He has served as the Finance Area Director (Chair) from 2009 to 2012 and held the Barry J. Epstein Faculty Fellowship from 2010 to 2016. He earned his doctorate in finance at The Ohio State University. His teaching interests are focused in the area of corporate finance. He has taught a variety of courses at the executive level in Manchester (United Kingdom), Pittsburgh, Prague (Czech Republic), and São Paulo (Brazil). He also teaches the core finance class in the full-time MBA program. He has won several teaching awards and has been awarded the Distinguished Professor Award by Pittsburgh EMBA 30, EMBA 31, EMBA 33, EMBA 37, EMBA 42, and EMBA 43 (2016), and the Katz EMBA program in Prague in the years 2002, 2003, 2007, 2008, and 2015.