting and audit quality, corporate governance, financial regulation, management disclosures, auditor disclosures, financial accounting

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Brandon Szerwo most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Cristian Tiu, PhD

Associate Professor and Chair of Finance

Expertise: stock market, hedge funds, financial fraud, risk management and asset allocation, institutional investors

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Cristian Tiu most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Min-Hsuan Tu, PhD

Assistant Professor of Organization and Human Resources

Expertise: abusive leadership; power and influence; leader identity and development

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Min-Hsuan Tu most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Thomas Ulbrich

Executive in Residence for Entrepreneurship

Expertise: entrepreneurship and startups, entrepreneurial skills and attributes, entrepreneurial education, small business, family business, customer loyalty, social entrepreneurship

Contact: Thomas Ulbrich can be reached most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu.

Aditya Vedantam, PhD

Associate Professor of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: sustainability in operations and supply chains; clean energy technologies; recycling; recycled content claims, including for plastics; apparel and other resale markets; eco-certifications

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Aditya Vedantam most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Mike Mingcheng Wei, PhD

Associate Professor of Operations Management and Strategy

Expertise: supply chain management; dynamic pricing; revenue management; strategic consumer behavior; online learning and decision-making; online recommendation systems; assortment optimization; high-dimensional machine learning

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Mike Wei most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Szu-Yin (Jennifer) Wu, PhD

Clinical Assistant Professor of Finance

Expertise: corporate finance; mergers and acquisitions; shareholder activism; corporate governance; investment management

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Jennifer Wu most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.

Sunyee Yoon, PhD

Associate Professor of Marketing

Expertise: social status and mobility; socially responsible consumption; products that promote animal welfare; consumer behavior

Contact: Media on deadline can reach Sunyee Yoon most quickly through Jackie Ghosen in the School of Management’s Marketing and Communications Office at 716-645-2833 or mgt-pr@buffalo.edu. If you are not a member of the media, contact information is available on the school’s directory.