First Name
Deborah F.
Last Name
Spake
Job Title
Dean, Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Kent State University
Deborah joined Kent State University as dean in 2013. Prior to her academic career, she was the marketing research director of a publishing company and, later, worked for consulting firms specializing in marketing research and strategic planning. She has served on the Initial Accreditation Committee (IAC) of AACSB, as President of the MidAmerican Business Deans Association, and as Executive Director of the Society for Marketing Advances. She is a 2021 recipient of the American Marketing Association - Higher Education SIG – Lifetime Achievement Award. She completed the Harvard Graduate School of Education’s Institute for Educational Management (IEM) program and earned her PhD in marketing from the University of Alabama.