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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at Istanbul Conference
Dr. Aysegul Timur, Hodges University, FL
Dr. Aysegul Timur is the president of Florida Gulf Coast University,
Florida. Previously,
professor Aysegul Timur served as vice president and vice provost
for strategy and program innovation at the university, FGCU. She
was Chair of Business Administration for undergraduate and graduate
programs at the Johnson School of Business, Hodges University. Dr.
Timur received her doctoral degree in Economics from the University
of South Florida, and both her Master’s and Bachelor’s degrees in
Business Administration from the University of Istanbul. Her areas
of specialization include business policy and organizational
development, quality control, statistics for strategic planning,
health (especially pharmaceutical pricing) and international
economics. She has been a faculty member at Hodges University since
2000. Dr. Timur is also a management consultant and corporate
trainer for local companies in Southwest Florida. Her distinguished
teaching and scholarly attributes were recognized by the Hodges
University community when she was awarded Professor of the Year for
2005, Dean’s Research Award in 2007 and Dean’s Community and
University Service Award in 2008 at the Kenneth Oscar Johnson School
of Business. Her accomplishments, service and contributions to the
Lee County Community are also recognized by the Greater Ft. Myers
Chamber of Commerce as one of the five finalists for the Women in
Business APEX Awards of 2009. Dr. Timur is a member of the Sigma
Beta Delta and Beta Gamma Sigma International Honor Societies and a
member of the Southern Economic Association, International Health
Economics Association, American Society of Health Economists, the
Clute Institute and Naples Council on World Affairs (including
Outreach Committee). Her work has been published in several
distinguished journals and presented in international and national
conferences. She enjoys contributing to her community, volunteer
service for educational systems, speaking at civic organizations and
participating in chamber of commerce and other community
organizations’ research projects. She defines education not solely
about degree programs or specific disciplines to accomplish, but
about helping her students find their potential by learning how to
think critically, communicate effectively, take initiative,
demonstrate leadership, and research information to avoid biased
thinking. It is a long-standing goal of hers to help create a
“thinking community” with intellectual and professional citizens.
She has a goal of making a beneficial difference in the lives of her
students, personally and professionally, via quality education in an
effective learning environment that makes use of advanced
educational technology. As a faculty member, she is both honored and
proud to see her students succeed in career advancement and
recognition in the business world.
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Keynote Speaker at
Miami Conference
Dr. Abraham
Park,
Pepperdine
University, CA
Dr. Abraham
Park is an Associate Dean of Full Time Programs at Pepperdine
Graziadio Business School. Previously, Dr. Park was the Department
Chair for Accounting, Finance and Real Estate. He teaches finance
and also real estate courses for the MBA, EMBA, and MS in Real
Estate programs. Dr. Park has over 12 years of experience in law,
a Silicon Valley technology startup venture, management consulting,
hedge fund, and global real estate finance. He has worked and lived
in the U.S., Asia, and Europe. Dr. Park holds a Ph.D. from
University of Cambridge, M. Phil. from University of Cambridge, J.D.
from U.C. Berkeley, M. P. P. from Harvard University, and B.A. in
Economics from U. C. Berkeley.
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Keynote Speaker at London Conference
Dr. Wang Ying,
Youngstown State University, OH
Dr.
Ying Wang is an Associate Professor of Marketing in the Williamson
College of Business Administration, Youngstown State University.
Dr. Wang earned both her Master and Ph.D. degrees from Kent State
University in the U.S. after receiving her undergraduate degree at
Renmin University and working in China for a number of years. She
now teaches various marketing and advertising courses at Youngstown
State University. Dr. Wang has also been a visiting
professor/scholar at the Renmin University of China in Beijing and
Fudan University in Shanghai. Her research focuses on cross-cultural
marketing communication, new technologies, and mobile marketing. She
has published in many academic journals such as International
Business Review, International Marketing Review, Journal of
Marketing Communication, Journal of Promotional Management, Asia
Pacific Journal of Marketing and Logistics, Asia Journal of
Communication, Direct Marketing – An International Journal,
Marketing Management Journal, Journal of Intercultural
Communication, Journal of Current Research and Issues in
Advertising, Journal of Current Business Issues. Before becoming
a professor, Dr. Wang worked in industry for seven years as an
international marketing consultant. She has conducted consulting
projects for high profile international companies such as 3Com, IBM,
Motorola, Fujifilm, Compaq, HP, and Marriott Hotel. . |
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Keynote Speaker at New York Conference
Dr.
Philippe Gugler, Professsor,
University of
Fribourg
Dr. Philippe
Gugler is Director of the Center for Competitiveness of the
University of Fribourg.
He holds the Chair of Economic and Social Policy. He is the
President of the Department of Economics at the Faculty of economics
and social sciences of the University of Fribourg. He is former Dean
of the Faculty of Economics and Social Sciences at the University of
Fribourg (Switzerland). He was awarded the Hall of Fame of the
Institute for Strategy and Competitiveness of the Harvard Business
School by Professor Michael Porter in 2010. Since January 2014, he
is Editor in Chief of the Scientific Journal « Competitiveness
Review » published by Emerald in United Kingdom. He is also member
of the board of several competitiveness institutes and Business
Schools in Switzerland and abroad (Thailand, Italy, Netherlands,
Dubai).
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Keynote Speaker at Miami
Conference
Dr. Nursel
Selver Ruzgar, Ryerson University
Dr. Nursel Selver Ruzgar has
been working in the department of Mathematics and Ted Roger School
of Business Management at Ryerson University.
She received BS in Mathematics from Marmara University, Istanbul,
the MS degree in Mathematics from Istanbul Technical University, and
Ph.D. degree in Quantitative Methods from Istanbul University,
Istanbul, Turkey. Dr. Ruzgar earned Associate Professorship of
Business in Quantitative Methods in 2006 from Higher Education
Council in Turkey. Her areas of specialization include mathematical
modeling, simulation, data mining, statistical applications for
business problems, traditional, hybrid and distance education. She
had been at Cornell University, NY, USA for one-year research in
Applied Mathematics and Statistics. She published articles in
journals such as Journal of Economics, Business and Management,
International Journal of Mathematical Models and Methods in Applied
Sciences, The
Business Review, and presented in numerous national and
international conferences including the Balkan Conference on
Operational Research, International Conference on Automatic Control,
Modeling and Simulation, American Conference on Applied
Mathematics, World
Business Congress, International Conference on Applied Mathematics,
Simulation, Modeling and International Educational Technology
Conference. She is a co-author of three books and one chapter in a
book. One of the books, Quantitative Methods I, were used as a
textbook at many Universities in Turkey. Dr. Ruzgar developed,
taught and coordinated wide variety of mathematics and statistics
courses more than 23 years working period at Marmara University then
she retired in 2009 and joined to Ryerson University in 2010. Beside
researching, Dr. Ruzgar has taught and coordinated many mathematics
and statistics courses for the Engineering, Science and Business
Departments. She has also taught many high-level mathematics courses
in the Department of Mathematics and Statistics and, Quantitative
Methods I and II at Liberal Arts and Professional Studies at York
University since 2011. Dr. Ruzgar is a Member of Mathematics
Association, Operation Research Society, Informatics Association,
Association of Econometrics and Ryerson University - Data Science
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Keynote Speaker at London Conference
Dr. Mohamad
Sepehri, Dean,
University of
the District of Columbia, DC
Dr. Mohamad
Sepehri is the Dean of the School of Business and Public
Administration and professor of Strategic International Management
at UDC.
He has a unique combination of academic and business experience,
with extensive background in strategic management/leadership and
broad experience in international and global business operations.
Dr. Sepehri has Triple Ph.D. in Management, Higher Education
Administration, and Strategic International & Political Economy from
Indiana University, Bloomington. Dr. Sepehri has numerous research
and publications in professional and refereed journals and he is
frequent and distinguished speaker at national as well as
international forums. He has been acknowledged as “outstanding
contributor” to the field and he has been credited for his
contributions to several textbook editions. Dr. Mo has received
numerous First-Place and Gold Awards for business plan, community
service projects, partnership with business projects, state
leadership, and etc. He has served on the Executive Board of the
Academy of International Business (AIBSE) for twenty years and he is
the treasurer of the organization. Dr. Sepehri has been listed in
the Harvard Business who’s Who as a distinguished scholar in
international business. He was inducted as AIBSE Fellow in 2014.
Dr. Sepehri has over 35 years of experience in strategic planning
and global competitive market analysis. He is a consultant and
research analyst to business corporations. He has served as expert
advisor and consultant to number of city, county, and state
governments. He also served on the International Trade Committee of
Jacksonville Chamber and the Trade Development Board. He was a
board member of Global Jax (the International Visitors Corp. of
Jacksonville) for six years. |
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Keynote Speaker at Hawaii Conference
Dr.
Shigeru Matsumoto, Professor
Kyoto
University, Graduate School of Management, Japan
Professor
Matsumoto obtained his Ph.D. from Kobe University in Japan by
conducting an in-depth study of Japanese cross border M&A.
He obtained his MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management on
the US Fulbright program. His main research area is cross border M&A
and post-acquisition management. Before joining Kyoto University, he
was an associate professor at Doshisha Graduate School of Business.
He teaches Business Analysis and Valuation, Mergers & Acquisitions
and Corporate Strategy. He
also has more than 15 years of experience in investment banking and
advisory as a managing director at global institutions, including
HSBC (The Hong Kong Shanghai Banking Corp.), Macquarie Capital, and
PwC. He advised more than 50 Japan related cross border transactions
in 20 countries including US, UK, France, China and Vietnam. In
2015, he won the 9th M&A Forum Grand Prize with his recent
publication about Japanese outbound acquisition. His new book
“Japanese outbound acquisitions, Explaining What Works” (in English)
will be published from Palgrave Macmillan in 2018.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker at London Conference
Dr. Maja Zelihic,
Chair,
Forbes School of Business at Ashford
University, San Diego –California
Dr. Maja Zelihic is a Program Chair for the
Masters of Organizational Management, in the Forbes School of
Business at Ashford University. She has a Ph.D. in General
Business with an emphasis in Organizational Management. In addition
to being a Program Chair in the MAOM program, Dr. Zelihic is a Chair
of Professional Development and Scholarship committee at Ashford
University, which is a committee that recommends professional
development content and provides recommendations concerning faculty
research.
She is a Communication Director of ABSEL
(Association
for Business Simulation & Experiential Learning).
