Academic Deans
Punam Anand Keller
Associate Dean for Innovation and Growth; Charles Henry Jones Third Century Professor of Management
As Associate Dean for Innovation and Growth, Punam’s role is to constantly challenge what we do, continuously improve on things we already do, and challenge ourselves to come up with new and different ways of doing things in order to thrive in this new global and virtually competitive environment. Dr. Keller’s academic resume includes degrees from Bombay University and Northwestern, award-winning research, and faculty positions at NYU, Columbia, and UNC. Dr. Keller serves as associate editor of Journal of Consumer Psychology and is on the editorial boards of Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, and Social Marketing Quarterly. Dr. Keller was formerly the President of the Association for Consumer Research.
Through the years, Dr. Keller has served as a consumer research consultant and educator to a variety of financial educators including FINRA foundation, CFPB, CFA, OECD, Filene Institute, NASAA, DCIIA, Dimensional, Goldman Sachs and NARPP. She has developed social marketing plans to promote financial education for the OFEFA, U.S. Department of Treasury, and NEFE. She served as the Social Marketing Officer of the Financial Literacy Center under Director AnnaMaria Lusardi, funded by the SSA. She teaches Social Marketing and Cause Marketing in the MBA program at Tuck.
Praveen K. Kopalle
Associate Dean for the MBA Program; Signal Companies' Professor of Management
As associate dean for the MBA program, Praveen will continue to help refine the MBA program at Tuck, which remains the hallmark of the school's efforts to create a world class business education. Praveen has won many awards including Core Teaching Excellence Award at the Tuck School from the Class of 2015, 2011 Distinguished Alumni Award, Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, India, Winner, 2005 John D. C. Little Best Paper Award in Marketing Science etc. Praveen has been at Tuck since 1996. He taught at the University of Arizona from 1992-1996.
Praveen received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, New York, PGDM (equivalent to MBA) from Indian Institute of Management, Bangalore, and B.E. from Osmania University, Hyderabad. His past and current advisory positions include (1) BeVocal, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA): 1999-2006, (2) Aten Works (Hyderabad, India), (3) Camellia Clothing Ltd., Bangalore, India. Praveen is a licensed HAM radio operator and enjoys playing cricket, table tennis, and golf.
Richard C. Sansing
Associate Dean for the Faculty; Benjamin Ames Kimball Professor of the Science of Administration
Richard Sansing currently serves as Associate Dean for Faculty, working on faculty hiring and promotion as well as budget issues for the Tuck School. He teaches Managerial Accounting; his research involves the application of economic modeling to tax and accounting issues. Richard has been at Tuck since 1998. He taught at the Yale School of Management from 1990-1998, and worked in the tax department of the Houston office of Arthur Andersen & Co. from 1979-84.
He graduated with a BBA in Accounting (1979) and a Ph.D. in Accounting (1990) from The University of Texas at Austin. Richard is an active participant in chess and bridge tournaments. He has been a USCF Expert in chess and is an ACBL Life Master in bridge. He lives in Lebanon, NH with his wife Deana.
Senior Leadership Team
Tye Deines
Executive Director of Talent Management
As Executive Director of Talent Management, Tye partners with the Deanery and senior leadership to lead initiatives that sustain and advance Tuck as the best business school in the world at which to work. Among his responsibilities, Tye oversees Tuck’s talent management and human resources services, including organizational development, recruitment and hiring, performance management, employee relations, and staff training. Before joining Tuck in June 2016, Tye served in the Dartmouth Office of Human Resources as Senior HR Consultant for Advancement, Athletics, Finance and Administration, IT Services, the Office of the President, Student Affairs, and Tuck.
Prior to coming to Dartmouth in 2013, Tye was the Director of Human Resources and Title IX Coordinator at Colby-Sawyer College, a private liberal arts and sciences college located in New London, New Hampshire. Tye has held HR leadership and consulting positions in the nonprofit, financial, corporate communications, and fashion sectors in San Francisco, New York City, and Denver. A native of eastern Montana, Tye received his Bachelor of Arts in political science at the University of Montana in Missoula, and holds the Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR) and the Senior Certified Professional (SHRM-SCP) designations. He lives West Lebanon with his husband, Cameron, who works in the Dartmouth Student Financial Services office.
Gina Clark des Cognets T’01
Chief of Staff and Executive Director, Office of the Dean
Gina Clark des Cognets is the Executive Director in the Office of the Dean at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College. As the Dean's chief of staff, Gina serves as a key adviser on institutional matters, and partners with leadership to develop, implement, and evaluate priorities and initiatives to support Tuck’s mission. Over her ten years at Tuck, Gina has served as an Associate Director and Director of Alumni Services, and more recently, as Director of Marketing and Communications. In that role, Gina led the successful merger of two teams—creative services and public relations—into a dynamic marketing and communications group, and developed and executed a comprehensive strategy to broadly communicate Tuck’s strategic priorities and key messages with critical audiences around the globe.
