Mohammad Hossein Jarrahi is an associate professor at the UNC School of Information and Library Science (SILS). Largely influenced by the sociotechnical tradition, Mohammad’s research focuses on the use and consequences of information and communication technologies (ICTs) in extra-organizational contexts, and flexible work arrangements. His research recently examined how digital labor platforms as new forms of organizations shape gig work (e.g., online freelancing) and how algorithmic management is used to coordinate and organize digital work.

His current research projects explore the role of artificial intelligence (AI) in the future of work. Specifically, he has studied how a partnership between humans and AI can be achieved in organizational decision making, and how unique AI capabilities can be used to augment knowledge-intensive work.

Chris Wicher recently retired as the Director of AI Research at KPMG’s AI Center of Excellence. Prior to his time at KPMG, Chris spent 39 years at IBM on its software development team. He led numerous IBM product engineering teams, including the original invention of IBM Visual Age and IBM WebSphere. Chris headed up the engineering and delivery of the first commercial IBM Watson systems, as Vice President of Watson Engineering. He holds multiple patents for his innovations at both IBM and KPMG.

Chris received his bachelor’s degree in math and his MBA from the University of Santa Clara. He also has a master’s degree in math at UCLA.

Though Chuck first joined the Foundation staff in 1984, initially serving as treasurer and assistant director, his history with Morehead-Cain goes back more than a decade earlier. He first came to Chapel Hill in 1973 as a Morehead-Cain Scholar, earning his bachelor of arts in economics in 1977. He went on to earn his master’s in business administration at UNC-Chapel Hill two years later.

Chuck served as executive director of the Foundation since 1987. Like all Morehead-Cains, he has many interests. He currently serves as a trustee of the Association of Boarding Schools (TABS) and is a former board member of Episcopal High School in Alexandria, Virginia; Summerbridge National (now Breakthrough Collaborative) in San Francisco; and McCue Corporation in Peabody, Massachusetts. An avid golfer, Chuck also tries to time his business travel so that he can visit local art galleries. He’s especially partial to a good watercolor.

Arzu Ozoguz conducts research in the areas of investments, corporate finance and information economics. Her work focuses on how the information environment in financial markets affects the dynamics of asset prices and the cross-section of stock returns.

More recently, she has been studying the interaction between the information in stock prices and firms’ real investment decisions.

Dr. Ozoguz has received best paper awards from the Western Finance Association and the Financial Management Association. Her research has been published in several journals such as the Review of Financial Studies and Journal of Financial Economics.

Prior to coming back to UNC Kenan-Flagler, she was on the business school faculties at Southern Methodist University, Rice University and the University of Texas at Dallas.

Prior to her PhD studies, Dr. Ozoguz worked as a research analyst at an investment bank in Istanbul.

She received her PhD from INSEAD, her MBA from Koc University and a BA in economics from Oberlin College.

Bryant serves as Vice Chairman of the combined bank and as Corporate Sales Executive. Her responsibilities include management of markets in Florida, Georgia, Kansas, Missouri, Texas, Colorado, Oklahoma, Arizona, New Mexico, California, Oregon and Washington state. She also has oversight of Wealth Management and Business Services, including SBA, strategic commercial real estate and Commercial and Industrial lending.

She joined the bank in 1985, worked in several areas in the company and served as president of the former IronStone Bank subsidiary. She was named Vice Chairman of First Citizens of North Carolina in 2011.

When she completed her education in Chapel Hill, she started her career at First Citizens, serving in a variety of positions through the years — in the branches, working with business customers and eventually as head of the business banking segment. Later, she was appointed president of IronStone Bank franchise. One of the most rewarding aspects of her career has been her involvement in taking business to new markets and helping the company establish banking operations in locations far from North Carolina – in places like California, Texas and Washington state.

Outside of work, she enjoys spending time with her kids and husband. When she has the time, she also enjoys the game of golf.

Chelsea supports corporate and donor engagement for the institute, including the development of new partnerships, funding opportunities, and other strategic initiatives.

She brings perspective from both higher ed, where she’s worked in Admissions at both Fordham and UNC, and the corporate sector, where she worked in Financial Product Sales at Bloomberg.