Dr. Zelihic has
published more than 20 articles in various refereed journals, such
as, the Springer’s Quality and Quantity Journal, Life Science
journal, Journal of American Business Review, Journal of Strategic
and International Studies, Global Business and International
Management International Journal. She an editorial advisory
board member of The Journal of Global Business Management and
a peer reviewer at the University of New Mexico Mentoring
Institute and Journal for Excellence in Business Education.
Dr. Zelihic presented at the
International
Symposium of the New Technologies in Sports,
delivering a lecture on sports management in April, 2011
in Sarajevo, Bosnia; 2015 IX International GUIDE Conference
-Buenos Aires, Argentina; 2015 Multidisciplinary Academic
Conference, Orlando, Florida; and she is a three time attendee
and presenter at the
Finance, Economics, MIS, & Global Business
Research
Conference, Miami, Florida. Dr. Zelihic presented at the
XI
International GUIDE Conference and IX International EdTech IKASNABAR
Congress
in Madrid, Spain in 2016. Some of her academic activities, aside
from instruction, include serving as a Doctoral Chair,
co-facilitation of faculty certification and mentorship programs,
innovative technology development and application, course
development, lecture taping, test bank creation, and newsletter
committee forces. Dr. Zelihic enjoys doing research, specifically in
the fields of online learning, biculturalism, marketing, conflict
negotiation, business ethics, and management. In the last few years,
Dr. Zelihic teaches a whole range of courses, some of which are,
The Functions of Modern Management, Business Ethics and
Responsibility, Organizational Culture, Organizational Change,
Operations Management, Operations Strategy, Business Research and
Quantitative Methods for Decision-Making.
She is also a host of bi-weekly research Think Tanks which attract a
large body of Ashford faculty across several different colleges,
including many associate faculty members that gather to become
involved in developing research collaboration, sharing best teaching
practices, and enhancing a sense of faculty community in an online
setting.
Dr. Zelihic is
the recipient of Western International University Excellence Award
for Contributions to Faculty Peer Development, two-time University
of Phoenix Faculty Scholarship award, recognized as one of the top
10 Forbes School of Business faculty members in 2013, recipient of
the University Fellows grants award in 2014 (as part of a team of
four), and again the recipient of the University Fellows Grant award
in 2016 as the principal investigator. |
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Editorial Board Member &
Executive Chair
Dr. Turan Senguder, Nova
Southeastern University, FL
Dr. Turan Senguder has
completed his professional study at Harvard University,
Massachusetts. Dr. Senguder earned his Doctorate degree in
Business Administration from Nova Southeastern University, Florida,
graduating magna cum laude with high honors. He received his Master
of Business Administration (MBA) degree from Mercer University, Atlanta, GA,
graduating cum laude with high honors,
and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Business Administration from
American Intercontinental University, Atlanta, GA, graduating cum
laude with high honors. He received a certificate from Cambridge University, UK.
His doctorial dissertation was entitled “An Examination of Personal and
Cultural Values Between Turkish and American Consumers Concerning
Cross-National Customer Satisfaction Judgement.” (Published by UMI -
Bell & Howell, Ann Arbor, MI. UMI Number: 3003325.) He has published several articles in journals and conference
proceedings.
He has also presented numerous papers in national as well as
international conferences.
Dr. Senguder is the co-author of a book entitled
“Perspectives in Consumer Behavior: An Anthropological Approach”.
His current research interests are in the areas of customer
satisfaction, product management, advertising, promotional strategy,
innovation, cross-cultural marketing, branding, new product launch
strategies, marketing strategy and entrepreneurship, and general marketing. He
was a registered Licensed Investment Broker, an Investment Banker, for an
investment firm in Atlanta, GA and Admissions Representative for a University in
Atlanta, GA. Dr. Senguder serves on the editorial board of The American Academy of
Business Journal and The Business Review Journal. He is also an international business consultant.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker at London Conference
Dr.
Farrell Gean, Pepperdine University, Malibu, CA
Dr.
Farrell Gean is an Associate Professor of Accounting in Seaver
College of Pepperdine University
located in Malibu, CA. Professor Gean has been affiliated with
Pepperdine as a full time faculty member since 1981. He received
his B.S. from Lipscomb University in Nashville, TN. He received both
his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Georgia State University. He holds
the Certified Public Accounting CPA license and the Certified
Management Accounting CMA professional designation. Prior to joining
Pepperdine University, Professor Gean taught two years at Lipscomb
University. Prior to entering the academic world, he was on the
audit staff of Ernst & Ernst, one of the big 8 international
accounting firms. After mergers among professional accounting firms
this firm is now known as EY being one of the big 4. In addition to
Dr. Gean’s teaching responsibilities at Pepperdine, his
international consulting engagements have taken him to Singapore,
Tokyo, Hong Kong, Switzerland, and Riyadh, Saudia Arabia. Most all
these assignments focused on improving accounting controls. For
about 5 years he prepared pro forma financial statements for the
late Baron Edmond de Rothschild, a banker in Switzerland. All these
consulting experiences enriched his classroom performance helping
him to receive the first Luckman Distinguished Teaching Award at
Pepperdine University. Professor Gean has taught every accounting
course in the undergraduate curriculum with his emphasis on advanced
accounting and accounting theory. He has taught some MBA courses
over the years which deal more with managerial accounting. He makes
presentations frequently at professional conferences. He also
publishes regularly with most research addressing accounting
pedagogy.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker at London Conference
Dr. John
(Ed) Knight, Professor, University of Tennessee at Martin
Dr. John
(Ed) Knight is Professor of Management in the Department of
Management, Marketing, and Information Systems at the University of
Tennessee at Martin since 1971.
Professor Knight retired and relocated to Florida 3 years ago where
he still teaches a full time on-line position with the same
university. Professor Knight received his B.S. I. E. , M.S.I.E,
and Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology. He was a
licensed Professional Engineer in Tennessee and held multiple
certifications from the American Society of Quality Control
including Quality Engineer and Quality Manager. During his 47 years
of teaching, he was actively engaged in consulting throughout many
Southern states and internationally in Japan. As a faculty member
at the University of Tennessee at Martin, he taught both
undergraduate and graduate classes in operations management,
business statistics, operations research, quality control, work
measurement and improvement, and general management principles. His
consulting experiences related to business operations and
productivity analysis. For many years, he was the consulting plant
industrial engineer for the Ferry Morse Seed Company in Fulton,
Kentucky. Based on these numerous consulting experiences, Professor
Knight has presented many research papers related to actual (and
theoretical) industrial applications. Additionally, he has also
served as an expert witness in several civil cases involved with
paraplegia and the resulting implications in the life of a
paraplegic. His research has also developed a fruitful area of
research into evaluating writing through rubric development and
evaluation. His present research focuses on using design of
experiments to determine the most important factors to significantly
improve business writing styles. He has published research articles
in the Journal of Operations Management, The Production and
Inventory Management Journal, the International Journal of Teaching
and Learning, and The Business Review (Cambridge) among others.
Given his 45 years of service at the University of Tennessee, he
also has served on numerous university and school committees and has
been recognized as a University Scholar and received teaching awards
for his efforts. |
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Keynote Speaker at Hawaii Conference
Dr. Tony
Carter, Professor and Director, University of New Haven, CT
Tony
Carter, Ph.D., J.D., M.B.A. is a Professor of Management and
Director at the School of Business at the University of New Haven.
In addition, he is a Visiting Professor at Columbia University,
Graduate School of Business, where he teaches in the M.B.A. program
and has taught in the Executive M.B.A. program. At Columbia
University, Dr. Carter was also the Associate Faculty Director for
the Executive Management Programs in Sales Management and Key
Account Management. He was the General Mills Visiting Professor at
Columbia University, Graduate School of Business. He has over 20
years experience teaching in top ranked Executive M.B.A. and
Executive Management programs. He is a Professor at Linyi University
in China and has been a Visiting Professor of International
Management at ISM University of Management and Economics in Vilnius,
Lithuania. He was Academic Director and Professor at the Christos M.
Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson University, and
founding faculty member of the Russ Berrie Institute of Professional
Sales, known for its innovative technology management lab. He has
also done extensive work in “Management Coaching” which includes
publications and consulting. The author of the seven books:
Contemporary Sales Force Management, The Aftermath of Reengineering:
Downsizing and Corporate Performance, Customer Advisory Boards: A
Strategic Tool for Customer Relationship Building, Sales Force
Management: A Contemporary Approach, Many Thin Companies: The Change
In Customer Dealings and Manager’s Since September 11, 2001, The
Encyclopedia of Strategic Marketing Management and Globalization and
The Economic Geography of Globalization. Dr. Carter has had his
research published in Harvard Business Review and has had his work
published in the Columbia Journal of World Business, the Journal of
Professional Services Marketing, Journal of Marketing Management in
Customer Service, Services Marketing Quarterly, Journal of Strategic
Marketing, Selling Power Magazine, Asia Journal of Entrepreneurship,
American Journal of Economics and Business Administration and
Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management , International
Management Review, Journal of Management Policy and Practice. He has
also been interviewed in Business Week and numerous television and
radio programs and he is the editor-in-chief of the Journal of
Hospital Marketing and Public Relations. He had a feature
article done about him in Investor’s Business Daily the
premiere investor’s newspaper circulated worldwide. Dr. Carter has
worked as a manager for several corporations and has been a
Professor at Linyi University in China and guest lecturer at
Universities overseas, such as the Caucasus School of Business in
Tbilisi, Georgia, University of Bologna and University of Vilnius in
Lithuania. His case studies and research on management, sales and
sales management have been adopted and used by various Universities
and organizations around the world. Dr. Carter has conducted
research in the European Union, the People’s Republic of China and
Eastern Europe. He has also collaborated with such notables, as Dr.
Joseph Stiglitz, the 2001 Nobel Prize winner in economics. Still an
active consultant, he works on management, sales and sales
management issues for a variety of companies worldwide, including
Fortune 500 corporations, such as American Express, SONY
Corporation, Dun & Bradstreet, Digital Equipment, Guardian Life
Insurance Company, the United Nations , NAACP and Lubrizol
Corporation. Dr. Carter was the recipient of the “2004 Stillman
Award for the Best Business Book of New Jersey Business Faculty" and
also received the “2006 Stillman Award for the Best Business Case
Study” and is currently a FULBRIGHT SPECIALIST SCHOLAR. |
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Editorial Board
Member &Senior Review Editor
Dr. Z. S. Demirdjian,
Professor, California State University, Long Beach, CA
Dr. Z. S. Demirdjian is
Professor of Marketing at California State University, Long Beach.
