Kim Donaldson, MBA, MIM
Dean

Professor Kim Donaldson is Dean of The Ken Blanchard College of Business.  She began her full-time career in higher education as Global Organizational Development Consultant at the Thunderbird School of Global Management before moving to GCU and serving successive roles as Assistant Professor of Economics, Assistant Dean, and now Dean.  Her areas of expertise include International Business, International Trade and Economics, Innovation, and Strategic Management. 

Dean Donaldson has over fifteen years experience in the financial services sector as an internal auditor, corporate account manager, learning and development director, and business performance consultant to various international banking and trade divisions. Her combined corporate and executive education experience support the College’s vision to establish thought leadership and teaching excellence in the fields of Leadership, Innovation, and Entrepreneurship. 

Dean Donaldson is a fellow of the Canadian Institute of Bankers. Her international business experience includes assignments in Germany, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Canada, and the British West Indies.  She received her Bachelor of Commerce in Economics and MBA in International Business from Dalhousie University and her Masters of International Management from Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Mr. Olivier Bouclier is the Assistant Dean for The Ken Blanchard College of Business at Grand Canyon University.  Before this position, Olivier was Senior Director at Thunderbird School of Global Management.

Prior to working at Thunderbird, Olivier held various positions in sales and business development.  He was a successful sales executive (B2B and B2G) at Kodak in Paris, France.  He then moved to Xerox in England (London) as an Account Manager.  Back in Paris, Olivier held a European Sales Manager position for one of the fastest growing American companies in the high tech industry. He then accepcted a position as a Country Manager in France for an online education and training provider and then joined a start-up as the Sales Director.

Olivier teaches online Global Leadership and Global Strategy certificate programs at Thunderbird.  He also teaches Strategic Management at Ken Blanchard College of Business for the MBA and EMBA programs.

Olivier completed his MBA (With Distinction) in International Management at Thunderbird.  He received his Bachelor of Business Administration from the Conservatoire National des Arts et Métiers in Paris, France and his two Diplômes Universitaire de Technologie in Sciences and Technology from the Institut Universitaire de Technologie in Caen and Le Havre, Normandy. 

Cathryn Meegan, Ph.D. Candidate, MBA, MA, CPA
Director of Academic Excellence

Ms. Cathryn Meegan is Director of Academic Excellence at the Ken Blanchard College of Business.  She began her career as a CPA in North Carolina before moving to Arizona to pursue her doctoral degree in Anthropology at Arizona State University.  Her areas of expertise include learner-centered education, curriculum and faculty development, assessment, distance learning, and accounting.

Cathryn has taught undergraduate and graduate accounting courses for four years and brings over ten years of experience in public and private accounting to the classroom.  While pursuing her doctoral degree, she discovered her love of teaching and pursued opportunities to learn about best practices in learning and teaching excellence. 

Cathryn received her BS in Accounting from East Carolina University and a BA in Anthropology from University of North Carolina at Charlotte.  She received her MBA from Queens College (now Queens University of Charlotte), while a Blumenthal Fellow.  As a masters and doctoral student in anthropology, Director Meegan was a Jacob K. Javits Fellow and an NSF-sponsored IGERT Doctoral Fellow in Urban Ecology.  She received her MA in Anthropology from Arizona State University, where she is currently a Ph.D. Candidate.  

Tom Skochinski, MS, MM
Director of Business Programs

Mr. Tom Skochinski has been with Grand Canyon University since October, 2004.  Before joining The Ken Blanchard College of Business, he held positions as a Curriculum Development Manager and Associate Registrar.  Tom is also an online instructor and an adjunct professor with The Ken Blanchard College of Business. 

Tom holds a Bachelor of Science Degree in Metallurgical Engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology, a Master of Science Degree in Materials Science from Northwestern University, and a Master of Management Degree from the J.L. Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. 

Tom lives in Scottsdale with his wife, Bonnie, and their cat, Samantha.  His personal hobbies include an occasional round of golf and playing the guitar and the piano.

