A search committee has been named for the internal search for dean of the IU Kelley School of Business. The new dean will succeed Ash Soni, who is serving a two-year appointment.

The search is open to current tenured, full professor faculty at the Kelley School in Bloomington and Indianapolis.

With more than 133,000 living alumni and a total enrollment of nearly more than 15,000 students and 329 faculty members at IU Bloomington, IU Indianapolis and online, the Kelley School is among the premier business schools in the country. The school is frequently ranked among the top programs in the U.S. and globally.

The dean will provide leadership for the academic, administrative and public activities of the Kelley School of Business. The dean will also craft a vision for the future and devise a competitive strategy that will further establish the school’s distinctive brand as an innovative and entrepreneurial business school focused on both transformative pedagogy and impactful scholarship.

Search committee members are:

• Chair: John Ciorciari, dean and professor at the Hamilton Lugar School of Global and International Studies.
• Beth Fossen, associate professor of marketing in the Kelley School Bloomington.
• Erik Gonzalez-Mulé, professor and chair of the Department of Management and Entrepreneurship in the Kelley School Bloomington.
• Steve Jones, professor of finance in the Kelley School Indianapolis.
• Ted Koenig, member of the Bloomington Dean’s Council.
• Gale Nichols, executive director of the Full-Time MBA Program in the Kelley School Bloomington.
• Chris Nosewicz, Kelley School Bloomington undergraduate student.
• Melissa Proffitt, partner in charge of client relations at Ice Miller and a member of the Indianapolis Dean’s Council.
• April Sellers, clinical professor of business law and ethics and director of the Kinsey-Kelley Center for Gender Equity in Business in Bloomington.
• Matt Waller, senior executive advisor to the provost (ex-officio).
• James Wimbush, professor of business administration in the Kelley School Bloomington.

Since April 2023, Soni has led the school in collaboration with Patrick E. Hopkins and Julie Manning Magid, who were appointed as vice deans for the Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses, respectively. He will return to the faculty after a yearlong sabbatical.