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New Senior
Leadership
Announced
 Michael R. Gibbons, I.W. Burnham II Professor of Investment Banking and
Professor of Finance, has
been named deputy dean,
where he will serve as the
School’s chief academic and
program officer. Gibbons
has been a Wharton faculty
member since 1989, and
has served as chairperson
of the Finance Department
from 1994-2006. He has
also played a key role in
many other School initiatives,
including serving as
a member of two strategic
planning committees.
Gibbons, who earned his
PhD at the University of
Chicago, has also taught at
Stanford University and the
University of Chicago.
 Georgette Chapman
Phillips has been named
vice dean and director
of the Wharton
Undergraduate Division.
Phillips, the David B. Ford
Professor of Real Estate and
Professor of Legal Studies
and Law; Chairperson,
Real Estate Department,
has chaired the Real Estate
Department since 2003. She
has served as a faculty member
at Wharton and Penn
Law since 1992 and has
been honored for her teaching
with Undergraduate
Division Excellence in
Teaching Award in 1994
and the Rapaport Award for
Excellence in teaching the
Undergraduate Core
in 1997.
Phillips earned her JD
from Harvard University.
Prior to her academic career,
she practiced law as an associate
with Toll, Ebby Langer
& Marvin, Drinker Biddle
& Reath, and Willkie Farr
& Gallagher.
 Thomas J. Colligan has
been appointed vice dean
of Executive Education,
where he will oversee
Wharton’s offering of nondegree
executive education
programs, including
open enrollment and custom
programs. Since 2004,
Colligan has been a managing
director of Duke
Corporate Education, a
for-profit corporation delivering
custom executive
education, and affiliated
with Duke University’s
Fuqua School of Business.
Colligan recently
ended his career with
PricewaterhouseCoopers
(PwC), where he served on
the governing board and
management committee
and developed the firm’s
marketing strategy after the
merger of Price Waterhouse
with Coopers & Lybrand.
As vice chairman of PwC,
he developed firm-wide
strategies for deepening relationships
with PwC’s top
100 clients, representing
$1.5 billion in revenue. He
also spearheaded the firm’s
global audit practice in the
technology, telecommunications
and entertainment
areas, overseeing operations
in 100 countries.
Colligan holds a BS in
Accounting from Fairleigh
Dickinson University (cum
laude) and has attended a
number of advanced management
programs, including
those at Harvard and
the University of Virginia.
 Peter Degnan has been
named senior associate
dean for Finance and
Administration, where he
will oversee Wharton’s operating
and capital budget,
human resources, computing,
and facilities. He has
extensive experience managing
financial and administrative
functions, such as
finance, operations, information
technology, and
general administration. He
worked as managing director
for UBS Warburg Japan
and was responsible for the
complete integration of
the merger between UBS
and SBC Warburg operations
in Japan. Prior to his
work with UBS, Degnan
spent 14 years with Lehman
Brothers, Inc., where he
held several senior executive
positions, including chief
credit officer and chief financial
officer for Lehman
operations in New York,
Hong Kong, and Tokyo.
He joined Wharton in
2002 as director of MBA
Career Management, where
he successfully reengineered
the MBA recruiting process.
In 2004, he was appointed
executive director of
Executive Education, helping
to lead the important
expansion of the School’s
international client base and
custom program offerings.
Degnan holds an
MBA from New York
University’s Leonard N.
Stern School of Business
and a BS degree from
Georgetown University.
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