Master-classes

Temerty James

Appointment:  Chairman of the kmbs Board of Directors, Masterclass: Key Success Factors in Modern Business

James Temerty is the CEO and the owner of Northland Power, a leading Canadian independent power company. He is also a major ownership partner in a joint venture at the Darnytsia District Heat and Power Plant in Kyiv. In the early stages of his career, Mr. Temerty held numerous middle and senior management positions at IBM in Canada and the United States. Later, Mr. Temerty owned and operated ComputerLand, which became the world's largest privately held chain of computer stores. He is a member of the Ukrainian President’s Foreign Investment Advisory Council.

Slywotzky Adrian

Appointment:  Member of the kmbs Board of Directors, Masterclass: New Business Patterns and Perspectives in the 21st Century

Adrian Slywotzky is a Vice President of Mercer Management Consulting, a global consulting firm specializing in developing strategies for growth in changing markets. Mr. Slywotzky is a co-author of The Profit Zone, named by BusinessWeek one of the Top 10 Business Books of 1998, and the author of Value Migration [Harvard Business School Press], which was translated into Ukrainian and published in 2001. Over the past two years, Mr. Slywotzky has been a keynote speaker at the Forbes CEO Forum, the Fortune CEO Conference and the Fortune CIO Conference. He holds degrees from Harvard Law School and Harvard Business School. He started kmbs First International Executive MBA Program with a masterclass on New Business Patterns and Perspectives in the 21st Century.

Zaininger Karl

Appointment:  Course: Global Technology Management [Princeton University]

Karl Zaininger is the Chairman and the CEO of Global Technology Management Consultants, which specializes in business process optimization and global technology management. He is also the Director of the Summer Work Program in German-Speaking Countries and a professor at Princeton University. He received his MSE, MA and doctorate from Princeton University and graduated from Harvard Business School’s Executive Management program.

He has worked for Thomas Group, a management consulting firm, as a Vice President and a Senior Partner responsible for new product development processes. At a different point in time, he also was a Vice Chairman of the Board of Directors, the President and the CEO, an Executive Vice President, and a Research Director at Siemens Corporate Research and Support, Inc. Dr. Zaininger has also worked in a number of United States government projects, including programs of the US Army Electronics Technology and Devices Laboratory and Solar Energy Research Institute.

Radnor Michael

Appointment:  Course: Strategic Roadmapping

Michael Radnor is a senior professor at the Kellogg School of Management [since 1964] and the Director of Northwestern University's National Science Foundation Industry-University Cooperative Research Center for Technology Innovation Management [CTIM].

Michael Radnor is the Professor of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management. He holds a PhD from the Northwestern University, a Diploma in Business Administration from the London School of Economics and a DIC in Production Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, London University. He used to be the Chair of Management and Organizations at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He is a member of the Operations Research Society of America and chair of the College on Productivity and Technical Change of INFORMS.

He is currently working on the management of technology study with industry consortium [USD 1.5 million, 18 months], a project to assist U. S. firms entering South African market and development of models for entry into and management in Emerging Economies. He is an author of two books and more than 60 articles, published in leading academic journals, in conference proceedings, or as monographs. Professor Radnor's consulting activities include work with such major U.S. corporations as AirTouch International, Motorola, Goodyear Tire and Rubber, Boise Cascade, Bell & Howell and Allied Chemical Corporation; as well with firms in Germany, Japan, and Israel. He is an active consultant for the World Bank, United Nations and US AID. He serves as a member of the board of the US Poland and Russian American Chambers of Commerce and has served on a number of boards of the National Academy.

Tyagi Rajesh

Appointment:  kmbs Service Operations Management Professor

Dr. Rajesh Tyagi is a faculty member at the department of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences of the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. His primary research interests are related to the optimal service chain design, evolving the role of product management in Hi-Tech industry. While in Singapore and Canada, Professor Tyagi worked as a project manager and consulted extensively companies of the Hi-Tech industry. He co-founded a biomedical device manufacturing start-up company in Singapore.

Professor Tyagi consults an early stage venture fund and a number of early-stage companies and established corporations on operations and technology management. Currently, he is working on a project related to identifying best practices for product managers in the Hi-Tech Industry. He obtained his PhD in Engineering at the University of Ottawa, Canada and his MBA at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. He teaches Service Operations Management at kmbs.

