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Dr. Don B. Bradley III
Executive Director and Professor of Marketing Small Business Advancement National Center (SBANC) President-Elect, International Council for Small Business (ICSB) ~ Dr. Bradley is an internationally known small business consultant having worked for many years in promoting and advising small business owners. He has served as the Vice President of Publications for the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) and has served as a Board Member-at-Large for the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). Bradley currently is the President-Elect of ICSB. He continues to serve as the Small Business Institute Director at the University of Central Arkansas and has worked very closely with the United States Small Business Administration (SBA) for over 40 years. Bradley has served as the national President of the Small Business Institute, the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship, and the Marketing Education Association. He served as President of the Arkansas Chapter of the Institute of Supply Management (NAPM, Arkansas). Bradley previously served as Senior External Vice President of the International Council for Small Business, Vice President of ICSB, family business Vice President and program chairman of USASBE. He, along with the help of U.S. Senator Dale Bumpers of Arkansas, is the founder of the Small Business Advancement National Center at the University of Central Arkansas. For many years he has worked as an advocate for small business in Washington, D.C. His work experience has included being a salesman, advertising director, chief executive officer of a bank, and Vice President of a training and development company. Since 1971, he has been President and Chief Consultant of a family-operated consulting firm, American Marketing Group LLC of Conway Arkansas. He was a monthly contributor to the business section of The Log Cabin Democrat newspaper on issues pertaining to entrepreneurship and small business and is currently an editor for the weekly newsletter published electronically by the Small Business Advancement National Center, which is celebrating its 20th anniversary this year. This newsletter services over 86 different countries and is one of the leading contributors to entrepreneurial and small business education throughout the world. Dr. Bradley is now the editor of the Small Business Institute Journal. He was also instrumental in the founding of the Journal of Business and Entrepreneurship, the Journal of Family Business, and the Journal of Small Business Strategy. The Small Business Advancement Electronic Resource (www.sbaer.uca.edu), which is a part of the SBANC ideal, is an online resource provider in many aspects of small business. SBAER has been a leading innovator in entrepreneurial and small business education, as well as training, since its inception in 1991. It has pioneered many new innovations over the Internet as it has grown to becoming truly an electronic library. He has worked with the Small Business Administration on the district, regional, and national levels. He is the recipient of the SBA Veteran’s Small Business Advocate of the Year at the district and regional levels. Dr. Bradley also received the 2002 Small Business Journalist of the Year, from the SBA Little Rock District Office. Bradley has directed and worked on numerous SBI cases at the University of Central Arkansas and is currently serving as Executive Director for the Small Business Advancement National Center, which received an award for innovation from the Southwestern Business Dean’s Association. Through grant writing, he has been instrumental in gaining over $4,000,000. Currently, Dr. Bradley is working with Winrock International on rural economic development. Internationally, Bradley has worked with universities and small businesses in Australia, Bulgaria, Canada, China, England, Finland, France, Germany, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Northern Ireland, Portugal, Russia, Scotland, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Ukraine, South Korea, Singapore and Wales. Bradley has a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri-Columbia, a MS from Indiana State University and a BS from Bowling Green State University (Ohio). He has presented numerous articles at professional meetings, published several journal articles, authored a text book on retailing, and has been the recipient of the outstanding paper award at the International Council for Small Business’ International Conference in Sydney, Australia, as well as the outstanding paper awards at the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Conference, Small Business Institute Conference (SBI) and Allied Academies. Dr Bradley has received the Small Business Institute’s Homer L. Sanders Mentor Award at the Small Business Institute’s National Conference. Bradley also received the Outstanding Educator Award from the Federation of Business Disciplines (FBD) and the FBD’s Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship Outstanding Educator Award at the FBD Conference. He is an author and former executive board member for the Virtual University (Canada) for