Faculty Leadership and Outreach Activities

Richard Bauer, Ph.D.

In April, Dr. Bauer and co-author Julie R. Dahlquist were selected by the Market Technicians Association (MTA) to receive the Charles H. Dow award for their work on the paper titled Analyzing Gaps for Profitable Trading Strategies. This prestigious award is given for excellence and creativity in technical analysis.

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.

Adrian Cowan, Ph.D.

Dr. Cowan is an Associate Director of Finance in the Bill Greehey School of Business. In 2010, Dr. Cowan was the recipient of St. Mary's University Alumni Association's Distinguished Faculty Award.

Brooke Envick, Ph.D.

Dr. Envick 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), was published by 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 eight nationwide.

In partnership with Earnie Broughton, the former head of ethics at USAA and the current Director of St. Mary's MBA and Executive Education Program, 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.

Aida Guillory

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

Jeffrey 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. Additionally, he serves on the Board of Directors of the Free Trade Alliance. Dr. Johnson was invited in 2010 to present at a special business and government leader conference hosted by Texas A&M University in Denton, Texas. His topic was "The Business Environment of Europe," Conducting Business with the European Union. Also, he was an invited presenter at a special business and government leader conference, the Envision 2008 Conference hosted at Texas A&M University, held 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).

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 Foundation and is President-Elect. The Foundation sponsors an annual autumn gala that raises money for charity and honors the female judiciary of Bexar County and surrounding counties. The gala, primarily attended by the legal community of San Antonio, was co-chaired last year by Oliva, and raised money for the Center for Family Relations, also known as "Kid's Exchange", a non-profit organization that teaches parenting skills, counsels parents and provides a safe location for the transfer of children during parental visitation exchanges.

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. She also serves as a board member and officer of the San Antonio Chapter of the Association for Information Technology Professionals (AITP), advises the student chapter of AITP, is the faculty coordinator of the SAP University Alliance, and is a mentor for Holmes High School Business Careers program.

S. Sam Sedki, Ph.D.

The Financial Executive International (FEI)-San Antonio chapter held its Academic Award presentation on February 17, 2010, at St. Mary's University. This is an annual event when the FEI awards top Accounting/Finance junior students from six universities in San Antonio $3,000 to each selected student. This year, Charles L. Cotrell, Ph.D., President of St. Mary's University, was the event speaker followed by awards presentation. Sam Sedki, Ph.D., professor of Accounting, introduced and presented Francisco Ramirez Gaston, Corporate Finance major, with the award.

Tanuja Singh, D.B.A.

Dr. Singh, dean of the Bill Greehey School of Business, spoke on "Business Schools in the Post Web 2.0 World: Why Social Media Matters to you" at the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) international conference and annual meeting on April 19 in Anaheim California. AACSB invited Singh to be a conference presenter after the release of her recent book Surfing the Rift: The executive's guide to the post Web 2.0 world.

David Sommer, Ph.D.

Dr. Sommer co-authored four articles in the September 2011 issue of the Journal of Risk and Insurance, the top journal in the field of Risk and Insurance. His articles include: "The Impact of CEO Turnover on Property-Liability Insurer Performance," "CEO Turnover and Ownership Structure: Evidence From the U.S Property-Liability Insurance Industry," "An Empirical Examination of Stakeholder Groups as Monitoring Sources in Corporate Governance," and "Earnings Smoothing, Executive Compensation, and Corporate Governance: Evidence From the Property-Liability Insurance Industry." Dr. Sommer also currently serves as the President of the American Risk and Insurance Association, the premier academic association in the field of risk management and insurance.