Meet Our Faculty

Robert Burnham

Technology (elective)

Bob Burnham is a Senior Research Computing Associate and Adjunct Professor of Business Administration at the Tuck School. Bob is principally a software developer working in C, C++, Python, Java, SAS, R, and Common Lisp.

Belinda Chiu D’98

Study Group Launch and Leading Self, Teams & Orgs

Founder of Hummingbird Research Coaching Consulting LLC, Belinda H. Y. Chiu D’98 is an award-winning ICF-PCC executive and leadership coach and facilitator and works across sectors, from health care to tech to IGOs. She serves as Tuck Bridge lecturer and leadership coach, and program faculty with Dartmouth, where she previously served as senior associate director of admissions. A senior certified teacher and teacher training faculty with the Google-born Search Inside Yourself Leadership Institute and an international liaison with the U.S. State Department, she has helped design and mentor coaching programs, including the Emotional Intelligence Coaching Certification Program (EICC) with Daniel Goleman. Chiu has worked with thousands on compassionate leadership, transformation, and belonging for organizations such as ESPN, Sony, and Unilever. She is a board member of eiFOCUS, which cultivates female leaders through sports, and Music to Life, which advocates for musician–social change activists. She is also a steering committee member of Mindful Dartmouth and a certified Forest Therapy Guide. Chiu is the author of The Mindful College Applicant: Emotional Intelligence for the Admissions Process and The eMBA Coach Playbook: Preparing Future-ready Leaders.

Matt Considine

Investments and Investment Simulation Exercise (elective)

Matt Considine is Professor of Practice at Middlebury College, having joined in October 2020 after being a visiting professor for the previous academic year at Champlain College. In these capacities he has taught Investments, Advanced Investments, Introduction to Corporate Finance and other finance classes. From 2011 to 2018 he was the Director of Investments for the State of Vermont, overseeing the administration of the investment portfolios underlying three State pension plans, deferred compensation plans and other asset pools. In that capacity he and his team worked with the State Treasurer, the Vermont Pension Investment Committee and others on the setting, implementation and evaluation of investment strategies.

Prior to his work in the public sector, he spent twenty years as an equity analyst and portfolio manager with firms such as BlackRock and Dupont Capital Management, managing mutual funds and other long-only and long-short strategies. His formal education includes a BA with Honors in Mathematics-Economics from Wesleyan University and an MBA with concentrations in Finance and Entrepreneurial Management from the Wharton School. A member of the Vermont CFA Society, he has held the CFA charter since 1993. Among the non-profits he is involved with is Gifford Healthcare (for which he recently served as Board Chair), the Antique Telescope Society (for which he is Treasurer) and the Springfield Telescope Makers. A Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society, he enjoys amateur astronomy, as well as hiking and cooking in his backyard wood-fired oven.

Trip Davis D’90

Entrepreneurship (elective)

Trip Davis is CEO of FreshAir Sensor LLC, a venture co-founded by Dartmouth Chemistry professor Joe BelBruno and Tuck graduate Jack O'Toole T'14. He teaches the “Entrepreneurial Thinking” elective at Tuck. He is chair of the board of trustees of Dartmouth Regional Technology Center Inc. (DRTC), a 60,000 square foot nonprofit economic development incubator in Lebanon, NH. Previously, Trip served as the executive director of the Office of Entrepreneurship & Technology Transfer at Dartmouth. Prior to joining Dartmouth’s staff in 2013, he was the senior associate dean for external relations and president of the Darden School Foundation at the University of Virginia Darden School of Business. Prior to his appointments at Dartmouth and Virginia, Trip was an entrepreneur in travel technology who was twice named one of the top 25 most influential executives in the travel industry. He earned his BA from Dartmouth and MBA from Darden.