Small- and Medium- Sized Enterprises and noted as an international leader in web course development for entrepreneurship and small business. Bradley is a Fellow of the Small Business Institute, the Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Allied Academies. Dr. Bradley has been quoted in the Wall Street Journal, INC Magazine, Entrepreneur Magazine, Forbes, and many other noted business publications. He is married to Jan Bradley who is retired from Kimberly Clark Corporation and is co-owner of the American Marketing Group, LLC. Dr. Bradley has three children: Christina Relyea PhD, who has a doctorate from Idaho State University in Biology (Stream Ecology); is owner of Western Ecosystem Bioassessment in Bigfork, Montana and is an instructor at Flathead Valley Community College. She has one son, Dale; Angie Huselton MBA, who is the Director of Physician Services and Business Development for the Conway Regional Health System and is married to Chris and has a daughter Kalyn and a son Ryan; and Don B. Bradley IV MBA, who is a Senior Vice President and Loan Officer for River Town Bank in Conway, Arkansas, is married to Sara and has a son Don V (Bradon) and a daughter Bree. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Dr. George T. Solomon ~ Dr. Solomon is currently the Director for the Center for Entrepreneurial Excellence (CFEE) and Associate Professor of Management, The George Washington University, School of Business. In 2008, Dr. Solomon has been awarded the National Innovator Teaching Pedagogy Award at the United States Association for Small Business (USASBE) Conference. Dr. Solomon is the Past President of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (USASBE) and the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). .From 1976 until 2004, Dr. Solomon held various managerial positions at the SBA including Director of the Office of Special Initiatives and Deputy Associate Administrator for Business Initiatives Education and Training where he managed a staff of six to fifteen professionals. Dr. Solomon has published and edited over 130 articles, books of readings, book chapters, reference materials and proceedings articles in both the areas of Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management and Organizational Behavior & Dynamics. He is a colleague of the Creative Education Foundation, a Justin G. Longenecker Fellow of the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship and the Small Business Institute Director's Association and a Wilford White Fellow of the ICSB. He serves as chair for both the Wilford L. White and Justin G. Longenecker Fellows. He is one of only four individuals in the United States to be so honored by all three organizations. In 2008, the Acton Foundation honored him as one of 28 outstanding entrepreneurship educators and the Emerald Literati Network designated his article “An Examination of Entrepreneurship education in the United States” for its Highly Commended Award. Dr. Solomon serves as the Academy of Management’s Best Paper Proceedings Editor from 2007-2009. In 1984, he was one of five federal employees worldwide to receive the Arthur S. Flemming award for excellence in government management. In 1986 and 1993, he received the George Washington Freedom Medal in Economic Education from the Freedom Foundation. Dr. Solomon has been elected to Beta Gamma Sigma and Delta Mu Delta, National Business Honor Societies and Omicron Delta Kappa, National Honor Leadership Society. He was awarded the Small Business Institute Director Association's Distinguished Service Award in 1988. In 1997, the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship selected Dr. Solomon as the “Entrepreneurial Educator of the Year” for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In 1996, Dr. Solomon and two colleagues were awarded the Best Graduate Entrepreneurship Program in the United States from the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Since 1974, Dr. Solomon has worked with, advised and consulted with over 200 small business owner mangers and entrepreneurs on a variety of topics ranging from marketing to cash flow analysis. Dr. Solomon has delivered major speeches and workshops world wide and has worked with a number of well known national and international organizations on developing strategies to assist small and medium entrepreneurial enterprises. Dr. Solomon received his Doctorate of Business Administration (DBA) from The George Washington University School of Government and Business Administration, 1982, with a major in Entrepreneurship/Small Business Management and Organizational Behavior & Development. He was the first individual at that time, to receive a doctorate in entrepreneurship/small business management from a major accredited school of business. He received his: (MBA) from Suffolk University in 1972; (BBS) from Central Connecticut State University in 1971 and (AS) from Norwalk Community College in 1969. Dr. Friederike Welter ~ Friederike has wide experiences in applied policy-related research on entrepreneurship, much of it in an international context. She is a board member of the European Council of Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB), which she headed as