AMIS Leadership

The Success of the Accounting & MIS Department's programs depends on their leadership. Faculty and industry professionals alike come together to support our academic and research efforts. Under their guidance, our Department focuses on outstanding teaching, innovative research, and outreach to businesses and communities in the State of Ohio and beyond. See the Department's Patterns of Administration (linked below) for information on how the Department is governed.
AMIS Department Chair
Darren Roulstone, Department Chair, AMIS
John W. Berry, Sr. Fund for Faculty Excellence Professor of Accounting
Professor Roulstone has been chair of the Department of Accounting & Management Information Systems since the fall of 2019. He conducts research on the role of information intermediaries in capital markets and serves as an Associate Editor at Management Science and on the editorial boards of the Accounting Review, Contemporary Accounting Research, and the Review of Accounting Studies. During 2013-2016 he served, he served as President-Elect, President, and Immediate Past-President of the Financial Accounting and Reporting Section of the American Accounting Association. From 2008 to 2019, he served as director of the AMIS PhD program.
Professor Roulstone teaches the core financial reporting class in the MAcc program and a doctoral seminar on capital markets research. He previously taught intermediate accounting in the undergraduate program and the core financial accounting course and a financial statement analysis elective in the MBA program. Prior to joining Fisher, he spent eight years as an assistant and associate professor of accounting at the University of Chicago's Booth School of Business where he taught financial accounting and financial statement analysis in the MBA program. Professor Roulstone grew up on Vancouver Island in British Columbia, Canada. He received undergraduate and master's degrees in accounting from Brigham Young University's Marriott School of Management before receiving a PhD from the University of Michigan.
Leadership in AMIS Programs
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Undergraduate Programs
Accounting Honors Program Director:
Undergraduate Studies Chair:
Dave Williams, Associate Professor
Undergraduate Accounting Coordinator & VITA Program Director:
Stephanie Lewis, Senior Lecturer
Project THRIVE Program Director (undergraduate & graduate):
Cynthia Turner, Asst. Dean and Chief Diversity Officer, EY Faculty Fellow
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Graduate Programs
Master of Accounting Program Director:
Tzachi Zach, Associate Professor
Graduate Studies Chair:
Anne Beatty, Professor and Deloitte & Touche Chair of Accounting
PhD Program Director:
Project THRIVE Program Director (undergraduate & graduate):
Cynthia Turner, Asst. Dean and Chief Diversity Officer, EY Faculty Fellow
Accounting Advisory Board
The AMIS Advisory Board is comprised of business leaders from public accounting firms, corporations, non-profits, and other industry partners. Members meet with AMIS Faculty annually to discuss current trends in the field of accounting. They advise the department on many items including curriculum content, program structure, recruiting students to AMIS, and recruiting AMIS students to firms after graduation.
In 2021, the Advisory Board met virtually in August. Some key topics during the meeting included:
- Recruiting needs in the accounting industry
- Curriculum changes in accounting programs; a strong focus on data-analytics
- Marketing and recruitment of students into accounting programs
- Updates on AMIS department and program statistics (enrolment numbers, program growth, donor updates, student placement rates, special projects, etc.)
- And more!
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Current Members
Current Members:
- Mike Voinovich, BDO
- Ryan Hecht, BDO
- Patricia English, Cardinal Health
- Stu Laws, Cardinal Health (retired)
- Andrea Meinardi, Crowe
- Courtney Clark, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
- Mike Thompson, Deloitte & Touche, LLP
- John McEwan, Deloitte & Touche, LLP (retired)
- Craig Marshall (chair), EY
- Daniel Valerio, EY
- Ibi Krukrubo, EY
- Reginald Momah, The Hanover Insurance Group
- Corrine Burger, JPMorgan Chase & Co.
- Don Kimble, KeyCorp
- William Miller, KPMG
- Kim Zavislak, KPMG
- Todd Layfer, L.A. Firemen's Relief Association
- Melinda Whittington, La-Z-Boy Incorporated
- Jodi Abbate, Nationwide Insurance
- Peter Richards, NetJets, Inc
- Scott Wiley, Ohio Society of Certified Public
- Raúl Piña, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Craig Keller, PricewaterhouseCoopers
- Arthur Scherbel, PricewaterhouseCooper
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