MS Finance Admissions
Contact Us
msfinance@owen.vanderbilt.edu
Phone: 615.322.6469
Fax: 615.343.4661
Meet the Team
Kate Barraclough
Program Director, MS Finance
615.343.8108
BC, Australian National, 1999
BE, Australian National, 2000
PhD, Australian National, 2007
Kate comes to Owen with a PhD from Australian National University. She has written papers including: "A State-Contingent Claim Approach to Asset Pricing” and “Scaling Regression Equations: Solution or Problem?” Previously she was a manager at KPMG Canberra as a Financial Consultant to the Australian government. This background is yet another example of the way in which research, teaching and real-world experience come together within the Owen faculty. Under her guidance, MS Finance has introduced a new course on financial modeling (which she teaches), formed a board of advisers made up of distinguished alumni and friends of the school, and created an internship program for the MS Finance Class of 2012. The latter was an initiative proposed by alumnus Bruce Heyman, BA ’79, MBA ’80, who is Managing Director and Partner at Goldman Sachs in Chicago and a member of Owen’s Board of Visitors.
Blake Gore
Associate Director, Career Management Center615.322.4978
BA, University of Mississippi, 2003
MEd, University of Mississippi, 2006
Heather Yockey
Program Assistant615.343.4417
BA, Pensacola Christian College, 2001
Heather earned a Bachelor of Arts degree from Pensacola Christian College in Pensacola, FL. She worked for a year at her alma mater before spending two years as a speech and drama teacher in Memphis, TN. Since 2004, she has worked for The Club at Fairvue Plantation, a golf club community in Sumner County, where she served as the Club Office & Lodging Manager. In addition to managing the office and guest cottages, she also enjoyed planning and coordinating events at The Club. She joined the Admissions team in March 2010 enjoys assisting with on-campus events as well as helping navigate applicants through the admissions process. Heather enjoys photography, music, coffee shops, traveling, and exploring her favorite part of the city—East Nashville.
Jill Dunham
Associate Director of Admissions615.322.6469
MA/PD Outdoor Education & Leadership—University of Edinburgh, 2003
BA Human and Community Service—Lenoir-Rhyne University, 1999
Jill Dunham earned a Bachelor of Arts in Human and Community Service from Lenoir-Rhyne University. For two years, Jill served as a college recruiter and admissions officer for the University of Tennessee's incoming freshman classes. She then went on to the University of Edinburgh for graduate school and spent three years in Scotland living and working. After returning to the States, Jill began working for Harvard Business School coordinating and implementing the Learning Teams Initiative, a program for first-year HBS students with a focus on team building and collaborative working models. After HBS, Jill joined the Cradlerock Group, a boutique-consulting firm, overseeing and facilitating domestic and international leadership development workshops for a $25 billion corporation, a leading worldwide consulting firm and a top U.S. business school. Jill joined the MBA Admissions team at Owen as Associate Director in August 2009. She enjoys rock climbing, reading, making pies, listening to live music, finding “hole-in-the-wall” restaurants and traveling.
Consuela Knox
Senior Associate Director and Diversity Recruiting Manager of Admissions615.322.6469
MBA—Vanderbilt University, 2004
BS Industrial Engineering—University of Tennessee, Knoxville, 2000
Consuela Knox earned a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering from the University of Tennessee. She spent six years as an employee of General Motors. Her first four years of employment were part of a cooperative education program at Saturn Corporation. Then she accepted an industrial engineering position with Delphi Corporation. Her major responsibilities included workload distribution, facilities layout, operator-machine interface design and redesign and ergonomic analyses. Consuela entered the Vanderbilt MBA program with two areas of focus—Operations and Human and Organizational Performance. She served as Co-President of the Human and Organizational Performance Association, VP of Owen Black Students Association and VP of the Christian Business Fellowship. Upon graduation in May 2004, she accepted a position with Owen as Associate Director of Admissions. In July 2008, Consuela accepted the position of Senior Associate Director and Diversity Recruiting Manager of Admissions. She enjoys dancing, outdoor sports and involvement in Christian ministry.