president from 2007-2009, and of the International Council for Small Business. She also is a member of the EXIST advisory board at the Federal Ministry of Economics and Technology in Germany; and she heads the advisory and evaluation committee for a programme fostering the transfer of innovative research into venture creation (VIP) at the Federal Ministry of Education and Research. ___________________________________________________________________________ ~ Holds a B.Sc. in Chemical Engineering from the Universidad del Valle, a M.Eng. and a Ph.D. in Chemical and Petroleum Refining Engineering from Colorado School of Mines. He had realized several trips to different countries in the world to learn about Entrepreneurial Education and has attended several postdoctoral courses and seminar. At the moment, he is the Director of the Center for Entrepreneurship Development at Universidad Icesi, Institution founded by him in 1985. He is a full professor at Universidad Icesi. He is member of the Colombian`s Global Entrepreneurship Monitor Team. He is a Distinguished Professor at Universidad del Valle (retired). He is the founder and Director of the Latin American Conference on Entrepreneurship which has been held in Colombia (12 times), Mexico (2 times), Chile (1 time), Puerto Rico (1 time) and Costa Rica (1 time) Panama (1 time), Peru (1 time) and Brazil (1 time). He worked as Latin American representative in the steering Committee of the project "Entrepreneurship Worldwide" done by ILO-UNDP-INTERMAN. He is member of ICSB, ASEE, BALAS, CLADEA, and many Colombian associations. He is a member of the Board of FUNDAEMPRESA, a private foundation oriented to help university students to establish their own enterprises and of INCubarFUTuro, a technology based incubator. He is member of the editorial boards of: Journal of World Business (USA), Revue Internationale P.M.E. (Canada), Journal of Entrepreneurship (India), Journal of Small Business Management (USA) and several Colombian Journals. He is member of the Board of Directors of ICSB and is member of the Academic Board of Internationalizing Entrepreneurship (IntEnt). He was member of the Colombian Committee for the Entrepreneurship Development Policy, member of the Board of the Program Young Exporters Entrepreneurs of the Ministry of International Commerce, and of the National Program for the Technological, Industrial and Quality Development of Colciencias. He was Associate Dean for Academic Affairs for the Engineering School at the Universidad del Valle; founder of the Industrial Engineering Program at the Universidad del Valle; Planning Director of the Industrial Development Program at intermediate cities in Colombia; Technical adviser to UNIDO-UNDP at Honduras and at Dominican Republic; Dean of the Graduate School at Universidad Icesi, and Professor of the Chemical Engineering Master Program at the Universidad Industrial de Santander. He has been consultant, to several universities and organizations, in the design and implementation of entrepreneurship development activities and in the development of SME’s support programs in Colombia and in several Latin American countries. He was consultant of the project PROINVEST oriented to the growth of SME’s. He has been director of several project in entrepreneurship and SME with international and national funding. He designed the model and oriented the training of the professors in the IDB’s project “Jóvenes con Empresa”. He has published more than 150 articles, thirteen textbooks, and many consulting document in the areas of: Entrepreneurship, Small Business Management, Engineering Economy, Project Evaluation He has been keynote speaker in many national and International Seminars, Congress and Meetings, and visiting professor in several Latin-American universities. The Universidad del Valle gave him the category of “Distinguished Professor” and the “Sociedad Colombiana de Ingenieros Industriales y Administrativos” gave him the “Distinction to Educational Merit”. In 1997 he was selected by PORTAFOLIO, the main economic newspaper in Colombia, as the “Best University Professor in Business and Engineering in Colombia”. He was nominated as “Top Executive” by Revista Dinero and he is a Fellow of the Salzburg Seminar. He has been selected many times as Best Professor at the Universidad ICESI. In 2007 he received the distinction “Premio Colombia a la Cultura Empresarial: Categoría Autores” given by the Colombian Government. In 2009 the International Council for Small Business (ICSB gave him the distinction as “White L Wilford Fellow”, the most important academic distinction given by this important international organization. In 2010, USASBE distinguished the Center for Entrepreneurship Development with the “2010 Global Entrepreneurship Education Award” as the best educational program outside the USA. ___________________________________________________________________________ Dr. Jaime Luis Santiago-Canet ~ Born and raised in Ponce, Puerto Rico. He has occupied the position of Dean of the College of Business Administration at the Ponce Campus of the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico for the past fifteen (15) years. During the 15 years as Dean of the College of Business