Strategic Financial Management
Instructors
Meet Your Instructors
Our instructors have a wealth of experience in the financial industry and business world that they are eager to share with you.
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George Dan, MBA
Co-Founder and COO, User Nudge, Inc.
George Dan co-founded the startup User Nudge, Inc., after a lifelong journey to understand the way people make decisions. Using behavioral science, the company focuses on how those using online interfaces make decisions. Prior to founding his startup, Dan worked as the Head of Operations Analytics...
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Lara Kattan, MPP
Data Science Educator and Curriculum Writer
Lara Kattan is a data scientist, risk professional, and curriculum developer. She is an adjunct assistant professor at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business and develops data science curriculums for several learning platforms. Previously, she was a consultant at McKinsey and EY.
Kattan...
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Borislava Karageorgieva, CFA, MBA, PAHM
Senior Finance Professional and Instructor at the University of Chicago
Borislava Karageorgieva is a corporate finance expert with experience in financial compliance and regulatory analysis, mergers and acquisitions, angel investing and entrepreneurship, and board governance. She has worked both in early-stage and in mature companies, and internationally.
Borislava is...
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Sebastien Donadio, PhD
Chief Technology Officer, TradAir
Sebastien Donation has nearly two decades of experience in the fields of high-performance computing, software design and development, and financial computing. Currently an architect in Bloomberg Office of the CTO, he has a wide variety of professional experience, including serving as CTO of a FX...