Family Enterprise Faculty and Staff
Greg McCann
A licensed CPA in Florida (inactive) and member of the Florida Bar, Dr. McCann is an innovator as a teacher, author, consultant and director of the award-winning Family Enterprise Center. For more than a decade, Dr. McCann has worked as a speaker, author, educator, and consultant to help businesses with succession, communication, conflict resolution and gender issues, with a special emphasis on helping the next generation succeed in both their carers and lives. He has helped numerous family enterprises transition to future generations.
As director, he led the effort to create the nation's first undergraduate major in the field of family enterprise, which helped the Center earn three (inter)national awards. Starting in January 2013, McCann has accepted the role of director of Stetson University's Executive Masters of Business Administration (EMBA) program housed at the university's Center at Celebration.
Professor
Family Enterprise
B.A., Stetson University
J.D., University of Florida
Richard Copeland
Dr. Copeland is an Associate Professor at Stetson University and has extensive experience in the areas of taxation and estate planning. For more than 38 years, Professor Copeland has had his own law practice that specializes in the purchase and sale of businesses, probate, guardianship, sale of real estate and adoptions.
Associate Professor
Department of Accounting
B.S., Mississippi College
J.D., University of Florida
LL.M., Tax, University of Miami
Peter Begalla
As an adjunct professor at Stetson's Family Enterprise Center, Peter is at the forefront of Next Generation Leadership Development; having helped hundreds of college aged students establish credibility and marketability with their family, with their family business or with non-family employers. Peter combines his years of mental health counseling with over 12 years of business development & marketing experience to connect with the family and the business. At the foundation of Peter's career is his work as a counselor and human services program specialist. With a master's degree in mental health and a systems approach to working with individuals and groups, Peter has a depth of experience that spans a wide range behaviors and personalities.
Adjunct Professor
President and CEO, Professional CEU
M.S., Stetson University
Frank Barbera
Francesco (Frank) Barbera is currently a doctoral candidate at Bond University in Queensland, Australia. He achieved a MCom (Honors) Degree from Bond University in Economics. His research interests encompass a wide range of economic issues applied to family business, entrepreneurship, and small business management. He has been selected as a Family Owned Business Institute Scholar in 2010 by the Seidman College of Business, Grand Valley State University, Grand Rapids in the USA. His research has won the Family Enterprise Research Conference award for best doctoral paper, and has also been published in the journal of Small Business Economics, the Australian Journal of Management and the Family Business Review.
Mr. Barbera was a Research Associate at the Australian Centre for Family Business in Queensland, Australia where he investigated Australian small to medium-sized enterprises. Specifically, his research is focused on technical and scale efficiency differentials between family and non-family firms using an economic framework. He currently serves as Lecturer and STEP Team Leader at Stetson University's Family Enterprise Center.
Lecturer
fbarbera@stetson.edu
Jess Williams
Center Adminstration
jhwillia@stetson.edu