Administration several programs have been added, such as the nine majors in the MBA program, the five professional certificates, specially the one in Transportation and Logistics; and the Doctor of Business Administration. He holds a Bachelor of Science (B.S.) in Chemistry and a Master of Business Administration (M.B.A.) in Management from the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico, and a Doctor of Philosophy in International Business Management from The Union Institute-University in Cincinnati, Ohio. He is a tenured Professor of Management at the Pontifical Catholic University of Puerto Rico. On many occasions he has served as an invited lecturer for several universities on the island, and has served as president or committee member for doctoral dissertations in entrepreneurship and small business. Dr. Santiago participates in several community organizations such as: Member of the Southern Puerto Rico Chamber of Commerce, Treasurer of the Board of Directors of the Ponce Free Trade Zone, Secretary of the Board of Directors of the Castillo Serrallés, Chancellor-Secretary of the Puerto Rico Lieutenancy of the Order of the Holy Sepulcher, President of the Board of Directors of the Ponce Workforce Investment Act Board (WIA) and Member of the Finance Commission of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Ponce. Dr. Santiago frequently travels to conferences in Puerto Rico, the Caribbean, the mainland, and around the world. His most recent presentations on Small Businesses have been in Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic; Cairo, Egypt; Seoul, South Korea; Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada; Turku, Finland, Seoul, South Korea, Panamá City, Panamá, and Pamplona, Spain. Dr. Santiago is an active member of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), Phi Eta Mu, Phi Delta Kappa, National Business Education Association, the Knights of Columbus, and the Equestrian Order of Knights of the Holy Sepulcher of Jerusalem. ___________________________________________________________________________ Charles Matthews, PhD ~ Dr. Matthews is an internationally recognized scholar and innovative teacher in the field of entrepreneurship and was honored to be named a University Distinguished Teaching Professor in 2006. His teaching and research interests include: strategic management; small, entrepreneurial, and family-owned ventures; and leadership succession in family/privately held firms. His research has been published in the Journal of Small Business Management; the Journal of Small Business Strategy; Entrepreneurship & Regional Development, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, Family Business Review, The Center for the Quality of Management Journal, and the International Journal of Operations & Production Management. He has been quoted in numerous publications including The Wall Street Journal, Industry Week, Business Week, and Inc. He was a regular columnist on small business and entrepreneurship for The Cincinnati Post from 1998-2001. An award winning teacher, Dr. Matthews has taught over 5,000 students ranging from freshmen to doctoral students to executives, from individual instruction to classes of 540. He has facilitated over 400 faculty-guided, student-based field case studies and has served as a consultant to numerous organizations including many family businesses. In addition to his consulting practice, Dr. Matthews has entrepreneurial and family business experience in the automotive, photographic, and real estate industries. An educational entrepreneur as well, he is the founder of the UC Center for Entrepreneurship Education & Research in 1997, which was named one of the top 50 Entrepreneurship programs in the U.S. in 2001 (Success Magazine); a top tier and top 100 nationally recognized program in 2003, 2004, and 2005 (Entrepreneur Magazine); and ranked 21 in the country by Princeton Review and Entrepreneurship Magazine in 2008.
___________________________________________________________________________ ~ Dr. Paul Michael Swiercz is a Professor and past Chairman of the Department of Management (2005-2008) at The George Washington University in Washington D.C. Dr. Swiercz has published more than 35 refereed research articles; his case studies on Home Depot and Delta Airlines have appeared in six best selling strategy text books. His case study -- Food Lion vs. the UFCW: Time for a Change? -- was selected for the Best Case Award by the 2002 Academy of Management. He has been interviewed by numerous news organizations including CNN and has taught and presented seminars in Greece, Cyprus, France, Germany, Trinidad and Brazil. Dr. Swiercz served as editor (1998-2002) of the journal Human Resource Planning and is director of the Strategic HRM Partnership Project at GWU, developer of the SWIF Learning (Student Written – Instructor Facilitated Case Writing) and co-developer of the Cognitive Intrusion of Work Scale (CIW). In his capacity as a consultant and trainer he has directed workshops for ATT, General Motors, Cornell University, Telecom Egypt, the State of Georgia, China Petrochemical Corporation, the Pentagon, and others. Dr. Swiercz is the founder and principal in the firm