Dr. Shane Goodwin is the associate dean for executive education and graduate programs and serves as professor of practice in the department of finance at the Cox School of Business at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Goodwin is a board leadership fellow at NACD. Additionally, he leads The Applied Corporate Governance Institute at The Center for Global Enterprise, a nonprofit, nonpartisan research institution dedicated to the study and application of responsible corporate governance principles through the use of proprietary predictive analytics. Dr. Goodwin serves as an expert witness on complex litigation issues regarding M&A, corporate governance, capital b, private equity, and corporate finance matters. He serves on the board of directors of the Harvard University Club of Dallas, the investment committee of the Dallas Regional Chamber, and on the advisory board of Truist Financial Corporation (NYSE: TFC), the sixth-largest commercial bank in the US.

Most recently, Dr. Goodwin was a senior fellow and director at the Richard Paul Richman Center for Business, Law, and Public Policy at Columbia University, a research institute established by Columbia Business School and Columbia Law School; a senior fellow at the Harvard Law School program on corporate governance and financial regulation; and a postdoctoral fellow of business economics at Harvard Business School.

His research is focused on mergers and acquisitions, corporate governance, and shareholder activism. Dr. Goodwin serves on the Harvard University faculty, where he teaches global mergers and acquisitions and corporate governance.

Dr. Goodwin has 25 years of strategic advisory, M&A, and corporate finance experience at Goldman, Sachs & Co.; Citigroup; Wells Fargo Securities; and Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette.

Most recently, he was a managing director and the head of investment banking for the southwest US at Wells Fargo Securities. He has advised on over 250 M&A assignments totaling over $50 billion in transaction value, including sell-side and buy-side transactions, anti-raid, takeover and activism defenses, cross-border M&A, and restructuring advisory assignments. Additionally, he has executed over 100 public and private debt and equity investments totaling over $40 billion, and has extensive private equity and corporate restructuring experience. Dr. Goodwin is the chairman of Argus Capital Partners and is an active member of the CFA Institute and NACD.

Dr. Goodwin was awarded a postdoctoral fellowship in business economics at Harvard Business School to conduct M&A and corporate governance research. He earned an PhD in business administration from Oklahoma State University, with a focus in finance. His dissertation, “Corporate Governance and Hedge Fund Activism,” was cited by several journals and news agencies, including Bloomberg, and was used to create a proprietary trading index (Goodwin Chakraborty Activist Index). Dr. Goodwin holds an MBA, with a concentration in finance, from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University and attended The University of Chicago Booth School of Business. He graduated cum laude with a BSBA from the Collins College of Business at The University of Tulsa and was recipient of the Jess Chouteau Outstanding Senior Award.