McDonough Leadership

Paul Almeida, Dean

Paul Almeida is dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he champions a culture that inspires our community to do well and do good on a global scale. A member of the Georgetown community for more than 25 years as a professor of strategy and international business, Almeida has served Georgetown McDonough in a number of leadership positions, including most recently as deputy dean for executive education and innovation.

During his tenure as dean, Almeida has focused on leveraging the school’s enduring advantages — its unparalleled expertise at the intersection of business and global affairs and the values-based approach to education embedded in the university’s Jesuit tradition. He also has built the school’s capabilities around fields of the future through new initiatives focused on AI, Analytics, and the Future of Work; the Business of Health; and the Business of Sustainability that call for our students, alumni, and faculty to find innovative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges by leveraging the ability of business to partner across industries.

He has overseen the growth and expansion of the school’s degree programs. Building upon the school’s expertise at the intersection of business and global affairs, McDonough now offers the Izmirlian B.S. in Business and Global Affairs (in partnership with the School of Foreign Service) and has expanded the top-ranked Executive MBA to Dubai, UAE. Additionally, the school has launched new specialized master’s programs, including the M.S. in Management, an online M.S. in Business Analytics, an interdisciplinary M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management (with Georgetown’s Graduate School of Arts & Sciences and the Earth Commons Institute), and the M.S. in Global Real Assets (with the Steers Center for Global Real Assets).  

Administrative Leadership

• Robin Dillon-Merrill, Vice Dean for Faculty
• Elie Farhat, Associate Dean, Chief of External Affairs
• Sarah Flores, Chief of Staff
• Prashant Malaviya, Vice Dean for Programs
• Teresa Mannix, Associate Dean, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer 
• Erjona Prifti, Associate Dean, Chief Operating Officer

Academic Program Leadership

• Sudipta Dasmohapatra, Senior Associate Dean, MBA Programs
• Allan Eberhart, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate Programs in Finance
• Patricia Grant, Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program
• Michael O’Leary, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Executive Degree Programs

Special Advisors

• Ella Washington, Senior Advisor on Diversity Initiatives

Academic Leadership

• Victor Jose, Operations and Analytics Area Chair, Professor
• David McLean, Finance Area Chair, William G. Droms Professor
• Nathan Miller, Strategy Area Chair, Saleh Romeih Professor
• Jason Schloetzer, Accounting and Business Law Area Chair, William and Karen Sonneborn Associate Professor
• Debora Thompson, Marketing Area Chair, Professor
• Catherine Tinsley, Management Area Chair

Board of Advisors

Executive Committee

• Robert H. Steers (B’75) – Chair, Executive Chairman, Cohen & Steers, Inc.
• John J. “Hap” Fauth IV (B’67) – Chair Emeritus, Founder, President, and CEO, Churchill Companies
• Michael G. Psaros (B’89) – Vice Chair, Co-Founding and Co-Managing Partner, KPS Capital Partners
• Ann Misiaszek Sarnoff (B’83) – Vice Chair, Board Director, PayPal, Regal Cineworld, WTA Ventures
• W. Robert Berkley, Jr. (B’95), President & CEO, W.R. Berkley Corporation
• Peter N. Crnkovich (B’78), Senior Advisor, Riboscience, LLC
• Robert Flanagan (B’78), Chairman, Clark Enterprises, Inc.
• Sonny Kalsi (B’90), Co-CEO, BentallGreenOak
• Ann Gillin Lefever (B’86) COO, Village Farms
• Jonathan R. Lynch (B’88), President, Incisive Capital
• Amy Nusrala McMaken (B’92, P’23, P’25, P’28), PAC Co-Chair
• Kurt McMaken (B’92, P’23, P’25, P’28), PAC Co-Chair
• Thomas Pryma (B’95), COO & Partner, AEA Investors LP
• Gil Tenzer (B’84), Partner and Director of RE, Contrarian Capital

