William Burpitt, associate dean for graduate and executive programs and professor of management, has produced, directed and managed radio and television stations. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Georgia and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He taught at Peace College and Meredith College before coming to Elon. At Meredith, he served as the M.B.A. director.

Judy Dulberg, MBA program coordinator, has worked with the MBA program since 2004. She is the program's main "go-to" person, handling advising and all administrative details of the MBA program. Ms. Dulberg received her bachelor's degree in accounting from The Pennsylvania State University.

James L. Barbour, associate professor and chair of the Department of Economics, served as head of the Division of Business on the Alexandria campus of Louisiana State University before coming to Elon in 1990. He has also taught at the University of Kentucky and Transylvania University. He has worked as a consultant in forensic economics and as an economic researcher for the Kentucky Energy Cabinet. His academic interests include distributional ethics and the relationship between the church and the economy, particularly in the middle ages. He received bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Kentucky.

Jo Ann Buck, adjunct assistant professor of business administration, also teaches at Guilford Technical Community College. She previously taught at Monroe Community College. She received her bachelor's and master's degrees from the State University of New York at Fredonia and her doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro.

Jayoti "Tina" Das, a professor of economics, teaches in the undergraduate and M.B.A. programs. Her academic interests include international trade and finance and industrial organization. Her research interests include intellectual property rights and product quality issues in an international context. Dr. Das received bachelor's and master's degrees from Presidency College in Calcutta, India, and a master's degree and doctorate from the University of Cincinnati. She taught at Marquette University and Kenyon College before joining Elon in 1996.

Cassandra DiRienzo, an associate professor of economics and associate dean of the Love School of Business, received a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University and a master's and doctorate in economics from North Carolina State University. Her research interests include applications of econometrics and nonparametric statistics to global economic and business issues such as corruption, terrorism, tourism, environmental protection and diversity. She has published in Journal of International Business Studies, Applied Economics Letters, Tourism Economics, Journal of Travel Research and others.

Lawrence L. Garber, Jr. is an associate professor of marketing at the Love School of Business and a visiting associate professor at IMT Ghaziabad, India. He holds a Ph.D. in business administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an M.B.A. from Yale University, an A.B. from Brown University, and has attended the Parsons School of Design for illustration and the Cleveland Institute of Art for painting. Previously, he taught at Appalachian State University, the Indian Institute of Management, Ahmedabad (IIMA) and UNC at Chapel Hill. Prior to entering academe, Dr. Garber was Senior Analyst in Marketing Sciences at Glaxo Pharmaceuticals, now GlaxoSmithKline, and BBDO Advertising; was for several years a freelance illustrator in New York and was Director of Admissions at the Cleveland Institute of Art, Ohio. His research interests include visual information processing and persuasion, marketing communication and branding, nonprofit and arts marketing, marketing education and the visual presentation of statistical data.  He is on the editorial review boards of the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, and the International Journal of Business Insights and Transformation.

Neeraj J. Gupta, assistant professor of finance, has a doctorate in finance from the University of Connecticut and is a CFA charterholder.  He received a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Delhi and an M.B.A. from Babson College.  He has over ten years of finance experience in Asia, Europe, North America and South America, having worked for Nestlé, Xerox and Claridges Investments (a boutique asset management firm).  Dr. Gupta has taught various finance courses - Principles of Finance, Corporate Finance, and Investments - to undergraduate and M.B.A. students at both Elon and UConn.  He has led study abroad business courses to the Pacific Rim (Hong Kong SAR, China, Singapore, Malaysia, Vietnam, and Australia) and to the Indo-Gulf (India and Dubai).  His research interests are in investments, corporate finance, financial planning and international finance with ongoing research in sustainable investing, designing efficient retirement portfolios, valuing intangible investments, fund-flows & returns in emerging markets, and valuing long-dated options.  In the recent past, Dr. Gupta has consulted for The Clearing House, the Business North Carolina magazine and the NC Special Court for Complex Business Cases.

