Provost Suzanne Ortega has announced the names of three finalists for the post of dean of the Anderson School of Management. Finalists include Ali R. Malekzadeh, Douglas M. Brown and James C. Wetherbe. Each will visit UNM in January for interviews.
Ali R. Malekzadeh, dean and professor of management of Williams College of Business at Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio, will be on campus for interviews on Tuesday-Wednesday, Jan. 20-21. Malekzadeh previously served as dean and professor of strategic management at G.R. Herberger College of Business at St. Cloud State University in St. Cloud, Minn., and as assistant and associate professor of strategic management in the School of Management at Arizona State University.
He cites active cultivation of alumni and local executives to mentor students and the start of construction for a new building at Xavier University as accomplishments in his current position. He serves on the board of directors of Bio/Start, a life sciences incubator at the University of Cincinnati Medical School and on the board of directors of the Bistro Group Corporation.
Douglas M. Brown, principal in Brown and Brown Ventures, L.L.C., a real estate holding and Internet company will be on campus for interviews on Thursday-Friday, Jan. 22-23. Brown is a former UNM regent and was appointed to fill a vacancy as New Mexico state treasurer in 2005. Prior, Brown was president and CEO of Tuition Plan Consortium, an association of private colleges and universities offering subscribers a prepaid tuition plan redeemable at any of the participating schools.
Brown also served as president, CEO and co-founder of Talbot Financial Services through 1999. He served as a director in a number of commercial and mortgage banking companies and is currently lead director of the California Water Service.
James C. Wetherbe, associate dean, Robert Stevenson Chaired Professor of Information Technology and director of the Institute of Internet Buyer Behavior at the Rawls College of Business at Texas Tech University, will be on campus for interviews Monday-Tuesday, Jan. 26-27.
Wetherbe has held academic positions at the University of Memphis, the University of Minnesota, the University of Houston, Idaho State University and New Mexico State University. He has also acted as a consultant, lecturer and has served on the board of directors for several major corporations including Best Buy and Ciber.
The provost looks to offer the position to an applicant by mid-March and have the new dean in place for the fall 2009 term.
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