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Advisory Board

The program will benefit from an advisory board composed of individuals with considerable academic and/or industrial experience.  This committee will play a key role in maintaining frequent dialogue with faculty in other programs and with practitioners in industry, providing some assurance as to the quality and relevance of our students’ educational experience. Much of the interactions with this Board can be handled by email. We expect to hold meetings at most once per year.
As of this writing, the following individuals have agreed to serve:

• Richard Buckholz, PhD – President of BB Housing, Inc., a business that he and his wife started together after his retirement from the financial industries.  Previously, Dr. Buckholz was Director of Emerging Market Research at Bear Stearns, Director of Research for Citibank’s International Corporate Finance Division, and an analyst for Salomon Brothers, Inc.  Prior to his work on Wall Street, he spent eight years as a professor at Columbia University. 
• Neil Cohen – Chairman, Emerald Development Managers LP.  He co-founded and is co-CEO of American Rock Salt Company LLC.  Mr. Cohen also serves on the Board of Directors of Waste Reduction By Waste Reduction, Inc., a leading developer of medical and biological waste equipment. Previously, he was an investment banker at Dillon, Read & Co. Inc. specializing in M&A, leveraged finance, and restructuring. 
• John Cunniff – Portfolio Manager for TIAA-CREF. Previously, he worked as a Managing Director, US Equity Research at Morgan Stanley Investment Management.  Prior to 2001, he was Director of Research for Van Kampen Funds, a subsidiary of Morgan Stanley.  He began his career in finance in 1995 with Templeton Quantitative Advisors. 
• Robert Fuhrman – Director of Fixed Income Quantitative Research and Risk Manager for Fixed Income at Wellington Management. He received a BA in Mathematical Sciences from Johns Hopkins University and an MS in management and finance from MIT. He is responsible for Quantitative Investment Research, Portfolio Analytics, and Pricing and Risk Models.
• Helyette Geman, PhD – Professor of Finance, Birbeck University of London, and ESSEC Graduate Business School in Paris.
• Erik Jensen – Senior Director, Invesco. He graduated Johns Hopkins University in 1976 with a B.E.S. He went on to get his Masters at MIT's Sloan School of Management, where he concentrated in Operations Research and Finance. Erik's Masters' thesis advisor was Fischer Black. He currently manages approximately $5 billion in investment grade for Invesco.
• Ray Milkman – Former Founder and President of the Lazar Institute, a research and consulting firm based in McLean, VA, prior to retirement in 1996. He holds a B.E.S. (1965) and M.S. (1967) from Johns Hopkins, where he majored in Operations Research. 
• Leonard Mills – Founder and President, PI Analytics, LLC. Carey School faculty member.
• Sudhir Nanda, PhD –  Portfolio Manager, T. Rowe Price and former Professor at Penn State Harrisburg School of Business.
• Marshal Salant – Managing Director, Morgan Stanley Global Capital Markets. He receved his Bachelor's degree from Johns Hopkins in 1980, majoring in Mathematical Sciences. He is a University Trustee and a member of the Whiting School of Engineering's National Advisory Council.
• George Sykes – Senior Managing Director at Guggenheim Capital in New York.  He was a Vice President of Mortgage Derivatives Trading at DLJ for two years before leaving in 1995 to co-found Links Securities, a broker-dealer focused on MBS (Links was acquired by Guggenheim Capital in 2001).  He managed the mortgage trading desk at Links until 2004, when Guggenheim provided seed capital for him to start his own hedge fund, which he currently runs, GS Gamma Investments.
• Avi Yashkin – Vice President for the Loan Portfolio at Lehman Brothers, where he is responsible for trading and mitigating Lehman's counterparty exposure related to the firm's lending activities. He received an MBA from New York University's Stern School of Business in 2007, and a BS in Neuroscience and Computer Science from The Johns Hopkins University Whiting School of Engineering in 2002.
  
• Ken Yook, PhD – Chair of the Department of Finance at the Carey Business School of Johns Hopkins University.