2009 International Finance Semester Faculty Fellows
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Dr. Sris Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Finance and Business Economics Area at Fordham University’s Schools of Business where he is currently the Area Chair. He has taught a variety of courses including Mergers and Acquisitions, Principles of Modern Finance and Behavioral Finance for MBAs, executive MBAs, and the undergraduate business students. He was the 1995 recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at Fordham GBA. Prof. Chatterjee got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and his Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta). He received his M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Fordham University, Prof. Chatterjee taught at SUNY (Buffalo), Rutgers University and Columbia University. He has taught in the Key Training Program at UBS Wealth Management, where he participated in curriculum development and in writing training material. He has taught in the executive MBA programs at other schools.
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Michael DiGiacomo is the chief administrative officer of The Neil D. Levin Graduate Institute. Mr. DiGiacomo also serves as an adjunct professor at the Institute, and is a director of the Institute’s supporting foundation. Prior to joining the Levin Institute he was chief financial officer of a business book publisher with operations in New York and London, and before that he worked for fifteen years as an investment banker. His last banking position was as a senior officer on the capital markets desk of Chase Securities Inc. (now J.P. Morgan Chase) in New York. Before Chase he was the head of capital markets at Jones Lang Wootton, an international commercial real estate firm. He began his banking career at Kidder Peabody, where he was a vice president and shareholder of the firm in the areas of mortgage and asset securitization and public finance. Prior to his banking career he practiced law, first as a clerk to the Hon. William Hughes Mulligan, a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit, and then at Dewey Ballantine LLP in New York City. He was an adjunct professor at Fordham Law School in New York, where he taught capital markets. |
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Allan Hackney is SVP & Chief Information Officer – John Hancock Financial Services with oversight of the company’s Wealth Management and Insurance technical teams. In this role, Allan is accountable for developing and executing strategies that increase productivity and efficiency, improve operating risk management and enhance the technical talent across the enterprise. As a catalyst for change, he is also responsible for increasing the value obtained from the Company’s investment in people, technology and service providers. Allan joined John Hancock from AIG Consumer Finance Group where, as CIO, he championed the effort to reposition autonomous banking and lending operations into a more integrated global expansion platform to enable significant expansion. Previously, he was SVP of IT for Bank of America Commercial Finance. Allan started his career at GE, where he held a number of leadership positions in the USA and Japan for GE Capital’s global consumer finance business, led more than 50 global IT due diligence and M&A integration transactions, and headed GE Capital’s initiative to launch Six Sigma across its IT function. Allan graduated with a Bachelor’s degree from Colgate University. He is a Faculty Fellow at The Levin Institute, the State University of New York’s international graduate business school in New York City. He and his wife Jane reside in both Boston, MA and New Canaan, CT. |
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Dr. Phil Perry has been on the faculty of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB) since 1979. He received both his MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration (with a major in Finance) from the University of California at Berkeley, and also holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology.
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Guy Erb, a Managing Director at FTI Consulting Inc., has experience in two highly regulated industries, investment banking and money services businesses. In the early 1990s, Mr. Erb worked at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York for four years, and then led the team that opened Goldman Sachs Mexico Casa de Bolsa in 1994. He was also a co-founder of Lafayette Capital Corporation, an NASD registered broker-dealer that concentrated on cross border mergers and acquisitions. From 1987 through 1999 he was qualified by the NASD as a General Securities Principal (Series 24) and General Securities Representative (Series 7). He held a comparable certification from Mexican financial regulators during his time in Mexico. He has also served as a member of the National Security Council staff, a Foreign Service Officer, a member of the United Nations Secretariat and as a financial advisor to inter-governmental organizations. Mr. Erb has served on several Boards of Directors, testified before the U.S. House and Senate and the International Trade Commission, and held senior U.S. government positions. He is a frequently published analyst of and commentator on financial, investment and trade issues. His work at FTI Consulting includes banking and investment banking litigation support and advisory consulting. Mr. Erb holds a Master of Science (Economics) from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a Bachelor of Arts from the University of California at Berkeley and a Diploma from the University of Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York.
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Mr. Adrian Kingshott is the CEO of AdSon llc, a financial advisor to corporations and hedge funds. Mr. Kingshott has over 25 years of experience in the investment banking and hedge fund business. He spent 17 years working in investment banking at Goldman Sachs in New York and London. Mr. Kingshott was elected as a Managing Director of Goldman Sachs in 1995 and joined the Business Unit Leader Council of the Investment Banking Division in 2000 when he was the Co-Head of the firms Leveraged Finance business. From 2002 to 2005, Mr. Kingshott was a Managing Director of Amaranth Advisors where he founded and built the firm's direct/private investing business focused primarily mezzanine debt and private convertibles in the US and Europe. He was a member of Amaranth's Portfolio Management Committee. In 2006, Mr. Kingshott co-founded the Novator Credit Opportunities Fund. He has spoken at numerous investor conferences in New York, London and Paris about credit and convertible investing and portfolio management. Mr. Kingshott has served on several public and private Boards of Directors and has been named by the Financial News as the 9th most influential European in the US capital markets. Mr. Kingshott has a Masters degree in Jurisprudence from Oxford University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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Dr. Maryalice Mazzara is Director of Academic Affairs at The Levin Institute. At Levin, Dr. Mazzara’s responsibilities include development and implementation of the “Semester in NY” programs, managing SUNY’s Turkish programs at Levin, and coordination of Levin’s Québec SUNY NYC Consortium.
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Dr. Zora Thomova is an Associate Professor at SUNY Institute of Technology where she has been teaching since 1998. She has received her Ph.D. in Mathematics from Department of Mathematics and Statistics, University of Montreal, Montreal, Canada. Prior to that she obtained a M.Sc. in Physical Engineering, Department of Solid State Physics, Czech Technical University, Prague, Czech Republic. |
