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Morris Bocian is President of Creative Business Planning Incorporated and it’s financing division, NowCapital.com. He provides advisory services to position and package small to mid-sized business clients in their respective markets, and counsels and guides his clients with practical advice on small business funding and the due diligence process.
Mr. Bocian earned a B.S. in Accounting from Brooklyn College and an M.B.A from Baruch College. He is a non-practicing C.P.A. Through his work experience, he has learned the art of deal-making and structuring and financing businesses. Mr. Bocian held the CFO position in several small companies and a national securities company where he also served as the Chief Due Diligence Officer.
During his career, Mr. Bocian has structured over a half billion dollars in business transaction loans and restructured debt. He is a sitting member of a loan committee for a private lender, and also sits on the Board of Advisors for several companies as well as the Rutgers Newark Small Business Development Center. He is on the Advisory Board for Gibbs College Entrepreneurial program.
Mr. Bocian is an Adjunct Faculty member and a Thesis Supervisor at NYU. He has published more than 50 articles on business planning, small business financing and cash flow management.
MB@CreativeBusinessPlanning.com
http://www.creativebusinessplanning.com/
Thomas M. Bock is a long-time New York City resident. He earned a BA in Slavic Languages and Literature at Indiana University, a BS in Accounting at Marywood University, an MBA in Management and Finance at Fordham University, and a Ph.D. in General Business at Touro University International.
Thomas worked in the accounting/finance field in a number of industries for nearly twenty years. He served in a variety of positions of increasing responsibility until he left private industry and began teaching in 1990. Dr. Bock has taught at several colleges, both as an adjunct and as a full-time instructor. His areas of interest include global business and motivation in the workplace.
Professor Bock has received a number of awards and recognition during his teaching career, most recently having received Baruch College’s President’s Excellence Award for Distinguished Teaching during the May 2008 Commencement Ceremonies.
Herbert R. Brinberg has been an Adjunct Professor of Management at Baruch College since 1989. He holds a B.A. from Cornell University, an M.S. from Columbia Business School and a Ph.D. from New York University where he majored in economics and management. He is the recipient of an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the School of Information Studies at Syracuse University as a “pioneer in the vanguard of the information age.”
He is President of Parnassus Associates International, a consulting firm specializing in business strategy, organization planning and mergers and acquisitions.
Before establishing Parnassus Associates, he was President and CEO of Wolters Kluwer U.S. Corporation, a subsidiary of Wolters Kluwer NV of the Netherlands. He built Wolters Kluwer U.S. from a small start-up into a leading developer of full text search and retrieval systems and publisher of books, journals and on-line information services for professionals in health care administration, business management, law and medicine.
He is Chair of the Business Advisory Council of the Bernard L. Schwartz Communication Institute at Baruch College and Chair of the Board of Advisors, School of Information Studies at Syracuse University. He has been a member of the Cornell University Council and a founding member and past president of The Software and Information Industry Association.
hrbrinberg@parnassusassociates.com
Matthew J. DeLuca is a graduate of Fairfield University (B.A.) and the University of Pittsburgh (M.P.A.). He is currently President of the Management Resource Group, Inc., an HR consulting, recruiting, and executive coaching firm. Recent clients include Montefiore Medical Center, Associated Estates Realty Corporation, Lifetime Entertainment, Dutchess Land Conservancy, and the Episcopal Church.
Mr. DeLuca has developed seminars for senior and midlevel officials at the NY Department of Labor, Social Security Administration, The Republic of China and for a group of HR professionals in Santiago, Chile. In addition to consulting, he has held HR positions of increasing responsibility with The Institute of Local Government, University of Pittsburgh, US Army (Vietnam), Chemical Bank (now JP Morgan Chase), Bank Hapoalim, B.M., The Bank of Tokyo Group, The World Wrestling Federation (now World Wrestling Entertainment), Inc., Flipside/Uproar.com, a unit of Vivendi Universal, CMO, a unit of Montefiore Medical Center, and Village Care of New York.
Mr. DeLuca has authored more than 10 books and book chapters on HRM including the most recent, "Perfect Phrases for Negotiating Salary and Job Offers", co-authored with Nanette DeLuca, McGraw-Hill, 2007 and serves as a columnist for HRO Today magazine.
Matthew_Deluca@baruch.cuny.edu
David Falk received his M.B.A. in Finance from St. John’s University. He is the Chief Operating Officer, as well as the Director of Human Resource Training at Finance One, Ltd., a mortgage broker. He has also served as Vice President of Portfolio Operations and Property Management at Commercial Equities, Inc. of Long Island, and an Account Manager at Avis Leasing Corp.
