Faculty and Staff

B.S., Baylor University, 1972
M.S., Baylor University, 1973
M.S., Baylor University, 1974
Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 1985
Richard J. Bauer, CFA, Ph.D., is the author of Genetic Algorithms and Investment Strategies (1994) and co-author (with Dr. Julie Dahlquist) of Technical Market Indicators (1999), both published by John Wiley & Sons. Technical Market Indicators has also been translated into Chinese and is currently being distributed in Asia. Recent publications include "Market Timing and Roulette Wheels" (co-authored with Dr. Julie Dahlquist), which appeared in the Jan/Feb 2001 issue of "Financial Analysts Journal," and a chapter in the Book of Investing Rules (2001). His other research has appeared in a variety of academic journals.

Bauer has been quite active in the San Antonio Society of Financial Analysts serving as president (1996-97) and in other leadership positions. At St. Mary's, he has served as associate dean (1994-97) and M.B.A. director (1992-94) of the Bill Greehey School of Business, and as president of the St. Mary's University Faculty Senate (1998-99). He is a member of the American Finance Association, Financial Management Association and the Southwestern Finance Association. Prior to earning his doctorate, Bauer worked as a manager and owner of small businesses. He is an active member of First Presbyterian Church in San Antonio.

M.B.A. Pennsylvania State University, 1973
Prior to entering academia, Professor Edward G. Cole was an officer in the United States Army Medical Department and hospital administrator. He has taught for the U.S. Army/Baylor University program and at Trinity University. Prior to returning to academics in 1989 when he joined the St. Mary's University faculty, he operated his own market research firm.

Cole assumed the directorship of the Small Business Institute at St. Mary's University in 1992; his research interest is the application of management and marketing theory in a small business environment.

B.S., California State University, 1973
M.B.A., University of Nevada, 1977
Ph.D., University of Maryland, 1988 Suzanne N. Cory, Ph.D., has served as acting dean of the Bill Greehey School of Business, associate dean and M.B.A. program director. Prior to beginning her academic career, Cory was employed in public accounting. She has extensive academic experience with teaching specialities in financial and management accounting.

Her research interests include behavioral and gender issues in accounting and accounting education. Cory has authored articles in several journals including "The Journal of Accounting Education," "Journal of Business Ethics," "The CPA Journal, Strategic Finance," "Journal of Business Issues," "The Accounting Educator's Journal" and "The Review of Business." In addition to presenting scholarly papers at academic meetings, she is active in the American Accounting Association and is a member of the Texas Society of CPAs.

M.B.A., The Thunderbird School of Global Management, 1981
B.A., University of Kansas, 1974

John Drabier, M.B.A., has extensive experience at several financial groups. At St. Mary's, he teaches corporate finance, financial counseling, and risk management and insurance planning.

B.S., University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1991
M.B.A., University of Nebraska at Kearney, 1993
Ph.D., University of Nebraska at Lincoln, 1996
Brooke R. Envick, Ph.D. joined the faculty at St. Mary's University in 1996, shortly after completing her Ph.D. at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. She is a Professor of Management, Director of the Meadows Center for Entrepreneurial Studies, and Director of the Entrepreneur Scholars Program. She also serves as Chairman of the Board for the Forum on Entrepreneurship Breakfast Series. Envick specializes her teaching in entrepreneurship, leadership, and small business management. She has received 11 teaching awards, including the Outstanding Educator Award for Innovative and Creative Teaching from the Academy of Educational Leadership. Envick has published over 20 peer reviewed journal articles in 10 different entrepreneurship and business management journals and is on the editorial board for the Journal of Leadership & Organizational Studies. She has received 13 distinguished research awards at national and international conferences. Envick has also served as a start-up and small business growth consultant for several entrepreneurial firms and is currently an advisor for the student managed business in the Bill Greehey School of Business.

