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Faculty

Our faculty is guided by School of Business and Leadership Dean Dan Moshavi and GMBA Program Director Elaine McCarty. The Green MBA faculty is a dynamic team of professional and academic leaders, providing our students with challenging, transformational and cutting edge insight into how to build and lead sustainable organizations. Faculty expertise includes environmental law and public policy, executive-level corporate sustainability management, environmental consulting, green and social marketing, critical and systemic thinking, economics, and strategic planning. All faculty members are committed to environmental and social responsibility on a professional and personal level.

Anjali S. Bal MBA, Ph.D.

Anjali S. Bal, Ph.D., completed her doctorate in Marketing at Simon Fraser University (Canada) with particular focus on consumer behavior in the fine art market. Anjali has published articles in such journals as the Journal of Consumer Behavior, Business Horizons and The Journal of Public Affairs. Anjali's research is primarily focused on consumer behavior with particular interest on Social Media and Art. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Anjali earned a bachelor's degree from the University of California, San Diego in Theatre and an MBA from the Rotterdam School of Management (Netherlands). Anjali has professional experience in entertainment and financial services.

Ethan Newby Ph.D.

Ethan Newby received his B.A. in Psychology from the University of California San Diego and went on to acquire a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. Since completing his education he has lived in Michigan, Massachusetts, and now San Francisco. Over the last ten years Mr. Newby has owned his own company, Newby Research. He specializes in using both qualitative and quantitative approaches to conduct research on user experiences.

Héctor Sáez Ph.D.

Héctor Sáez, our new economics faculty, is an economist at Environment and Economy Consulting (www.environecon.com). He has taught in the business school at Santa Clara University, and at Presidio Graduate School. Before moving to San Francisco, Héctor was a research economist at Washington State University's Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources.

Jacob Massoud Ph.D.

Jacob Massoud joined the Dominican University of California's School of Business and Leadership in fall 2011. He teaches courses in business policy and strategy, organizational behavior, and socially and environmentally responsible management. Jacob's general research streams focus on corporate social responsibility, environmental management, and broader issues of sustainability in organizations. He also has a keen interest in Latin America. In 2009, Jacob collaborated with el IAE Business School in Buenos Aires, Argentina and conducted fieldwork for his dissertation on small and medium sized enterprise social responsibility. He has also co-authored several publications on environmental management in the Mexican maquiladora sector.

Jane Lorand JD, MA

Jane is Co-founder of the GreenMBA and a core faculty member. She works as a consultant to large corporations and state agencies, developing programs for public education in fields such as electric deregulation and telecommunications.

Jennifer Wells

Jennifer Wells received her B.A. in Mathematics and Elementary Education from Beloit College in Wisconsin. She later received her M.B.A. in Finance and Marketing from the University of San Francisco. Jennifer has taught Financial and Managerial Accounting at the University of San Francisco and a wide range of mathematics and statistics courses at Convent of the Sacred Heart, the Mary Institute and St. Louis Country Day School, and the Hamlin School.

John Stayton MBA

John Stayton is the Co-founder and Director of the GreenMBA. John spent 15 years in the field of high technology industrial marketing and sales. As a person with many interests, he also concurrently managed projects ranging from international joint venture consulting to directing a performing arts troupe.

Julianne E. Maurseth Ph.D.

Julianne is President of Awake at Work – a consulting firm dedicated to "bringing conscious choice to work" so that executive leaders and management teams develop more ethical, socially responsible and conscious workplaces.

Kelly Weidner Ph.D.

Kelly Weidner, Ph.D. completed her doctorate in Marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago where her dissertation research focused on sustainable innovation and how such innovation contributes to the triple bottom line. Prior to pursuing her Ph.D., Kelly earned a bachelor's degree from California State University, Chico and an MBA from DePaul University. Kelly has professional experience in the marketing of consumer goods & services and commercial real estate.

Nils M. Langenborg MBA

He began his career at the international advertising agency, J. Walter Thompson where he honed his skills in creating results-driven marketing campaigns for companies like Chevron, Sprint, Dole, Castle & Cooke, Bumble Bee Seafoods, Sun-Maid, Sunsweet, Sheraton Hotels, and a host of others. He went on to launch a group of mutual funds for World Savings and Loan before joining up with Jack Morton Productions where he successfully supported the launch of the Intel Pentium Processor in retail stores, connected Apple Computer with the Smithsonian Institute to create an interactive exhibit for the Gems and Minerals Hall, and drove awareness of the PowerPC chip launch to attendees of COMDEX — at the time the world's largest trade show with over 100,000 attendees.

Paul Bozzo

Paul Bozzo has a professional background that combines more than 20 years of experience in entrepreneurial strategy, angel/venture capital financing, SBA lending and business planning.

Rick Brusseau MBA

Rick Brusseau received his B.S. in Economics from Rutgers University and went on to acquire a Masters from Dominican University of California. He has a professional background that combines more than 20 years of experience in finance, accounting, and management consulting with start-ups (technology and e-commerce), private companies, non-profits and tribal organizations. Rick is Principal and founder of Sea View Partners, with offices in San Francisco and Seattle, a firm specializing in providing outsourced finance and accounting services to many start-ups and small to mid-sized businesses.

Rick Zalon MBA

Credentials: Certified Public Accountant-California, MBA-CSU Hayward, BA (Economics)-CSU Hayward.

Roberto Piccioni MS

Mr. Piccioni has specialized experience in industry Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) and Sustainability programs management, consisting of environmental compliance and stewardship, air, water and waste management, employee safety assurance and corporate communications and reporting. Mr. Piccioni has worked for prominent Fortune 500 companies during his industry career. He is a Sustainability & Compliance consultant with ERM based in Walnut Creek, California and is a frequent speaker at industry forums on the topic of Sustainability, Social Responsibility and EHS management.

Susan Briski MBA

Susan Briski is Principal and founder of Sustainable Progress Consulting, provides consulting services to leading organizations to help them create a sustainable future and improve their triple-bottom-line performance; where business, the environment, and people prosper. She helps people understand and apply sustainability principles in practical, common sense ways, and provides systematic approaches to produce measurable improvement.

Thea Bellos MBA

Thea Bellos is the founding principal of The Bellos Group, a global marketing and management consulting firm. The firm provides market research, strategic planning, business consulting and training services to professional service firms and corporations in the engineering, environmental and legal industries, and to non-profit cultural organizations. She is currently serving as the President of the Global Stewards Institute, a non-profit transnational, experiential educational program delivered in a sea-faring environment.