Faculty & Staff
All bios are sorted alphabetically.
Faculty
Joseph Bamber
Visiting Professor of Marketing
Joseph Bamber serves as the visiting professor of marketing at Lipscomb University. Bamber first came to Nashville to attend Vanderbilt University. After finishing his MBA at MIT Sloan, he co-founded a social enterprise to help people in Nicaragua, Mexico, and Brazil find jobs using mobile technology. Bamber has worked for... [More]
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615.966.5320 (ext. 5320)
Andy Borchers
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Studies
Professor
Andy Borchers, DBA, CLTD, CPIM is a Professor of Management and Associate Dean for Undergraduate Programs in the College of Business. Before moving to Lipscomb in 2011, Borchers spent 20 years in the auto industry and taught at Lawrence Technological University and Kettering University in Michigan. His teaching and research... [More]
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615.966.5779 (ext. 5779)
Jeff Cohu
Associate Professor of Management
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship
Contact via email
615.966.5773 (ext. 5773)
John Crawford
Professor
Assistant Dean, Accreditation and Assessment
Crawford earned his B.A., MBA, and Ph.D. at the University of Alabama. He has been associated with Lipscomb University since 1981 and has served as a classroom teacher and chair of the Department of Marketing. He currently serves in a dual role of teaching marketing classes and as Assistant Dean... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.5731 (ext. 5731)
Allison Duke
Associate Dean, College of Business
Associate Professor
Allison Burgess Duke is Associate Dean of Graduate Business and an Associate Professor of Management at Lipscomb University. Duke teaches HR Strategy, Recruiting & Selection, The Employment Relationship, and Organizational Behavior. Prior to joining Lipscomb, Duke was a Human Resources Manager at Aspect Communications and Progeny Marketing Innovations. Duke earned... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.5732 (ext. 5732)
Ray Eldridge
Dean, College of Business
Professor
A leadership practitioner and educator. Previous experience in academia includes senior associate dean and chair of the Department of Management at Lipscomb University, dean of the Freed-Hardeman University School of Business and department chair at Syracuse University. He has experience as a career U.S. Army officer leading at the platoon,... [More]
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615.966.5946 (ext. 5946)
Rick Holaway
Director of Graduate Programs
Assistant Professor
Rick Holaway serves as a Director of Graduate Programs and as an Assistant Professor of Marketing, teaching marketing and management courses. Prior to becoming a member of the full-time faculty, he served 15 years overseeing the enrollment at Lipscomb as the vice president for enrollment management. Holaway, a graduate of... [More]
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615.966.6133 (ext. 6133)
Joe Ivey
Clinical Professor
Joe Ivey serves as an associate professor of management and as executive director of the Lipscomb Center for Entrepreneurship. Prior to becoming a member of the full-time faculty, he served five years as the university’s senior vice president for advancement. He received a B.A. and LL.D from Freed-Hardeman University and... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.6229 (ext. 6229)
Jeff Jewell
Professor
Jeff Jewell, professor of finance, teaches courses in corporate finance, investing, and portfolio management. He has earned a B.A. from Harding University, an MBA from the University of Alabama, and a Ph.D. from the University of Florida. In addition, he is a CFA charterholder. His publication record runs the gamut... [More]
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615.966.5769 (ext. 5769)
Mark Jobe
Associate Professor
Hilton & Sallie Dean Chair of Accountancy
Contact via email
615.966.5947 (ext. 5947)
Natasha Johnson
Instructor in Management
Natasha Johnson is a full-time Instructor of Management in the College of Business. With more than 10 years of direct and progressive HR and business experience spanning across the healthcare, public utilities, and entertainment industries, she comes to Lipscomb University from HCA Healthcare. Her primary area of interest is in... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.5101 (ext. 5101)
Bart Liddle
Assistant Professor of Management
Chair, Management, Entrepreneurship and Marketing
Assistant Dean for Health Care Programs
Liddle, director of graduate business and assistant professor of management, comes to Lipscomb with two decades of industry experience. He began his career at KPMG and then spent almost 15 years at HCA’s corporate offices in Nashville. During his tenure at HCA, Liddle had the opportunity to serve in roles... [More]
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615.966.5080 (ext. 5080)
Brian Masterson
Assistant Professor
Chair, Accounting, Finance, and Economics
Brian Masterson is the Chair of the Accounting, Finance and Economics Department in the College of Business and is a tax attorney in the Nashville office of Butler Snow LLP. Masterson has significant experience in the areas of corporate and partnership taxation, mergers, acquisitions and commercial transactions. He earned his... [More]
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615.966.5141 (ext. 5141)
Perry Moore
Director, Graduate Business Programs
Professor of Accounting
