Cofrin School of Business at UW-Green Bay. He received a bachelor's degree from the University of Cincinnati, an M.B.A. from Indiana University, and a Ph.D. in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to pursuing a full-time academic career, he was a financial economist in the Research Department of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, and an analyst in two subsidiary banks of Community Banks, Inc. (a Wisconsin bank holding company).