Executive Selection and Development International (ESDI) and developer of the workshop Strategic Business Thinking: A Skill Building Workshop for Competitive Thinkers. He can be reached by phone at 202-994-0399 or by email at prof1@gwu.edu. ___________________________________________________________________________ David Smallbone ~ David Smallbone is Professor Small Business and Entrepreneurship and Associate Director of the Small Business Research Centre, which he joined in July 2004, having previously led the Centre for Enterprise and Economic Development Research at Middlesex University. David is also Visiting Professor in Entrepreneurship at the China University of Geosciences in Wuhan, China, Past President of the European Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ECSB) and Senior Vice President (Programmes) of the International Council for Small Business and Entrepreneurship (ICSB). David has been involved in research relating to SMEs and SME policy since the late 1980s and has been a regular presenter at National and International conferences. He has published widely on topics that include: high growth SMEs; enterprise development in rural areas; innovation and innovation policy; internationalisation and SME development; the use of external assistance and policy support by SMEs; ethnic minority enterprise and entrepreneurship and SME development in transition economies. He has extensive experience of research based consultancy for a range of national and international clients, including central government departments in different countries, the European Commission, UNDP and the OECD. Research Interests include Entrepreneurship and SME development in transition economies, Entrepreneurship and small business policy, and Immigrant and ethnic minority entrepreneurship _____________________________________________________________________________________ Pasi Malinen ~ Prof. Pasi Malinen has been active in entrepreneurship, innovation, business modelling, SME management and fast growth research during the past 20 years. He is one of the key lecturers in entrepreneurship and innovation in University of Turku as well as in international programmes in various universities, and is a Board Member of International Council for Small Business (ICSB) the world’s leading organisation for small business and entrepreneurship educators and researchers. He has led and evaluated several knowledge-intensive business development and training programmes internationally (funded e.g. by the UN, European Space Agency, EU) aimed at entrepreneurs as well as at academic audiences (on bachelor, master, doctoral levels). He has published 100+ publications in his field of interest. _____________________________________________________________________________________ ~ _____________________________________________________________________________________ ~ Susan Duffy is recognized as a source of thought and initiative in advancing entrepreneurship, developing innovative education programs, and delivering system-wide value in diverse organizations. She is first and foremost an entrepreneur and has brought opportunity-based thinking and behavior to work as a university professor, an association executive, a business owner, and a consultant. Susan earned her Ph.D. from The George Washington University (GWU) in Management and Organization, a Master’s Degree in Applied Behavioral Science from the Johns Hopkins University, and a Bachelor’s Degree in Nutrition Science from the Pennsylvania State University. While completing her doctorate, Susan was a faculty member of the GWU Department of Management where she served as the Executive Director of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB) and the Director of the GWU Women’s Entrepreneurial Leadership (WEL) initiative. In 2006 WEL was recognized as the 2006 National Model Specialty Program in Entrepreneurship Education by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. In her role as the Executive Director of the ICSB, Susan worked with an international team of researchers, policy makers, educators and service providers dedicated to advancing entrepreneurship and small business worldwide. Susan teaches a range of courses in the entrepreneurship and management disciplines and has a passion for creating value for students that transcends traditional learning experiences. Before entering academia Susan was co-owner of a family business commercial construction company and owned and operated a Chinese Food franchise restaurant, Ho-Lee-Chow. She has held leadership positions in health care and worked as an organizational consultant and trainer in private and public work systems. ___________________________________________________________________________ Julie R. Weeks ~ Julie Weeks is the President and CEO of Womenable, a for-profit social enterprise that works to enable women’s entrepreneurship worldwide by improving the systems – laws, policies, programs and research-based knowledge – that support women’s enterprise creation and growth. Weeks is one of the world’s leading experts in the field of women’s enterprise development, with experience in both the private and public sectors in the areas of research, public policy and