Dr. John Gonas
Assistant Professor of Finance
Dr. John Gonas is an Assistant Professor of Finance in the Undergraduate and Massey School of Business. Gonas teaches Corporate Finance, Introduction to Investments, and Investment Management, and his teaching philosophy revolves around real life application of a subject matter.
Prior to joining Belmont's faculty in 1998, Gonas worked in the financial planning industry for eight years (most recently with J.C. Bradford, Inc. in Nashville) primarily in retail brokerage, investment consulting and fee-based asset management. During the 2000-2002 academic years, he went on leave from Belmont to pursue a doctorate in Finance at the University of Kentucky, a degree he received in the spring of 2005.
Gonas also serves as the Sam Walton Fellow responsible for advising Belmont's SIFE students. SIFE, or Students in Free Enterprise, is an international, non-profit organization active on over 1,500 college and university campuses in 47 countries. Under Gonas' leadership, Belmont's SIFE program has won numerous regional and national awards, including the 2006 National Rookie of the Year Award, a 2007 and 2008 placement as a top-20 team at the USA National Exposition, and winning the Motion Picture Association of America 2007 Grand Prize of its Anti-Piracy Public Service Announcement.
In 2008, Dr. Gonas was selected as Tennessee's Professor of the Year by The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education (CASE).
