Nervig has expertise in business law, securities and financial markets regulation and litigation, securities and financial fraud, elder financial abuse, and federal and state court litigation. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Metropolitan State University of Denver and a law degree from Ohio Northern University.

Cherry’s major areas of research include entrepreneurship, creativity, service delivery strategy, fanatical customer behavior, new venture creation, employee engagement, and humility and trust in leadership. He earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial/organizational psychology from Point Loma Nazarene University and a master’s and doctorate in organizational behavior from the University of Arizona.

Magemeneas specializes in personal finance, wealth management, financial planning and investing. He earned a bachelor’s degree in industrial engineering from the University of Illinois and a master’s in finance and marketing from the University of San Diego.

Sun’s research interests are in corporate earnings, corporate governance, corporate sustainability investment and disruptive financial innovations. She earned a bachelor’s degree in accounting and finance from Peking University in Beijing, a master’s in finance from the Chinese University of Hong Kong and a doctorate in finance from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee.

Pillai is a multiple award-winning faculty member whose areas of teaching and research interest are leadership (including presidential leadership), ethics, organizational justice and cross-cultural management. She regularly speaks about leadership to various organizations in San Diego County. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from the University of Bombay in India and a doctorate in organizational behavior from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

McCarthy’s areas of research interest include workplace communication, incivility and high-performance teams. She earned a master’s degree in business administration from Creighton University and a doctorate in management from the University of California, Irvine.

Meilich’s specialties include management of technology, knowledge management, organizational learning, research methods and management education. He earned a master’s degree in business administration from Tel-Aviv University in Israel and a doctorate in strategy and organization theory from the University of Southern California.

Ometto has expertise in social enterprises, sustainability, corporate social responsibility, emerging markets and the intersection of entrepreneurship with social movements, poverty, religion and community. She holds two doctoral degrees – one in public management from FGV EAESP in Brazil and one in business from the University of Alberta in Canada.

Kotiloglu is interested in the drivers of exceptional growth, risk taking and strategic change in new ventures. In a separate but related strand of research, he analyzes how financial performance influences organizational decisions on risk taking, strategic change and firm growth. His research has been presented at various national and international conferences. He holds a doctorate in business administration from Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey.

Sun’s research interests include information systems, network latency facility location models, electronic commerce, cybersecurity, enterprise systems and the internet of things. He has published many research papers in academic journals in his field. He earned a doctoral degree in decision and information systems from the University of Florida.

Brodowsky’s research interests focus on global marketing strategy, cross-cultural time concepts and their effects on consumer behavior, country-of-origin effects on product choice, survey research methods, and marketing pedagogy. He earned a bachelor’s degree in Far Eastern languages and civilizations from the University of Chicago and a master’s and doctorate in marketing from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

Stewart’s research contributes to advertising, consumer psychology, and consumer behavior theory and practice. She has published articles on the effectiveness of digital video advertising, consumers’ trust in and morality with technology and media, and sensory marketing. She is currently studying technology in marketing and emerging new rules of how consumers behave. She earned a bachelor’s degree in marketing from Auburn University, a master’s in business administration from Auburn and a doctorate in advertising and public relations from the University of Texas at Austin.

Dalakas has published research on such topics as marketing and advertising, consumer psychology and behavior, sports marketing, sponsorship, and rivalries, and his research has been featured in media outlets including ESPN, Sports Business Journal, Science Daily, New York Magazine and the San Diego Union-Tribune. He has taught sports marketing for San Diego State’s sports MBA program as well as universities in France and Denmark. He received a doctorate in marketing from the University of Oregon.

Zaerpour has published numerous articles in dozens of leading supply chain journals, books and popular press. He has developed cost-cutting tools as a consultant for supply chain and logistics companies. He earned a doctorate in operations and supply chain management from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University.

Aboolian’s research interests include supply chain management, location of competitive facilities, service system design, reverse logistics, business analytics, supply chain analytics and supply chain network design. He earned bachelor’s and master’s degrees in industrial engineering from Iran University of Science and Technology and a doctorate in operations and supply chain management from the University of Toronto.

Akiki has 35 years of experience in the electronics and semiconductor industry, including executive positions with IBM, Qualcomm and Siemens. He’s currently president of Joun Technologies, a San Diego-based consulting firm. His areas of expertise include 5G technology, smart/connected devices, internet of things, digital transformation, and semiconductor design and manufacturing trends. He earned a bachelor’s degree in electrical and computer engineering from Clarkson University in New York and a master’s in electrical engineering as well as an MBA from the University of Vermont.