He received his B.S. and MBA degrees from ASU, Tempe with honors;
and a Ph.D. in social-psychology, management and marketing from LSU,
Baton Rouge, also with high honors. Dr. Demirdjian has published
hundreds of articles and editorials in refereed journals including a
number of widely accepted books. He has received over thirteen best
study/author awards for his research. He distinguished himself as
being more than a top-notch scholar; he has an extensive track
record in consulting profit and not-for-profit organizations
spanning over twenty-five years. He is the recipient of numerous
honors for outstanding teaching, scholarship, and community service. |
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Keynote Speaker at New York Conference
Dr. Fatma
Pakdil, Professor and Eastern Connecticut State University, CT
Dr. Pakdil is currently a Professor in the Dept. of Business
Administration at Eastern Connecticut State University.
Dr. Pakdil wrote a book titled Performance Leadership™ with Dr.
Leonard and the book was published by Business Expert Press in May
2016. Dr. Pakdil worked as a Visiting Professor at Auburn
University for Academy of Aerospace Quality (AAQ) Project between
August 2014 and August 2015. Dr. Pakdil has published articles in
journals such as Administration & Society, International Journal
of Intercultural Relations, International Journal of Production
Research, International Journal of Cross-Cultural Management,
Transportation Research Part C, and presented in numerous
national and international conferences including the Academy of
Management and INFORMS. Dr. Pakdil earned Associate Professorship
of Management in 2008 from Higher Education Council in Turkey. Dr.
Pakdil specializes in Organization Theory, Healthcare Organizations,
Total Quality Management, Human Resource Management, Organizational
Behavior, Service Quality, and Quality Control. Dr. Pakdil was also
employed for 6 years as the Quality Director at Konur Hospital in
Turkey. On a year long sabbatical awarded by the Turkish National
Scientific and Technological Council, Dr. Pakdil collaborated with
Dr. Karen Leonard on the cultural aspects of lean management at
Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne in 2012. Dr. Pakdil
researched corporate performance management systems in healthcare
organizations at Wake Forest University, Baptist Medical Center in
North Carolina for Ph.D. studies in 2001. Dr. Pakdil joined Baskent
University, School of Engineering in September 2003 and earned a
full professorship in management in June 2013. Before joining
Baskent University, Dr. Pakdil was employed by the Uludag University
Department of Industrial Engineering as a lecturer for 4 years. Dr.
Pakdil earned her MBA in 1996 and Ph.D. in Business Administration
in 2002 from Uludag University. |
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at Miami Conference
Dr. Fred
Petro, Professor, Pepperdine University, CA
Dr. Fred Petro
is Professor of Accounting who joined the faculty of Pepperdine
University
in the Fall of 1980. He received a B.S. and M.B.A. from the School
of Accountancy, University of Southern Mississippi (1960, 1968) and
Ph.D. from the University of Arkansas (1973). He was a faculty
member of the University of South Alabama College of Business and
Management Studies-Department of Accounting (1972-1980). Dr. Petro
has presented papers nationally and internationally and published in
journals on a variety of managerial and financial topics. The focus
of much of his research is on accounting pedagogy. Specific areas
include cash flow, the statement of cash flow, earnings forecasts
and forecasting projects. He has also served as a reviewer of both
journals and books. When Dr. Petro first joined Pepperdine
University, he was the major voice in designing and implementing the
undergraduate accounting curriculum, which exists to this day with
only slight modifications. This program has produced successful
graduates who are in positions of senior management and partners in
accounting firms worldwide. Dr. Petro is a former cost analyst for
Gulf Oil Corporation. He is a former partner in the consulting firm
of P. L. Petro and Associates. Holding the professional
designation, Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Dr. Petro has
demonstrated keen insights into improving management decisions.
Although his talents are recognized as a CMA, his first love is the
classroom. Most recently, he has focused his energy on the use of
information technology to make the classroom learning experience
more effective and enjoyable. Dr. Petro has won various teaching
awards. |
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Keynote Speaker at New York Conference
Dr.
Julius Demps II, Jacksonville University, FL
Dr.
Julius Demps II is an Associate Professor of Management in the Davis
College of Business at Jacksonville University.
He teaches a number of courses in the areas of
Management, Leadership, and Human Resources in the Traditional
Undergraduate, Adult Degree, and M.B.A. programs and has taught in
the Executive M.B.A. program at the university. Dr. Demps has
served on the committee for Teaching Excellence, Chairperson for the
Student Alumni Advisory Committee, Davis College of Business
Executive Committee, Graduate Committee, Campus-Wide Sexual
Harassment Committee, and Faculty Chair for Alpha Kappa Psi Business
Fraternity. In previous years he also served as the Co-Director of
the Davis Leadership Center. Dr. Demps works tirelessly with the
Student Life Department and Jacksonville University Athletics as a
mentor, guide, recruiter, and advocate for all students, as they are
his primary passion. Dr. Demps is the President of Janus View, LLC,
a consulting firm that is uniquely designed to deliver seminars and
teambuilding activities, which provide insight into some of the
primary issues that affect American schools and business
organizations. These seminars are designed to “plant seeds” which
help individuals reflect upon how they are affected by their own
behaviors and how those behaviors impact the world around them. His
goal is to connect the realms of K-12 academia and business
organizations by using a Janus-type method...looking at the past to
improve the future. His research interests include studies
involving the evaluation of the perceptions of employee salary
reductions and organizational downsizing with integrity. Dr. Demps
was named the Jacksonville University Adult Degree Program Professor
of the Year in 2007, received the 2007 Best Presenter Award at the
International Economics and Business Conference in Miami, FL, the
recipient of The Faculty Excellence Award for University Service
(2010) and is Jacksonville University’s only two-time recipient of
the Tim Shakespeare Award for Outstanding University Service (2010 &
2016). Dr. Demps also proudly serves the community of Jacksonville,
FL as an active member of Alpha Phi Alpha Fraternity, Inc. |
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at New York Conference
Dr.
Kathryn J. Ready, Professor of Management, Winona State
University, Winona, MN
Kathryn
J. Ready is a professor of Management and former chair of the
Department of Business Administration in the College of Business at
Winona State University, one of the seven campuses of the Minnesota
state university system. She has a Ph.D. in Business Administration
from the University of Iowa with an emphasis in industrial
relations, human resources and complex organizations. She has
previously taught in graduate and undergraduate programs at the
University of Wisconsin-Eau Claire, the University of Minnesota and
the National Economics University in Vietnam. She has taught
courses in several management areas with a current focus on
strategic management, social entrepreneurship, international
management and Chinese Business and Culture. In 2011, Dr. Ready
developed a travel study program to China, partnering with local
business organizations, and annually leads students on this travel
study throughout China. In 2011, she received the engaged
leadership award at Winona State University due to her extensive
involvement with the area business community and her work in
cultivating and overseeing student projects in her courses
supporting both profit and nonprofit organizations. Dr. Ready has a
unique combination of academic and business experience with an
extensive background in the transportation and travel industry. She
is the co-owner of a logistics and travel company, and a former
co-owner of motorcoach and school bus transportation companies.
Her consulting work has primarily focused on strategic management,
labor and human resource issues in the airline, bussing and travel
industries. She has authored several successful grants from the
Federal Transit Authority, U.S. Dept. of Homeland Security, and
Minnesota State College and Universities among others. She
participates in several academic associations, as well as travel and
bussing associations, and serves on area community nonprofit
boards. Dr. Ready’s research has been published in over 90
scholarly publications with the majority in peer-reviewed journals
such as ILR Review, Journal of Labor Research, Journal of Higher
Education Theory and Practice, International Journal of Purchasing
and Operations Management, Journal of Management Education, Journal
of Travel and Tourism Marketing, Journal of Transportation
Management, and Issues in Information Systems among numerous others.
She is co-editor of a book entitled “The North American Free Trade
Agreement Labor, Industry and Government Perspectives” and has
written several book chapters in areas such as NAFTA, motorcoach
security practices and cross-cultural managerial issues. She
regularly presents her research at national and international
conferences and has received several best paper and best presenter
awards. Her current research interests focus on cross-cultural
management issues, academic retention policies among diverse
populations, and the cultivation and analysis of engagement
practices within the university and business sectors.
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Keynote
Speaker at Hawaii
Conference
Dr. Larson Ng,
Director of Research,
University of
Hawaii at Manoa, Honolulu, Hawaii
Larson Ng is an Educational Specialist in the College of Education
at the University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. As a researcher, he actively
conducts and publishes research in the fields of business and
economic sustainability literacy and curriculum development; Native
Hawaiian education policy and program evaluation; and community
leadership and management. He also has and continues to teach
courses in research methodology, which he incorporates leadership
and economic concepts in the College of Education’s graduate
programs. Larson rounds his academic regimen by occasionally serving
as a board member in both the business and education arena. Outside
of academia, Larson spends a great deal of time serving the Native
Hawaiian community. As an advocate of sustainable economic growth,
he frequently gives guest interviews on local community television
sharing how Hawai‘i can ensure its 21st century long-term prosperity
by simply taking those steps to re-engineer its current economic
base. Larson also serves as a strong advocate and proponent of
utilizing those pedagogies and content-based curriculum responsive
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr. David L. Ralp,
Pepperdine University, Los
Angeles, CA
Dr.
David L. Ralph is the Founder of Antelope Valley Christian School
and served as President & CEO for eighteen years.
In addition, he is a tenured faculty member of Pepperdine
University. In his 40 years at Pepperdine in addition to teaching
marketing, Dr Ralph has an exhaustive record of service to the
University as well as the community. Dr. Ralph has served as the
Associate Dean of the Graziadio School of Business and Management as
well as the Chair of the Marketing, Economics, and Quantitative
Methods Department. Dr. Ralph has an extensive consulting record
with a variety of companies and is widely published in the field of
marketing. He also has widespread pro bono consulting work with
nonprofit organizations. He is on the board of directors for the
SimulationsPlus which is publicly traded on NASDAQ.
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Keynote Speaker at Hawaii Conference
Dr. John R. Wingender, Jr.,
Chairman and Full Professor,
Creighton University. NE
Dr. John R. Wingender, Jr. is the
Chairman of the Department of Economics and Finance and a Full
Professor of Finance at Creighton University.
