Leadership

George Daly

Dean

George Daly is professor and dean of the McDonough School of Business at Georgetown University, a position he assumed in November 2005.

Under his leadership, Georgetown's McDonough School of Business has grown the size of its faculty by 25 percent and provided more opportunities for faculty research; implemented the MBA Evening Program and the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA program; increased the visibility of the school through the creation of a new branding strategy; strengthened the school's ties with the Washington, D.C., business community; increased the size of the student body and the staff; and opened the Rafik B. Hariri Building, an $82.5 million state-of-the-art facility that houses the business school.

Prior to his Georgetown appointment, Daly served as the Albert Fingerhut Professor of Business Administration at the Leonard N. Stern School of Business of New York University where he taught courses in economics, managing in the performing arts, and leadership.

From 1993 to 2002, he was the Dean of the Stern School at NYU. During his Deanship, the Stern School rose in national prominence, achieving top 10 ranking for all of its undergraduate and graduate degree programs for the first time.

Before going to NYU, Daly served as Dean and Professor at the College of Business Administration at the University of Iowa. He also has held senior posts in the White House, the Institute for Defense Analyses, and as a consultant to the National Football League. He serves on several corporate boards and as an advisor to a number of minority start ups.

Daly earned his undergraduate degree from Miami University of Ohio and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Northwestern University.

Ricardo Ernst

Deputy Dean

Ricardo Ernst is deputy dean and professor of operations at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business. As deputy dean, Ernst holds responsibility for the school's faculty. He also is co-director of the school's Global Logistics Research Program, which studies the issues in global logistics through a comprehensive program of cooperation with companies, field studies, and academic research, and managing director of the university's Latin American Board, which seeks to promote competitiveness in Latin America by generating value in the social, political, and business sectors through the exchange of ideas and development of new leaders. Additionally, Ernst is editor-in-chief of the online journal Globalization, Competitiveness, and Governability, which is published by Georgetown University and Universia.

Ernst's research interests include strategic analysis of logistics systems at both macro and micro levels. He has been involved in developing metrics and performance evaluations for the logistics requirements and challenges for coordinating complex supply chain projects including not-for-profit organizations like the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), and EX-IM Bank. He also has consulted with several national and international firms, including General Motors, Michelin, Rockwool, Casa Cuervo, FEMSA (Coca-Cola), Wal-Mart, Pan American Health Organization, and the World Bank. In addition to his numerous journal articles, Ernst is the co-author of the book Global Operations and Logistics (John Wiley and Sons, 1998).

Ernst holds a civil engineering degree from the Universidad Católica Andres Bello and an MBA from the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administración, both in Venezuela. He also earned M.A. and doctoral degrees in operations management from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania.

Paul Almeida

Senior Associate Dean, Executive Education

Doreen Amorosa

Associate Dean and Managing Director, MBA Career Management

Doreen Amorosa has responsibility for the Office of MBA Career Management, which assists students with everything from identifying career options to being hired after graduation. She previously was the vice president for global recruitment and workforce planning at American Express, where she was accountable for recruitment strategy for hiring activity globally up to the director level, as well as service delivery of recruitment in the United States.

From 2006 to late 2007, Amorosa was the vice president of resourcing at ICI, where she was the global recruitment leader for more than 5,000 hires annually. Previously, she led talent acquisition at Avaya. In that position, she was accountable for 3,000 management and university hires annually. Amorosa joined Avaya after spending more than 20 years at Merrill Lynch. In her last position there, she was responsible for development and delivery of recruitment infrastructure, temporary staffing, retention and work/life programs, diversity initiatives, and HR policy.

Amorosa received an MBA from Seton Hall University with a concentration in management and industrial relations and a B.S. in management with a minor in psychology from Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. Additionally, she is a former member of the Advisory Board for the McDonough School of Business and is a senior advisor to the recruiting roundtable of the Corporate Executive Board.

Linn Deavers

Associate Dean and Chief Operating Officer

Linn Deavers has been an administrator at the McDonough School of Business since 1984. As associate dean and chief operating officer, she has oversight for financial management, business operations, human resources, technology, faculty services, and building management. The school has an annual operating budget of more than $50 million and employs approximately 200 full-time faculty and staff. Deavers previously served as the school's chief financial officer and executive director of administrative and financial services. She also has served as treasurer of the Georgetown University chapter of Phi Beta Kappa since 1993.

