Bernard Brookes, PhD, MBA
Leading Global Strategy and Innovation
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Dr Bernard Brookes is a member of the LGE faculty and teaches Leading Global Strategy and Innovation in the Center for Leadership in Global Enterprise at McDaniel College. Dr. Brookes is a Leadership Coach and Consultant to Adventist Healthcare and other organizations, and a Financial Coach and Trainer with Primerica Financial Services. He is a former Professor and Leadership Coach with the Graduate School of Management & Technology at University of Maryland, University College. He co-founded and ran his own business with over 100 employees for over 15 years. Prior to working independently, He was affiliated with Harvard Medical School and McLean Hospital as a Clinical Fellow in Psychology, an Instructor in Psychology, and a Clinical Unit Director at Bridgewater State Hospital in Massachusetts. He is interested in leadership, particularly in relation to human development over the life cycle, creativity, culture, values, and spirituality. In workshops and presentations, he stimulates participants to think about positive and creative ways of dealing with identity, individual and group differences, and with achieving organizational mission and goals. He enjoys writing and performing music, lyrics and poetry with jazz/gospel music groups and in church. He has a Master’s Degree in Business Administration and a doctorate in Psychology from Boston University; and a Bachelor’s Degree in Music from Berklee College.
Philip Vos Fellman
Global Financial Strategy and Uncertainty
Dr. Fellman is professor of International Business Strategy at Southern New Hampshire University. Prior to coming to SNHU, he taught at Dartmouth College, Cornell University and Yale University. He has also been a visiting scholar at Stanford University, Harvard University and Cornell Law School. Dr. Fellman is widely published in the fields of international business strategy, mathematical economics, network dynamics, non-linear dynamical systems modeling and complexity science. His most recent work has appeared in “Global Business and Organizational Excellence” (Winter 2007), “Effective Executive” (Summer 2008), “O Tempo Das Redes” (The Time of Networks, ed. Fabio Duarte, relativa.com.br, Brazil, 2008), and “Unifying Themes in Complex Systems” VI (Ed. Yaneer Bar-Yam, 2009). He is currently in press with a number of publications for Springer Verlag and Inderscience. Dr. Fellman's principal interest is in applications of complexity science to the problems of strategy and organization. He is an advisory board member of RPIC and vice president and director of Rose Community Development Corporation. Dr. Fellman received his PhD and MA from Cornell and his MBA from the Yale School of Management.
Sharan Jagpal
Global Marketing and Operations
Dr. Jagpal is professor of Marketing at Rutgers Business School and president of Strategic Management & Marketing Consultants. He has taught MBA and PhD courses at many universities in the U.S. and abroad, including Columbia, the International University of Japan and McGill in Canada. He has served as an expert witness in marketing and consulted to major corporations as well as the U.S. government. Dr. Jagpal brought marketing and finance together in his most recent book Fusion for Profit (2008). Dr. Jagpal's book, Marketing Strategy and Uncertainty (1999), was described as "pioneering" by Harry Markowitz, Nobel laureate and inventor of modern portfolio theory. Professor Jagpal has published widely in professional journals and serves on several editorial boards, including The Journal of Leadership in Global Enterprise at McDaniel College. He earned his MBA and PhD from Columbia University and his BSc from The London School of Economics.
Vibhuti Jha
Leading Global Marketing and Entrepreneurship
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Mr. Vibhuti Jha is the Managing Director of International Business for the Human Potential Project. He brings a vast amount of experience in the financial sector and rounds out the broad level of competence on the HP2 management team. Prior to joining HP2, Vibhuti was a senior officer with American Express Bank International. His responsibilities included developing and implementing an investment/deposit program for expatriate Indians living in the US to invest in India and developing and expanding Indo-US business relationships. He developed a team of professionals to achieve the desired objective, and in three years he and his team succeeded in developing business of over $500 million in retail programs for the Bank. He has been an International Banker covering almost all areas of corporate and private banking consultancy and execution of services to clients all over the world.
With this experience, Vibhuti assumed the job of international development for HP2 with a particular focus on the emerging Indian market. His unique experience in India provides a keen insight and access to key markets and players in this increasingly prominent market. Vibhuti also brings a unique perspective to the growth and development of the firm. His ongoing commitment and creativity have enabled the company to see a host of new possibilities and his levelheaded approach to business has proven extremely valuable.
Vibhuti was a faculty member in the MBA program at Fordham University in New York, teaching classes on innovation. Vibhuti teaches Leading Global Marketing and Entrepreneurship in the LGE certificate program at McDaniel College.
Vibhuti is a sought after speaker at international business events, serves on a host of international advisory committees and contributes to two different international business development think tanks.
Mr. Jha has earned a masters degree in economics from the Gokhale Institute of Politics & Economics at Poona University, India and post graduate work in International Management at the IMI, India
Jon-David Wesley Knode
Leading Global Marketing and Entrepreneurship
Dr. Knode is an assistant professor of Business at Methodist University in North Carolina, and an associate faculty member of Emerging Technology at Johns Hopkins University. He is also the chief executive officer of Intelligent Agent Research and Development Corporation founded in 2000. He has published and presented research in several areas related to emerging technologies—artificial intelligence, e-commerce, Web 2.0 and social media—investigating the roll of these technologies in education, business, government, and culture. Dr. Knode received his doctorate in Digital Communications Design, with a research area in artificial intelligence and a specialization in teaching applications, from the School of Information Arts and Technologies at the University of Baltimore. His research relates to the design, development, and deployment of social media and intelligent applications. He also earned an MBA (Consumer Behavior) and BS (Business Administration) from Salisbury University.
