Dr. James Abdey is the LSE Fellow in Statistics having completed his doctorate there specializing in a methodological unification of statistical “schools” in quantifying the true evidential value of data. In 2010 he began teaching the MBA Quantitative Methods course at Hult's London campus, focusing on managerial decision making. From 2012, he is also responsible for delivering a range of quantitative courses across Hult’s suite of postgraduate programs, including Managerial Economics. Dr. Abdey has extensive experience developing learning resources for LSE’s distance learning and summer school programs in Economics, Mathematics and Statistics, including lecturing spells in Central Asia and the Far East. Outside of academia, he has also undertaken various quantitative-based consultancy projects ranging from the hedge fund industry to the UK parliament, while his research interests include forensic statistics and market research techniques

Professor Amdur has over thirty years of line, staff and executive policy experience in engineering, manufacturing, computer systems and education settings. He is President of Amdur Associates, an operations consulting firm that focuses on enterprise and supply-chain solutions. He has taught graduate courses in Operations Management at Northeastern University, Bentley College, Boston University, and Simmons College.

Professor Anthony has pursued a dual career as a general management consultant and an educator. As a consultant, he has a broad practice in assisting global corporate clients in the areas of change management, strategy innovation, and leadership development. His experience includes working with groups and teams across levels, functions, industries, and geographies to develop competitive visions, solve problems, implement strategies, and build capabilities. Rob holds an MBA from the Harvard Business School and an AB, magna cum laude, from Occidental College in Los Angeles. He is currently a PhD candidate at Bentley College and lives in Lexington, Massachusetts.

John C. Beck is Managing Director of Hult Labs, Professor at Hult International Business School, and President of the North Star Leadership Group, Inc. (http://www.nslg.net). Previously, he served as the Dean of Globis University -- the first non-Japanese to lead a bilingual professional degree program in Japan – and as a Professor and Senior Advisor at the Lee Kuan Yew School of Public Policy in Singapore.  He is currently also a Senior Research Fellow at University of Southern California’s Annenberg Center for the Digital Future, and formerly Director of International Research at Accenture and a Senior Advisor at Monitor Group and the International University of Japan.  He was also a Professor of Global Management & Dean of Research at Thunderbird School of Global Management. 

John earned his B.A. in East Asian Studies and Sociology summa cum laude from Harvard University, and was the first graduate of Harvard’s integrative Ph.D. program in Organizational Behavior.  Dr. Beck is a Visiting Professor at IMD (Switzerland) and IPADE (Mexico). He has also taught at numerous other universities like: Harvard, UCLA, USC, and the Ivey School in Canada. 

Dr. Beck served as the senior strategic advisor to the First Prime Minister, Prince Ranariddh, during Cambodia’s first three years as a democracy.  John previously was Co-Director of the "Project on Strategies of the World’s Largest 50 Companies" for the United Nations.  He has served on the Board of Directors of a variety of corporations and universities, including the Monterey Institute of International Studies (California) and Choice Humanitarian, a non-profit organization supporting village development programs in six countries around the world. 

Dr. Beck has published hundreds of books, articles, and business reports on the topics of business in Asia, strategic management, globalization, leadership, and technology. His latest book, Good vs. Good is the culmination of a half-decade of research.  He has appeared on CNN, CBS Evening News, Fox News and is a frequent guest on National Public Radio.  He is quoted and cited in The Wall Street Journal, The Economist, The Financial Times, The New York Times and other leading papers and magazines.  His co-authored book, The Attention Economy, was named one of the best ten business books of 2001 by Amazon, Border’s and the Library Association.  DoCoMo: The wireless tsunami (with Mitchell Wade) was published in September 2002 and acclaimed as an excellent book on leadership.  His book (again with Mitchell Wade), Got Game: How a new generation of gamers is reshaping business forever has received wide press coverage. Japan’s Business Renaissance: How the world’s greatest economy revived, renewed and reinvented itself  (co-authored with Mark Fuller) was published by McGraw-Hill in 2005.  The Kids are Alright, released in late 2006, was listed as one of Harvard Business School Press’s “most popular” books.  His books have been translated into eleven languages.  He is currently writing his next book, Old Brains.

Thea Bellos is the principal of The Bellos Group, a global marketing and management consulting firm, which was founded in 1991. Prior to establishing the Bellos Group, she was the Director of Marketing and Communications of EIP Associates, an environmental consulting firm; and, Director of Development of the Oakland Ballet, a national dance touring company. Ms. Bellos has taught international marketing, market research and strategic marketing courses at Golden Gate University’s Ageno School of Business and she was the recipient of the University’s Stanley Price Adjunct Faculty Award for distinguished service. Bellos has led training/seminars on cross-cultural communication and negotiations, and she has taught strategic marketing and international management courses at UC Berkeley, University of San Francisco, Dominican University of California, St. Mary’s College of California and Macquarie University’s study abroad program on The Scholar Ship. At Hult she will be teaching international marketing in the Master of Digital Marketing program. She is also currently working with an international team in the development of The Global Stewards Institute, a non-profit organization, and serving as the President of the Board of Directors. An avid traveler and photographer, Ms. Bellos exhibits her photographs throughout the Bay Area and she participates in the EBOS Pro Arts Open Studio and the Berkeley Artisans Holiday Open Studio annually.

Godfrey Bevan has over 45 years of experience in industry, academia, government and consultancy. He originally qualified as an electrical engineer and worked in the power sector, planning, constructing and operating electrical power systems. He also spent a period as an academic at the former Cranfield Institute, lecturing, mostly on technology, environment and economic assessment to MSc, MBA and short course students and managing a research programme. He subsequently spent 20 years, much of it in the role of Director of Energy Technology in the former UK Government Departments of Energy and Trade and Industry advising ministers on energy policy and climate change, and managing development programmes with industry and commerce, primarily on energy efficiency, electricity, coal technology and renewable energy.  In that role he served on numerous national and international committees relating to energy policy. A further decade was then spent as an energy policy consultant advising governments and industry. In private life he pursues hobbies of wood carving/cabinet making and scuba diving, and has recently taken up learning to play the piano.

Ajay Bhalla is Full Professor of Global Innovation Management at Cass Business School. He joined Cass Business School as an Assistant Professor in 2001 and was awarded the Chair in 2010. From 2009-2010 he was a Visiting Scholar at Indian School of Business (ISB) in Hyderabad, India. He teaches Global Business, Strategy and Family Business courses.  He has specific research interest in (a) How Ownership & Governance Structure influences resource acquisition and strategic decision making (b) What makes firms innovate better and what are the implications of pursuing innovation across boundaries for firm configuration. He is an award winning researcher and teacher, and works closely with managers to execute thought leadership. More recently he has worked with UK Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, which involved presenting his research on Employee Ownership to Deputy Prime Minister. Among the firms he has worked with are John Lewis Partnership, Barclays, Ernst and Young, International Chambers of Commerce and EMI. He has published in top journals such as Academy of Management Perspectives, Journal of Operations Management, Journal of World Business, Industrial Marketing Management, Small Business Economics, Business Horizons, European Management Journal, Strategic Change and International Small Business Journal. As a management expert, he has appeared on Bloomberg, BBC, BBC World Service and CNBC and has also written for Financial Times.

Dr. Jennifer Camota-Contreras is Associate Dean for the Hult campus in San Francisco, where she works with faculty and students to ensure successful delivery of academic education and services. Jennifer is also a Professor of Leadership and Teambuilding, where she teaches Hult's international and diverse students how to work together successfully in teams.

Jennifer spent four years at the University of San Francisco (USF) as Associate Dean for the School of Management. Her responsibilities included running all aspects of the Executive MBA (EMBA) program, leading the team that recruited for all graduate business programs, career services, marketing and public relations, and oversight for corporate and alumni relations. She was also an adjunct instructor and taught management courses. Jennifer has 15 years of industry experience leading corporate operational accounting departments for companies such as Genentech, Electronic Arts, Gap, and Business Wire. Jennifer is the co-founder, past-president, and current board member of Women MBA Connect, a San Francisco-based organization for professional women who have MBA's from a variety of B-schools from around the world.

Jennifer has a Bachelor's degree in Business Administration from California Polytechnic State University, an MBA from USF, and a Doctor of Education with an emphasis in Organization and Leadership from USF. Jennifer is a native of San Francisco and she lives with her husband and son in the small beach town of Pacifica, just south of San Francisco.

Julie Yao Cooper is on the faculty of Hult International Business School, where she has taught courses in marketing, business case methodology, consulting, and quantitative methods since 2004. 

Professor Cooper has over two decades of consulting experience in business strategy, corporate education and market research.  Her current work focuses on ways to accelerate development of critical thinking and communications skills needed by future business leaders working in multicultural environments.  In market research, Professor Cooper’s engagements integrate state-of-the-art qualitative and quantitative research techniques to transform abstract data into actionable insights.  Past organizations that have benefited from Ms. Cooper’s expertise include American Express, BBDO, Merck and Planned Parenthood.

Professor Cooper has lead consulting engagements with the Monitor Group, a global strategy-consulting firm.  She was a founding principal with Mavens & Moguls, LLC, a marketing consultancy.  Her corporate background includes in-house positions with Goldman Sachs, IBM, and Procter & Gamble.  As a researcher and doctoral candidate in marketing at Harvard Business School, Professor Cooper published papers on customer loyalty, consumer behavior and marketing strategy.

Professor Cooper holds an A.B. in Economics with honors from Harvard University and an MBA from Harvard Business School.  She has studied piano at the Juilliard School of Music, and speaks Mandarin Chinese.  Professor Cooper currently resides in Cambridge, Massachusetts with her husband and two young children.

Professor Dalko has served on the faculties of Harvard and CUNY Baruch College. She was a visiting scholar at the University of Munich and a visiting professor at Thunderbird, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Corvinus University Budapest, the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, and the University of Illinois. Dr. Dalko has also served as Advisor to the President of the National Bank of Hungary and Chief of Staff of the Budget, Tax, and Finance Committee of the Hungarian Parliament.

As Professor of Finance at Hult, Viktoria Dalko is a well-respected teacher, and, like most Hult faculty, she has a wealth of real business experience and expertise to support her teaching. Teaching since completing her Ph.D. at the University of Pennsylvania, Professor Dalko has also served on the faculties of Harvard, CUNY, and Baruch College. A former international management consultant and researcher, with experience covering such diverse areas of finance as M&A, valuation, and financial markets and including working in Parliament and advising the president of the Central Bank, Professor Dalko’s valuable insider knowledge provides students with an integrated and practical financial education.

Professor Dalko says there is no corporate finance without financial markets, and no financial market expertise without understanding corporate finance. Having worked around the world in China, the EU, Southeast Asia, the U.S., the Middle East, and Africa, she is well positioned to appreciate the unique issues faced by our international students and alumni. Her latest book, Regulating Competition in Stock Markets, was co-edited and co-authored with Nobel Laureate Professor Lawrence Klein and other world-class researchers.

Professor Dalko has received a slew of teaching awards and accolades during her career, including:

• A perfect score from EMBA program students at Baruch College, CUNY in New York, for the M&A course, and a perfect score from Master students at Harvard Extension School, also for an M&A course.
• The Joanne Fussa Distinguished Teaching Award at Harvard University in 2009. Management students at Harvard Extension School selected one from over 70 Harvard faculty and noted Viktoria’s ability to “inspire students to excel” and “encourage them to give more than what is expected.”
• The London Professor of the Year award in 2011, chosen by Hult students.
• The highest rating from Hult San Francisco students in 2012, for her Business Analysis and Valuation course.

Why study at Hult?

Hult is a good choice for students, because most Hult faculty members have business leadership experience and genuinely care for the future. Anyone looking for a school that embodies such values and offers great international exposure should put Hult at the top of their list. The international campuses provide incomparable opportunities for students to learn in different environments while retaining the same quality of learning, allowing them to gain localized business knowledge of multiple regions in addition to learning the standard material. Also, the one-year MBA saves money and time, and in today’s fast-paced world, the ability to be able to return quickly to a full-time earning position, and often to a much better paid job, is precious.

What makes Hult unique?

Unlike most schools, the pedagogical approach that Hult faculty take to business education is very practical; most of us have business or government experience that we draw from. Learning from books you can do at home—learning from people who have done what they teach is an entirely different thing.

Educated at Oxford, where he read English Literature, Roger is Director of the Ashridge Executive Masters in Management, and a Subject Leader on the Ashridge MBA and EMBA programmes. He is also an Adjunct Professor at Hult International Business School where he has taught on MBA and EMBA programmes since 2009. In 2012 he had the great honour to be elected Professor of the Year by his MBA students.

His particular interests are authentic leadership and organisational politics. He believes that good leadership is grounded in a clear and insightful understanding of universal principles and closely examined personal values, coupled with an understanding of what drives personal behaviour.  

Roger has taught all over the world, including most of the EU countries, North and South America, The Lebanon, Turkey, Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, the UAE, Qatar and Oman. He is very experienced at teaching and working with multi-cultural groups. He is qualified in a range of psychometrics including MBTI, Firo-B, Profilor, SDI and Emotional Intelligence, and is an enthusiastic supporter of Transactional Analysis as a tool for improving self-awareness and interpersonal communication.

During his first career, Roger was a board director and account director with global top ten advertising agency DMB&B, working with P&G, Mars/Masterfoods, Sterling Health, Johnson Wax and others. He was for some years Client services Director of DMB&B Dublin, an office he opened on a greenfield site. Later he was for six years Principal Consultant at management development consultancy Ellis Hayward, and later still, he spent a further six years as Programme Director in Cranfield School of Management's Centre for Customised Executive Education. He was a recent guest editor of a special edition of the Journal of Public Affairs which focused on ethics in business, and he is regularly published, and has recently had a book on management commissioned by Pearson Publishing.

Prof. Escamilla has extensive work experience with Procter & Gamble in the Finance and Accounting department. He developed and implemented a cost forecasting system adopted in all Latin America production plants earning him the “P&G Stewardship Manager of the Year Award 2005”. He also developed an automated tool to read SAP data and build custom financial reports for top management decision making. He conducted competitive intelligence analyses to forecast competitor’s pricing and new product launches.

Prior to P&G, he developed an inventory control system for the largest Spanish-language book publisher as well as a Pedagogic System to teach Accounting to college students.  Prof. Escamilla has extensive experience in C, C++, Visual Basic and VBA, PowerBuilder, Spreadsheets and Databases. He has participated in SAP implementations.  Prof. Escamilla has designed and led several market research studies for launching new products and ventures in the Middle East.  He has implemented databases, programmed systems and participated in census for The National Institute of Statistic and Geography in Mexico and the Foreign Affairs Ministry through the Mexican Consulate in Dubai.

He has taught Integral and Differential Calculus in the largest private university in Mexico and currently teaches Quantitative Analysis for Hult International Business School.

Mark Esposito is a contemporary author, researcher and professor, in the field of Economics of Strategy, Complex Systems, Economic Development, and Sustainability. His work has been widely recognized internationally and Mark has been featured as “Professor of the week” by the Financial Times, for the FT Lexicon, where he authored 3 terms. He has published 8 books, over 25 business cases and several academic articles. His academic work appears regularly on the Academy of Management, as well as The Economist and Harvard Business Review. Mark is the Founding Director of theLab-Center for Competitiveness; a research think tank affiliated with the MOC network of Prof. Michael Porter at Harvard Business School. He holds Research Fellowships at Ashridge Business School, as well as, at the Institute of Competitiveness in India. Mark’s teaching experience includes appointments at Grenoble Ecole de Management, IE Business School, UMass Amherst, Harvard University and the University of Cambridge, where he also currently serves as Senior Associate for the "University of Cambridge Program for Sustainability Leadership".