Ph.D., University of Texas at Arlington, 1997
K. Matthew Gilley, Ph.D., is the Bill Greehey Chair in Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility in the Greehey School of Business. He holds a Ph.D. in strategic management from the University of Texas at Arlington. Prior to joining the Greehey School, Gilley served on the faculty of the Spears School of Business at Oklahoma State University and on the business faculty at James Madison University.

Gilley's teaching centers on ethics, corporate social responsibility and business strategy. He was awarded the Regents’ Distinguished Teaching Award and the Greiner Teaching Award at OSU and was nominated for other teaching awards multiple times. He has consulted corporations and government agencies on issues of business ethics, social responsibility and strategic management. He is a member of the Greater San Antonio Ethics & Compliance Roundtable.

His research interests include the relationship between executive compensation and ethical/unethical behavior, corporate governance and outsourcing. His work has been published or is forthcoming in the Academy of Management Journal, Strategic Management Journal, Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Business Research, and others.

B.S., California State University, 1979
M.B.A., University of Colorado, 1997
Ph.D., University of Strathclyde, Glasgow, Scotland, 2002
Jeffrey E. Johnson, Ph.D., is an Associate Professor of International Business. Johnson also serves as the Director of the Center for Global Business Studies. He holds an MBA with an emphasis in International Business from the University of Colorado. Johnson holds the Certified Global Business Professional credential and is an active member of the San Antonio Free Trade Alliance. He has extensive professional business, entrepreneurial and consulting experience.

Johnson's research interests include small firm internationalization, international entrepreneurship, and micromultinationals. His articles have been published in the European Management Journal, Journal of International Entrepreneurship, Journal of Global Awareness, and Hallway Case Journal. He was appointed as the 2003-2005 Dierdre Harkins Richards Professor of Free Enterprise and was the recipient of the 2002 Academy of International Business Best Dissertation Award, 2005 Outstanding Faculty Award, and the 2006-2007 Distinguished Faculty Award.

Bachelor of General Studies, Southeast Missouri State University, 1986
M.B.A., Southeast Missouri State University, 1988
Ph.D., University of Waikato in New Zealand, 1995
Mathew Joseph, Ph.D., is the Emil C.E. Jurica Distinguished Professor of Marketing at the Bill Greehey School of Business. He has taught at universities across the world including the University of South Alabama, Universidade Nova Lisboa in Portugal, Swinburne University in Australia, and the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Joseph completed his Bachelor and Master degrees in Missouri and Ph.D. in New Zealand.

Joseph is a member of several professional associations such as the Academy of Marketing Science, Society for Marketing Advances, American Marketing Association, and the Academy of International Business. He has served as the program chair and track chair for the SMA and AMS Conferences, including the World Marketing Congress for the last several years. He has also been a reviewer and presenter for a number of professional and academic conferences. He is currently the President-Elect for the Society for Marketing Advances after having served as Executive Director and Vice President for Membership. Joseph also serves on the editorial board of several journals.

Joseph's main areas of research include cross cultural marketing, service quality, marketing strategy, health care marketing, electronic marketing, service technology, international advertising and promotion, marketing to Asia and Latin America, and marketing education.

Joseph has been published extensively (more than 90 articles) in journals and proceedings including the Journal of Consumer Marketing, International Journal of Pharmaceutical and Healthcare Marketing, and Journal of Medical Marketing. He has also published several professional articles and reports.

B.A., Michigan State University, 1976
C.P.A., Michigan, 1979 (inactive)
M.B.A., University of Illinois at Chicago, 1983
Ph.D., Northwestern University, 1989
After working in public accounting for several years, Gail Kaciuba, Ph.D., began teaching accounting full time, and eventually attended Northwestern University to earn a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences. The mathematical economics Ph.D. couldn't keep her from teaching what she liked best – accounting. She has taught accounting at DePaul University in Chicago, University of Illinois at Chicago, Midwestern State University, and Texas Tech University.