Chelsea received her MBA from Fordham University and graduated from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School with a bachelor of science in business administration and a minor in Spanish.

David Carroll  has over 38 years of institutional experience as a financial services executive with expertise in wealth and asset management as well as retail and commercial banking. Mr. Carroll was a long-time leader at Wells Fargo and its predecessor firms (Wachovia and First Union). He is a Director of Wells Fargo Investment Institute, Inc. and served as the Chairman of the Board of Managers of Wachovia Securities Financial Holdings, LLC. He currently serves as an Advisory Board member for Corsair Capital.

Mr. Carroll began his career at First Union Bank, where he grew up on the commercial and retail banking side, and ultimately became CEO of the bank’s Georgia and Florida businesses. He was instrumental in the merger integration between Wachovia and First Union and in 2004, he became President of Wachovia’s Capital Management Group – the asset management, retirement services and reinsurance businesses.

In 2009, after Wachovia’s acquisition by Wells Fargo, Mr. Carroll ascended into the Senior EVP role responsible for all of wealth and investment management. This group consisted of Wells Fargo Advisors (the traditional brokerage business), Wells Fargo Private Bank, Wells Fargo Institutional Retirement Services, Institutional Trust and Custody, Wells Fargo Asset Management (the institutional and mutual fund businesses, across various asset classes), Abbot Downing (the ultra high net worth business) and Wells Fargo Investment Institute (the investment strategy engine for all of Wells Fargo).

Mr. Carroll holds a bachelor’s degree in business administration from UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Dr. Angelica Leigh is an Assistant Professor of Management and Organizations at Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business. Dr. Leigh received her Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill’s Kenan-Flagler Business School.

Dr. Leigh’s research centers on race in organizations. In her first stream of research she takes a dynamic approach to studying race and in doing so, she explores the often overlooked experiences of racial minority employees. Specifically, her work examines the spillover effects of “mega-threats” – large scale diversity related societal events – on organizations and the people within them. In her second stream of research she examines the behaviors that racial minority employees engage in that go against typical norms of suppressing their identities at work, such as engaging in conversations about race in the workplace, and the actions that these employees take to combat racism in organizations.

Her research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, Organization Science, and the Journal of Applied Psychology. In 2019, she won 2nd place in the INFORMS/Organization Science dissertation proposal competition. She is also the recipient of the numerous awards including the 2020 Kenan-Flagler Business School Outstanding Graduating Ph.D. Student Award and the Society of Personality and Social Psychology’s Outstanding Student Researcher Award. Dr. Leigh is also an active member of the PhD project, an organization that is dedicated to increasing the number of underrepresented faculty in business schools. She is currently the faculty graduate advisor for the PhD Project Management Doctoral Student Association and she is a former President of this same organization.

Before joining academia, Dr. Leigh worked at General Electric Healthcare as a Financial Management Program member and a Global Product Finance Manager for the MI/CT business.

While completing a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in Conflict Management, Sarah Muneton worked as a work-study student at the Kenan Institute. As a program assistant for the Kenan Scholars Program, she helped with creating social media content and event planning. She worked as a liaison between Kenan Scholars and staff as the Chair of the Leadership Council. Additionally, Sarah worked to recruit new Kenan Scholars using social media and running various events.

Sarah, a first-generation college student and transfer student, began her undergraduate journey at UNC-Charlotte in 2015 and transferred to UNC-Chapel Hill in 2017. During her time at UNCC Sarah was a member of the executive board for Habitat for Humanity and the Latino Student Organization. She also started the 49ers Field Hockey Club before becoming a Tar Heel.

At Carolina, Sarah served as a Covenant peer mentor and participated in the Student Advisory Council for the Office of Scholarships and Student Aid. Sarah was also a member of the Carolina Firsts Honors Program. At Carolina, she was the philanthropy chair of the women’s club, Kappa Kappa Gamma. Over the last three years, Sarah enjoyed exploring her interests in politics and organizational behavior through serving as an intern for the Manager’s Office at the Town of Chapel Hill.

After graduation in May 2020, Sarah plans on completing a Post-Baccalaureate Program at UNC while looking for her next career opportunity.