A web strategy pioneer, Philippa Gamse has been working with Internet applications since 1991. She currently teaches digital marketing at Hult in San Francisco.

Originally from the UK, Philippa obtained a post-graduate qualification in Library Science from University College, London.  She has 10 years of corporate experience in Europe, including several years as a consultant for Deloitte, before founding her own US-based consulting and speaking practice in 1995.

Since then, Philippa has reviewed over 5,000 web presences.  Her clients report that within 30 days of implementing her recommendations they achieve significant improvements in the levels of quality traffic, visitor engagement, customer loyalty and qualified sales leads.

Philippa was the sole featured expert for the cover story on effective web strategies for UPS "Compass" Magazine Fall 2009, distributed to more than 1million businesses.  She is a Certified Management Consultant – an ISO-accredited designation recognized in over 60 countries. The second edition of her critically-acclaimed book 42 Rules for a Web Presence That Wins was recently published.

Professor Grandinetti is Global Discipline Lead for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Hult and also teaches courses on Management and Marketing. He has been named Professor of the Week by the Financial Times and has been the recipient of two Global Teaching Excellence Award during his two years at Hult.  He serves as lead Faculty Advisor to the Hult VC and Social Business Clubs and chairs the Hult SF Operations Committee. He was also named the Hult SF Professor most engaged with students outside of the classroom. 

He taught Entrepreneurship at MIT for over ten years and has been teaching Corporate Venturing Denmark Technical University for seven years. He served as judge for ten years in the MIT $100K Entrepreneurship Competition and is active in mentor capital programs such as TechStars and IBM SmartCamp. He also mentored the winning team in this year’s Hult Prize SF Regional Competition. Professor Grandinetti keynotes many Innovation and Venture Capital events and is active on the TEDx circuit.

Professor Grandinetti worked at McKinsey & Company and currently serves as Senior Adviser to businesses, universities, and governments on a broad range of strategic, innovation, marketing and commercialization issues.  He is a mentor and Board Member to many US  tech start-ups and social ventures.

He was named the annual Jess Morrow Johns Memorial Scholar at Yale and was the first ever recipient of the Procter & Gamble Marketing Leadership award. He earned his Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering magna cum laude from Rutgers where he was named to the National Engineering Honor Society. He serves on the School’s board and was awarded the Engineering Medal of Excellence for career achievement as well as Alumni of the Year.

He has served on the Corporate Executive Board of WGBH Public TV and Radio, the flagship operation within the US Public Broadcasting System, for over a decade and has co-chaired the business development and nominating committees. 

Professor Gregoriou joined HULT in September 2012, as an Adjunct Professor of Finance. Professor Gregoriou has held senior management positions in various academic institutions throughout his career including Hull University, Brunel University and the University of East Anglia. A leading authority of finance, he has published over one hundred research papers in internationally recognized journals and generated over £5 million in research funding. He is a regular consultant for the CFA and the London Stock Exchange.

Professor Gregoriou has extensive teaching experience on undergraduate, postgraduate, MBA and short course programs throughout the world. He has taught on most aspects of finance including financial management, corporate finance, carbon trading, international finance and risk management.

Olaf Groth is a Professor for Strategy, Innovation and Sustainability at HULT International Business School, as well as the Founder and CEO of Emergent Frontiers Group LLC, which advises senior executives internationally on global innovation trends, strategy and commercial diplomacy.  He has 20 years of experience in executive and advisory roles with Monitor Group, Qualcomm, Boeing, Vodafone, AirTouch, and a transportation startup.

Prof. Groth is a Sr.Fellow for Innovation at the Center for Emerging Markets Enterprise at Tufts University’s Fletcher School, a judge for GE Ecomagination, adviser at the Pacific Cities Sustainability Initiative, and co-chair of the Pacific Council Energy & Environment Committee.  He is a member of the Bay Area Economics Institute Research Council, and the International Institute for Strategic Studies.

Prof. Groth holds Ph.D., M.A.L.D., M.A.I.P.S. and B.A. degrees in International Affairs with concentrations in business, economics, technology and negotiation from the Fletcher School and the Monterey Institute of International Studies.  He also studied negotiation at Harvard, trade economics at Georgetown University and finance at UC Berkeley. 

Ronan is Associate Dean at Hult International Business School in London with responsibility for the Executive MBA, Masters in International Marketing and Masters in Social Entrepreneurship programmes.

Prior to this role, Ronan was Associate Professor teaching marketing and technology courses on the Masters, MBA and Executive MBA programmes, was the Discipline Lead for Marketing and was voted Professor of the Year three times in 2012.

Ronan joined Hult from Ashridge Business School where he designed, developed and delivered its digital strategy for online communications, digital marketing, social media, communities and the user-experience for online learning.

Ronan has presented at international conferences for the AACSB, EFMD, CEEMAN and ABS and the Future of Learning Conference in 2009. He has written articles and a book chapter on how new technology is changing education and was a member of the EFMD External Relations Meeting Steering Committee.

Before joining Ashridge, Ronan lived in Barcelona for twelve years, spending five years as the Director of E-Commerce and Content for the first music e-commerce website in Spain with responsibility for marketing and technology strategies, building the start-up to have the largest offering in Europe, sites for six language areas and five different brands including B2B and B2C offerings.

Prior to that, Ronan's first career was focused on music, voice and entertainment, with a variety of overlapping roles, which included managing groups for an independent record company; creating and managing websites; producing and presenting an English language programme on local radio; recording voiceovers for productions such as industrial training and children's cartoons; and also translating and teaching English.

Ronan has an honours degree in Computational Science and Economics from the University of Leeds; a Graduate Diploma in Law from the University of Westminster; and an Executive MBA from Ashridge. Ronan is also fluent in Spanish.

Aleksander Grzeszczak has for the past 10 years been a senior advisor to Value Discovery Partners (VDP), a major private equity investment fund focused on emerging markets, particularly on South Eastern Europe. Alek has executed a number of acquisitions in the region and is currently responsible for restructuring of the operating companies, executing business plans, acquiring and divesting portfolio companies. Prior to VDP, Alek was a Vice President in the Telecom Investment Banking group of Salomon Smith Barney (now Citigroup Corporate & Investment Bank), where he spent 5 years, first in the New York office and later in London. In that role, he executed a number of advisory, M&A, equity and debt financing transactions for SSB’s American and European clients. Alek is a finance faculty member at Judge Business School, Cambridge University. He is a graduate of Columbia Business School, where he received a joint MBA (finance) /MIA (international business) degree. He also holds a M.Sc. degree in Telecom and Electrical Engineering.

Cari E. Guittard specializes in Corporate Diplomacy & Geopolitical Risk and has spent an extensive amount of time working globally, primarily in the Middle East, Latin America and Asia, managing portfolios that have included Global Engagement, Strategic & Crisis Communications, Public Affairs & Public Diplomacy, Women's Leadership, Entrepreneurship in Emerging Markets, Political Military Affairs, Diplomatic Security, and Counter-terrorism. She began her career with the US Department of State as a Presidential Management Fellow working in cyber security efforts and then served as founding Executive Director of Business for Diplomatic Action, the first business-led non-profit to enlist the U.S. business community in public diplomacy and tri-sector engagement efforts. Guittard serves in an Adjunct Faculty capacity for the University of Southern California Masters of Public Diplomacy Program and the University of San Francisco’s MBA program. She is a regular contributor to various media outlets to include Public Diplomacy Magazine, the Annenberg Center on Public Diplomacy (CPD) Blog, Periscope Post, and Reuters. Additionally, Guittard is a certified Global Mindset Instructor by the Thunderbird School of Global Management. She is a senior advisor to the Entrepreneurs Organization and an active member of the Pacific Council on International Policy, the Public Diplomacy Council, the National Council on International Visitors and the World Affairs Council of Northern California.

Bill Hancock is Hult Global Professor of Accounting and Finance. Previously Bill served as Acting Dean of Hult Boston. He was elected Hult “Professor of the Year” in 2012.  

Prior to joining Hult, Bill spent over twenty years as a management consultant with IBM Global Systems, Ernst & Young, and Keane. He also was a divisional marketing manager at Digital Equipment Corporation, a position that led him to build and manage the world’s first business-to-business eCommerce site. This business had online sales over $1.3 billion and was profitable from the first year of operation.  

Bill has served as an adjunct professor at Babson College and Northeastern University where he taught accounting, finance, entrepreneurial studies, information technology, eBusiness and management courses. He was elected “Outstanding Instructor of the Year” at Northeastern University.  

He was also appointed Visiting Professor, Juian University, Peoples’ Republic of China, where he led a MBA program for senior Chinese government officials.  

Bill has a MBA from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and a BBA in accounting from the University of Iowa.

His professional degrees include Certified Public Accountant (CPA), Certified Management Accountant (CMA), Chartered Life Underwriter (CLU), Chartered Property Casualty Underwriter (CPCU), and Certificate in Data Processing (CDP).

Bill is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in the World, Who’s Who of Emerging Leaders In America, and Who’s Who in Finance & Industry. He is a frequent speaker on leadership, e-Commerce, business strategy, entrepreneurship, and the use of computer technology in business.

Bill enjoys photography and foreign travel. 

Hunter Hastings has spent his career in marketing. He was grounded as a brand manager at Procter and Gamble in consumer packaged goods. He was Vice President of Brand Management at SBC, the #3 brewer in the US (now part of SAB-Miller) with category leading brands such as Stroh’s, Old Milwaukee and Schlitz Malt Liquor. He was most recently Chief Marketing Officer at JBS, the Brazil-based global fresh food company and global brandowner of the Swift brand.  In business services, he served as CEO of  Emmperative, the P&G-funded marketing software venture, and Chairman of the EMM Group. He also founded and led the strategy consulting group at Ryan Partnership.  Hunter’s clients have included Kimberly-Clark, Kraft, Clorox, Philip Morris International, MillerCoors, Pepsico, and Brown Forman, among many others.  He developed and taught the Marketing and Brand Building course at the Center For Marketing Excellence, the professional training arm of the Association of National Advertisers, and has authored 3 books on marketing process and brand management.  He has served on the boards of Emmperative and Pete’s Brewing Company.  He holds bachelors and masters degrees in Economics from Cambridge University.

Alexandra Hendrickson serves as Executive Vice President at DHR International Shanghai. She is a leading executive recruiter for industrial and medical products companies. For four years prior to moving to Shanghai, Alexandra conducted research at DHR International’s office in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania. Before joining DHR International, Alexandra was an executive at PPG Industries, Inc. in the Industrial and Automotive Coatings divisions. Alexandra also held positions as PPG’s Director, Marketing and New Business Development, Automotive Coatings, in Troy, Michigan and as Director, Marketing and Business Development, Industrial Coatings Europe in Paris, France where she was responsible for new business development and marketing for Industrial Coatings for all of Europe. Alexandra has an MBA in Accounting and Finance from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia and a BA in Economics and History from Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois.

Steve has over 25 years of management consulting and training experience in areas such as development economics, education and training, strategic planning, and marketing. He was a Director in the Development Economics and Finance group at Arthur D. Little for 10 years, and spent the last three years with the company as the global head of its internal learning and training activities.

For the past 10 years, Steve has been one of three partners in ITSMA, an industry association that focuses on helping high technology companies with their services and solutions marketing. Steve has taught at a number of colleges and universities, including the University of Massachusetts, the University of Bordeaux, the University of the West Indies, and Arizona State University.

Ron is currently a senior partner at the IXL Center and at the Spinnaker Group (a venture capital firm). He is on the Faculty of the Hult International Business School, and on the Advisory board of Arthur D. Little Inc. (ADL). He was most recently a senior partner of the Monitor Group where he founded and led their Innovation practice and was founder of IMI (Innovation Management Inc.). For 20 years he was the managing director of the Technology and Innovation Management Practice for Arthur D. Little worldwide. He was also Chief Innovation Officer and served on their Technology Investment Board and Management Education Institute Board.

As a seasoned CEO, accomplished entrepreneur and executive coach, Dr. Kastner balances his time among activities that he loves including academic teaching in at least six countries and nine universities, interaction with students around the world and management consulting. Since 2006 he has devoted his academic contribution to HULT International Business School as an active faculty member, speaker for the school, handling special projects to market and enhance the visibility of Hult Internationl Business School and recruitment.  Some of his most popular HULT course offerings are:  Management Practices, Management of Family Owned Businesses, Global Operations Management and Management of Start Ups and Growth. His courses are consistently popular with students—young professionals and experienced managers alike—and are ranked by students as “essential” for understanding the business world. Since teaching is his first love, Dr. Kastner prizes this high praise as a proud accomplishment and compliment.

Dr. Kastner has served on the Board of both large and small organizations and currently participates on three boards (foreign and domestic). Currently he serves as CEO and Founder of First GTK, LLC. (Parent company to REDITUS International, Inc., and GTK I, LLC.) based in Miami, Florida.  FirstGTK and REDITUS International focus on bringing Strategic Consulting, Talent Strategy, Executive Coaching, Strategic Implementation and Risk Management to the Energy, Retail, Banking and Education industries with an emphasis on family owned businesses and the importance of service excellence.  GTK I, LLC manages investments in ongoing concerns for turnaround purposes, and start-up ventures. The client base of these companies spans North and Latin America.  During the last decade Dr. Kastner has been instrumental in improving the Management and Governance approach within several family owned businesses. While some projects are confidential his sample client list includes: Casa editorial El Tiempo; Grupo Capriles; Casa Hellmund; El large Food and Beverage group; Cemex; and a medium size technology and hospitality group.

Throughout his career, which encompasses a unique and dynamic mix of experiences in academia, management, and innovative entrepreneurial experiences, he committed to the deployment of knowledge and shared experience. This commitment manifested by his professional dedication to three key areas:  management consulting, executive education and MBA teaching. Dr. Kastner has implemented forward looking new and innovative approaches within organizations and developed programs that are practical and results-oriented to coach and train C-level managers. More recently he focused on Latin-American countries (Colombia and Venezuela), the United States (concentrating in the Southeast U.S.) with occasional projects in Eastern Europe (The Chech Republic) and the Middle East (Dubai).  In addition to his teaching on both of the HULT campuses in the U.S., recently his teaching engagements have taken him to Venezuela, Colombia, Dubai, China, Israel, and The Czech Republic. in MBA programs and Advanced Management Programs and equivalent graduate programs.

Dr. Kastner has a rich portfolio of experiences in generating value in service industries like Educational Institutes, Health care delivery, Commercial banking, Entertainment, Franchising and Hospitality. He brings a balanced pragmatic and vision driven approach to consulting engagements and adds strong strategic content to his Board positions through participation and advice.

