Bradley is active as Manager of Eco CP Partners LLC in the development of Mosaic at Chatham Park, a 750,000 sq. ft. mixed use project. Additionally, he is involved in several industrial development projects at CC Enterprise Park, Triangle Innovation Point, and Mid State Development Center.  Bradley has spent his entire career in the family businesses of convenience retail and motor fuels distribution, real estate development and venture capital.

Kirk is a member of the Duke Medicine Board of Visitors and has served on the Duke Heart Center Board since its founding in 1993.  He also served on the Fuqua School of Business Board of Visitors from 1994 to 2001 and is a past president of the Fuqua Alumni Council.  Kirk was the 1995-96 recipient of the Fuqua Alumni Award for Exemplary Service.

He serves on several non-profit boards, including as Vice-Chair for the NC Innovation Board of Directors, Sanford Area Growth Alliance Board of Directors, Lee County Education Foundation, Boys & Girls Club of Central Carolina Foundation, and the Old Chatham Golf Club Board of Directors.  Additionally, he serves on the Board of Governors for the UNC System.

Kirk was named the 2022 Triangle Business Journal’s Pillar Award honoree and in February 2022, Central Carolina Community College honored him by naming the student center at Chatham Health Sciences Center (CHSC) the Kirk J. Bradley Student Center.  For his dedication and record of extraordinary service to the state of North Carolina, Kirk was presented with the Order of the Long Leaf Pine award in 2000.

Bradley earned his MBA in Finance and Real Estate from Duke University’s Fuqua School of Business and his BBA in Management Information Systems from the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business. Kirk’s postgraduate studies included M & A work at Northwestern’s Kellogg School and the Management Program for Mid-size Businesses at Duke’s Fuqua School of Business.

He is the founder and research director of the Institute for Private Capital, faculty director of the Hodges Scholars Program and a member of the Private Equity Research Consortium (PERC) advisory board.

Dr. Brown served as the executive director of the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise from 2015-2023.

His research has been published in leading academic and practitioner finance journals, including The Journal of Finance, The Journal of Financial Economics, The Review of Financial Studies, The Journal of Derivatives, The Journal of Portfolio Management and The Financial Analyst Journal. He serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Alternative Investments.

Dr. Brown serves on the board of directors of the Chartered Alternative Investment Analyst (CAIA) Association.

He previously served as director of research for Amundi Smith Breeden, a global asset management firm specializing in fixed income investments. He has served as a consultant on financial risk and portfolio management for money management firms, the U.S. government, non-profits and Fortune 500 companies.

Prior to joining UNC Kenan-Flagler, he worked at the board of governors of the Federal Reserve System in the division of research and statistics. He also worked in artist relations for a subsidiary of Capitol Records.

He received his PhD in finance from the University of Texas at Austin and his BS with honors in physics and economics from Duke University.

She began her career as a biologist at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, followed by several years at CCCC. Her tenure at the college included serving as a biology instructor, department chair, academic dean, and Executive Vice President for Instruction/Chief Academic Officer.

Chapman left CCCC in 2014 to serve as the Sr. Vice President/Chief Academic Officer of the North Carolina Community College System, a position she held for 5 years before returning to Central Carolina as president.

In addition to her full-time responsibilities, Chapman also serves as an Adjunct Professor of Practice at North Carolina State University Belk Center for Community College Leadership and Research as well as serving on various state and local boards.

A 20-21 Aspen New Presidents Fellow, Chapman holds a Bachelor of Science in Zoology from UNC-Chapel Hill, Master of Science in Physiology from East Tennessee State University, and Doctor of Education in Curriculum and Instruction from UNC-Chapel Hill.

Matteo studies macroeconomics and finance, specifically monetary policy transmission, corporate credit markets, sovereign debt capacity, and cyber risk. Before joining the New York Fed, Matteo was an Assistant Professor of Finance at Michigan Ross. His papers have been published in the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and the Journal of Monetary Economics and were awarded the ECB Young Economist Award and the Macro Financial Modeling Group Fellowship. He obtained a Ph.D. Finance from NYU Stern.

Before joining SaverLife in 2024, Mat spent 17 years in academia. He taught graduate courses in social work and business, advised PhD students, coordinated a Nonprofit Leadership Certificate program, and conducted research about household financial security (e.g., emergency savings, credit health, student debt, refundable tax credits, workplace benefits) with appointments at UNC Chapel Hill, University of Michigan, Washington University in St. Louis, and UNC Greensboro.

