University at Buffalo School of Management

Spring 2026 Buffalo Business 3 Driving impact with new faculty The School of Management welcomed five distinguished scholars and industry leaders last fall, each bringing powerful expertise that elevates teaching, research and impact across business disciplines. John Hennessy serves as a clinical assistant professor of marketing. He also is executive director of the school's Center for Marketing Analysis where he develops corporate partnerships through the Behavioral Research Lab and other outcome-based research projects, industry events and curriculum collaboration. With a BA from Loyola University in Chicago, Hennessy brings more than three decades of sales and marketing leadership to his role. Dan Liebel was named clinical assistant professor of orga- nization and human resources aer serving for 18 years as an adjunct instructor. He is founder and owner of Dantlie Coaching. For more than 40 years, Liebel has worked in a range of industries, holding such leadership positions as president, vice president, CFO, treasurer, controller and audit manager. He has a BS in business administration from the UB School of Management. Anand Nandkumar is professor of operations manage- ment and strategy, as well as academic director of executive and professional education. He holds a doctorate in public policy and management and a master's in information systems and public policy and management from Carnegie Mellon University. His research interests are in intellec- tual property rights, innovation, entrepreneurship, orga- nizational design, markets for technology, organizational political ideology, and AI and machine learning. Parshan Pakiman serves as an assistant professor of operations management and strategy. He earned both a doctorate and an MS from the College of Business Administration at the University of Illinois Chicago, and a BS from the College of Science at the University of Tehran, Iran. Pakiman's research includes studying impactful health care and retail operations problems by designing new algorithms based on data-driven optimization, rein- forcement learning and machine learning techniques. Artem Streltsov joined the school as an assistant professor of finance. He has a doctorate in finance (with a minor in computer science) and a master's from the Johnson Graduate School of Management at Cornell University, a master's in economics from Duke University and a bachelor's in economics from Moscow State Institute of International Relations. Streltsov's research lies in the areas of financial technology, big data, textual analysis and digital economics. A half-century of service and scholarship Winston Lin, professor of oper- ations management and strategy, was honored at UB's Celebration of Excellence for his 50 years of service to the university. Lin joined the School of Management in 1975 as an assistant professor, rose to associate professor in 1980 and full professor in 1994. He holds a doctorate in economics from Northwestern University, and his scholarly contributions span investment and finance, forecasting, production systems, information technology value and global efficiency studies. He has earned major research grants and prestigious awards, such as the Best Paper award from the Multinational Finance Society. Lin has engaged in extensive interna- tional collaboration and held visiting professorships, most notably at National Sun Yat-sen University in Taiwan, and authored numerous journal articles and books focused on efficiency, IT value and global banking. He is also a recipient of UB's Exceptional Scholar/Sustained Achievement Award. Throughout his career, Lin has been a foundational figure in bridging financial economics, operations and information systems research. Spring 2026 Buffalo Business 3 Pay it forward: Refer a grad program candidate and save them $100 Your remmendation matters. When you encour- age a colleague, friend or family member to explore a School of Management graduate program, you can truly help shape their future. As an added incentive, we'll waive their $100 application fee and personally connect with them to share program details and next steps. Making a referral is quick and simple. Just scan the QR code or visit bit.ly/ubmgt-refer and complete the short form. With one easy action, you'll help someone take the next step in their career and strengthen the reach and impact of the School of Management community.

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