The Levin Faculty
In keeping with its 21st century academic orientation and its mission-oriented emphasis, the Levin Institute is creating, in addition to its core faculty, a faculty network composed of leading scholars from both within and outside the State University of New York. This engaged faculty is drawn from both management and the social sciences. In addition, the faculty includes a broad range of experienced practitioners from in and around the Greater New York area. To ensure that the nature and quality of classroom instruction truly reflects the school's global and cross-cultural focus, Levin employs faculty drawn from leading institutions around the world, utilizing the latest in educational technologies.
DR. LYNNE H. ROSANSKYDr. Rosansky is currently the Interim Provost and Vice President for Academic Affairs a leading professor for the Levin Institute, where she leads the academic programming and cross-cultural management curriculum initiatives. Her focus is on globalization, strategy, entrepreneurship, and international studies. Lynne’s current research focus is in defining the performance metrics for successful global services innovation.
Prior to joining the Levin Institute, Dr. Rosansky was President of Hult International Business School, formerly the Arthur D. Little School of Management where she was Dean. Over the course of her career, Dr. Rosansky has served on the faculties of Brandeis University Graduate School for International Economics & Finance, Simmons Graduate School of Management, and Babson College. Courses taught included: International Business, Business Strategy, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management and General Management. As a Visiting Professor at the International University of Japan, , Niigata-ken, JAPAN, Dr. Rosansky designed and delivered the management curriculum for the Intensive International Executive Education Program, a training program for international (Japanese and Chinese) executives being prepared for overseas assignment.
Dr. Rosansky earned her Ph.D. and M.A. from Boston University and holds an MBA from Babson College. Her BA is from Carnegie-Mellon University.
Dr. MARYALICE MAZZARA
Dr. Mazzara received her doctorate in International Education from Columbia University. She has served as the Education Attache for the Government of Quebec (New York) and was the Director of Education for The Global Film Initiative and the Director of Teacher Training for Columbia's East European, Eurasian and Russian National Resource Center. Her consulting work includes projects with the Tokyo and Soros Foundations and with Samsung. She is currently the Dean of Students at the Levin Institute.
MIKE DIGIACOMO
Mr. Digiacomo is a graduate of Yale College and Fordham Law School, where he has been an adjunct professor. Mr. DiGiacomo came to the Levin Institute after a career in law and international finance, including positions at major Wall Street firms and service as the chief financial officer of a publishing company. He currently services as the Vice President of Administration.
DR. DENIS SIMON
Dr. Simon is a Senior Research Fellow and former Provost and Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the Levin Institute. He is also a Professor at Penn State University. Prior to joining the Levin Institute, Dr. Simon served as Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York. In his capacity as Dean, Dr. Simon engineered a fundamental re-structuring of the overall MBA curriculum.
DR. IRVING WLADAWSKY-BERGER
Dr. Wladawsky-Berger received an M.S. and a Ph. D. in physics from the University of Chicago. He began his IBM career in 1970 at the Company’s Thomas J. Watson Research Center where he started technology transfer programs to move the innovations of computer science from IBM’s research labs into its product divisions. After joining IBM’s product development organization in 1985, he continued his efforts to bring advanced technologies to the marketplace, leading IBM’s initiatives in supercomputing and parallel computing including the transformation of IBM’s large commercial systems to parallel architectures. He has managed a number of IBM’s businesses, including the large systems software and the UNIX systems divisions.
Dr. Wladawsky-Berger is Adjunct Professor in the Innovation and Entrepreneurship Group at the Imperial College Business School. He is a member of BP’s Technology Advisory Council, the Visiting Committee for the Physical Sciences Division at the University of Chicago and the Board of Visitors for the Institute for Computational Engineering and Sciences at the University of Texas at Austin. He was co-chair of the President’s Information Technology Advisory Committee, as well as a founding member of the Computer Sciences and Telecommunications Board of the National Research Council. He is a former member of the University of Chicago Board of Governors for Argonne National Laboratories and of the Board of Overseers for Fermilab. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. A native of Cuba, he was named the 2001 Hispanic Engineer of the Year. Dr. Wladawsky-Berger serves as a Senior Fellow at The Levin Institute.
