Tristan James Fitzgerald
Assistant Professor of Finance
Mays Business School, Texas A&M University
Email: tfitzgerald@mays.tamu.edu
Address: 351N Wehner Building, Mays Business School, 4218 TAMU, College Station, Texas 77843
Research Interests: Entrepreneurial Finance, Innovation, Corporate Finance, Mergers & Acquisitions, Investment Banking, Corporate Governance
Teaching: FINC468 - Entrepreneurial Finance/FINC 644 - Funding New Ventures; EMBA FINC 612 - Finance for the Professional I
Biography: Tristan is an Assistant Professor of Finance at the Mays Business School, Texas A&M University. He received his PhD in Finance from the Haas School of Business, University of California Berkeley in 2018. He also received a Bachelor in Commerce and a Bachelor in Laws from the University of Queensland, Australia in 2009.
Motivated by his investment banking and corporate finance advisory experience at J.P. Morgan, Macquarie Bank and Ernst & Young, Tristan is interested in understanding the impact of financial transactions and financial intermediaries on the real economy. In particular, he is interested in how financial markets and financial intermediaries may actively shape the nature of innovation undertaken by firms and entrepreneurs as well as the role of skilled human capital in driving firm productivity. His research also considers how corporate governance and government policy may influence firm strategy and corporate outcomes.