He has served as the Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs at
Creighton University. He previously taught at Oklahoma State
University for twelve years where he was named the Ardmore Professor
of Business Administration. He was awarded a Fulbright grant and to
teach and conduct research at the International Management Center,
now the Central European University Business School, in Budapest,
Hungary. He was a Fellow at Trinity College in Dublin, Ireland in
the Institute of International Integration Studies. He has been a
Visiting Faculty member for Peking University in its Beijing
International MBA (BiMBA) program since 2004. He received his Ph.D.
from the University of Nebraska in 1985. He teaches managerial
finance, international financial management, investment analysis,
and portfolio management. Dr. Wingender has published more than
4articles in various refereed business journals, such as the
Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis, Journal of
Banking and Finance, Management Science, Journal of Business
and Economic Statistics, Journal of Financial Research,
The Financial Review, and the Journal of Business Research.
He is an Editor of the Quarterly Journal of Finance and
Accounting and an Associate Editor for the Quarterly Review
of Economics and Finance. He has been the President and officer
of the Midwest Finance Association and the Association of Business
Simulation and Experiential Learning. His research interests
include the distribution of stock returns, the use of financial
derivatives, counter cyclical hiring, and the decertification of
unions. Dr. Wingender is currently the Treasurer of the Creighton
Federal Credit Union Board of Directors. He serves on several
non-profit boards. At Creighton University he is the Faculty
Advisor for the Financial Management Association (FMA) Student
Chapter and the Phi Kappa Psi Fraternity. He has consulted
internationally for many businesses such as Ernst and Young, Ely
Lily, Coca Cola, Dell Computers, and the World Bank, most recently
conducting a Financial Analysis training program for Pfizer,
China. Dr. Wingender has been awarded several teaching and
research awards. In 2008 he was honored with the Outstanding
Teacher Award at the Beijing International MBA program from 2004 to
2007. He has earned several national FMA Superior Faculty Advisor
Awards. In 2007 he was honored with the Robert F. Kennedy Memorial
Teaching Award, the top teaching award at Creighton University. He
won a similar award at Oklahoma State University in 1990.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Chair at Miami Conference
Dr.
Mary Werner, Professor, Jacksonville University, Jacksonville,
Florida.
Dr.
Mary Werner is a Professor of Marketing at Jacksonville University,
Jacksonville, Florida.
Her Ph.D. in Marketing is from The University of Tennessee,
Knoxville, Tennessee. She also has an MBA in Marketing from The
University of Miami in Coral Gables, Florida and a BBA in Marketing
from Emory University in Atlanta, Georgia where she graduated with
honors. Dr. Werner is a former Division Chair of Management,
Marketing and Entrepreneurship at Jacksonville University where she
has taught in the EMBA, MBA, and ADP Programs. She currently
teaches in the Traditional Undergraduate Program. Many of Dr.
Werner’s students have used the marketing plans done in her classes
to run various businesses. Dr. Werner is published in the areas of
Consumer Behavior, The Marketing of Higher Education, Online
Marketing, Promotion, Marketing Strategy and Global Marketing.
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Keynote Speaker at Tokyo Conference
Dr. Steven Taylor,
Illinois State University, IL (US Navy: Previously)
Dr. Steven Taylor is a Professor of Marketing who joined the faculty
of Illinois State University in the Fall of 1992.
He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Florida State University
(1992). Prior to entering academics, Dr. Taylor enjoyed managerial
experiences with the US Navy (seven years), as well as the
drug screening, pharmaceutical sales, and hospital management
industries. Dr. Taylor's areas of expertise concern Services
Marketing, Relationship Marketing, and eBusiness with an emphasis on
how the service quality, value, satisfaction, and loyalty constructs
operate in consumer models of judgment and decision making.
Professor Taylor has published 50 refereed academic journal articles
in his academic career to date across numerous journal outlets such
as the Journal of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of
Retailing, Journal of Service Management, British Journal of Social
Psychology, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Insurance Issues,
Journal of Product and Brand Management, International Journal of
E-Business Research, among numerous others. He has also published
many refereed proceedings and invited book chapters. Most recently,
Dr. Taylor has focused on attitude-based models of human
decision-making in consumer contexts, including a series of articles
investigating digital piracy behaviors. In addition to regularly
serving as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous marketing journals, Dr.
Taylor also recently served for a decade as the Co-Editor of the
Journal of Consumer Satisfaction, Dissatisfaction & Complaining
Behavior, currently serving as an Associate Editor for the journal
since 2014. Dr. Taylor has also been a long-term member of the
Editorial Review Boards of the Journal of Service Research (founding
member) and the Journal of Service Management. He has consulted
across a wide variety of industries, including recent projects for
insurance, retail, health care, and manufacturing concerns.
Professor Taylor was recently named the Hinderliter Chair of
Business (2012-2013). He has previously been honored with the
Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Service Research (2007),
Illinois State University Outstanding Researcher (2013), Mannehan
College of Business Outstanding Teaching Award (2001), Illinois
State University Teaching Initiative Award (1997), the Illinois
State University Caterpillar Scholar (1998, 2003), the Illinois
State University College of Business Outstanding Researcher Award
(1997, 2009), the Wilma Jean Alexander Technology Innovation Award
(1997), and the Illinois State University Research Initiative Award
(1995).
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Keynote Speaker at Tokyo Conference
Dr. Kuan-Chou Chen, Dept. Head, Purdue University Calumet, IN
Dr. Kuan-Chou Chen is a Professor of Management Information Systems
and Department Head and of Department of Information Systems,
Finance, and Business Analytics, as well as Interim Department Head
of Department of Graduate Studies in Education (2013-2014) at Purdue
University Calumet.
He received his Ph.D. from the Michigan State University, and MBA
from National Cheng-Kung University at Taiwan. He specialized in
computer programming, system simulation, project management,
decision support systems, data mining, system analysis and design,
e-business strategy and application, supply chain management,
network design and security, knowledge management, and information
economy. Professor Chen has more than 90 scholarly publications,
most in peer-reviewed journals. He is an active participant in
several professional journals and serves on three paper reviewer
boards. Currently he is an Editor-in-Chief of International Journal
of e-Education, e-Business, e-Management and e-Learning. His
productivity and scholarship has been recognized by his colleagues,
being nominated three years in a row for an “Outstanding Scholar
Award.” He also the recipient of Teacher of the Year Award (Purdue
University Calumet, 2005). In his working experience, he worked as
System Engineer and Project Manager at Electronic Data Systems
(EDS). He also been taught at several universities: Purdue
University West Lafayette, Bowling Green State University, IVY Tech
State College, Lansing Community College, and Davenport University.
He has initiated experiential and service learning opportunities
with community partners to Purdue University Calumet. Internally,
he won experiential learning course development grants four times to
create service learning courses connection between the real-world
and academia. The community partners include the Hammond Innovation
Center, Vision One, and the Methodist Hospitals Foundation. He was
also awarded several external grants from Indiana Campus Compact to
service a learning project with a local community hospital. He is
also very active in mentoring undergraduate research. He has
mentored more than 30 undergraduate students to awarded
undergraduate research grants at Purdue University Calumet. He also
supervised Ball State University Information Systems annual case
competition and won championship in 2012 and 2013. Professor Chen
has served as a visiting scholar at the following universities
overseas: National Cheng-Kung University (Taiwan), National Taiwan
University of Science and Technology (Taiwan), National Sun Yat-sen
University (Taiwan), National Pingtung University of Science and
Technology (Taiwan), Chinese Culture University (Taiwan), John Paul
II Catholic University of Lublin (Poland), and Inner Mongolia
University of Technology (China).
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Keynote Speaker at London Conference
Dr. Stephen C. Gara, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Dr.
Stephen Gara is the Director of the School of Accounting and
Associate Professor of Accounting at Drake University.
He received his BS from Syracuse University, JD from Southern
Methodist University, LLM from Georgetown University and a PhD from
the University of Memphis. Prior to joining Drake University in
2005, Dr. Gara taught at Long Island University-CW Post and Old
Dominion University. Dr. Gara’s research interests include taxation,
financial reporting and accounting education. He research has
appeared in over 25 national and international journals and
conferences, including Advances in Taxation, Advances in
Accounting Education, CPA Journal, Review of Quantitative Finance
and Accounting, and Education Finance and Policy.
Additionally, Dr. Gara is both a Certified Public Accountant and
licensed attorney. Prior to entering academia, Dr. Gara was a tax
attorney in Washington, DC. He is a member of the American
Accounting Association, American Taxation Association, Academy of
Legal Studies in Business, and Financial Executives International.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at New York Conference
Dr. Gordon W. Arbogast
has a career that bridges the military, business and academia
Dr. Gordon W. Arbogast
has a career that bridges the military, business and academia.
He commanded Army units in Korea, the Dominican Republic, Vietnam,
Germany, and the United States, rising to the rank of Colonel. He
served in the Pentagon, commanded a battalion in Heidelberg, Germany
and was the Deputy Program Manager for a $1 billion buy of
computers. He was Head of the Engineering Department at the U.S.
Military Academy at West Point where he pioneered systems
engineering as a new major and revised the curriculum. As the
Associate Director of Engineering, Technology and Corporate Planning
for the Defense Communications Agency (DCA), he led the Agency in
becoming the Defense Information Systems Agency. While on active
duty he completed two Master’s degrees at Georgia Tech and his Ph.D.
at Clemson University.
On retiring, he
became a Principal Scientist for Contel Technology Laboratories in
Chantilly, Virginia and then was Vice President of Systems
Technology for three years at Pacific Bell in San Francisco. In
1994 he accepted a professorship at Jacksonville University where he
teaches a wide variety of graduate courses in the Davis College of
Business, including operations, information technology, leadership,
and the capstone course in Strategy and Policy. For the past four
years he has been the Associate Dean of the Davis College of
Business and the Director of their Graduate Programs.
Dr.
Arbogast has been active as a consultant to organizations such as
the Hong Kong Productivity Center and Learning Tree International.
He has published widely on such diverse topics as air power in
Kosovo, the evolution of strategy, the environmental issues along
the Indian River in Florida, CEO and top management pay, leadership,
and the history of engineering at West Point. He is listed in all
the major Who’s Who publications to include the Millennium Who’s Who
in the World
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Keynote Speaker at Miami Conference
Dr. Roger H. Bezdek, U.S. Department of the Treasury, Washington,
D.C.
