Board of Advisors
Chair
Albert Krall (Ab) ’81
Executive in Residence
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Vice-Chair
Andrew Shambarger (Drew) ’00
EVP & Head of Integrated Relationship Management
Truist Financial
Immediate Past Chair
Kenneth Rehmann (Ken) ’84
Hospitality Executive (Retired), Senior Advisor
Gencom Group
Members
William Apollony (Bill) ’69, MBA ’76
President
Windsor Healthcare Equities
Jay Sunny Bajaj (Sunny) ’99
Founder and Board Member
Digital Management, Inc.
Don Berman ’72
Chairman, CEO, and Founder
Cardworks, Inc.
Hakan Beygo ’88, MBA ’90
Senior Director
Freddie Mac
William Boyle (Bill) ’81
Founder, Boyle Investments
Founder and President, FiberGate Communications (1995–2012)
Eugene Bredow (Gene) ’91
President & CEO
NVR, Inc.
Leigh Burnside ’92
Chief Financial Officer
Little Caesars Enterprises, Inc.
Jacqueline Cardello (Jackie) ’93
President and Managing Partner
GRF CPAs & Advisors
Orlando Carvalho, MBA ’06
Executive Vice President (Retired)
Lockheed Martin Aeronautics, Lockheed Martin Corporation
Jason Cohen ’96
Serial Entrepreneur
Founder, Sensible Portions Veggie Straws
Strategic Partner, SkinnyPop
Ralph Dickerson III ’92
Managing Partner
R2 Partners
Christopher Duda ’94
Vice President
Goldman Sachs
Michael Echols (Mike) ’88
CEO
MAX Cybersecurity
William Eisig (Bill) ’88
National Managing Partner, Assurance Services
BDO
Göran Espelund, MBA ’87
Co-Founder
Lannebo Fonder
Jack Faer ’78
Founder
Faer Risk Consulting, LLC
Cydonii Fairfax ’94
General Counsel
Metropolitan Transit Authority of Harris County
Isa Farhat ’96
Partner
Deloitte LLP
Stephen Ferber (Steve) ’90
CEO & Founder
Golden Gate BPO Solutions, LLC
Apoorva Gandhi ’91
Senior Vice President, Multicultural Affairs, Social Impact & Business Councils
Marriott International
Lisa Hunt ’97
Executive Vice President, International Services and Business Initiatives
Charles Schwab and Co., Inc.
Jean Jakoby ’92
Senior Vice President, Global Sales
PepsiCo
Terri Jarboe-Farri ’91, MBA ’19
President & CEO
Buyer’s Title, Inc.
Simone Jentsch ’00
Vice President of Sales & Channel Programs & Enablement
Akamai Technologies
Robert Johnson (Bob) ’80
Senior Telecom Executive (Retired)
Pritpal Kalsi ’04
Chief Executive Officer
SC&H
David Kessler ’85
Chief Executive Officer
CohnReznick
Vishal Khera, MBA ’00
Managing Partner
Khera Ventures
Albert Krall (Ab) ’81
Executive in Residence
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Mark Lewis ’87
Managing Partner, Washington, DC, Office
Bracewell LLP
William Longbrake (Bill), DBA ’76
Executive-in-Residence, Smith School of Business
Director, BECU
Director, City First Enterprises
Ryan McCarthy, MBA ’13
24th Secretary of the Army
Darren McCue ’96, MBA ’03
Partner, Global Strategy
EY
Amit Mehta, CFA, MBA ’96
Managing Partner
Crestwood Capital Management
Anoop Mehta ’84
Chief Strategist
Analytical Mechanics Associates
Ryan Miller ’12
Senior Vice President
CBRE
Corbin Neiberline ’99
Partner, Federal Audit
KPMG International
Cristopher Parcelles (Cris) ’92
Director of Financial Systems
Echostar Corporation
Nagi Rao
Partner
Pilot Wall Group
Kenneth Rehmann (Ken) ’84
Hospitality Executive (Retired), Senior Advisor
Gencom Group
Wendy Sanhai, MBA ’09
Professor of Practice & Executive In Residence
University of Maryland
Daniel Schwab (Dan)
Co-President
D&H Distributing Company
Amee Shah, MBA ’01
CEO
Artemis Consulting, Inc.
