Austin Starkweather received his doctorate in finance from the University of Maryland and undergraduate degree in economics from Princeton University. His research centers around corporate governance, with a focus on executive compensation and the relationship between corporations and their investors. His research has been published in the Review of Financial Studies and Review of Finance. Before joining Haslam, he served on the faculty at Vanderbilt and the University of South Carolina. In addition to academia, he has spent several years working in both consulting and private equity.