Dr. Bezdek joined the
Treasury Department in 1980 and, prior to assuming his current
position in 1987, served in Treasury as Research Director and as
Special Advisor on Energy. Prior to joining Treasury, he was a
Division Director in the Department of Energy and the Energy
Research and Development Administration, Director of Interindusty
Research at the Commerce Department, and on the faculty of the
University of Illinois (Urbana), where he held appointments in the
Department of Economics, the Institute of Labor and Industrial
Relations, and the Center for Advanced Computation. He has served
as U.S. Delegate to the European Community and to the North Atlantic
Treaty Organization, as a member of the State Department AMPART
program, and as a member of the National Science Foundation/State
Department exchange program with the USSR on economic forecasting..
Since February 2003, he has been a member of the select Federal
government Task Force charged with the responsibility for
reconstructing the economy of Iraq. Working with senior officials
from Treasury, the White House, the State Department, the
Department of Defense, the Federal Reserve, the Iraq Coalition
Provisional Authority, and other agencies, the Task Force is
responsible for paying 3 million Iraqi civil servants, essential
workers, and pensioners, developing a budget for Iraq, administering
oil revenues, writing new commercial law, establishing a nationwide
payments and financial management system, introducing a new
currency, reforming the banking sector, rescheduling Iraq’s
international debt, establishing monetary and fiscal policies,
developing a new tax system, establishing a stock market, obtaining
financial assistance from international donors, creating a Trade
Bank to facilitate exports and imports, and other economic and
financial reforms, Dr. Bezdek is the recipient of numerous honors
and awards (including a Ford Foundation Fellowship to Harvard
University, and awards from the Secretary of the Treasury, the
National Science Foundation, the White House, the Department of
Energy, the Wall Street Journal, the Association for
Computing Machinery, and the USSR Academy of Sciences). Dr. Bezdek
received his Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Illinois
(Urbana), is the author of three books and of 200 articles in
scientific and technical journals, and is active in several
professional associations, including the American Statistical
Association and the Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences. He is married to Priscilla L. Bezdek and has
four children.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr.
Stewart L. Tubbs, Professor, College of Business at Eastern
Michigan University, MI
Dr.
Stewart L. Tubbs, The Darrell H. Cooper Professor of Leadership
and former Dean of the College of Business at Eastern Michigan
University. Dr.
Tubbs
received his doctorate from the University of Kansas. His Masters
and Bachelors degrees are from Bowling Green State University. He
has completed postdoctoral study at Harvard Business School,
Stanford Graduate School of Business and The Center for Creative
Leadership in Greensboro, North Carolina. He served as Associate
Dean of the College of Business at Boise State University. He also
served as Chair of the Management Department at Boise State
University. Prior to that, he was a professor of organizational
behavior at General Motors Institute. He also served as Assistant
Director of Community Development for the University of Kansas.
Dr. Tubbs has consulted for numerous corporations and has won five
awards for his outstanding teaching. In 1994 he received the
Outstanding Leadership Award in London, England from the Academy of
Business Administration. He is also a member of the Distinguished
Alumni Hall of Fame at Lakewood High School in Lakewood, Ohio. Dr.
Tubbs is the author of several best-selling books including: A
Systems Approach to Small Group Interaction (8th ed.),
New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004: Human Communication: Principles and
Contexts (9th ed.) (with Sylvia Moss), New York:
McGraw-Hill. 2003. (Chinese edition published in 2004).: Keys to
Leadership: 95 Steps to Success. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2004. He is
the author of a monthly newspaper column entitled “Insights.” He
has also published in or been quoted in Cosmopolitan, Industry Week,
Management Review, The Journal of Leadership Studies, The Wall
Street Journal, Personnel, Teams Magazine (in England), The Detroit
Free Press, The Detroit News and numerous other publications. He
has served on several corporate Boards as well as on the boards of
several not-for-profit organizations. He also served as the Chair of
the Organizational Communication Division of the Academy of
Management and is a Contributing Editor to The Journal of Leadership
and Organizational Studies.
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Keynote Speaker at Miami Conference
Dr. Heather L Garten, Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Worldwide
Dr. Heather L Garten is assistant professor in the College of Arts
and Sciences at Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide.
She received her PhD in mathematics from Emory University in
2005, and her Bachelor’s from Stetson University in both
Mathematics and Economics in 2000. While at the Department of
Defense (2005-2011), she earned her Lean Six Sigma Greenbelt,
completing the first Lean Six Sigma project at the National Security
Agency (NSA) in addition to graduating a rigorous Applied
Mathematics Program. Dr. Garten is a member of the Center for
Aviation and Aerospace Leadership (CAAL), and writes regularly for
the CAAL blog. Dr. Garten serves as an Expert on the Airport
Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) synthesis Practices in
Developing Effective Stakeholder Relationships at Smaller Airports.
Dr. Garten is an active member in the community, and is a member of
the Rollins College Philanthropy & Nonprofit Leadership Center. She
was appointed as a speaker for the Ronald McDonald House charities
in Orlando, FL, volunteers with the Orlando Science Center, and
serves as the community outreach liaison for White House Black
Market, Winter Park, FL. Dr. Garten is often found baking
exquisite, unique goodies for philanthropic events, and will be
featured at the 2014 Orlando Science Center’s Neanderthal Ball. Dr.
Garten has continually promoted growth through innovative education,
speaking at over ten STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering,
Mathematics) conferences as Director of the Mathematical Sciences
Program, a grant making program at the NSA. Continuing her thirst
for knowledge and empowering others, Dr. Garten founded and
trademarked (se)XY STEM®: A STEM initiative that recognizes the
value of collaboration through STEM, from fashion design to cooking
to aeronautics. The basis of (se)XYSTEM®, the XY-Generation
Mentality, drives a large portion of her research emphasizing the
new global paradigm that is emerging, predominantly due to the
advances in technology and aerospace. Dr. Garten refers to those
who are creating this exciting paradigm as the (se)XY-Generation,
and never misses an opportunity to present this subject to future
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Editorial Board
Member
& Vice Chair at London Conference
Dr.
Donald Margotta,
Northeastern University in Boston, MA
Dr.
Donald Margotta
is Associate Professor of Finance in the College of Business at
Northeastern University in Boston. He received BS and MS degrees
from Stevens Institute of Technology, an MBA from Rutgers
University, and a Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill in 1983.
Prior to entering the academic
world Dr. Margotta served in corporate and international
management positions for several corporations. His primary area of
academic research deals with mergers and corporate governance
issues. Related to those interests he has served as an expert
witness in approximately fifteen court cases dealing with hostile
takeovers and takeover defenses. He was appointed to the Commission
to Review Massachusetts Takeover Laws, a Commission that wrote the
current takeover laws in Massachusetts, and he has served as a
consultant to several Fortune 500 companies on issues pertaining to
corporate governance. In addition, he served as a consultant to the
Business Roundtable, a corporate advocacy group composed of the
CEO’s of the two hundred largest U.S. companies. In public policy
forums Dr. Margotta has testified before the Securities and Exchange
Commission and several U.S. Congressional Committees, and he has
provided testimony regarding takeover laws to legislatures in
Delaware, Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, and New Jersey. Dr.
Margotta has presented scholarly papers nationally and
internationally and has numerous academic and popular publications.
He has also been a recipient of Northeastern University's award for
Teaching Excellence.
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Keynote Speaker at Istanbul Conference
Dr.
Rutilo Martínez, Monfort College of Business, University of Northern
Colorado
A
native of Mexico City, Dr. Martinez is a professor of quantitative
methods at the Monfort College of Business of the University of
Northern Colorado. He received a bachelor degree in business from
the Universidad Iberoamericana (1976), a M.S in economics from
Colorado State University (1980) and a Ph.D in economics from
Vanderbilt University (1992). Between 2002 and 2006 he was a partner
of CG Americas, a consulting firm that promoted business between the
U.S.A and Mexico. His responsibilities included: organization of
business missions from Colorado to Mexico, translations of business
documents and writing financial narratives of Mexican firms that
were looking for capital in the U.S. In courses organized by the
International Monetary Fund, Dr. Martinez taught econometrics and
macroeconomics to officers of the central banks of the Central
American nations (1991-1992). Between 2000 and 2013, Dr. Martinez
has taught several seminars about the business cultures and
economies of the Latin American nations in Germany and in the Czech
Republic. Dr. Martinez has published several articles dealing with
the economies of Latin America. He has being a reviewer for the
International Business and Economics Research Journal and of three
textbooks of business statistics.
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Keynote Speaker
at New York Conference
Dr.
Shahram Amiri, Chair, Stetson University, Deland, FL
Dr.
Shahram Amiri is the chair of the Department of Decision and
Information Sciences at the School of Business Administration; of
Stetson University, Deland, Florida.
He is a faculty member with Salzburg Seminars in Salzburg Austria
As a CIO and a senior executive for over 20 years, he has provided
leadership and direction for large IT organizations at four
different institutions of higher learning: Norfolk State University,
Christopher Newport University, Williams College, and Stetson
University. In each case, he posted a track record of successful,
cost-effective and productive IT innovation and implementation.
Because of his strong commitment to serving the community and state,
he founded and served as President and Chief Executive Officer of
the Institute for the Study of Digital Inclusion (ISDI); a (501c3)
Nonprofit Organization. ISDI’s mission is to promote the use of
effective and affordable technology and enhance individual lives.
Over 1000 students (2003-2011) from underserved communities in state
of Florida graduated from the Institute (The Make-It-Take-It After
School Program) where they learned internet literacy and built and
received their own computers. Dr. Amiri has taught at Stetson
University since 2003. His research includes the impact of
Information and Communication Technology (ICT) on E-commerce,
E-health, E-learning, E-government, socio-economics and Gross
Domestic Product. His writing has been published in many academic
and scientific journals including: International Journal of Applied
Science and Technology, AI &Society, IBM Journal of Research and
Development and International Journal of Business, Humanities and
Technology.
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Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr. Igor M.
Paramonov,
Southern Alberta Institute of Technology, Canada
Right to Left: Ms.
Amber Hroch, UCLA, California; Dr. Igor Paramonov, Keynote Speaker,
Southern Alberta Institute
of Technology, Canada.
Dr. Igor M.
Paramonov has over thirty years of research, teaching, and
consulting experience in North America and the former USSR.
His academic activities have resulted in close to forty publications
and numerous presentations covering regional economic integration,
foreign direct investment, marketing channels for industrial
products, economic geography, and business education. Dr.