Kaciuba wrote a study guide and created interactive power point presentations for classroom use that emphasize active learning concepts. She develops a great deal of her own teaching materials that emphasize, in addition to the technical knowledge of the course, core competencies included in the core competency framework. The assessment of these competencies is a frequent topic of Kaciuba’s presentations at academic conferences. During her tenure at DePaul University, Kaciuba was awarded the School of Accountancy’s Faculty Excellence Award.

Her research interests include game theoretic analyses of the oil and gas industry, improvements in accounting education, and activity-based costing in health care. Kaciuba was a member of a panel of experts before HCFA (the arm of Congress that administrated Medicare) to discuss improving the methodology used for computing reimbursements to physicians. She has spoken to numerous physicians’ associations and at the American Medical Association on this subject. Kaciuba’s academic articles have appeared in journals such as Journal of the American Taxation Association, Issues in Accounting Education, The Journal of Accounting Education, The Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Accountancy and Healthcare Financial Management.

B.A. Southwest Texas State University 1974
M.Ed. Texas A&M University, 1976
M.B.A. University of Texas at Austin, 1982
Ph.D. University of Houston 1992
Prior to earning her doctorate, Margaret R. Langford, Ph.D., worked for several years both in banking operations and in public education. Her teaching interests include organizational behavior, managerial practices and concepts, and human resources management. Research interests include organizational culture, human resource management, and improving teaching effectiveness.

She has co-authored articles published or to be published in Equal Opportunities International, Journal of Behavior and Entrepreneurship, Academy of Entrepreneurship Journal, Journal of Computer Information Systems, Latin American Business Review and Journal of Managerial Issues. She is a member of the Southwest Academy of Management, the Society of Human Resources Management, the San Antonio Human Resource Management Association, the Academy of Management and the Academy of Business Education.

Ph.D., University of Nebraska, 2003
Seongbae Lim, Ph.D., joined St. Mary’s University as an associate professor of information systems. He specializes ine-commerce, database management, and management information systems. His prior teaching experience includes the University of Nebraska at Lincoln and State University of New York at Geneseo.

Lim specializes his research interests in the areas of e-commerce, supply chain management, service management and entrepreneurship. Recent works have appeared in the International Journal of Knowledge Management, Service Industries Journal, and International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal.

Lim is active in the Association of Information Systems, Decision Science Institute and Pan Pacific Business Association. He has also served as a track chair of e-commerce for the annual conference of Decision Science Institute. Lim has been selected for Marquis Who’s Who in America along with Who’s Who in the World since 2005. The International Herald Tribune has featured Dr. Lim regarding his role in building the relationship between US and Korean universities. In addition, as a columnist, Lim contributes regularly about spiritual capital to Guideposts.

B.B.A., Angelo State University, 1989
M.B.A, Angelo State University, 1994
Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 1998
C.P.A.
C.M.A.
Tom Madison, Ph.D., joined the faculty of the Bill Greehey School of Business in 1998. His primary teaching interests are in managerial and financial accounting. Dr. Madison has taught both accounting and business administration programs in the BGSB Masters of Business Administration program. In addition, Dr. Madison has been a member of teaching teams with members of the St. Mary's graduate program in International Relations for immersion courses in economic development in Nicaragua and Bangladesh.

Dr. Madison has published articles in Advances in Management Accounting, The Financial Review, Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, the Journal of the Academy of Business Education, Oil & Gas Energy Quarterly, Review of Business, Issues in Information Systems, and The Journal of Volunteer Administration.

Dr. Madison is a member of the American Accounting Association, the American Institute of Public Accouintants, and the national Community Tax Coalition. Dr. Madison serves on the board of the Community Development Loan Fund and coordinates the St. Mary's University Volunteer Income Tax Assistance Program.

Dr. Madison was the 2003 Distinguished Faculty Member for the Bill Greehey School of Business and the 2009 recipient of the Community Service Award from St. Mary's University.

J.D. St. Mary's University, 1996
M.B.A. Incarnate Word College, 1991
B.A. The University of Texas, 1982

Professor Martinez came to the Bill Greehey School of Business in 1999. Since then, he has taught several courses in the areas of Marketing, Management, Business Law, and General Business, both at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Currently, his research interests include investigating stereotypes and perceptions of members of business occupations.

