College Park, Md. May 2, 2005 - The Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland, today announced that Mark Walsh, managing partner at Ruxton Associates, LLC, a private equity and investment firm, has joined the school's faculty as a senior executive fellow. Walsh will work with the faculty in the school's Dingman Center for Entrepreneurship, a nationally-recognized, leading entrepreneurial center, to advise graduate business school students on the development of their businesses and to provide expertise to regional entrepreneurs.