Trulaske welcomes new faculty to support teaching, research in all emphasis areas

This fall, the Trulaske College of Business welcomed 12 new faculty – five in the Management Department, three in the Marketing Department, two in the Finance Department and two in the School of Accountancy. 

Becky Bocklage joins the college an assistant teaching professor in the Marketing Department with more than two decades of teaching experience. She has taught marketing and management courses in undergraduate and graduate programs and held director positions over campus operations at Columbia College in Jefferson City, and the Fishman Center for Entrepreneurship. Bocklage is a serial entrepreneur, having started more than 10 new businesses and organizations over the past 28 years. The longest running was a retail operation selling home décor and gifts with three locations across the state of Missouri. Bocklage received her undergraduate and graduate degrees from Missouri State University in Springfield, and she has certification as a Professional Certified Marketer – Marketing Management from American Marketing Association. 

Sudip Datta joins the college as chair of the Finance Department. He is also a professor of finance and holds the Missouri Bankers Chair. His research covers a wide variety of areas related to finance, such as mergers and acquisitions, divestitures, executive compensation, gender-based decision making, initial public offerings of debt securities and corporate bankruptcy. Dr. Datta has consulting experience and expertise in business valuation, estimation of financial damages/forgone earnings due to job related injuries, valuation of executive and employee stock options, valuation of shareholder damages due to stock price manipulation, insider-trading related damages, private company valuation, mergers/acquisitions, initial public offerings, and seasoned offerings. He received a doctorate and master’s degrees from State University of New York, Binghamton, and a Bachelor of Science (Economics Honors) from Presidency College. 

Tim Hill joined the Trulaske College of Business in 2012 as an academic advisor before eventually becoming an instructor of business administration in 2017 and assistant teaching professor in the Management Department in 2023. He brings extensive experience in higher education and student affairs to his teaching. His scholarly interests include preparing Generation Z for the workforce, maximizing strengths development, and strength-based teams and leadership. He is actively involved in professional organizations including the National Association of Colleges and Employers. In 2023, Hill became a Gallup Certified Strengths Coach and regularly leads workshops with students, staff and faculty regarding how to understand and aim talents to achieve personal and organizational goals more effectively. Hill earned his master of education in educational leadership and policy analysis from Mizzou in 2014. He also holds a bachelor’s in biblical studies and a minor in English from Evangel University.

Niket Jindal joins the college as an assistant professor of marketing and serves as the Marketing Department’s PhD coordinator. He teaches business-to-business marketing, marketing analytics and marketing strategy to students and executives. His research uses quantitative marketing techniques to study marketing’s effect on firm value and risk – specifically, marketing’s role in the context of bankruptcy. Jindal received a doctorate in marketing from the University of Texas, an MBA from Northwestern University, a master’s in electrical engineering from Columbia University, and a bachelor’s in electrical engineering from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining Mizzou, he was on the marketing faculty at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business and spent 14 years in the semiconductor industry working in engineering, marketing and strategy.

Stacie Kane joins the college as an assistant teaching professor in the Management Department. She has extensive experience as a college instructor in the disciplines of business. Kane has spent over a decade as an entrepreneur, successfully running two different companies. Kane has spent over a decade as an entrepreneur, successfully running two different companies. Her work as an entrepreneur bridges the gap between theory and practical application. Her vibrant personality, tenacity, and passion for higher education are contagious and beneficial in the field of entrepreneurship and innovation. She received a master’s and bachelor’s degrees from Missouri State University. 

Andrew Kern joins the college as an assistant teaching professor in the Finance Department and serves as the advisor to the college’s University of Missouri Investment Group. Kerns has been Director of the Jeffrey E. Smith Institute of Real Estate and Capital Markets and has also been involved with the Cornell Leadership Program, Alpha Kappa Psi and the college’s study abroad program at the Czech University of Life Sciences in Prague.  He received the Trulaske College of Business Faculty Member of the Year award in 2015 and the John R. Riggs, Jr. Excellence in MBA Teaching Award in 2019. Previously he served as senior portfolio manager at New Age Alpha LLC, where he was responsible for the firm’s equity long-short hedge fund as well as the firm’s research initiatives. He also worked as a vice president at Guggenheim Transparent Value. He holds an MBA and a doctorate in finance from MU and a bachelor’s from Truman State University.

Joonyoung Kim joins the college as an assistant professor in the Management Department. During his career as a human resource management consultant, he discovered a passion for understanding the challenges that companies and employees face in relation to human resource management. Kim’s research primarily focuses on how organizations can gain a competitive advantage through the adoption of systematic human resource management practices. His key areas of investigation include strategic human resource management, where he explores how and when organizations can achieve desired firm-level outcomes through the design and implementation of human resource management systems. He earned a doctorate in Human Resource Studies from the ILR School at Cornell University and holds a Bachelor of Business Administration degree from Korea University and two master’s degrees from Cornell University. 

Jack Pelikan joins the college as an assistant teaching professor in the Management Department, specializing in information technology management. He has more than 15 years of experience in the areas of project management, audit and compliance, business process consulting/reengineering/automation, information security and data analytics. He has also served as an adjunct faculty member at Maryville University in St. Louis and MU. His research and teaching interests include cybersecurity, intelligent automation, data analytics, enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems and stakeholder management. Pelikan holds a BSBA and MAcc from Miami University in Ohio.

Khimendra Singh joins the college as an assistant professor in the Marketing Department. Before joining Mizzou, he served as a visiting assistant professor of marketing at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University Bloomington. A context-driven researcher, Singh employs quantitative and econometric methods to study managerial and policy-relevant issues. He delves into firms’ strategic decisions regarding adverse marketplace events, digital marketing and political influence. His current research focuses on the video streaming industry. He was honored as one of the 2020 ISBM Doctoral Dissertation Award Competition winners. Before transitioning into academia, Singh worked in consulting, specializing in guiding industry clients in clean energy projects such as wind and solar, and sustainability areas such as CSR. He received a doctorate in marketing from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, an MBA from the ESSEC Business School in Paris, France, and a Bachelor of Technology (Biotechnology) from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras in India.

Jane (Zhiyan) Song joins the college as an assistant professor in the School of Accountancy, where she teaches Introduction to Taxation. Before joining Mizzou, she was a faculty member at the University of Georgia. Before entering academia, she worked in the tax department at RubinBrown LLP in St. Louis. Her primary research interests include the taxation of multinational firms, tax uncertainty, tax policy, and the effect of taxes on investment decisions. She received a doctorate from the University of Iowa, a MAcc from Truman State University and a bachelor’s degree from Washington University.

Julia Stevenson-Street joins the college as an assistant professor in the Management Department. Her research interests include corporate social responsibility, ethics, diversity and inclusion, and emotions. In particular, she is interested in how ethically charged topics impact employee well-being. She received a doctorate in Organizational Behavior and Human Resource Management from Purdue University. 

Stacy Wright joins the college as an assistant teaching professor in the School of Accountancy. She has 10 years of audit experience, over 15 years of experience in the accounting field, and five years teaching experience as an adjunct professor. Wright has served in a variety of compliance, quality control and auditing roles for the Missouri Department of Social Services and the University of Missouri System. Most recently, she served as the director of finance and administration for the Trulaske College of Business. She also serves as the chapter secretary and academic chair for the Central Missouri chapter of The Institute of Internal Auditors, where she has served three terms as president and three terms as a member of the board of directors. As a Certified Internal Auditor, Wright serves as the internal audit education partnership coordinator for the School of Accountancy. She received a bachelor’s and an MBA from Columbia College.