Prior to Tuck, Gina was Director of Investor Client Services at Business Intelligence Advisors, and held 'chief of staff' roles with the Vice-Chair of AOL Time Warner and the President and CEO of Robinson Lerer and Montgomery, a strategic communications firm in New York City. Gina is a trustee of the Norwich Public Library and a trustee of the Montshire Museum, where she was co-chair of the 2016 Montshire Museum of Science Auction. She is an enthusiastic 2001 graduate of Tuck, and earned a BA in Art History and minor in Psychology from Hamilton College. In her free time, Gina loves to run, telemark ski, drink delicious coffee and wine, and have dance parties in her Norwich, VT kitchen with her two daughters, Eliza and Annabel, and husband Archer.
Dia Draper
Director, Strategic Initiatives, MBA Program
As Director of Strategic Initiatives for The Tuck School, Dia plays a key leadership role in planning and carrying out broad-based diversity initiatives that promote the inclusion, awareness, acceptance, achievement, understanding and equality of all members of Tuck community. Dia is charged with leading a variety of complex and sensitive projects for the Tuck School, including acting as liaison and ambassador to the Offices of the President, Provost and Dean of the College on issues related to Diversity & Inclusion. This role continues the work that she began when she joined Tuck in 2006. Some of her favorite responsibilities include: the Tuck Diversity Conference, working with student groups and club leaders, International Student Orientation and the Tuck International Exchange Program.
Prior to joining Tuck, Dia was an Associate Director of Admissions at the University of Virginia’s Darden Graduate School of Business, and began her career as a consultant with PwC and later as a manager at Deloitte. She is a graduate of the University of Virginia’s McIntire School of Commerce, where she earned her BS and MS in Accounting. She enjoys travel, cooking, and apocalypse genre films and books (there’s something fascinating about zombies!). She lives in Vermont with her family and two dogs.
Patricia D. Harrison
Interim Co-Director, Admissions
Pat Harrison has been with the Admissions office since 2004. In addition to working to recruit, admit and yield talented Tuck students each year, she oversees women's recruiting initiatives, the interviewing program and works with financial aid on scholarship awards.
Prior to Tuck, she was an associate attorney with Womble, Carlyle, Sandridge & Rice in Charlotte, NC, practicing employment law and business litigation. She received her JD from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, and her AB in Art History from Bowdoin College.
Pat lives in Hanover with her husband, daughter, and a very energetic golden retriever puppy. She enjoys reading and hiking, but most of her free time is spent chasing after her daughter and puppy.
Sally O. Jaeger
Assistant Dean and Director, MBA Program
Sally Jaeger has 30 years of experience in higher education, primarily in the field of admissions at both the undergraduate and graduate levels. She is currently the assistant dean and director of the MBA program at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth, where she and her team oversee all activities relating to student life, academic records and counseling, international exchanges, and activities and clubs.
As the former director of admissions at Tuck, Sally helped manage the evaluation process of more than 22,000 applications for the MBA program over a period of nine years. During her tenure as director, Tuck saw its international student population grow from 15% to 30+% and enjoy a strong presence from such parts of the world as Asia and Latin America. Prior to Tuck, Sally worked in admissions at the University of Pennsylvania and Dartmouth College.
Sally sat on the boards of the Forte Foundation, the Consortium for Graduate Study in Management and the Mascoma Valley Health Initiative and was a member of the planning board in her hometown. Sally lives in Orange, New Hampshire with her husband, Dick, the former admissions and athletic director at Dartmouth College and her two yellow labs, Sam and Maizie.
Steven D. Lubrano T’87
Executive Director, Infrastructure and Operations, Dean’s Office
Steve is Executive Director, Infrastructure and Operations at Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth College where, since 2002, he has helped orchestrate operations across Tuck. He started his career at Tuck after an impromptu visit to the school to visit with Dean Fox who offered him the position as the Associate Director of Corporate Relations and Director of the Tuck Associates program. That started what has been a happy and fulfilling career with stops along the way at Director of the MBA Program Office (with Sally Jaeger) and Director of the Career Development Office.
Steve graduated from Tuck in 1987 and joined the Trammell Crow Company (TCC) in Philadelphia. He left TCC to launch a network of Mailboxes etc. franchise in Southeastern, MA with the hopes that UPS would soon buy the parent company. That happened, but long after Steve had sold his franchises after learning that he was not a dyed-in-the-wool entrepreneur like his dad, Dave Lubrano,T'56.
