Meet the team | Center for Brand Leadership

Center for Brand Leadership staff

Strong consumer brands are powerful, influential, and ever evolving, and at Kelley, we believe managers should be too. Each member of our CBL team offers a unique perspective that allows us to anticipate and embrace innovation.

Keith Niedermeier

Director of the Center for Brand Leadership, Nestlé Faculty Fellow, Clinical Professor of Marketing
knieder@iu.edu
812-855-7059

Office: HH 2100
Professional interests: Consumer Behavior & Decision-Making, Branding, Retail, Investor Psychology, Generational Differences, Marketing in China

Dana Olsen

Associate Director of the Center for Brand Leadership, Senior Lecturer
drolsen@iu.edu
812-855-6830

Office: HH 2100
Professional interests: Retail buying and planning, experiential learning, and industry and alumni engagement

Sydney Loughran

Graduate Associate Director
soverma@iu.edu

Anushka Nair

Undergraduate Associate Director
nairan@iu.edu

Laura Kim

Undergraduate Assistant Director
lk9@iu.edu

Jiya Surywanshi

Undergraduate Assistant Director
jisury@iu.edu

Meet the Board

The Center for Brand Leadership advisory board is a group of distinguished business executives who represent some of the most respected companies in the world. Board members work with the CBL to give students exposure to the industry’s most pressing trends and advance our research.