Senior Administrators
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Douglas H. Collom Vice Dean Wharton | San Francisco Contact » |
Douglas H. Collom, Vice Dean of Wharton in San Francisco, leads the West Coast operations and the Wharton MBA program for Executives.
Collom has been a corporate partner at Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati, where he counseled technology companies for over 20 years. He has also served as an adjunct professor at Wharton since 2002, co-teaching a course on venture capital and start-up companies with Professor Raffi Amit.
Collom earned a BA in U.S. history from Stanford and a JD from the UCLA School of Law.
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Peter J. Degnan Vice Dean Finance and Administration Contact » |
Peter J. Degnan, Vice Dean of Finance and Administration, oversees Wharton’s operating and capital budget, human resources, computing, and facilities.
Degnan joined Wharton in 2002 as director of MBA Career Management, and in 2004, he was appointed executive director of Executive Education. He previously served as managing director at UBS Warburg Japan and spent 14 years at Lehman Brothers, where his roles included chief credit officer and chief financial officer for Lehman operations in New York, Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
Degnan earned a BS from Georgetown University and an MBA from New York University's Leonard N. Stern School of Business.
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Samuel T. Lundquist Associate Dean External Affairs Contact » |
Samuel T. Lundquist, Associate Dean of External Affairs, is responsible for all fundraising and alumni relations activities at Wharton.
Lundquist spent much of his earlier career at Wharton and Penn, serving as assistant vice president for Penn Development and Campaign Initiatives; managing director of Administrative Services in the Wharton Graduate Division; chief of staff in the Wharton Dean’s Office; and director of MBA Admissions and Financial Aid. Most recently Lundquist was vice president for Development and Alumni Relations at Bucknell University.
A native of Philadelphia, Lundquist is a graduate of Denison University.
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Jason Wingard Vice Dean Executive Education Contact » |
Jason Wingard, Vice Dean of Executive Education, oversees Wharton’s division focused on all non-degree open enrollment and custom programs.
Previously, Wingard was Executive Director of the Stanford Educational Leadership Institute at Stanford University and Senior Director of Executive Education at Wharton. Most recently a Senior Fellow at the Aspen Institute, Wingard is Founder and Managing Partner of the Zoeza Group, LLC. He has served in management roles at Silicon Graphics, Inc., the Vanguard Group, and ePals, Inc.
Wingard earned a BA in Sociology from Stanford, an MA in Education from Emory, an EdM in Technology in Education from Harvard, and a PhD in Education, Culture, and Society (with a dissertation on Corporate Education) from the University of Pennsylvania.
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Deirdre Woods Associate Dean and CIO Wharton Computing and Information Technology Contact » |
Deirdre Woods, Associate Dean and CIO, leads Wharton’s IT team in delivering technology resources to faculty, students, staff and alumni and developing strategies to engage 21st century learners. She is also responsible for Wharton Research Data Services (WRDS), a computing platform, data warehouse and scholarly research commons used by more than 275 universities worldwide.
During more than 20 years at Penn, Woods has served as Senior Director for Wharton Computer and Information Technology and as Director of Faculty Services and Networking.
Woods earned a BA in economics from St. Lawrence University and a Master of Environmental Management from Duke University.