Prior to earning his Juris Doctorate, he was employed with the mortgage industry in various capacities. After graduation from law school, Professor Martinez accepted a position as a law clerk with a Bankruptcy Judge.

B.S.S., Universidad De Puerto Rico, 1969
M.A., American University, 1975
M.B.A., Florida State University, 1982
Ph.D., University of South Carolina, 1987
Zaida Martinez, Ph.D., joined the Bill Greehey School of Business as an associate professor of international business. She holds the doctorate in international business from the University of South Carolina and the master of business administration degree from Florida State University. Her papers have appeared in the Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management, Journal of International Management, and Management International Review.

She is co-editor of the book, International Business Scholarship, has been visiting professor at the University of Auckland, New Zealand, and an internationalization consultant to the University of Puerto Rico, the Alamo Community College District and Georgetown College.Martinez was the director (Title VI, Part A) and co-director (Title VI, Part B) of two U. S. Department of Education grants. She also serves as an external grant reviewer for the U. S. Department of Education.

Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 1992
During an 18-year banking career, Richard Menger, Ph.D., managed such diverse activities as market research and planning, international services, business development, advertising and public relations. He was also regional manager for strategic business planning for Texas' largest bank holding company and spent two years as a planning liaison with McKinsey & Co. His primary research interests include links between planning process characteristics and firm performance, executive succession and shareholder wealth, international management structure and communications, media ethics, and the private equity industry's role in mergers and acquisitions.

Active in a number of academic, professional and community organizations, Menger has served as organizational behavior and strategic management track chair for the Southwest Academy of Management and is a member of the Association for Corporate Growth and the Round Table Group and, is a board member of the Texas Business Hall of Fame and trustee of The Texas Business Hall of Fame Foundation.

His publications have appeared in the Journal of Marketing Management, Academy of Management Executive, Journal of Behavioral and Applied Management, Southwest Business Review, Journal of Asian Business, Managerial Finance and Texas Banking. He also is a co-editor of International Business Scholarship, a 2001 publication by Quorum Books. Menger held the Deirdre Harkins Richards Professorship in 1996.

Ph.D., University of Oklahoma, 1975
Ronald D. Merrell, Ph.D., served as dean of the Graduate School from 1984-2004. Merrell has also served as president and vice president of the Association of Texas Graduate Schools and was previously director of the master of business administration and systems management programs for eight years at St. Mary's University.

His teaching experience includes organizational behavior and other management courses involving human resources, organizations, strategy, and labor.

Management consulting includes helping clients achieve world class operations and a sustainable competitive advantage, developing a highly committed high performance workforce, providing training in leadership development, project management, and self managed teams. Consulting may include financial analysis, an audit of operations, creating organization culture, developing a marketing strategy, or assisting the organization in aligning human resource practices, policies, and programs with the corporate strategy.

Dr. Merrell's research and publications include teaching excellence, women entrepreneurs, and creating a highly committed high performance workforce.

B.S., Texas A&M University, 1981
M.B.A., Texas A&M University, 1985
Ph.D., Texas A&M University, 2003
Eileen Wall Mullen, Ph.D., is the assistant professor of marketing in the Bill Greehey School of Business. While pursuing her doctorate, she served as a lecturer at Texas A&M, teaching courses in Consumer Behavior and Services Marketing. There, she earned both marketing department and college of business awards for teaching excellence.

Mullen's professional business experience includes twelve years with Hallmark Cards Inc. She was awarded the company's R.B. Hall Award for field marketing excellence while working in Hallmark's field marketing organization. Previously, she held management positions, her most recent position being manager of national retail training.

Mullen's research interests include services marketing and retailing. She has co-authored a book chapter published in the Yearbook of Services Management 2001.

