SUSAN WHITE. Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Graduated cum laude, honors history

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1 SUSAN WHITE Contact Information: Work: (301) EDUCATION Doctor of Philosophy, University of Texas at Austin Primary field: Finance Secondary fields: Operations Management and Economics Dissertation: Tax Penalty Implications of Dividend policy and Regulatory Influences on Merger Activity Degree awarded: August 1990 Master of Business Administration, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York Concentration in finance, graduated with honors, second in class Bachelor of Arts, Brown University, Providence, Rhode Island Graduated cum laude, honors history EMPLOYMENT Distinguished Tyser Teaching Fellow, Finance, R.H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, August Present Senior Lecturer, Finance, University of Texas, September 1989 August 2001 Graduate courses taught: Financial Management, Advanced Corporate Finance, Financial Strategies, and Case Problems in Financial Management Undergraduate courses taught: Integrative Finance, Financial Planning and Policy for Large Corporations, Business Finance, and Foundations of Finance Assistant Dean for Program Administration, Office of the Graduate Business Dean, McCombs School of Business, University of Texas, September 1997-July 2000 Supervised MBA program administration staff, including advisors, tech support, and student services. This area encompassed academics, registration, orientation, scheduling, student services, and faculty liaison for the MBA program. Undergraduate Advisor, Finance Department, University of Texas, Sept Sept Responsible for advising undergraduate finance majors, liaison with faculty and the undergraduate dean s office, undergraduate policy issues and grading disputes. Lecturer, St. Edward s University, Austin, Texas Course taught: Business Communications

2 Lecturer, Binghamton University, Binghamton, New York Course taught: Production Management Supervisor, Employee Communications, New York State Electric & Gas Corp., Binghamton, New York Supervised production of two employee newsletters, news releases, press inquiries, newspaper clipping service, annual reports Reporter, Binghamton Sun Bulletin, Binghamton, New York EXECUTIVE EDUCATION/CONSULTING Chase Texas, Texas Commerce Bank, Dallas and Houston Conducted two-day seminars on Principles of Corporate Finance for the bank s financial analyst training program, 1998 Competitive Business Leadership School, University of Texas Executive Education Taught half-day seminar on corporate finance, 1999 CIBER (Center for International Business and Education Research), University of Texas Taught a three week European Finance course at Ecole Superiere de Commerce de Paris in Paris, France, 1997 and 1998 Center for Lifelong Engineering Education, University of Texas Teaching Financial Management to students in the M.S. in Engineering Management Option III (Executive Education) program, Fall 2000 LEAD (Program for minority students) Presented the accounting/finance module to LEAD students, minority students in a three-week business/entrepreneurship program, July 2000 Consultant for Walter V. Williams, attorney Testified as an expert witness in Rowell v. Amperor, Inc., a case which required preparing a valuation of Amperor, Inc., and testifying about the valuation in a civil lawsuit, Allen Resources, Newport, Rhode Island Edited study guides and videotaped lectures with study material for the CFA exam concerning investments, economics, international finance and corporate finance, I have videotaped lectures concerning economics, levels I, II and III, and edited economics, corporate finance and investments materials for Allen Resources. State Farm, semester long online course for the investments portion of the Certified Financial Planner program, Fall

3 Various assignments for University of Maryland Executive Education, including a lecture on bankruptcy, to Polish MBA students on investments and to visiting Chinese executives. PUBLICATIONS AND PRESENTATIONS Financial Education Association, Bermuda, September 2007, Presented Readers Digest Association: Debt or Equity? case Financial Education Association, San Antonio, April 2006, Presented The Japanese Business Novel: A Resource for Giving Finance an International Flavor North American Case Research Association, Presentation at annual conference in San Diego, October 2006, Loral Space and Communications case ISSOTL (International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning), Presentation at conference, Washington, D.C., November 2006, with Charles LaHaie, Teaching with Technology Financial Markets Labs Teaching With Technology conference, University of Maryland, March 2006, Integrating the Financial Markets Laboratory into the Finance Curriculum with Charles LaHaie and Russ Wermers Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: The Price of Pollution, with Ramesh K. S. Rao, Journal of Financial Education, Vol. 31, Winter 2005, pages Paper reprinted, ICFAI Journal of Environmental Law, Sulfur Dioxide Allowances: The Price of Pollution Papers listed in SSRN FEN network: Sulfur Dioxide Allowances, accepted for publication by the Journal of Financial Education, coauthored with Ramesh K.S. Rao, University of Texas at Austin; The Creation of FirstCity Financial Corporation: A Clinical Study of the Bankruptcy Process, accepted for publication by the International Journal of Financial Education, with Ramesh K.S. Rao, University of Texas at Austin Paper presented, Financial Education Association, 4/05, Liliana Imports, in Orlando, Florida Chair of session, Cases in Corporate Finance Paper presented, North American Case Research Association (NACRA), 10/05, Aquarius Ales, a valuation case. Paper presented, International Conference on Business, May 2005, A Valuation Case in Honolulu, Hawaii. Presented Liliana Imports: A Valuation and Negotiation Exercise, at the Financial Education Association, April

4 The Creation of FirstCity Financial Corporation: A Clinical Study of the Bankruptcy Process, International Journal of Financial Education, with Ramesh K.S. Rao, University of Texas at Austin Paper presented, Financial Education Association, 4/03, Mystic, Connecticut, Cases session, Dakota Power and Light: The Price of Pollution, coauthored with Ramesh K.S. Rao, University of Texas Austin Chapter in A Casebook on Corporate Renewal, 2004, edited by Marjorie Platt, Northeastern University. Chapter is a case study of FirstCity Financial Corp. s emergence from bankruptcy. The Economics of the Bankruptcy Confirmation Process: The Creation of FirstCity Financial Corporation, 2001, presented at the Eastern Finance Association conference, April 2002 The Dividend Payouts of Private Firms: Evidence from Tax-Court Decisions, Journal of Financial Research, Winter 1994 The Dividend Payouts of Private Firms: Evidence from Tax-Court Decisions. Presented at the Financial Management Association proceedings, October 1991 Highlights (short case stories to illustrate finance theories) in Financial Management: Concepts and Applications, 2 nd edition by Ramesh Rao, 1992 Integrative Casebook, for Financial Management: Concepts and Applications, 1994 TEACHING AWARDS Fellow in the University of Maryland Academy for Excellence in Teaching and Learning, 2007 to present. Philip Merrill Presidential Scholars faculty mentor, November 2007 Lilly Fellow for and for Joseph Wikler Teaching Award, Finance Department, 2006 University of Maryland Award for Innovation in Teaching with Technology, with Russ Wermers, Dilip Madan and Chuck LaHaie in April 2005 PROFESSIONAL MEMBERSHIPS/UNIVERSITY COMMITTEES American Finance Association Financial Management Association 4

5 Phi Kappa Phi Honor Society Mensa Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, R.H. Smith School of Business Chair, Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Finance Department Recruiting Committee, Finance Department LANGUAGE TRAINING: French (reading, some spoken), Russian (limited) 5