Mark DesJardine

Strategy

Mark DesJardine is the Paul E. Raether T’73 Faculty Fellow at Dartmouth College’s Tuck School of Business and a senior fellow at The Wharton School. He is an expert in corporate governance who has published extensively on shareholder activism. His research utilizes large datasets and econometric tools to develop applied models that inform various aspects of shareholder engagements, including corporate vulnerability to shareholder activism and proxy vote outcomes. He is an associate editor at Management Science and a senior editor at Organization Science. He is also the Treasurer and a director on the board of the Alliance for Research on Corporate Sustainability and a CFA Charterholder.

Kirsten Detrick T’92

Pharma/Biotech (elective)

Kirsten Detrick is a senior biotech executive who pursued a distinguished career with Fortune 10 biopharma organizations and who now serves as a strategic adviser for life sciences start-ups in the US and abroad. Detrick has more than 30 years of experience as an established P&L leader, a strategic marketing and sales expert, and a general manager. She has successfully commercialized and launched multiple new therapeutics and built corporate drug pipelines for global biopharma organizations including Amgen, Bristol Myers Squibb, and Takeda. Detrick’s career included eight years working in Europe as a global commercial portfolio leader and, later, as a general manager for businesses located in Eastern Europe and Austria. Detrick has particular expertise in immunology, oncology, cardiovascular and rare diseases, having led multibillion-dollar therapeutics including Enbrel, Entyvio, Plavix, and Prolia during her career. She has also served on several public and nonprofit boards of directors, including roles as both member and chairman.

Aram Donigian T’08

Faculty Director; Study Group Launch, Leading Self, Teams & Orgs, and Negotiations (elective)

Lieutenant Colonel (retired) Aram Donigian served in the U.S. Army for 21 years as an infantry and public-affairs officer, deploying three times to Afghanistan. Donigian cofounded the West Point Negotiation Project and is the coauthor of several articles on negotiation within the military context. Donigian teaches the Negotiations course at Tuck and is the faculty director of the Tuck Business Bridge Program.

Charlie Donovan

Business of Clean Energy (elective)

Charlie Donovan was most recently Principal Economist at Impax Asset Management, a sustainability-focused investment firm managing approximately $40 billion across listed equities, fixed income, and private markets. Previously, he served as Founding Executive Director of the Centre for Climate Finance and Investment at Imperial College Business School and Academic Director of Imperial’s MSc Climate Change, Management and Finance program. He was Head of Structuring and Valuation for global power at BP plc and part of the team that launched BP Alternative Energy in 2005 with an $8 billion funding commitment. Charlie began his career as an Energy Policy Analyst with the US Environmental Protection Agency during the Clinton Administration. He is co-author and editor of Renewable Energy Finance: Powering the Future, now in its second edition.

Syd Finkelstein

Leadership

Sydney Finkelstein is the Steven Roth Professor of Management at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. He holds a Masters degree from the London School of Economics and a Ph.D. from Columbia University. Professor Finkelstein has published 25 books and 90 articles, including the bestsellers Why Smart Executives Fail Links to an external site. and Superbosses: How Exceptional Leaders Master the Flow of Talent, which LinkedIn Chairman Reid Hoffman calls the “leadership guide for the Networked Age.” He is also a Fellow of the Academy of Management, a consultant and speaker to leading companies around the world, and a top 25 on the global Thinkers 50 list of top management gurus. Professor Finkelstein’s research and consulting work often relies on in-depth and personal interviews with hundreds of people, an experience that led him to create and host his own podcast, The Sydcast, to uncover and share the stories of all sorts of fascinating people in business, sports, entertainment, politics, academia, and everyday life.

Amy Florentino T’10

Business Communications

Amy Florentino is an adjunct professor of business administration at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she teaches courses in communications, crisis management, and project management. She also serves as the faculty director for the Next Step Transition to Business program, an executive education program for transitioning military personnel and elite athletes.

A retired officer of the United States Coast Guard, Amy served more than 25 years on active duty. Her expertise in maritime strategy, communications, and crisis management inspires her work as founder of Wavetop Solutions, LLC, a consulting firm offering executive training and coaching to leaders across industries including the agriculture, maritime, and nonprofit sectors.

