Resume

• 2012.

  Shmuel Kandel Award (Outstanding Doctoral Student in Financial Economics)

  This includes a monetary award to attend the Utah Winter Finance Conference in Snowbird

  UT

  Feb 9-11

  University of Utah Winter Finance Conference

  PhD Poster Session at 8th Annual Corporate Finance Conference

  My Job Market Paper

  \"Contagious Collateral: A Network Analysis of Interconnected Intermediaries\" was accepted as one of 8 papers by PhD students as a part of a poster session during the Olin Business School's Corporate Finance Conference.

  Olin Business School at Washington University of St. Louis

  Financial Research Association Michael J. Barclay Award

  The Michael J. Barclay award is awarded to the best solo-authored paper by a \"young scholar\" defined as someone who is either a PhD Student or has obtained their PhD in the past 3 years. I won it for my paper \"Contagious Capital: A Network Analysis of Interconnected Intermediaries.\"

  Financial Research Association

• 2007

  PhD

  Finance

  PhD

  Finance

• 1997

  M.S.

  Chemical Engineering

• 1992

  B.S.

  Chemical Engineering

• 1988

  High School

  Quince Orchard High School

• Intellectual Capital

  Jesse Blocher

  assistant professor of finance. Blocher joined Owen in 2012 after completing his Ph.D. at the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Prior to working on his doctorate

  Blocher worked at TIAA-CREF and Accenture.

  Who: Kelly Haws

  associate professor of marketing. Haws is one of five new faculty members who joined Owen in 2013. Previously

  she served as assistant professor of marketing and Mays Research Fellow at Texas A&M University's Mays Business School

  where she was a three-time winner of the student-selected SLATE Teaching Excellence Award.

  Intellectual Capital - Article on my research

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  Video about my research

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  Hedge Funds

  Business Process Improvement

  Project Management

  Teaching

  Financial Services

  Quantitative Finance

  Finance

  Mutual Funds

  Securities Lending

  Strategy

  Financial Markets

  Portfolio Management

  Analysis

  Investments

  Corporate Finance

  •\tPerformance Analysis of Master Limited Partnerships and Publicly Traded Companies

  Analysis criteria includes Return On Investment

  Volatility

  and Sharpe Ratio & leverages statistical analysis software (STATA)

  Blocher

  Jesse

  Blocher

  Vanderbilt University

  Owen Graduate School of Management

  Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools

  University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

  TIAA-CREF

  Warehouse 242 - a church for the city

  Accenture

  An elder of a church is like a corporate board member. We helped set budgets

  give guidance to the senior pastor

  and set strategic

  long-term direction. While I was an elder

  we purchased a new building

  hired a new senior pastor

  and saw our participating membership almost double.

  Warehouse 242 - a church for the city

  University of North Carolina - Chapel Hill

  Chapel Hill

  NC

  Job Market Paper: \"Contagious Capital: A Network Analysis of Interconnected Intermediaries\"

  Doctoral Student - Finance

  - Manager of 16 Java Developers

  manage multiple applications that provide various types of personal financial planning and fund level advice and planning tools. \n- Significant business interaction to develop application requirements

  functional design and business process optimization\n- Started a Master's of Mathematical Finance at UNC-Charlotte part time

  did not finish.

  TIAA-CREF

  Consultant

  Accenture

  Vanderbilt University

  Owen Graduate School of Management

  Assistant Professor of Finance

  Greater Nashville Area

  TN

  Math teacher in urban school - taught AP Calculus

  Algebra 2/Trig

  and Geometry.

  Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools