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KEYNOTE
SPEAKER
Dr.
Mohamad Sepehri
Dean,
School of Business and Public Administration and
Professor
of Strategic International Management
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
Dr. Maja Zelihic
Program Chair, Master of Organizational Management (MAOM)
Forbes School of Business at Ashford
University, San Diego –California
Topic: Teaching the Needed Skills
May not be Needed
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 is will present at the
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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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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Stephen C. Gara
Drake University, Des Moines, IA
Topic:
International Tax Policy & Enforcement
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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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Veronica Hampson
University of Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Australia
Topic:
Costing Government Outputs: An Assessment of Activity Based Costing.
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Dr.Veronica Hampson is a Lecturer in Accounting at the University of
Southern Queensland, Toowoomba, Queensland.
She received a B. Com from the University of Queensland
(1980), Diploma of Adult & Vocational Education from Griffith
University, Queensland (1991), M. Fin Mgt from Central Queensland
University (1996) and Ph.D. from University of Southern Queensland
(2009).
Dr Hampson has presented papers nationally and internationally and
published in the field of performance measurement and cost
management. Dr. Hampson has spent many years working in both
the private and public sectors in senior executive positions. Her
private sector experience includes executive financial management in
the manufacturing industry. In the public sector, her experience
includes the provision of performance measurement advice to
government agencies, as well as, the provision of strategic
management advice on the implementation of SAP R/3 throughout the
state public service.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr.
Charles Salter
Schreiner University, Kerrville, TX
Topic: The Ethics of Leadership
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 communication
and leadership.
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