2024 Leadership
Charlie Curtis
President
Collin Cates
Director of Finance
Geetha Kasibhatla
Director of Marketing
Keeghan Krause
Co-Director of Development
Josh Sievers
Director of membership
Andrew Brown
VP of Operations
Lucas Heifner
Director of Operations
Henry Andrews
Director of Communications
Faculty Advisors
Michael Yates
Michael Yates, Ph.D, is a clinical associate professor of finance in the Haslam College of Business at the University of Tennessee. He received his Ph.D. in Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 2007 and has previously held the position of clinical assistant professor and faculty director of the MS Finance program at Georgia State University and assistant professor at Auburn University. His labor economics paper “Strike Three: Discrimination, Incentives and Evaluation” was published in the American Economic Review and has been cited in the New York Times, USA Today, Time.com and elsewhere.
Phillip Daves
Dr. Daves received the Ph.D. in Business Administration (Finance) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and is an Associate Professor in the Department of Finance at The University of Tennessee. His research, teaching, and consulting interests are in asset pricing, derivative securities, firm valuation, and corporate finance. He has published academic research papers in such journals as The Journal of Finance, Applied Financial Economics, The Financial Review, and The International Journal of Finance.