Mr. Falk has been an Adjunct Lecturer at the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College since 1994. He advises the Baruch College student chapter of Society for Human Resource Management. He has also taught at many colleges and universities including St. John’s University, Hofstra University, Berkeley College and Empire State College.
Mr. Falk is currently a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development. His concentration is in Management, Adult Higher Education, and Workplace Training. He is doing research on the relationships between diversity fault lines, intra-team conflicts and the performance of student teams using competitive, team-based, computerized business simulations.
David Florman earned his M.B.A. from the Baruch College-Mount Sinai School of Medicine Graduate Program in Health Care Administration. He is currently the President of DFI Consulting, Ltd, a boutique consulting firm serving the health care marketplace which specializes in health care business planning, payer contract negotiation, strategic assessment/positioning, operational performance, organizational/process improvement, managed care strategy, business development, benchmarking analysis and executive coaching.
He has 30+ years of broad professional experience in the health care industry. He has held senior executive positions in the healthcare provider sector with community hospitals and key academic medical centers as well as leadership roles in the payer/insurance community. He has also served on the boards of several community-based and philanthropic organizations and currently serves as a Director of Metropolitan Health Networks, a Florida-based health care company.
Josh Friedlander is a consultant, personal coach, and lecturer. He is currently on the faculty of Baruch College and the Metropolitan College of New York. He specializes in team building, cross-generational communication, new hire assimilation, career counseling, organizational behavior, business ethics, international business, training and development, and human resources.
Mr. Friedlander has 20+ years experience in Corporate Human Resources with an emphasis on the integration of Human Resources as a strategic business partner. Currently, as a Managing Director with Marsh Inc, he manages the global Human Resources activities for several business units and functions. Previously, Mr. Friedlander was the Vice President of Human Resources and Relationship Management for OnlineBenefits, Inc.
Mr. Friedlander earned a Masters Degree in Labor and Industrial Relations from the University of Minnesota and a B.A. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University. In addition, Josh has a General Course Certificate from the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Previously, Mr. Friedlander was on the Board of Directors of the Cornell ILR School Alumni Association and the New York City Chapter of the Human Resources Planning Society. Currently, Josh is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management and the Professional Staff Congress.
Sara Grant holds a Ph.D. in Public Administration and Nonprofit Management from New York University. She is currently a consultant providing management development services, primarily for nonprofits. Besides teaching at Baruch College, she also teaches courses in management and organizational behavior at New York University. She worked for TIAA-CREF in their Human Resources Department providing HR services to the Investment Management Division. She served as the Director of Training for Girl Scouts of the USA and has administered Adult Basic Education Programs for a school system in Western Pennsylvania. Currently, she serves on the Admissions Committee at New York University’s Wagner Graduate School of Public Service.
James R. Grayshaw received his J.D. from Brooklyn School of Law. He worked for Cadwalader, Wickersham & Taft Esqs. in Litigation and Antitrust before becoming a judge in the New York State court system for almost 25 years. He is currently in private practice specializing in litigation and real estate. He is the author of “Drafting Stipulations of Settlement”, Finkelstein, Ferrara & Trieman’s Landlord-Tenant Newsletter, May 2004, as well as thousands of trial decisions. He is a frequent lecturer at the Queens Bar Association on Landlord & Tenant matters.
James_Grayshaw@baruch.cuny.edu
Rawle Hamilton received his B.B.A. from Baruch College and his M.B.A. from St. Johns University. He has been teaching at Baruch College since January 2005. He has over thirteen years of financial services experience, having previously worked at TIAA-CREF in the areas of pension and annuity services, counseling, and compliance. Some of his duties included counseling participants on retirement products and managing the agent licensing process in the broker-dealer individual and institutional services in the Western Service Center (Denver, CO). He currently works at Signature Bank/Signature Securities Group in the compliance department as an Anti-Money Laundering Officer and is a registered representative of Signature Securities Group. He carries the professional designation of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialist (CAMS) and is a member of the Association of Certified Anti-Money Laundering Specialists.
Sean Harvey is Principal and Founder of Boerum Consulting, a full-service career management and leadership development consulting firm.
Mr. Harvey brings over 12 years of career and performance coaching, organizational change management and human capital consulting experience. His organizational consulting projects have also included organizational assessment, strategic planning, and integrated learning systems and program development.
Past organizational clients include American Express, Baker & McKenzie, Baruch College, California State University System, Columbia University, Cornell University, Denihan Hospitality Group, Johnson & Johnson, Leake & Watts Services, NYU College of Dentistry, Mitsubishi Bank and Trust, The Riverside Church in NYC, RR Donnelly & Sons, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, United Way of NYC, United Nations Population Fund, and The Xerox Corporation.