Dr. Kastner has lived in six countries throughout North and South America, the Middle East, Europe; worked in 22; taught in six; and fluent knowledge of four languages plus working knowledge of two more. He currently serves on the Board of three firms in Venezuela, Colombia and the USA. Dr Kastner earned his Engineering degree cum laude in 1971, his M.Sc. degree with distinction (1973) and Ph.D. (1980) from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Chris brings a wide variety of experiences to his academic life; as a British army officer, he led a Mobile News Team in the Former Yugoslavia in the last months of the civil war, providing images and reports seen by millions around the world, returning as the NATO Spokesman in Bosnia a short time later. As the Managing Director of C3i Strategic Solutions, he has taught several world leaders how to get their messages across to their audiences and how to create strategic messages for their country or organisation. He has been published in many professional journals for his insights on Crisis Communication & Crisis Management and is currently the EU-appointed Strategic Communications advisor to the National Transitional Council in Libya.

Christopher (Chris) Kummer is a Professor of Business and Director of MBA and Executive Education at Webster University in Vienna, Austria, President of the Institute of Mergers, Acquisitions and Alliances (IMAA) in Zurich, Switzerland, and an Affiliate Professor at Grenoble Ecole de Management, Grenoble, France. He teaches strategy and finance related courses and trainings in bachelor, graduate, doctoral and executive education programs in Europe and Asia. As an Advisor, Chris Kummer supports companies on their strategy formulation and execution and the acquisition and sale of companies. He has been involved in transactions and alliances in every stage (from strategy to integration and post acquisition review) and every size (from small to large) with a total known transaction value of more than 12 bil. EUR. He supports governments as well as intergovernmental organizations explore the opportunities of M&A. He is the founder of Kummer Investment & Advisory with offices in Zurich, Lausanne, Lugano and Vienna. Before that he has led an M&A practice at the world's largest professional services firm and recruited non-executive and executive board members for listed and privately held companies in Europe and the United States. His articles have been published in several languages. He is often invited as a speaker to conferences and a frequently sought after commentator with national and international media, e.g. Bloomberg, CNN, Dow Jones, Financial Times, and Reuters.

Joanne Lawrence is Global Professor,  Corporate Social Responsibility and Social Innovation at Hult International Business School (Boston-Dubai-London-San Francisco-Shanghai) and is an academic advisor to the UN Global Compact.

Prior to Hult, she was a guest lecturer and adjunct professor at INSEAD and an affiliate of INSEAD’s Business in Society Centre, where she was involved in Project RESPONSE, an extensive study of global corporate social responsibility (CSR). A strong believer in the power of business to bring about lasting, positive change, she focuses on developing leaders who can ethically and effectively leverage resources to achieve both social and economic objectives. 

With extensive international corporate and consulting experience, she has worked with multinational companies and global organizations such as BP, IBM and the World Bank as well as smaller, socially-focused enterprises and start-ups, such as Tom’s of Maine and Economic Development Imports.  As vice president of corporate communications and investor relations, she received numerous awards in both the U.S. and UK for her work in strategically-aligning and engaging stakeholders.  While vice president at UK-based healthcare company SmithKline Beecham (today GSK), she headed a ground-breaking global organizational change initiative that became the subject of a book and an award-winning INSEAD case study.  

Ms. Lawrence is co-author of From Promise to Performance: The Journey of Transformation at SmithKline Beecham (Harvard Business School Press, 1997). SmithKline Beecham was one of ten best cases in The Search for Strategic Credibility: Concepts and Cases in Global Strategy Communications and also the subject of an award-winning INSEAD case study: “The Making of the Simply Better Healthcare Company.” A recent essay, “The Disappearing Water Cooler” has been included in The Future of Innovation (Gower Publishing, 2009).  

Her latest work is  Globally Responsible Leadership: Managing According to the UN Global Compact Principles,  co-edited with Paul Beamish of the Richard Ivey School of Business ( Sage Publishing, 2012).

Professor Litman is currently Managing Director of Equity Analysis & Strategy, Inc. headquartered in New York City, and Chairman of the Board of Directors of the EAS Group, which includes the Institute of Strategy & Valuation, EAS Digital, and other private holdings. He is a member of the Board of Directors of COL Financial Group, a publicly-traded financial services firm in Asia (PSE: COL). He is Chairman of the Foundation for Socioeconomic Advancement focused on philanthropic efforts to support underdeveloped communities, and also Advisory Board Member of Children International. Previously, Professor Litman held Director/Manager positions at Credit Suisse First Boston, Deloitte Consulting, and American Express. He is co-author of the book, DRIVEN: Business Strategy, Human Actions, and the Creation of Wealth and has published in Harvard Business Review. Professor Litman is on faculty at HULT International Business School and has lectured at Harvard Business School and has been involved in new business curriculum and course design at top universities around the world. He is a Certified Public Accountant in the United States, a member of the Global CFA Institute, received his B.S. Accountancy at DePaul University and his MBA/MM from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.

Damiao Lo, Partner, Schroeder Lo Associates, is a business solutions consultant whose holistic approach and advanced solutions to client problems stem from broad expertise in business, IT and system architecture strategy. Clients count on his systematic and thorough approach to business consulting, and his superior command of technology, to deliver consistent and additional value by not only anticipating their issues, and developing user-friendly leading-edge total solutions, which empower them to work more efficiently and effectively, but by designing and generating new business possibilities for them.

Damiao’s 17 year international track record of innovation encompasses implementing Internet web portal infrastructure, integrating legacy systems with Internet portals and providing business process solutions to internal and external clients. In SchroederLo Associates, progressive solutions include business restructure, executive coaching, facilitation, business set-up, asset management and protection and optimized business practice for China. His methodical approach, deep experience in China, Macau, Hong Kong and Canada, and creative-solutioning, helps his clients achieve seamless operations in complex markets and ensures their competitive edge. 

Damiao’s exemplary IT, business consulting and executive coaching skills arm his clients with the tools and confidence they need to propel their businesses, and his trademark passion for problem solving and long term strategic approach differentiates him. Known for quickly building rapport and trust, Damiao always exceeds the project scope, proactively developing cost-effective, quality systems and processes that facilitate transparent and actionable solutions and allow his clients to explore new horizons.

Fluent in English and Cantonese and proficient in Mandarin, Damiao Lo is a champion of advanced technologies that optimize workflow and also develops software and cutting edge applications for clients in his spare time.

As the founder Alibris, Lawrence transformed it from a start-up to a highly-successful online retailer. Professor Louie went on to become a faculty advisor at the University of San Francisco's School of Business' Incubator and direct the business school's New Venture Center. He has also directed the MBA program and University of San Francisco and helped pioneer the school's Career Services. He has won many awards as an educator.

Dr. Marple has taught finance and investment banking at Hult and its predecessor organizations.  Over the years he has played a major role in building the MBA program.  He is a tenured professor at Northeastern University where he teaches business finance, investment banking and international finance.  At Northeastern he has chaired almost every faculty committee known to humankind. He earned an AB degree from Princeton's Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs and MBA and doctoral degrees from Harvard.  The business cases he has written present financial management problems faced in atypical organizations.  Currently he is a member of the Hult Curriculum Committee.

Donelda is an Associate Professor of Marketing who has taught in the United Arab Emirates (AUS and UOWD), Hong Kong (HKUST), Canada (McMaster and Ryerson), England (Bradford and Leeds Business School) and she was inaugural faculty onboard the ocean-going university, The Scholar Ship. She has taught EMBA, MBA, Masters, Undergraduate and Adult Education classes across a range of marketing subjects. Her research agenda includes her interest in service encounters from her PhD studies as well as business and marketing topics relevant to emerging markets. Prior to academia, Donelda held senior positions in companies in the manufacturing, service and distribution industry sectors in Toronto, Canada area. In addition to Hult, Donelda is coaching faculty with Athabasca University (Canada) online Executive MBA. She has lived international for many years but still connects with her Canadian roots.

