Tina Foraker-Blackwell

Biography

Tina Foraker-Blackwell's career has spanned manufacturing and technology industries in senior-level finance and corporate strategy roles. She has led due diligence, valuation, marketing, and prospect outreach for acquisitions and divestitures and has developed large-scale profit improvement programs. She has leveraged her experience to help smaller companies optimize their strategy and financial position. In addition, Tina has conducted IT and business process audits as well as SOX testing. She built a Program Management Office to enhance internal and external service delivery.

Tina has taught a capstone strategy course for adult learners pursuing a part-time MBA and value-based management principles in a corporate education setting. She currently teaches finance courses in the Full-Time MBA, Executive MBA, Online MSF, and Undergraduate programs and serves as a Faculty Advisor for the Corporate Field Consulting Program.

Tina is a board member for Junior Achievement of Greater Fairfield County (CT), providing educational programs in financial literacy, career/workforce readiness, and entrepreneurship to kindergarten through 12th grade students. She is also an Executive Partner at the Raymond A. Mason School of Business at William & Mary. Tina holds an MBA from the Fuqua School of Business at Duke University and a B.S. in Electrical Engineering from Purdue University.

Areas of Expertise

• Finance
• Strategy
• Acquisitions/Divestitures
• Program Management