Bryan Cataldi is a professor with the Haslam College of Business. He specializes in financial accounting and earned his doctorate in accounting at Southern Illinois University. Bryan holds a Bachelor of Science in Accounting from the University of Iowa. Prior to entering academia, Bryan worked in the public accounting industry for PricewaterhouseCoopers. Bryan has conducted research and published works in top-tier journals in the cross-section of accounting, entrepreneurship and angel investment. He has developed and built from the ground-up a multi-million dollar real estate company which offers Bryan a unique perspective of small business and entrepreneurship as it relates to accounting and finance.