SCM - Key Persons
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- Partner, Board of Directors
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- President & Chief Executive Officer, University Hospital
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- Chairman, Management & Global Business
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Professional Accounting
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Assistant Dean of Special Programs & Populations
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Business Administration Minor Advisor
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- Member of the Board
- CFO, Gucci North America ( Executive Board )
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- Member of the Board
- Chairman, Arent Fox ( Executive Board )
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- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
- Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management Director, MS in SCM MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Instructor of Professional Practice, Marketing MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Director and Professor at FAME Center, Cardozo Law School, Yeshiva University
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- Member of the Board
- Retired Executive Compensation Consultant, FW Cook Rutgers Business School Dean 's Advisory Board, Former Trustee of Rutgers University ( Executive Board )
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- Member of Committee
- Program Coordinator, Dean 's Office
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- Chief Procurement Officer, Johnson & Johnson ( Retired )
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- President, Paul V. Profeta & Associates, Inc
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- Global Head Talent Management, Amazon
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- Member of the Board
- SVP of Sales & Planning, Kasper Group ( Executive Board )
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- 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 as Six Sigma Black Belt and Six Sigma trainer.
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- Assistant Dean for Diversity Programs
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Enrollment Manager
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- University Professor, New Brunswick / Rutgers University
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- Co - Founder
- Senior Editor
Dan Grimm is the Distinguished Executive-in-Residence for the Rutgers Institute for Corporate Social Innovation. He serves as an advisor to the Institute on strategic communications, branding and content strategy. For three decades Dan held roles of increasing responsibility at BD (Becton, Dickinson and Company), where prior to retirement he was WW Vice President of Brand and Marketing Communications. Among his achievements at BD he led formative work on brand purpose, customer centricity, brand architecture, and brand activation, each of them topics on which he has lectured academically. Prior to BD he worked for eight years in a creative agency. Dan holds a Master's Degree in Advertising and a Bachelor's Degree in Broadcasting from Southern Illinois University.
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- Professor & Department Chair, William J. Von Minden Chair
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Financial Accounting
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- Executive Director of Communications & Marketing / Student Development
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- Director, Master of Financial Analysis
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- Chairman, Accounting & Information Systems
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- Chairman, Intellectual Property Department
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- Dean Rutgers Business School
- Ex Officio
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- Human Resources Manager, Dean 's Office
- Member of Committee
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Student Counselor ( Study Abroad and External Transfers )
After thirty-seven years with AT&T, Dick Romano retired as Vice President, Government Affairs of AT&T Corp. and President of the Instate Long Distance Companies of the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions. He is currently on the Board of Directors of the New Jersey Insurance Underwriting Association, President of the Board of the Sales Executive Club Foundation of New Jersey, and a member of the Board of Advisors for Rutgers Business School-Newark and New Brunswick. Previously, he spent fifteen years on the Board and four years as Chairman of New Jersey's largest credit union, Affinity Federal Credit Union, and twenty years on the Board of Advisors of KMB Video Journal of Telecommunications Policies and Practices. Mr. Romano holds a BS and MBA from Marquette University and a Graduate Certificate in Marketing from the Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania.
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- Instructor of Marketing MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Assistant General Counsel, US Type 1 Diabetes, Sanofi
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Senior Program Coordinator
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- Program Coordinator
- Undergraduate Staff Member
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Operating Officer, Saint Laurent Americas
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- Member of Committee
- Regional Director - Middlesex County, NJSBDC
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- Assistant Dean, MBA Recruitment - Newark / Secretary - Newark
- Member of Committee
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- Head of the U.S. Corporate Sustainability & Social Impact Function at Novo Nordisk, Inc
Erin Byrne was most recently the Head of the U.S. Corporate Sustainability & Social Impact function at Novo Nordisk, Inc. In that role she led the corporate giving, sustainability, and employee engagement strategies to support the advancement of the company's Purpose and Sustainability aspirations. Being with the company for more than 15 years she held various roles across the enterprise including sales, patient advocacy, business strategy, and Public Affairs. Prior to Novo Nordisk she was with Johnson & Johnson. She is passionate about how businesses can make a positive impact on the world and takes an entrepreneurial approach to identifying opportunities and solving problems through collaboration. She has a Master's in Public Health and a Certificate in Corporate Sustainability from New York University, and an undergraduate degree from Rutgers University.