Taylor Carr, MA
Director of the Ken Blanchard Executive MBA
Assistant Professor of Business Communications

Mr. Taylor Carr is the Director of the Ken Blanchard Executive MBA where he oversees curriculum, manages relationships with faculty and students and teaches courses in communication and corporate social responsibility. Carr is also the academic director of business-to-business programs for the college.

Carr has taught in the Ken Blanchard EMBA since its inception, developing the program's course on social responsibility and co-creating two leadership communication courses.

He also consults in the areas of leadership communication, stakeholder engagement and media training. His clients include T-Mobile, Eli Lilly and Co., Cox Communications and Rio Tinto Minerals. Carr is a member of the adjunct faculty at Thunderbird School of Global Management and teaches in several programs for MBA students and corporate clients, including the Effective Leadership Communication Program and the Global MBA-Latin America.

Before becoming an educator Carr was a television and radio broadcaster and co-host of the program FLW Outdoors on the Outdoor Life Network.

R. Kevin McClean, DPS
Professor of Marketing

Dr. R. Kevin McClean brings over 30 years of industry experience to his classroom, with significant experience and expertise in services marketing, performance measurement, electric energy deregulation, and cost analysis.

As Professor of Marketing, Dr. McClean teaches a variety of marketing courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels, including Relationship Management and Service Excellence in The Ken Blanchard Executive MBA Program.  He is moderator of the business honors society, Delta Mu Delta, and the chair of the program standards and evaluation committee for The College.

Dr. McClean has spoken extensively at the national level regarding electric and gas industry deregulation and has presented to industry forums and conferences regarding marketing management, project management, and customer service.

Dr. McClean is a graduate of King’s College in Pennsylvania (1967) where he received a B.A. in History.  Dr. McClean was awarded an MBA by St. John’s University (1984) and a Doctor of Professional Studies degree by Pace University (2003).  

Ernie Scarbrough, DBA
Associate Professor of Finance

Dr. Ernie Scarbrough’s background includes 27 years of industry experience in financial services, along with more than 12 years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level.  He has extensive expertise in Financial Services and brings a blended perspective between investment practice and academic theories.  He earned a Certified Financial Planner^® designation in 1987 and a Certified Investment Management Analyst^® designation in 2000.

Dr. Scarbrough  was Associate Faculty with Arizona State University from 1999 through 2008.  He has also taught as Adjunct Faculty with both University of Phoenix and Thunderbird School of Global Management.  He has been a frequent guest speaker on financial issues, financial planning, and security markets.  Dr. Scarbrough has also been published in research journals, textbooks, industry magazines, and local business publications.  He has provided consulting services to corporations for mergers and acquisitions, valuations, and capital funding, as well as to legal firms on cases involving securities practices.

Dr. Scarbrough earned a Doctor of Business Administration (Finance), with Distinction, from Nova Southeastern University in1999.  He is a member of the Desert Mission Board, a non-profit arm of the J. C. Lincoln Health Network..

Ronke Oke, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management

Dr. Ronke Oke is a Graduate fellow and Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Management.  Her professional experience includes working in various banking positions in Africa and as an associate HR consultant in the UK. Her areas of research are inter-organizational dynamics and inter-firm networking.

Dr. Oke has presented at various management conferences in both the U.S. and across Europe and has published articles in peer reviewed academic journals including Journal of Change Management and Journal of Operations Management.  In addition, Dr. Oke has authored a practitioner paper for the Intelligent Transport Systems in the UK.

With about 10  years of teaching experience at the undergraduate and graduate level, Dr. Oke taught Organizational Behavior, Management, and Human Resource Management in the UK, and she has continued to teach those courses at GCU in the traditional ground classes as well as online. Dr. Oke has taught in the Masters of Science in Leadership Program and teaches in the traditional MBA Program as well as the Executive MBA Program.  As assistant professor of Organizational Behavior and Management, Dr. Oke has oversight of the BSBA and MBA curriculum at GCU.  She sits on the Graduate Council and the Institutional Review Board at GCU and is actively involved in the Ed.D. Program.

