Dean tapped for business school

View larger image Miles Davis

WINCHESTER -- Shenandoah University has tapped one of its own to lead the Harry F. Byrd Jr. School of Business.

Miles K. Davis becomes dean of the school effective July 1, according to a university news release.

Davis replaces Dean W. Randy Boxx, who played a role in helping the business school achieve accreditation from the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International in 2007. The university dedicated the $13 million Halpin-Harrison Hall, which houses business school, in 2008 during Boxx's tenure.

Davis, a founding director of the School of Business Institute for Entrepreneurship, works as an associate professor of management at the university.

Davis has a bachelor's degree in communication from Duquesne University, a master's in human resources development from Bowie State University, and a doctorate in organization behavior and management from George Washington University.

The next dean has more than 15 years of university teaching experience and served as the inaugural chairman of the management science department at Shenandoah from 2003 to 2005. Davis is a managing partner at The Prosperity Fund LLC and a principal at Davis, Adolphe and Gibson LLC.

He serves on the executive committee of the Strategic Research Council and the board of trustees of Amana Mutual Funds Trust.