RUTGERS BUSINESS SCHOOL EXECUTIVE EDUCATION - Key Persons


Ajai Gaur

Job Titles:
  • Acting Chair, Management & Global

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

Alka Agrawal

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Owner / COO of EBC Radio
Alka is the owner/COO of EBC Radio. She has been an integral part of creating and growing EBC, the first all Indian commercial radio station in the tristate area, from scratch. Serving as a team leader in business development, marketing and public relations, she has excelled in building a listener ship to an estimated 500,000 people within the area. She brought EBC Radio to be recognized by Arbitron rating. Alka Agrawal has been elected onto the Board of Directors in the Asian Indian Chambers of Commerce for the last 12 years. She is also serving as the Advisory board member of United Way of Central Jersey and SKN Foundation. Her vision is to make sure to pass on Indian culture and heritage to next generations through our EBC radio.

Andrea Cunnell

Job Titles:
  • Director of Alumni and Corporate Engagement

Andrea Pini

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

Anthony High

Job Titles:
  • President of Special Ops Security
Anthony High, President of Special Ops Security firm, is a retired New Jersey State Senior Corrections Officer who spent nearly 20 years in the business and has received several medals for his heroic participation while on duty. In June of 2006, after being retired for a year, Anthony started Special Ops Security. As president, Anthony is charged with developing the vision and direction of the company. His experience helps individuals grow both personally and professionally, providing them with the tools they need to be successful.

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 )

Beverly White

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • President of the BKW Transformation Group
Beverly White is President of the BKW Transformation Group (BKW). BKW Consulting provides consulting solution in strategy, process, technology and organizational change. BKW is located in Piscataway, New Jersey, and has been an SBDC client since 2013. The company delivers solutions in four core competency areas that link and drive success in business operations in support of cost and redundancy reduction and on time delivery. Beverly's past experience include an executive level at Accenture, LLC Consulting, and a global consulting firm. Her career includes architecting and managing multimillion dollar corporate projects for domestic and international clients, including Australia and South Africa. After leaving Accenture, BKW was formed and has been in business for over 10 years. BKW has won awards and have been published in the Huffington Post, and the sustainability analyst report publication, Verdantixin London. BKW was a finalist in the Ernst and Young Winning Women's Program. Beverly has a Master's degree in Business from the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville and is a graduate of the Executive Education Program for business owners at Dartmouth University, in New Hampshire.

Carla Cefalo

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Carla is a Division Head of the Middlesex County Department of Business Development & Education and also a President of Highlands Business Partnership Inc. She has 20 years of senior management experience within state-of-the-art computer technology corporations, small businesses, government, and non-profit organizations. A self-motivated leader with a talent for innovative solutions and consensus building, using demonstrated organizational, communications, and management skills. Talents and accomplishments in the fields of Economic Development, Organizational Development, Non-Profit Management, Marketing, Event Planning, Fundraising and Special Improvement Districts.

Carla Varino

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

Chan Choi

Job Titles:
  • Interim Chair, 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

Dean, Rutgers

Job Titles:
  • Ex Officio

Deidre Walker

Job Titles:
  • Human Resources Manager

Dijha Allen

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Undergraduate Staff Member

Dilip K. Sadh

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • President of Kabeer Consulting Inc
Dilip is the president of Kabeer Consulting Inc. Dilip was an Associate Partner at IBM in the USA and also worked as Sr. Director with Accenture and Capegmini in USA. He has total of 16 years of experience in SAP implementation across the globe. Dilip is a professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP) for MBA. He is a chairman of IT panel for MSME appointed by the government of India. He has been a visiting faculty to various universities across the globe like Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Rutgers's University, North Eastern, IUP, IIT Delhi, and other US and Indian universities. He has written several papers on Supply Chain Management topics and provided business process improvement consulting to more than 400 clients across the globe.

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

Doug Miller

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean, Full - Time and Part - Time

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

Eduardo Perez

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

Edward Garber

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Mr. Garber's specialty is personal and small business tax preparation. Ed has owned a tax practice in Edison since 1994. He has been giving tax seminars "Taxes Made Simple…..and Fun!" at several Chambers of Commerce and on New York Radio. Ed is affiliated with Chambers of Commerce of the State of New Jersey, Middlesex County and townships of Edison. Ed is also an avid supporter of charitable organizations such as Toys for Tots, American Breast Cancer Society and Make a Wish Foundation.

