ACADEMICS - Key Persons
Job Titles:
- Assistant
- Executive
- Lecturer
Dean Lewis has over 15 years of executive level experience in investment banking M&A transactions. He led cross-border transactions for Lloyds Merchant Bank, New Zealand and the International Finance Corporation (a member of the World Bank Group). He served as advisor for two years to the New Zealand Minister of Finance, Sir Roger Douglas during New Zealand's major economic reforms.
For the last 20 years he entreprenerd biopharma companies, starting as a co-founder of IOMAI Corporation, a successful Maryland biotech company (exit value: $189m), and then, as CEO/CFO, managed the University City Science Center, Philadelphia, the oldest and largest U.S. urban science park and biotech incubator. For the past seven years he has worked internationally guiding and advising biopharmaceutical commercialization for the City of Incheon, Korea; BADIR, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; Rhone-Alps Incubators, Lyon, France; National University of Singapore, Singapore; and Wallonia Science Parks, Belgium. He recently completed assisting the formation of a Dallas Texas based telemedicine company, now trading with over a $30 million valuation.
From 2005 - 2011 he served as Trustee for the International Institute of Tropical Agriculture, Ibadan, Nigeria, the largest not-for-profit agriculture research center in Africa devoted to crops to alleviate hunger in remote arid regions south of the Sahara.
Mr. Lewis holds an MA in agricultural economic development from Leeds University, England; a BA in economics from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; and a certificate from Stanford University in Finance, a Program for Management Development (executive education). He is married and a citizen of the United States and New Zealand and lives in Carbondale, Illinois.
He is a faculty member of SIU College of Business Administration and Analytics. He is also a member of the Adjunct Faculty at Georgetown University, teaching Entrepreneurial Biotechnology. He authored a personal, fun little historical book: Cold War Germany [ISBN-13 978-1718040519].
Job Titles:
- Second - Generation Plant Pathologist
Dr. Bond resides in Marion, Illinois with her husband, Dr. Jason Bond who is a Professor at SIUC. Jason is a second-generation plant pathologist, and his research program at SIUC focuses on the management of corn and soybean diseases.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor of Agricultural
- Associate Professor, Agriculture Economics
Dr. Jebaraj Asirvatham (Jeb) is Associate Professor of Agricultural and Applied Economics in the Department of Agribusiness Economics. He received his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics in 2011 from the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. Prior to joining SIU, Dr. Jeb worked as an Instructor and as a post-doctoral research associate in the University of Arkansas, Fayetteville. His primary research interests are Consumer Economics, Health Economics, and Nutrition and Health Behavior. Currently, he is researching causal effects of school food environment and peers on childhood obesity. He has received two international awards.
Asirvatham, Jebaraj and Paul McNamara. Consumer heterogeneity in sugar consumption with special reference to fat and cholesterol intake. International Journal of Food Sciences and Nutrition (2017), 69(1), 108-116.
Job Titles:
- Clinical Associate Professor
Greg Hoffeditz holds a Ph.D. in Human Resource Education, with a focus on Human Resource Development and Organizational Development, from the University of Illinois; MA in Management from Webster University; and BS in Law Enforcement Administration from Western Illinois University.
He has taught management, human resource management, organizational behavior, leadership, training and development, and team building courses as an adjunct at several colleges and universities across the country while serving in the United States Air Force. Dr. Hoffeditz has also been a lead facilitator for the YMCA of Southwest Illinois' corporate Team Challenge program. His research has centered on the influence personal situations have on the career transition of retiring military members. He is the deputy commander for cadets for the Civil Air Patrol's Scott Composite Squadron, and the 2012 and 2013 Illinois Wing Public Affairs Officer of the Year. Dr. Hoffeditz has been a lecturer at SIU since 2010. He was named the 2012 Term Faculty of the Year for the College of Business.
Job Titles:
- Associate Professor
- Associate Professor of Operations Management at Southern Illinois University
Greg DeYong is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale, Illinois. In addition to over 15 years of industrial experience in purchasing, scheduling, ERP systems and factory management.
Dr. DeYong holds a degree in Chemistry, an MBA, and a Master's degree and PhD in Operations Management. He has published research articles in journals including Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Engineering. He has also conducted numerous research presentations at academic conferences.
Job Titles:
- Instructor
- Member of the Agricultural Systems and Education Faculty Team
Dr. Heavner is from Valmeyer, Illinois. He completed his B.S. at Western Illinois University in Macomb. Howard completed both his Masters and Ph.D. at Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. He taught high school agriculture at Valmeyer for 33 years.
After retiring from teaching in 2015, he returned to SIU and earned his Ph.D. in 2018. Dr, Heavner served as the president of the Illinois Association of Vocational Agriculture Teachers in 2010. He has been working as an instructor of Agricultural Education at SIU since 2016. Dr. Heavner has served as the parliamentarian of the Illinois FFA Convention since 2017.
Job Titles:
- Director, School of Agricultural Sciences
Dr. Altman grew up on a mixed, grain and beef, farm in Saskatchewan, Canada. He attended the University of Saskatchewan and received a BA (Double Honors) in Economics and Political Science and an MSc in Agricultural Economics. He completed his Phd at the University of Missouri in Agricultural Economics in 2005. He is married with two sons.
Altman, Ira. and Amy McMorrow Hunter. The Employment and Income Effects of Cleaner Coal: the Case of FutureGen and Rural Illinois. Journal of Clean Technologies and Environmental Policy. In Press. November 2014.