Paramonov received a grant from the Association of Universities and
Colleges of Canada to participate in the 1991-1992 Canada-USSR
Academic Exchange Program at the University of Western Ontario. In
1996 he was selected by the Fulbright Office in Moscow for a
research and faculty development program at the University of
Montana in association with the United States Information Agency.
Since 1998, Dr. Paramonov has lived and worked in Calgary, Canada.
He is a faculty member at the Southern Alberta Institute of
Technology and has also been affiliated with the University of
Calgary. His consulting experience involves a variety of projects
in the fields of international business, regional economic
development, and higher education, dealing with marketing research,
feasibility studies, and market entry recommendations for small and
medium-size firms and non-for profit organizations in the U.S,
Canada, Russia, and Ukraine. Dr. Paramonov teaches traditional
courses in management, marketing, and international business as well
as custom-made courses such as Business under NAFTA. He has also
received awards for teaching excellence including the Mortar Board’s
Professor Award from the University of Montana’s Pentralia Chapter.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at Miami Conference
Dr.
Doug Flint, University of New Brunswick, Canada
Dr.
Doug Flint
has
his PhD from the University of Toronto. He is an Associate Professor
of Human Resource Management in the Faculty of Management at the
University of New Brunswick. He teaches Organizational Behavior,
Human Resource Management, Strategic Human Resource Management, and
Compensation in the BBA and MBA programs. He has consulted on human
resource management issues for large organizations such as Babcock &
Wilcox, Bell Canada, Canary Health Services, The Hay Group, and The
Royal Bank, as well as for smaller and not-for-profit enterprises.
Doug's academic interests center on organizational justice. His
publications have appeared in:
The Journal of the American Academy of Business, Cambridge;
The
Business Review, Cambridge; Human Resource Management Review; the
Journal of Health Organization and Management; and Personnel Review.
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Editorial Board
Member &
Keynote Speaker
at Miami Conference
Dr. Roger D. Hanagriff, Professor, Texas A&M University, TX
Dr. Roger D. Hanagriff
is a professor of continuing education at Texas A&M University where
is currently working on agricultural business educational materials
and program assessment. His previously employment experience has
been a tenured Associate Professor a Sam Houston State University
and Texas A&M University Kingsville. In teaching, Dr. Hanagriff has
received numerous teaching awards such as the 2010 & 2008 Texas A&M
Universities Chancellors Teaching Excellence Award and 2007 NACTA
Teaching Fellow. His scholarly experience includes over $2.5
million in funded projects, 40 peer-reviewed research articles as
well as over 50 invited presentations. His current research work
includes the economic value of tourism spending, winery tourism and
relations to community economic development and program assessment
related to agricultural education.
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Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr.
Eric Golla, Senior Vice President, Bank of America
Dr.
Eric Golla has over 25 years of experience managing, designing, and
developing complex software solutions and analytics for the finance,
manufacturing, distribution, and software industry.
Innovations he led or developed include (1) mass media marketing
analytics; (2) a real-time, in-memory, interactive online system;
(3) a neural network analytic system for manufacturing and finance;
(4) sales incentive, analytics, and reporting system; and (5) lab
automation systems. Dr. Golla currently is a Senior Vice President
for Bank of America (BAC) managing a marketing/product testing and
analytics group that use quantitative and qualitative research
methods to identify revenue and cost saving opportunities. Previous
responsibilities at Bank of America include managing Merchant
Services ($400 million revenue per year) modeling, analytics, sales
reporting/incentive group; and managing data warehouse optimization.
Prior to Bank of America, Dr. Golla provided business development
and sales engineering for an internet startup, started an
engineering software consulting company, provided process control
software for an engineering start-up company, and was the Chief
Technical Officer for a distribution company. Over the years he
developed relationships with leaders at Bank of America, Mead Paper,
American Express, Packaging Corporation, Hillshire Farms, IBM,
Microsoft, ST Microelectronics, Avnet, Motorola, and Hitachi. Dr.
Golla’s education includes a Doctorate of Business (DBA) from
University of Phoenix, Masters of Business (MBA) from University of
Wisconsin-Oshkosh, and Bachelors of Science (BS) – Computer Science
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Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr. Falih M. Alsaaty, Bowie State University
Dr. Falih
M. Alsaaty
is Professor of Business Administration in the Department of
Management, Marketing, and Public Administration at the College of
Business, Bowie State University. He, in cooperation with other
faculty members, played the key role in the creation of the
College’s MBA Program. He received his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from
the Graduate School of Business Administration (Stern School of
Business), New York University, New York. Prior to joining the
University, Dr. Alsaaty was Professor of Management and Director of
the International Business Center at the University of the District
of Columbia, Washington, DC. He has extensive teaching and research
experience in the fields of Management, Business Strategy, and
Entrepreneurship. He taught in a number of universities in the
United States and abroad, including the American University,
Washington, DC; Baghdad University, Baghdad, Iraq; and Jordan
University, Amman, Jordan. He also serviced in a few other
organizations, including the World Bank, Washington, DC. Dr.
Alsaaty has numerous publications in professional journals. He has
also published four books. The most recent book (co-authored with
Dr. Hany H. Makhlouf), entitled Entrepreneurial Reach (2012).
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Keynote Speaker
at Hawaii Conference
Dr. Wayne D.
Jones, University of
South Florida, FL
Dr.
Wayne Jones received his doctorate in International Management
(International Organization and Strategy) from the University of
Hawaii and his MBA (Management and Human Resources with an
additional concentration in Entrepreneurship), Master of Science
(International Business), and Bachelor of Science (Geology and
Geophysics, Physical Geography) degrees from the University of
Wisconsin – Madison. He has been a business owner and worked as an
environmental scientist, international consultant, martial arts
instructor, and university professor in large and small, new and
established, and public and private organizations and government
entities in the United States and abroad. He has taught in
undergraduate, MBA, M.S., Masters in Biotechnology, EMBA, and
executive training programs and given invited presentations to
doctoral programs in major national and international universities,
including the University of Wisconsin – Madison, University of
Hawaii, California State University, Hawaii Pacific University,
Roosevelt University, University of Tampa, Bond University
(Australia), Chinese Academy of Sciences (People’s Republic of
China), and the Maastricht School of Management/Ho Chi Minh City
University of Technology (Vietnam). He most recently was hired to be
the Director of Entrepreneurship Programs at the University of South
Florida Polytechnic where he designed new courses and programs
related to entrepreneurship and technology and innovation
management, worked to establish an entrepreneurship center, assisted
foreign firms seeking to make “soft landings” in the United States,
and developed international initiatives in an effort to help build a
new and independent academic institution.
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Keynote Speaker
at Miami Conference
Dr. Joseph C. Santora, ENPC School of International Management,
Paris, France
Left to Right :
Dr. Wanida Wadeecharoen,
Thonburi University, Thailand and Keynote Speaker, Dr. Joseph C.
Santora, EPNC School of International Management, Paris, France
Dr. Joseph C. Santora
is the Director of Research/Visiting
Professor of Management, ENPC School of International Management,
Paris, France. He has held several administrative/faculty positions
in United States as well as visiting professorships and fellowships
in Australia, Europe, Georgia, and Russia. He received his
doctorate from the Fordham University, and his Master’s and
Bachelor’s degrees from Seton Hall University. He completed
postdoctoral study at Harvard, Princeton and New York. Dr. Santora
has consulted for some two dozen organizations and led two private
organizations. He has authored/co-authored more than 150
publications, of which several have received best paper awards, and
he has presented paper at international conferences in 13 countries
on four continents. He serves on eight academic journal editorial
boards.
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Keynote Speaker
at Miami Conference
Dr. Bala Maniam, Sam Houston State University, TX
Dr. Bala Maniam
is a Professor of Finance and is the former chair of the Department
of General Business and Finance at Sam Houston State University. He
received his doctorate from the University of Mississippi. His
Masters and Bachelors degrees are from Arkansas State University. He
has won numerous teaching awards, including Excellence in Teaching
from Sam Houston State University, Excellence in Teaching from
Association of Business Administration, and several more. He has
also won the Excellence in Research at Sam Houston State University
for his scholarly work. He has published over a hundred and twenty
articles in journals. Similarly, he has won several service awards
for his contribution to his profession.
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Keynote Speaker
at London Conference
Dr. Charles R.
Salter, Schreiner University in Kerrville, Tx
Dr. Charles R.
Salter is an author and Chair of the Department of Business
Administration at Schreiner University in Kerrville, Texas.
He also teaches and serves on dissertation committees in the
Doctorate of Leadership Studies for Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio. He has held various community, academic and corporate
leadership positions specializing in leadership and finance. As a
former city councilman of The Woodlands, Texas, Executive for Baker
Hughes, Inc., President of 3 his own entrepreneurial endeavors, and
President and Elder in the Lutheran Church Charles brings a unique
perspective to his study and publications on the various forms of
leadership. Dr. Salter holds a Bachelor of Journalism from the
University of Georgia, a Masters of Business Administration
concentration in Management and Finance from University of Houston,
and a Doctorate of Philosophy from Our Lady of the Lake University
San Antonio. A licensed Texas Real Estate Broker and former
Financial Investment Advisor (IA), holding Series 6, 63, & 65
securities licenses his professional consulting experience has been
eclectic having consulted major utility companies, universities,
symphony orchestras, medical doctors, and school districts on
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Keynote Speaker
at London & Bangkok Conference
Dr. Sut Sakchutchawan, State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY
Dr. Sut Sakchutchawan is
an Assistant Professor of Management at
State University of New York, Plattsburgh, NY. He has twenty years of experience in management,
banking, and international business from Wall Street. He held titles
of department executive and global lending-abs portfolio officer for
Barclays Bank and Bank of Nova Scotia. His largest portfolio with
Barclays Bank was worth 33 billion. In addition to his post
doctorate in Management (AQ-AACSB) from the University of Toledo,
Dr. Sakchutchawan holds a doctoral degree in International Business
Management from Union Institute and University, USA. He received a
bachelor of arts degree from Ramkhamhaeng University and a master of
arts degree from Thammasat University in Bangkok, Thailand. He also
holds a master of business administration in Management from
National University, USA. His articles have been published
in Journal of Business Review, Journal of American Academy of
Business, Quarterly Journal of Finance & Accounting, Journal of
International Business Research, Journal of Human Resources and
Adult Learning, Journal of Accounting & Finance, Journal of
International management Studies, Journal of International Academy
of Business Disciplines (yearbook), Journal of Global Business
Management, and Global Journal of International Business Research,
respectively. Currently, he is co-editor for JAABC, He is also a
reviewer for Academy of Management, Academy of International
Business, Eastern Academy of Management, and International Journal
of Production Economics.
