Kevin Krieger has served as a Professor of Finance in the Department of Accounting and Finance at the University of West Florida since 2019. He received his B.S. in Statistics and his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Florida in 2001 and earned his M.S. in Statistics and his Ph.D. in Finance from Florida State University in 2004 and 2009, respectively. Afterward, he joined the Department of Finance and Operations Management, University of Tulsa, in 2009 as an Assistant Professor of Finance, then came to the Department of Accounting and Finance, University of West Florida, as an Assistant Professor of Finance in 2011, and was promoted to Associate Professor in 2014. He was a recipient of UWF’s (university-wide) Distinction in Faculty Research and Scholarly Activities Award for "early career" faculty in 2015. He was honored with the award again for "senior faculty" in 2020. On five occasions, he has been a recipient of a UWF College of Business Dyson Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarly Activity. He has three times been a recipient of a UWF College of Business Dyson Award for Excellence in Service. His research examines ways in which financial markets are efficient and inefficient at incorporating information. Some areas of interest include sports betting; investment pricing anomalies; derivative pricing and volatility; the relationship between stock and option markets; dividend policy; corporate social responsibility; and finance pedagogy.

Nathan Mauck is a Professor of Finance in the Henry W. Bloch School of Management at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. He received his Ph.D. in Finance from Florida State University and his undergraduate degree in Finance from Kansas State University. He has won numerous teaching awards including the 2014 Bloch Favorite Faculty Award, the 2015 UMKC Chancellor’s Early Career Award for Excellence in Teaching, the 2015 and 2017 Bloch School’s Elmer F. Pierson Good Teaching Award, the 2017 Robert L. Virgil, Jr., Ph.D. Excellence in Teaching Award, and the 2018 and 2019 Bloch Graduate Faculty Impact Award. He has specialized his research and teaching in the areas of corporate finance, international finance, financial modeling, firm valuation, mergers and acquisitions, and venture financing.