Perry Moore is professor of accounting and director of graduate business. He is a CPA, a Certified Internal Auditor, a Chartered Global Management Accountant and is certified in Risk Management Assurance. A Nashville native, Moore graduated from Lipscomb with a degree in accounting and then completed his graduate studies at... [More]
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615.966.5795 (ext. 5795)
Cheri Phillips
Assistant Professor of Management and Economics
Contact via email
615.966.5740 (ext. 5740)
Brad Reid
Professor
Brad Reid is Professor of Business Law and Business Ethics and Senior Scholar of the Dean Institute for Corporate Governance and Integrity at Lipscomb University. His undergraduate degree is from the University of Oklahoma and his J.D. from the University of Texas. He worked for Exxon and was in the... [More]
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615.966.5601 (ext. 5601)
Leanne Smith
Assistant Professor of Management
Smith is an assistant professor with a record of teaching excellence, student engagement, university service, and community involvement. Her career background is in writing, design and administration. Leaving Independence, Smith’s first historical fiction novel, was published in 2016, and her first short story, On a Dark & Snowy Night, in... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.5954 (ext. 5954)
Jerry Stubblefield
Entrepreneur In Residence, College of Business
Clinical Professor
Contact via email
615.966.5140 (ext. 5140)
Rob Touchstone
Director of Business as Mission
Instructor
Rob Touchstone learned to be an entrepreneur while finding and selling golfballs as a kid growing up near a golf course in Marietta, Ga. He has a passion for the marginalized and impoverished and believes that one of the most effective ways to address local and global needs is through... [More]
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615.966.5340 (ext. 5340)
Fred Weigel
Associate Professor of Management
Fred Weigel is an experienced Chief Information Officer, information systems executive, and academic within the healthcare industry. He teaches information systems, healthcare administration, and management courses. Weigel's research interests lie in diffusion of innovations, blockchain technology, health information systems, and informatics. Weigel also has a background as a MEDEVAC (air... [More]
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615.966.5273 (ext. 5273)
Michael Winegeart
Executive Director of Spark
Vice President of Corporate Relations
Mike Winegeart was born and raised in Germany and is bilingual. His business career has been in Europe in senior management and business development capacities for Fortune 100 companies in various industries. Wanting to use his German language fluency in a vocational mission capacity, he attended the renowned international business... [More]
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615.966.5074 (ext. 5074)
Staff
Sonya Colvert
Program Coordinator for Undergraduate Business
Contact via email
615.966.5322 (ext. 5322)
Jerold Givens
Associate Head of School Marketing and Community Outreach
Clinical Associate Professor of Business
Contact via email
615.966.6368 (ext. 6368)
Stephan Kuester
Supply Chain Logistics Executive-in-Residence
Contact via email
615.966.5955 (ext. 5955)
Randy Lowry
President
Professor
Connecting the university to the Nashville community is a hallmark of Dr. L. Randolph Lowry’s presidency at Lipscomb University. He views the city of Nashville as the university’s campus and the world as its classroom. Not long after his arrival on the Lipscomb campus in September 2005, Dr. Lowry proposed... [More]
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615.966.1787 (ext. 1787)
Karen Risley
Director of Graduate Admissions, Graduate Business
Contact via email
615.966.5145 (ext. 5145)
Tammy Robertson
Assistant to the Dean and Communications Specialist
Contact via email
615.966.5194 (ext. 5194)
Suzanne Sager
Assistant Dean for Professional Development and Engagement
Suzanne Sager oversees the design, development, and implementation of programs and external partnerships that help students and alumni achieve their professional goals. She has an MBA in Marketing from Southern Methodist University in Dallas, Texas and a B.B.A. from the University of Texas in Austin. Sager formerly worked at Procter... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.1345 (ext. 1345)
Will Scism
Graduate Enrollment Recruiter, College of Business
Contact via email
615.966.5193 (ext. 5193)
Kait Stanfield
Graduate Enrollment Recruiter, College of Business
Contact via email
615.966.5284 (ext. 5284)
Marianne Van der Voort
Director of Student and Business Relations
Contact via email
615.966.1342 (ext. 1342)
Burton Williams
Associate Vice President for Planned and Complex Giving
Burton Williams is a veteran leader in development and education with nearly 20 years of experience in administration, community engagement, academics, and research. Williams currently serves as Lipscomb’s Associate Vice President for Advancement and is the Associate Dean for Advancement of the College of Business. Williams holds a Doctor of... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.5561 (ext. 5561)
Adjunct Faculty
Charles Frasier
Professor of Accounting
Charles E. Frasier is professor of accounting and was a founding partner of Frasier, Dean & Howard CPAs, retiring from active practice in 2010. He served a three-year term as a member of the Auditing Standards Board, a senior technical standard-setting committee of the American Institute of CPAs. Areas of... [More]
Contact via email
615.966.5738 (ext. 5738)