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Keynote Speaker
at London Conference
Dr. Fred Maidment, Western Connecticut State University, CT
Right to Left: Dorothy McCuller,
London, UK;
Dr. Fred Maidment,
Professor, Western
Connecticut State University in Danbury, Connecticut.
Dr. Fred Maidment
is a Professor in the Department of Management of the Ancell School
of Business at Western Connecticut State University in Danbury,
Connecticut. He has been on the faculties of a number of
universities and colleges including the University of South Carolina
and Southern Illinois University at Carbondale. Dr.
Maidment received his BS from NYU’s Stern School of Business (then
the School of Commerce), his MBA from the Baruch College of the City
University of New York and his doctorate from the University of
South Carolina, Columbia. In addition, he has been a Visiting
Scholar at the Warrington College of Business of the University of
Florida – Gainesville. His business experience includes the Chase
Manhattan Bank, and the NCR Corporation as well as experience as the
owner and operator of his own business. Dr. Maidment’s consulting
assignments have included agencies of the Federal government,
not-for-profit agencies, as well as corporations. He is the author
or co-author of an extensive list of articles dealing with topics in
human resources and international business in both the academic and
practitioner press. He is the editor, co-editor, author or
co-author of 25 titles in over 130 editions. Current titles include
Annual Editions: Human Resources; Annual Editions: International
Business and Annual Editions: Management all of which he
has been the editor for over 20 years; co-author of Business in
Government and Society: Ethical, International Decision-making
from Pearson/Prentice-Hall and is the author of the recently
published What Your Boss Doesn’t Want You to Know: How to Succeed
(and Excel!) in the Global Economy from Motivational Press. He
and his wife, Sandra, are the proud parents of four children and
three grandchildren.
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Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr. Marian C. Schultz, The University of West Florida, FL
Dr. Marian C.
Schultz holds Associate and Bachelor’s degree from the University
of Detroit Mercy, a Master’s degree from Pepperdine University, and
a Doctorate from the University of Southern California.
She has taught various business courses for The University of
Hawaii, Chaminade University and Hawaii Pacific University while
living in Hawaii. While in San Antonio she taught in the Marketing
and Management Department for The University of Texas at San
Antonio, and later taught full time for St. Mary’s University School
of Business and Administration. In addition to her teaching, Dr.
Schultz is actively involved in consulting work for businesses such
as Pace Foods of San Antonio (known for their taco & picante sauce),
The Winning Edge, 149th Tactical Fighter Group of the Texas Air
National Guard, First City Bank, and Health America and 46th Support
Wing at Eglin AFB. Dr. Schultz has held membership in the Academy of
Management, American Educational Research Association, American
Society for Training and Development, Council on Employee
Responsibilities & Rights, Association of Management, Economic and
Business Historical Society, Association of Business Communication,
and the Atlantic Economic Society.. Her publications and research
include such topics as Stress, Comparable Worth, Crisis Management,
Diversity Training, Leadership, Humorology, Aviation Management,
Crew Resource Management, Virtual Training, Online Instruction,
Gender Diversity and Power. Dr. Schultz has published in excess of
40 refereed articles and 45 proceedings, and has presented papers at
more than 100 regional, national and international conferences. She
is a tenured full professor of Management/MIS at The University of
West Florida. She is married to Dr. Jim Schultz, a retired USAF
Lieutenant Colonel, who is a tenured full professor & department
chair at Embry Riddle Aeronautical University. They have two sons,
Jeremy (24) and Joshua (19). Jeremy is a graduate of Bellarmine
University and is currently pursuing his Master’s degree from Embry
Riddle Aeronautical University and Joshua is a junior at Spring
College.
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Keynote Speaker
at Istanbul Conference
Dr. Walayet A. Khan, University of
Evansville, IN
Dr. Walayet A. Khan is Professor
Finance at the University of Evansville, Indiana.
He received his Ph.D. in 1990 in finance from the University of
Arkansas, Fayetteville. Dr. Khan is an active research scholar and
he maintains a consistent record of scholarly work. He has published
numerous research papers in journals including the Journal of
Financial Research, Financial Review, Quarterly Journal of Finance &
Accounting, Journal of Business & Economics, Applied Business
Research, Journal of Economics & Finance, and journal of Asia
Business Studies. He has also presented numerous papers in national
as well as international conferences. He has served as consultant
for many national and international organizations, including the
Philadelphia Stock Exchange, Chicago Stock Exchange, Attain
(Electronic Communications Network), and the Kaplan Schweser, Inc.
Dr. Khan is a recipient of several awards including 1996
outstanding teacher of the year (University of Evansville), 2006 UE
Global Scholar (University of Evansville), 2000 outstanding teacher
of the year (School of Business) and 2008 outstanding researcher of
the year (School of Business).
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Keynote Speaker
at Los Angeles Conference
Dr. Jude E. Edwards, Full Professor, Washington Adventist
University
Dr. Jude E. Edwards is a Full
Professor of Business at Washington Adventist University in their
Undergraduate Business, MBA, MPA and Online programs.
He is also a member of the Advisory Board for Academic
Development at Capitol College and the Center Of Excellence at
Washington Adventist University. He received his BSc from the
University of Maryland (1995), MSc from the University of Maryland
(1998), and DBA – International Business from the H. Wayne
Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, Nova South Eastern
University (2003) and was voted Distinguished and Outstanding
Graduate of the Year (2003). His dissertation was entitled “The
Relationship between E-Commerce Readiness and Technology Acceptance
– The Case of Barbados”. For the past ten years, he developed and
taught courses in Business, Information Technology, and Healthcare
Informatics and Administration. In addition, he teaches as an
Adjunct Professor for several other universities in their Online
programs. Dr.
Edwards is an international conference presenter
having published in the field of Public Policy, Business
Development, and Health Care Information Systems. He has
contributed case studies to two books: Handbook of MAR-KET
SEG-MEN-TA-TION (Strategic Target Marketing for Business and
Technology Firms) and Superior Customer Value in the New
Economy. Dr. Edwards wrote and published several articles in
refereed journals:
International Association for Computer Information Systems
and the International Journal of Business Research.
Some of these articles included: “The
Relationship of E-Commerce Readiness to Technology Acceptance - The
Case of Barbados - Issues in Information Systems Synchronizing
Knowledge”, “Creating a Sustainable E-Commerce Environment”; and “Telemedicine
Usage in France and the U.S - An Exploratory Investigation Using the
Technology Acceptance Model”. Dr. Edwards hosted multiple
conferences on Public Policy, Economic and Business Development for
underdeveloped regions of the world including India, Latin America,
the Caribbean, and Central Europe. In 2008, Dr. Edwards was
appointed to International Academy of Business and Economics Peer
Review Committee. From 2004 to 2006, Dr. Edwards served as an
advisor and consultant to the government of Barbados and CARICOM in
the area of E-Commerce as a catalyst for business and economic
development. Dr.
Edwards
has over 40 years of a rich corporate experience in Aviation, Space
and Law Enforcement, Investigation IT systems, and Business
Development. Dr. Edwards worked for several leading Corporations,
including IBM, EDS, Raytheon, and Lockheed Martin. He provided
consultative services to NASA, FAA, ICE, and other Federal Law
Enforcement and Investigation agencies. His current research
includes Healthcare Informatics, Knowledge Management in Health
Care, Business Development and Public Policy.
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Keynote Speaker
at Istanbul Conference
Dr. Sanjeev Phukan, Bemidji State University, MN
Dr. Sanjeev Phukan is a Professor of Business Administration at
Bemidji State University, one of the seven campuses of the Minnesota
State University System.
He also serves as the university’s Director of International
Relations and as Chairman of International Studies Program. He
received his undergraduate and masters’ degrees in Management
Science from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science, India,
his MBA from Illinois State University, and his PhD from Charles
Sturt University in Australia. He holds visiting professorships at
the University of the Western Cape in South Africa, HELP University
College in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, and the National Economics
University in Hanoi, Vietnam. He serves as an external examiner for
several overseas institutions and serves in their advisory councils.
He teaches in the areas of Operations Management and Information
Resource Management. Dr. Phukan has published several articles in
various refereed business journals such as the Journal of
Information Systems Education, the Journal of Legal Economics,
Information Management and Computer Security as well as the
proceedings of various national and international conferences. In
addition, he has published extensively in the field of educational
software. His research interests include corporate behavior and
codes of conduct, the use of information technology in the process
of globalization and the development of curricula to meet a changing
global environment. Dr. Phukan is the owner of two small companies
and has provided consulting services to hundreds of small and medium
sized enterprises, school districts, universities, and government
entities of the past twenty five years.
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Keynote Speaker
at London Conference
Dr.
David Wright, Professor, The University of Ottawa
Professor David Wright combines an
Engineering Ph.D. from Cambridge University, UK, with his current
position as Full Professor in The University of Ottawa, Telfer
School of Management to provide a business perspective on
Information and Communications Technology, ICT, including its use to
mitigate climate change.
He regards the use of ICT in the smart grid, smart buildings and
logistics as examples of corporate social responsibility that can be
aligned with an ICT company’s strategy to identify new business
opportunities. He has worked with telecommunications equipment
vendors and network operators on market analysis, network evolution,
service requirements and the strategic impact of new technology on
business. At the University of Ottawa, Dr Wright provides
undergraduate and graduate courses in Corporate Social
Responsibility, Environmental Entrepreneurship and Electronic
Commerce. He also provides professional training to the
telecommunications industry in emerging telecommunications
technologies and the smart grid. Dr Wright is cited in: Who's Who in
the World; Who's Who in Canadian Business; Who's Who in Science and
Engineering.
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Keynote Speaker
at Miami Conference
Dr. Deniz Ozenbas, Montclair State University, NJ
Dr.
Deniz Ozenbas is a Professor of Finance at Montclair State
University School of Business.
