Brent Callinicos is an experienced financial and technology executive. He was the first CFO at Uber Technologies from 2013-15. Callinicos served as VP, Treasurer, and Chief Accountant at Google from 2007-13, where he was also responsible for Tax, Internal Audit, and M&A finance. He also ran Google’s Green Energy investing and Google Financial Services. From 1992–07 he served in a variety of increasingly senior roles at Microsoft including Corporate VP and Divisional CFO for Microsoft’s Platforms and Services Division. He also ran Worldwide Licensing and Pricing and Microsoft Financing. He was Microsoft’s Treasurer from 2000–04. While at Microsoft, Callinicos sat on the Council of Economic Advisors for two Washington State Governors. Prior to Microsoft, he worked at the Walt Disney Company and Procter & Gamble.

He is on the board of three public companies, one private company, and two academic institutions. He also has half a dozen advisory roles and is an active angel investor, with an emphasis on technology platforms and green tech. He earned his BSBA ('87) and MBA ('89) from UNC Kenan-Flagler, which awarded him the MBA Alumni Merit Award in 2004. He gave the commencement address for Kenan-Flagler in 2016. He is a CPA.

• PVH (NYSE): since 2014 (member of the Corporate Responsibility Committee)
• Baidu (NASDAQ): since 2015 (Chair of the Audit Committee)
• Rubicon Technologies (NYSE): since 2015 (Chair of the Audit Committee and member of the Compensation Committee).
• Acorns (Private): since 2022 (member of the Audit Committee).
• Mayfield Senior (Private school in LA): Board of Trustees and the Chair of the Finance Committee for his UNC daughter’s old High School.
• UNC Kenan-Flagler: Chair of the Innovation Committee.

Dr. Chirino-Klevans’ is an expert in the use of Virtual Reality simulations for global business and skills development. She is the recipient of two awards for Serious Play and Campus Innovation in the use of Virtual Reality for Leadership. She co-developed leadership simulations and decision-support systems for managers using artificial intelligence. She is a consultant for major global organizations around the world in the design, implementation and evaluation of technology mediated corporate talent management and development programs. Her latest book is called “Cases on Global Leadership” focusing on leadership practices in global organizations. She has been recipient of several teaching awards for her work in the classroom and mentoring students.

Dr. Chirino-Klevans is a former Assistant Dean of Executive Education at the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University, and founding member of Duke Corporate Education (DukeCE). She is a guest faculty at the International School of Management in Paris.

She holds a PhD in Psychology, a Master’ in Psychology, a Master’s in Business Administration and her undergraduate degree is in Psychology. She also has a specialization in Instructional Design focusing on integration of technology in training and development. A former elite gymnasts and All-American in gymnastics, she brings her expertise in sports to the classroom by designing high impact and transformative learning experiences aimed at developing competencies for teaching and learning in multicultural and global environments.

She is fluent in English, French and Spanish.

A faculty member since 1985, Conrad is an award-winning instructor who has taught in the Undergraduate Business, MAC, MBA and PhD programs at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Conrad served as senior associate dean for academic affairs from 2011-2016, overseeing the work of the faculty and academic programs during the time when MBA@UNC and the Master of Accounting online format were launched. She also served two terms as area chair of finance, from 1995-1998 and 2000-2003.

She is widely recognized for her research on investments and finance, with a focus on asset pricing, capital markets, institutional investing and portfolio management.

She received a doctorate and MBA in finance and economics from the University of Chicago and a bachelor’s degree in economics from Butler University.

Dr. Bill Faulkner has spent over 20 years as a leadership educator and higher-education administrator leading his own teams of professional and graduate-level staff along with coaching and inspiring hundreds of emerging influencers. He holds a B.A. in psychology from Saint Andrews University and holds both an M.Ed. and Ph.D. in education from the University of Georgia. Currently, he serves as the career and leadership coach for UNC Kenan-Flagler’s Executive MBA students. He is also credentialed as a certified Gallup Strengths Coach, DISC Personality Profile Consultant, and Designing Your Life Coach.

James H. Johnson Jr. is the William R. Kenan Jr. Distinguished Professor of strategy and entrepreneurship in the Kenan-Flagler Business School and director of the Urban Investment Strategies Center in the Frank Hawkins Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests include community and economic development, the effects of demographic changes on the U.S. workplace, interethnic minority conflict in advanced industrial societies, poverty and public policy in urban America, and workforce diversity issues. He has published more than 100 scholarly research articles and three research monographs and has co-edited four theme issues of scholarly journals on these and related topics. Currently he is researching strategies to combat hyper-segregation, persistent and concentrated poverty, and gentrification-induced residential and economic dislocations in U.S. cities. He also currently works with gentrifying cities to develop roadmaps for inclusive and equitable economic development that creates shared prosperity. Fast Company profiled him in “Hopes and Dreams.” He received his PhD from Michigan State University, his MS from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and his BS from North Carolina Central University.

As an undergraduate at UNC, Jim learned how to create and grow companies. After successfully selling a business that he started in college he is an active consultant and investor in numerous early startup ventures. Jim has an MBA from the University of Tennessee, as well as a Masters in Management from George Washington University.

Jim is Professor at UNC’s Kenan-Flagler Business School, teaching Entrepreneurship to undergraduate students and was one of the founders of Launch Chapel Hill, and 1789 Venture Lab.

Over the past 30+ years, Jim has wandered through the remotest villages on the planet, across every single one of the world’s 193 United Nations recognized countries, and last year went to space, and to the very bottom of the Earth, in a submarine to the bottom of the Mariana Trench.

Megan most recently served as the Director of Career Coaching, working to coordinate and implement world-class coaching, programming, and relationship building across the MBA programs. Before coming to UNC Kenan-Flagler in 2017, she spent time as a career transition trainer for the U.S. Department of Labor as a government contractor helping over 1,800 active-duty military-service members successfully transition to civilian employment. Megan earned her M.Ed. in higher education from Arizona State University and her B.A. in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University.

Megan currently coaches UNC Kenan-Flagler alumni and students in the online MBA program for the Career & Leadership team. She founded an independent coaching and consulting practice and has over 18 years of leadership experience at universities across the nation. Megan is an ICF-certified coach and combines that with her Gallup Certified Strengths Coach certification to help others understand and leverage their unique talent profile.

Megan most recently served as the Director of Career Coaching, working to coordinate and implement world-class coaching, programming, and relationship building across the MBA programs. Before coming to UNC Kenan-Flagler in 2017, she spent time as a career transition trainer for the U.S. Department of Labor as a government contractor helping over 1,800 active-duty military-service members successfully transition to civilian employment. Megan earned her M.Ed. in higher education from Arizona State University and her B.A. in journalism and mass communication from Iowa State University.

As part of the Career & Leadership coaching team at UNC Kenan-Flagler since 2012, Elizabeth Wallencheck, has 30+ years of career-management experience including 12 years as a consultant for a global career-transition firm where she delivered coaching and training services, including executive-level programs. Prior to that, Elizabeth spent 13 years in career development within higher education, serving as assistant director, career services, at a large public university in Ohio. A member of Phi Beta Kappa, she earned a Master of Science in Counseling from the State University of New York at Albany.