Three new business professors – Dr. Kyle D. Ross, Dr. James Wilbanks, and Dr. David A. Gilliam – have joined UALR’s College of Business, Dean Anthony Chelte announced.

Ross, assistant professor of economics, earned his Ph.D. in economics from Kansas State University in 2009. After graduating, Ross was the Eli Lilly Senior Postdoctoral Research Fellow in the Pharmaceutical Outcomes Research and Policy Program at the University of Washington. He earned a B.S. degree in biology from Kansas State University and attended medical school for two years at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School.

Wilbanks, assistant professor of management, worked in the cable and telecommunication industry before earning his Ph.D. in management from the University of Missouri, awarded in May. His teaching and research interests include strategic management, entrepreneurship, and innovation, presenting at national conferences and having been published in the Journal of Management.

Wilbanks earned his MBA at the University of Arkansas at Little Rock and B.B.A. degree at Harding University. He is a member of the Academy of Management, the U.S. Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, the Society of Industrial and Organizational Psychologists, and the Strategic Management Society.

Gilliam, assistant professor of marketing, has taught sales management, strategy, services, retailing, and consumer behavior and is a member of the American Marketing Association. Dr. Gilliam will be published in a forthcoming article in the European Journal of Marketing and has authored or co-authored papers in a number of conference proceedings.

He received a Ph.D. from the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University this year and holds an MBA from Wright State University and a B.A. degree in economics from Ohio University. Prior to graduate school, he spent four years as a field representative for Heidelberg Eastern Inc., Division of East Asiatic Corp. in Copenhagen, Denmark, and then 17 years in an Ohio-based entrepreneurial venture in the graphic arts machinery industry.