School of Business Gazette

New Director Joins Hawk Center

G. Kevin Spellman, faculty associate, is the new director of the Hawk Center for Applied Security Analysis, replacing Debora Treu. Spellman is a graduate of the Applied Security Analysis Program (ASAP), having earned his M.S. from the UW-Madison School in 1994. He joined the Hawk Center in January.

Since 2004, Spellman had been with Members Capital Advisors, a division of CUNA Mutual, working as both a portfolio manager/analyst and performing quantitative/strategic analysis. Spellman has been a doctoral candidate at Durham University in Durham England, where he has completed his coursework and is working on his dissertation in behavioral corporate finance. He also has a B.S. in finance from UW-La Crosse.

Prior to joining Members Capital Advisors, he spent 10 years with the State Teachers Retirement System of Ohio, the last five years as its director of research. For four years prior to that, he was an adjunct professor at The Ohio State University's Fisher College of Business, teaching the student investment program. He also was instrumental in building UW-La Crosse's student investment program.

Spellman is a Chartered Financial Analyst Charterholder and is a member of the CFA Institute and the CFA Society of Madison and of Beta Gamma Sigma.