Foreign faculty

Akbar Yusaf

Appointment:  Course: International Business

Yusaf Akbar is Associate Professor of International Business at Southern New Hampshire University. He is also an Editor-in-Chief of the International Journal of Emerging Markets. Previous to coming to SNHU, Dr. Akbar had taught and Central European University's Graduate School of Business [Budapest, Hungary], CERAM Graduate School of Management [Nice, France] and European Business School [London, UK].

Yusaf has his doctorate from the Sussex European Institute, University of Sussex, UK. His main teaching and research interests are in international trade, strategy and the politics of multinational enterprise strategy.

He has published two books [1] Global Antitrust: Trade and Competition Linkages and the Multinational Enterprise, [2] EU Enlargement and Central Europe: The Effects of Regulatory Convergence as well as articles in numerous peer-reviewed journals including Journal of World Business, World Competition, Business and Politics etc.

Geertsema Jan Dirk

Appointment:  Course "Leadership and Behavior Styles"

Jan Dirk Geertsema is founder and CEO of Advance! Business Consulting [the Netherlands] and a management consultant and management trainer. He has a background of senior management functions in various international industries and in a considerable number of different countries and cultures.

Jan Dirk entered business life in the early 1980's as a sales executive for an American cosmetics company. Soon he was offered the position of Sales Manager. Jan Dirk worked as manager and board member with a subsidiary of Schering AG, a Berlin based Pharmaceutics and Phytopharmaceutics Company, change manager and business development manager withHoechst Schering AgrEvo GmbH. Since 1997 Jan Dirk started his own consulting business. Also he is a passionated free lance photojournalist.

Jan Dirk believes that good leadership requires four key leadership abilities: develop and maintain a strong FOCUS on your main goals and priorities; make your people ACCOUNTABLE for what they do; encourage and reward INITIATIVE; create sustainable RESULT with your people. Based on this belief Jan Dirk developed the F.A.I.R. Leadership Methodology™ . In this methodology understanding human behavior is key. This is why Jan Dirk puts great emphasis on the combination of behavioral skills and the principles of management by objectives in his leadership development programs.

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.

Kyj Myroslaw

Appointment:  Course: Marketing Strategy

Myroslaw Kyj is a professor of marketing at Widener University [USA]. With MBA and PhD degrees from Temple University, Dr. Kyj teaches courses in Strategic Marketing, Electronic Commerce, International Marketing, Logistics, Marketing Research, and Product Management at Widener University. He has extensive experience in marketing consulting with a number of Ukrainian companies, including KINTO Investment and Securities Company and one of Ukraine’s largest egg processing facilities. Dr. Kyj has published approximately 40 articles in leading international marketing journals. He also is the Editor of the Ukrainian Economic Review.

Koszarny Lenna

Lenna Koszarny, CA, is a Vice Chair of the kmbs Board of Directors. She is a partner and co-founder of Emergex Business Solutions [EBS], a full-service management consulting firm for investors in Ukraine. Ms. Koszarny obtained her Business Administration degree with honors from the Richard Ivey School of Business. She received her Chartered Accountant designation while with Coopers & Lybrand in Toronto [1992]. She has been in Ukraine since 1993, first as Vice President of finance, then as CFO of a technology company. She co-founded EBS in 1998. Ms. Koszarny manages EBS's Financial Services and Accounting Outsourcing Practice, where she provides finance, strategic project management, CFO, and accounting outsourcing services to companies operating primarily in the services, food processing, medical, intellectual property, FMCG, energy and telecommunications sectors. At kmbs she has taught Financial Accounting.

Kusy Mitchell

Appointment:  Course: Leadership & Organizational Development

Dr. Mitchell Kusy has a richly diverse background with over 25 years experience in leadership and organization development. In 1998, he received the "Minnesota Organization Development Practitioner of the Year" award. In 1987, Mitchell received an international award as Outstanding Researcher of the Year. Now he mostly works as a consultant on Strategy, Leadership Development and Organizational Change. American Express Financial Advisors, 3M, Northwest Airlines, Honeywell etc. are among his clients. He also teaches at the Department of Organization Learning & Development at the University of St. Thomas, Minneapolis, USA. Dr. Kusy is the co-author of the “Fast Forward Leadership” bestseller.

Pons Jose Maria

Appointment:  Course: Strategic Marketing Management

Jose M. Pons holds a degree in Law from the University of Barcelona, an MBA from University College Dublin and a PhD in Business Administration from IESE, Barcelona, where he was a member of the marketing faculty for 15 years and Chairperson of the MBA Program between 1990 and 1994. At the moment he runs AXIOMA CONSULTANTS, a marketing consulting firm he founded 6 years ago, and lives in Barcelona.

He is involved both in executive education as well as practical consulting projects with an emphasis on aligning marketing management policies with current business strategies. He has been a Visiting Professor at the Darden School of Business at the University of Virginia [Charlottesville] and regular speaker at Management Education events organized by the European Foundation for Management Development, the Graduate Management Admission Council and the Central and Easter European Management Association Network. He regularly teaches at the IEDC Bled School of Management [Slovenia], Instituto Internacional San Telmo [Spain], Rejkavick University and the European School for Management and Technology [Germany] among others.

Among the international organizations that he has been connected with, either in consulting or in management development activities are Henkel, ABN AMRO Bank, Telefonica, Aon, Adolfo Dominguez, Saint Gobain, Siemens, Wrigley, Electrolux, UHY, BBVA, Omnicon Group and The World Bank. In Spain he has worked for clients like Mapfre, Celsa, Global Steel Wire, Gas Natural, Caja Madrid and Pronovias He has taught and consulted extensively in Central and Eastern European countries.

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.

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.

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.

Strauss Jeffrey

Appointment:  Course: Strategic Roadmapping

Jeffrey Strauss is an Associate Director of CTIM. He has been with the Northwestern University and the Kellogg School of Management for almost 20 years. He works on projects related to emerging economies, regionalization, strategic standards management, corporate and industry roadmapping and scenario planning. He also designs course materials and curricula, including teaching web-sites and Internet-supported training simulations. He co-teaches Emerging Economy, Intercultural Management and Technology Management courses. For 10 years he worked in private industry and nonprofit organizations. With an MBA from the Kellogg Graduate School of Management, he is an active marketing and training consultant.

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.

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.

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.

Shypilov Andrew

Appointment:  Course: Social Networks

Andrew Shipilov is an associate professor, INSEAD [France], Ph.D. in Strategy and Organization Theory, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto [Canada].

His research interests include international management, dynamics of inter-organizational networks and strategic alliances. Andrew's publications have appeared in multiple international journals, such as Industrial and Corporate Change, Managerial and Decision Economics, Thunderbird International Business Review, etc. At the INSEAD Andrew teaches courses on international business strategy.

He holds MBA degree with concentration in International Management from Case Western Reserve University [Cleveland, OH] jointly offered with International Management Center [IMC] Graduate School of Business [Central European University, Budapest]. Prior to joining the Ph.D. program in Canada, Andrew has worked and studied in Ukraine, Germany, Hungary, Italy and in the U.S.