MANAGEMENT SCIENCE & INFORMATION SYSTEMS - Key Persons


Ajai Gaur

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Management & Global Business

Alex J. Plinio

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership
Mr. Alex Plinio is the co-founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School (RBS). Former President/CEO of AFS-USA, the largest nonprofit international and intercultural student exchange program in the United States, Alex Plinio previously held senior executive positions at Prudential Financial in the areas of insurance, investments, financial services and public affairs. His business experience includes executive positions in marketing, operations and administration, change management and start-ups. He was head of Prudential Annuity Services, a billion dollar retirement products business. He also led the start up and served as President of the Prudential Foundation.

Alexander Sannella

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Accountancy in Professional Accounting

Alexandra Charles

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Assistant Dean of Special Programs & Populations

Andrea Pini

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • CFO, Gucci North America ( Executive Board )

Anthony Lupo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Chairman, Arent Fox ( Executive Board )

Arash Azadegan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
  • Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management Director, MS in SCM MSBF Core Faculty Member

Arnold Pollack

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Professional Practice, Marketing MSBF Core Faculty Member

Barbara Kolsun

Job Titles:
  • Director and Professor at FAME Center, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University

Beverly Aisenbrey

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Retired Executive Compensation Consultant, FW Cook Rutgers Business School Dean 's Advisory Board, Former Trustee of Rutgers University ( Executive Board )

Brenda Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Program Coordinator, Dean 's Office

Carla Varino

Job Titles:
  • SVP of Sales & Planning, Kasper Group ( Executive Board )

Chan Choi

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Marketing

Chander Sharma

Job Titles:
  • Founder and Co - President of BizXL a Boutique
  • Instructor of Professional Practice
  • Operations and Strategic Leadership Executive
Chander Sharma is the founder and co-president of BizXL a boutique management consulting firm that works with business professionals and companies to improve business performance and enterprise risk management. Chander has been an operations and strategic leadership executive with 21 years of international experience in business transformation, change management and building a culture of continuous improvement. Chander has supported businesses/clients across Canada, US, India, UK, and Australia for Fortune 500 companies across Banking, Financial Services, Business Process Outsourcing, Automobiles and Consumer Goods. An active speaker at Business Excellence / BPM conferences; he chaired the 2013 "Business Process Excellence for Financial Services" conference organized by PEX network in New York. Chander has been an executive at Manulife Financial, Royal Bank, GE Capital, Genpact, Delphi Automotive, Whirlpool, and Eicher. He is currently the lead faculty for the Mini-MBA™: Idea Design to Execution Accelerator (IDEA). Chander has an MBA from Cornell University and Queens University, LEAN Office Program Certification from the University of Michigan and has GE Company Certification ...

Charles Brown

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Diversity Programs

Christine Yannuzzi

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Enrollment Manager

Dan Palmon

Job Titles:
  • Professor & Department Chair, William J. Von Minden Chair

Daniel C. Stubbs

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Accountancy in Financial Accounting

Daniel J. Stoll

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director of Communications & Marketing / Student Development

Daniel Weaver

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Financial Analysis

Darius Palia

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Accounting & Information Systems

Dean, Rutgers

Job Titles:
  • Ex Officio

Dee White

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager, Dean 's Office
  • Member of Committee

Dijha Allen

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Junior & Senior Advisor ( J through R )

Dimitri Koumbis

Job Titles:
  • Instructor of Marketing MSBF Core Faculty Member

Donna Brancato

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Senior Program Coordinator and Business Administration Minor Advisor

Dr. Christopher J. Molloy

Job Titles:
  • Chancellor, New Brunswick / Rutgers University

Dr. Gail Wilensky

Job Titles:
  • Senior Fellow

Dr. Lei Lei

Job Titles:
  • Dean

Dr. Mahmud Hassan

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor & Director, Lerner Center / Rutgers Business School

Edna Rodriguez

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Administrative Assistant to Academic Services

Eduardo Perez

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Chief Operating Officer, Saint Laurent Americas

Elayne Stanback-McClaine

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Regional Director - Middlesex County, NJSBDC