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

Gary Chropuvka

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Board of Advisors - 2009

Gary Minkoff - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board
Gary serves as a full-time Instructor of Professional Practice at Rutgers Business School, where he shares extensive experience in 4 key economic sectors: private, not-for-profit, education and public. Gary is co-founder and COO of Pre-D Partners, a startup dietary supplement company; he is also co-founder and principal of BioDev, a life sciences technology strategy, licensing and development company. Before founding his company, Above & Beyond Marketing, Gary worked as a financial advisor at Smith Barney, later Merrill Lynch, where he provided investment strategy and portfolio management advice. His career in the finance industry started with Citicorp's (now Citigroup) Investment Bank Operations Management Training Program, working in Municipal and Corporate Finance, as well as Sales and Marketing Operations. As a professional consultant, Gary worked with a range of major corporations on large-scale marketing and technology projects. From January 2012-January 2014, Mr. Minkoff served as the Mayor of Highland Park, NJ- a community of 14,000 people. From 2002, he was a member of the Borough Council; his roles included Chairing the Governing Body's Finance, Economic Development and Public Works Committees. Gary earned his MBA as a Magna Cum Laude graduate of the F.W. Olin Graduate School of Business at Babson College and his undergraduate degree from Rutgers School of Communication and Information.

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

Helen Pensavalle

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Department Administrator and Study Abroad Advisor, Special Programs Office

Irfan Bora

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

Ivan Brick

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Accounting & Information Systems

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

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 ...

Joe Schaffer

Job Titles:
  • Executive - in - Residence

John Muth

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Sophomore Advisor

Karen High - COO

Job Titles:
  • Director of Operations
Karen High, Director of Operations, started her career in 1989 in the Insurance industry as a receptionist. During her 22 years in the field she held various positions ranging from Claims Examiner, Commercial Lines Policy Rater, Licensed Insurance Agent, and Personal Lines Underwriter where she developed her risk management skills. As Director of Operations, Karen is responsible for planning, developing, organizing, implementing, directing and evaluating the organization's administration functions and performance.

Kathleen Wagner

Job Titles:
  • Program Administrator

Kerstin Schnatter

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

Kevin J. Kurdziel

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Development Director for Middlesex County
Kevin Kurdziel, Workforce Development Director for Middlesex County, oversees the County's Workforce Investment Board (WIB), designed to provide leadership and direction to mobilize all workforce innovation. Kevin Kurdziel has more than 26 years of experience in social services, workforce development, and prisoner reentry services in both the public and private sectors. He served on Newark Mayor Cory Booker's Prisoner Reentry Planning committee and on the Essex County One Stop Committee. Kevin facilitated workshops for the International Community Corrections Association, and United States Department of Labor, Employment and Training Administration. Kevin is the vice chairman of the Middlesex County Human Services Advisory Council and a member of the Council for Children's Services. In addition, Kevin was a past Chairman of the Finance Committee for the Township of Manalapan, New Jersey. Kevin is a graduate of Medaille College, Buffalo, New York with a Bachelor of Science in Media Communications and Thomas Edison Sate College, Trenton, New Jersey with a Master's of Science, Management.

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

Leidy Garcia-Cosbert

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Sophomore Advisor

Lian Qi

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Supply Chain Management

Lin Williams

Job Titles:
  • Senior Advisor
  • Undergraduate Staff Member

Lisa Winkler

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Lisa has over twenty-five years of experience as an account executive, career coach, motivational speaker and talent acquisition professional. Since 2008, she owns D.I.G Invested, LLC, a recruiting firm launched with the goal of successfully partnering large companies and top candidates to achieve individual career and corporate goals for long-term success. Lisa conducted at Rutgers University Cook College, Big Brothers Big Sisters of Monmouth & Middlesex Counties within their AT & T Corporate program, and the Institute of Food Technology where she is a member since 2006. Lisa actively participates in the array of organizations such as the Neighborhood Preservation Redevelopment Program Planning Committee for the City of South Amboy, working in partnership with the State of New Jersey Department of Community Affairs, a pilot program to revitalize the Individual Education Plan (IEP) for the State of New Jersey Department of Education, Old Bridge-based non-profit charity Christmas Fund for Needy Children and eWomen Network Central Jersey Chapter.

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

Luke Greeley

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

Madhavi Chakrabarty

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

Melba Blanco

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

Melissa Rivera

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Administration and Finance

Melissa Stone

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

Michael Katehakis

Job Titles:
  • Chairman, Management Science & Information Systems

Miklos Vasarhelyi

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

Morris A. Davis

Job Titles:
  • Professor and Paul V. Profeta Chair in Real Estate
Professor Morris A. Davis is the Paul V. Profeta Chair of Real Estate and the Academic Director of the Center for Real Estate Studies at the Rutgers Business School. Previously, Davis was the James A. Graaskamp Chair of Real Estate in the Department of Real Estate at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and was the Academic Director of the James A. Graaskamp Center for Real Estate. Dr. Davis is an Adjunct Scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, is a Senior Scholar of the Opportunity and Inclusive Growth Institute of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis and is an independent director of the AGNC Investment Corp. (ticker: AGNC) mortgage REIT. Earlier in his career, Dr. Davis was an economist at the Federal Reserve Board where he routinely briefed Alan Greenspan on housing and macroeconomics. Dr. Davis is widely published on issues related to the U.S. housing markets and has developed price indexes for land in residential use. Davis is regularly interviewed by NPR Marketplace, Bloomberg Radio, the Wall Street Journal, ...

