School of Business Faculty

Steven R. Nelson

Dean, School of Business
Professor in the Practice of Business

Steven Nelson joins Gordon as the inaugural dean of the School of Business after a lengthy tenure at Harvard Business School, where he most recently served as senior director of external relations and executive director of the MBA Program, leading the delivery of educational programs and services to 1,800 full-time graduate students and playing an instrumental role in the record-setting $1.4B Campaign for HBS.

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Gary MacDonald

Executive Director of Operations & Strategy

Gary MacDonald is the Executive Director of Operations & Strategy at the Gordon School of Business. He has decades of global leadership experience ranging from start-ups to private equity to large publicly-help companies as well as extensive missional engagement with the non-profit and NGO sectors.

Gary joined the Gordon School of Business in 2024 to assist the Dean in developing efficiencies and implementing processes that impact ... more ➔

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Kristen Cooper

Associate Professor of Economics and Business
Academic Chair, School of Business

Professor Cooper teaches classes in microeconomics, public policy, environmental economics, and Christian Teaching on the Economy. Her current research focuses on the development and use of well-being measures for public policy. She has also published on other topics related to behavioral economics and welfare (wellbeing) economics, including consumer behavior in “fast fashion” markets, evaluating environmental policy, and the strategic ... more ➔

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Patrick Daly

Associate Professor in the Practice of Finance

Prof. Daly is an experienced financial services executive with a proven record of new business development and execution at global Wall Street firms. His previous roles include Partner at Revere Capital Advisors, LLC (a global merchant bank focused upon principal, strategic, financial advisory and capital raising transactions), Managing Director and Head of Detwiler Fenton & Co.’s Investment Banking Group (where he focused on financial ... more ➔

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Rebecca English

Lecturer in Business Management

Rebecca English is a part-time lecturer and student advisor for the Gordon College School of Business. She has over 30 years of business operations experience in the areas of real estate, valuation, and the mortgage industries. As the Assistant Vice President of Operations for MCS Valuations, formerly CoreLogic Collateral Solutions Rebecca was responsible for overseeing all aspects of valuations operations. Prior to joining CoreLogic, Rebecca ... more ➔

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Stephanie Hadden

Associate Professor in the Practice of Accounting

Stephanie Hadden brings 30 years of experience leading teams in public accounting and corporate finance. She began her career in the audit and assurance practice of PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP where she served clients in financial services and not-for-profit segments. Following thirteen years in public accounting, Stephanie joined Manulife John Hancock in successive roles as head of Global Accounting Policy, Controller of the Long-Term Care Division, ... more ➔

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David Hughes

Associate Professor in the Practice of Sport Management

Dr. Hughes' areas of expertise include eSports, Sport & Social Responsibility, Leadership, and Sport for Development. He has previously been a faculty member at Georgetown University and Hampton University, where he secured a $340,000 technology grant to start the first eSports initiative at an HBCU. In 2023, his book chapter, Black Men, STEM, and Erasing the Digital Divide: The Need for Black Male Targeted eSports Initiatives was ... more ➔

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Dami Kabiawu

Associate Professor in the Practice of Business

Dr. Kabiawu's areas of expertise include Investments, Corporate Finance, Behavioral Finance, and Quantitative Analysis. Her career spans academia and industry, where she has developed and validated complex financial models using programming languages such as Python, VBA, PHP, and Perl, alongside data analysis tools like Stata, SQL, and Excel. A Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA®) Charterholder, she integrates rigorous financial analysis ... more ➔

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Mandy Liu

Assistant Professor of Economics

Mandy Liu teaches classes in Macroeconomics, Econometrics, Economic Development, and International Economics. Her primary research interests lie at the intersection of development and health economics with a concentration on human capital, and child and adolescent well-being. Within these areas her research examines the role of environmental shocks, health investments, and school infrastructure in influencing child and adolescent well-being in ... more ➔

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Stuart McMahon

Lecturer in Sport Management

Stuart, a native of Glasgow, Scotland, currently resides in Massachusetts. His research focuses on sport entrepreneurship and the resources contributing to the financial success of sport businesses. He provides extensive knowledge on how sport is managed not only from an American perspective but a European and global perspective. 

