New Dean Of Mays Enterprise Faculty Named At Texas A&M College

Dr. Nate Y. Sharp has been named dean of the Mays Enterprise Faculty at Texas A&M College, efficient Feb. 1, 2023, the place he holds the Nelson D. Durst Endowed Chair in Accounting.

Texas A&M President M. Katherine Banks stated Sharp is dedicated to advancing the mission and targets of Texas A&M.

“Nate is called a unifier and crew builder. He not solely embraces the core values, he additionally lives them,” she stated. “I’m completely assured he’ll place the Mays Faculty to be on the pinnacle of excellence the place it belongs.”

Wayne Roberts, retired president and CEO of tech firm Abrigo, served as a member of the search advisory committee representing the Mays Dean’s Advisory Board.

“The Mays dean search effort was a complete, thorough and exhaustive course of spanning almost 9 months. We forged the web far and huge to seek out to greatest candidates to guide Mays to turn out to be the preeminent public enterprise college within the nation. As a committee, we offered three excellent finalists with numerous backgrounds, experiences and visions for what Mays might turn out to be and we supported the collection of any of them,” stated Roberts, who graduated from Texas A&M in 1985 with a enterprise administration diploma earlier than incomes an MBA. “President Banks has made a daring and transformational resolution by choosing Nate Sharp as our subsequent dean. He’s a rising star with excessive potential and has excelled in each function throughout his tenure at Mays. Dean Sharp has a compelling imaginative and prescient for what we will turn out to be, and I imagine he’ll take us from good to nice. He has my enthusiastic help, and I can not wait to see what we’ll accomplish below his management.”

Sharp reacted to his new function. “It’s a great honor to be named dean of Mays Enterprise Faculty,” he stated. “I’m humbled by the chance to serve on this function and, in flip, to present again to a faculty and a college which have given me a lot. I sincerely recognize the help of Chancellor Sharp and President Banks. To have the arrogance of those two visionary leaders means an ideal deal to me, and I’m thrilled to work along with them and with the unbelievable school, workers and college students of Mays Enterprise Faculty to realize our purpose of preeminence.”

Sharp’s areas of analysis experience embody company monetary reporting, monetary evaluation, monetary journalism and monetary misconduct. His analysis is revealed in main scholarly journals and has acquired a number of best-paper awards, together with the 2021 Distinguished Contributions to the Accounting Literature Award from the American Accounting Affiliation.

He acquired bachelor’s (cum laude) and grasp’s levels in accounting from Brigham Younger College’s Marriott Faculty of Enterprise and a Ph.D. from the College of Texas at Austin’s McCombs Faculty of Enterprise.

His analysis has been mentioned extensively in monetary media, together with in tales revealed in The Wall Road Journal, Monetary Occasions, CNBC and the Harvard Legislation Faculty Discussion board on Company Governance and Monetary Regulation. He was named a Texas A&M College Presidential Influence Fellow in 2018 and have become division head in 2020. He beforehand served from 2016-2020 as Ph.D. program coordinator within the James Benjamin Division of Accounting.

Sharp is an award-winning trainer who has taught courses to undergraduate and graduate college students at Texas A&M. He was the recipient of the 2018 David and Denise Baggett Instructing Award, the 2015 Affiliation of Former College students Distinguished Instructing Award, the 2012 Ernst & Younger Instructing Excellence Award and a 2010 Texas A&M College System Instructing Excellence Award. He was acknowledged because the 2012-13 Texas A&M College Heart for Instructing Excellence Montague Scholar within the Mays Enterprise Faculty and a 2009 Texas A&M College Fish Camp Namesake.

Sharp and his spouse, Holly, are the proud dad and mom of 5 kids.