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Brandon Shamim Faculty

Brandon Shamim Faculty

Brandon Shamim is a strategist, business development specialist, and executive coach with over 20 years of experience integrating management, operations and external affairs for diverse Fortune 500s, small and mid-sized businesses, and public agencies. During his career, he has led public affairs and marketing for a national think‐tank and market leading Fortune 100 financial services company; and conducted legislative affairs for a regional transportation agency. He also served as interim director for a U.S. Department of Commerce initiative at USC.

Deborah Olson Faculty

Deborah Olson Faculty

Deborah Olson, PhD, is Associate Professor of Management and Leadership at the University of La Verne. Deborah has developed and delivered courses in Leadership, Organizational Behavior, Human Resource Management, Leading Change and Managing Conflict. She has also developed Travel Study Courses focused on Organizational Design and Behavior which included: Costa Rican Business Program, Business and Culture in London/Paris, Business and Culture in Italy, Designing Effective Organizations, Business and Culture in China, Business and Culture in Prague and Budapest, and Latin America. Deborah facilitated student team-based learning projects using active learning principles and reflective journaling to facilitate understanding and integration of concepts.

Michael Levine Faculty

Michael Levine Faculty

Michael Levine has been teaching classes in accounting, management and business math for over 40 years. His areas of expertise include business planning and analysis; contracts and pricing; and accounting. During his professional career, Michael has held senior managerial positions with Fortune 100 Companies. He currently owns his own business, which focuses on the sale of capital goods in domestic and international markets.

Farshad Raffi Faculty

Farshad Raffi Faculty

Farshad Rafii was an associate professor of technology management at Babson College where he taught MBA and Executive Education courses on business strategy, product development, technological innovation, operations management, and manufacturing strategy. Prior to joining Babson College, he was on the faculty at Boston University’s School of Management. Farshad is also the Founding Director of the Center for Technology and Enterprise at Babson College, an industry-funded center for conducting research on how business enterprises can best create and leverage technological innovation for competitive advantage.

Jackee McNitt-Engles Faculty

Jackee McNitt-Engles Faculty

Jackee McNitt-Engles is an accomplished executive coach and consultant specializing in the areas of leadership, innovation and change, and talent development. She teaches in Claremont Graduate University’s (CGU) Community College Professional Leadership Certificate Program, in the University of La Verne’s MBA and Masters in Leadership degree programs. Her deep corporate experience stems from 15 years managing training and communication functions for Bank of America and Wells Fargo Bank. As Vice President of Employee Communications for Wells Fargo, she served as a communication strategist and manager for eight acquisitions and a variety of other large scale corporate changes including diversity programs, reorganizations, and major human resources and benefits redesigns.

James Hansen Business Advisor

James Hansen Business Advisor

James Hansen served a 34-year career in the public sector as assistant city manager, community development director and economic development director for cities in Washington and Southern California. After serving in these positions, Jim began a consulting career and was retained by the City of Long Beach Economic Development and Redevelopment Departments to assist small businesses.

Jennifer Alvarado Faculty

Jennifer Alvarado Faculty

Jennifer Alvarado, CPA, is an Assistant Professor at East Los Angeles College. Jennifer’s professional experience includes both private and public sector experience working as Controller for real estate development firms as well as the Manager of Finance for the Orange County Great Park. Working with the launch team from Babson College, Jennifer co-created the Financial Statement Workshop curriculum.

Karen Carr-Crawford Business Advisor

Karen Carr-Crawford Business Advisor

Karen Carr-Crawford has over 20 years of documented success and progressively responsible experience in entrepreneurship, small business consulting and training, marketing management, strategic planning, branding strategy and key message development, marketing plan development and campaign execution. A successful “hand’s-on” marketer, Karen has worked with owners and senior staff to help them generate revenues in both the B2B and B2C space through development of relevant growth strategies, branding strategies, and business-process improvement tools.

