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Featured Profiles Scholarly Insights represents the following featured senior professors and industry experts from Silicon Valley. For more information or to engage with our world class experts for your organization, please click here or call us at 415-238-4770 today.
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Art Bell, Ph.D. |
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Art Bell holds his Ph.D. in English from Harvard University and is Executive Director of MBA Programs and Professor of Management Communication with the University of San Francisco School of Business and Professional Studies.
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Ray Boggio, PMP, MBA |
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Ray has over 25 years experience in both domestic and international business management, development, consulting, and education. In the 80's Ray was involved in developing and automating bond, derivative, and exotic financial instruments arbitrage tracking models for Merrill Lynch and Security Pacific (later Bank of America) investment banking groups. In the 90's Ray developed and implemented a program which provided 17 graduate level foreign trade education courses throughout the People's Republic of China (PRC). This program was developed in partnership with the PRC's Foreign Experts Bureau and the Ministry of Finance and Economics.
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Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D. |
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Click here to read full biography (Expertise: entrepreneurial management, venture capital) |
Mark V. Cannice, Ph.D. is an internationally recognized scholar, teacher, and speaker on entrepreneurship and venture capital. He is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation and the Founder and Executive Director of the USF Entrepreneurship Program (recognized among the nation’s leading entrepreneurship programs). Dr. Cannice writes the widely-followed quarterly Silicon Valley Venture Capitalist Confidence Index Report® which is published by ProQuest, carried globally on Bloomberg Professional Services in 125 countries (Bloomberg ticker symbol: USFSVVCI), and has been referenced in the Economist, Wall Street Journal, New York Times, Xinhua News Service, Der Speigel, CNBC, National Public Radio, and many other media.
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Roger Chen, Ph.D. |
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Click here to read full biography (Expertise:firm growth, innovation, multinational business) |
Roger Chen, Ph.D. is known for his expertise in consulting strategies and firm growth for global tech firms, as stated by his “Silicon Valley Roundtable Guru” award that he was given by the U.S. National Business Economics Association. He is a Professor of Strategic Management (Undergraduate, MBA and Executive levels) and Managing Multinational Business (MBA levels) at University of San Francisco. Dr. Chen has provided trainings to mangers of Intel, Bank of China, Michelin, Tyco Electronics, V-Tech, Nu-Skin, Toshiba, Nippon Telegraph and Telephone Corporation (NTT), Northern Island Business Association of UK, and GuangDong Enterprises of China.
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David Y. Choi, Ph.D. |
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Dr. David Y. Choi is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship & Entrepreneurial Finance and Associate Director, The Center for Entrepreneurship, Loyola Marymount University (LMU). The Center for Entrepreneurship at LMU has often been ranked as one of the 10 best in the U.S. by Princeton Review and Entrepreneur Magazine. He has also held visiting appointments at Peking University in Beijing, China and Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology in Seoul, Korea. In the past, he served as one of the founding members of the Leadership Initiative (along with John Kotter and Gary Hamel) at Harvard Business School. Dr. Choi brings a unique perspective to research and teaching having worked extensively as a hands-on entrepreneurial manager. He has founded and run companies in technology and consumer products industries. In addition, he has consulted for a number of large and small corporations as well as investment firms in areas of: new business initiation, growth strategy, financing strategy, and partnership development.
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John D. Daniels, Ph.D. |
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Click here to read full biography (Expertise: strategy formation, implementation, international business) |
John D. Daniels received his Ph.D from the University of Michigan and holds the Samuel N. Friedland Chair at the University of Miami (Coral Gables, FL, USA). Previously he held the E. Claiborne Robins Chair at the University of Richmond and was Director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER) at Indiana University.
He won the Academy of International Business (AIB)’s annual dissertation competition and has since served as AIB President and Dean of its Fellows. He is the former Chair of the International Division of the Academy of Management and was chosen by that body as international educator of the year for 2010. He has served on the editorial board of over a dozen journals and wrote the first editorial guidelines for the Journal of International Business Studies (JIBS). His 1970 article therein was chosen as the article of the decade in 2009 for that journal.
