Dr. Dexter Purnell is a faculty member in the marketing department at G. Brint Ryan College of Business. The 2x Billboard #1 recording engineer/producer is also an entrepreneur with significant experience in the entertainment industry. He has worked with recording artists and record labels such as Sony, Disturbing Tha Peace Records, Def Jam Records, Jaquees, Chrisette Michele, Raheem DeVaughn, David Banner, Rudy Currence, Christina Bell, Slim of 112, Nate Walka, Field Mob, O-Town, Loverboy, Jean Rodriguez, Captain Hollywood, and many others. Dr. Purnell has also managed to add some very impressive corporate clientele such as Footprint Features (When We First Met, Shimmer Lake, Family Weekend), Walt Disney Entertainment, NBA, ESPN, Jansport, Gearhead Pictures/Dan Myrick (Blair Witch Project, The Strand) and Hard Rock Academy to his ever-growing résumé.

Dr. Purnell holds a doctoral degree in business administration from Wilmington University, a master's degree in marketing from the University of Alabama, and has extensive experience teaching both face-to-face and online courses. He has held faculty positions at West Georgia Technical College, MacMurray College, and Elizabeth City State University. Dr. Purnell enjoys conducting academic research on various topics in the areas of entrepreneurship, entertainment, and consumer behavior.

Dr. Arunachalam (Chalam) Narayanan is an Associate Professor of Analytics in the department of Information Technology and Decision Sciences. He earned a Ph.D. in Operations Management and MS in Industrial Engineering from Texas A&M University. He also earned a BE in Mechanical Engineering from College of Engineering, Guindy in India. Prior to his appointment at University of North Texas, he was a faculty member in the Industrial Distribution Program in College of Engineering at Texas A&M University (tenured in 2012) and a faculty member in the Bauer College of Business at University of Houston. He has consulted with several firms including Schlumberger, Gulf States Toyota, Lyondell Basell, Lufkin, Brenntag, Wilson (now NOV), HEB, Baker Hughes and non-profits like Salvation Army and Capital Area Food Bank. His dissertation was recognized by DSI and CSCMP in 2007 and has published in journals including POMS, JOM, DSJ, EJOR, Omega, IJPE, IJPR among others. He has also created of a popular version of online beer game, which will soon be available in the UNT servers.

Dr. Gurpreet Dhillon is the G. Brint Ryan Endowed Chair of Artificial Intelligence and Cybersecurity. He graduated with a Ph.D. from the London School of Economics (UK). In 2019 he received an Honorary Doctorate from Örebro University (Sweden). Gurpreet has published nearly 100 peer-reviewed journal articles in some of the top-tier outlets, including FT50 journals. Gurpreet is also an author of over a dozen books, all related to information technology and cybersecurity. His research and teaching interests lie in the interface between technology and organizations. In particular, his focus has been on managing information security in organizations and ensuring the integrity of business operations. Gurpreet has advised over two dozen doctoral students. His expert comments have appeared in the New York Times, USA Today, Business Week, CNN, NBC News, NPR, TEDx, among others.

Rhonda K. Reger serves as the Management Department Doctoral Program Coordinator. She is also an International Research Fellow at Oxford University’s Centre for Corporate Reputation, Said Business School.

Dr. Reger’s research focuses on socio-cognitive perspectives in strategy and entrepreneurship. She primarily studies constituents’ social evaluations (e.g., disapproval, reputation) of firms on social media using content analysis and econometrics. Her award-winning research has appeared in leading scholarly journals including the Academy of Management Journal, Academy of Management Review, Strategic Management Journal, Organization Science, Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Organizational Research Methods. In addition to teaching masters and undergraduate students, she has taught EMBA and doctoral students in the United States, China, Europe and Australia, and regularly leads CARMA (Consortium for the Advancement of Research Methods and Analysis) short courses on content analysis methods.

She earned a PhD in Strategic Management from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign.

Dr. Reger previously held the M. Watkins Professorship of Management at the University of Missouri where she founded a new Entrepreneurship and Innovation Center; the Nestlé Professor of Business Administration at the University of Tennessee where she served as Director of Research for the Anderson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, and Director of the Management Doctoral Program. Earlier, she held faculty positions at the University of Maryland (including Department Co-Chair and Faculty Director of the MBA Program), Arizona State University, and the University of Illinois-Chicago.