Faculty & Instructors
At Smith School of Business, you’ll be learning from a team of professors who work together to integrate knowledge across functional disciplines.
Smith faculty members have outstanding academic credentials and have frequent contact with the business community through their own consulting practices and our executive education programs. The excellent student-to-professor ratio means you will have unparalleled access to your professors both in and outside of class, and you will find them very responsive to your needs.
Faculty and instructors subject to change.
Cara Chesney, CPA, CA, is a graduate of the Smith Commerce program, and has worked with students pursuing their CPA designation since obtaining her own designation in 2005. She has a passion for helping students wishing to pursue the CPA designation and has been teaching in the GDA program since its inception. She is a session leader and facilitator with CPA Ontario, a technical reviewer for CPA Canada, and has marked the CFE for the past five years. In addition, Cara is a partner at a local CPA firm in Kingston, working with local small businesses and tax clients of the firm.
W. Alec Cram graduated from Queen’s University in 2002 and worked as an IT Audit Manager at Deloitte before returning to complete his MSc (2009) and PhD (2013). He is also a Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) and Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP). Alec also serves on the faculty at the School of Accounting and Finance at the University of Waterloo and was a faculty member at Bentley University from 2013-2019. His research focuses on how information systems governance and control initiatives can contribute to improving the performance of organizational processes.
Bertrand Malsch is the PricewaterhouseCoopers/Tom O'Neill Fellow of Accounting and director of the CPA Ontario Centre for Corporate Governance & Accountability. His research focuses on corporate governance, auditing and professional expertise. His current work focuses on the role of accounting firms in tax avoidance mechanisms and the financial reporting processes of Indigenous communities. Bertrand also serves as a member of the Cannabis Oversight Committee established by the Quebec government.
Joseph Oliverio is a CPA, he graduated from Concordia University. He has been lecturing in the GDA program for over 20 years. He also lectures income tax at Smith School of business (Queen’s University), individual and corporate tax at John Molson School of Business (Concordia University) and Corporate Tax at McGill University. Joseph worked at the Canada Revenue Agency for over 25 years and has been a tax consultant the last 10 years specializing in personal, corporate and trust taxation. He incorporates real life experiences in the class environment from both his work at the CRA and his tax practice.
Erica is an Assistant Professor in Smith School of Business at Queen's University. She is in the Accounting area where her teaching focuses on Financial Accounting.
Erica Pimentel's research explores how technological disruption impacts the ways in which auditors engage with their work. She conducts this research using a variety of qualitative approaches, namely interviews and netnography. She is currently working on projects that explores how remote working arrangements and blockchain are impacting audit practices. She is a frequent contributor to the media and has been featured in outlets like the Wall Street Journal, the National Post, the Globe and Mail and many others.
Erica holds a PhD and MBA from Concordia University, an LLM in Tax from York University. She is a CPA and worked in public accounting before entering academia.