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 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, the M.S. in Environment and Sustainability Management (a joint program with Georgetown’s Earth Commons and the Graduate School), the M.S. in Global Real Assets, and an Executive MBA in Dubai. The school also recently added an online option for the school’s Flex MBA program.

With the belief that business can partner across disciplines to solve the world’s most complex issues, he has created future-facing programs such as the AI, Analytics, and Future of Work Initiative, the Business of Sustainability Initiative, and the Baratta Center for Global Business, while also strengthening Georgetown Entrepreneurship and developing new programs at the intersection of business and health.

Administrative Leadership

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

Academic Program Leadership

• Sudipta Dasmohapatra, Senior Associate Dean, MBA Programs
• Allan Eberhart, Senior Associate Dean, Master of Science in Finance Program
• Patricia Grant, Senior Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program
• Christy Murray, Associate Dean and Managing Director, McDonough Career Services 
• Michael O’Leary, Senior Associate Dean, Graduate and Executive Degree Programs

Special Advisors

• Ella Washington, Senior Advisor on Diversity Initiatives

Academic Leadership

• Robert Bies, Management Area Coordinator
• 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

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
• 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
• Thomas Pryma (B’95), COO & Partner, AEA Investors LP
• 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

• 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), Partner, Daniel Island Capital Partners
• Sina Chehrazi (B’13, L’17), Co-Founder & CEO, Nayya Health, Inc.
• Ryan Craft (B’06), Founder and CEO, Saluda Grade
• 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
• Katherine Doyle (B’89), Managing Director, Next Chapter Group, LLC
• Glenn Eisen (B’87, P’26), CMO and Head of Consumer Revenue, Condé Nast
• 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), Entrepreneur, Tribeca
• Cary Grace (C’90, P’22, P’25), Private Equity Advisor and Board Director
• Kevin Griffin (B’98), CEO & Chief Investment Officer, MGG Investment Group, LP
• Lamees Hamdan (P’24), Founder, Shiffa
• Ayman Hariri (C’99, P’27), 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 + CAO, Strategic Education, Inc.
• 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
• Doug Kramer (P’26), Managing Director, Neuberger Berman Group, LLC
• Laurie Hodges Lapeyre (B’83), Volunteer
• Thomas LeClair (MBA’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), Retired Partner, Ernst & Young
• Bob Nolan (B’74), Founding Partner, Halyard Capital
• Nadim Nsouli (B’91), Founder, Chairman & CEO, Inspired
• Wayne Plewniak (MBA’85), Managing Director, Portfolio Manager and Head of Fixed Income, GAMCO Investors
• William Pruellage (B’95), Managing Partner, Pamplona Capital
• Saleh Romeih (B’88, P’24), Global Managing Partner, Safanad
• Charles Sansbury (B’89), CEO, Cloudera
• Yassien Shanshal (B’92, P’27), Managing Director, Numerous Holdings SA
• Paul Simpson (I’89, P’21), 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
• 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