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- Director, Master of Information Technology and Analytics
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- Director
- Executive
- Finance and Economics & Director, Executive MBA Program
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Assistant Dean for Juniors, Seniors and School to School Transfers / Upperclassmen Advisor
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- CEO of a Private Equity Fund
- CEO of Citigroup Global Markets
- Chairman of the NPL Servicing Company
- Executive Board Member in a Number of Greek Corporates
- Non - Executive Board Member at New Agriculture for New Generation. a Sponsored Entity by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
- Senior Advisor & Managing Director of StormHarbour LLP
George Kofinakos is Senior Advisor & Managing Director of StormHarbour LLP in London. In parallel, he was Chairman of the NPL servicing company Eupraxis SA, which he helped build. Prior to joining StormHarbour back in 2010, George worked in Citigroup in Greece and London for 20 years, holding a number of executive roles (CEO of Citigroup Global Markets, Managing Director of Capital Markets and Banking, Treasurer, Senior Government Banker). In addition, George has been the CEO of a Private Equity Fund in Luxemburg between 2009 and 2013 and an Executive Board member in a number of Greek Corporates.
Currently, apart from his StormHarbour responsibilities, he is:
Non-Executive Board member at New Agriculture for New Generation. A sponsored entity by Stavros Niarchos Foundation.
Non-executive Chairman of the Investment Committee of Sporos Platform. A new initiative of implementation of Circular Economy in South-East Europe SMEs
Distinguished Executive-in-Residence for Rutgers Business School.
Member of the Academic Council of the Athens Graduate Economics & Business University
External Advisor of the Institute of Energy for South-East Europe
Member of the International Propeller Club of the United States.
His experience and clout made him a key presence in the Greek and international media/press. He holds a Bachelors degree in Economics and Statistics from the University of Piraeus and an MBA from 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.
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Undergraduate Intern
Before joining RBS, Hal had a diverse career in auditing, accounting and investing. He served two full terms as a member of the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB) from February 2011 to June 2021. Prior to joining the FASB, Hal was a Greenwich, CT-based partner at Carlson Capital, L.P., an alternative investments firm with operations in the U.S. and Europe. He joined its relative value arbitrage team in 2000 and was a member of the firm's management and investment committees. As a senior portfolio manager, he focused on the financial services industry, including both public and private companies. From 1995 to 2000, Hal was a senior equity analyst initially with KBW, Inc. (formerly Keefe, Bruyette & Woods Inc.), and then with Schroder & Company, Inc. (subsequently acquired by Citigroup Inc.), both based in New York City. From 1993 to 1995, he was Chief Financial Officer for New York-based Nafinsa Securities, Inc., and various other subsidiaries, of Nacional Financiera, SNC, the primary development bank for the Mexican government. Prior to that, he spent 13 years with Ernst & Young, including the firm's National office as well as client-serving roles in New Orleans and New York, where he was a partner in the financial services division.
Hal is serving on our Road to CPA Committee and helping to update our accounting curriculum for the latest CPA exam changes. In addition, Hal is assisting a Ph.D. Accounting student with her dissertation. During the fall 2021 semester, Hal did an excellent presentation at our RBS 29th Annual Conference on PBFEAM.
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- Assistant Dean for Mentoring Programs
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Governmental Accounting
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- Senior Director of Office of Career Management
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- Chairman, President, and CEO, First Wave Bio
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- Director, Master of Accountancy in Taxation
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- Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs & Data Integrity
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- Assistant Dean of Academic Affairs and Assessment
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- Member of the Board
- Senior Vice President, Corporate Controller, PVH ( Executive Board )
Mr. Hanson oversees the operation and investment activities of The Hampshire Companies, LLC and its Funds. Mr. Hanson has over 30 years of real estate investment management and operational experience. Presently, his extracurricular activities include: a Council Member of the New Jersey State Investment Council, which oversees $80 Billion New Jersey State Pension Systems; an Executive- In-Residence and Co-Chair of the Board of Advisors for the Rutgers Center for Real Estate at Rutgers Business School; a Commissioner of the Palisades Interstate Park Commission; and Vice-Chair of the Board of Vermont Law School. Mr. Hanson has a B.A. degree from Hope College and a J.D. degree from Vermont Law School.