Elvira Tolen

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, MBA Recruitment - Newark / Secretary - Newark
  • Member of Committee

Farid Alizadeh

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Information Technology and Analytics

Farrokh Langdana

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Executive
  • Finance and Economics & Director, Executive MBA Program

Felicia Norott

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Assistant Dean for Juniors, Seniors and School to School Transfers / Junior & Senior Advisor

Gary Chropuvka

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Board of Advisors - 2009

Gerald Harvey

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Executive - in - Residence
Gerald Harvey is the Executive-in-Residence for the Institute of Ethical Leadership at the Rutgers Business School. Mr. Harvey has forty years experience as an attorney and corporate executive. As the Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary of Breeze-Eastern Corporation, a publicly-traded company, he oversaw SEC, NYSE, environmental and legal compliance. He also served as a managing director of the company's subsidiaries in England and Germany and worked extensively with its Brazilian subsidiary. Prior to that Mr. Harvey was a partner in a multi-office law firm where he focused on cross-border transactions and international arbitration. For a number of years he worked for a Japanese trading company with assignments in New York and Tokyo working extensively on international joint ventures. He began his overseas work as a foreign lawyer associate in the Tokyo office of a Japanese law firm. As an outside attorney and as a general counsel of a corporation, Mr. Harvey worked extensively with senior managements and boards of directors on ethics and compliance matters. He also served as a member and chairman of the governing boards of a private school and a public university, served on and chaired audit committees at these institutions and served a proactive role in their respective compliance and ethics initiatives. Mr. Harvey is a graduate of Columbia Law School, where he served as editor-in-chief of The Columbia Journal of Transnational Law, and of Rutgers University. He received an honorary Doctorate in Humane Letters from Rutgers upon completing his term as Chairman of the University's Board of Governors. At Rutgers, he and his wife have endowed the Keiko and Gerald Harvey Scholarship in Support of Women in Engineering. Noting that the most stable, equitable and successful societies and institutions have strong traditions in values-based and ethical behaviors, Mr. Harvey seeks to use his experiences in cross-cultural environments to help advance the goals of the Institute of Ethical Leadership at the Rutgers Business School.

Hannah Salto

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean for Mentoring Programs

Irfan Bora

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Accountancy in Governmental Accounting

James Abruzzo

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership
Mr. Abruzzo is the co-founder of the Institute for Ethical Leadership at Rutgers Business School (RBS). He is an internationally recognized nonprofit management consultant, writer and educator. He concurrently serves as Executive Vice President and Managing Director of the Nonprofit Practice of DHR International, a global executive search firm. Over the last thirty years he has provided ongoing strategic advice to many national and international nonprofit organizations. He is on the faculty of RBS and additionally, Mr. Abruzzo serves on the faculty of the Department of Economics, University of Bologna and is a frequent guest lecturer at the Freie Universität of Berlin. The author of Jobs in Arts and Media Management, Mr. Abruzzo served on many nonprofit boards; for the last sixteen years on the Board of the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater Foundation.

James King

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Office of Career Management

Jay Soled

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Accountancy in Taxation

Jenean Wicker

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Professional Development Committee
  • Member of Committee

Jenny Roberts

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs & Data Integrity

Jia Ren

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Assessment

Jim Holmes

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, PVH ( Executive Board )

Joanne B. Ciulla

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Professor and Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership
Joanne B. Ciulla is a pioneer in the field of leadership ethics. Her research focuses on the ethical challenges of leadership. She has also written extensively on topics in business ethics such as meaningful work. Before joining RBS, she held the Coston Family Chair in Leadership and Ethics at the Jepson School of Leadership Studies (University of Richmond), where she was one of the school's founders. Jepson was the first degree-granting liberal arts school of its kind in the world. Ciulla has held academic appointments at Harvard Business School, The Wharton School, LaSalle University. Her visiting positions include the UNESCO chair in Leadership Studies at the United Nations International Leadership Academy (Jordan), the Gourley Professor of Business Ethics, University of Melbourne (Australia) and visiting professorships at the University of Fort Hare (South Africa), Nyenrode Business School (Netherlands), Oxford University (Green College), and the Harvard's Kennedy School. She has also been a Fulbright Specialist. For her scholarship, Ciulla has received Lifetime Achievement Awards from The Society for Business Ethics, the International Leadership Association, and the Network of Leadership Scholars at the ...