Ph.D., Texas Tech University, 1992
M.B.A, Texas Tech University, 1989
B.S., California State University, 1971

Mary Ann Murray, Ph.D., received her doctorate in production and operations management with a minor in statistics; she also holds an M.B.A. with a concentration in management information systems. Prior to joining St. Mary's University, Murray taught as a faculty member in the School of Business at John Carroll University. Since joining St. Mary's, Murray has served as department chairperson of the Department of Finance and Quantitative Management, as well as director of the Innsbruck study abroad program. Her teaching experience includes courses in production and operations management, quantitative methods, inventory and material management and production control systems and scheduling.

Murray's current research interests are in TQM applications and nonlinear applications to health care and education. She has been actively involved in many professional associations, including Decision Sciences Institute and the American Production and Inventory Control Society.

Recent works have appeared in "Business Process Re-Engineering & Management Journal," "International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance," "International Journal of Quality and Reliability Management," "The CPA Journal," "Journal of Accountancy," "Journal of the Academy of Business Education," "Journal of College Teaching and Learning," "Journal for the International Academy of Case Studies," and numerous conference proceedings.

B.B.A., St. Mary’s University, 1987
J.D., St. Mary’s University School of Law, 1996
C.P.A.
Professor Oliva joined the faculty of the Greehey School of Business in 2003 and currently focuses her teaching and research interests in the areas of accounting, business ethics, legal ethics and the legal environment of business. She has also taught Property I, Property II, Insurance Law and Federal Income Taxation at St. Mary's University School of Law.

Prior to earning her doctorate, she was an auditor with the public accounting firm of Ernst & Whinney and an accountant with a local medical office. After graduation from law school, Oliva joined the law firm of Oliva, Saks, Garcia & Curiel, LLP and primarily concentrated her legal practice in the areas of wills, probate, estate planning, family law, and personal injury law. She is a board director of the Bexar County Women's Bar Association and Foundation and a member of the American Bar Association, the State Bar of Texas and the San Antonio Bar Association. She is admitted to practice law in the state of Texas, the Federal District Court of the Western District and the United States Supreme Court.

On a personal note, Oliva is an active member of St. Padre Pio Catholic Church and enjoys live theater, sporting events and world travel with her husband, Javier, and four sons.

Myra Stafford Pryor Chair of Free Enterprise
B. Tech., Indian Institute of Technology, 1975
M.B.A., McGill University, 1978
Ph.D., McGill University, 1988
Prasad Padmanabhan, Ph.D., comes to St. Mary's Bill Greehey School of Business from San Diego State University, where he was an associate professor of finance. He also has prior teaching experience at the Pennsylvania State University, the University of the West Indies, Vanderbilt University, McGill University and Concordia University.

A prolific researcher, his articles have been published in several prominent professional and academic journals including International Business Review, Journal of International Business Studies, Management International Review, Journal of International Management, Financial Review, Journal of Global Business, Journal of Banking and Finance, Journal of Multinational Financial Management, Global Finance Journal, and Financial Analysts Journal.

Padmanabhan is dedicated and accomplished in the classroom, specializing in teaching international finance, investments, corporate finance, financial management and international business.

Ph.D., University of Memphis, 1996
M.B.A., University of Kentucky, 1987
B.S., Bowling Green State University, 1975
Monica J. Parzinger, Ph.D., joined the faculty of the Bill Greehey School of Business in fall 2001. Her current teaching and research emphasis is management of information technology, e-commerce and accounting information systems. Her research appears in Software Quality Journal, Journal of Women and Minorities in Science and Engineering, E-Service Journal, Information Strategy: The Executive's Journal, Advanced Management Journal, Journal of Information Technology Management and Total Quality Management as well as conference proceedings.

Parzinger received her Bachelors degree from Bowling Green State University as an Accounting major and an MBA from the University of Kentucky. She was employed by the F.D.I.C. as a bank examiner specializing in electronic data processing and taught at Christian Brothers University and Clemson University prior to joining St. Mary's University faculty.