program management. She is an accomplished oral and written communicator, with proven ability to translate data and complex information into clear, concise, and actionable knowledge. Weeks has over 30 years experience in research, public policy, and communications. For three years, she served as Executive Director of the National Women’s Business Council, a federally funded bipartisan policy advisory body created by the U.S. Congress to serve as an independent voice of women’s entrepreneurship and an advisor to the President, U.S. Congress and the U.S. Small Business Administration on women’s entrepreneurship issues. Prior to that position, Weeks spent nine years as the Director of Research and Managing Director of the Center for Women’s Business Research, a nonprofit organization that conducts research among women business owners and their enterprises. She has also served as Deputy Chief Counsel for Statistics and Research at the U.S. Small Business Administration, and Vice President for Research and Public Policy at two market research firms. It can be said that Weeks has been personally responsible for much of the extant information on the state of women business owners and their enterprises in the United States – and, additionally, she has led, coordinated or consulted on research projects focused on women business owners and their enterprises in nearly two dozen other countries. Weeks has a BA in Political Science from the University of Michigan, and a Master’s degree from that same institution in Political Science with a concentration in research methodology. In addition to her work leading Womenable, Weeks serves on the board of International Council for Small Business, serves on the Public Policy Council of the Association of Women’s Business Centers, and is on the editorial advisory boards of Enterprising Women magazine and the International Journal of Gender and Entrepreneurship. ___________________________________________________________________________ ~ Annette St Onge is the Immediate Past-President of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB). Annette is President of the Solutions for Women Business Owners, Inc. (SOLWBO), a Canadian Corporation, specializing in the training of trainers of women business owners, coaching and mentoring to service providers of women entrepreneurs, and consulting services to financial institutions addressing the lending needs of this high-potential market. In partnership with the Business Development Bank of Canada, the company distributes two high impact programs for
Ayman El Tarabishy ~ Dr. Ayman El Tarabishy holds M.B.A. and doctoral degrees from the George Washington University. He is currently a research professor in management at the George Washington University's School of Business, where he teaches leadership in the full-time, part-time, and executive MBA programs and leads the primary entrepreneurship and case study methods course for the GW Healthcare MBA program. He is also the Executive Director of the International Council for Small Business (ICSB), the oldest and largest non-profit organization across the globe devoted to advancing small business research and practices. Dr. El Tarabishy has worked at the World Bank in the Corporate Strategy Group. He helped develop and manage their technology strategy for the Development Marketplace Program. The program's mission was to identify and support creative cutting-edge solutions to the most pressing world social and economic concerns. To date, the Global Development Marketplace competition has disbursed over US $50 million in awards to 300 winning proposals. Ayman's current research is in entrepreneurial leadership. His recent work explores and attempts to more clearly define the relationship between an organization's entrepreneurial strategy and the CEOs' leadership characteristics and actions. He has presented his work at national and international conferences and has published research articles in the International Journal of Entrepreneurship Education, Journal of Private Equity, and the Southern Business Review. Dr. El Tarabishy consults and conducts executive training for several national and international organizations, including the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the World Bank, and the National Federation of Independent Businesses (NFIB). Membership in professional associations includes Academy of Management Organizational Behavior Division, Organization Development and Change Division, Entrepreneurship Division and International Leadership Association. Professional Specialties include designing and conducting organizational research focused on leadership and entrepreneurship, design and implementation of leadership development programs, designing and facilitating executive team development sessions, assisting executives and managers in the design and implementation of major cultural change efforts in organizations. Among Dr. El Tarabishy’s clients have been the International Finance Corporation (IFC), the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the National Federation of Small Business (NFIB), the Multilateral Investment Guarantee Agency (MIGA), and the United States Association for Small Business (USASBE). |