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Underclassmen Advisor ( S through Z )
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- Director, Master of Supply Chain Analytics
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- Managing Director, J.P. Morgan Chase & Co
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- Director of Web Governance & Communications, Communications & Marketing
- Member of Committee
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- President and Founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC
Julia Coronado is President and Founder of MacroPolicy Perspectives LLC, an economic research consulting firm based in New York that analyzes the US economy from a global perspective with a focus on financial market linkages and demographic realities. Julia is an Executive in Residence and a blogger for Rutgers Center for Real Estate and a regular commentator on Marketplace. Julia has more than a decade of experience as a financial market economist including serving as Chief Economist for Graham Capital Management and BNP Paribas, and as a Senior Economist at Barclays Capital. After receiving her Ph.D. in Economics from the University of Texas at Austin, Julia worked for the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in Washington D.C. for eight years. She regularly briefed the Board and contributed to the FOMC forecasts, and represented the Federal Reserve at meetings of the OECD's Committee on Financial Markets. Julia has published a number of scholarly articles on issues related to pension finances, social security, and retirement saving adequacy and behavior. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of MTGE Corporation and the Pension Research Council at the Wharton School. She is a member of the Treasury Markets Practices Group and the Economic Advisory Panel of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and a member of the Economic Studies Council at The Brookings Institution.
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- Graduate Academic Advisor, Part - Time MBA Program - New Brunswick
- Member of Committee
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- Member of Committee
- Web Content Strategist, Communications & Marketing
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- Healthcare Consultant / the PharMed Group
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Assistant Dean for Freshmen, Sophomores and Honors / Underclassmen Advisor for RBS Students
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- Member of the Supply Chain Management Team
- Associate Professor of Supply Chain Management MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Member of Committee
- Social Media Manager, Communications & Marketing
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Underclassmen Advisor ( G through L )
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- Member of Committee
- Program Coordinator, MFnA - New Brunswick / Dean
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- Executive
- Member of the Board
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- Chairman, Supply Chain Management
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- Executive MBA Faculty Director of Executive Career Management MSBF Core Faculty Member
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- Assistant Dean / Recruitment
- Assistant Dean, Undergraduate Newark Program
- Member of Committee
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- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program - Newark
- Interim Associate Dean
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- Member of Committee
- Program Coordinator, Analytics and Information Systems - Newark
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- Director
- Director, Lerner Center
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- Assistant Dean, MBA Programs - Newark
- Member of Committee
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Underclassmen Advisor ( a through F )
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- Chairman
- Senior Associate
- Member of Committee
- Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration
Melissa Rivera is the Senior Associate Dean for Finance and Administration for Rutgers Business School - Newark and New Brunswick, a position she has held since August 2019. Reporting to the Dean, she serves as the school's chief financial and administrative officer and is responsible for overseeing and managing all administrative, business, space management, renovation, and facility services, including accounting, finance, and budget.
Rivera received a Ph.D. and a Master of Public Administration from Rutgers University. She serves on various committees and as a board of trustees for a non-profit organization.
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- Member of the Board
- Assistant Corporate Controller, PVH, Advisory Level Board Member
Michael Chlopak is consulting with various organizations since retiring from Citigroup in 2016. This includes serving as an expert witness with law firms on real estate matters, advising a BNY Mellon subsidiary in real estate, and teaching as an adjunct professor at NYU. He is an Advisory Board Member at several universities, including Rutgers Business School, and an investor in start-ups across various industries. Both his BA and MBA degrees are from Rutgers.
At Citigroup, Mr. Chlopak served as a Managing Director in the Institutional Client Group as a global leader in building commercial real estate businesses of > $60 billion global credit lines to a top five League Table market share in the related capital markets enterprises, supported by strong investment-grade credit metrics and ROIs. His responsibilities included managing a team of twelve RE professionals and overseeing credit, risk, and portfolio management. He also led firm-wide assignments in leadership, talent development, and training. Other responsibilities included significant coordination in roles associated with global RE partners in the major market hubs for Mexico/Latin America, Europe, and the Asia-Pacific region. In his spare time, he enjoys tennis, cycling, and skiing, and he and his wife enjoy traveling the world and learning the cultures.
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- Chairman of the Board, Lerner Center / Partner & Chair of Life Sciences Group
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- Chairman, Management Science & Information Systems
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- KPMG Distinguished Professor of Accounting & Information Systems
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- Business Manager, RBS International Program - Newark
- Member of Committee
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- Professor and Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Upperclassmen Advisor ( a through F )
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Underclassmen Advisor ( M through R )
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- Member of the Board
- CEO and Head Designer, Nili Lotan
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- Professor in Clothing and Textiles Department, FIT
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- Associate Dean of Executive Education / Administration
- Associate Dean, Executive Education
- Member of Committee
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- 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. She has served on the Teaching Committee for the Business Policy and Strategy Division at the Academy of Management, the Program Committee for the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division at the Academy of Management and on the All-Academy Program Committee for the annual Academy of Management Conference.