Mat has worked on several savings-related projects including the American Dream Demonstration, Refund-to-Savings, YouthSave, Mapping Financial Opportunity, Financial Solutions Lab, Common Cents Lab, and Socioeconomic Impacts of COVID-19, incorporating behavioral science, experimental, quasi-experimental, and observational designs, geospatial analysis, and advanced statistical analysis. He served on the Academic Research Council of the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau (CFPB) from 2021-2023 and has consulted or partnered with the U.S. Chamber of Commerce Foundation, Financial Health Network, Brookings Institution, Prosperity Now, Neighborhood Trust, Filene Research Institute, and the Purchaser Business Group on Health. Before his academic career, Mat worked for 14 years in and with nonprofit organizations focused on access to health care, early care and education, and financial empowerment, including launching Individual Development Account (IDA) and Volunteer Income Tax Assistance (VITA) programs.

He has published 7 book chapters, 66 working papers, reports, and briefs, and 59 peer-reviewed journal articles in publications such as the Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Consumer Policy, Journal of Economics, Race, & Policy, Behavioral Science & Policy, Journal of Financial Counseling & Planning, Work, Employment, & Society, Social Forces, Journal of Family and Economic Issues, and Compensation & Benefits Review. His work with colleagues has been cited in the Atlantic Monthly, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, New York Times, Newsweek, Huffington Post, The Hill, Marketplace, CBS News, Forbes Magazine, Money, Axios, The Times of London, Consumer Reports, and CNBC and in a U.S. Supreme Court case and U.S. Senate hearing. Mat’s awards include induction as a Fellow in the Society for Social Work & Research, exemplary paper awards from the Association for Financial Counseling, Planning, and Education, National Endowment for Financial Education, CFP Board, and Association for Public Data Users. He received his MSW and PhD from UNC-Chapel Hill and his BS in Psychology from Virginia Tech.

A native of the Carolinas, Lee has more than 25 years of industry experience. He joined Fif th Third with the acquisition of First Charter Bank in 2008 and has served in a number of Carolinas-based roles with increasing scope and responsibility.

Lee earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Appalachian State University and a master’s degree in business administration from Wake Forest University.

Lee serves as a director on the boards of the Charlotte Regional Business Alliance, Franklin Street Trust Company and The Salvation Army of Greater Charlotte. He has previously served on other
community boards including the NC Bankers Association, Wake Forest University-Charlotte MBA Program Discovery Place, the Carolina Raptor Center and UNCC Belk College of Business.

Additionally, Lee has served in leadership and advisory roles with the Charlotte YMCA and the Charlotte Chamber as well as several local development organizations.

An award-winning teacher and researcher and academic leader, Dr. Frank was named dean of UNC Kenan-Flagler effective Aug. 15, 2023.

She is a Triple Tar Heel, an academic fellow at the UNC Tax Center and has taught in the Master of Accounting Program.

Dr. Frank returns to UNC Kenan-Flagler from the University of Virginia Darden School of Business, where she was senior associate dean for faculty development, John Tyler Professor of Business Administration.

She also was co-founder and academic director of the Institute for Business in Society. In that role she led the development of the P3 Impact Award, which recognizes leading cross-sector collaboration to improve communities around the world, in partnership with the U.S. Department of State’s Office of Global Partnerships and Concordia. Her passion for cross-sector collaboration also led her to establish the Tri-Sector Leadership Fellows program, which brings together graduate students from business, law and public policy.

She also served on the faculty of University of Chicago Booth School of Business, where she received its Phoenix Award in recognition of the faculty who, in addition to classroom responsibilities, has greatly enriched the learning experience of campus students.

Dr. Frank served as a board director and chairperson of the audit committee of a small publicly traded company, The Female Health Company, for 14 years, which merged with a biotech company in 2016 to become Veru Inc. The medical device company’s mission was to empower women, most of whom were from developing economies, to protect themselves against HIV and AIDS.

She practiced as a CPA and senior tax consultant for Arthur Andersen in Washington, D.C, before she returned to UNC Kenan-Flagler to enroll in the PhD Program in accounting.