DR. CONG CAO
Dr. Cao has a PhD in sociology from Columbia University in 1997 and has worked at the University of Oregon and the National University of Singapore. Dr. Cao is interested in the social studies of science and technology with a focus on China. He is the author of China's Scientific Elite (London and New York: RoutledgeCurzon 2004), a study of those Chinese scientists holding elite membership in the Chinese Academy of Sciences. His journal publications have appeared in Science, China Quarterly, Asian Survey, Minerva, among others. His current research interests include China's S&T manpower and US-China relations in S&T. He is a Research Fellow is a senior research associate with The Levin Institute.
International Finance and Global Investment Banking Faculty Team
DR. SRIR CHATTERJEE
Dr. Chatterjee is an Associate Professor in the Finance and Business Economics Area at Fordham University’s Schools of Business where he is currently the Area Chair. He has taught a variety of courses including Mergers and Acquisitions, Principles of Modern Finance and Behavioral Finance for MBAs, executive MBAs, and the undergraduate business students.He was the 1995 recipient of the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at Fordham GBA. Prof. Chatterjee got his undergraduate degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology (Kharagpur) and his Postgraduate Diploma in Management from the Indian Institute of Management (Calcutta). He received his M. Phil. and Ph. D. degrees from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining Fordham University, Prof. Chatterjee taught at SUNY (Buffalo), Rutgers University and Columbia University.
GUY F. ERB
Director, LECG, LLC, an expert services firm. MSc (Econ.) degree from the London School of Economics and Political Science, a BA from the University of California at Berkeley and a diploma from the University of Madrid, Spain. He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations, New York. Mr. Erb has experience in two highly regulated industries; investment banking and money services businesses. After working at Goldman Sachs & Co. in New York for four years, he then led the team that opened Goldman Sachs Mexico in 1994, where he served as chief operating officer for nearly three years and then as vice chairman of the Mexico City office for two years. Mr. Erb has served on several boards of directors, testified before the US house and senate and the International Trade Commission, and held senior US government positions. He founded and was president and CEO of RapidMoney Corporation, a money transmittal company that developed an advanced point-of-sale system for the personal money transfers of migrant workers. Mr. Erb has served on several boards of directors, testified before the US house and senate and the International Trade Commission, and held senior US government positions. He founded and was president and CEO of RapidMoney Corporation, a money transmittal company that developed an advanced point-of-sale system for the personal money transfers of migrant workers.
ALLAN HACKNEY
Consultant; formerly held the following positions: CIO at AIG; SVP at Bank of America and CIO of GE Capital, Japan. He graduated from Colgate University with a BA in Computer and Information Science. Professionally and experientially he brings considerable knowledge and in-depth experience to the Information Systems, Operations and Finance functions. He has knowledge of a broad range of global consumer and commercial financial services with particular depth in credit card operations, distribution finance, and banking products. As a staunch believer in the value of in training and education, Mr. Hackney created innovative immersion “boot camps” and diverse experiential assignments that revitalized GE’s prestigious Information Management Leadership Program (IMLP). He also developed and deployed Six Sigma quality awareness training as the first Quality Leader for GE Capital’s technology organization.
JANE E. HUGHES
Consultant. MBA, NYU; MA in International Relations, Johns Hopkins University SAIS; BA, Princeton University. Professor Hughes has taught graduate courses in Globalization, International Banking, Foreign Exchange Markets, International Economic Environment, International Financial Markets, and Accounting & Financial Analysis at Brandeis University and Hult International Business School. Publications include: International Banking: Text and Cases, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald (Addison Wesley Longman, 2002). Chinese edition published in 2004. Separating Fools From Their Money: A History of Great American Financial Scandals, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald (Transaction, 2006). Carnival on Wall Street: Global Financial Markets in the 1990s, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald (John Wiley & Sons, 2003) New Tigers and Old Elephants: The Development Game in the 1990s and Beyond, with Dr. Scott B. MacDonald and David L. Crum (Transaction Publishers, 1995; paperback edition, 2001) Latin American Debt in the 1990s, co-editor. (Praeger Publishers, 1991) Sovereign Risk (Euromoney Publications, 1988) as well as numerous articles and op-ed contributions.