Herb Meiberger was first elected to a five-year term on the Retirement Board in 1992, and has served for 20 years in that capacity. The Retirement Board oversees the $15.4 billion (6/31/2011) Defined Benefit pension fund and the voluntary $2.0 billion Defined Contribution fund. Mr. Meiberger was hired by the Retirement System in 1986 as a security analyst and has worked in several capacities, including directly managing and overseeing the fixed income portfolios, monitoring compliance of the asset managers and working on the alternative investment portfolio. He retired in 2006 after twenty years of service. He earned a B.A. in mathematics and chemistry from the University of South Dakota and an M.B.A. in Finance from the University of California at Berkeley. He was awarded the Chartered Financial Analyst designation in 1987, and has taught CFA® review courses for the Stalla/Becker Educational program. In addition, he teaches corporate finance and investments at San Francisco State University. Mr. Meiberger serves on the advisory board of the Pacific Pension Institute, and the Institutional Real Estate Letter.

Professor Menéndez, teaches marketing courses at Hult. He has a doctorate in Political Science from Simon Bolivar University in Caracas, an MBA from Michigan State University, and a degree in Industrial Engineering from Universidad Católica Andres Bello also in Caracas Venezuela. Jorge worked for ten years in Procter & Gamble’s marketing department (8 years in Venezuela and 2 years in Japan). After that, he was the Commercial Director for HJ Heinz’ Venezuelan subsidiary for 17 years. In parallel with these executive responsibilities, he taught marketing courses, at night at post graduate level and in executive education courses, mainly at IESA ( a post graduate business school with three accreditations: AACSB international, Association of MBA’s and EFMD EQUIS). He is also on the board of directors of three companies (consumer goods, market research and a non profit organization). Jorge currently coordinates post graduate studies in marketing at IESA and has taught at Hult’s Dubai, London and San Francisco campuses.

Professor Merron is the founder and Managing Partner of Avista Consulting Group, an organizational consulting and leadership development firm dedicated to helping organizations with bold visions achieve sustainable high performance and industry leadership. With over 25 years of experience assisting executives in business, government, and education, he has also successfully conducted over twenty-five large-system strategic, cultural, and technical change efforts.

Professor Merron has authored multiple books, including Riding the Wave: Designing Your Organization for Enduring Success and The Golden Flame: The Heart and Soul of Remarkable Leadership.

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Riding the Wave: Designing Your Organization for Enduring Success

Consulting Mastery: How the Best Make the Biggest Difference

The Golden Flame: The Heart and Soul of Remarkable Leadership

Inner Freedom

John received his undergraduate degree from the University of New Hampshire and his MBA, with a concentration in finance, from the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley. John became a CFA charterholder in 1990. In 2010 he earned the CIPM (Certificate in Performance Measurement) designation, also administered by the CFA Institute. From 1999 until 2006, John participated as a grader and senior grader at the CFA Institute. He also has been a member of the working body of the CFA Institute’s candidate core curriculum review committee. John began his career as an accountant and financial analyst for Levi Strauss. He later served as manager of treasury and risk, and pension officer, for Placer Dome US, Inc. Since 1998, John has been a consultant, with engagements at such firms as Chiron (Novartis) and Wells Fargo Bank. John also teaches preparatory classes for the CFA exam.

Professor Nairn has over 15 years of experience teaching. Her area of research expertise is the ethics of marketing to young people. She works as a consultant to a range of governments, NGOs, and corporations including UNICEF, Family and Parenting Institute, Coca-Cola GB, Unilever, and Mothercare. She has served government panels for the U.K. Department of Education and the Department of Health to conduct a major review of the impact of the commercial world on children's wellbeing. She is a frequent press, radio and TV commentator on the ethics of marketing to children, and published a book, Consumer Kids.

Professor Newman has extensive experience with entrepreneurship and small businesses. The founder of various companies in the computer, venture capital, and real estate sectors, he shifted his attention to education in the mid-1980’s.  Mr. Newman was the founding director of the entrepreneurship program at Boston University and taught entrepreneurship at Babson College for over a decade.  At Babson, he was part of a team which developed a unique, experiential business course which has been recognized with two national awards.  Mr. Newman has consulted to universities and government bodies on curriculum design and the design and delivery of entrepreneurship programs internationally and has developed and delivered programs in the U.S., Africa, Australia, the Middle East, South America, and Europe.  He has been recognized as Professor of the Year at both Babson College and Hult (twice) and was identified by Business Week as one of six people who contributed to the success of small businesses in the 1990s, the only academic on the list. 

Mary Jane Norton is president and founder of Management Educational Resources, a customer-focused consulting and training firm. A management development and communication specialist, Mary Jane has more than 30 years of experience consulting, designing, and delivering professional development training programs. She provides a full spectrum of management training, executive coaching, performance improvement programs, as well as communication and presentation skills seminars including DISC behavioral assessment. Her corporate experience spans high-tech, aerospace, manufacturing, financial services, and the utility industries. In addition to training and consulting, she is on the faculty at the HULT International Business School and an Adjunct Professor of Management at Babson College.

Professor O' Donnell is an engineer-turned-industry analyst for the telecommunication and media industries. His research focuses on the intersection of technology, policy, and economics in the development of new markets. He has studied consumer and market reactions to new communications technologies for the MIT Media Laboratory and corporate and NGO clients. He also teaches international communications courses at Tufts University's Fletcher School.

Dr. Patel chairs Hult's Innovation and Growth Action Learning Program in conjunction with the IXL Center. Prior to Hult, Dr. Patel was a senior leader and co-founder of the Monitor Group’s Innovation Practice responsible for Asia and Latin America. Dr. Patel has worked at Motorola in the portable energy space and is the owner of six patents. He is also a founder of various venture-backed companies. Dr. Patel is the co-author of 101 Innovation Breakthroughs and The State of Innovation at the Firm Level in Singapore and Greenovate! Companies Innovating to Create a More Sustainable World.

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Co-author of '101 Innovation Breakthroughs' and 'The State of Innovation at the Firm Level in Singapore' and in the process of writing a third book on 'Thinking and Acting Differently to Make Innovation Real'; author 'Greenovate'

Dr. Amanda Nimon Peters is a business psychologist. Dr. Amanda graduated at 19 from the University of Adelaide with a first class Honours Degree in Psychology and the Australian Psychological Society Prize.  After taking a position as a lecturer in Psychology at the Flinders University of South Australia, she moved to the University of Cambridge where she gained a Master’s Degree and Ph.D. in Behavioural Science, and completed post-doctoral research. She moved from Cambridge to spend ten years in Procter & Gamble, working throughout Europe and the Middle East to train brand teams in applying psychological research findings to build sales and improve consumer communications. She took an assignment in Dubai in 2004 to recruit and lead a team of consultants that worked with all major P&G brands and retailers in the Arabian Peninsula. Dr. Amanda is now the managing director of Sara Black International, a company that helps clients’ key employees to improve their personal effectiveness. The company’s methodology involves the practical application of psychological principles and published research findings to improve solutions for everyday business challenges.

James A. Pope received degrees in economics from the College of Wooster and Northwestern University, and a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of North Carolina.  Between his masters and doctoral degrees, he served five years in the U.S. Air Force as a logistics officer.  He has written and consulted extensively in the field of operations management including supply chain management, total quality management, inventory control, scheduling, warehouse location and database management.  He is the author of Supply Chain Survival in the Age of Globalization and co-author of Ocean Container Transportation: An Operational Perspective.  He has been a professor at Old Dominion University and the University of Toledo and has taught abroad in Germany, the Netherlands and India.  In addition to his academic work, he has been active in APICS, an organization for operations management professionals. He is professionally certified by APICS with the CFPIM and CSCP designations, and for thirty years has taught certification courses and developed certification training and testing materials for the organization. 