Prior to joining the university, Deavers was employed as a public information specialist for the Bureau of Consular Affairs, U.S. Department of State. She holds an MBA from Georgetown University and a B.A. in Spanish from the University of Virginia.

Elizabeth Griffith

Associate Dean, MBA Evening Program

As associate dean, Elizabeth Griffith develops and implements the curriculum in addition to providing faculty oversight to ensure Georgetown's MBA Evening Program delivers a consistent and outstanding education to all students.

Griffith holds an MBA from the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia and spent 20 years in senior financial positions at Monticello, the Phillips Collection, National Public Radio, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. Most recently, Griffith served as partner at Tatum LLC, a consulting and executive services firm, where she managed nonprofit clients and helped lead the nonprofit services group.

Griffith earned an M.A. in liberal studies at Georgetown University and currently is a doctoral candidate in the same program, with an interest in pre-modern business history. Additionally, Griffith has taught as an adjunct professor at the Darden School, Trinity University in Washington, D.C., and in the Georgetown Liberal Studies Program, and served as lecturer at the Smithsonian Institution on such topics as leadership and business history.

Chris M. Kormis

Associate Dean for Marketing and Communications

Chris M. Kormis leads, develops, and implements strategic marketing and communications efforts that advance Georgetown University's McDonough School of Business. She is the primary spokesperson, after the dean, to all external audiences, and directs communications strategies to promote the school, as well as raise its visibility among the news media, key stakeholders, and alumni.

Kormis previously served for 18 years at The George Washington University, departing as assistant vice president for University Relations, winning numerous awards. In 2001, she was tapped to lead the University Relations team as executive director, where she launched the GW News Center website, implemented new crisis communications measures, and enhanced university publications including GW Magazine, ByGeorge!, and the Guide to GW. Kormis also led numerous university committees.

She earned a B.A. from Duquesne University and an M.A. in English, professional writing, and rhetoric from George Mason University.

Elaine Romanelli 

Interim Associate Dean, MBA Full-Time Program

As interim associate dean, Elaine Romanelli provides leadership, vision, and strategy to the MBA Full-Time Program at Georgetown’s McDonough School of Business. Romanelli oversees the offices of MBA Admissions and Student Services, and she works closely with faculty on issues related to the curriculum.

Norean Radke Sharpe

Undergraduate Dean

As the undergraduate dean at Georgetown's McDonough School of Business, Norean Radke Sharpe is responsible for curricular development, student advising, and implementing academic policies and assessment initiatives.

Her career spans 20 years, including 14 at Babson College, where she served as both a faculty member and an administrator. She most recently was chair of the Division of Mathematics and Science, where she facilitated the revision of the undergraduate business curriculum and improvement of the co-curricular experience of students. She also developed a strategic plan for quantitative undergraduate education, advised students, mentored faculty, and chaired multiple task forces that examined the academic, social, and cultural issues facing undergraduate business students.

Sharpe also is a professor of statistics and operations research, with previous appointments at Bowdoin College and Yale University. She has authored articles on statistics education and gender issues in science and recently published the textbook Business Statistics. Sharpe earned a B.A. in mathematics and German from Mount Holyoke College, an M.S. in biomathematics from the University of North Carolina, and a Ph.D. in systems engineering from the University of Virginia.

Melissa Trotta

Associate Dean for Executive Degree Programs

Melissa Trotta oversees all aspects of the Georgetown Executive MBA Program, the Georgetown-ESADE Global Executive MBA Program, and the Executive Master's in Leadership Program. She previously was associate dean for program initiatives and engagement at the McDonough School of Business, where she advanced internal and external strategic priorities for the business school, including expanding the McDonough School's partnerships with the business, government, and not-for-profit communities.

From 2005 to 2008, Trotta was assistant dean of Georgetown's MBA Evening Program. Under her leadership, the Evening Program grew from just under 60 students to nearly 300 students in 2008-09 and emerged as a premier part-time MBA program in the Washington, D.C., area and beyond.

Trotta's more than 20 years of higher education experience include roles as director of admissions at the John F. Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University, associate director of Academic Affairs at Harvard Business School, and assistant dean of admission at Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering in Needham, Mass. She also has worked with individuals on a consulting basis to develop compelling undergraduate and graduate school applications.

Trotta earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in communications, summa cum laude, and received a Master of Arts degree in higher education administration, with distinction, both from Boston College.