Poole College Welcomes New Faculty
The start of the fall semester brought several new faculty members, including a department head, to the NC State Poole College community.
Jennifer V. Dirienzo
Jennifer V. Dirienzo joins Poole College's Department of Accounting as visiting lecturer. She previously was director of business tax services for Deloitte Tax, LLP, where she was responsible for providing tax services to over 20 companies and was responsible for the professional development of the firm's Releigh, N.C., staff. She is a hghly ranked trainer for national tax programs including accounting for income tax, federal tax accounting methods, S corporations, basic financial instruments issues, basic Sub C transactions, and certain soft-skills programs, and is a former leader of the Southeast Federal Tax Accounting competency group. Dirienzo received her bachelor's degree in accounting, summa cum laude, from NC State in1983. She is a Certified Public Accountant, and a member of the AICPA and NCACPA, and treasurer for Hospice of Wake County.
Dr. Giuseppe Fiori
Dr. Giuseppe Fiori joins Poole College's Department of Economics as associate professor. He most recently held a Post-doctoral Fellowship at the University of Sao Paolo. In 2011, he was a consultant with the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development in Paris, France. Prior to that, he was an economist with the Bank of Italy. Fiori received his doctorate in economics from Boston College in 2009. His doctoral thesis focused on investment, regulation and labor markets. He received his master's degree in economics and financial markets at Bacconi University in Milan, Italy, graduating suma cum laude. During his master's program, he was an exchange student at Hautes Etudes Commerciales in Montreal, Canada, in 2002. His research interests are in the areas of macroeconomics, labor, monetary economics and international economics. He has been published or has articles forthcoming in the Journal of Monetary Economics and the Economic Journal.
Dr. Bradley Kirkman
Dr. Bradley Kirkman returns to the Triangle area as professor and head of Poole College's Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He received his Ph.D in 1996 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's Kenan-Flagler Business School in 1996, with a focus on organizational behavior and a minor in social psychology.
Kirkman most recently was the Foreman R. and Ruby Bennett Professor of Business Administration Texas A&M University's Mays Business School. He had received his MBA degree from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro in 1991, and his bachelor's degree in industrial relations and communications from UNC-Chapel Hill in 1988, where he had been a James M. Johnston Scholar. In May 2012, he was a visiting professor at the Guanghua School of Management at Peking University in Beijing, China, and was a visiting associate professor in 2006 at the University of Western Australia, in the areas of management and organizations. He has served as associate editor of the Academy of Management Journal and has received numerous awards for his research, including the several Academy of Management Journal's Best Reviewer Awards. A paper that he co-authored, published in the Journal of Management (JOM) in 2005, was recognized as one of the top five most cited articles in the JOM 2005 volume.
Allison Lowe Reed
Allison Lowe Reed joins Poole College as lecturer in the Department of Economics, where has been a visiting instructor in the past. She previously has been a lecturer and online instructor at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro, and an adjunct professor at Meredith College. Other experience includes developing and presenting programs on financial literacy for public school teachers and on the global economy and the stock market at Exploris Museum. Before teaching, she was a financial markets analyst at the North Carolina Department of Commerce and an assistant vice president at First Citizens Bank and Trust. She received her bachelor's degree in business management in 1991 and her master of economics degree in 1998, both from NC State in 1998, and a graduate certificate in public policy from NC State in 2012.
Beth Ritter
Beth Ritter joins Poole College's Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship as a lecturer in human resources. She previously was senior vice president at Burt's Bees in Durham, N.C., and had been a visiting lecturer in Poole College in 2011-12. She also has served as senior vice president of human resources for the global supply chain at The Campbell Soup Company in Camden, N.J., and held several HR positions with the Nabisco Brands. Ritter received her bachelor's degree in labor relations from The Pennsylvania State University and her MBA from Old Dominion University. She holds the PHR certification, Linkage Certificate in Organizational Development, is Myers-Briggs certified, and is a World at Work certified compensation professional. She is involved in Habitat for Humanity of Durham, is a board member for the UNC BASE Green Business Incubator, and on the Employer Advisory Board for Meredith Women's Leadership Institute.
Dr. Stefanie Rosen Robinson
Dr. Stefanie Rosen Robinson joins the college as assistant professor of marketing in the Department of Business Management. She received her Ph.D. in marketing from the Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina in 2012, and her bachelor's degree in business administration with a concentration in marketing from the University of Florida, summa cum laude, in 2003. She had received the Marketing Department Doctoral Student Research Award at Moore School of Business in 2010-11, and had been an AMA-Sheth Doctoral Consortium Fellow in 2011. She also had received a Best Poster Award at the 2010 INFORMS Marketing Science Conference. Her research interests are in the areas of consumer prosocial behavior, corporate social responsibility, affective forecasting, and inference making. Her teaching interests are consumer behavior, marketing research, and marketing management. Her article, The Impact of Product Name on Dieters' and Non-Dieters' Food Evaluation and Consumption, was published in the Journal of Consumer Research, 38 in August and featured in the The Wall Street Journal, L.A. Times, Time, CNN, and MSNBC. She has also been published in the Journal of Marketing. Her dissertation topic was Consumers' Overestimation and Underestimation of Affective Responses to Prosocial Behavior.
Peter Alan Rubenacker
Peter Alan Rubenacker joins Poole College's Department of Accounting as a visiting lecturer. He received his MBA in information and decision systems from San Diego State University; his bachelor's degree in accounting from the State University of New York at Albany, and an associate's degree in accounting from Nassau Community College. Rubenacker joins the college after a lengthy career at Qualcomm, Inc., most recently as vice president of information technology. He has been involved in several professional and education-related programs, including educational board advisor for the Child Welfare & Holistic Organization for Rural Development in Andhra Pradesh, India; advisory board and founding member of the Society for Information Management, San Diego Chapter; chief information officer and other advisory councils for a number of corporations, including Salesforce.com and NetSuite; and domain expert for Connect SBDC Springboard, where he provided incubator and mentoring to early stage researchers and young entrepreneurs. He also had been an adjunct faculty member at the University of San Diego School of Business.
Dr. David Townsend
Returning this year as visiting assistant professor is Dr. David Townsend, teaching entrepreneurship in the college's Department of Management, Innovation and Entrepreneurship. He most recently was assistant professor of entrepreneurship at The University of Oklahoma. He specializes in technology entrepreneurship, early-stage capital acquisition, entrepreneurial decision-making, social entrepreneurship, and creating innovative new business models for social entrepreneurial ventures with double-bottom-line goals. He received his degrees from the University of Oklahoma Price College of Business and Oral Roberts University.
Dr. Qingqing Wu
Dr. Qingqing Wu joins the college as assistant professor in finance, in the Department of Business Management. She received her Ph.D. in finance in 2012 and her master's in agriculture and resource economics in 2006, both from Arizona State University, and her bachelor's in finance with a minor in statistics from Peking University in China in 2004. Her research interests are in corporate finance, merger and acquisitions, corporate governance, executive compensation and corporate restructuring. She has presented at the European Finance Association annual meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, in 2011.
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In the photo are, left to right, front row: Allison Lowe Reed and Jennifer V. Dirienzo; back row, David Townsend, Beth Ritter, Stefanie Robinson, Qingqing Wu, Giuseppe Fiori, Brad Kirkman.