Mr. Harvey holds an MSOD in Organization Development from Loyola University Chicago, an MSEd in Counseling from Fordham University, a graduate certificate in Public Service Administration and a BA in Industrial/Organizational Psychology from DePaul University.
Corrington Hwong is a Lecturer in the Management Department at Baruch College. He received an A.B. from Providence College, an M.M.S. in Management Science from Stevens Institute of Technology, an M.A.T. from the College of New Jersey, and an I.E.D. in Industrial Economics from Columbia University. He has also taught at the College of New Jersey, Middlesex County Community College, Philadelphia University, and Villanova University.
Mr. Hwong is currently a Principal for Nassau-Orange Corporation. He has worked for Security Pacific Leasing as a District Marketing Officer, and as the President of TigerTown Software. He has also worked for Citibank, Merrill Lynch and Bell System.
Mr. Hwong has been published many times. His most recent publications are “Advertizing in the Montessori World,” The Montessori Foundation, “What’s Wrong With American Public Schools: Taboo Topics of The Sociology of American Education,” and “Statistical Analysis of NCAA Division I Institution Graduation Rates and the Implications for the Allocation of Higher Education Resources,” Northeast Education Research Association.
Corrington_hwong@baruch.cuny.edu
Bernard Iatauro received his M.B.A. from St. John's University in Executive Management. He continued his education at Lehigh University studying Labor Management History, Spatial Economics and Business Policy. He is in the ABD stage of his Doctorate at NYU. He has been a full-time professor for the last 35 years, teaching at both the undergraduate and graduate level. In addition to his professorial duties, he has consulted for several major U.S. corporations, including Federal Express, Systems Control and Passiac County Sewerage Commissioners Authority. He carries the professional designation of Certified Professional Consultant to Management (CPCM).
Mr. Iatauro has also lectured for The American Management Association, The Employer’s Association of New Jersey, The American Society for Personnel Administration and The Society for Human Resource Management. He is currently teaching both graduate and undergraduate students from Europe who are spending several months in New York City studying with U.S. teachers while completing internships.
Jonatan Jelen is an entrepreneur and an international consultant for complex information technology-intensive firms in NYC, China, and Croatia. He is Assistant Professor of Design & Management and the Co-Director of the Online MS in Design Entrepreneurship at Parsons The New School for Design. He is also Adjunct Assistant Professor at NYU/Stern, Baruch College, CCNY, Polytechnic University, Yeshiva University, Hofstra University. He is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the University of Shanghai for Science and Technology, and in the Department of Entrepreneurship, University of Zagreb, Croatia. Since 2002, he has been concentrating his research on the ‘Theory of the Firm’ with three books nearing completion.
Mr. Jelen earned his J.D. from Ludwig-Maximilians University in Munich. He earned MBAs from Ecole Supérieure de Commerce de Paris, Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, and Baruch College. He also received LL.Ms from University of Paris II, Panthéon-Assas, Fordham University School of Law, and Université de Pau, where he also earned his first Ph.D. He is currently a doctoral candidate in Business-Computer Information Systems at Baruch College/GSUC. He is also working towards his Doctorate of Laws with the University of South Africa and his D.B.A. with Edinburgh Business School of Heriot Watt-University.
Ray LaManna owns a human resources consulting firm, specializing in employee relations, training and coaching. Prior to establishing his firm, he served as Director of Human Resources with Parish of Trinity Church and Integrated Resources Inc., a diversified financial services firm. He also held HR positions at Wells Fargo Bank and JP Morgan Chase.
As a member of the Graduate Faculty of New York Medical College’s School of Public Health, Mr. LaManna teaches organizational theory, human resources, change management and employee relations. For 8 years, he chaired the Business Administration Department at Berkeley College.
Mr. LaManna holds advanced degrees in Theology, Psychology and Adult Education and is currently a doctoral candidate in the Adult and Continuing Education Program at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Mr. LaManna has also been National Chairperson of the Management Practices Committee for the Society for Human Resource Management and guest speaker on HR and management issues and has life certification as a Senior Professional in Human Resources.
raymond_lamanna@baruch.cuny.edu
Margaret (Peggy) Sipser Leibowitz is a visiting professor in Labor and Employment Law at Wayne State University Law School in Detroit, MI where she has taught for the past two years. She was a full-time extension faculty member at Cornell University’s School of Industrial & Labor Relations (ILR) for 25 years teaching labor law, employment law and dispute resolution (collective bargaining, mediation and arbitration). She received teaching awards from ILR and Cornell.