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

Ms. Elayne P. McClaine

Job Titles:
  • NJSBDC NB Regional Director
  • Regional Director for the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Rutgers Business School - New Brunswick
Ms. Elayne P. McClaine is the Regional Director for the New Jersey Small Business Development Center at Rutgers Business School-New Brunswick. She has previously served as Assistant Director of the Essex County NJSBDC at Newark. She has provided workshops and seminars such as Business Planning & Strategic Planning; Business Financial Management; Market Research; Strategic Selling; Commercial Valuation; Franchise Growth Plans, Marketing/Business Plan/Business Valuation & Franchising. She is a licensed Broker and certified Business Planning Advisor. Ms. McClaine has an MBA-Finance from Regis University and a BA-Economics from Fordham University.

Nadia Khokhar

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Junior Advisor ( a through L )

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

Parag Nevatia

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
After a successful Commercial Banking and Lending career in the NJ/NY region, Mr. Nevatia started EZ Funding Solutions, LLC with a vision and desire to improve the quality of business credit in the market. Being NAGGL (National Association of Government Guaranteed Lenders - in other words SBA) Certified, he has the advantage of performing a risk analysis, developing creative solutions to overcome obstacles, structuring debt correctly, and then underwriting a loan before presenting it to the RIGHT lender who can finance the project. Mr. Nevatia provides guidance and counseling in Loan Packaging & Lender Scrutiny.

Paul Breitman

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
Owner and Executive Management Consultant of Chance Management Advisors, Inc. (CMA). The firm provides client-focused management consulting with an emphasis on process improvement, operational efficiencies, outsourcing and the RFP and contract process, and measuring and assessing outcomes. Throughout his career, Mr. Breitman worked in various financial, managerial, HR and other higher education administration positions at Princeton University and Rutgers State University of New Jersey.

Peter Chan

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

Peter Methot

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Executive Education / Administration

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. ...

Reginald Johnson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Agent for the Middlesex County's Prosecutor 's Office
  • President of Metuchen - Edison Branch of the National Association
Mr. Johnson is an Agent for the Middlesex County's Prosecutor's Office. He also served as a Director of Programming for the National Conference for Community and Justice (NCCJ), a human relations organization. Currently, Mr. Johnson is the President of Metuchen- Edison Branch of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) He also serves as a Chairman of the Middlesex Co. Cultural & Heritage Commission. Reginald co-founded the Middlesex County Alliance for Justice that focuses on domestic needs in the county including housing, education, employment, drug prevention and treatment centers, affirmative action and investigation on police-brutality grievances. Mr. Johnson has lectured at Rutgers University, Rider College, Widener University, and the National Black MBA Association Conference and Exposition on several topics, including hiring and retaining minority professionals, career planning and race relations.

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

Sarah Orsay

Job Titles:
  • Director of Development

Sharon Ryan Lydon

Job Titles:
  • Associate Dean of Alumni and Corporate Engagement
  • Associate Dean of Alumni and Corporate Engagement / Professor of Professional Practice, Supply Chain Management

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

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

Tom Moore

Job Titles:
  • Undergraduate Staff Member
  • Junior ( M through Z ) and External Transfer Advisor

Tzili Charney

Job Titles:
  • Executive
  • Member of the Board

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, Master of Supply Chain Analytics

William Gunn

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

William Pazmino

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board
  • Executive Director of the Regional Business Assistance Center
William Pazmino is an Executive Director of the Regional Business Assistance Center (RBAC). Native to Columbia, he started his professional life as a physician and later made a career switch to the business management. In the United States, William completed MBA, with a concentration in finance, from Rider University. He joined the RBAC as a loan officer in 2003. As he became an Executive Director, Pazmino developed new credit policies while seeking alternative sources of revenue that would assure that RBAC could continue to carry out its mission to provide much needed financing and training programs to small business owners in New Jersey. Mr. Pazmino made a push to get RBAC certified as a CDC and in the middle of 2007 the U.S. Small Business Administration granted RBAC that designation. RBAC has become the largest CDC in NJ - growing a portfolio valued at over 210 million dollars, with over 300 active clients.

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