He completed his Ph. D. in Business Environment and Public Policy in the Katz Graduate School of Business at the University of Pittsburgh. He received a B.A. in Economics and a Certificate Degree in Accounting from Pitt, and an MBA from Duquesne University. For eight years, he worked as a marketing representative in the housing industry. His academic research focuses on natural science approaches to understanding ethical decision-making and the formation of social contracts within organizational contexts. He also studies cognitive biases on decision-making and behavior in workplace environments. His article (with Sefa Hayibor), "Evolutionary Psychology and Business Ethics Research" won the Article of the Year in Business Ethics Quarterly for 2009.