Dr. Sanjay Varshney

Dr. Sanjay Varshney is the Dean of the College of Business Administration at California State University, Sacramento. He has also worked at the University of San Francisco, and previously served as the Dean of the Business School at State University of New York in Utica. He earned an undergraduate degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Bombay University, a Master's degree in Economics from the University of Cincinnati and a doctorate in Finance from Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge. He also holds the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) designation.

Dean Varshney's research interests include market microstructure, new securities issuance and corporate valuation, and his publications have been included in numerous academic and practitioner journals including Journal of Economics and Finance, Journal of Management Research, Studies in Economics and Finance, Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics, Contemporary Finance Digest, Advances in Financial Economics, and the Journal of Applied Business Research.

Dr. Varshney has also served as a financial consultant for leading Wall Street firms and is Partner and Principal in an asset management company providing customized portfolio management for high net worth individuals, trusts, pension programs, and corporations. He is also Partner and Principal of Varshney & Associates that provides management consulting services to a variety of clients including the healthcare industry. Services provided include financial feasibility studies, economic impact studies, and firm valuation including helping firms complete an initial public offering of stock.

Dean Varshney currently serves on the boards of SACTO, Sacramento Metro Chamber, Sacramento Entrepreneurship Academy, and Comstock's Business Magazine. He is also a member of the Chartered Financial Analysts Society of Sacramento, the downtown Rotary, and is engaged in a variety of business program activities. Dean Varshney has been featured widely in the media and on television including the Sacramento Bee, Prosper magazine, Comstock Magazine, the Business Journal, KCRA, and Fox News.