Faculty Biographies

CCFL has partnered with faculty from leading universities to offer custom-designed, innovative educational programs.

Dan R. Dalton is the founding Director of the Institute for Corporate Governance, Dean Emeritus, and the Harold A. Poling Chair of Strategic Management in the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University. Formerly with General Telephone & Electronics (GT&E), he received his PhD from the University of California, Irvine. A Fellow of the Academy of Management, Professor Dalton is widely published, with over 325 articles in corporate governance, business strategy, law, and ethics. Additionally, his work has been frequently featured in the business and financial press including The Wall Street Journal, Business Week Fortune, The Economist, Financial Times, the Boston Globe, Chicago Tribune, Los Angeles Times, Washington Post, and the New York Times. Recognized by
Business Week as a “Governance Guru,” Professor Dalton regularly addresses public, corporate, and industry groups on corporate governance issues.

Dennis Faurote

Denny Faurote, CPA is President of The Faurote Group. He is a professional trainer, keynote speaker, and consultant. Denny's creed is to help others succeed in the challenges of life.

Denny provides a unique perspective combining the business savvy of an Accounting Career and CPA with the human touch. He draws on a rich background of experience. For fourteen years he worked for the international public accounting firm of Deloitte & Touche; consistently recognized as one of Americas' top organizations for which to work by Fortune magazine. He contributed to the client service side of the Indianapolis practice office for eight years and directed their human resources and recruiting efforts for six years. During his tenure as Human Resources, Professional Development, and Recruiting Director, the Indianapolis office was recognized as having the # 1 HR operation in the worldwide firm. Denny also played a significant role at the national and regional levels of the firm. He assisted with the development and rollout of a firm-wide performance management system. In addition, he was one of the pioneers of an extremely successful leadership training and development program that was implemented firm wide.

Today, Denny travels around the country consulting with and delivering leadership development programs and keynotes to all types of organizations including Fortune 500 companies, privately-held entities, colleges and universities, etc. He has successfully developed and delivered hundreds of programs to thousands of people including business professionals, educators, and students from around the world.
Denny relies on his practical experience and commitment to continual self-improvement to adapt and adjust to any situation. His extensive and diverse experiences give him an up-close and personal look at the issues, challenges, and opportunities that organizations and individuals face day-to-day. Denny's high energy and upbeat message educates while it entertains.

Denny is also an adjunct professor at Indiana University Kelley School of Business. He has designed and delivered leadership programs at the undergraduate and graduate level. He also works closely with several other universities, such as Purdue, Notre Dame, Ball State, Kansas, University of Illinois, Miami, etc. in developing and delivering leadership programs.

Mark Frigo

Mark L. Frigo, PhD, CPA, CMA is the Director of The Center for Strategy, Execution and Valuation in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business and Ledger & Quill Foundation Distinguished Professor of Strategy and Leadership in the School of Accountancy at DePaul University. Dr. Frigo has extensive experience as a management consultant with KPMG and in the corporate sector where he was responsible for strategic planning. He has helped many organizations to design and execute strategy for maximum value creation. Dr. Frigo is a leading expert in strategy design and execution, including Balanced Scorecard initiatives and has helped participants from CCFL seminars to lead successful strategic planning and Balanced Scorecard initiatives. Recognized as a dynamic speaker, Dr. Frigo was presented the Economos Award for Outstanding Teaching in the Kellstadt Graduate School of Business at DePaul and the Illinois CPA Society Outstanding Educator of the Year Award, and was recently profiled as one of the top business school professors in the Chicago area by Crain’s Chicago Business. The author of five books and over 60 articles, his work is published in leading business journals including Harvard Business Review. He is a consultant to executive teams and boards of directors. Dr. Frigo is co-creator of the Return Driven Strategy™ Framework with Joel Litman.

John W. Hill

John W. Hill, PhD, JD is the Arthur M. Weimer Chair in Business and the former Associate Dean for Research and Operations at the Kelley School of Business, Indiana University, and a member of the Georgia Bar Association. Prior to assuming his current duties, Professor Hill was Chairman, Systems and Accounting Graduate Programs, at the Kelley School. He holds doctor of philosophy in business, doctor of jurisprudence, master of business administration, bachelor of science (business/accounting) and bachelor of arts (history) degrees.

Professor Hill has taught business at every collegiate level and received numerous teaching awards and recognitions including the President’s Award for Distinguished Teaching at Indiana University. Professor Hill’s teaching interests lie in the areas of business valuation, financial analysis, strategic cost management and leadership. He has taught at the Borsa Italiano (Italian stock exchange) and consulted with European mutual fund and telecom companies. He also has taught in various overseas executive programs in Russia, Slovenia, Hungary and Vietnam. He is the co-author of two textbooks on financial and managerial accounting that have been adopted by over fifty schools.
Prior to entering academe, Professor Hill spent ten years in banking, the last four as a chief financial and administrative officer of a Georgia bank. In addition to his academic and business activities, Professor hill served as Major General, U.S. Marine Corps in July 2000, he was Vice Commander, Marine Forces Atlantic, Europe and South.