Her research is mainly in the field of market microstructure, market
efficiency and volatility. Her work has been published in journals
that include International Finance, Economics Letters, BE Press
Journal of Macroeconomics and was presented at domestic and
international conferences and universities. She has been awarded
the Nasdaq Research Fellowship by the Nasdaq Stock Market in 2002,
and received the Oscar Lasdon Award for best dissertation in the
area of Finance from Baruch College, City University of New York in
2003. Her joint work with Robert A Schwartz and Robert A. Wood has
received the Award for Excellence / Outstanding Paper award at the
Global Conference on Business and Economics annual meeting in
London, England. She has also been awarded the Best Presentation
award by the 2008 Economics & International Business Research
Conference. Dr. Ozenbas also has done consulting work in the
financial services industry both in the US and in Turkey. Dr.
Ozenbas holds a PhD and an MPhil in Finance from the Graduate
Center, City University of New York, an MBA from Baruch College and
a BA from Bogazici University, Turkey.
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Keynote Speaker
at London Conference
Dr. Raj Varma, Professor, University of Delaware, DE
Dr.
Raj Varma is Professor of Finance at the University of Delaware.
Dr. Varma received his Ph.D. from the Pennsylvania State
University. He has also served as a Visiting Associate Professor
at the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. Professor
Varma teaches corporate finance at various levels in the
undergraduate, graduate and executive education programs at the
University of Delaware. Dr. Varma has been the recipient of
excellence-in-teaching awards and honors over ten times at the
University of Delaware and has also been recognized for exemplary
performance as a professor at the University of Delaware. Professor
Varma’s research interests include raising capital, financial
institutions, and corporate governance and control. Dr. Varma has
published numerous articles in several leading finance journals
including the Journal of Financial Economics. Dr. Varma has
been ranked in the list of ‘Top 1000’ faculty worldwide with regard
to the weighted number of pages published in 16 core finance
journals. According to a recent study released in the Social
Sciences Research Network, Professor Varma ranked in the Top 2.3
percent of the 17,601 authors that had published in 26 core finance
journals during the time period 1959 to 2008. Professor Varma has
assisted with expert opinion testimony on a number of occasions for
lawsuits in the areas of corporate governance and control and his
articles in these and other areas have been cited frequently in
various academic and popular publications. Dr.Varma’s research
findings have been covered by a variety of media, including in the
print media, the Wall Street Journal, Business Week,
Forbes, Christian Science Monitor, Accounting Today, CFA
Digest, and CFO, the Magazine for Senior Financial Executives;
and in the electronic media Reuters, Business Wire, CFO.com, Dow
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Keynote Speaker
at New York Conference
Dr. Thomas Clark,
Xavier University
Dr. Thomas Clark
is President of CommuniSkills and Professor of Management &
Entrepreneurship at Xavier University’s Williams College of
Business, where he has taught for the past thirty years. He received
his MA and PhD from Indiana University. He has directed Xavier MBA
students to three national awards in small business consulting
competitions, headed its nationally recognized Entrepreneurial
Center, and initiated a first-in-the-nation career education
program, The Business Profession, which has led to a 95% job
placement rate for Xavier undergraduate business majors. He was
selected as Xavier’s Teacher of the Year in 2005. He is the author
of six books, including Power Communication and Career Strategies,
and over 80 scholarly articles on topics related to business
communication, careers, and small business strategy. The Association
of Business Communication awarded him its Best Research award in
2003. Dr. Clark is the Founder and President of CommuniSkills, a
business communication consulting firm. Its primary client is
Procter & Gamble, for which Dr. Clark and his staff have taught over
500 business writing, public speaking, and interpersonal
communication workshops. Other clients include General Electric,
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Keynote Speaker
at New York Conference
Dr. Joey Robertson,
Sam Houston State University, TX
Dr. Joey Robertson
is an Assistant Professor in the SHSU College of Business
Administration. He holds degrees from Texas A&M University and South
Texas College of Law. Dr. Robertson has published in the areas of
the Fair Labor Standards Act, Employment Law, Human Resource Law,
Bankruptcy, and practical applications of the law in the business
environment. He currently serves as the Secretary/Treasurer for the
Southern Academy of Legal Studies in Business. Before joining the
faculty at Sam Houston State University Dr. Robertson practiced in
the area of Labor and Employment and as a Prosecutor for the State
of Texas. His law practice includes general litigation, wills, and
general representation of individual and corporate clients. Prior to
practicing law, Dr. Robertson was a consultant for several energy
firms such as Dynegy, Reliant Energy, and Enron. Additionally he has
served as a Division Manager for an international food company. He
is married and raises his three sons in Huntsville, Texas.
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Keynote Speaker
at Hawaii Conference
Dr. Kristina L. Guo, University of Hawai’i-West O’ahu, HI.
Dr. Kristina L.
Guo, Ph.D., MPH, Associate Professor of Public Administration and
Director of Health Care Administration Program, University of
Hawai’i-West O’ahu, HI.
She is also
the Director for the Health Care Administration (HCA) Program, where
she is responsible for planning and program development as well as
marketing and recruitment for the HCA program. In addition, she is
actively involved in teaching core and elective courses in HCA and
public administration. To enhance her teaching effectiveness, she
conducts research and integrates her research publications in her
courses. Her primary areas of research are in health care and public
policy and management. Her publications have addressed political,
economic, organization and management implications in the managed
care environment. Dr. Guo has chaired and presented her work at
various local, regional, national and international conferences.
Her book, co-authored with T. Buss and F. Redburn on Modernizing
Democracy: Innovations in Citizen Participation was recently
published by ME Sharpe Publications. Dr. Guo holds a Ph.D. in
Public Administration from Florida International University and a
Master’s degree in Public Health from the University of Miami.
Before joining UHWO, she was an Assistant Professor of Health
Services Administration at Florida International University. Prior
to her academic career, Dr. Guo accumulated extensive experience in
the health care field. As the Assistant Director of Technology
Transfer at the University of Miami, she was responsible for
managing the University’s intellectual property. She also served as
an administrator for several departments at the University of
Miami/Jackson Memorial Medical Center. Her practitioner’s
background and knowledge enables her to integrate real world
experience into her teaching, research, and career advisement for
her students.
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Keynote Speaker at New York Conference
Dr. Pearl I. Steinbuch, Director, Mount Ida College,
Dr. Pearl I.
Steinbuch
is the Director of Mount Ida College School of Business and
Associate Professor of Business Administration and Management. She
received a BA from Brandeis University (1979), M.Ed. from
Harvard University
(1980) and AM and Ph.D. from
The Wharton School:
University of Pennsylvania
(1987, 1992). She was a faculty member of St. John's University
College of Business Administration - Department of Quantitative
Analysis (1984-1991). Dr. Steinbuch has presented papers
nationally and internationally and published in the field of labor
economics, income distribution and pay equity. She is on the
Advisory Board of Scientific Journals International and serves as an
editorial reviewer for a number of academic journals. Dr. Steinbuch
has been appointed to the 2007-2008 Economics 1 Peer Review
Committee for the Fulbright Senior Specialist Program. She is one of
three experts in her discipline committee. Dr. Steinbuch has been
invited to serve on the East Boston Public High School Advisory
Board as part of the College Connections Program. She has also
been an economic consultant for litigation support in the area of
economic damage estimation.
Dr. Steinbuch
has spent many years working for a major international airline.
Her consulting assignments included projects in England, Italy,
Spain, Germany, South Africa, Greece, Sweden, Denmark, as well as a
15-month assignment in Paris. Her work focused on business process
engineering and decision support models, feasibility analyses, and
technical sales support. She has also worked in corporate
development for both the airline industry and technology companies.
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Editorial Board
Member
Dr. Ara G.
Volkan, Florida Gulf Coast University, FL
Ara
G. Volkan,
Ph.D., CPA, joined the FGCU faculty in August 2004 as Eminent
Scholar and Moorings Park Chair of Managerial Accounting. He
received his doctorate in accounting from the University of Alabama
in 1979. He holds a CPA certificate in Florida (1989). Following
his teaching engagements at Syracuse University (1979-1985) and at
University of South Alabama (1986-1989), Dr. Volkan chaired the
Accounting and Finance Department at University of West Georgia
(1989-2003). Prior to joining the faculty at FGCU, he was Interim
Dean at the Richards College of Business at West Georgia (2003-2004)
and directed the Banking and Finance in New York and London Program
(1991 – 2003). In addition to his academic positions, Dr. Volkan
had several consulting engagements with local CPA firms and other
companies. He is a member of the board of directors Moorings Park,
Inc. and its Finance Committee, the chair of the MPI Audit
Committee, and the treasurer of Moorings Park Community Health, Inc.
in Naples, FL. He served as a visiting team member for the AACSB
accreditation processes. In addition, he was SACS accreditation
director at U. of West Georgia (2000-2004). Dr. Volkan is a member
of the AICPA, FICPA, IMA, AAA, as well as other academic and
professional organizations. He has been recognized for his
outstanding teaching at Syracuse and West Georgia. Also, the local
chapters of the IMA and state CPA societies, along with several
student associations at Syracuse, NY, Mobile, AL, and Carrollton, GA
have recognized him for outstanding service. He serves as reviewer
for several journals. He has authored numerous articles in academic
and professional accounting journals and in other business outlets.
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Keynote Speaker at Los Angles Conference
Dr. Robert Runte, University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada
Dr.
Robert Runte
is an associate professor in the Faculty of Education at the
University of Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada, where he teaches
sociology, evaluation, and research methodologies. His research
interests are similarly diverse: With his wife, Mary Runte
(associate professor in the Faculty of Management at the University
of Lethbridge), he has presented on issues related to stakeholder
analysis; work/family; and the management of knowledge workers
(e.g., "Taylor-Made for Teachers: Deskilling Through Increased
Competencies" International Journal of Humanization of Education).
He has also presented extensively on evaluation practices in
post-secondary education, and on the intersection of cyberculture
and higher education. His most recent book chapters are on the
student construction of the demands of academic writing, and using
blogs as both data and a key research tool. He is currently
conducting research on thesis and dissertation supervision to
identify best practice in reducing student attrition at the writing
stage. Before joining the University of Lethbridge in 1991, he spent
ten years as a researcher and test specialist with the Evaluation
Branch of Alberta Education. In 1995 he co-edited (with Gerald
Taylor), the popular Canadian textbook, Thinking About Teaching, and
joined the Society of Teaching and Learning in Higher Education in
1998. In 2007 he was invited to be part of the Alberta Student
Assessment Study, and in 2008 became part of the task force
preparing the Faculty of Management for ASAB accreditation. The need
for business faculties to clearly identify and evaluate program
goals will be the focus of his keynote address.
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