B.S., University of Arizona, 1979
M.P.A., University of Texas at Austin, 1983
Ph.D., University of Houston, 1987
C.P.A.
C.F.P.
Mark B. Persellin, Ph.D., is a specialist in taxation and has made many contributions to the tax field. His articles have appeared in The Accounting Educators' Journal, The Tax Adviser, The CPA Journal, Journal of Taxation, Journal of Corporate Taxation, The Tax Executive and the Journal of American Taxation Association. He is also a contributing author in West Federal Taxation: Corporations, Partnerships, Estates & Trusts.

Prior to coming to St. Mary's University, Persellin worked for Peat Marwick and Mitchell, and he taught at Southwest Texas State University, Florida Atlantic University and the University of Houston.

B.B.A., Texas Tech University, 1973
M.B.A., Southwest Texas State University 1976
Ph.D., University of Arkansas, 1984
H. Richard Priesmeyer, Ph.D., teaches strategic management and marketing in the Bill Greehey School of Business. His research has focused on the practial applications of nonlinear systems theory which allow for the control and management of complex and unpredictable systems. He has been a consultant to healthcare organizations for a number of years and is author of the book "Organizations and Chaos: Defining the Methods of Nonlinear Management." Priesmeyer has published a variety of articles on the subject in the Journal of the Academy of Business Education, Journal of College Teaching and Learning and Journal of Management & Marketing.

B.B.A., Eastern Kentucky University, 1976
J.D., University of Kentucky, 1979
M.B.A., St. Cloud State University, 1986
LL.M., University of Houston, 1994
C.F.P., 1998

Kent W. Royalty, J.D., is past president of the Southwestern Region of the American Accounting Association and is active in numerous other professional associations. Professor Royalty primarily teaches in the areas of Taxation and Law. He has proviously taught at St. Cloud State University and Eastern Kentucky University. He has also practiced law in Kentucky.

He is an active researcher whose articles have appeared in Journal of Legal Tax Research, The International Journal of Volunteer Administration, Journal of Global Awareness, The International Trade Journal, The Electronic Hallway, The CPA Journal, Trial Lawyers Forum, Business and Tax Planning Quarterly, Business Law Review, Southern Business and Economic Review, Journal of Small Business Management, The Journal of Legal Studies Education, Accounting Perspectives, and Oil and Gas Quarterly.

A member of the United States Foreign Service since 1962, Ambassador Scassa served in Africa, Latin America, Europe and the Middle East. He served as Executive Director of the Bureau of Inter-American Affairs from 1986-1990, and concurrently served at the Deputy Assistant Secretary level. In 1990, President Bush nominated Mr. Scassa as Ambassador to Belize, a post he held for nearly four years. He served as Assistant to U.N. Ambassador Madeleine Albright. Ambassador Scassa retired from the Foreign Service in 1997. He originally joined St. Mary's University in 1994 as Diplomat-in-Residence, and served on the faculty until spring 2000. Ambassador Scassa returned to St. Mary's University in 2006 to the position of International Scholar-in-Residence. Read more about Ambassador Scassa and his dedication to community and public service in State Magazine (October 2000 edition, pdf pages 30 and 31).

B.A., University of Baghdad, 1963
M.S., Kansas State University, 1968
Ph.D., University of Northern Colorado, 1973
C.P.A.
C.M.A.
S. Sam Sedki, Ph.D., joined the faculty of the Bill Greehey School of Business in 1981 as a professor of accounting; and he served as chairman of the accounting department for eight years. Sedki has held various national and regional offices within the American Accounting Association, twice serving as vice president and program chair. He has been vice president of the Administrators of Accounting Group and is one of the founders of the Management Accounting Section of the American Accounting Association.

He also chaired various committees of the Financial Executive's International, serving as treasurer of FEI (1995-96), secretary (1996-1997), vice president (1997-1998) and president (1998-99). Sedki, author of the Financial Accounting Study Guide, has published in national and regional referred journals and proceedings and is editor of the Journal of the Academy of Business Administration.