John Muth

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Sophomore Advisor

Joseph N. Agresta

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Supply Chain Analytics

Joshua Charles

Job Titles:
  • Director of Web Governance & Communications, Communications & Marketing
  • Member of Committee

Kathleen Price

Job Titles:
  • Graduate Academic Advisor, Part - Time MBA Program - New Brunswick
  • Member of Committee

Kathleen Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Program Administrator

Kendra Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Web Content Strategist, Communications & Marketing

Kerstin Schnatter

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Assistant Dean for Freshmen, Sophomores and Honors

Kevin Kolben

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
  • Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management MSBF Core Faculty Member

Kristin DiFoglio

Job Titles:
  • Associate

Laura Chacon

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Social Media Manager, Communications & Marketing

Leidy Garcia-Cosbert

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Sophomore Advisor

Leshay Reed, Sr.

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Program Coordinator, MFnA - New Brunswick / Dean

Lian Qi

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Supply Chain Management

Loubna Erraji-Benchekroun

Job Titles:
  • Executive MBA Faculty Director of Executive Career Management MSBF Core Faculty Member

Luca Infantino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board

Lucille Foster

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean / Recruitment
  • Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Newark Program
  • Member of Committee

Luke Greeley

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program - Newark
  • Interim Associate Dean

Luz Kosar

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Program Coordinator, Analytics and Information Systems - Newark

Madhavi Chakrabarty

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Senior Director of Undergraduate Student Experience

Marc Limata

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Dean, MBA Programs - Newark
  • Member of Committee

Melba Blanco

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • First - Year Advisor

Melissa Rivera - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman
  • Associate Dean of Administration and Finance
  • Member of Committee
  • Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration

Melissa Stone

Job Titles:
  • Assistant Corporate Controller, PVH, Advisory Level Board Member

Michael Katehakis - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman

Miklos Vasarhelyi

Job Titles:
  • KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting & Information Systems

Monica Giron

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager, RBS International Program - Newark
  • Member of Committee

Morris A. Davis

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate

Mr. Alan L. Rubino

Job Titles:
  • President and CEO / RenovaCare Inc

Mr. Christopher Kinum

Job Titles:
  • Executive Director, Technology Enterprise Group / Cushman & Wakefield

Mr. Cole Werble - Founder

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder
  • Senior Editor

Mr. David E. De Lorenzi

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Intellectual Property Department / Gibbons

Mr. Kenneth Berkowitz

Job Titles:
  • Healthcare Consultant / the PharMed Group

Mr. Luis Gutierrez

Job Titles:
  • Executive Vice President & Chief Commercial Officer / Aptiv Solutions, Inc.

Mr. Michael Crocker

Job Titles:
  • Director, Integrated Hospital Systems, Managed Markets / Bayer Healthcare Pharmaceuticals, Inc.

Mr. Michael J. Lerner

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board, Lerner Center / Attorney & Chair

Mr. Richard Evans

Job Titles:
  • Co - Founder and Managing Director / Sector & Sovereign, LLC

Ms. Debbie Hart - President

Job Titles:
  • President

Nadia Khokhar

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Senior & Junior Advisor ( a through I )

Nancy Kiley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Professional Development Committee
  • Member of Committee

Nicole Martinez

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • First - Year Advisor

Nicole McCray

Job Titles:
  • Business Manager

Nili Lotan

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • CEO and Head Designer, Nili Lotan

Peter Chan

Job Titles:
  • Professor in Clothing and Textiles Department, FIT

Peter Methot

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Executive Education / Administration
  • Associate Dean, Executive Education
  • Member of Committee

Petra Christmann

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research
Petra Christmann is Professor and Vice Dean for Faculty Affairs and Research at Rutgers Business School. Petra conducts research on a number of topics in the field of strategic management. She is well-known for her research on corporate environmental sustainability and social responsibility strategies in a global context. Her research in this area examines the determinants of firm self-regulation of environmental and social conduct, the efficacy of international certifiable standards such as ISO 14001 as tools for firm self-regulation, and the link between responsible environmental and social strategies and firm performance. She also conducts research on the performance of mergers and acquisitions. Petra's research has been published in leading academic journals such as the Academy of Management Journal, the Strategic Management Journal, the Journal of International Business Studies, Business Ethics Quarterly and the Journal of Business Ethics as well as in practitioner journals such as the Academy of Management Executive. She has served on the editorial board of the Journal of International Business Studies, and has organized the Journal of International Business Studies Paper Development Workshops for many years. ...

