Paul Almeida, Dean
Paul Almeida is dean and William R. Berkley Chair at Georgetown University’s McDonough School of Business, where he champions a community of belonging and collaboration that focuses on business as a force to serve the common good. A member of the Georgetown community for more than 25 years, Almeida has served Georgetown McDonough in a number of leadership positions, including most recently as deputy dean for executive education and innovation. He also is a professor of strategy and international business.
During his tenure as dean, Almeida has focused on leveraging the school’s greatest strengths — its location in the global capital city of Washington, D.C., its ability to create interdisciplinary programs in collaboration with Georgetown’s other renowned schools, and the university’s rich Jesuit tradition and values. He has overseen the growth of degree programs with the launch of the ambitious Dikran Izmirlian Program in Business and Global Affairs (a joint program with the School of Foreign Service and Georgetown’s first joint undergraduate degree), the M.S. in Management, an online M.S. in Business Analytics, and the M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management (a joint program with Georgetown’s Earth Commons and Graduate School). He also has created initiatives focused on the future including AI, Analytics, and Future of Work and the Business of Sustainability, leveraging the ability of business to partner across academic areas to address the world’s most complex issues. Additionally, he has created the school’s first Standing Committee on Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion and launched numerous diversity related initiatives.
Administrative Leadership
- Rev. Ronald Anton, S.J., Senior Advisor for Jesuit Identity
- Sudipta Dasmohapatra, Senior Associate Dean, MBA Programs
- Allan Eberhart, Senior Associate Dean, Master of Science in Finance Program
- Elie Farhat, Associate Dean, Chief External Affairs, Alumni Relations, Corporate Engagement, and Custom Executive Education Officer
- Patricia Grant, Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program
- Rebecca Hamilton, Vice Dean for Faculty
- Prashant Malaviya, Vice Dean for Academic Programs
- Teresa Mannix, Associate Dean, Chief Marketing and Communications Officer
- Christy Murray, Associate Dean and Managing Director, McDonough Career Services
- Michael O’Leary, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Executive Degree Programs
- Erjona Prifti, Chief Financial and Administrative Officer
- Sarah Tillotson, Chief of Staff
- Ella Washington, Senior Advisor on DEI Initiatives
Academic Leadership
- Robin Dillon-Merrill, Operations and Information Management Area Coordinator, Professor
- David McLean, Finance Area Coordinator, William G. Droms Professor
- Nathan Miller, Strategy Area Coordinator, Saleh Romeih Professor
- Jason Schloetzer, Accounting and Business Law Area Coordinator, William and Karen Sonneborn Associate Professor
- Debora Thompson, Marketing Area Coordinator, Professor
- Catherine Tinsley, Management Area Coordinator, Raffini Professor
Board of Advisors
Executive Committee
- Robert H. Steers (B’75) – Chair, CEO, 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
- W. Robert Berkley, Jr. (B’95), President & COO, 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, P’25), Co-CEO, BentallGreenOak
- Ann Gillin Lefever (B’86) Executive Vice President of Corporate Affairs, Village Farms
- Jonathan R. Lynch (B’88), President, Incisive Capital
- Guillermo Pla ( P’20, P’21, P’24), PAC Co-Chair
- Gil Tenzer (B’84), Partner and Director of RE, Contrarian Capital
- Monica Zobel de Ayala (P’20, P’21, P’24), PAC Co-Chair
Board of Advisors
- Nader Afshar (MBA’04), Managing Partner, Bastiat Partners
- Joseph V. Amato (B’84), President and Chief Investment Officer, Neuberger Berman Group, LLC
- Bill Anderson (B’88), Senior Managing Director, Evercore
- Ajay Arora (P’18), Managing Director, D’Decor Home Fabrics Pvt. Ltd.
- Dewey John Awad II (MBA’96), Managing Director, BainCapital, LP
- Joseph Baratta (B’93), Senior Managing Director, Head of Global Private Equity, Blackstone Group International LP
- Natalie Barth (B’96)
- Justin Berman (B’99), Founder and CEO, Berman Capital Advisors
- Tim Billings (B’95), Partner, Quad-C Management
- Matthew Breitfelder (P’26), Global Head of Human Capital, Apollo Global Management, LLC
- Michael Brown (B’94), General Partner, Battery Ventures
- Greg Byrnes (JD’94, MBA’94)
- Sina Chehrazi (B’13, L’17), Co-Founder & CEO, Nayya Health, Inc.
- Ashley Davis (EMIB’15), Founding Partner, West Front Strategies
- Mohammed Dewji (B’98), President, Mohammed Enterprises Tanzania Limited (METL)
- Michele Docharty (B’89), Member, Board of Directors, HPRY
- William Doucas (B’82), Chairman and CEO, Elutions
- Katherine Doyle (B’89), Managing Director, Next Chapter Group, LLC
- Glenn Eisen (B’87), Co-founder, President & COO, Unroll, Inc.
- Karim El-Solh (MBA’91), CEO and Founder, Gulf Capital
- Hossein Fateh (P’24), CEO, CloudHQ
- Al Fisher IV (B’96), President, Fisher Dynamics
- Farah Gokal-Ghazzawi (B’95), Co-founder, Globalex Marine Services and Trading and Globalex Investment Services
- Cary Grace (C’90, P’22, P’25), Private Equity Advisor and Board Director
- David Hooper (B’89), Partner & Co-Founder, Authentic Equity
- Peter Hornick (B’90), Global Head of Business Development, Brevan Howard
- 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 + CAO, Strategic Education, Inc.
- Jay Jacobs (MBA’98)
- Hubert J.P. Jolly (B’97), Global Head of Payments, JPMorgan Chase
- Eric Jordan (B’99), Managing Director, Global Head of Capital Markets, Goldman Sachs
- Doug Knopper (MBA’85), Entrepreneur
- Theodore Kyriakou (B’95), Antenna Group
- Laurie Hodges Lapeyre (B’83), Volunteer
- Thomas LeClair (MBA’15), President and CEO, Jerome and Horner
- 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
- John McNamara (B’87), CEO, LongueVue Capital
- Karen Modena (MBA’99), Retired Partner, Ernst & Young
- Bob Nolan (B’74), Managing Partner, Halyard Capital
- Wayne Plewniak (MBA’85), Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Fixed Income, GAMCO Investors
- Jeff Powers (B’81), CEO, Powers Group
- William Pruellage (B’95), Managing Partner, Pamplona Capital
- Thomas Pryma (B’95), COO & Partner, AEA Investors LP
- Marc Puntus (B’89), Partner and Co-Head of Debt Advisory and Restructuring, Centerview Partners
- Saleh Romeih (B’88), Managing Partner, SoftBank Vision Fund
- Charles Sansbury (B’89), Private Equity Advisor and Investor
- Paul Simpson (I’89, P’21)
- Dasha Smith (B’95), Executive Vice President, Chief Administrative Officer, National Football League
- Marc Sulam (B’84), Portfolio Manager, Healy Circle Capital Management, LLC
- Joe Verbrugge (MBA’97), Chief Commercial Officer, SiriusXM
- Rose Wang (MBA’18), 1104Health, Founder & CEO
- Mike Weinstein (B’92), President, Endpoint Partners
- Andrew Willis (B’91), Managing Member, AW & Co Advisors LLC