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Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong, Ph.D.
Dr. Chi Anyansi-Archibong, a professor in the School of Business and
Economics at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, received two international program fellowships in the summer of 2005, the Sasakawa Fellowship and the Exxon Mobile Foundation Fellowship.
The Sasakawa Fellowship provided Anyansi-Archibong the opportunity to participate in the National Faculty Development Institute on "Incorporating Japanese Studies into the Undergraduate Curriculum," June 1 -25 in San Diego, California. The Institute and the Sasakawa Fellowship are made possible by the Nippon Foundation of Tokyo and sponsored by the American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU).
Anyansi-Archibong received the Exxon Mobile Foundation Fellowship to participate in the Council on International Education Exchange (CIEE) 2005 International Faculty Development, which started June 29 and ended July 16. The seminar was held in three cities in India-New Delhi, Hydrebad and Agaar.
Anyansi-Archibong was awarded the fellowships for her continuing program development and commitment to globalizing the graduate and undergraduate curriculum at N.C. A&T. She currently serves as the coordinator for the University Interdisciplinary Global Studies Certificate Program (GSCP).
Mr. Kevin Atkin
Owner of North Valley Wireless Internet Service ( Northern California) North Valley Wireless - Kevin Atkin established his first internet company in 1994 while consulting as a turnaround specialist for mid-size companies in the midst of change. His first dialup customer was an account of 25. Thinking this was the great new way of making money, he went down this path. Now utilizing first rate technology, he's in his second year of growth in the wireless internet business where ISP's are hewn down without the slightest delay. He sees the high-speed internet business as his focus. By utilizing wireless technology, this can be accomplished at a much faster pace. North Valley Wireless, LLC is poised for rapid expansion in all of Northern California. Kevin will take nvwisp.com to the front of the ISP market.
Mr. James A. Beach
James A. Beach joined the faculty of the Institute of International Business in 2002, after a year teaching as part-time visiting Instructor. Before joining Georgia State University, Mr. Beach was the Co-founder and CEO (from 1993 to 2000) of American Computer Experience of Atlanta. During these years, Mr. Beach grew the company with no capital infusion to $12 million in annual revenue in 2000 and to over 60 permanent and 700 temporary employees, operating in 39 states and in three countries. The company became the world's largest technology training company for children, and enjoyed corporate tie-ins with Microsoft, Intel, Lego, NASA, and many others. In 1999, Mr. Beach closed two rounds of venture funding, one for $2.4 million and another for $6.4 million. The Atlanta Business Chronicle recognized the company was one for the fastest growing companies in Georgia for both 1999 and 2000. In 2001, Mr. Beach was selected as one of the "Forty under Forty" most influential citizens by Georgia Trend magazine.
Mr. Beach received his Japanese and Business Administration masters degrees from the University of Hawaii and Japan-America Institute of Management Science, of Honolulu, Hawaii and Tokyo, Japan in December 1992. He specialized in Japanese Financial Systems and was selected to receive the Fujitsu Foundation for International Education Scholarship, was a member of Beta Gamma Sigma, and also was awarded Highest Honors. He has worked for the Japanese government and The Coca-Cola both in Japan and in the United States.
Ms. Sharon K. Bower
Sharon K. Bower believes that encouraging young entrepreneurs helps changes lives.
Her work experience includes teaching, computer programming, bringing a national physical fitness program to the Mid-West, past owner of The Learning Edge—a testing and educational center, and present CEO of yourlife…YourHealth, a wellness consulting business.
From 1987 until 2005 she was Associate Director of the Jefferson Smurfit Center for Entrepreneurial Studies at Saint Louis University. During her tenure there she created the Global Student EntrepreneurSM Awards (GSEA) and served as GSEA Director from 1998 to 2005. Two books were compiled, Student Entrepreneurs: 14 Undergraduate All-Stars Tell Their Stories and Beyond the Lemonade Stand, using GSEA winners as authors. These books are currently in use in college classrooms to teach the lessons of entrepreneurship.
GSEA has been taken over by the Entrepreneur’s Organization (EO), and Sharon is serving in a consultancy role with the program’s transition, and assisting in global growth. EO is a membership organization designed to help business owners from around the world on their path to greater business and personal fulfillment. EO is a global community that enriches members’ lives through dynamic peer-to-peer learning and once-in-a-lifetime experiences.
