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Faculty and Staff
Academic Director:
Edward G. Rogoff, Ph.D.
Edward G. Rogoff is the Academic Director of the Field Center and Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business. An expert in the economics of regulated industries, Professor Rogoff has published extensively in the area of entrepreneurship and small business. In 2004, his book Bankable Business Plans was published. In 2005, The Entrepreneurial Conversation co-authored with Michael Corbett will be published. He has been an entrepreneur in the communications industry for 15 years.
E-mail: Edward_Rogoff@baruch.cuny.edu
Director:
Monica Dean
Monica Rivera Dean is the Director of the Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship. Ms. Dean has over 17 years of professional business experience in the public, private and non-profit sectors. Her experience includes six years as a senior manager of a national not-for-profit recognized for developing innovative theories and practices on inner city business development and six years as a consultant with the premier consultancy firm Booz, Allen & Hamilton. Ms. Dean holds an MBA from the University of California at Berkeley and has a number of publications and workshops to her credit. She has served as a panelist at several major business conferences and has spoken on urban business issues before various academic and business groups nationwide.
E-mail: Monica_Dean@baruch.cuny.edu
Lawrence N. Field Mentors:
Micki Eisenman, Ph.D.
Micki Eisenman is a Field Mentor and a faculty member in the Management Department at the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College.
She teaches Entrepreneurial Management at the college. Her academic research focuses on understanding the pursuit of fashion in industries that are not typically considered fashion-based, such as personal computers or cellular phones. As such, she is particularly interested in businesses that benefit from generating fashion dynamics, such as fostering novelty, generating and imitating fashion trends, and extending status and identity through product use.
E-mail: Micki_Eisenman@baruch.cuny.edu
Robert Foskey, MBA
Robert Foskey is a Field Mentor and a Lecturer at the Zicklin School of Business. He had extensive corporate and consulting experience before joining Baruch College as a faculty member. As Executive Vice President of Boone, Young and Associates, Mr. Foskey was responsible for the firm's Small Business Practice. He has organized and managed Small Business Development Centers for the US Department of Commerce and was appointed by Mayor Ed Koch to the Board of Directors and Loan Review Committee of the New York City Financial Services Corporation.
E-mail: Robert_Foskey@baruch.cuny.edu
Elissa Grossman, Ph.D.
Elissa Grossman is a Field Mentor and an Assistant Professor of Management at the Zicklin School of Business. Her research concerns the ways in which entrepreneurs build the social networks used to secure necessary resources for new venture launch. Within this larger topic, she pays particular attention to network use and successful versus unsuccessful networking strategies. Prior to becoming a professor, Dr. Grossman worked in brand management and marketing for several large to mid-sized companies and as a consultant for several start-ups.
E-mail: Elissa_Grossman@baruch.cuny.edu
Ramona K.Z. Heck, Ph.D.
Ramona K. Z. Heck is a Field Mentor and the Jonas Chair of Entrepreneurship in the Department of Management of the Zicklin School of Business at Baruch College. Before joining Baruch College, Dr. Heck was Professor and the J. Thomas Clark Fellow of Entrepreneurship and Personal Enterprise at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. Dr. Heck teaches and conducts research related to family businesses. She has published numerous articles on family management and decision making theory and public and private policies related to working families.
E-mail: Ramona_Heck@baruch.cuny.edu
Thomas S. Lyons, Ph.D.
Thomas S. Lyons is the Lawrence N. Field Family Chair in Entrepreneurship in the Zicklin School of Business. His research focus is on entrepreneurship and its role in regional economic development. Dr. Lyons has written seven books and numerous articles, book chapters and technical reports on entrepreneurship, enterprise development, business incubation, and state and local economic development. Previously, he was a recipient of a Coleman Foundation Entrepreneurship Education and Awareness Grant for his work with minority entrepreneurs in inner-city Louisville, Kentucky. He served as an advisor to the Business Plus microenterprise program of the Louisville Central Development Corporation and as an officer of the Board of Directors of the Louisville Enterprise Group (LEG), an empowerment business incubation program affiliated with the Louisville Community Development Bank. Lyons holds a Ph.D. in Urban and Regional Planning from the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor and has worked as a practicing municipal planner and as a private planning consultant.
E-mail: Thomas_Lyons@baruch.cuny.edu
Field Fellows:
- Jimit Assar
- Keren Crispin
- Darshan Dedhia
- Francesco DiBartolo
- Anshul Laad
- Adrienne Mercante
- Mitesh Rao
- Gurleen Kaur Suri
Staff Members:
- James Daley, SBDC Business Advisor
- Alyce Mayo, Administrative Director, Entrepreneurship Programs
- Shiau-Larn (Shalom) Hoang, SBDC Business Advisor
- Ulas Neftci, SBDC Business Advisor
- Konstantine Orfanos, Office Assistant
- Lendynette Pacheco, Coordinating Business Advisor
- Ivory Phinisee, Research Associate
- Al Suhu, Research Assistant
- Ester Yiu, Assistant to Administrative Director, Entrepreneurship Programs