Ph.D. in Counseling Psychology, Ohio State University
EMBA The University of Texas at San Antonio
M.S.W. in Social Work, University of Minnesota
Ph.B. in Social Work, University of North Dakota

Gary Larsen brings a wide breadth of experience in private business and government service to the Executive MBA program. A retired colonel, he spent 25 years as a mental health provider, aviation psychology consultant, physician educator, management consultant and senior leader of medical programs in the Air Force. Subsequent to his Air Force career he was the senior vice president of operations for a nationwide medical company for 13 years.  He has been part of the regular EMBA faculty since 2000.

Ph.D. in Business Administration and Management, Texas A&M University
M.S. in Engineering Science, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
MBA Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
B.S. in Aerospace Engineering, Pennsylvania State University

Robert Lengel has built a reputation for his intellectual creativity and his ability to communicate these new ideas effectively. He has addressed many groups, taught thousands of students, and helped managers of more than 100 companies understand the scientific and philosophical basis for change in corporate America. Robert has developed and led corporate training programs and has consulted and conducted research for many clients, including the military, public and private schools, energy companies, theme parks, retailers, and telecommunications companies. He has also published numerous articles, including nationally recognized work on information richness. He is the co-author of Fusion Leadership with Richard Daft, a colleague at Vanderbilt University. The book explains how dialogue can help address the challenge of today’s leadership and organizational change.

Ph.D. in Economics, Southern Methodist University 
B.A. & M.A. in Economics,  University of Missouri at Columbia
Bachelor of Journalism, University of Missouri at Columbia

Keith Phillips joined the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas in January 1984 and is currently a senior economist and policy advisor. His areas of concentration include regional economics and economic forecasting. He developed business cycle indexes for Texas and its major metro areas, which he uses to analyze business conditions in those regions. He is a contributing member of the Western Blue Chip Economic Forecasting Group, where he has been the most accurate Texas forecaster for eight out of the past 13 years. His research and analysis have been covered in media such as CNN, The News Hour with Jim Lehrer, USA Today, BusinessWeek, the Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, MSNBC and in media throughout Texas. In August 1996, he was transferred to the San Antonio branch in an effort to improve the regional economic coverage of the Dallas office and to better serve the needs of the South Texas community. In addition to teaching in the UTSA EMBA program, he has taught courses in econometrics and forecasting at Trinity, Incarnate Word and St. Mary’s universities.

MBA The University of Texas at San Antonio
B.B.A. in Accounting, University of Texas at Austin
B.A. in Music Theory, University of Texas at Austin
CFA, CPA and several other finance-related designations

Ron Sweet brings a practitioner’s expertise to finance, having worked over 23 years in several corporate finance and accounting departments, where he was responsible for developing and implementing investment, capital management and risk management strategies for insurance, bank, real estate, and retail enterprises in addition to being responsible for the investments backing several employment benefit plans. In those capacities, he was responsible for coordinating strategies for over $35 billion in investments for a Fortune 1,000 financial services enterprise, retiring in 2009 to focus on his charitable work.  For the past 11 years, he has combined his practical business experiences with the latest financial theories to teach finance and risk management courses at UTSA.