Sharon has a B.S. in Elementary Education from the University of Missouri and an M.S. in Counseling from Indian University. She has also studied International Business and Anthropology. Her passions are wellness, opera, archeology, hiking, reading, family and friends, and “LIFE in general”.
Dr. Richard Davis, Ph.D .
Dr. Richard Davis was Director, Small Business Institute at CSU, Chico, 1976-2001. The Small Business Institute (SBI) was started under the auspices of the U.S. Small Business Administration to leverage student talent to serve as consultants to small businesses. Between 1976 and 1987, the SBI program at CSU,C worked with over 500 businesses. In 1979 I received a certificate for Meritorious Achievement from the Small Business Administration for my work in the program.
Director, Small Business Development Center 1981-1982. Director, Small Business Development Center 1981-1982. CSU, C was one of the first 10 universities in the nation to have a SBA-sponsored Small Business Development Center. The center was jointly funded by the SBA and the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The purpose of the program was to provide a variety of service, including feasibility analysis and business counseling, to businesses in the university’s service region (12 northern California counties). I acted as interim director in 1981-1982.
Director, Center for Business and Economic Research (CBER), CSU, C. Developed Small Business Management Course at CSU, C.
Senior Expert, International Labor Organization (United Nations). Senior Expert, International Labor Organization (United Nations), Indonesia, 1990-992. I headed a project for developing entrepreneurship programs for alumni of five tertiary educational institutions. The institutions were spread among five different regions of Indonesia. This was a job creation program for alumni who wanted to start their own businesses. My job included identifying institutions to participate in the program, training staff; and with the help of my staff, providing training of trainer programs to enable the institutions to deliver the curriculum and do follow on assessment. The program also included post-training business counseling for the alumni participants in the program, and credit schemes developed with local banks
Dr. Jonathan Deutsch, Ph.D.
Jonathan Deutsch is Assistant Professor and director of the Culinary Management Center in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality at Kingsborough Community College, City University of New York and a fellow of the Institute for Virtual Enterprise, a chancellor's special initiative of CUNY, charged with fostering entrepreneurship education and financial literacy across the nineteen campuses and 400,000 students of the university. He earned his Ph.D. in food studies and food management at New York University and is Secretary of the Association for the Study of Food and Society and education editor of the journal Food, Culture and Society. He has published in such diverse publications as The Journal of Leadership Education, The Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Education, Gastronomica, MNEME: Revista de Humanidades and Food and Foodways, and has contributed to the Oxford Encyclopedia of Food and Drink in America and the Encyclopedia of Food and Culture. He is the editor of Teaching Food , a collection published by the Association for the Study of Food and Society, and is currently co-editing a book on New York City foodways for Columbia University Press. A graduate of Drexel University and the Culinary Institute of America, he has worked in a variety of foodservice settings including product development, catering, institutions, luxury inns, and restaurants, both in the US and abroad. He currently teaches, writes, and consults on food and foodservice, culinary arts and entrepreneurship education.
Mr. Peter Eimer
Peter C. Eimer is an Assistant Professor at D’Youville College, located in Buffalo, New York. In addition to teaching Accounting, Management and Entrepreneurship, he also is the faculty advisor for the Students in Free Enterprise (SIFE) team. In only its third year, the D’Youville SIFE team reached the national semi-finals in 2005.
Mr. Eimer is a CPA and received his MBA from the University of Pittsburgh. He currently serves as Executive Director of the Brothers of Mercy Campus Foundation in addition to his teaching duties. His professional career includes working at KPMG followed by sixteen years in banking where he held various positions of management in areas including product management, marketing, advertising and public relations.
He is currently exploring the area of service-learning while working toward his doctorate. He is also coordinating and expanding SAGE efforts in Upstate New York.
