The Executive Team consists of Dean Ken Colwell along with the Assistant Dean, Chairs of our four departments, the Associate Deans of External Relations and International Programs, and the Director of Community Engagement.
Ken Colwell
Dean of School of Business
(361) 570-4241
Rhiannon Smith
Dir, Admin & Student Services
(361) 570-4232
Ronald Salazar
Associate Dean of External Relations
(281) 396-3750
Kaveh Moghaddam
Director of Community Engagement
(281) 396-3747
Jifu Wang
Associate Dean of International Programs & Chair, Management Dept.
(281) 396-3762
Jun Yang
Chair, Marketing and Supply Chain Management Dept.
(281) 396-3754
Xavier Garza-Gomez
Chair, Finance & Economics Dept.
(281) 396-3766
Wei-Chih (Danny) Chiang
Chair, Accounting Dept.
(281) 396-3755
Meet the Dean! Ken Colwell is Professor of Management and Dean of the School of Business Administration. He was previously Dean of the School of Business at Central Connecticut State University and the School of Business, Public Administration and Information Sciences at Long Island University/Brooklyn. Prior to taking his decanal post, he was Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the University of Miami School of Business Administration and a professor of strategy and entrepreneurship at Drexel University. He holds a Ph.D. in Strategic Management from the University of Oregon and an MBA from San Francisco State University. He is the author of the Amazon bestseller The Quickstart Guide to Starting a Business and has been working with startup ventures for over 20 years as an entrepreneurship professor, consultant, coach, and entrepreneur. His personal website is www.ken-colwell.com.
Dean Colwell’s Advisory Boards in Victoria and Katy consist of successful entrepreneurs and executives who help the Dean with his community engagement efforts and advise him on critical matters such as which programs meet the needs of local businesses and making our students ready for employment upon graduation.
Brian Billingsley
Vice President of Office Systems
Waylan Brannan
Owner of Brannan Paving
Hunter Follett
CEO of Tejas Production Services
Brooke Garcia
Executive Director of Victoria County United Way
Joe Humphreys
Director of the UHV Center for Regional Collaboration
Claude Jacobs
Partner at LodeStone Financial Services
Donald Jirkovsky
President of Lighthouse Development Resources LLC
Diane Kliem
President and attorney at Kliem & Associates
Crystal Lindsey
Digital marketing consultant at M. Roberts Media
Teri Moten
Owner of Moten Consulting Group
Kyle Noack
CFO of KMH Wealth Management LLC and Keller and Associates CPAs PLLC
Robert Royer
President of Building Brands Marketing and Consulting
