Faculty Leadership and Outreach Activities

Richard Bauer, Ph.D.

Dr. Bauer teaches in the MBA Program for the Graduate Business School of Chonnam National University ( CNU GSB) in Gwangju, Korea. The program at CNU GSB is the only MBA Program in Korea at a national university outside Seoul. The entire program is in English – his students are executives from the region as well as foreign students from Thailand, Vietnam, China, and Siberia. Other U.S. faculty members that have taught in the program have been from University of Missouri, Columbia and the University of Dallas.

Aida Belmares

Aida serves on the board of Executive Women International (EWI) as the Publication/Communications Director.

Brooke Envick, Ph.D.

Dr. Envick who is the Director of the Algur H. Meadows Center for Entrepreneurial Studies. She received the Outstanding Educator Award presented by The Academy of Educational Leadership, at the International Allied Academies Conference.

Lisa Garcia

Garcia wrote "Keep Moving Forward" (in memory of Dr. Keith Russell), which will be published in the Pecan Grove Press in Fall of 2009.

Matt Gilley, Ph.D.

Dr. Gilley's most prominent national-level outreach has been through his involvement with the Ethics Resource Center in Washington, D.C. The ERC is the nation's oldest non-profit think tank dedicated to the study of organizational ethics. The ERC Fellows program includes approximately 80 chief ethics and compliance officers from America's largest corporations and government agencies. During the spring of 2008, Dr. Gilley was asked to become an Invited Academic Fellow, of which there are only about five nationwide.

In partnership with the ethics head at USAA, Earnie Broughton, Dr. Gilley co-founded the Greater San Antonio Ethics & Compliance Roundtable. The GSAECR is a group of ethics officers and general counsels from San Antonio's and Austin's leading corporations, non-profits, and government agencies that meets regularly at St. Mary's to discuss issues related to ethics and CSR, hear speakers, and network.

Jeff Johnson, Ph.D.

Dr. Johnson is currently the director of the Center for Global Business Studies; the faculty advisor to the International Business Club; and the faculty advisor to the International Business Honor Society. He is also Honorary Research Fellow in the Faculty of Law, Business and Social Sciences at the University of Glasgow, located in Glasgow, Scotland. Dr. Johnson was invited to present at a special business and government leader conference. His topid was "The Business Environment of Europe," Conducting Business with the European Union Seminar, which was hosted by Texas A&M University, Laredo, Texas. Also, he was an invited presenter at a special business and government leader conference, the Envision 2008 Conference hosted at Texas A&M University in San Antonio, Texas. He spoke on "Thinking International – Be Prepared."

Mathew Joseph, Ph.D.

Dr. Joseph is president of the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA).

Margaret Langford, Ph.D.

Dr. Langford is a member of the Business Career Pathway advisory committee which works with the Edgewood Independent School District regarding the development of career paths for high school students (and eventually even younger students). In the last year, this initiative led to the creation of a Business Careers Pathway at Kennedy High School. This is particularly significant because Edgewood is a relatively poor school district in terms of dollars, but parents and students have asked for career path development in both business and medical areas, with advice and input sought from "outside experts." Dr. Langford's role is very intricately connected with the community orientation of the Bill Greehey School of Business faculty.

Songbae Lim, Ph.D.

Dr. Lim has 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 Business and Finance since 2005. The San Antonio Business Journal and International Herald Tribune have 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.

Thomas Madison, Ph.D.

Dr. Madison coordinates the St. Mary's Volunteer Income Tax (VITA) program. The St. Mary's VITA site prepares approximately 550 returns annually and which results in just over three-quarters of a million dollars in income tax refunds to residents in surrounding neighborhoods. Additionally, in the past tax season, the program added financial literacy and credit counseling to the tax preparation service. This was accomplished through the efforts of Dr. Cowan and several of the Greehey Scholars.

Dr. Madison also serves on the board of directors and finance chair for the Community Development Loan Fund (CDLF), a non-profit loan fund established in San Antonio in the early '90s by the City of San Antonio and several of the larger banks. The CDLF makes loans to existing small businesses, often in tandem with a bank, and provides technical assistance to the borrower.

Suzanne Oliva, J.D.

Oliva serves on the Board of Directors for the Bexar County Women's Bar Association and is Treasurer-Elect. The association's autumn gala is the largest fundraiser for charity. Last year, they raised money for Haven for Hope, a beloved charity of Bill Greehey. This year, their Charity Designate is the Bexar County Detention Ministries, Inc., a non-profit organization that provides support for the families of people incarcerated, especially children.

Prasad Padmanabhan, Ph.D.

Dr. Padmanabhan has held the position of Executive Education leader for Japanese Executives, and is currently the Executive Education leader for Mongolian Executives. He has been a Sam Walton fellow since 2002. Dr. Padmanabhan also coordinates and advises St. Mary's SIFE students.

Monica Parzinger, Ph.D.

Dr. Parzinger is the director of the Bill Greehey School of Business Innsbruck, Austria study abroad program. She participated in the Global Awareness Tour of South Africa, Botswana, Zambia & Zimbabwe with the University of South Carolina CIBER in 2008.

David Sommer, Ph.D.

Dr. Sommer was elected in 2009 to serve as Vice President for 2009-2010 of the American Risk and Insurance Association, the premier academic association in the field of risk management and insurance.