9. Al Konuwa, Ph.D.
In 1981, Dr. Konuwa immigrated to the United States from Liberia, West Africa, where he served as the youngest Deputy Director of Civil Service from 1978-1981 while also teaching at the University of Liberia. He holds a bachelor's degree in economics from the University of Liberia, master's degrees in economics and public administration from California State University at Sacramento and a doctorate degree in public administration with a specialization in public finance and public policy from the University of Southern California. Currently, Dr. Konuwa is the Chair of the Business Department at Butte College.
Butte College SIFE's flagship program from 1997-2000, Youth Entrepreneurship Camps, gave students broad-based opportunities to Learn how to identify and meet market needs and teaches technology, organizational skills, communication and ethics. All participants,
including mentors, had the opportunity to earn one unit of college credit. Mentors were required to maintain correspondence with the children after the completion of the camp.
More than 100 college mentors taught more than 400 children in six northern California cities. At the conclusion of instruction, each student operated a business at fairs, malls or in the stores of one of Butte SIFE's sponsors. In 2001, the program was expanded to Botswana, in conjunction with an effort to establish a SIFE Team at the University of Botswana.
In 2000, Dr. Konuwa was chosen from nearly 100 national entries to receive the Leavey Award for Excellence in Private Enterprise Education and a $7500 cash prize from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge (PA). The Leavey Awards recognize educators for their innovative approach to teaching elementary, junior high school, high school and college students about the free enterprise system.
Ms. Jill Lublin
[From the Web site.] We create Guerrilla Programs for all size companies who want exposure on radio, TV or print but don't have the know-how to navigate the maze of media relations that are necessary to get it. Who want a media presence that will enlarge their clientele far more than paid advertising could. Who want Guerrilla Training to look like the big boys, but don't want to break the budget doing it.
Who want greater impact and influence, and strong message delivery.
Who want to be seen and heard in the media but do not have the time or resources to get there.
[From Curt DeBerg.] I am pleased that Jill Lublin has joined the SAGE United States Advisory Board. She epitomizes the meaning of 'social entrepreneur'--she seeks profits through her entrepreneurial ventures while simultaneously giving back to the community through her expertise and mentorship. She will be an excellent board member and an exemplary role model for youth around the USA, and the world," said Dr. Curtis L.
DeBerg, SAGE founder and professor at California State University, Chico.
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Ms. Rebecca Masisak
Rebecca Masisak is Vice President and General Manager of TechSoup Stock, a social enterprise of CompuMentor, a nonprofit assisting other nonprofits and non-governmental organizations with the intelligent adoption of technology. Rebecca joined CompuMentor in 2001 to launch the TechSoup Stock product donation service which under her management has distributed more than 1.5 million donated and specially discounted technology products to date.
Rebecca brought to CompuMentor extensive general management experience and an appreciation for the needs of nonprofit organizations, particularly around technology. After being the founder and the Senior Vice President for an Internet Service Provider that grew from scratch to serve over 350,000 customers in 1.5 years as well as a management consultant with Coopers & Lybrand for 9 years, Rebecca joined CompuMentor in her search of a still more challenging role. Rebecca had formerly been the Treasurer and board member of one of the oldest arts education nonprofits in the Bay Area, The Performing Arts Workshop. Experience in under-resourced for-profit startups and small businesses has come in handy in understanding the challenges of managing in the nonprofit world. Rebecca welcomes opportunities to learn about the important work of the nonprofits served through TechSoup Stock, and occasionally finds time to speak and share views on the topics of social enterprise and customer relationship management. In 2002, she led her team's creation of a business plan for TechSoup Stock that won a first place grand prize in the Yale School of Management, Goldman Sachs, Pew Charitable Trust's social venture business planning competition, among over 650 entries nationwide. Any spare time left, she spends skiing, studying languages and traveling while preparing for a future life in Europe and enjoying live music.
Mr. Adam Rabiner
Adam Rabiner, the New York State Banking Department's Director of Financial Education Programs, develops and implements financial education initiatives throughout New York State. The Department fosters financial education through a variety ways: partnerships; community outreach; a Speakers Bureau; a mentoring program with the NYC Department of Education; its website; and funding promising programs.
Mr. Rabiner has over 10 years of experience in local and state government. Prior to his current position, he worked for New York City's Office of Management and Budget, the Department for the Aging, the Department of Information, Technology, and Telecommunications, and the Human Resources Administration.