DR. ANTHONY KARYDAKIS
Dr. Karydakis is an Instructor/Consultant, formerly VP JP Morgan Asset Management, Fixed Income. As the Chief Interest Rate Strategist and Economist, Dr. Karydakis analyzed short-term market and economic developments for the fixed income investment team in regards to Fed policy, yield curve strategies, and the Treasury market; formulated medium-term economic scenarios for the quarterly global macro investment process and made regular client presentations on US and foreign fixed income market developments. As the Senior Fixed Income Economist for Banc One Capital Markets, Dr. Karydakis supported traders and the taxable fixed income sales force with analysis on the high frequency economic data and Treasury market strategies. He performed extensive work with fixed income and foreign exchange market customers. Dr. Karydakis has taught Money and Finance courses at University of Illinois, DePaul and NYU, Stern School. His Doctorate is in Monetary Theory and Policy from Sorbonne/University of Paris.
DR. KENNETH KIM
Associate Professor of Finance, School of Management, University at Buffalo, SUNY; Ph.D, University of Rhode Island; MBA, University of Detroit; BA, University of Michigan. Professor Kim currently serves on the Advisory Board of Eqis Capital and he is a former Senior Economist with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission. Examples of his other past experiences include consulting for the Kuala Lumpur Stock Exchange and for the CFA Institute. Publications include: Infectious Greed: Restoring Confidence in America’s Companies, Financial Times Prentice Hall, Corporate Governance, 2nd edition, Prentice Hall, and Global Corporate Finance, 5th edition, Blackwell, and numerous papers in academic finance journals.
DR. LEWIS MANDELL
Dr. Lewis Mandell is Professor of Finance and Managerial Economics and former Dean of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo. The author of 21 books, he is best known for his lifetime of research into consumer financial behavior and financial literacy.
Dr. Mandell began his career at the University of Michigan where he ran the nationwide Survey of Consumer Finances. He has served in government as Director of Economic Research for the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency, has founded and run two successful corporations and has served on several corporate boards including those of Citigroup’s mutual funds, which encompassed more than 50 funds and $8 billion in assets. In 2008 Dr. Mandell was given the SUNY Chancellor’s award for outstanding teaching.
DR. PHIL PERRY
Dr. Perry has been on the faculty of the School of Management at the University at Buffalo, State University of New York (UB) since 1979. He received both his MBA and Ph.D. degrees in Business Administration (with a major in Finance) from the University of California at Berkeley, and also holds a B.S. in Engineering Physics from Cornell University and an M.S. in Planetary Science from the California Institute of Technology.
DR. JEAN ROY
Dr. Roy, has a PH.D. in Finance from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. His major field of interest is the management and regulation of financial institutions. Since 1990, he is professor of finance at HEC-Montreal. He has been consultant to the Department of Finance of Canada, the Canada Deposit Insurance Corporation, the Department of Finance of Quebec, the Financial Services Authority of Quebec and the Desjardins Financial Group.
DR. ZORA THOMOVA
Dr. Thomova is working with the Levin Institute teaching Investment and Financial Decision Making. She also works with SUNY IT at Utica where she serves as the Chair of Mathematics, Associate Professor, and Student Advisor.
At SUNY IT, Dr. Thomova also teaches the Applied Math curriculum and service courses from the freshman level to graduate level. She is responsible for the entire curriculum for the Applied Mathematics major, Mathematics minor, and for all service courses for the Engineering and Business schools. She serves on the Curriculum Committee, Graduate Council Committee, and the Academic Affairs Committee, and is a key person in submitting grant proposal to State Education Department for hosting Summer Institute 2007 for the local mathematics/science teachers.
Dr. Thomova earned her Ph.D. from the University of Montreal and holds an MS from the Czech Technical University in Prague.