Advisory Board Member Veselina Dinova
California Financial Educators Council

Veselina Dinova is Executive MBA Professor at Haas School of Business at the University of California Berkeley, where she teaches finance, accounting, financial information analysis and stock valuation-focused courses with the graduate and executive MBA programs. Her mission is to educate future corporate leaders on how to build and grow companies that make the world a better place for all their stakeholders. Advisory Board Member Veselina Dinova has won numerous awards for teaching excellence.

Veselina has researched and analyzed the financial performance and corporate governance of publicly traded companies from a wide range of industries. She cares deeply about education and enjoys working with and learning from her students with vastly diverse backgrounds, opinions, and aspirations. She is passionate about innovation and has mentored startups at SkyDeck, the premier accelerator at UC Berkeley.

Prior to becoming faculty at Haas School of Business, Veselina Dinova worked in corporate treasury at several multinational corporations where she had a wide range of responsibilities: portfolio management of fixed income and equity investments, bank and investment managers’ relationships, corporate cash forecasting, SEC reporting, and internal audit compliance.

Veselina is originally from Bulgaria and came to the U.S. to pursue her MBA degree at Thunderbird School of Global Management in Arizona. She is a CFA charter-holder and a member of the CFA Society of San Francisco. She is NACD Directorship certified.

Dinova has a passion for empowering people through education, and brings a wealth of experience to the table in her role as Advisory Board member for the California Financial Educators Council.

Selected members of the California Financial Educators Council Advisory Board are individuals who support us in our commitment to widely spread financial wellness resources across the state of California. They share our goal to donate financial wellness programming at the community level in initiatives that can be sustained and taken to scale.

Board Members who pass the rigorous selection criteria are professionals with a demonstrated commitment to building financial wellness in their communities. Individuals with the following traits are considered: