David Wessels

David Wessels serves on the finance faculty at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Named by BusinessWeek as one of the nation’s top business school instructors, David teaches courses on corporate valuation, investment banking, and venture capital to undergraduates, MBAs, and executives in Philadelphia and San Francisco. He has been recognized by his students with the school's MBA excellence in teaching award more than ten times, and has been acknowledged nationally for his research on organizational structure and financial performance.

In addition to his teaching on campus, Professor Wessels has served on the executive development and training faculties at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Ericsson, Estee Lauder, Harris, Home Depot, Lockheed Martin, McKinsey & Company, Novo Nordisk, Philips, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Siemens, Sunoco, Temasek, and UPS.

Before joining Wharton, David served on finance faculty of the Goizueta Business School at Emory University. Prior to Emory, he was a management consultant with McKinsey & Company and a technology analyst for Boston-based Harbourvest Venture Partners. David holds a Ph.D. in finance from the Anderson School at UCLA, a B.S. in economics and a B.A.S in computer science from the University of Pennsylvania.