Rich Naranjo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • VP Financial Shared Services, Kering Americas ( Executive Board )

Robert M. Kurland

Job Titles:
  • Dean
  • Senior Associate
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program - New Brunswick

Rudolf Leuschner

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Supply Chain Management

Rudolph Leuchner

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
  • Assistant Professor of Supply Chain Management and Curriculum Coordinator of MBA Supply Chain Management / Marketing / Management & Global Business Research Affiliates

Russell Clarke

Job Titles:
  • Senior Director of Office of Technology & Instructional Service

Sadee Brathwaite

Job Titles:
  • Member of Committee
  • Senior Administrative Assistant, RAISED

Sharon Lydon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Alumni and Corporate Engagement
  • Member of Committee

Shevon Jackson

Job Titles:
  • Associate Director of Enterprise Applications, OTIS
  • Member of Committee

Sophie Weitzman

Job Titles:
  • SVP Strategy, Data & Analytics, PVH Supply Chain ( Executive Board )

Stacy Schwartz

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Science in Digital Marketing

Suresh Govindaraj

Job Titles:
  • Director
  • Director, Doctor of Business Administration

Suzanne Humbert

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • CEO, Escada Americas

Tara Maluszczak

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Administrative Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean

Tavy Ronen

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Director, Master of Science in Business of Fashion
  • Finance and Economics MSBF Core Faculty Member

Ted Baker

Job Titles:
  • Professor

Tzili Charney

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Member of the Board

Vanessa Galindo

Job Titles:
  • Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Student Services - Newark
  • Member of Committee

Victoria Fernandez

Job Titles:
  • Acting Executive Director
  • Program Manager
Victoria Fernandez, MPA, is the Acting Executive Director of the Institute for Ethical Leadership (IEL). She is an experienced non-profit leader with a background particularly focused on program development, community engagement, and effective management. In her evolving role at IEL, Vicki has helped hundreds of nonprofit leaders from the greater Newark area develop and find support through a variety of Institute programs and initiatives. Her proudest achievement with the Institute is increasing programming and practice around access, diversity, equity, anti-racism, and inclusion. Prior to joining the Institute for Ethical Leadership, she worked at WBGO Jazz 88.3fm where she expanded and formalized community and education initiatives for the Newark-based public radio station. Initially coming to Newark for study at the Rutgers - Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA), Vicki completed her MPA in 2012 with a concentration in non-profit administration and a capstone thesis on marketing in the public sector. At SPAA, Vicki met Pat Kettenring, founder of GlassRoots, a nonprofit glass blowing studio in Downtown Newark using glass arts as a tool for youth and professional development. In 2016, Vicki joined the GlassRoots Board of Trustees and served through 2019. As a lifetime Girl Scout, Vicki volunteers with the Newark Girl Scouts and aims to complete 5 murals with a team of dedicated Newark organizations in honor of a project started by the Girl Scouts and Newark icon and IEL alumnus, Rodney Gilbert, before the end of 2020. Vicki earned her BA at Ramapo College of NJ where she majored in Communications and Fine Arts and minored in Political Science.

Vijay Atluri

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Information Technology and Analytics

Weiwei Chen

Job Titles:
  • Director, MBA Full Time & Part Time

William Gunn

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Chief Procurement Officer, Consumer Group, Johnson & Johnson ( Executive Board )

Xin Ding

Job Titles:
  • Director, Master of Science in Healthcare Analytics and Intelligence

Yaw Mensah

Job Titles:
  • Interim Administrative Head of International Programs / Executive Education