Leadership

Officers and Directors


Ronnie J. Clayton

Executive Director

Professor of Finance
College of Commerce and Business Administration
Jacksonville State University
Affiliated with Clayton Financial Consulting

John Sedunov

Vice President of 2025 Program

Professor, Finance & Real Estate
Villanova University

Anya Mkrtchyan

Vice President of 2026 Programs

Associate Professor of Finance Isenberg School of Management at the University of Massachusetts Amherst

Amy Simon

Vice President for Administration

Department of Management
and Marketing
Jacksonville State University

Walter J. Reinhart

Vice President for Finance

Professor of Finance
Loyola University Maryland

Kathleen Fuller

Secretary

Tom B. Scott Jr. Chair and
Professor of Finance
University of Mississippi

Kristina Minnick

VP of Operations

Stanton Professor of Finance
Department of Finance
Bentley University

April Knill

VP of Membership

BPF Moore Fellow and Professor of International Finance
Darla Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina

Ozde Oztekin

Past President 2023-2024

Stanton Knight Ridder Eminent Scholar Endowment Chair
Professor
Department of Finance
Florida International University

Sandra Mortal

Past President 2024-2025

Professor of Finance
Wallace D. Malone, Jr. Endowed Chair of Financial Management University of Alabama


Directors


Mia Rivolta

Associate Professor, D.J. O’Conor Research Professor
Xavier University

John Hackeny

Assistant Professor of Finance
University of Arkansasna

Felix Meschke

Associate Professor
Director, Davis Center for Figure Sense
The University of Kansas

Raisa Velthuis

Associate Professor, Finance & Real Estate
Villanova



Past Presidents


Lewis E. Davids1960-61O. Maurice Joy1984-85Michael S. Pagano2008-09
Benjamin U. Ratchford1961-62William L. Sartoris1985-86Gary C. Sanger2009-10
William D. Ross1962-63Roy L. Crum1986-87H. Kent Baker2010-11
Clifton H. Kreps1963-64Edward A. Moses1987-88Robert DeYoung2011-12
Howard S. Gordman1964-65James W. Wansley1988-89Kathleen P. Fuller2012-13
C. Arnold Matthews1965-66Michael C. Walker1989-90Melissa B. Frye2013-14
Olin S. Pugh1966-67Jimmy E. Hilliard1990-91W. Scott Frame2014-15
Charles T. Taylor1967-68William C. Hunter1991-92Greg Filbeck2015-16
Stanley W. Preston1968-69Charles R. Moyer1992-93Angela Morgan2016-17
Robert D. Dince1969-70Robert L. Schweitzer1993-94Tao-Hsien Dolly King2017-18
Claude A. Campbell1970-71G. Rodney Thompson1994-95Brandon Cline2018-19
Harry Brant1971-72Annette B. Poulsen1995-96Melissa Woodley2019-20
David A. West1972-73Jeff Madura1996-97Honghui Chen2021-22
Charles E. Edwards1973-74Andrea Heuson1997-98Alvaro Taboada2021-22
David F. Scott Jr.1974-75David Blackwell1998-99Tina Yang2022-23
Avery B. Cohan1975-76Bradford Jordan1999-00Ozde Oztekin2023-24
Richard H. Pettway1976-77Douglas Emery2000-01Sandra Mortal2024-25
George E. Pinches1977-78Scott Besley2001-02
Richard F. Wacht1978-79Tim Koch2002-03
Rodney Roenfeldt1979-80M. Cary Collins2003-04
John J. Pringle1980-81Pamela Peterson-Drake2004-05
Bruce F. Fielitz1981-82W. Brian Barrett2005-06
J. William Petty1982-83Thomas F. Gosnell2006-07
Philip L. Cooley1983-84Ken B. Cyree2007-08