Jim currently teaches at Hult International Business School, the University of San Francisco and U.C. Berkeley Extension where he has been honored twice as “Instructor of the Year”. He has also taught at the Haas Business School at the University of California Berkeley, the Graham School of Business at the University of Chicago, and Stanford University. His courses include Strategic Marketing, Introduction to Marketing, Marketing Management, Sales Management, Retail Management, Management Communication, and Presentation Skills. Jim has co-authored with David Aaker Ph.D. the Instructor’s Manual for David Aaker’s Strategic Market Management (6-9 Editions) published by John Wiley & Sons. Jim was Director of Marketing and Sales for the Technology Products Group at Dataquest (a high-technology marketing research company) and Vice President of Sales for Power Up Software Corporation (a consumer software products manufacturer). He held management positions with several high-tech companies. Jim is former president of the Northern California Chapter of the National Speakers Association and is a former Vice President of the San Francisco Chapter of the American Marketing Association. He served on the committee for the AMA International Business-to-Business Marketing Conference held in San Francisco.

27 year proven management track record building brand equity-driven businesses within Fortune 500 including First National Bank of Boston, RJR Nabisco, Bristol Meyers Squibb.  For private clients, he has advised on the building and managing of brands as well as the solving of complex marketing challenges across multiple sectors including high tech, health care, eCommerce and luxury goods.  Entrepreneurially, Marco also co-conceived, co-launched, grew and later sold two ventures in eCommerce and FMCG.

PROFESSOR OF THE YEAR 2012, 2011 & 2007.  25 years experience training and developing executives, MBAs as well as undergraduate students on five continents.  Professor of Marketing and Strategy at Hult International, Cambridge, USA; University of Edinburgh, Scotland; AALTO, Helsinki, Finland; Stockholm School of Economics, Sweden; EHTP Casablanca, Morocco and ENPC Paris, France.  Consistently achieved high student and peer reviews.

Graduated with BS in Business Administration (1985) from Northeastern University Phi Kappa Phi and Beta Gamma Sigma Honor Societies.  Also, graduated with MBA (1994) from the Darden School at the University of Virginia.  Received the Dean’s & Faculty Award for academic excellence as well as the Sheppard Award for Outstanding Service to the Community.

After earning his Ph.D. in the areas of accounting, control, and the performance contribution of individuals, Professor Bill Ryan joined Hult to teach across a range of accounting and finance courses, with an emphasis on practical application built upon sound theoretical foundations. He has also designed courses for and led the distance learning MBA for the University of London. Before entering academic life, Professor Ryan held a number of senior management positions in accounting and strategic change management in companies such as Chrysler and the 3M Corporation, where he completed assignments in the U.K., Europe, and the U.S. His research is in the general area of management control spanning accounting and business strategy and he has published papers across these areas.

Jeff Schiebe is founder of J & F Associates, a management advisory & consulting company, providing international business development to emerging companies.  A seasoned global entrepreneur and executive, with more than 30 years of international sales & marketing experience, his focus is on developing global partners, channel development and strategic selling—primarily in telecom, software and Internet markets.   Traveling to more than 50 countries, Jeff has worked in all established markets as well as emerging markets in Eastern Europe, Africa, Middle East, and Latin America.   Prior to launching J & F Associates, Jeff was a founding executive at OnePIN, a mobile applications company.  His entrepreneurial and intrapreneurial experience ranges from start-ups (CxO Management, PixelVision, Acunet) to emerging companies (PictureTel) to established companies (Compaq).  

Jeff earned an MBA from Babson College and a BS Electrical Engineering from the University of Minnesota and has been a frequent speaker at international industry conferences and seminars.  Currently he teaches at Clark University (Entrepreneur-in-Residence), the Hult International School of Business (Adjunct Professor) and Babson College (Executive Mentor, Summer Venture Program). 

He brings a unique combination of entrepreneurial experience, technical knowledge, global marketing expertise and cross-cultural perspectives to his role as an international advisor, consultant, educator and author.

Charlie Sheppard is the founder and managing partner of Sheppard Partners, a company on the forefront of unleashing the full potential of people and teams through superior training and consulting methodologies. His consulting company provides advise to International organizations like Roche, Goldcorp, Yahoo and Allergan. He is an internationally recognized leader in executive and team development with a focus on applying cutting edge neuroscience to the field of human development. His courses and trainings have been delivered all around the world. He is a highly engaging speaker and is in constant demand for his "Leadership is a Choice®” and his “Eliminating Drama” keynotes. He is the author of the popular book Save Your Drama For Your Mama and Essential Tasks to Negotiation Excellence.

He is the founder and CEO of KnoNow, a pioneering e-Learning and social network platform. Built from the ground up to take advantage of how people learn in groups and social networks this online tool accelerates both learning and measurement of the transfer of knowledge in an organization. KnoNow is leading the way using technology to deliver the promise of KaaS [Knowledge as a Service]. KnoNow unlocks the wisdom of any group of people that wants to deepen their knowledge of any subject.

Charlie is also a Professor of Leadership and Management for Hult International Business School. He teaches 600 students from 98 countries studying for a Masters of Business Administration, a Masters of Intentional Marketing, a Masters of International Business and a Masters of Social Entrepreneurship. He is known for creating transformational and experiential learning environments.

Eliot H. Sherman, CPA, is Professor of Finance at the Hult International Business  School and a Senior Lecturer in Finance at Northeastern University, teaching classes to undergraduates, MBA, EMBA, and MSF students in the D’Amore-McKim School of Business. Prior to joining Northeastern’s full-time faculty, he served as Chief Financial Officer, Treasurer, and Director of Gloucester Co. Inc., a manufacturer of adhesives, sealants, and caulking materials, and as Partner and Chief Financial Officer of Venture Builders, an advisory firm dedicated to helping entrepreneurs build successful businesses, established in 1999. Earlier, he was principal of his own consulting firm providing strategic and operational planning assistance and financial management guidance to smaller, growing businesses. Among the firms he served were a developer of electronic commerce software products, a developer of specialized voice recognition and report generation software, a consulting firm focused on repetitive manufacturing practices, and a security consulting and investigative services firm.

Earlier in his career, he was Chief Financial Officer of a medium-sized shoe parts manufacturing company and controller of two successful textile manufacturers. He has more than twenty-five years of financial management experience in several manufacturing and service companies, holding titles from Administrative Manager and Divisional Controller to Corporate Controller and Chief Financial Officer. During his career, he has worked for businesses from the very small to the Fortune 50, from private to publicly held, from domestic to multi-national to foreign-owned. For twenty-five years, until 1997, he served on the Board of Directors of a NASDAQ-listed foam plastics fabricator, and he has served as a director or advisor to several corporations and non-profit organizations in the Boston area.

Mr. Sherman was educated at Harvard College and earned masters degrees from The Amos Tuck School and from Bentley College. He has taught regularly for several state societies of CPAs and for American Institute of Certified Public Accountants for the past 25 years. Mr. Sherman has authored programs on Controllership and Finance for the Non-Financial Manager, which have been presented a number of times to the Smaller Business Association of New England and programs on Planning and Budgeting, Negotiating Debt and Equity Financing, and The Business Plan for AICPA. He has also written Finance and Accounting for the Non-Financial Manager published by the Amacom Division of the American Management Association (published in 2001, 2006, 2011). He also wrote The Business of Project and Program Management (Dubuque, Iowa; Kendall-Hunt Publishing; 2009) which has been used as a text in a course that is part of a Master Degree in Project Management program at Brandeis University.