Co-recipient of the 1994 Douglass Award for Innovative Teaching, Sedki's teaching interest is in financial accounting.

Ph.D., Southern Illinois University, Carbondale, Ill.
M.B.A. Millsaps College, Jackson, Miss.
M.S., Physics, Allahabad University, India
B.S., Physics, Allahabad University, India

Tanuja Singh is the Dean of the Bill Greehey School of Business. She holds a doctorate in Business Administration from Southern Illinois University in Carbondale. Prior to joining the Greehey School of Business, Singh served as Chair and Professor in the College of Business at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb. She was also on the business faculty at Florida Institute of Technology in Melbourne.

Singh's teaching, research, and consulting interests include global and cross-cultural marketing strategy, digital marketing, and public policy issues in marketing. She was awarded the Outstanding International Educator Award at Northern Illinois University in recognition of significant contribution to International Education. She has published over 40 papers in internationally acclaimed journals, and national and international conferences. Her papers have been published in such journals as Business Horizons, Journal of Consumer Marketing, Research in Consumer Behavior, International Business Review, International Journal of Electronic Marketing and Retailing Journal of Global Marketing, Journal of International Consumer Marketing, Journal of Asia Pacific Business, The Marketing Management Journal, Journal of Not-for-Profit and Public Sector Marketing and Journal of Vacation Marketing, among others. She is the co-author of an upcoming book on digital media titled Surfing the Rift: The Executive's Guide to Marketing in the Post Web 2.0 World.

Singh has served as a consultant to several private and public sector organizations including Fortune 500 companies. She has received several research grants from private and public sector organizations and conducted many workshops and seminars in the U.S. and abroad on topics pertaining to international business, cross-cultural and multicultural communication and e-commerce.

Singh developed the prototype for the Center of Excellence in Global Business and planned and conducted global executive education training for the international executive education program in the NIU's College of Business. She also successfully helped negotiate long-term executive education opportunities with government officials from Egypt and China. An active member of the Academy of Marketing Science, Singh has served as the Vice President of International Membership and served as program chair and track chair for many conferences. She serves on the editorial boards of two marketing journals—Managing Service Quality and the Journal of the Korean Academy of Marketing Science. She has traveled extensively and maintains an active network of colleagues and friends from around the world.

B.B.A., St. Mary's University, 1989
M.A., University of Pennsylvania, 1991
Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania, 1994
David W. Sommer, Ph.D., joined St. Mary’s University in 2007 as the Charles E. Cheever Chair of Risk Management. He received his B.B.A. degree from St. Mary’s University, and his M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from the Wharton School of Business at the University of Pennsylvania. For the twelve years prior to his return to St. Mary’s, he was a faculty member in risk management and insurance at the University of Georgia’s Terry College of Business.

During his career, Sommer has taught at the undergraduate, MBA, Executive MBA, and Ph.D. levels in the areas of corporate risk management and employee benefits. He has received a number of teaching honors, including the Terry College Teacher of the Year award.

Sommer’s research has been published in a variety of academic and professional journals, including Journal of Risk and Insurance, Journal of Financial Services Research, Journal of Banking and Finance, Risk Management and Insurance Review, Journal of Insurance Regulation, Journal of the American Society of CLU and ChFC, and the Journal of Insurance Issues. His research has been honored with several awards, including the Robert I. Mehr Award, presented each year by the American Risk and Insurance Association "for that paper published ten years ago that has best stood the test of time." He is also the co-author of a risk management and insurance textbook. He is a Past President of the Southern Risk and Insurance Association and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the American Risk and Insurance Association.

CPCU, CLU, 1969
Ph.D., University of Wisconsin, 1968
M.B.A., Ohio State University, 1964
B.S., Ohio State University, 1963

Jerry D. Todd, Ph.D., held the position of Cheever Professor of Risk Management from 1981-2007. Prior to that, he taught at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill and the University of Texas at Austin.