Martín Krause
Leading Global Finance and Operations
Dr. Krause is Professor of Economics at the Law School, University of Buenos Aires. He is also a professor of Institutional Economics and Business Economics and at the ESEADE Graduate School (Escuela Superior de Economía y Administración de Empresas, www.eseade.edu.ar) where he is also the Director of the Research Market Institute. Dr. Krause was the Secretary of Trade and the Commercial Secretary for Expert Promotion for Argentina from 1978-1982. He has been awarded the Eisenhower Exchange Fellowships (www.eef.org) in 1993 and the Freedom Project from the John Templeton Foundation in 1999 and 2000. He has participated as a speaker and lecturer in many seminars and conferences particularly in America and as an international observer to elections in many countries in the world. He is a member of the Mont Pelerin Society
He has published several books on economics, business ethics, and law and economics: Por el Ojo de una Aguja; Ética, negocios y dinero en el mundo de hoy, Análisis Económico del Derecho: Aplicación a Fallos Judiciales, Economía para emprendedores, El cuento de la Economía, En Defensa de los Más Necesitados y Proyectos por una Sociedad Abierta (together with Alberto Benegas Lynch Jr and Democracia Directa (together with Margarita Molteni), chapters in books and many articles in academic journals and magazines and newspapers all over Latin America.
Professor Krause earned his PhD. in Management Sciences from Universidad Católica de La Plata where he graduated in 1978. Since then he has been involved mainly in academic and consulting activities related to economics.
Dave Legats
Global Strategy and Innovation
Mr. Legats is a vice president and training manager with the JPMorgan Chase Career Development group where he provides facilitation for the Corporate Development Program and the JPMorgan Investment Bank’s Management Development Program focusing on strategic thinking, decision making and cultural intelligence. He is a human resource learning professional with over 15 years experience in facilitation, consulting, and organization development, and interpersonal and strategic leadership training. His strengths include executive coaching, program development and leading in a global environment. Prior to joining JPMorgan Chase, he spent several years managing luxury hotel properties in Fort Worth, Texas and at Walt Disney World Florida. Mr. Legats holds a master’s degree in Organization Communication from The University of Akron. He has a long list of leadership, diversity and organization development training certifications.
John H. Saunders
IT Security and Knowledge Management
Dr. Saunders is director of the Center for Information Assurance and professor at the National Defense University (NDU) where he has taught senior level military officers and civilians since 1988. Prior to NDU, he taught for NATO in Europe for two years and spent 15 years as a corporate controller and IT manager in the private sector. He has consulted with the speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives, the chief of staff of the U.S. Air Force, and the office of the Secretary of Defense. His areas of expertise include emerging technology, decision support, artificial intelligence, system dynamics, and SCADA security. He is a frequent speaker at national and international conferences and has written dozens of published papers. His PhD is in Information and Decision Systems from George Washington University. He holds the Gold GIAC Information Assurance Certification, is a certified knowledge engineer, and certified data processor.
Camille Schuster
Global Cultural Perspectives
Dr. Schuster is professor of Marketing at California State University San Marcos and president of Global Collaborations, Inc. She is chair of The Global Marketing Special Interest Group for the American Marketing Association. She also has served on the executive committee of the Southern Ohio District Export Council, and has held membership the International Visitors Center of Greater Cincinnati, the World Affairs Council of Greater Cincinnati, and as a trustee of the Sister City Association of Cincinnati. Her research has been published in many professional journals and she has worked with companies in more than 25 countries. Dr. Schuster received her Ph.D. from Ohio State University.
Carter Waddell
Global Finance and Operations
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Carter served as senior vice president in corporate banking at Chevy Chase Bank in Washington, DC responsible for developing business with government contractors. Mr. Waddell was a senior vice president with JPMorgan Chase in Phoenix, Arizona directing foreign multinational banking for Chase in the U.S. southwest. Carter spent 20 years with SunTrust Bank and served as the General Manager of the International Division. He travelled with four Virginia Governors on state of Virginia trade missions and covered Asia, the Middle East, and Canada for his former bank over an 18 year period.
Carter has served on the Virginia Chamber of Commerce; the Bankers Association for Finance and Trade; the US Department of Commerce’s Arizona District Export Council; the Japan American Society of Georgia; the World Trade Center of Atlanta; most recently serving as At-Large Member of Arizona Governor Napolitano’s CANAMEX Task Force, and as a board of director of the British American Business Council of Arizona. Carter earned an M.B.A. from the University of Richmond and a BA in Managerial Economics from Hampden-Sydney College also attending the American Bankers Association School for International and the Center for International Banking Studies. A frequent lecturer on international trade and global banking, Carter was an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond and Virginia Commonwealth University.
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