Dr. McMahon’s other research interests include pedagogical implications for teaching and developing ... more ➔

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Andrew Moore

Lecturer in Accounting

Andy comes to Gordon with over 30 years of business experience in the administration, management, finance and accounting areas. His experience includes time with Global Marine Drilling Co., with over four years living and working in the Netherlands and seven months in Scotland. Andy was a manager at Pritchard, Bieler, Gruver & Willison, P.C., a C.P.A. firm; CFO of the Regency Foundation, an affiliate of Philadelphia Biblical University; and ... more ➔

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Margaret Niehaus

Lecturer in Statistics

Margaret has taught at Gordon since 2000, in both the Economics and Business and the Mathematics and Computer Science Departments. She trained as an applied mathematician and initially worked in the field of geophysical fluid dynamics. This included analytical modeling of the large-scale motion of the midlatitude atmosphere, and numerical modeling of fine-structure in the upper ocean. Her positive experience as a teaching assistant at ... more ➔

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C. Logan Robertson

Lecturer in Accounting

Logan Robertson, ’04, is a Director with CohnReznick, an international CPA firm ranked #10 by Vault for 2024. After graduating Gordon College with degrees in Business and Economics, he went on to work for a small CPA firm in downtown Boston, before working for 15 years at Kevin P. Martin & Associates, which combined with CohnReznick in 2021. Logan heads up a virtual outsourced accounting solutions group based in Massachusetts with employees ... more ➔

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Kent Seibert

Professor of Economics & Business

Kent Seibert brings to Gordon many years of corporate experience in three Fortune 200 firms. He has also taught business at Wheaton College and served as their Business/Econ department chair. He has published in the areas of management development and the integration of Christianity and business. His current research focuses on faith in the marketplace, social entrepreneurship, and business as mission. The values of stewardship, justice, and service ... more ➔

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Sheryl Sleeva

Professor in the Practice of Entrepreneurship and Innovation
Director of the Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Dr. Sleeva is an experienced practitioner and educator in the field of innovation and entrepreneurship, with an extensive career leading innovation, new venture development, and consulting in the technology, financial services and healthcare sectors.

As a successful corporate entrepreneur and business strategy executive, Sheryl has held key leadership roles at MasterCard, Cap Gemini and the Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York. ... more ➔

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Greg Smith

Associate Professor in the Practice of Business and Marketing

Greg spent the majority of his career in executive leadership roles which he leverages extensively in the classroom. His experience has been primarily in the technology sector (semiconductors, software, and cybersecurity) including 14 years at Kronos, one of Massachusetts's most well-respected companies. He is actively involved in the North Shore nonprofit ecosystem as both a board member and consultant including being current ... more ➔

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Meirwyn Walters

Lecturer in Business Law

Meirwyn Walters has taught Business Law in the Economics and Business Department since 1994.  Mr. Walters is passionate about connecting substantive classroom topics with real-world applications. He seeks to apply a Christian worldview to understanding God’s expectations for the legal field. A full-time attorney, Mr. Walters’s wide breadth of legal experience informs his approach in the classroom. As partner at WaltersLacey LLP, ... more ➔

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Jon Welty Peachey

Professor of Sport Management and Leadership

Jon joined the Gordon administration and faculty in 2022 and serves as Dean of Academic Affairs and Professor of Sport Management and Leadership. He teaches courses in the sport management concentration. Before coming to Gordon, Jon was on the sport management faculty at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign at Texas A&M University.

Jon's research examines how sport for development programs should be best designed, managed, ... more ➔

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Jeffrey T. Young

Lecturer in Economics

Dr. Young is a Lecturer in Economics and Business at Gordon College. He is also an Emeritus Professor of Economics at St. Lawrence University in Canton, New York, where he taught for over 35 years. Dr. Young has published extensively on the writings of Adam Smith, including dozens of research articles and book chapters, and two books: Economics as a Moral Science: The Political Economy of Adam Smith, (Elgar 1997) and Adam Smith’s Theory ... more ➔

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