MEMBER SPOTLIGHT:
David Charles
- Hometown: Stamford, Connecticut
- Campus: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
- Illinois Degree(s) & Major(s): Although, I don’t officially have a degree from UIUC, I do feel I will eventually get one. However, I am a graduate of the University of Connecticut (BS in Management Information Systems), Dartmouth College (MBA), and the University of Southern California (Doctor of Education in Organizational Change and Leadership).
- Year of Illinois graduation: N/A
- Favorite UI Memory: Being at the StateFarm Center watching the Illini take on the Iowa Hawkeyes on March 8, 2020; I watched the game with some friends who live in Iowa and are UIUC alums; the celebration that ensued after we won was memorable :D
- Favorite Place on Campus: Research Park – I used to work in research park and really enjoy the community of people, businesses, and students.
- Favorite Illini athlete: Kofi Cockburn – I liked watching him own the paint during basketball games
- Favorite class at Illinois: Any class I am teaching or guest lecturing in :D
- Favorite UIUC Bar/Restaurant: Naya - they used to have Asian-Italian fusion food but during the pandemic they closed; happy to say the reopened (2023, I think) but now serving Indian cuisine
- Moved to Houston: 2020
- What brought you to Houston: Work - I tried my hand at entrepreneurship by joined a startup
- Favorite things About Houston: Everything: the food, the people, the arts, the rodeo, the weather (except the summer heat, the derechos, and the hurricanes :D)
- Favorite places in Houston: Food: Paulie's, Pappas Steak House, BCN; Wine: Camerata, 13 Celsius, The Library, Mutiny, Stella's
- Occupation: University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign Professor – School of Information Sciences and Gies College of Business
- Something special about me: I am on the Wine Garden Committee of the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo
- How to get in contact: E-Mail
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