Executive in Residence

Building Relationships and Making an Impact

In 2021, the School of Business Administration (SBA) established its Executive in Residence (EIR) Program with founding Executive, Kevin McQuilkin. The SBA’s EIR program is a unique opportunity for retired or semi-retired senior level executives to get involved with students, faculty, staff, and community in support of the school’s values of academic excellence, engagement in our university and our community and our Jesuit legacy of inspired, confident, and innovative action.

The program includes various areas of focus including but not limited to:

  • Mentoring and advising students
  • Teaching
  • Working with the Center for Career and Professional Development
  • Job placement
  • Career counseling
  • Organizing guest lectures, special interest presentations, and panel discussions
  • Consulting with faculty on curriculum development and skill building
  • Fundraising

The impact that an EIR can bring to a program is quite substantial. An EIR can be an excellent avenue for sharing practical experience with students helping to prepare the next generation of leaders. In all cases, the presence of seasoned and successful executives on campus provides students with role models. Sharing lessons learned from practical experience, providing an opportunity for the EIR to use his/her knowledge to share life experiences for the benefit of the next generation of professionals is priceless.

For Questions on how to apply or further details contact Dean, Ken Anderson at anderson@gonzaga.edu

Meet our Executives in Residence

Kevin McQuilkin

Kevin McQuilkin

Executive in Residence

In the fall of 2021, Kevin McQuilkin ’83, became the School of Business Administration’s first Executive in Residence after 35 years in investment banking in New York City. Kevin is an adjunct professor in finance, works with the Center for Career of Professional Development as a mentor to students through the job placement process, organizes special interest presentations and panel discussions, consults with faculty on curriculum development and skill building, and helps with fundraising.

Jabez LaBret

Jabez LeBret

Executive in Residence

Jabez LeBret’s expertise spans marketing, finance, education, and entrepreneurship. He has established himself as a thought leader and innovator, contributing to Forbes and NBC Chicago as a business columnist. Jabez is also the author of three best-selling books on marketing, with his latest, I Don’t Match Socks, set to be released in 2026. He has co-founded several organizations, including Sisu Academy, a tuition-free boarding high school in the San Diego area designed to empower underserved and disengaged students. A passionate innovator and community advocate, Jabez is dedicated to driving systemic change, fostering entrepreneurial thinking, and creating opportunities for underserved communities.

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Ed Reese

Executive in Residence

Ed Reese, a longtime digital marketing adjunct instructor in the SBA, is an experienced website analyst and online marketing professional. He is the principal at Sixth Man Marketing, an organization providing analytics insights and strategies regarding company websites. He also is a co-founder of Local U, an educational series focused on technical online marketing skills for business owners and others.

Visiting Executives in Residence

Professor Ray Eby

Ray Eby

Visiting Executive in Residence

Ray Eby is a visiting executive in residence in the SBA. Eby is an experienced executive with a career spanning many roles and divisions at 3M including as former president of 3M’s Personal Safety Division. He also is the former CEO of Innovations in Nutrition and Wellness. He has legal expertise as a former commercial trial lawyer. Eby holds a JD from the University of Minnesota Law School and an MA in Liberal Studies from St. John’s College. Additionally, he is committed to community service, having served on many charitable boards including as Chairman of the Board for Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Twin Cities and as a foster parent in Minnesota.

Todd Ringwood

Todd Ringwood

Executive in Residence

Todd Ringwood is a visiting executive in residence in the SBA. He has more than 30 years of experience in Fortune 200 companies leading teams from five employees to several thousand. He now serves as Principal at PHM Consulting, LLC. He has held leadership roles at Aon—including regional managing director and west region health and benefits practice leader—where he shaped strategy and operations for the Health and Benefits practice in the western U.S. and served on Aon’s U.S. Health and Benefits Executive Committee.

Linda Underwood

Linda Underwood

Visiting Executive in Residence

Linda Underwood is a visiting executive in residence in the SBA. With more than 30 years of experience in commercial banking, Linda is now a senior vice president and manager of Banner Bank’s Spokane Commercial Banking Center. She created a program for business students who are interested in careers in the financial field. Eighteen students are participating in the first cohort of Women in Finance, a program designed to increase each person’s confidence, to enhance their potential, and to help them design an individual pathway for personal and professional leadership within a financial context.

Brian Wellinghoff

Brian Wellinghoff

Visiting Executive in Residence

Brian Wellinghoff is a visiting executive in residence in the SBA and a business executive in residence at Virginia Commonwealth University. He also is senior director of leadership and outreach of Barry-Wehmiller and co-founder of Humanistic Leadership Academy. He facilitates many workshops on humanistic leadership with topics such as empathetic listening, trust and inspiration, recognition and celebration, and creating a culture of service. Brian is part of the team leading the SBA faculty and staff through the Humanistic Leadership Academy.

Visiting International Scholars

Tingting Huang

Visiting International Scholar

TingTing Huang is a visiting international scholar in the SBA at Mukogawa Women’s University (Nishinomiya, Japan), where she teaches courses in information literacy, digital strategy, corporate information systems, and internet business. Her research examines management information systems with emphases on ERP life-cycle decision-making and IT–business alignment, as well as technology’s role in social support for older adults, the future of work, and digital-nomad communities. Her recent publications span ERP assessment and risk management models and ICT-enabled community support in Japan. She is active in the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and the Japan Society for Management Information. Huang earned her Ph.D. in Management from Tohoku University and has been with Mukogawa Women’s University since 2020; she has also engaged internationally as a Visiting Global Scholar. Selected honors include an AIS Impact Award (2020) and a Mukogawa teaching-innovation commendation through the exchange program with Mukogawa Women’s University. Huang’s mentor is Dr. Tim Olsen in Management Information Systems.

Zebo Kuldasheva

Visiting International Scholar

Zebo Kuldasheva is a visiting international scholar for the Fall 2025 semester through the American Councils for International Education – Faculty Enrichment Program Fellows. Dr. Kuldasheva’s mentor is Dr. Maria ‘Masha’ Tackett in Economics. Dr. Kuldasheva hails from Tashkent State University of Economics in Uzbekistan. She holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Wuhan University in China. Her research specialty is Development and Environmental economics with a special focus on the countries of Central Asia. A fun fact about Zebo is that she is fluent in English, Uzbek, Chinese and Russian.

Former Residencies

Dr. Duy Dang looks into the camera and smiles

Duy Dang

Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence

In the fall of 2024, Duy Dang of the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology Vietnam was a Fulbright Scholar-in-Residence in the School of Business Administration. Dang is a senior lecturer and senior program manager for the PhD programs in RMIT’s business school. His research and teaching focus on applied analytics, digital transformation and information security management. He will teach undergraduate and graduate classes focusing on topics such as data science, information system management and information system governance.