Andrew Shambarger (Drew) ’00
EVP & Head of Integrated Relationship Management
Truist Financial
Manpreet Singh, MS ’03
Chief Investment Officer
Singh Capital Partners
Zeta Smith ’91
Former CEO, Sodexo Senior Living
Former Senior Executive, Starbucks
Alan Spurgin, MBA ’87
Partner
Marlborough Street Partners
Kathryn Stewart
Managing Director
Cranbrook Capital
Honorary
Dr. Roger J. Ward, EdD, JD, MSL, MPA
Provost & Executive Vice President
Dean, Graduate School
University of Maryland, Baltimore
Emeritus
William Mayer (Bill) ’66, MBA ’67
Senior Partner
Park Avenue Equity Partners
Gary Williams ’68
Former Men’s Basketball Head Coach
University of Maryland
Ex-Officio
Prabhudev Konana
Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
China Advisory Board
Long Jiang – Honorary Chair
Vice Chairman
Goertek Group Co., Ltd
Gao Victor Feng – Chair
Partner
Charterhouse Capital Partners, LLP
Frank Zhang – Co-Chair
CEO
HuaAn Fund Management Co.
Li (Cherry) Han
Vice President Greater China
Fonterra Co-Operative Group Limited
Mike Hofmann, DBA
Managing Director
Melchers China | Beijing
Jennifer (Ningfu) Jiang
Vice President
Beijing Properties(Holdings) Limited
Echo Jin
Asia CFO
Microsoft
Dennis Khang
CTO/CEO (Former)
ZhongAn Online Insurance/ZhongAn Information Tech
Linda Lin
General Manager, Greater China
Avanade
Yuxiang (Vivian) Liu
Principle Consultant, Heidrick & Struggles
ex-CHRO, ECARX Technology
ex-HRGM, Amazon Web Services
Li Ma
Managing Director – Head of China
Moody’s Investors Service
Janne Pihlajaniemi
General Manager
Tobii Dynavox
Alick (Qingping) Sun
Partner
Jadestone Capital
Zhenyi Tang
Vice President
SenseTime Group
Jennie Wang
CEO APAC
Voxflor HUATENG Co.
Knut Udo Wiszniewski
Global CFO
Schenck Process
Jennifer Zhang
Managing Partner
Tax and Business Advisory Services, Southern Region (including HK and Macau)
Deloitte China
Romeo Zhao
Partner
Anjie Holding Group
Jie Zhou
Senior Vice President, Finance
Marriott International
Qin Zou
Vice President
Stanley Black Decker
India Advisory Board
Amit Agarwal, MBA ’98
GM - Corporate Strategy
L&T
Mukul Anand, MBA ’02
Global Director, Business Development - Applied HVAC Global Products
Johnson Controls
Shashi Bakshi, MBA ’12
Senior Principal
Accenture
Manish Bansal, MS ’02
Managing Director
Robert H. Smith School of Business, India Operations
Tarun Goyal, MBA ’98
Founder & CEO
Simplotel
Nitin Gupta, MBA ’99
Founder & Managing Director
Asymmetrique
Vinod Kasuhik, MBA ’06
Founder
Homergize
Jyothi Kumar Pandey, MSIS ’02
Senior Program Director
CAFRAL, an institution of RBI
Kasturiranga (Ranga) Meda, MSIS ’01
Director
Krishna Group of Companies/Tanishq Franchise
Chandrika Nigam, MFin ’16
Senior Director, Investor Relations
Adtalem Global Education
Harshavardhan Raghunath, MFin ’95, PhD ’96
Senior Advisor
Bain & Company
Siddharth Ram, MS '02
Vice President, Consumer Products
Retail & Services at Capgemini
Nagarajan Ramamoorthy, PhD ’96
Director
IIM
Ritam Roy, MFin ’02
Vice President
J.P. Morgan
Siddharth Sharma, PhD ’17
Professor
ISB
Harpreet Wadhawan, MBA ’00
Founder & Managing Partner
Periplus Capital Advisors LLC
Smith Faculty on the India Advisory Council
Rajshree Agarwal, PhD
Rudolph Lamone Chair of Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Director, Ed Snider Center for Enterprise and Markets
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Anil Gupta, DBA
Michael D. Dingman Chair in Strategy & Entrepreneurship
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Kislaya Prasad, PhD
Research Professor, Department of Decision, Operations & Information Technologies
Academic Director, Center for Global Business
Robert H. Smith School of Business