She received her PhD, Master of Accounting and BSBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler.

Yaming earned an MS in finance from Johns Hopkins University with the Beta Gamma Sigma honor. She received her BA from Renmin University of China. Before joining Temple University, Yaming interned as a financial analyst in the Investment Bank Division of China Securities in Beijing. She is also a level 2 CFA candidate.

Yaming’s research interests lie in financial institutions and intermediation with a current focus on small business lending and non-bank lending.

Her research interests center around urban economics, with active projects in housing and real estate, transportation, and environmental economics.

Gorback earned a doctorate in applied economics at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania in 2020, and she was a postdoctoral researcher at the National Bureau of Economic Research during 2020-2022 with the Economics of Transportation in the 21st Century initiative. Gorback received a B.S. in economics from Duke University and worked as a research assistant in the capital markets function at the Federal Reserve Bank of New York.

Melissa first joined UNC Kenan-Flagler Business School as Director of Business Development in Executive Development. She went on to lead various initiatives at the school before moving into the position of Managing Director of MBA Programs where she led the unification and reconfiguration of the individual MBA program operations into one organization.

Prior to joining UNC-Chapel Hill, Melissa resided in New York City and worked on the strategy, revenue generation, and editorial sides of media companies. She was Managing Director of Advertising at The New York Times and also served as an Analyst for The New York Times’ Strategic Planning team which recommended business strategies to executive management. In addition, Melissa served as Advertising Director at Reader’s Digest for Selecciones, the largest globally circulated Spanish language publication, and was a journalist at several media companies.

Concurrently with her positions at Kenan-Flagler, Melissa also served in an elected position as a member of the Board of Education for Chatham County Schools in Pittsboro, North Carolina for nearly eight years.

Melissa earned her MBA from the University of Notre Dame Mendoza College of Business where she was a Provost Fellow and the recipient of an NSHMBA fellowship and received her BS in Journalism from the University of Florida. She was also a recipient of the P. Rambo scholarship to study abroad at the Paris-Sorbonne University in France.

Howard has served on the Chatham County Schools AIG [Academically and Intellectually Gifted] Advisory Committee and the Chatham County Schools district accreditation committee as well as volunteering as a Literacy Mentor at Virginia Cross Elementary in Siler City and a tutor at North Chatham Elementary for several years.

Commissioner Howard previously served on the Admissions Committee for UNC Kenan-Flagler’s MBA@UNC program, the Legislative Committee of the North Carolina Schools Boards Association and the Parent Advisory Council of the North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics. She has been a member of the Executive Committee of the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners since 2017 and currently serves as co-Chair of the task force on this year’s Presidential Initiative, Pathways for Disconnected Youth.

Born in New York, Commissioner Howard spent much of her childhood in the Bahamas. She obtained a Bachelor of Arts in English from Georgetown University and a LLB in Law from the University of Buckingham in England. She was called to the Bar of England & Wales and The Bahamas Bar in 1992.

In addition to serving on the Board of Directors of the Chatham Arts Council, Commissioner Howard is also currently the liaison to the following boards and committees:

• Board of Education
• Community Child Fatality and Protection Team
• Library Advisory Committee
• County Commissioner Advisory Board for Vaya (voting member)
• Durham-Chapel Hill-Carrboro Metropolitan Planning Organization (voting member)

He studies finance and inequality. His research agenda focuses on financial institutions serving low-income, minority, and immigrant entrepreneurs and households. His most recent work studies racial disparities in the mortgage market and the effect of racial minority bank ownership on minority credit in the U.S. He teaches Banking, Corporate, and Household Finance at the undergraduate and Ph.D. levels.

Agustin received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and his B.S. and M.S. in Economics with Highest Honors from the University of Chile Economics Department.

Her recent work studies the distributional effects of the credit supply-side adjustments in response to the rise of shadow banks, digital disruption, and changing regulatory environment.

Among other areas, he studies the intermediation of residential and commercial mortgages, and the sources and nature of agency frictions in these settings. His work has been published in the Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis; Management Science; and the Journal of Financial Intermediation.

Camelia Kuhnen is an expert in household finance, labor and finance and neuroeconomics. Her work has an interdisciplinary nature, with the over-arching theme of trying to understand how people make financial and economic choices that concern them as individuals or as decision makers in firms.