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David I. Epstein, MBA |
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Click here to read full biography (Expertise: strategy, finance, entrepreneurial management) |
David I Epstein, MBA is a coach, advisor, investor and management consultant specializing in matching markets, teams, strategies, innovation, engineering and funding resources. Last as a General Partner at Crosslink Capital, a $1.2 Billion private and public equity firm in San Francisco, he spent 7 years focusing on clean tech, semiconductors, hardware, software and Systems. Mr. Epstein also serves as adjunct faculty at the University of San Francisco where he teaches graduate and undergraduate courses in entrepreneurship, entrepreneurial finance and business plan development at the business school in addition to coaching and judging in various business plan competitions at USF and University of California at Berkeley. | ||||
Michael J. Fern, Ph.D. |
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Michael J. Fern, PhD is a strategist and technologist, with significant experience as a consultant and educator. Previously, he was a professor of strategy in the Leavey School of Business at Santa Clara University, where he taught the capstone course, “Strategy in High-Technology Firms,” in the evening MBA program. Dr. Fern has advised and taught executives, managers, and professionals from many of the world’s highest performing technology and media companies, including Agilent, Apple, Applied Materials, Cisco, eBay, Fairchild Semiconductor, Google, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, Intel, Juniper Networks, Lockheed Martin, McAfee, NVIDIA, Oracle, Qualcomm, Sandisk, SAP, Seagate, Sprint, Sybase, Symantec, TSMC, VMWare, Yahoo, and Xilinx. His work on strategy, technology, and innovation has been published in leading management journals, and he has presented his work at a number of U.S. and international conferences. Dr. Fern has received Fellowships from Booz Allen Hamilton, the Strategic Management Society, and the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation for entrepreneurship. His technology work has been funded through substantial government and university grants.
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Nicholas J. Imparato, Ph.D. |
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Nicholas Imparato, Ph.D. is a professor of marketing and management at the University of San Francisco and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University. He has served as a senior executive and board member of publicly listed and closely held firms, global enterprises and small entrepreneurial firms, in the US and abroad. He has also been a speaker and advisor in over 30 countries with Visa, IBM and other organizations regarding innovation, strategy, public policy and leadership. Dr. Imparato has been interviewed and quoted extensively in the Financial Times (London), Nikkei Information (Tokyo), The Wall Street Journal, and MoneyWorks (Dubai) as well as on National Public Radio and in regional newspapers. He has served as a contributing editor and columnist for Intelligent Enterprise magazine and as a member of the board of editors (marketing) for the Business Encyclopedia (Knowledge Exchange/ Warner Books). He has been honored with awards for teaching, research, professional achievement and public service, including the University Distinguished Teacher Award and the Tops in Marketing Award, Sales and Marketing Executives International.
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Robert J. Koran, MBA |
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Click here to read full biography (Expertise: business management, international marketing, trade finance) |
Robert J. Koran, MBA is a highly accomplished international business executive with expertise in business management, international marketing, global strategic business planning, and trade finance.
He is an innovative strategist and has a deep understanding and knowledge of cultural issues and business practices of major international markets. He also has extensive business experiences in many countries across Central and Eastern Europe, Mexico, Latin America, Canada, the Caribbean, and South East Asia. His academic experience includes twenty years of teaching international business management and marketing courses in various MBA, Executive MBA and Certification Programs. He has taught as an adjunct professor at the University of San Francisco, University of California Berkeley Extension, and Saint Mary’s College of California. He was also most recently an Academic Director of Business and Management at University of California Berkeley Extension.
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David Newton, DBA |
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Click here to read full biography (Expertise: financial strategy, strategic planning, entrepreneurship) |
Dr. David Newton is the founder and the head of the entrepreneurship program at Westmont College. He was awarded in 2008 as a national Leavey scholar for excellence in private enterprise education with “Meritorious Distinction” from The Freedoms Foundation in Valley Forge, PA.
Dr. Newton has consulted to over 150 entrepreneurial firms since 1984: originating business plans, financial strategy, venture capital-firm valuation, industry valuation, strategic planning, buy-outs, acquisitions, and financial restructuring. He works with local angels and investor groups in the US and Europe, screening early-stage venture investment opportunities. Dr. Newton is also a recognized expert witness in California for cases involving economic impact and private company valuations, legal depositions, binding arbitration hearings, and courtroom trials.
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Dayle Smith, Ph.D. |
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Dr. Dayle Smith previously held appointments at Georgetown University and USC. Currently at USF, she directs the Business Honors Cohort Program in addition to teaching Organizational Behavior, Global Management, Strategy and other management electives in the MBA for Executives, MBA and undergraduate programs. Through the university she has worked with a number of executive programs including the Kaist Korean Executive Program, the Helsinki Managers Group, Northern Ireland Small Business Institute, Nippon Telephone & Telegraph, and the China Resources Executive MBA. She has taught internationally in Hong Kong, Mainland China and Tbilisi, Georgia. Dr. Smith’s research interests include leadership, teambuilding and group effectiveness,
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corporate culture, e-business, service learning and a number of human resource-related topic areas. Her articles have appeared in such journals as Human Resource Management Journal, Journal of Business Communication, Human Resources Planning, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Staffing and Recruitment, and others. |
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