Amy holds an MBA from the Tuck School of Business (2010) and a BS in operations research from the U.S. Coast Guard Academy (1999). She and her family have lived in eight states and now call Vermont home, where they enjoy skiing, hockey, and outdoor activities.

Mark Hardie

Private Equity and Venture Capital (electives)

Mark Hardie is the Director of the Center for Private Equity and Venture Capital at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. Prior to joining Tuck, Mark was the Director of the Entrepreneur Innovation Center at Framingham State University. A start-up veteran with deep experience in operations leadership, Mark is also an alumni Career Coach at Harvard Business School, working closely with start-up leadership teams, first time founders and mid-career entrepreneurs. 

The son of two teachers, he has taught and lectured on technology issues and entrepreneurship at Harvard, MIT, University of Virginia, Framingham State University, and University of Hartford. A Massachusetts native, Mark attended primary and secondary schools in Holyoke MA, is a graduate of both Tufts University with a B.A. in Political Science and the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management with concentrations in finance and operation. He brings extensive experience launching start-ups, driving corporate strategy and business innovation, all with a focus on Internet business models, mobile device platforms, and cloud-based B2B and B2C service businesses.

Andy Kaestle T’17

Consulting (elective)

Patroklos Karantinos T’12

Capstone Project

Julie Lang T’93

Business Communication

As a Clinical Professor of Management at Tuck, Julie teaches Management Communication and Client Project Management, and advises student teams engaged in client-based projects through Tuck OnSite Global Consulting and First Year Projects.
Julie worked in sales, marketing, communications and product management for Elanco Products Co. (a division of Eli Lilly) and for Imperial Chemical Industries (now Syngenta) before joining Arthur D. Little as a consultant in 1990. She created her own consulting firm in 2001 and has worked with clients in dozens of organizations and on four continents to generate, clarify, and communicate their strategic initiatives. Julie earned her MBA from Tuck, where she was recognized as an Edward Tuck Scholar and recipient of the Dero Saunders Award for Communication Excellence.

Brian Melzer

Real Estate (elective)

Brian Melzer is an economist who studies household finance, real estate, financial intermediation, and financial regulation. He has held positions as a senior financial economist at the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago and as an assistant professor of finance at the Kellogg School of Management, where he taught corporate finance for MBA students. Professor Melzer has published in leading economics and finance journals, including the American Economic Review, the Quarterly Journal of Economics, and the Journal of Finance. He teaches courses in real estate at Tuck.

Jody Murphy

Financial Accounting

Jody Murphy is a professor at Colby Sawyer College. She holds a Ph.D. from Capella University and an MBA from New Hampshire College. Her teaching interests include finance, personal finance, managerial accounting, financial accounting and investment management. Her professional interests include financial markets, New York Stock Exchange, American Stock Exchange, NASDAQ, and personal finance.

Ernie Parizeau D’79 T’84

Business Ethics

Ernie is a retired partner at Norwest Venture Partners where he worked as a venture capitalist for 23 years. He invested in over 50 early-stage companies in the software, semiconductor, communications, healthcare, education, and retail industries. He retired from NVP in 2007.

Ernie Parizeau is currently a DCI Fellow at Stanford University and an Adjunct Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship at Middlebury College. He has taught entrepreneurship and
investing courses at Middlebury, Babson College, and Franklin Olin College of Engineering.

Ernie was the chair of The Cape Eleuthera Foundation from 2012 - 2017. CEF raises financial resources for three institutions founded by the same social entrepreneurs on the island of Eleuthera in The Bahamas:
- The Island School - a challenging, three-month, experiential educational program for high
school students from around the world,
- The Cape Eleuthera Institute - a scientific research facility, and,
- The Deep Creek Middle School - a private middle school educating Bahamian students.
He continues to support the Cape Eleuthera Foundation as a board member and is an enthusiastic proponent of experiential education. He is also a member of the Dartmouth Entrepreneurship Network advisory board.

Ernie graduated from Dartmouth College with an AB degree in Engineering Sciences (1979) and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School (1984). Ernie and his wife, Kim (TU ’84), have four children and one grandchild. For fun, Ernie rows, snowboards, and flys small planes.