Jim has been serving as an adjunct faculty member at Hult for the last three years teaching the “IT for Managers” course. He has also taught several courses at the graduate and undergraduate level at Northeastern University and Boston University. Jim’s business background includes independent consulting as well as senior management consulting at Ernst & Young and office director of IT consulting for a division of Deloitte. His experience also includes Chief Information Officer of four companies across pharmaceutical, manufacturing and services industries. As a Vice President of IT at Houghton Mifflin, Jim had responsibility for the Program Management Office and led the IT Infrastructure support function of that company. As Vice president and CIO of the Shipley Company he led global IT initiatives in the U.S., Europe and Asia. With this breadth of experience, Jim brings to Hult a business focused and pragmatic application of IT best practices which he thoroughly enjoys sharing through the framework of Hult’s education platform.

Dr. Merwyn Strate is currently the Dean with Hult International School of Business in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.  Prior to his appointment to the Hult faculty he was an Associate Professor and Chair of the Management Department in the School of Business at the American University in Dubai. Previous academic experience includes being appointed Assistant Professor of Organizational Leadership at Purdue University in Indiana and time spent at the University of Nebraska as both a graduate teaching/research assistant. Professor Strate earned his Ph.D. in Human Resource Development at the University of Nebraska. He also holds an MBA from the University of Nebraska and a Bachelor’s degree from Wayne State College in business administration and economics. While studying for his doctorate, Professor Strate participated in research activities focusing on Leadership and Organization Development. Previous experience includes over 20 years working with the Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company in a variety of leadership and management capacities in the areas of accounting, finance, marketing, sales, customer service, and operations management. Dr. Strate has also served as President and CEO of a successful franchise development company in addition to being involved with several family owned businesses. His personal interests include golf, fly fishing, hiking, diving and reading.

brand management, and lectures in executive programs on these topics.

methods, and evolutionary modeling engines.

reputed marketing journals on ad hoc basis.

Dr. Thomas teaches and consults on the managerial, social and ethical impacts of the globally inter-networked economy. He holds a doctorate from Harvard University in psychological anthropology and has held clinical and research appointments in psychology at the Harvard Medical School. He has been a visiting faculty member at the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, the AT&T School of Business, and is currently Senior Lecturer in International Management at Northeastern University. Dr. Thomas has consulted to many Fortune 500 multinationals and the U.S. government, and has developed programs in Internet-based distributed learning and collaborative group work between a number of European and American universities. He has lived and worked for several years in Eastern Europe and has a special interest in the European Union. Dr. Thomas has received awards for innovative uses of technology in teaching and is a recipient of Northeastern University's Excellence in Teaching Award.

Terence Tse is a professor, researcher and author in the field of corporate finance, economics and strategic management. He is due to be featured in July 2012 as “Professor of the week” by the Financial Times for the FT Lexicon. His articles – in English, Italian, Chinese and Greek – have appeared in different publications including the Economist and Harvard Business Review. He has also been interviewed on French and Greek Televisions. Terence began his career in mergers and acquisitions at Citigroup and Lazard Brothers and worked in the UK financial services advisory at Ernst & Young. In addition, he consulted a biotech start-up and major companies, including Shell, F&C Asset Management, Alitalia and Alliance Boots. Terence has held teaching appointments at various business schools including ESCP Europe, Aalto University and the Judge Business School. He received his PhD from the Judge Business School, University of Cambridge in the UK.

Christopher (Rusty) Tunnard teaches Management and Organization at Hult.  He is also a member of the International Business faculty at the Fletcher School at Tufts University, where he has recently been appointed the Hitachi Fellow for Technology and International Affairs.   For many years, he was a Principal at Arthur D. Little (ADL) in their Travel and Technology practice in Brussels and London.   He is a recognized expert on technology-led change in the international communications, travel, and financial service industries. Prior to joining ADL, he directed world-wide strategy and technology partnerships for the Travel Division of American Express TRS Co. He has also run his own consulting firm and has owned and operated a hotel barge company in southern France.

His doctoral dissertation focused on the use of technology in the formation of resistance networks that eventually led to peaceful regime change in Serbia in the 1990s.  His current research examines the roles that social networks and social media can play in building up institutions and civil society in post-revolutionary countries, and he is developing analytical methods to examine public and private social networks and their impact on organizations.

Professor Vannoni has more than 15 years international experience in media, corporate communications, digital marketing, and social media. He holds a MBA from Boston University and began his career at CNN International's Business-Today show. Dr. Vannoni's current clients include a USD4 billion market-cap company as well as the Italian energy regulator. In 2005, he was Elected Member of the Board at the American Chamber of Commerce in Croatia.

Dr. Wagemans is Director at PricewaterhouseCoopers, leading the Public Services Advisory Practice. Prior to PwC, he was a strategy consultant at Arthur D. Little. He holds a Ph.D. in Political Economy from the London School of Economics. He was the recipient of the Hoover Foundation Fellowship while at Brown University and has been Visiting Fellow at Oslo University.

As president and founder of Enterprise Systems, Sharon Wulf provides organizational and business development services. With a management background largely formed as the Director and Group Manager of Strategic Business Programs for the Semiconductor and Technologies Division at Digital Equipment Corporation and as a Senior Finance Manager for Engineering Technologies at The Polaroid Corporation, Sharon formed Enterprise Systems in 1992. Sharon has over three decades of teaching experience at the MBA level and currently serves on several MBA faculties. As a faculty member at Worcester Polytechnic Institute’s School of Business, Sharon instructs graduate level courses at WPI and EMC, UMASS Memorial, National Grid, Natick Labs, and United Technologies. Named MBA Faculty of the Year 2011 at Framingham State University, she instructs MBA courses in MBA Professional Capstone and Strategy Management, Human Resources Management, and Global Business Management. Recipient of the Northeastern University Teaching Excellence Award, Sharon taught Business Strategy and Management to graduate and undergraduate students. Sharon authored three books Customer Service Action Plans, Leadership in Action, and Building Performance Values that were published by HRD Press and honored at the NU Major Works Reception. Sharon currently serves on several non-profit boards including the National Board of the English Speaking Union of the United States of America. 

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Author of three books,  Customer Service Action Plans, Leadership in Action, and Building Performance Values ( published by HRD Press).

Mario Yanez, Jr. has been a full-time member of the Faculty at the Computer Information Systems Department of the School of Business Administration, University of Miami since 1998. His areas of expertise include Management Information Systems, Project Management of Information Technology, and Management of Technology. He teaches Management Information Systems and Project Management in the regular and Executive MBA programs, in the Master of Science in Professional Management program offered in Spanish to Latin American executives, and at the undergraduate level. He also teaches Management of Technology in the Industrial Engineering Department.

Prior to his academic career, he was an information systems/technology senior manager and consultant in the private sector. A former Director of Telecommunications and Networks at the University of Miami, and the University’s NGJ Information Systems Institute, his extensive industry experience also includes assignments in corporate MIS and Project Management with Ryder System, Inc., Bell South, GTE, General Electric and KPMG Peat Marwick.

Mario holds a PhD Degree in Business Information Systems and Technology Management from the University of Miami, a Master's Degree in Business Administration (MBA) from Florida State University, and a Bachelor's Degree in Electrical Engineering (BSEE) from the University of Miami. He is a member of the Association for Information Systems (AIS) and Secretary of the Executive Committee and Chair of the Education Committee of the International Association for the Management of Technology (IAMOT); he is certified as a Project Management Professional (PMP) by the Project Management Institute (PMI) and a member of the PMI’s Global Accreditation Center Academic Network. He has been recently selected by the European Commission as an Erasmus Mundus Scholar in Strategic Project Management.

Professor Zif holds engineering degrees from Technion, Israel, and an MBA and PhD from New York University. He was a member of the faculty at Tel-Aviv University and lectured for many years in executive programs at Harvard, Wharton and Northwestern, and in many programs around the world. He was elected "Professor of the Year" at Hult in December 2005. Professor Zif has extensive consulting experience in many industries and was previously the president of a start-up U.S. firm funded by venture capital.