Dr. Kuhnen is director of research at the Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise at UNC Kenan-Flagler.

She is a faculty affiliate at the National Bureau of Economic Research.

She serves as department editor at Management Science and associate editor at the Journal of Finance. Previously she was an editor at the Review of Corporate Finance Studies and associate editor at the Review of Financial Studies.

Dr. Kuhnen is the incoming president of the Society for Experimental Finance and is a director of the American Finance Association. Previously she served as president of the Society for Neuroeconomics.

Prior to joining the faculty at UNC Kenan-Flagler, Dr. Kuhnen served on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University.

She received her PhD in finance from the Stanford Graduate School of Business, and two bachelor’s degrees – in finance and neuroscience – from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Hanh Le is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

In this role, he leads a multi-state initiative to help communities and business create jobs and equitable opportunities; and co-chairs Black Communities: A Conference for Collaboration, an annual international convening of scholars and leaders across the African diaspora. He previously served as managing director of the UNC Kenan Institute of Private Enterprise supervising operations, research, external affairs and student-facing activities. Mark has served as an AAAS congressional science fellow to the U.S. House Committee on Foreign Affairs and worked in renewable energy development and the earth and environmental sciences. He is also a musician and composer.

Her recent work studies household decisions in housing and mortgage markets such as mortgage contract choices, selling/moving, and refinancing decisions; the frictions and trade-offs that household face in the process, and how these inform policy and market design. Her research interests include household finance, real estate, financial intermediation, and behavioral economics.

Professor Mayer’s research interests are financial institutions, household finance, labor and finance, and corporate finance. His recent work studies financial institutions’ interactions with households, and their influence on economic mobility in the United States.

Professor Mayer earned B.A.s in Mathematical Economic Analysis and Managerial Studies from Rice University and his Ph.D. in Finance from Rice University’s Jones School of Business.

He has investigated a broad selection of different policies, for instance the effect of children aging out eligibility for the Earned Income Tax Credit on women’s decisions to work, the role of Medicare Part-D on self-employment decisions, and the impact of property tax exemptions for the elderly and disabled veterans on home prices.

Dr. Moulton is an Associate Professor in the Department of Public Policy at UNC. He earned his PhD in Economics from the University of California-Davis in 2011. Dr. Moulton is an applied microeconomist with research interests in aging, intergenerational transfers, housing, labor, self-employment, and health. Much of his work has used ‘natural experiments’ such as changes in program eligibility rules or policies to identify causal effects of demographic, health and labor outcomes. For instance, he has investigated the Earned Income Tax Credit, Social Security, Medicare Part-D, property tax exemptions, and the World War II G.I. Bill, using several different empirical methods: difference in differences, fixed effects, and regression discontinuity. Much of his research is focused on better understanding public policy’s impact on older populations and how these policies affect their family and household members.

His primary research interests are in the interaction of household finance and financial intermediation.

Christina has had a career focused on education, workforce development and community engagement. Before joining Wolfspeed in October of 2022, Christina was the Director of Corporate Engagement at Central Carolina Community College. She also worked at the Director of Community Engagement for Congressman G. K. Butterfield. Christina has also had roles with Duke Corporate Education, the US Department of Labor and began her career with two North Carolina school systems as an elementary school teacher.

Christina received her undergraduate degree from the Pennsylvania State University and her Master’s from Duke University.

Professor Puri has expertise in the field of empirical corporate finance and, in particular, financial intermediation. Her published work spans the areas of commercial banks, investment banks, venture capital, entrepreneurship, behavioral finance, and FinTech. Her research has appeared in publications such as American Economic Review, Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Economics, and Review of Financial Studies. She has been the recipient of the Sloan Research Fellowship as well as multiple awards from the National Science Foundation. Her publication record includes over 30 refereed papers in the top finance and economic journals. Her research has won many awards including four best paper awards at the FMA Annual Meetings, two Western Finance Association best paper awards, an All-Star award from Journal of Financial Economics, the Brennan best paper award at the Review of Financial Studies, and three Fama-DFA /Jenson best paper awards in the Journal of Financial Economics.

