The Following Senior Academics from Leading Universities in USA and Worldwide have provided their time on a pro-bono basis to design the World-class online instructional materials and assessments to give Calwest student's an unique learning experience.
Dean
Prof. Raymond Greasley
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Prof. Raymond Greasley |
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MBA, PhD (WITS) |
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Prof. Raymond Greasley has had a 30+ year career in IT, which has covered: Project Management, Process Management, Analysis, Software Development/Testing, LAN Administration, Source Control, Training Staff, Infrastructure Builds – SQL Servers, Workstations, Web Servers, and Windows Servers. He has been project manager of large IT based projects and is a world-expert consultant in data integrity and security. He was formerly Dean of the Global Business School at the Wharton Institute of Technology and Science. |
Adjunct Faculty
Dean of Business
Prof. Leon Duval
Dean of Business
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MBus (Acc) (Monash); PhD (WITS); FCA; CMA |
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Formerly, President and CEO of the Institute of Certified Management Accountants. Academic positions at Monash University and Wharton Institute of Technology and Science. Professional experience in running successful consultancy practice for 30 years. He is an educator who travels the world giving seminars in Strategic Cost Management and Blended Organizations.
Responsibility: Design of all Business Courses Program Responsibility: Master of Business Administration (MBA) Course Responsibilities: MBA605 & DBA 806: Economics; MBA710 & DBA 810: Corporate Finance |
Course Curriculum and Assessment Design
Prof. Chris DSouza
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Prof. Chris DSouza |
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BCom (Mumbai); PhD (WITS). FCA, FCMA, CPA |
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Prof. Chris D’Souza has had extensive experience in International Business and Financial Management in a both career in leading traditional and on-line corporations. He has worked at a very senior management level in financial accounting, management accounting and management/taxation consulting across many countries. In his last role before he became a global educator was as CFO of Red Bubble, a leading online retailer. His career also includes being Dean at the Wharton Institute of Technology and Science. In recent time Chris travels the world giving seminars on strategy, marketing and cost management issues. |
Prof Paul Cohen
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Prof Paul Cohen |
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AAS (College of Staten Island); BBA (Honors) (York University, Canada); MBA (Baruch University); ABD (City University of New York) |
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Professor Paul Cohen has almost 30 years experience as an academic in the USA. He has held academic appointments at Florida Atlantic University (1998-2014); The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale (1991-1998): and the College of Staten Island (1985-190). He was the Chair of the Bachelor Program at the College of Staten Island. He has also held an Adjunct Professor appointment at Nova Southeastern University (1991-2001). At Florida Atlantic University he was the supervisor of Marketing Internships (2009-2014). He has provided instruction for the following courses at Florida Atlantic University: Principles of Advertising; Marketing Management; Honors Seminar in Marketing; Retail Management; Merchandising Management; Media Strategy & Tactics; Creative Advertising Strategy; Sales and Sales Management; Consumer Behavior; Marketing Research & Information Systems; Seminar in Entrepreneurship; Marketing Strategy; Advertising Internship; Internship in Retailing and Sales Management Internship.
Course Responsibilities: MBA714 & DBA 811: Competitive Analysis; MBA608 & DBA 808: Strategic Management |
Prof. Kavan Ratnatunga
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Prof. Kavan Ratnatunga |
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BSc (Hons) (Cey); MS (Pitts); PhD (ANU) |
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Prof. Kavan Ratnatunga has had a 25 year academic career, which has included research at Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton; the Dominion Astrophysical Observatory in Victoria Canada; NASA Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Space Telescope Science Institute; Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Highlights of over 50 publications in refereed Journals included the First in-situ sample of Field Halo K-giants in Galactic Halo (1983), and the First Quad Gravitational Lens discovered with NASA Hubble Space Telescope (1995).
Course Responsibilities: MBA606 & DBA 807: Business Statistics |
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Prof. Raymond Greasley |
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MBA, PhD (WITS) |
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Prof. Raymond Greasley has had a 30+ year career in IT, which has covered: Project Management, Process Management, Analysis, Software Development/Testing, LAN Administration, Source Control, Training Staff, Infrastructure Builds – SQL Servers, Workstations, Web Servers, and Windows Servers. He has been project manager of large IT based projects and is a world-expert consultant in data integrity and security. He was formerly Dean of the Global Business School at the Wharton Institute of Technology and Science.