Mr. Rabiner has an M.B.A. degree in marketing and finance from the Leonard M. Stern School of Business, New York University. He earned a Master of City and Regional Planning from the Edward J. Bloustein School, Rutgers University and a Master of Science in Public Policy and Management at the H. John Heinz School, Carnegie Mellon University. His undergraduate degree is from Dartmouth College where he majored in religion and minored in history.
Mr. Rabiner lives in Brooklyn with his wife Dina and son Elan Miles.
Dr. Stuart A. Schulman, Ed.D.
Dr. Schulman completed the first phase of his academic studies with a Bachelor of Business Administration, concentration in accounting, from The City College of the City University of New York. He went on to earn a Master of Business Administration, concentration in international marketing and management, from New York University. He earned his doctorate in education, concentration in higher education, from George Washington University, 1988.
Dr. Shulman has been serving as the executive director of the Institute for Virtual Enterprise, City University of New York, since 2002. Also, he has been serving as a professor and the Chair, Department of Tourism and Hospitality, Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, 1982 – Present (promoted from adjunct, assistant and associate) Executive Director, Tourism Research Center, Kingsborough Community College. Among his many other roles: Adjunct Professor of Marketing and Management, Institut Superieur De Gestion, 1989 – 1992; Director of Travel and Tourism Continuing Education Programs, Queens College of the City University of New York, 1979 – 1983; President, Celebros Associates, 1978 – Present; President, Schulman/Competielle, Inc„ 1984 – 1993; President, Enculturation, Inc., 1973 – 1978; President, Cahners Travel Group, 1969 – 1973; Executive Vice President and Treasurer, Colonial Penn Group, Inc., 1963 – 1969
With regard to academic research, Dr. Shulman has been a CUNY Distinguished Technology Fellow; Co-PI, Virtual Enterprise: A Mechanism for Entrepreneurship across the Curriculum at Kingsborough Community College, CUNY, Coleman Foundation and United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship; participant, Cluster-Based Entrepreneurship Alliance, Ford Foundation/US Department of Education; Co-PI, Virtual Enterprise: A Model for Entrepreneurship and Life, Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation of Kansas City, Kauffman Collegiate Entrepreneurship Network; and a sub-contractor, Learning through Simulated Information Technology Enterprises, ATE, National Science Foundation
Ms. Marcia Seligson
Marcia Seligson was the Founder and Producing Artistic Director of REPRISE! BROADWAY'S BEST, the twelve year old, nationally acclaimed regional theatre company in Los Angeles that presents revivals of classic American musicals. While there, she produced over thirty shows, staged readings, concerts and other musical events. She left REPRISE! in order to create and become Co-Executive Producer of THE FESTIVAL OF NEW AMERICAN MUSICALS, to be presented for two months throughout Southern California during the spring/summer of 2008.
Marcia studied classical piano with Danish virtuoso Gunnar Johanssen at the University of Wisconsin, graduating Columbia University with a major in music. After graduation she worked for Columbia Records, where she assisted in the production of Original Broadway Cast albums. She also performed for ten years with the renowned Collegiate Chorale in New York.
While enjoying a long career as an award-winning journalist and author, Marcia wrote eight published books, and articles for virtually every major magazine in America. She taught writing at Antioch College, the Women’s Center and the Wellness Community in Los Angeles.
In 1980, Marcia founded and was Executive Producer of a large volunteer organization in Los Angeles dedicated to using the performing arts to mobilize individual and group action to help end world hunger. After several years of producing television specials and live events around the United States, this organization -- The End Hunger Network -- was instrumental in producing the groundbreaking LIVE AID CONCERT, broadcast simultaneously for sixteen hours around the world. The money raised by this event was sufficient to end the devastating famine in Ethiopia.
Marcia is co-producer, with Rodger Hess and EntPro Plays, Inc., of Six Dances Lessons in Six Weeks by Richard Alfieri which ran on Broadway in the Fall of 2003, after a long run at the Geffen Playhouse in L.A. It will soon be made into a film starring Shirley MacLaine and Rupert Everett, and will open in London’s West End in the fall of 2006.
Marcia has been a Board member of Peace Now and Theater L.A.