Petra teaches courses in business strategy, international management, and international political economy for undergraduate, graduate, and executive audiences and has developed teaching cases and other teaching materials for these courses. Furthermore, Petra is very involved in teaching and mentoring doctoral students, many of whom have moved on to successful academic careers.
Prior to joining Rutgers in 2004 Petra was on the faculty of the Darden School at the University of Virginia for seven years. She received a Ph.D. with a dual major in Strategy and International Business from the Anderson School at UCLA, a graduate degree in International Economic Policy Research from the Kiel Institute of Works Economics in Kiel, Germany, and a Diplom-Kaufmann (Business) degree from the Technische Universität Berlin in Germany.
Joanne B. Ciulla brings over forty-five years of experience teaching and writing about ethics and delivering ethics programs for business and government agencies worldwide. Before joining the RBS faculty in 2017, she taught at La Salle University, the Wharton School, and the University of Richmond. At Richmond, she was an architect of the Jepson School of Leadership Studies, the first degree-granting liberal arts school of leadership studies in the world. She was a Fulbright Specialist, held the UNESCO Chair in Leadership Studies, and has had visiting appointments in South Africa, The Netherlands, and Australia. An internationally known scholar with a Ph.D. in philosophy, she has received three lifetime achievement awards for her scholarship and a lifetime achievement award for her service to the field of business ethics. Ciulla is a past president of the Society for Business Ethics and the International Society for Business Ethics and Economics. She has given seminars and presented worldwide at such places as the Aspen Institute, The Brookings Institution, and the World Economic Forum. She shares her thoughts on leadership and ethics in this interview on Voice of America. Listen to Interview.
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- Member of the Board
- VP Financial Shared Services, Kering Americas ( Executive Board )
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- Dean
- Senior Associate
- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Associate Dean, Undergraduate Program - New Brunswick
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Upperclassmen Advisor ( G through L )
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- Member of the Board
- President, Meridan Brands ( Executive Board )
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- Director, Master of Supply Chain Management
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- 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
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- Senior Director of Office of Technology & Instructional Service
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- Member of Committee
- Senior Administrative Assistant, RAISED
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- Associate Dean of Alumni and Corporate Engagement
- Member of Committee
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- Associate Director of Enterprise Applications, OTIS
- Member of Committee
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- Member of the Board
- SVP Strategy, Data & Analytics, PVH Supply Chain ( Executive Board )
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- Director, Master of Science in Digital Marketing
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Upperclassmen Advisor ( M through R )
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- Director
- Director, Doctor of Business Administration
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- Member of the Board
- CEO, Escada Americas
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- Undergraduate Staff Member
- Administrative Assistant to the Senior Associate Dean
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- Member of the Board
- Director, Master of Science in Business of Fashion
- Finance and Economics MSBF Core Faculty Member
Thomas M. Gorrie is a senior global advisor and has extensive worldwide healthcare experience. He retired in 2008 from Johnson & Johnson after 35 years. At J&J he held senior positions in research and development, marketing and sales, business development, strategic planning, international, venture capital, health policy, and general management, including the position of Company Group Chairman responsible for a large global medical device business. Prior to his retirement, he was a Corporate Officer and Vice President of Government Affairs and Policy worldwide. Dr. Gorrie received his Bachelor of Arts degree from Rutgers University and his Master and Doctoral degrees in chemistry from Princeton University. He completed post-doctoral studies at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology in Zurich. He was a Senior Fellow of the U.S. Chamber of Commerce and served on the Boards of Duke University, Duke University Health System, the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the Hun School of Princeton, and the British Standards Institute in London. He is currently a Board member of Duke Kunshan University in China and Vail Health in Vail, Colorado. He is an adjunct professor at Rutgers Business School.
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- Chief Operating Officer - Wholesale Banking, Asia Pacific
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- Executive
- Member of the Board
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- Academic Advisor, Undergraduate Student Services - Newark
- Member of Committee
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- Director, Master of Information Technology and Analytics
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- Director, MBA Full Time & Part Time
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- Member of the Board
- Chief Procurement Officer, Consumer Group, Johnson & Johnson ( Executive Board )
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- Director, Master of Science in Healthcare Analytics and Intelligence
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- Interim Administrative Head of International Programs / Executive Education