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Class of 2025 - In-Person Program

Dalton Crabtree
Specialty Claims Director – Cyber, Hartford Steam Boiler
Dalton Crabtree is a specialty claims director of cyber insurance at Hartford Steam Boiler, a specialty insurance company that offers coverages for equipment breakdown, cyber risk, and other specialty liabilities. In this role, he oversees and directs the handling of cyber insurance losses and the progression of cyber and liability product development. His experience spans both domestic and global cyber threats and responses.

Prior to Hartford Steam Boiler, his past experiences include account management, process improvement, and research to identify opportunities to innovate specialty property insurance products. Crabtree also continues to actively develop employee training and engagement, researching innovation within the specialty insurance market and the statistical analysis of multiple distribution channels.

He also holds multiple insurance designations and professional certifications spanning project management, information technology, and legal studies. 

He earned a master’s degree in insurance management from Boston University and a bachelor’s degree in business administration from Saginaw Valley State University.

Eric Douthirt
Director of MBA programs, USF Muma College of Business
Eric Douthirt is the director of MBA programs at the USF Muma College of Business and serves on the college’s leadership team. In this role, he oversees the administration of the MBA programs portfolio for the college, including both the Evening and Weekend Professional MBA programs, the Online MBA program, and the Executive MBA program.

Douthirt is active in the graduate business community through various channels, such as the Consortium for Online Graduate Business Education and Graduate Management Admissions Council. 

His prior experience includes various roles in higher education, including leading the graduate and executive education team at the Kate Tiedemann College of Business on USF’s St. Petersburg campus prior to consolidation. Douthirt is also an active musician; writing, recording, and performing when time allows.

He earned an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of South Florida.

Laura Ferraz
Senior Fiscal & Business Analyst, ßÙßÇÂþ»­
Laura Ferraz is a senior fiscal and business analyst for the Innovative Education finance department at the ßÙßÇÂþ»­. In her current role, she prepares and develops financial reports, monitors budgets, analyzes and reviews expenditure activities to identify potential problems and recommend solutions, ensuring adherence to USF policies and procedures.

She also reconciles and performs a detailed review and analytical analysis, including a budget review to actuals/variance analysis for general revenue and auxiliary.

Her previous experience includes serving as a fiscal and business analyst and as a fiscal and business specialist with USF World’s Education Abroad Office.

She earned an MBA and a bachelor’s degree in accounting and management information systems from the ßÙßÇÂþ»­.

Erica Mangino Giuliani
Data Science Manager, JOANN
Erica Giuliani is a data science manager for JOANN, the national sewing and fabrics crafts store chain. She has a track record in implementing advanced analytics in everyday spaces.

In her current role, she leads a team of data scientists to implement advanced analytics including machine learning, natural language processing, and other algorithmic solutions in marketing, inventory management, supply chain, and store operations.

She also utilizes geographic data to optimize store locations and initiatives, model supply chain and order fulfillment networks with the focus to eliminate bottlenecks, improving customer experience, and providing clear data to cross functional teams.

Prior to JOANN, Giuliani served as a data scientist and data science manager for the Cleveland Browns by developing models for marketing and ticketing for the football team.

Giuliani earned a master’s degree in business analytics and data science from the University of Miami and a bachelor’s degree in hospitality management, marketing, and communications from The Ohio State University.

Zachary Hubbs
General Manager, SunCoast Contractors Supply, Inc.
Zachary Hubbs is the general manager for SunCoast Contractors Supply. He oversees all aspects of the construction supply business and has led the executive leadership team through exponential growth while staying true to the founding principles and core customers of the family business. The company delivers construction materials, such as doors, windows, lumber, and trim to the jobsites of professional contractors.

His prior experience centered on manufacturing and innovation. He served as vice president and COO of a family business that manufactures components for medical devices, automotive, equestrian, and consumer products. During this period, he wrote patents, implemented quality control systems from scratch, sold to Fortune 500 and multi-national companies, and brought more than 20 consumer products to market.

Hubbs also is founder and CEO of Peachy Clean brand products. Peachy Clean is a silicone dish scrubber that is bacteria and mold resistant and smells like peaches.

He earned a bachelor’s degree in business from Covenant College.

Michael Kelly
Vice President/Director of Athletics, ßÙßÇÂþ»­
Michael Kelly is the director of athletics at the ßÙßÇÂþ»­ where he leads the department of intercollegiate athletics. He serves nearly 500 student-athletes and 200 staff members in a program that includes 19 different sports and has collectively won 139 conference championships in USF history.

Kelly has the distinction of being the only person to be the lead local executive for three Super Bowls in three different cities. He served as the president and CEO for the Super Bowl Host Committee in Tampa in 2001; Jacksonville in 2005; and Miami in 2007. His experience also includes serving as the senior associate commissioner at the Atlantic Coast Conference for six years where he oversaw football, communications, and broadcasting. From 2012 to 2018, he was the first chief operating officer of the College Football Playoff where he ran the day-to-day operations of the organization and oversaw all aspects of sponsorship, broadcasting, and game/festival operations for the New Year’s Six Bowls, National Semifinals, and the National Championship.

Kelly earned a master’s degree in sports administration from St. Thomas University and a bachelor’s degree in politics from Wake Forest University.

Andy Lyman
Founder and Chairman, All Point POS, Inc.
Andy Lyman is the founder and chairman of All Point POS, Inc. For the past 22 years, he has led his own company and four years ago, moved into the chairman position and transitioned a new CEO to run the company he founded.

