2024 Leadership
Anthony Do
President
Anthony Do is a first-generation college student in the Heath Integrated Business & Engineering Program majoring in Finance. His previous experiences include Deloitte (Consulting), Battery Ventures (Early-stage and Growth-Stage B2B SaaS), and launching a startup, TideTech (Sustainability/Automotives).
Anthony will be joining Grey Rock Investment Partners as a Private Equity Summer Analyst working in Energy and Infrastructure (2024) and Lazard as an Investment Banking Summer Analyst in the Industrials M&A group (2025).
Charlie Curtis
Vice President of Development
Charlie Curtis is a current sophomore from Newtown, CT majoring in Finance. On campus, he is a part of student government serving as a Haslam Senator, and this coming semester will be leading the Financial Management Association. He previously worked for a SaaS startup called npoApp, igniteXL (Venture Capital), and is currently working at El Toro Capital Management (Private Equity).
Charlie will be joining General Atlantic as a GP Funds Summer Analyst in Stamford, CT this upcoming summer.
Andrew Brown
Vice President of Operations
Andrew Brown, a current sophomore from Winston Salem, NC, is majoring in Finance. On campus, Andrew serves as an Ambassador for the Master Investment Learning Center, Junior Ambassador of the University of Tennessee Investment Group, and member of the Tennessee Running Club. Previously, he worked in company due diligence at Colton Alexander, an ESG-focused Investment Bank. Currently, he is interning at Deep Knowledge Investing, an Equity Research firm based out of Westport, CT.
Collin Cates
Director of Finance
Geetha Kasibhatla
Director of Marketing
Will Laney
Director of Membership
Logan Leatherwood
Director of Outreach
Keeghan Krause
Co-Director of Development
Will Maddox
Co-Director of Development
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.