Job Titles:
- Interim Director of the School of Management and Marketing and Associate Professor
Dr. Goodale, a native of southern Michigan, joined the SIU College of Business and Analytics in Fall 2009. Noting the quality of potential peers, Dr. Goodale was sold on the College of Business, "I was attracted to SIU and the Management Department because of the faculty. I feel fortunate to be working in a department with such dedicated and successful scholars."
Dr. Goodale's research is focused on scheduling and quality in service operations. He has published research papers in the Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, European Journal of Operational Research, Decision Sciences, and other journals. He teaches courses in Operations Management.
Dr. Goodale has been serving on the Editorial Review Board for the Journal of Operations Management since 2012, and joined the Editorial Board for Decision Sciences in 2020. In addition, Dr. Goodale has been an active member of the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), Decision Sciences Institute, and INFORMS. Among the responsibilities that he has had with these organizations, Dr. Goodale was the Program and Proceedings Editor for the POMS 2008 National Conference, a member of the Organizing Committee for the POMS 2006 College of Service Operations Conference, a track chair for the POMS 2003 National Conference, co-chair of the Technical Program Committee for the POMS-Brazil 2001 International Conference, and the Proceedings Editor of the Midwest Decision Sciences Institute's 1997 Annual Conference.
Dr. Goodale completed his B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Michigan State University, and earned his M.B.A. and Ph.D. at the University of Utah.
Professor Nelson joined the College of Business faculty in 2005. She was the Director the Partnership for Innovation Center for 3 years and has developed and presented a "one of a kind" hands-on MBA Innovation Course coupled with Engineering College capstone project courses.
Nelson came to SIU from The Fisher College of Business at The Ohio State University, where she was an associate professor and director of the Center for Information Technologies in Management. She built a research center from scratch in four months while teaching and performing research on a National Science Foundation CAREER Grant.
Nelson also created, managed, and co-sponsored the first Central Ohio CIO Symposium with the Columbus Technology Council (CTC). Attendance by CIOs in 2003 was 162. This is now known as CIOhio and is one of the largest and most respected CIO symposiums in the US with 2006 registration in excess of 250.
Nelson's teaching interests are graduate, executive, or undergraduate courses in Software Architecture and Metrics, Software Engineering, Innovation and Technology Management, and all general MIS courses. "My criteria for teaching success is how successful my alumni are and how long-term I keep relationships with them," she said.
Born and raised in the Milwaukee area, Nelson holds a bachelor's degree from The University of Wisconsin, Green Bay, a master of science from Hampton University and a doctorate in management information systems from The University of Texas at Austin.
Dr. Mek sem joined the Department of Plant, Soil, and Agricultural Systems at SIU as an Assistant Professor from 2000 to 2005, then as Associ ate Professor from 2005 to 2008, and was promoted to full Professor in 2009. He published more than 60 refereed manuscripts, 3 book chapters; Dr. Meksem edited 3 books and was awarded 4 patents on his work on disease resistance genes in potato and soybean. He serves as an editor and ad hoc reviewer for a number of international scientific journals as well as for national, federal and international granting agencies.
Jürgen Paal, Heike Henselewski, Jost Muth, Khalid Meksem, Cristina M. Menéndez, Francesco Salamini, Agim Ballvora, Christiane Gebhardt (2004) Molecular cloning of the potato Gro1-4 gene conferring resistance to pathotype Ro1 of the root cyst nematode Globodera rostochiensis, based on a candidate gene approach The Plant Journal 38:285-97
Dr. Joseph is a graduate of the Southern Illinois University Carbondale, M.S. Agribusiness Economics/M.B.A. program and earned his Ph.D. in Agricultural and Applied Economics from the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign in 2014.
Dr. Joseph's work experience includes marketing, commodity brokerage, and several years of teaching and applied economic research in academia.
Job Titles:
- Member of the Agricultural Systems and Education Faculty Team
Job Titles:
- Member of the Agricultural Systems and Education Faculty Team
Job Titles:
- Assistant Professor of Practice
Dr. Sarah Bond is certainly no stranger to Illinois Agriculture. Born and raised in east central Illinois, Iroquois County, she was actively involved in 4-H for 12 years and the FFA for 6 years. Dr. Bond attributes a great deal of her educational and leadership success to the opportunities in agriculture and these organizations.
Serving as the State FFA Secretary-Treasurer in 1991-92 allowed Dr. Bond to travel the state speaking with high school students, business leaders and educational institutions regarding the importance of American Agriculture and Agriculture Education. Interning at the Illinois Farm Bureau during the summer of 1993, for the Young People's Division, instilled her passion for working alongside Illinois Farm Bureau.
She completed her Bachelor of Science in Agribusiness Economics, Master of Science in Agricultural Education and Mechanization and her PhD in Workforce Education and Development, specializing in Education, Training and Development, all from Southern Illinois University Carbondale. Additionally, Dr. Bond has earned a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Strategic Management with a Leadership Concentration from Oakland City University.
Ye Dai joined the College of Business in the fall of 2012 as an assistant professor of management. He received his Ph.D. in management from The University of Texas at Austin, his M.A. in international political economy and development from Fordham University, and his B.A. in international business and communication from Nanjing University in China.
His research focuses on strategic decision making and venture creation activities of startup firms.
He is of Chinese nationality. His favorite hobby is classical piano and baroque violin music and Chinese calligraphy.