Courtney Pierson T’01

Business Communication

Courtney Pierson teaches Communication in Tuck’s MBA, Bridge and NextStep programs.  She is actively involved with Tuck’s experiential learning courses as faculty advisor for student First Year Projects and the for the Paganucci Fellows Program, an eight-week internship for Dartmouth students interested in social entrepreneurship.  Courtney graduated from Tuck in 2001 and, after several years at Bain & Company, returned to the media industry as head of strategy for a Blackstone portfolio company.  During her 25+ year career, Courtney has held senior strategy, general management and operations positions in online media, direct marketing and ecommerce for organizations including Bloomberg L.P., McGraw-Hill and CBS Television. 

Peter Regan

Excel Foundations, Spreadsheet Modeling and Data Visualization

Peter Regan teaches pre-term quantitative skills and elective Professional Decision Modeling at the Tuck School. He has taught pre-term quantitative skills at Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, Models for Strategic Planning at INSEAD in France, and core Decision Models in London and Shanghai for the Cross-Continent (now Global) Executive MBA program of Fuqua School of Business at Duke University.

Prof. Regan studied biochemistry (B.A., Dartmouth) and decision & risk analysis (MS and PhD, Stanford University). He worked in management consulting, software development, and entrepreneurship. His published works address MBA teaching, decision making, decision technology, and public health. He created and leads the self-paced, online MBA Math quantitative skills course that 75K+ students have used to build a solid foundation for finance, accounting, economics, statistics, and spreadsheets. He previously founded a consulting and technology firm, working collaboratively with strategy consultants and global life sciences companies.

Daniella Reichstetter T’07

Entrepreneurship (elective)

Daniella Reichstetter has 20-plus years of experience running various divisions of early-stage companies. She was the founder and CEO of Gyrobike (a Thayer technology) and an early hire at Method, Jetboil, and Belcampo. Prior to working in entrepreneurship, she worked as an investment banker in equity private placements. She serves on the boards of several early-stage companies and nonprofit organizations and is an active angel investor. At Tuck, Daniella co-teaches Entrepreneurial Thinking and the Advancing Entrepreneurship Collaboration Practicum (AECP), leads Global Insight Expeditions (GIX), and is faculty adviser to various First-Year Project teams. She is faculty director of TuckLAB Entrepreneurship, a Dartmouth undergraduate program in entrepreneurship, as well as faculty director of the WBENC-Tuck Capstone Program, a Tuck Executive Education program with the Women’s Business Enterprise National Council (WBENC). She was the founding executive director of the Tuck Center for Entrepreneurship. Upon graduating Tuck, she was the recipient of the Arnold F. Adams, Jr. Award for Excellence in Entrepreneurship; she graduated cum laude from Georgetown with a BS in Spanish and business

Matt Slaughter

Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business; Global Economy

Matthew J. Slaughter is the Paul Danos Dean of the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where in addition he is the Earl C. Daum 1924 Professor of International Business. He is also a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, a life member of the Council on Foreign Relations, a Research Associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research, a member of the academic advisory board of the International Tax Policy Forum, and an academic advisor to the McKinsey Global Institute.

Morten Sorenson

Finance

PhD, Stanford University, 2005; MSc., Aarhus University, 1999; BSc., Aarhus University, 1997

Morten Sorensen’s research is in the areas of private equity, venture capital, entrepreneurial finance, and executive personality and characteristics; he studies economic behavior and financial performance in private markets, in individual transactions and in the role of private markets in the economy. Morten has presented his research at numerous universities and conferences and published in leading academic journals, including the Journal of Finance, Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Financial Economics, and Management Science. His research has been featured in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Financial Times, the Economist, Harvard Business Review, Bloomberg BusinessWeek, CNBC,and Bloomberg. In addition to his faculty positions, he is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research; he has advised PhD students, worked with numerous companies, and served as an expert in litigation involving mortgage lenders, private companies, and private equity firms. Morten grew up in Denmark and relocated to the United States; he lives with his wife, two daughters, a dog, and a cat in Hanover, NH.

