Board of Advisors

The Board of Advisors provides an added dimension to the College of Business in its ongoing efforts to maintain and develop forward looking programs of teaching, research, and service. Independent of routine operations and administrative detail, the Board is free to exercise the wisdom, talents, skills, and experience of its members in anticipating and examining new societal and business directions, community developments and needs. Because the Board has no supervisory or oversight responsibilities, its members maintain an objective and broad point of view in the pursuit of excellence in the undergraduate and masters programs of the College.

Lizabeth Ardisana
Owner/CEO, ASG Renaissance, MSME, UM-Dearborn

Bryan Becker
(Retired) Partner, Ernst & Young, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Jeff Cooper
Senior Manager, International Tax, Amazon, Inc., BBA-Accounting, UM-Dearborn

Walid Dagher
Partner Deloitte Tax, BBA-Accounting, UM-Dearborn

Hassan Doghman
Finance Transformations PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLC, MBA, UM-Dearborn

Preet Gill
Head of Strategy, Transformation and Performance for Electronics and ADAS at ZF Group, PhD in Technology (Engineering Management) from Eastern Michigan University 

Richard Haddrill
President, The Groop, BSA, UM-Dearborn

Bruce Hawthorne
Vice President & Chief Legal Officer Huntington Ingalls Industries, Inc., BBA, UM-Dearborn

Mark Houska
President, Strategic Sales Advisors, BSA, UM-Dearborn

Jeff Jewell
Chief Financial Officer, DT Midstream, MS-Finance, UM-Dearborn

Kristi Jones
Director of Funding, Ford Motor Company, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Douglas Krizanic
(Retired) Senior Partner, Deloitte, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Mary J. Lore Brown
Founder,CEO & Owner Managing Thought, LLC, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Alan Mardini
Senior Manager The Siegfried Group, BBA-Accounting, UM-Dearborn

John T. McRae II
Retired - Syniverse VP, General Manager of Europe 1991 BBA UM-Dearborn

Kris Pfaehler
CEO of Sand Dollar Global Advisors LLC, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Mike Santicchia
Partner, UHY LLP; Managing Director, UHY Advisors MI, Inc., BBA, UM-Dearborn

Ben Schmidt
(Retired) Vice President & General Manager, Metaldyne - An MPG Company, BSA Finance & Economics, UM-Dearborn

Alan Schultz
Chairman of the Board of Directors, Dex Media, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Jeffrey Smith
President, Jeffrey R. Smith, LLC, BBA, UM-Dearborn

Daniel Wakeman
(Retired) President and CEO, St. Luke's Hospital, BSA, UM-Dearborn