Associate dean of the Fully Employed MBA Programs at Anderson School of Management, Gonzalo Freixes, received the 2014 Bud Fackler Service Award from the EMBA Council. Freixes is also the faculty director of the Applied Management Research Program and the former associate dean of UCLA Anderson’s Executive MBA.
The council named the award after Bud Fackler, the late director of the EMBA program at the University of Chicago and one of the council’s founders. The Bud Fackler Service Award recognizes contributions to EMBAC and to EMBA programs worldwide, including efforts to help other programs, to share best practices and to raise the quality of EMBA programs.
Though the EMBA Council is made up of “rival” program the group is sincerely interested in working together for the betterment of executive MBA education.
Freixes served on the EMBAC Board of Trustees and was also chair of the 2011 EMBAC Conference in Key Biscayne, Florida, which broke a record for attendance at that time and presented numerous concurrent sessions at EMBAC conferences.
Freixes received his law degree from Loyola Law School and his master’s degree in business taxation from the University of Southern California. Freixes began his career as a lawyer who later transitioned to higher education as a faculty member.
He now teaches business law, international business law, business ethics, corporate and individual taxation and real estate law and taxation in the MBA Program and in the Undergraduate Management Accounting Minor Program at UCLA. Freixes received the Neidorf Decade Teaching Award from the UCLA Anderson faculty, as well as the Fully Employed MBA class Outstanding Teaching Award.