Courtney (Langevin) Fedou
Associate Director of Admissions615.322.6469
BA Political Science—University of Georgia, 2003
After graduating from UGA in 2003, Courtney worked in the legal field for three years in Nashville and then Washington, D.C. She made a move back to Nashville and decided to pursue a career in University Admissions, thus placing her here at Owen, where she has worked with the MBA Admissions Office since February 2007. Courtney is an avid music fanatic and is always on the hunt for great concerts and classic rock records. In addition to music, she enjoys spending time with family, reading books and actively participating in boot camp.
Shana Passman
Associate Director of Admissions615.322.6469
MBA—Vanderbilt University, 2009
BA Government—Franklin & Marshall College, 1999
After graduating from Franklin & Marshall College in 1999, Shana moved to New York City, where she spent three and a half years working as a consultant at Ernst & Young within the real estate advisory services practice. While at Ernst & Young, Shana evaluated economic and demographic trends in U.S. markets, performed market analyses and created end-client point of sale material. In March 2003, Shana joined American Express as a Marketing Manager, where she worked in both the direct mail and customer focused sales channels. While at Amex, she was responsible for creating segmentation strategies designed to acquire new consumer card members. In August 2007, Shana moved to Nashville and entered the Vanderbilt MBA program, focusing on Brand Management and Strategy. Upon graduation, Shana worked on several marketing projects within Nashville before joining the Admissions team at Owen as an Associate Director in June 2010. Shana considers herself a foodie and loves trying new restaurants, Pilates, running, traveling and spending time with her boxer, Nola.
Maura Clark
Associate Director of Admissions615.322.6469
MA—Higher Education Administration, The George Washington University, 2010
BA—English Literature, University of Pittsburgh, 2007
Prior to joining the Owen Admissions team, Maura served as a Career Management Advisor in the Kogod School of Business at American University. While at Kogod, she coached business students in the areas of career and professional development, instructed a career exploration course for American University students, created and presented workshops, and facilitated career events for the business school community. Before moving to Washington, D.C. to pursue her Master’s degree, she began her career directing a professional development program at an association in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. Her undergraduate education included concentrations in Women’s Studies and Education. In her spare time she enjoys finding great restaurants, antiquing, traveling, Zumba, reading and spending time with friends and family. She was born and raised in Hershey, Pennsylvania and does love chocolate.
Tami Tinsley Fassinger
Chief Recruiting Officer615.322.2402
MBA—Rollins College, 1987
BA Russian—Vanderbilt University, 1985
Visit Tami's blog!
Tami Fassinger began her MBA career in marketing and product management with NCR Corporation in Ohio, focusing on new product releases and marketing communications. Her recruiting and training expertise includes corporate recruiting and staffing in the consulting industry as a western regional director and national recruiting director for Cap Gemini; executive search work in the technology and consulting industries for MRI in Denver; consulting to the Graduate Management Admission Council® in Virginia, owner of the GMAT® exam; university administration including EMBA degree and executive non-degree program management, MBA career services and MBA student recruiting and admissions at Vanderbilt. While at Vanderbilt's career services office, Tami co-authored Adams Job Interview Almanac, a popular business career book published in 1996. As Chief Recruiting Officer, Tami’s role helps students take a more career-centric approach to evaluating their choice of program within the Owen portfolio as well as maximizing potential career opportunities once enrolled.
A native of Sarasota, Florida, Tami lives in Franklin, Tennessee, with her husband, two daughters and her dog. She writes fiction, likes to cook, loves to eat, and spends as much time as possible outdoors or in Nashville's eclectic music venues.
Meet Tami in one of these locations in 2012:
Atlanta, Birmingham, Bowling Green, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Evansville, Hopkinsville, Houston, Huntsville, Knoxville, Lexington, Louisville, Memphis, Nashville, Paducah, and Tampa.