Board of Advisors

• Joseph V. Amato (B’84), President and Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman Group, LLC
• Bill Anderson (B’88, JD’94), Senior Managing Director, Evercore
• Ajay Arora (P’18), Managing Director, D’Decor Home Fabrics Pvt. Ltd.
• Dewey John Awad II (MBA’96), Partner, BainCapital, LP
• Joseph Baratta (B’93), Global Head of Global Private Equity, Blackstone
• Natalie Barth (B’96)
• Tim Billings (B’95), Partner, Quad-C Management
• Andy Blocker (EMBA’02, P’21), Global Head of Public Policy and Strategic Partnerships, Invesco Ltd
• Matthew Breitfelder, Global Head of Human Capital, Apollo Global Management, LLC
• Michael Brown (B’94), General Partner, Battery Ventures
• Ryan Craft (B’06), Founder and CEO, Saluda Grade
• Ashley Davis (CIM’15), Founding Partner, S-3
• Mohammed Dewji (B’98), CEO and President, Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited (METL)
• Michele Docharty (B’89), Advisor/ Director, Winslow Lane Advisory
• Miguel Duenas (B’99), Managing Partner, Dimension Capital Management
• Glenn Eisen (B’87), CMO and Head of Consumer Revenue, Condé Nast
• Karim El-Solh (MBA’91), CEO and Founder, Gulf Capital
• Hossein Fateh (P’24, P’27), CEO, CloudHQ
• Al Fisher IV (B’96), President, Fisher Dynamics
• Farah Gokal-Ghazzawi (B’95), Entrepreneur, Tribeca
• Kevin Griffin (B’98), CEO & Chief Investment Officer, MGG Investment Group, LP
• Lamees Hamdan (P’24), Founder, TimeBeam
• Ayman Hariri (C’99), CEO & Co-Founder, Vero
• David Hooper (B’89), Partner & Co-Founder, Authentic Equity
• Peter Hornick (B’90)
• Yongsoo Huh (B’94), CEO and President, GS EPS
• Sarkis Dikran Izmirlian (B’94), CEO, TradeInvest Asset Management Ltd.
• Daniel Jackson (MBA’03), EVP, CFO, Strategic Education, Inc.
• Hubert J.P. Jolly (B’97), Managing Director, JPMorgan Chase
• Eric Jordan (B’99), Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs
• Doug Knopper (MBA’85), Entrepreneur
• Doug Kramer (P’26), Managing Director, Neuberger Berman Group, LLC
• Laurie Hodges Lapeyre (B’83), Volunteer
• Thomas LeClair (GEMBA’15), CEO, Voltaire Compressor Solutions
• Zachary Leonsis (MBA’15), President of Media and New Enterprises, Monumental Sports and Entertainment
• Claudio Macchetto (B’91), Managing Director, Business Development, GoldenTree Asset Management
• Loutfy Mansour (B’04), CEO, Man Capital LLP
• John McNamara (B’87), CEO, LongueVue Capital
• Karen Modena (MBA’99), CFO, Global Defense Inc.
• Bob Nolan (B’74), Founding Partner, Halyard Capital
• Nadim Nsouli (B’91), Founder, Chairman & CEO, Inspired
• Boris Okuliar (B’97), Partner, Co-Head of Global Liquid Credit, Ares Management
• Wayne Plewniak (MBA’85), Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Fixed Income, GAMCO Investors
• William Pruellage (B’95), Managing Partner, Pamplona Capital
• Anjali Raghani (B’95), Partner and Chief Talent Officer, PAG
• Saleh Romeih (B’88), Global Managing Partner, Safanad
• Tony Sanchez (B’97), Founder and Chief Executive Officer, OneNexus, LLC
• Charles Sansbury (B’89), CEO, Cloudera
• Yassien Shanshal (B’92), Managing Director, Distribucorp Gulf
• Paul Simpson (I’89), Vice Chairman, Broadridge Financial Solutions
• Dasha Smith (B’95), Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, National Football League
• Federico Stubbe (B’98), CEO, PRISA Group
• Jose Tolosa (B’97, P’28), Sr Advisor, Alix Partners / Ex Meow Wolf, Paramount
• Joe Verbrugge (MBA’97), Board Member, Stride, Inc.
• Rose Wang (GEMBA’18), 1104Health, Founder & CEO
• Mike Weinstein (B’92), President, Endpoint Partners
• Andrew Willis (B’91), Managing Member, AW & Co Advisors LLC
• Karen Wilson Thissen (B’88, P’25), General Counsel and Secretary, General Mills Inc.