Rudelius William

Appointment:  Course: Marketing

William Rudelius is a St. Thomas University Professor. He served as a US Air Force Officer and worked in General Electric's Air-Space Department. Dr. Rudelius obtained his MBA and PhD at Wharton Business School. He is a co-author of a world's bestseller in Marketing [6th edition published in 2000]. His articles were published in numerous leading management and marketing magazines, such as Harvard Business Review, Sloan Management Review, and Journal of Marketing.

Kalymon Basil

Appointment:  Course: Corporate Finance

Basil Kalymon is a Richard Ivey School of Business [University of Western Ontario] finance professor with extensive experience in corporate finance, cost of capital, financial planning and financial institutions. He obtained his PhD at Yale University. Previously, he has held positions at management schools of the University of California in Los Angeles, Harvard University and the University of Toronto. He also has served as a consulting associate with Coopers & Lybrand Consulting Group. Dr. Kalymon’s experience includes development of executive programs in finance both in Canada and internationally.

Calikusu Michael

Appointment:  Course: Business Strategy

Currently Michael Calikusu works in Kyiv as the Finance Director for Kraft Foods Ukraina. Prior to this assignment, he was Kraft's Director for Strategy & Business Development for the CEEMA region based in Austria, leading and managing a number of region wide acquisitions [Balkans, Russia, Poland, Morocco, Turkey, Egypt]. Before joining Kraft, he held a number of executive positions with Reckitt-Benckiser, Pepsi-Cola Int'l and PriceWaterhouseCoopers in several developed and emerging countries.

Michael has taught Strategy and Finance related courses in the MBA program of Webster University in Austria, given several lectures as a visiting professional to leading Greek and Turkish academic institutions, and has been a corporate trainer during his executive employment with Kraft Foods, Reckitt-Benckiser and Pepsi. Currently, he teaches the Strategy course for the Executive MBA program at Kyiv Mohyla Business School.

He has received a Juris Doctorate in Law from Southern Methodist University, Texas, USA, and a Bachelors of Business Administration from Texas Wesleyan University, USA. He holds legal, finance and accounting related professional accreditations, being a member of the American and Texas Bar Association and the American and Virginia Commonwealth Certified Public Accountancy Board.

Semenyuk Oksana

Appointment:  Course: How to Win the War for Talent

Oksana Semenyuk is the Kraft Foods Ukraina HR Director. She has more than seven years' experience of working in Ukraine and internationally for Kraft Foods. Previously, she worked at KPMG and Barents Group.

Ms. Semenyuk is a graduate of the Linguistic University and the International Management Institute.

Pynzenyk Viktor

Appointment:  Member of the kmbs Board of Directors, teaches a course "Macroeconomics" at the MBA program

Viktor Pynzenyk, a leading Ukrainian reformer, Ukraine's Minister of Finance, is a member of the kmbs board of directors. Dr. Pynzenyk is an honorary professor of the Kyiv Mohyla Academy. He is a former Economy Minister and a Vice Prime Minister. He is an MP of 4 convocations and was an advisor to the President of Ukraine on economic policy [Sept 1994 - Jan 2000]. At different points in time, Dr. Pynzenyk headed the Council on Economic Reform, the National Council of Statistics; he was also a member of the Finance and Banking Committee and the State Committee on Administrative Reform. He founded and was the first director of the Lviv Institute of Management. He obtained his PhD at the Lomonosov Moscow State University.

Ploszajski Piotr

Appointment:  Courses: Management in the New Economy, Organizational Behavior

Piotr Ploszajski is the Director of Management Theory Department at the Warsaw School of Economics, and Adjunct Professor of International Business Studies at the University of Minnesota, USA.

Also Dr. Ploszajski is a Chairman and founder of Polish-Japanese Management Centre and runs a private consulting firm named New Man@gement Solutions.. He is lecturing extensively on management and post-socialist transformations in the USA, Japan, Ukraine, and Western Europe. Namely Piotr is the lecturer at Harvard University, Princeton University, Boston University, Sloan School, MIT, World Bank, Oxford University, Cambridge University, London School of Economics.

Piotr Ploszajski recieved his education in Poland as well as in the USA [Harvard Business School, and Sloan School of Management, MIT].

His credo is "Never say never" because life is too short not to try all the goods things it is offering us.