He received a BA from St. Lawrence University in 1981, is the a member of the New Hampshire Judicial Council, former chair of the Howe Library Corporation, a Tuck Class Agent and verbose class notes reporter. Steve and his wife Allegra live in the hills of Hanover, but they spend considerable time travelling to watch their three daughters run around on collegiate and high school soccer and lacrosse fields.
Jonathan D. Masland
Executive Director, Career Development
As the Director for the Career Development Office at Tuck, Jonathan and his team oversee MBA, alumni and Bridge career services. His professional career includes corporate finance and investment banking roles with Alex. Brown & Sons, Coopers & Lybrand, Robertson Stephens and Townsend Frew in addition to entrepreneurial endeavors with Strategic Capital Resources, Revbox and The Endeavor Initiative in Uruguay.
Jonathan received his BA from Harvard University and received his MBA and MA from the Wharton/Lauder Institute dual-degree program. Jonathan also spent time cycling across the United States, coaching the Harvard squash team and living in Mexico where he met his wife Mónica.
Amy L. Mitson
Interim Co-Director, Admissions
As the acting Co Director of Admissions at the Tuck School of Business, Amy Mitson oversees recruiting and communications. In addition to international recruiting and managing regional staff in India, Latin America, and Mexico City, Amy also leads minority student recruiting. Amy serves as Tuck's board representative to the Consortium for Graduate Schools of Management and the primary representative to the Graduate Management Admissions Council (GMAC) and is currently on GMAC's annual conference planning committee.
Amy started her career at Tuck in the MBA program Office where she held Assistant Director and Senior Associate Director roles before continuing her own Tuck rotational program in Admissions.
Amy graduated with a BA. from The Catholic University of America and an MBA from Franklin Pierce University. She has been at Tuck and in the Upper Valley for 16 years and has loved the experience of serving organizations like The Upper Valley Haven and enjoying opportunities to ice climb, mountain bike, run up and down mountains, and teach spinning.
Andrew R. Steele T’79
Tuck Ambassador
As Tuck Ambassador, Andy is responsible for cultivating, supporting and engaging the loyal and dynamic Tuck alumni community. At Tuck since 1982, Andy has been a tireless traveler for Tuck, visiting many countries and cities across the globe to share news and excitement about Tuck with our alumni. His early efforts with the Tuck Annual Giving campaign built a strong base for Tuck to become the alumni giving participation leader across higher education institutions.
Andy is a Tuck graduate himself and a Princeton alum. Andy and his wife, Annabelle, live in Enfield, and can frequently be spotted hiking, rowing, and enjoying the greater outdoors.
Erin R. Tunnicliffe T’97
Executive Director of Advancement
As the chief advancement officer for Tuck, Erin leads a team of fundraising and alumni relations professionals and, in collaboration with the Dean, envisions, establishes, and activates the overall strategy for Tuck alumni engagement and philanthropic support to advance Tuck’s priorities and to enhance the deep connection and affiliation of Tuck’s alumni community with the school and with one another. Prior to her current role, Erin served as Director of Tuck’s Career Development Office. A Tuck 1997 alumna, Erin earned her BSE from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, and subsequently worked as a marketing and strategy consultant with Mercer Management Consulting and Marketing and Planning Systems (MaPS), where she was a co-founder. Erin was a Principal at consulting firm the Parthenon Group after her Tuck student days before returning to work for the school.
Erin serves on the Board of Trustees of the Kripalu Center for Yoga & Health in the Berkshires, and the Norwich Public Library. A longtime yoga practitioner and teacher, Erin teaches at a local studio. When not on her yoga mat, Erin can be found with her husband John hiking or biking up a hill, cooking, or being walked by their dog Sadie.
Ed Winchester
Senior Director, Marketing and Communications
As Senior Director, Marketing and Communications, Ed works closely with Tuck’s leadership to develop strategies that integrate and expand Tuck’s editorial, marketing and communications, and media relations efforts through measurable activities that bring to life the mission of the Tuck School of Business. Prior to his current role, Ed served as Director of Communications, Content Strategy at Tuck.
Ed’s previous roles at Dartmouth include Co-Director of Tuck Creative Services, and communications strategist for the Office of the President and Provost, where he helped lead communications for the college’s first-ever campus-wide strategic planning process. Ed is the former editor and publisher of AMC Outdoors, the magazine of the Appalachian Mountain Club, and executive editor of Rowing News magazine.
A graduate of Carleton University and Ryerson University, Ed was a five-time member of Canada’s national rowing team and a member of the Canadian Olympic team for the Sydney Games. In 2000, he won a world title in the lightweight men’s pair in Zagreb, Croatia. Ed lives in Hanover with his wife Allison, a neonatal nurse practitioner at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center, and three children.