Professor Puri serves as Editor of Review of Financial Studies. She earlier served as Editor of the Journal of Financial Intermediation, as well as on the editorial boards of several journals including Journal of Finance, Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, Journal of Empirical Finance, Journal of Financial Research, and Journal of Financial Services Research. Professor Puri’s professional leadership roles include serving as Chair of the Academic Female Finance Committee (AFFECT), AFA, as a Director of the American Finance Association (AFA), and Vice-President of the Western Finance Association. She has served as the President of the Financial Intermediation Research Society and as Director of the Financial Management Association. She is a senior academic fellow at the Asia Bureau of Finance and Economic Research. and a Research Associate with the National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER).

Prof. Puri has worked with multiple regulatory authorities serving on the Financial Advisory Roundtable, Federal Reserve Bank of New York and on the Model Validation Council, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System. She has also served on the Bose Committee on the commission structure of financial product distributors for the Government of India, and on the Advisory Board of CAFRAL, Reserve Bank of India. She currently serves on the International Association of Deposit Insurers (IADI) Advisory Panel, Basel, and as Senior Advisor, Center for Financial Research, Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC), and on the Advisory Panel of the Bank for International Settlements (BIS) Basel.

Professor Puri teaches an elective she created on “Raising Capital and Financial Technologies” for the MBA students at Fuqua. She has also taught a Ph.D class on Empirical Corporate Finance and has taught Advanced Corporate Finance, and Venture Capital Financing at Fuqua and Stanford Business School. She has mentored a number of Ph.D students who have been placed at the leading schools and institutions including Board of Governors, Columbia, Cornell, McKinsey, MIT, Purdue, and Yale University.

Dr. Qian has studied the microstructure of the U.S. housing market using data from millions of bargaining interactions; management practices and firm productivity using employer-employee matched surveys in China; and the effects of a health shock on household income mobility in China.

His current research examines initial public offerings and expectations in the housing market; consequences of San Francisco’s rent control expansion; and the effects of firm entry on communities, neighborhoods, and their residents.

His paper “The Effects of High-skilled Firm Entry on Incumbent Residents” won an honorable mention for the Best Student Paper at the 2020 Urban Economics Association meeting.

Dr. Qian’s research has been published in the American Economic Review and AEA Papers and Proceedings. He is a referee for the American Economic Review, American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Journal of the European Economics Association and Journal of Urban Economics.

He received his PhD in economics from Stanford University. He earned his BS in physics and mathematics, summa cum laude, from Duke University

His research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies, Journal of Money, Credit, & Banking, and Journal of Investment Management.

Prior to Rady, Reher worked at the Federal Reserve Banks of Boston and San Francisco and at Wealthfront, an automated financial advisor. He received his PhD in economics from Harvard in 2019, where he was a John R. Meyer Fellow. He received a B.S. from Georgetown in 2014 as valedictorian.

His research covers topics in housing markets and household and real estate finance. At the Board, Daniel was part of the team working on the recently published reforms to the regulations implementing the Community Reinvestment Act. He received his PhD in Economics from the University of Rochester in 2014.

His research areas are macro-finance, financial institutions, commercial lending, and fintech. He received his PhD in finance from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler Business School) and a BA in economics from Cornell University. Prior to pursuing his doctoral studies, Rosen worked in the Financial Stability division at the Federal Reserve Board.

His research focuses on household finance and wealth inequality. Sakong received a BA in economics from Harvard University and a PhD in economics from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Prior to Wake Forest, Tang served as a permanent faculty at Temple University and Clemson University for more than 10 years combined, and has been a visiting scholar at University of Georgia and Southern Methodist University. Her research interests include empirical corporate finance and corporate governance; mergers and acquisitions; firm valuation; executive compensation; board of director network; financial policy; and customer-supplier relationships.

His research interests include consumer finance, economics of education, public economics, and urban economics. Since joining the FDIC in 2014, Jeffrey has worked on economic inclusion research projects, including the biennial FDIC National Survey of Unbanked and Underbanked Households. Previously, he was an Assistant Professor of Economics at Syracuse University. Jeffrey received a Ph.D. in Economics from Yale University in 2008.

Currently, Mr. Wentland leads BEA projects developing environmental-economic accounts, cultivating new ‘big data’ sources, and improving economic measurement in housing and real estate. Prior to joining BEA in 2016, he was an Associate Professor of Economics at Longwood University in Virginia. He received a PhD in Economics from George Mason University in 2009.

His research spans real estate finance, household finance, and financial intermediation.