Prior to starting his consulting company, Lyman’s previous experience involved managing large scale information systems projects from initial phases of strategy, architecture, analysis, design, and through successful implementation. His technology background began in a mainframe COBOL online CICS database centric application environment and transitioned to a client server application software engineer.

He is an active member of Rotary International, having served as Rotary International District 6960 Governor from 2021 to 2022 and led the District in the highest membership growth since 1983. 

He earned a bachelor’s degree in information systems management from the University of San Francisco.

Will Rankin
Business Executive, International Business Development Consultant and Advisor
With over 40 years of progressive and diverse experience as a business and public sector executive, Rankin is known for strengthening enterprises through decisive leadership and delivery of strategic objectives. He is a military veteran, retired law enforcement federal agent, international businessman, adviser, entrepreneur, and former politician. 

In the private sector, Rankin has conducted business on five continents in various industries with extensive international business contacts through his many years identifying and developing trade, investment, and business opportunities.

As an entrepreneur, he is the former founder, president, and CEO of various companies abroad and at home that include IT enterprise solution and development, commercial real estate development, and international luxury lifestyle magazine publishing. In his public life, Rankin has a history as a political candidate and appointee. He served as an executive on presidential campaign and managed other state and local political campaigns. 

Rankin earned a bachelor’s degree in business administration in economics from Xavier University in Cincinnati, Ohio.

Ramesh Sedhain
Director of Quality, Bausch & Lomb
Ramesh Sedhain is the director of quality at Bausch & Lomb, overseeing the surgical manufacturing facilities in Clearwater, Florida and Warsaw, Poland. In his current role, he ensures full product lifecycle quality management systems, establishing quality strategy for surgical implant devices and accessories in collaboration with global quality and surgical business stakeholders.

His previous experience includes working at the pharmaceutical division as the quality director overseeing all quality activities at the Bausch & Lomb Tampa manufacturing site.

Sedhain has more than 24 years of pharmaceutical/medical devices manufacturing experience in quality and engineering at multiple facilities for Alcon/Novartis, Nestle, and Bausch & Lomb. He was born and raised in Kathmandu, Nepal and started his career as a validation engineer at an Alcon manufacturing facility in Fort Worth, Texas.

He earned an MBA and a master’s degree in environmental and public health from the University of Wisconsin – Eau Claire, and a bachelor’s degree in chemical engineering from Michigan Technological University.

Sherry Shen
Sherry Shen spent 15 years working at Intel, promoting ICT adoption in the education industry in China, where she accumulated extensive experiences about strategic planning, market development, ecosystem enabling, solution setting, and key account management.

She worked with customers, partners, and fellow employees to drive education sales by introducing worldwide education transformation enabled by technology, education solutions impacting learning and teaching, and best-known deployment strategy adopted around the world.

Prior to Intel, she held multiple business development and marketing jobs in several technology companies.

She enjoys her job most when she feels her work has a positive impact on society. She believes that corporate business goals and social responsibilities could and should be aligned to boost employee morale, increase competitiveness, and maximize social welfare.

Shen earned an MBA from the University of Wisconsin-Parkside and a bachelor’s degree in engineering from the University of Science & Technology Beijing.

Donnie Shiflet
Senior Project Manager, TECO Energy
Donnie Shiflet is the senior project manager for lighting operations at Tampa Electric Company. In his current role, he focuses on implementation work that includes administrative and operational software development, interactive web portals, smart systems, and LED street lighting systems; all with an aim to leverage the efficiencies created through technology.

Shiflet’s experience includes development and management over multi-year service contracts and contract scope development; management of skilled trades teams performing physical maintenance and repair of facilities and power plants; and responsibility over expense and capital budgets averaging $15 million annually. He is also a small business owner and a state of Florida certified and licensed HVAC contractor.

He earned an Executive MBA from the ßÙßÇÂþ»­ and a bachelor’s degree in management from Saint Leo University.

Adam Smith
Executive Vice President and Chief Ambulatory Officer, Tampa General Hospital
Adam Smith is an executive vice president and chief ambulatory officer at Tampa General Hospital. In this role, he is responsible for the strategic and operational performance of the entire ambulatory care portfolio of services. 

He is a recognized leader in the health industry, having received success through the execution of strategic partnerships, implementing innovative approaches to health care, and focusing on care coordination to ensure the delivery of world-class care. 

Throughout his career, he has focused on understanding team dynamic, mentoring, and creating work environments where the team can thrive. His career in health care started over 25 years ago when he graduated from the Community College of Rhode Island as an x-ray technologist. After moving to Florida, he spent 19 years in a local health system advancing from clinical to administrative roles before coming to Tampa General Hospital in 2018.

He earned an MBA from the ßÙßÇÂþ»­ and a bachelor’s degree in business from Eckerd College.

Jason Willey
IT Specialist, U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs
Jason Wiley is an IT specialist with the U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs. In his current role, he leads various dashboard developments while briefing high-level executives from multiple agencies.

His previous analytics experience includes working as a government contractor in support for the Federal Emergency Management Agency as a data quality analyst and the Veterans Health Administration as a business analyst.

In addition, he has spent the past five years of his career in analytics cleaning large datasets in Python, writing advanced SQL queries accomplishing a wide variety of tasks, and utilizing business intelligence and machine learning tools to answer complex questions related to the data for senior level officials.

Willey earned his MBA from Louisiana State University Shreveport and a bachelor’s degree in psychology from Louisiana Tech University.