Strategic Financial Management
Meet Your Instructors
Our highly trained instructors are courageous thinkers and passionate leaders who leverage years of industry expertise and up-to-date knowledge of terminology, tools, and trends to deliver an unparalleled learning experience. Through their rigorous discourse, cross-disciplinary collaboration, and field-shaping contributions, they create practical solutions and pioneering innovations that enrich our world.
These instructors teach this course regularly. Please speak to your enrollment advisor if you wish to know who the current teacher is.
Corporate Financial Strategy and Decision-Making and Risk Management
Borislava Karageorgieva, CFA, MBA, PAHM
Senior Finance Professional
Borislava Karageorgieva is a corporate finance expert with international experience in financial licensure compliance and regulatory analysis, mergers and acquisitions, angel investing and entrepreneurship, and board governance.
She is the board president of the Chicago Booth Angels Network of...
Fintech
Sourav Ghosh
Vice President at an Investment Bank
Sourav Ghosh has built and deployed low-latency, high-throughput automated trading systems across asset classes for trading exchanges worldwide. He specializes in statistical arbitrage market-making and pairs trading strategies for the most liquid global futures contracts. He currently serves as a...
Machine Learning for Finance
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...
The Psychology of Finance
George Dan, MBA
Founder and CEO, User Nudge Inc.
George Dan founded User Nudge Inc. as part of a lifelong journey to understand human decisions. Using behavioral science, the company decodes human behavior and focuses on how those using online interfaces make decisions. Previously, Dan was the head of operations analytics at a software-as-a...