Course Responsibilities: MBA711: Computer Science. |
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Prof. Marshall Geiger |
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Ph.D., M.S. (Penn.State) , B.S.,B.A. (Bloomsburg , PA) |
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Prof Marshall Geiger is Professor of Accounting at the University of Richmond and held the Joseph A. Jennings Chair in Business Administration from August 2004 to 2010 at the University. He has been appointed to the Office of the Chief Accountant, U. S. Securities and Exchange Commission, Washington DC. His other teaching appointments have been at the University College (on-line) at the University of Maryland, the University of Florida, the University of Rhode Island, the University of Maine, and the Pennsylvania State University. He has written 5 books and over 200 Academic and Professional papers and numerous conference papers. His professional experience was gained at Ernst & Young in Reading, PA.
Course Responsibilities: MBA603 & DBA804: Accounting |
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Prof. Mark Higgins |
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PhD (Tennessee), M.S., BS. (South Carolina), CPA. |
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Prof Mark Higgins is Dean of the John Cook School of Business, Saint Louis University. Prior to this he was a member of University of Rhode Island’s faculty since 1988 and was appointed Dean of the URI’s business college in 2006. During his tenure at the University of Rhode Island, Prof. Higgins held the Alfred J. Verrecchia-Hasbro Inc. Leadership Chair in Business; and has also served as director of the Masters in Accounting program and Associate Dean for undergraduate programs. Prior to joining the University of Rhode Island, he was a tax manager for Ernst and Young in New York City. His research covers a broad range of areas that encompasses accounting education, tax research, real estate and business ethics and has been published nationally and internationally. Prof. Higgins is the past president of the American Taxation Association and serves on the Executive Committee of the American Accounting Association as vice president for Sections and Regions. In 2006, he was elected into the American Accounting Association Northeast Region Hall of Fame. Course Responsibilities: DBA813: Research Proposal |
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Prof. Kashi Balachandran |
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BEng (Hon) (Madras) , MS,. PhD. (Berkeley), CMA. |
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Prof. Kashi. R. Balachandran is a professor emeritus of accounting and operations management at New York University Stern School of Business, and former Editor in Chief of Journal of Accounting Auditing and Finance. He has served as Distinguished Institute Professor of G.D. Goenka World Institute where he advised the management on strategic development of the institute. He also served as Executive Director of the newly formed Glocal University in India. He is also a Chair Professor of Accounting at Tunghai University in Taiwan. He is an organizing member of the Taiwan- Italy Internship Program in its fifth year of operation and the China- Italy Internship program, for students from Taiwan and China to serve in Italian companies as interns. He has written and published more than 85 articles in leading academic journals of economics, accounting, operations research and management science. He served on the staff of Ross Institute of Accounting Research at New York University that develops liaison with Industry.
Course Responsibilities: MBA712 & DBA 812: Operations Management, MBA604 & DBA805: Finance |
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Prof. Kasi Ramanathan |
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PhD, MBA (Northwestern); BCom (Calcutta) |
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Prof Kasi Ramanathan is Professor Emeritus of Accounting at the University of Washington in Seattle. Formerly he was Professor and Chairman, Department of Accounting, University of Washington Business School. Prof. Ramanathan is an internationally recognized expert in the application of accounting and finance techniques for shareholder value-based organizational planning and control. His major publications include Accounting for Managerial Decision Making and Management Control in Nonprofit Organizations. Amongst the prestigious appointments he has held are Professor at the Indian Institute of Management; Visiting Professor at Harvard University, New York University, Simon Fraser University and the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He was also a Visiting Fellow at the Australian National University and Monash University, Australia. He has published numerous award winning books and publications and undertaken consulting projects at Boeing, Tektronix, Washington State Department of Social and Health Services, and others; and conducted numerous executive seminars to help decentralized managers focus on firm-wide shareholder value creation.
Course Responsibilities: DBA801: Research Methods, DBA814: Research Thesis |
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Prof. Ray Slaughter |
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BA (Kentucky State); MBA (Penn); LLM (William & Mary); JD (Howard |
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Prof. Ray Slaughter is an Associate Professor at the University of Richmond, where he has held faculty appointments since 1979. He has taught courses in business law, federal taxation and state and local taxation; and has been involved in Directed Student Learning at the university in tax strategies and planning; tax compliance and administration and accounting and business management. Amongst the many awards and honors he has received are The Outstanding Faculty Award, Virginia State Council of Higher Education; the David Mead White Distinguished Teaching Fellow and the Distinguished Educator Award at the University of Richmond. Amongst his public and community service activities are appointments to the Virginia State Board of Accountancy; Board of Trustees of Mary Washington Healthcare; Board Chairman of Employment Resources, Inc and the Gladys Oberle School; Board of Directors of the Union First Market Bank and to the Habitat for Humanity. He also practices as an Attorney-at-Law; focusing on commercial law and federal taxation. He is an Attorney-at-Law, Virginia Bar Associations, and a Certified Public Accountant, Pennsylvania. Course Responsibilities: MBA607: Business Law, MBA713: Entrepreneurial Law |
