Faculty Profiles

Business savvy. People savvy. Self savvy. This trifecta is HTM’s approach to leadership, and the approach of those who lead the department: our outstanding teaching faculty. These well-trained, highly motivated mentors manage core academic courses – hotel, meetings & events, restaurant, and tribal gaming – while still maintaining the essential one-on-one rapport that every student needs and deserves. By putting professionals from CEO to line manager in the classroom, mixing academics with real-world application, social research with job readiness, our faculty develops students with solid business skills who are also adept in leadership, finance, and interpersonal communication – and follow their passion for hospitality. Our faculty knows businesses want men and women who can be real leaders, and they know just how to make that happen.

	Carl Winston, Program Director (Bio)		Brian P. Blake, Internship & Placement Director (Bio)
	Beth G. Chung-Herrera, Ph.D., Associate Professor of Management (Bio)		Vinod Sasidharan, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Bio)
	Lori J. Sipe, M.B.A., Lecturer (Bio)		Mark R. Testa, Ph.D., Associate Professor (Bio)
Jess Ponting, Ph.D., Assistant Professor (Bio)			Robert A Rauch, CHA, (Bio) Adjunct Professor
	Kate Spilde Contreras, MBA, Ph.D., (Bio) Chair, Sycuan Institute on Tribal Gaming		Kyle Craig, (Bio) Adjunct Faculty
	Bob Alter, (Bio) Adjunct Faculty & Chairman of Sunstone Hotel Investors		Robert Gleason (Bio) Adjunct Faculty Chief Financial Officer and General Counsel of Evans Hotels