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Meet the Faculty & Staff
Carmen Aramanda
Director
As the Director of Trinity Entrepreneurship, I'm working to equip students with the freedom and opportunity of entrepreneurship. Across my years of professional experience, the common threads are a love of small business, a passion for helping bring about meaningful change, a belief in the power of mentorship and hands-on experience, and the capability to apply my business knowledge in the development of processes and procedures.
Elizabeth (Liz) Murillo
Assistant Director
As the Assistant Director for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Liz is responsible for overseeing programs and events and creating entrepreneurship opportunities on campus. She brings over a decade of experience in coordinating a variety of events, including large-scale galas, an ability-friendly baseball clinic, panel discussions, and international events.
Sheree Hill
Administrative Support Specialist
As the Administrative Support Specialist for the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Sheree brings years of experience in office support and coordination. She is the main point of contact for the department, is responsible for tracking and maintaining budgets, schedules, and correspondence, and helps coordinate events to name a few.
Elsa Fernandez
Program Manager
As the Program Manager, Elsa brings vast knowledge as a previous business owner herself and a passionate supporter of the local small business landscape. She’s thrilled to be able to integrate her network wherever possible to enrich the entrepreneurial experience of those utilizing the Center for Innovation & Entrepreneurship.
Chad Reumann
Assistant Program Manager
As the Assistant Program Manager, Chad’s main focus will be supporting programs and events, connecting students, faculty, and alumni with entrepreneurs, service providers, and investors. Chad is a seasoned advocate, educator, and leader with 16+ years of experience in volunteer project management and nonprofit operations, particularly focused on LGBTQ+ and DE&I causes.
In Residence
A distinguishing feature of Trinity’s entrepreneurship program, the entrepreneur and investor residency programs put you in direct contact with mentors who offer invaluable expertise and enduring networking opportunities to help you found and sustain successful ventures.
Billy Freed
Investor in Residence
Billy Freed is a serial entrepreneur turned investor. For over 25 years he has worked with capital formation for numerous ventures, over a wide spectrum of industries, in his role as Principal with Nueces Marketing Partners, Ltd.
Adjunct Faculty
The Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship brings in entrepreneurial leaders from around the world so that you can gain real-world insight and expand your network.
Eva Pohler '89
ENTR Professor
Course Taught: ENTR 2391: Special Topics in Innovation and Entrepreneurship
Eva Pohler, Ph.D., is a 1989 Trinity alumna and a USA Today-bestselling author of over twenty novels in multiple genres. She is highly adept at brand building, developing fan bases, and marketing to a variety of audiences.
Mike Milan
ENTR Professor
Course Taught: 1) ENTR 4360, Entrepreneurial Sales 2) co-teaches ENTR 4390, Entrepreneurship Capstone
John Burnam '10
ENTR Professor
Course Taught:
John Burnam is a Head of Design at KALOS, a data and policy strategist, and a social impact pioneer with over 10 years of experience leading and executing projects that foster sustainable societal progress and resilience. He is also the Co-Founder of Redfern Analytics, a data-driven consultancy that helps organizations and communities thrive economically and socially.
Matt Glazer '04
ENTR Professor
Matt brings a rich and diverse background of working closely with Boards of Directors and nonprofit staff to meet community need with mission alignment and approaches organizational growth with an entrepreneurial mindset. Matt currently serves on the board for The Other Ones Foundation and E4Youth. He has served as the Vice-Chair on the Skillpoint Alliance Board and has been a 10-year volunteer and program designer at the Annette Strauss Institute.
Associated Faculty
Faculty from other Trinity University academic departments also collaborate with the Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, making for a truly interdisciplinary program.
Greg Hazleton, Ph.D.
English
As the Director of Trinity's Environmental Studies Program, I encourage students to pursue truly interdisciplinary modes of inquiry and action. In doing so, they will identify and solve different kinds of environmental problems using the new knowledge that emerges from combining the natural sciences, policy, and arts and humanities.
Katsuo A. Nishikawa, Ph.D.
Center for International Engagement
Katsuo Nishikawa focuses on how individuals acculturated under "non-democratic" regimes develop favorable dispositions toward political participation and democracy. At the moment, his work is concentrated on Mexico and its new democracy.
Patrick Shay '03, M'05, Ph.D.
Health Care Administration
Patrick Shay teaches graduate courses on topics including health services organization, organization theory, health policy, health care innovation, and population health management.
Dante Suarez, Ph.D.
Finance and Business Analytics
Suarez studies the integration of international financial markets, such as the relationship between American depositary receipts and their corresponding underlying stocks. Suarez conducts research in complex adaptive systems, exploring the way in which agents interact with each other and their environments.
Amy Foshee Holmes, Ph.D.
Accounting
Amy Holmes enjoyed a career in public accounting for almost 30 years before beginning a second career as an accounting professor. She is passionate about mentoring students and providing opportunities for them to be successful in the business world, and her years of experience help me to provide real life examples to engage students in the classroom.
Roberto Prestigiacomo, MFA
Human Communication and Theatre
Roberto Prestigiacomo is a theater-maker whose creative work includes the development of community-based theatre through improvisation and storytelling techniques, and the creation of original physical theater pieces.
Edward Schumacher, Ph.D.
Health Care Administration
Ed Schumacher works primarily in health care labor markets, health economics, labor economics, and quantitative methods.