Sreenivas Kamma

Sreenivas Kamma, PhD, MBA is Associate Professor of Finance at Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business. He joined the business school in 1986 after completing his Ph.D. In finance at the State University of New York at Buffalo. His current work focuses on the value implications of capital structure choices and cash disbursement policies. Professor Kamma has taught extensively in the M.B.A. and Ph.D. programs. He is the recent recipient of several MBA teaching excellence awards.

Professor Kamma has taught at the Wharton School of Business and at the London School of Business where he received a teaching excellence prize from the Masters in Finance program. He also has taught short programs in Helsinki, Slovenia, Hungary, and for such corporations as Elementis, MOL, Rolls Royce, John Deere and Whirlpool. He is currently the program manager for the MBA in Finance program for John Deere Finance Professionals.

Marian Powers

Marian Powers, PhD is on the faculty of the Kellogg School of Management’s Allen Center for Executive Education at Northwestern University. She specializes in teaching financial reporting and analysis to executives. Since 1987, Marian has designed and delivered customized finance and accounting training for numerous corporations and organizations.

Marian earned her Ph.D. in accounting from the University of Illinois at Urbana. In addition to serving on the accounting faculty of the Kellogg School, Marian has also taught at the University of Illinois at Chicago and The Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.

Dr. Powers also develops and delivers courses for the Center for Corporate Financial Leadership. Her programs include ‘Using Financial Statements to Drive Better Business Decisions’, ‘Astute Cash Flow Management: Improving Company Value” and most recently, ‘IFRS for SMEs: Private Companies take a Closer Look’.

She is also co-author of several college accounting textbooks and in-depth cases on financial analysis. The Text and Academic Authors Association chose Financial Accounting as recipient of the 1998 Textbook Excellence Award and in 2008 Principles of Accounting received the McGuffey Award. Her research has been published in The Accounting Review, The International Journal of Accounting, Issues in Accounting Education, The Journal of Accountancy, The Journal of Business, Finance and Accounting, Studies in Managerial and Financial Accounting, and Financial Management among others.

Marian currently serves on the board of directors of the CPA Endowment Fund of Illinois and the Winnetka Community House and recently served on the board of directors of the Illinois CPA Society. Marian has been active in several professional organizations including the American Accounting Association, European Accounting Association, International Association of Accounting Education and Research, the American Society of Women Accountants, and The Education Foundation for Women in Accounting.

Mark Sellner

Mark Sellner, CPA, JD, LLM (Taxation) is on the faculty at the University of Minnesota’s Carlson School of Management, where he teaches graduate level courses and seminars on corporate tax, mergers and acquisitions, and accounting for income taxes in the Master of Business Taxation Program.

Mark consults in the areas of business and executive taxation and mergers and acquisitions. He has both Fortune 500 and Big Four corporate tax and mergers and acquisitions experience. Mark was tax counsel and director of U.S. taxes for four years at Ecolab Inc. in St. Paul, Minnesota and completed a three-year Ernst & Young National Tax Department corporate tax and consolidated returns assignment in Washington, D.C. He has served as a partner at KPMG’s metro New York headquarters, and was most recently a tax partner at LarsonAllen in Minneapolis.

Mark received his accounting degree with high distinction at the University of Illinois, law degree at the University of Minnesota and masters of law in taxation degree at Georgetown University Law Center.

Thomas L. Zeller

Thomas L. Zeller, PhD, MBA, CPA is professor of accountancy and university scholar in the School of Business Administration at Loyola University Chicago. He has 20 years of consulting experience and has been teaching at the university level for 15 years.

Currently, his consulting work addresses strategic cost management and reporting issues. He teaches various accounting courses at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He teaches strategy implementation and strategic cost management topics to various levels of business management through Loyola University Chicago, School of Business Administration’s Executive Education Programs. He frequently speaks at conferences and businesses around the country, i.e., American Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) annual conference, American Institute of Certified Public Accountants/Consortium of Advanced Manufacturing – International (AICPA/CAM-I) annual conference, and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation.

He has published two books addressing financial statement analysis, activity-based costing and health care financial measurement issues. His research has appeared in several journals including, Strategic Finance, Business Horizons, Healthcare Financial Management and Journal of Accounting and Public Policy. Professor Zeller is a member of the American Accounting Association and American Institute of Certified Public Accountants.