Professor Joe Fitter is a senior lecturer in finance at the Kelley School of Business at Indiana University. He teaches a wide range of corporate finance, investment, and personal finance courses. His educational credentials include undergraduate and master’s degrees in finance from the Kelley School of Business. Joe is a second-career educator, having spent the first three decades of his professional life as an executive and CFO in the high-tech industry. Prior to joining Kelley as a member of the finance faculty in 2015, Joe served as a finance executive in the semiconductor industry, holding a wide range of managerial and leadership roles across the globe.
Joe began his career in Dallas, Texas, as a financial analyst at Texas Instruments. The role moved him across the globe, where he spent five years in Tokyo, Japan, and Taipei, Taiwan, leading a group of financial systems experts for TI’s start-up notebook computer division that later was sold to Acer. In 1997, Joe joined Intel Corporation in Portland, Oregon, where he spent the next 19 years in a wide range of financial leadership roles, including global accounting leader, head of finance for Intel’s chip assembly and test operation in the Philippines, head of operations finance for Intel’s microprocessor research and development engineering teams, and nearly 10 years as chief financial officer of Intel’s $13 billion China subsidiary based in Beijing, China.
Joe takes a very pragmatic and hands-on approach to teaching. He has created finance coursework at both the MBA and undergraduate levels at Kelley. Curriculum design includes courses such as Personal Finance for the MBA program, Valuation for the fintech curriculum, and Introduction to Business for the Undergraduate Program. He has also developed joint programming between MBA students and many Fortune 500 companies, including Whirlpool, P&G, Target, Intel, and others in his role as leader of the Strategic Finance Academy.
Joe also developed GLOBASE China, an immersive MBA consulting course working with social enterprise and sustainable China-based small businesses. He spends most of his time these days teaching undergraduate Integrative Core courses. Joe is a board member for Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County and is an angel investor for Indiana start-ups primarily focused on technology.
