Employee Type Archives: Faculty

Dr. Jun-Yeob Kim is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Management at the University of Central Florida. He earned his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology with a minor in Quantitative Psychology from the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign. His research focuses on entrepreneur and leader personality, with particular emphasis on traits such as weirdness, […]

Aaron is an assistant professor in the Department of Management at the University of Central Florida. His research and teaching falls into three mutually reinforcing content domains: Entrepreneurship, Strategic Management, and Research Methods. Within these domains, my research emphasizes better understanding the impact of non-economic influences and language on organizational phenomena. I hold a PhD […]

Dr. Cuneyt Akcora is an Associate Professor at the University of Central Florida with a joint appointment in Computer Science and the College of Business, where he is a faculty member of the FinTech Initiative and teaches and conducts research in financial AI. He is a member of the newly founded UCF AI Institute. He […]

Dr. Elizabeth Yost joined the IB faculty in the Fall of 2023 and teaches the Business Climate Analysis course. Prior to joining IB, Dr. Yost was an assistant professor at the Rosen College of Hospitality Management of UCF. At Rosen, she taught a variety of undergraduate and graduate classes for the Hospitality Services department, including […]

I am an Associate Professor of Marketing at UCF College of Business, where I bring my 10+ years of experience in academia and industry to advance the field of marketing and retail transformation. I explore the intersection of product market strategy (innovation, social media, etc), non-product market strategy (sustainability, business-government relationships, etc), and emerging technologies, […]

Thyagarajan Subramanian, who prefers to be called Raja, is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida. He obtained his Ph.D. in Marketing from the University of Texas at Dallas. Raja’s research mainly focuses on advertising in the context of e-commerce, the on-demand economy, and traditional retailing. He […]

After more than 40 years in the corporate world as an entrepreneur, Bill decided to transition to the academic world, where he could provide training and insight to the next generation of leaders. Until 2019, he was co-founder and CEO of ClearSky Technologies, a pioneer in the delivery of hosted services to the cellular industry. […]

A marketing professional with more than 25 years of experience, Michael Kaplan recently transitioned to academia. In 2021 he joined UCF and is currently a Lecturer in the Department of Marketing at UCF College of Business. He brings a balance of theory and practice that engages students and challenges them to find actionable insights to […]