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Ge Bai, PhD, CPA is a professor of practice in Accounting at Johns Hopkins Carey Business School and professor of Health Policy & Management at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. She is an expert on health care pricing, policy, and management. Dr. Bai has testified before House Ways and Means Committee, written for the Wall Street Journal, and published her studies in leading academic journals such as the New England Journal of Medicine, JAMA, JAMA Internal Medicine, Annals of Internal Medicine, and Health Affairs. Her work has been widely featured in ABC, Atlantic, CBS, CNN, Forbes, Fox 海角社区, Los Angeles Times, NBC, New York Times, NPR, The Guardian, U.S. 海角社区 & World Report, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, and other media and used in government regulations and congressional testimonies.  

David Larcker鈥檚 research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, the impact of proxy advisory firms on shareholder proxy voting and modeling the cost of executive stock options.

David is the director of the Corporate Governance Research Initiative at Stanford Graduate School of Business and senior faculty of the Arthur and Toni Rembe Rock Center for Corporate Governance at Stanford University. He was previously the Ernst & Young Professor of accounting at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and professor of accounting and information systems at the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University. He received his PhD in business from the University of Kansas and his BS and MS in Engineering from the University of Missouri-Rolla.

He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Accounting and Economics, Journal of Accounting Research, Accounting, Organizations and Society, Journal of Accounting and Public Policy, Journal of Applied Corporate Finance. He received the Notable Contribution to Managerial Accounting Research in 2001.

David Larcker鈥檚 research focuses on executive compensation, corporate governance, and managerial accounting. His work examines the choice of performance measures and compensation contracts in organizations. He has current research projects on the valuation implications of corporate governance, the impact of proxy advisory firms on shareholder proxy voting and modeling the cost of executive stock options.

Christy Wyskiel is the Senior Advisor to the President of Johns Hopkins University for Innovation & Entrepreneurship. In this role, she also serves as the Executive Director of Johns Hopkins Technology Ventures, the division of the university responsible for technology transfer, industry research partnerships, and company incubation under the brand 鈥楩astForward.鈥�  Since her appointment in 2013, Christy has transformed the culture of commercialization at Johns Hopkins, opening 43,000 square feet of FastForward innovation space to support startup companies, facilitating the creation of 160 companies, and generating $404 million in university revenue from licensing and industry collaborations. Johns Hopkins University startups have raised more than $3 billion in venture capital during her tenure. Christy is a fierce advocate for the future of Baltimore and the role that Johns Hopkins University can play in populating the city skyline with companies borne, built and grown locally.

Christy is a seasoned entrepreneur, investor, and ecosystem builder with 25 years of experience primarily focused on the life sciences and healthcare industries.  Prior to her role at Johns Hopkins, Christy co-founded two Baltimore based startups and served as a formal and informal advisor to many others.  Prior to that, Christy worked as an institutional investor where she had a long track record of successful investing in both public and private companies.

Christy has a BA in Economics and German from Williams College and an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the Stern School of Business at New York University.

K.C. Ma received his M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Finance from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1983. Currently, he is the Mary Ball Washington/Switzer Bros. Endowed Professor of Finance at the University of West Florida. Dr. Ma is a Charted Financial Analyst, he is the Editor of International Journal of Business, the President of KCM Asset Management, KCM Capital, and KCM Analytics.

Dr. Ma specializes in equity valuations, quantitative modeling, and most recently, social value investing. He has published more than 80 refereed articles and was ranked the top 50 finance authors. Dr. Ma is also a money manager and has worked at Investment Research Company Chicago, Ned Davis Research, and George Weiss Associates between 1990 and 2001. His investment company, KCM Asset Management, has been the managers for many top ranked hedge funds.

For the last 15 years, under his capacity, the student-managed portfolios were able to secure 15 Champions and 4 Second-Place Awards for actual stock & bond portfolio performances in the national R.I.S.E Competitions. Dr. Ma has received awards in: Award of Alumni Graduate Fellowship of College of Business Administration, Texas Tech University, 1989, The Best Paper Award in the Futures and Options Category, with Richard Peterson and Wenchi Kao, 1990, Financial Management Association, A project on high-yield bond market is sponsored by Salomon Brothers, The Rushing Distinguished Faculty Research Award Nominee, College of Business Administration, 1990, 2008 SOBA Service Award, Stetson University, among many others.

Dr. Gregory Prescott, Chair and Assistant Professor of Accounting, has taught courses in Intermediate Accounting and Managerial Accounting while at UWF. He joined the UWF faculty after retiring from the University of South Alabama (USA) in Mobile. While at USA, he was twice named the Beta Gamma Sigma Professor of the Year, was honored with a number of college-wide teaching awards, was the recipient of the Andy and Carol Denny National Alumni Association Excellence in Teaching Award in 2015, and named the Outstanding Accounting Educator in Alabama in 2016 by the Alabama Society of Certified Public Accountants.

Prescott鈥檚 research interests include corporate governance of financial institutions, the impact of newly-enacted accounting standards on industry, pedagogical issues relative to business education, and communicating the results of academic research to practitioners. Prescott has been on the editorial board of the Journal of Corporate Accounting & Finance since 2015.

He joined academe after a twenty-five year in credit risk management with a large regional financial institution. He has been a member of the faculty of the Alabama Banking School since 1998. Over the last ten years, he has taught more than 300 hours of continuing professional education classes for accountants and bankers. Prescott has the following professional certifications: CPA (Alabama), CGMA, CMA, and CFM. 

Dr. Joseph Donelan is a Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

Donelan, a licensed CPA, has published 22 peer-reviewed articles related to financial reporting, CPA practice management, managerial finance, information systems, and accounting education. His work has appeared in Journal of Accountancy, Accounting Horizons, Management Accounting, CPA Journal, Journal of Cost Management, and the Journal of Accounting Education.

Donelan鈥檚 publications include an examination of Compustat鈥檚 reporting of cost of goods sold, accounting information systems using Excel, a study of ethics in loan collateral reporting, and reports on the impact of the trend to require 150 semester hours of education for students to become successful CPAs. His research included effects on curriculum and students.

His Ph.D., from St. Louis University, is in Accounting/Finance. He also has an MBA from Southern Illinois University and a B.A. in Accounting from Bradley University.

From 1976 through 1980, Dr. Donelan worked in public accounting with Ernst & Ernst, the predecessor of Ernst & Young. During his academic career, Dr. Donelan has engaged eight faculty internships--two with Hewlett Packard and six with a large regional firm, Carr, Riggs, & Ingram.

Dr. Richard Fountain is the Dean of the College of Business of University of West Florida and a Clinical Professor in the Department of Accounting and Finance.

In 2009, he joined the Department of Accounting and Finance as an adjunct instructor, following a successful 30-year law career in Mississippi. He later served as chairman of the department. During his two years as chair, he focused on recruiting for the Master of Accountancy program, more than doubling the number of new students joining the program since 2017.

In addition to his academic leadership, Fountain has served on the UWF Development Foundation's board of directors and the UWF College of Business Advisory Council. He has been the faculty advisor for the Delta Sigma Pi business fraternity. He has also served on the national board for the Cenikor Foundation, serving as chairman from 2010-2012.

Additionally, Dr. Fountain has strengthened and built new relationships with accounting firms and other related businesses in Pensacola to increase student internships and permanent job opportunities. He established the Accounting and Finance Advisory Council, comprised of 25 community business leaders who serve as guest lecturers and mentors and aid in recruiting efforts. He鈥檚 cultivated relationships with colleges and high schools to recruit more undergraduates, resulting in the completion of an articulation agreement with Pensacola State College, as well as the repurposing of eight scholarships targeting PSC students. A soon-to-be completed articulation agreement with Pensacola Christian College will draw over 200 possible accounting students and recent graduates to the department.

Prior to joining UWF, Dr. Fountain helmed the Law Offices of Richard M. Fountain, P.A., which he founded in Jackson, Mississippi, in 1987. He earned a Master of Laws in Taxation from the University of Florida, a Juris Doctor from the University of Mississippi, a Bachelor of Arts in Accounting from UWF and an Associate in Arts from Pensacola Junior College.

Dr. Fountain鈥檚 published work includes publications on Legal and Tax Framework. He holds memberships to the Hinds County Bar Association and the Mississippi Bar Association, and he also supports Pensacola High School Athletics, serving as voluntary historian and publisher of Florida's Oldest High School Football Team and A History of Pensacola High School Softball.

As Dean, Dr. Fountain鈥檚 priority is to foster an increasingly strong relationship between UWF students and the local community. Dr. Fountain shares, 鈥淲hile I enjoyed practicing law, I love what I do at UWF鈥攅ducating people and creating opportunities for them to thrive.鈥�

Dr. Barbara S. White, who teaches Accounting, can often summon teaching examples from her previous career in industry and banking.

Before earning her Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Mississippi, White spent more than two decades in the private sector, primarily with the Colonial Companies. She was a corporate tax manager, bank acquisition coordinator, budget director, financial analyst and accounting manager.

White鈥檚 published research includes a triple-case study on the 50th anniversary of Real Estate Investment Trusts (REITs), implementing SFAS91 with its cost implications, and an evaluation of acceptable business practices by CPAs. That research was published in Research on Professional Responsibilities and Ethics in Accounting.

At the American Accounting Association鈥檚 meetings, she has presented papers  for the last four years, including in 2016 鈥淩EITs 鈥� The First Fifty Years and Beyond,鈥� 鈥淥ne College鈥檚 Journey through Assessment via an Annual Tax Service Learning Project,鈥� 鈥淒r. John Massey: Farm Boy, Confederate Soldier, and Renowned Educator 鈥� Financial Documentation as an Indicator of his Life鈥檚 Work,鈥� and 鈥淎n Empirical Examination of Non-GAAP Disclosures by Real Estate Investment Trusts Before and During a Period of Crisis.鈥�

White is a Certified Quality Matters Online Instructor.

White also wrote a book, 鈥淔amily-Career Choices: A Women鈥檚 Perspective,鈥� and has run marathons in all 50 states and on 6 continents.