Stuart Urban’s path leading from a career in industry to one in academia started in 2012 when he began teaching a part-time course, Quantitative Financial Analysis, at Johns Hopkins University Carey Business School. At the time, Urban was a software engineer, research and development principal investigator, and data scientist at Lockheed Martin.

The Executive Ph.D. that Akwasi Ampofo earned as the first graduate of the Pamplin College of Business program in Spring 2021 is already propelling his career forward.