Kevin Gwinner

Kevin Gwinner joined the College of Business Administration faculty at Kansas State University in 1999 and was appointed Edgerley Family Dean for the College of Business Administration in April of 2016 after a national search. He had served as interim dean of the college since June of 2015 and was head of the college's department of marketing for ten years prior to his appointment as interim dean. He is a professor of the Department of Marketing and held the Jon Wefald Chair in Business Leadership. He received a doctorate in marketing from Arizona State University and holds a master's in business administration from ASU as well as a bachelor's in finance. Dr. Gwinner was previously on the faculty in the Department of Marketing at East Carolina University. During his time as Dean of the College of Business, the college has raised $167 million in philanthropic funding (as of December 2025), was successfully re-accredited twice by AACSB, completed and moved into a new 160K sqft business building, graduated a record number of students, increased the 4-year graduation rate by 18%, increased graduate student enrollment by 80%, and grew total student credit hours taught by 8% in the past 5 years. Dr. Gwinner has consulted with a variety of organizations, including Bayer HealthCare Animal Health, the Food Animal Welfare Network, the National Food Animal Veterinary Institute, Sprint Nextel Corp., Anderson Consulting, Veriprime, Jalas, Honeywell International Inc. and the American Veterinary Medical Association. In addition, he has supervised marketing research projects for many small and midsized business organizations throughout Kansas. In terms of scholarship, Dr. Gwinner has been cited over 36,000 times, according to Google Scholar analytics. He has an h-index is 34, ten publications with over 1000 citations each, and an additional fourteen publications with over100 citations each.