He has authored dozens of books and articles on risk and insurance and has held associate or assistant editorships with six different academic and professional journals.

He is past president of the American Risk and Insurance Association, as well as the Southern and Western Risk and Insurance Associations and has served as chairman of Moderators for the International Insurance Society. Todd won awards for both research (outstanding feature article in the Journal of Risk and Insurance) and teaching Distinguished Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching by the Alumni Association of St. Mary's).

Ph.D., Georgia State University, 1975

A graduate of Georgia State University, Brian Toyne, Ph.D., is widely regarded as a leading scholar in international business. He is the author or co-author of ten books, dozens of refereed journal articles and other publications. In addition, he is a consultant to many schools on their internationalization efforts. Prior to joining St. Mary's University, he was director of the doctorate program in international business at the University of South Carolina.

Most recently, he was a past chair of the International Management Division, Academy of Management, a past vice-president of the Academy of International Business, former Fulbright Scholar to Colombia, associate editor of the Journal of International Business Studies and consultant to UNIDO. Toyne is a Fellow of the Academy of International Business and active as a teacher, researcher and mentor.

Stephanie Ward, Ph.D., joined the faculty of Bill Greehey School of Business in 2004. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Houston where she taught Organizational Behavior and Human Resources courses. While at the University of Houston, she received research and teaching awards for her work as a doctoral student. At St. Mary's, she teaches Human Resources courses in Training and Development, Compensation, Employee Relations as well as the Seminar in Human Resource Management. Ward is also the Director of the Greehey Scholars Program in the Bill Greehey School of Business.

Ward's research explores questions about rewards, psychological contracts, and organizational justice. Currently, she is studying the importance of individual differences on pay system attractiveness, the employer's role in psychological contract formation, and the effect of promise keeping on performance. Her research has been published in Human Resource Management Review and World at Work Journal.

Ward is an active member of the Academy of Management, San Antonio Human Resource Management Association, Society of Human Resource Management, Southern Management Association, Southwest Management Association, and World at Work Association. In 2004, Ward was the Academy of Management's New Doctoral Student Consortium Executive Chair. She also participates as a conference reviewer for the Academy of Management and the Southern Management Association.

Ward is a native Texan, but travels near and far. Some of her more memorable excursions include spending a year as an exchange student in South Africa, kayaking Newfoundland's North Atlantic, seeing Orca whales rub on the beaches of Telegraph Cove, and watching the sunset from the Grand Canyon's Yuma Point. Ward enjoys kayaking, hiking, biking, camping and baseball with her husband, Randy, their son, Zachary, and family dog Buster. Included on Ward's to-do list are hiking the Appalachian Trail and the Great Wall of China, visiting Antarctica, seeing each whale species in its natural habitat, and camping in every state park in Texas.

Ph.D., University of Texas at Austin, 1967
M.B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1959
B.B.A., Southern Methodist University, 1958

Charles N. Weaver, Ph.D., has taught business statistics, marketing and management for more than 40 years at St. Mary's University. He has written more than 200 journal articles and convention papers mainly on minorities and worker attitudes. His research has appeared in "Academy of Management Journal," "Monthly Labor Review," "Texas Business Review," "Quality Progress," "California Management Review," "Journal of Retailing," "Personnel Psychology," "Personnel," "The Personnel Administrator," "Public Opinion Quarterly," "Psychology Today," "Sociology and Social Research," "Social Forces," "Phylon," "Journal of Marriage and the Family," "Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences," and "Journal of Applied Social Psychology."

Weaver has been a consultant for organizations in many industries including fast food, supermarkets, home building, automobile manufacturers and dealerships, newspaper, city governments, military (U.S. Air Force, Army, Navy, Corps of Engineers), pharmaceutical, cafeterias, banks, land developers, and advertising agencies. He currently limits his consulting to hospitals.

Weaver has published two books, Tqm: A Step-by-Step Guide to Implementation and Managing the Four Stages of Tqm: How to Achieve World-Class Quality.