BLOOMINGTON — A search committee has been named to select the next dean of the IU Kelley School of Business.
The new dean will succeed Ash Soni, who has been serving a two-year appointment since April 2023. He will return to the faculty after a yearlong sabbatical.
The search is open to current tenured, full professor faculty at the Kelley School in Bloomington and Indianapolis.
Search committee members are:
- Chair: John Ciorciari, dean and professor at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.
- Beth Fossen, associate professor of marketing in the Kelley School Bloomington.
- Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, professor and chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Kelley School Bloomington.
- Steve Jones, professor of finance in the Kelley School Indianapolis.
- Ted Koenig, member of the Bloomington Dean’s Council.
- Gale Nichols, executive director of the Full-Time MBA Program in the Kelley School Bloomington.
- Chris Nosewicz, Kelley School Bloomington undergraduate student.
- Melissa Proffitt, partner in charge of client relations at Ice Miller and a member of the Indianapolis Dean’s Council.
- April Sellers, clinical professor of business law and ethics and director of the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business in Bloomington.
- Matt Waller, senior executive advisor to the provost (ex-officio).
- James Wimbush, professor of business administration in the Kelley School Bloomington.