Dr. Oke earned her MBA (with Distinction), Post-graduate Diploma in Research Methods, and Ph.D. from Cardiff Business School in the UK, a top research school belonging to the Ivy League of the UK. Cardiff Business School is also AACSB accredited and is rated the 7th leading UK university. Dr. Oke's dissertation title was “Collaboration between firms in inter-organizational networks in the UK: An analysis of key factors.”

Ann Nelson, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor of Leadership 

Dr. Ann Nelson has been with Grand Canyon since March 2006. Before joining The Ken Blanchard College of Business as Assistant Professor of Leadership, she held positions as Curriculum Developer and as an adjunct professor in both online and ground courses. She has taught courses in the MSL and accounting programs.

Passionate about human resource topics, Dr. Nelson was previously employed as the Senior HR Manager for a multinational corporation, has published papers for the International Journal of Decision Ethics, and has spoken at conferences about ethics, diversity, work/life balance, and other topics sponsored by Oxford University.

Dr. Nelson holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership, a Certificate of Graduate Studies in Finance, and an MBA in Human Resources from Northcentral University. She is a certified Senior Professional of Human Resources. In addition, Dr. Nelson is a Grand Canyon University alumna, having completed her Bachelor of Science in Applied Management here.

Mr. David Perkins is Assistant Professor of Business (Quantitative Methods and Information Systems) at Grand Canyon University.  He has 18 years of industry experience, including work as an avionics design engineer on the F-16 Fighter Aircraft program.  He has also held Project Manager and Project Analyst positions at MicroAge, National Computer Systems, Motorola and General Dynamics.

David is a Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Candidate at Anderson University in Anderson, Indiana.  He holds Master of Business Administration (MBA) and Master of Technology degrees from Arizona State University.

David’s primary research interests include behavioral issues in project management.  He is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP) and has published articles in selected project management publications including PM Network (2000) and Project Manager Today (2007).  One of his articles also appears in the book People in Projects (2001).  He also presented a paper at the 2nd Annual Business and Leadership Symposium at Hays University in Kansas.

Mr. Perkins can be reached at 602.639.6560 or at dperkins@gcu.edu

Donna DeMilia, MBA, CPA, CMA 
Assistant Professor of Accounting

Ms. Donna DeMilia, Assistant Professor of Accounting, has been with Grand Canyon University since 2005.  She brings over 10 years of college teaching experience and over 15 years of professional accounting experience to her classroom.  Donna teaches a variety of accounting courses for the undergraduate and graduate programs and Financial Intelligence and Decision Making for The Ken Blanchard Executive MBA Program.  She is also the Faculty Advisor for Grand Canyon University’s IMA Student Chapter.

Donna received her BBA in Public Accounting and MBA in Marketing Management from Pace University in New York.  She is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Business, with a concentration in Financial Management, from Northcentral University in Prescott Valley, Arizona.  Donna holds both the CPA (New York) and CMA licenses.

Jennifer Brown
Academic Coordinator

Ms. Jennifer Brown is the Academic Coordinator for The Ken Blanchard College of Business.  Prior to this position, Jennifer worked in various educational capacities for both public and private entities and in an administrative capacity for an insurance company. Jennifer has always had a passion for education and when the opportunity to join the GCU staff presented itself, she jumped aboard.

Jennifer graduated from Arizona State University with a BA in English and from Grand Canyon University with a MBA with an emphasis in Marketing.

Dawn Vinh
Academic Coordinator 

Ms. Dawn Vinh is Academic Coordinator for the Ken Blanchard College of Business and the Executive MBA program.  She is responsible for supporting the assistant dean and the director of the EMBA and handles the day-to-day operations of several programs.

Dawn has a background in sales in the real estate, mortgage, and staffing industries, where she worked with upper level management clientele.

Dawn graduated from the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul Minnesota with a Bachelor of Arts in Communication.  She is currently pursuing her Master of Science in Leadership at Grand Canyon University.