Sarah Perez has joined the University of North Carolina's Kenan-Flagler Business School as executive director of the MBA for Executives Programs.

The MBA for Executives Programs include the Evening MBA, Weekend MBA and Global OneMBA®.

“Sarah Perez is a leader in managing business school programs,” said Hugh O’Neill, associate dean of EMBA Programs. “We welcome her extensive experience and expertise, particularly in executive MBA programs, to educating business leaders at UNC Kenan-Flagler. She also brings a global perspective with over a decade of management experience living and working in the United States, Europe and Latin America.”

Perez joins UNC Kenan-Flagler from Florida International University (FIU) in Miami, where she served for eight years. She was executive director of the Executive and Professional MBA Programs, which ranged from the executive MBA to the newly launched Corporate MBA, an online program. She is an active member of the Executive MBA Council.

Prior to joining FIU, she served as area manager, Europe, for Information Handling Services (IHS), a global information company that is based in Englewood, Colo. At IHS, she held positions in marketing and product management, and was based in Barcelona, Spain. She also served as marketing manager, Central America, for the New Zealand Dairy Board and was based in Guatemala City.

Perez received her MBA from the Thunderbird School of Global Management and her BA from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.

She succeeds Penny Oslund, who retired after serving over 20 years as the executive director, during which time UNC Kenan-Flagler created the Weekend MBA and OneMBA Programs. Oslund is a 1990 graduate of the Evening MBA Program.

In September, 70 members of the evening program and 54 members of the weekend program graduated. The executives came to Chapel Hill to study from California, Florida, Illinois, Kentucky, Maryland, New Jersey, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, Virginia and Washington, D.C.