FACULTY PROFILE

Bob Donchez

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Bob Donchez
Faculty Director – Business of Sports Program

Senior Instructor of Finance, University of Colorado at Boulder

Brief Bio:Bob Donchez joined the faculty at the University of Colorado in 1999 after working in finance at Salomon Brothers on Wall Street and at IBM World Trade. Bob earned a BS in Accounting from Lehigh University, and an MBA from Fordham University – meeting degree requirements for majors in both Finance and Marketing.

Bob teaches a wide-variety and levels of courses, from sophomore to MBA level finance classes, and in the CUBIC and Business of Sports Certificate Programs.

At the Leeds School of Business, Bob is one of the most active faculty members in advising students on career pursuits; has been a member of the Scholarship Committee; has mentored and sat on Teaching Excellence Committees; been faculty advisor to Alpha Kappa Psi professional business fraternity during its re-colonization; and served as faculty director for the student-run Trep Café. He also sat on athletic department search committees for both the Business and Operations Managers positions in addition to his involvement meeting with prospective student-athletes

His current business interests are as the managing partner of a real estate investment group, and partner in Echo Brewing Company, a Frederick, Colorado – based microbrewery.

He previously served as President - Rocky Mountain Joint Board Workers United/SEIU responsible for strategic direction, policy, and contract negotiations for 2200 member service union employees in the Rocky Mountain West

Prior to working in finance on Wall Street and for IBM, Bob was a sports-writer for a daily newspaper in eastern Pennsylvania, and was sports director for the Lehigh radio network. Bob also authored two sports-related books; one on life in the bleachers during the course of a baseball season, the other on college football’s most-played rivalry.

Honors/Distinction:

*Frascona Teaching Excellence Award Recipient.

*Semi-Finalist, Boulder Faculty Assembly Awards for Excellence in Teaching 2010-2011 Academic Year

*CU-Boulder: A Celebration of Teaching Campus-wide Honoree 3/2010

*Honorary Faculty/Coach of the Game selected by student-athletes and the Athletic Department for both football and women’s basketball

Teaching Interests: Corporate finance; valuations of publicly-traded corporations and analysis and determinants of fair value; capital budgeting and real options valuations; financial markets and their operations, designs, and efficiencies; securities fraud cases; business of sports.

Selected Publications:

*Question and Answer Supplement to Entrepreneurial Finance by Leach & Melicher; pub. By Thomson/Southwestern, 2003.

*Legends of Lehigh-Lafayette - College Football’s Most-Played Rivalry, with T. Davidson; D&D Publishing, 1998.

*A View from the Stands, Successful Concepts 1994