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GOIZUETA WELCOMES TWO NEW ADMINISTRATORS After an extensive search, Goizueta has tapped two industry veterans to join its leadership team.
This spring saw changes in the leadership of the Goizueta Advisory Board (GAB) when Todd Foreman 86BBA, who served as GAB’s chairman for nine years, stepped down. Rebecca Ginzburg 94BBA, a GAB member since September 2016, is the new chair.
First, Robin Dittmann is the school’s new chief business, analytics and operations officer (CBAOO). Dittmann comes to us from the University of Minnesota Law School, where she served mostly recently as chief financial officer. Over the course of her more than 20 years at the law school, Dittmann has acquired invaluable financial and leadership experience, promoting organizational excellence at both the central and academic unit levels. In her new role as CBAOO, Dittmann will oversee the financial planning, technology, facilities and business analytics for Goizueta.
Ginzburg, president and chief operating officer at Junto Capital Management LP, considers it an honor to have served Dean Erika James on the advisory board and vows, as GAB chair, to “work hard with new leadership to continue pushing forward on the existing initiatives and those that will come,” she said. “I am passionate for the university and the business school in particular. I owe so much back for the incredible education and opportunities I have been afforded.”
Goizueta also welcomes Reshunda Mahone as senior director of development and assistant dean.
Mahone joins us most recently from Virginia State University, where she was vice president for institutional advancement. She has called Atlanta home before, however, in her previous jobs in annual giving and development at Spelman College and Georgia State University. An active member in the Council for the Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) and their Commission on Philanthropy, the Minority Serving Institution Advisory Board, Mahone has repeatedly demonstrated “a deep commitment to the advancement profession, and has a contagious enthusiasm for the philanthropic arena,” said Dean Erika James. “She is a proven leader who models a collaborative approach, and her expertise will be a tremendous asset to Goizueta.”
In addition to acting as a resource and mentor to Goizueta Business School leadership, GAB members provide strategic direction and feedback and advocate for the school by increasing outreach and awareness. The board is also charged with driving revenue and generating philanthropy to ensure Goizueta’s excellence and long-term stability.—Allison Shirreffs
INDIAN GOVERNMENT HONORS SHETH Professor Jagdish Sheth, Charles H. Kellstadt Chair in Marketing, is going to need more space in his award case. Over the more than five decades of his distinguished career, he’s been named Marketing Educator of the Year twice, given the Viktor Mataja Medal from the Austrian Research Society in Vienna and received all top four academic awards bestowed by the American Marketing Association,
just to name a few. And now, Professor Sheth has been awarded India’s third-highest civilian award, the Padma Bhushan, for literature and education, an award which is the equivalent of the Presidential Medal of Freedom in the United States. He is only one of four Indian Americans among the 140 recipients of this award, which recognizes “Indians who have made exemplary contributions on a global scale and generated national pride.”
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