Meet Poole College’s newest faculty members

The Poole College of Management at NC State University welcomed a dozen new faculty members this fall and saw the retirement of several senior faculty over the past several months. 

“We are very pleased to welcome our new faculty, whose knowledge and experience in key subject areas will bring greater depth to our curricula and research activities,” said Dr. Ira R. Weiss, dean of Poole College.

“At the same time, I thank our retiring senior faculty for their years of service the college. I especially want to acknowledge Dr. Jon Bartley, who served as the college’s second dean from 1999 until my arrival in 2003.”

Following are Poole College’s new faculty members. Note that not all were available for the group photo. 

Department of Accounting and Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship (MIE)

• Heidi Bulich, J.D., associate teaching professor, has a joint appointment in accounting and MIE and will be teaching business law classes. She brings expertise in immigration, real estate law and business law, land use and sustainability. Bulich previously was assistant professor at the Michigan State University Eli Broad College of Business and School of Planning, Design and Construction. She received her law degree at the Georgetown University Law Center in 1988. (In the photo above, she is third from the left.)

Department of Business Management

• Tonya Balan, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor, will be teaching statistics. Her focus areas include analytics, data mining, time series analysis and statistical modeling. She previously was an adjunct professor of statistics at Meredith College in Raleigh, N.C., and director of analytics product management at SAS. Balan received her doctorate degree at North Carolina State University in 1993. (In the photo above, she is fourth from the right.)
• Antje Berndt, Ph.D., associate professor, will be teaching finance classes. Her focus areas include investment analysis, fixed income investments, credit derivatives, and term structure models for fixed income and credit markets. She previously was an assistant professor in the Tepper School of Business at Carnegie Mellon and assistant professor in the School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at Cornell University. She received her doctorate degree from Stanford University in 2003. (In the photo above, she is second from the right.)
• Tom Byrnes, DBA, lecturer, focuses on integrated marketing, new media, marketing communications, Google analytics, and customer insight. He will be teaching marketing courses and will be faculty advisor for the Poole College student chapter of the American Marketing Association. Byrnes previously was an instructor at Wake Take Community College and a Global Marketing Communications Manager at IBM. He received his doctorate in marketing from Nova Southeastern University in 2005. (In the photo above, he is second from the left.)
• Jesse Ellis, Ph.D., assistant professor, focuses on investments, capital markets, financial modeling, and will be teaching finance. He previously was an assistant professor of finance at the University of Alabama Culverhouse College of Business. He received his Ph.D. in finance from the University of Pittsburgh Katz Graduate School of Business in 2011.  (In the photo above, he is first on the right.)
• Eda Kemahlioglu-Ziya, Ph.D., assistant professor, will be teaching supply chain courses. Her areas of focus include game theory, inventory management, operations, supply chain management and logistics. She previously was an assistant professor of operations and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School. She received her Ph.D. in industrial and systems engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2004. (In the photo above, she is first from the left.)
• Patrice Nealon, MBA, lecturer, will be teaching in our undergraduate marketing curriculum. She previously was professor of business studies and social sciences Chair at Louisburg College. Nealon received her MBA in marketing and management from DePaul University in 1990.  (In the photo above, she is in the center, fifth from the left.)
• Neal Parker, Ph.D., teaching assistant professor, will be teaching information systems. Other focus areas include IT economics, consumer behavior/motivation, IT security, and supply chain design. He previously was a lecturer at Appalachian State University and an instructor at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in computer science and informatics from the Belk College of Business at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte in 2013. (In the photo above, he is fourth from the left.)
• Paul Rowe, Ph.D., is a lecturer in supply chain management and will be teaching at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He previously was a section faculty member at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Kenan-Flagler Business School. He is completing his Ph.D. at the Mississippi State University in industrial engineering, with graduation expected in 2015. (He was not available for the photo.)

Department of Economics

• Umut Dur, Ph.D., assistant professor, focuses on game theory, applied theory, mechanism design, experimental economics and industrial organization. He previously was a teaching assistant at the University of Texas at Austin, where he received in Ph.D. in 2013, and Bogazici University. (In the photo above, he is third from the right.)
• Paul F. Cwik, Ph.D. , is a lecturer in economics. His focus areas include business cycle, finance, and environmental economic. He previously was a professor of economics and finance in the Department of Management and Human resources at Mount Olive College, N.C. He received his Ph.D. from Auburn University. (He was not available for the photo.)
• James Nason, Ph.D., Jenkins Distinguished Professorship in Economics, joins Poole College following an extensive career with the Federal Reserve, most recently with the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia. His areas of focus include business cycle fluctuations and monetary economics, open economy macroeconomics, international finance, and applied time series. He received Ph.D. in economics from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 1987. (He was not available for the photo.)

Retirees

• Dr. Jon Bartley, professor of accounting and former Poole College dean
• Dr. Craig Newmark, professor of economics
• Dr. John Seater, professor of economics