Ms. Leibowitz is an adjunct professor at NY Law School, Teacher’s College, Columbia University and the Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY. Since 1981, she has served as an arbitrator and mediator of labor-management disputes in private and public employment. She is a panel member of the American Arbitration Association, the NYS Public Employment Relations Board, the NYC Office of Collective Bargaining and the NJ State Board of Mediation. She also served as an Administrative Law Judge and Mediator at the NYS Division of Human Rights. She earned a BS at ILR and a JD at New York University School of Law.
Peter J. McAliney, CMC PMP received his M.B.A. from the Zicklin School of Business. He is President of Chenery and Company, Inc., which specializes in strategy development, implementation, business process reengineering, change management, and technology integration projects. He has led projects in a variety of industries including financial services, utilities, automotive, manufacturing, entertainment, educational delivery and professional service. Some representative client companies are Liberty Mutual Insurance, Morgan Stanley, Florida Power Group, Reliant Energy Group, General Motors, Alcan, Dupont, Boise Cascade, Industrial Magic & Light, Primedia Communications, Victory Technology, University of Northern California, Navigant Consulting, and Strategic Decisions Group.
He carries the professional designations of Chartered Management Consultant (CMC) and Project Management Professional (PMP). His most recent book, Painless Project Management (Wiley, 2007) addresses project management for both beginning and experienced project managers. He is currently a doctoral candidate at New York University’s Steinhardt School of Culture, Education, and Human Development where he is doing research on transformational leadership in blended learning programs in the workplace.
Web: http://mysite.verizon.net/vze1j8wl/chenery1/
Email: peter_mcaliney@baruch.cuny.edu, cheneryco@aol.com
PETER B. PEPPER is a labor consultant. He was recently designated by New York City’s Municipal Labor Committee and appointed by Mayor Michael Bloomberg as an alternate labor member of the Board of Collective Bargaining. He plays an active role at the bargaining table in union administration, grievance and arbitration advocacy, and training for unions in both the private and public sectors. Since 1997, Mr. Pepper has been a Lecturer in Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining at Baruch College, CUNY.
Mr. Pepper holds an M.S. in Industrial and Labor Relations from Cornell University / Baruch College, CUNY. For seven years he served as a Federal Agent with the National Labor Relations Board.
In June 2004, Mr. Pepper was elected the National President of the Workmen's Circle/Arbeter Ring. He served on the Board of the Forward Association, and several other not-for-profit organizations.
Abe D. Tawil is a founding partner of Helix Management Consulting, LLC, an independent contract mediator for the EEOC, USPS, EDNY and IPRO, as well as serves as the Executive Director of Hillel at Baruch. He is a founder of the Certificate in Conflict Management at NYU and a founder of Leadership in Law at Columbia University. He is also an Associate Professor at Cardozo School of Law.
In the past, Professor Tawil has been an Interim Chief Human Resource Officer, an Associate Dean for Professional Education/ Director of Continuing Studies at Baruch College, an Executive Director HR and Special Projects for CONWAY Organization, an EVP of HR and Development/ COO for Script's Pharmacies, an Associate Physician/ Director Medical Education at USVI, a Co-Founder of the University of St. Lucia School of Medicine, and a contributing consultant of ‘MD Pearls’.
Professor Tawil received a M.A. from Pepperdine University School of Law, a J.D. from Cardozo School of Law, an EMBA from Zicklin School of Business, a M.D. from American University School of Medicine.
http://www.helixconsultingllc.com
Michelle Wang received her BBA in Marketing, M.S. in Accounting, and Ed.D in Organizational Leadership. After seven years of experience in financial and operational audits and two years in business consulting in both the United States and Asia, she follows her passions for public speaking, training, and teaching in the areas of management, leadership, and career planning.
With over six years of experience in assisting immigrants to reclaim their careers in New York City, Ms. Wang is a professional speaker and trainer on career planning, goal setting, and job search skills. She has been teaching a variety of business courses in both Taiwan and the United States, and plans to pursue future study and research in adult learning.
Ms. Wang now works as an Assistant Professor in the Cooperative Education Department at Borough of Manhattan Community College and is pursuing her second doctorate in Adult Learning and Leadership at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Betty Wong is a serial entrepreneur who specializes in new products marketing. She has also worked on finance and operations projects. With over 20 years experience, she has worked in a variety of industries including consumer products (health & beauty aids, food & wine, household products, retail & fashion, home fabrics, family and children’s publications), business products and services (environmental gases, office products, mailing and communications products, construction products – metal and metal fabrications, armor and bullet-proof equipment, security products, retailing and data-management and on-line software). Her government and non-profit clients include chambers of commerce, professional associations and educational institutions.
Her field of expertise is helping organizations to manage change through the introduction of new products or services. Her hands-on techniques work well in environments that appreciate strategists who are able to implement. Ms. Wong has a B.S. from NYU’s Stern School and an M.B.A. from Columbia Business School.