Tom Steding

The New Leadership Model (elective)

Dr. Tom Steding is a seasoned Silicon Valley executive with a strong record of founding and scaling high‑tech companies across AI, cybersecurity, enterprise software, optical networking, and clean energy. He has served as CEO of more than a dozen companies and chaired several others, generating over $650 million in financing. A thought leader in leadership and culture, Tom is the author of two books—Built on Trust and Real Teams Win—and serves in numerous advisory roles. He earned a Ph.D. in Electrical Engineering from UC Berkeley and an M.S. in Management from Stanford University, where he was a Sloan Fellow and class president.

Charlie Wheelan D’88

Economics

Charles Wheelan is the faculty director for the Center for Business, Government, and Society. Prior to joining the Tuck faculty, he was a senior lecturer and policy fellow at Dartmouth’s Rockefeller Center for Public Policy. He teaches assorted courses related to business and public policy and has won many teaching awards, including Dartmouth’s 2020 Dean of the College Teaching Award.

Wheelan is the author of the “naked books”: Naked Money, Naked Statistics, and Naked Economics. In 2023, Naked Economics was named by Princeton finance professor Burton Malkiel in the Wall Street Journal as the best business book of all time.

Wheelan is also the author of The Centrist Manifesto and the founder and chair of Unite America, a movement of Democrats, Republicans, and independents working to foster a more representative and functional government.

Wheelan holds a Ph.D. in public policy from the University of Chicago, a Master’s degree in Public Affairs from Princeton University, and a B.A. from Dartmouth College. He lives in Hanover, New Hampshire, with his wife Leah Yegian Wheelan, who is also a 1988 Dartmouth graduate.

Patrick Wheeler

AI Applications in Business

Patrick Wheeler serves as Executive Director of the Center for Digital Strategies at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where he has established himself as a pioneering force in artificial intelligence education and technology leadership development. As an early advocate for AI education in business schools, Wheeler launched Dartmouth’s first generative AI programming in 2022 and co-created Tuck’s inaugural AI-focused course in 2023. He founded and leads the Dartmouth AI Conference, which has grown from 175 to 400 attendees in just two years, bringing together industry leaders, alumni, and students for crucial discussions on AI’s impact across sectors.

Prior to joining Tuck, Wheeler built a diverse career spanning consulting, technology, and innovation. As a consultant, he led technology strategy and digital transformation initiatives across four continents, combining management consulting expertise with data-driven methodologies to enable growth and operational efficiency for global organizations. At CEB (now Gartner), he demonstrated his product development acumen by creating a low-code e-learning suite that generated multi-million dollar revenue within its first year.

Wheeler holds a B.A. in Political Science from St. Michael’s College. His areas of expertise include artificial intelligence strategy, digital transformation, technology education, and strategic program development.

Conwell Worthington III

Marketing

Conwell Worthington III is an experienced educator with over 20 years in executive arts management coupled with faculty positions in marketing at both Babson College and Bentley University. 

Prior to transitioning into academia, Worthington served as an executive in arts management. Worthington acted as the Associate General Manager at The Huntington Theatre Company and the Theater Manager at the Charles Playhouse, both in Boston, MA. Career production highlights include management positions on shows nationally and internationally: Broadway (Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, Boeing Boeing and 33 Variations); international engagements (Australia and Canada); national tours (The Lion King, Billy Crystal: 700 Sundays, and The Book of Mormon); and regional theatre (The Laramie Project, Sister Act: The Musical, Fences, Purlie, Ray Charles Live! and Blue). Worthington also acted as Worldwide Associate to the Production Supervisor for The Lion King, helping coordinate productions in China and the Netherlands. Worthington served as Associate Producer on In a Booth at Chasens at The Kennedy Center in Washington DC. Currently he is working as a management consultant for The Obsidian Theatre Festival in Detroit, MI and J&B Theatricals in California.