Sharon K. Hodge, associate professor and chair of the Department of Marketing, has previously held management and consulting positions. She has also been involved as an events manager in the catering industry and is currently involved with the Elon Enterprise Academy initiative. She received bachelor's and master's degrees from Old Dominion University and a doctorate from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Linda Poulson, is an associate professor of accounting and chair of the Department of Accounting.  She has also served on the faculties of Regis University in Denver, Colo., and Saint Louis University in St. Louis, Mo.  She holds a B.S. in Accounting, a Master of Taxation degree from the University of Denver, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from St. Louis University.  Dr. Poulson was awarded the Patricia Roberts Harris Doctoral Fellowship and the KPMG Foundation Doctoral Fellowship.  She is a charter member of the Ph.D. Project, which promotes diversity among the faculties at collegiate schools of business.  Her teaching and research interests are in the areas of financial accounting and taxation.

Dr. Poulson is a licensed CPA in Colorado and North Carolina and is a former Tax Manager with Ernst & Young (Formerly Arthur Young).  She currently serves on the Board of Directors of the North Carolina Association of CPAs and on the association’s Financial Literacy Council.

Susan L. Manring, associate professor of management, spent 20 years as an organizational consultant before joining the Elon faculty in 1996. Her areas of interest include large-scale systems change, organizational learning, high-performance teams and contingency models of leadership. A major focus of her research, consulting and published work involves the motivation, retention and productivity of technical professionals. She has a bachelor's degree from The Ohio State University, a master's degree from Kent State University and a doctorate from Case Western Reserve University.

Kevin J. O'Mara is a professor of management. His primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of strategy and process technology management. His research interest is mass customization. He recently taught in London for a semester. Before entering academia, he worked as an operations analyst for a major oil exploration company in Houston. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Houston and a Ph.D. from North Carolina State University. He also holds the Certified Management Accountant designation.

Robert Pavlik, associate professor of finance, has worked for Oppenheimer & Co., Dean Witter Reynolds and Paine Webber, Inc. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Illinois at Chicago and master's and doctoral degrees from the University of Houston. He taught previously at Southwest Texas State University.

Michael Rodriguez, assistant professor of marketing, teaches professional selling, principles of marketing and customer relationship management courses. He earned his Ph.D. in technology management from Stevens Institute of Technology, where he won the Most Outstanding Dissertation Award in 2009. He has been published in the Journal of Selling and Major Account Management and the International Journal of Innovation and Business Research. Before coming to Elon, Dr. Rodriguez worked on Wall Street for 14 years selling market data and trading platforms to investment banks, asset managers and hedge funds. He also has developed and facilitated sales training programs for corporate clients.

Wonhi Synn, professor of finance, teaches corporate finance and investment in the undergraduate and graduate programs. His areas of academic interest include enterprise valuation, performance evaluation, market innovations and business education. He has recently published articles on government sponsored enterprises (GSEs), online stock trading, bankruptcy prediction, and various business curriculum and pedagogical issues. He taught winter term courses on global markets in London and in China/Hong Kong. He received a bachelor's degree from Seoul National University, an M.B.A. from University of New Orleans, and a Ph.D. from The State University of New York at Buffalo.

Matthew Valle, professor of management, is a graduate of the U.S. Air Force Academy and a former Air Force pilot. He received an M.S. in Operations Management from the University of Arkansas, an M.B.A. from the University of Massachusetts and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from Florida State University. Dr. Valle has more than 70 refereed publications in journals such as Human Relations, the Journal of Managerial Issues, the Journal of Management Inquiry and the Journal of Small Business Strategy. He is a frequent facilitator and presenter for the Elon ExecEd program and has consulted with Boeing, Raytheon, Bombardier Aerospace/Learjet, Gates Rubber Co. and Conagra, among others.  He is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute and is an FAA licensed commercial pilot.