Andrew Cohen Business Advisor

Andrew Cohen Business Advisor

Andrew Cohen has garnered a diverse skill set with his experience in finance, marketing, business development and operations. Currently Andrew is the CEO and Co-Founder of Work Better Now, a company that provides business owners, executives and other busy people with virtual assistants who take administrative, mundane and repetitive tasks off their plate at an affordable price. In 2012, Andrew co-founded a start-up company, Rod’s Royal Treatment, focused in the premium men’s skin care market. After conceptualizing the brand, Andrew was responsible for implementing all stages of the company’s evolution including production, packaging, financing and operations. In addition to developing the product line, he built the ecommerce business platform and spearheaded the company’s business development securing national distribution in over 160 locations. Andrew, who was born and raised in New York just North of Manhattan, graduated from The University at Albany. Andrew worked on Wall Street as a Trade Analyst for Bear Stearns. He left New York for Los Angeles where he worked in the entertainment industry as Vice President of Production and Business Affairs for Once Upon a Time Films where he developed and produced movies both domestically and internationally. Andrew then made his foray into the hospitality industry where he oversaw daily operations, financing and marketing in multi-million dollar venues.

Kirk Canzano Faculty

Kirk Canzano Faculty

Kirk Canzano, CPA, is a full-time LBCC faculty member teaching primarily Accounting courses including Introductory, Financial, Managerial, Spreadsheet, and QuickBooks Accounting. Kirk has many years of business experience and continues to consult for both small and large business organizations. In addition to working in public accounting with Ernst & Young, he has held executive positions in large multinational companies spanning a variety of industries. His career background includes accounting, financial analysis, marketing analysis, financial planning, strategic planning, project management, and major information system implementations.

Lily Oteino Faculty

Lily Oteino Faculty

Lily Otieno Quiette is with Infinity Business Solutions (IBS), known for their expertise in diverse business training programs and business development. Her areas of expertise include instructional design, project management, compliance/quality improvement, business development and facilitation. Lily has 20 years of international management experience and expertise across multiple industries including utilities, banking, construction, IT, universities, healthcare, and non- profit organizations.

Max Ordonez Business Advisor

Max Ordonez Business Advisor

Max Ordonez is an established entrepreneurial executive with diverse experience in strategic and financial management, accounting, operations and project management. His experience encompasses almost 20 years in the financial services field with companies ranging in size from start-ups to more established small and medium-sized enterprises. Serving in various capacities including Chief Financial Officer and Controller, he has significant experience in both public and private accounting, finance and program management. Mr. Ordonez has been responsible for strategic plan development, business development, client management, forecasting and operational/financial reporting for various clients.

Oscar Edwards Faculty

Oscar Edwards Faculty

Oscar Edwards is the Managing Member/President and CEO of Higher Growth Strategies, LLC (HGS), specializing in the utilization of various research and analysis methodologies that lead to superior design and implementation of financial statement analysis, capital needs forecasting and business modeling. Oscar serves as a business coach and mentor to small business owners, facilitating business growth, acquisition and exit opportunities. Mr. Edwards has more than 30-years of experience as a consultant in the private, government and municipal sectors, including Utilities: Electric, Gas, Water, Telecom, Transportation: Roads/Highways, Heavy Rail, Light Rail, Commuter Rail, Bus Transit, Automotive, Ports, Municipal: Safety (Police/Fire), Public Works, Water, Healthcare and Education.

Russ McClellan Faculty

Russ McClellan Faculty

Russ McClellan is a successful and experienced executive that brings an entrepreneurial energy, strong leadership, proven marketing and communication skills based on creative problem solving insights developed over 25 years working as a senior marketing executive for major corporations. He has a record of devising creative solutions to complex marketing and communications problems that tightly integrate organizational and financial goals for major healthcare, consumer product and service based companies as well as major not for profit organizations.

Susan DeLand Business Advisor

Susan DeLand Business Advisor

Susan DeLand has extensive experience in strategic and financial planning, all aspects of retail, including systems acquisition and implementation, KPI, profit analysis, marketing and strategic growth in business. Susan works with companies to build startups and grow established enterprise in brand management and identity, product development and licensing. She has served on the executive management teams of The J. Paul Getty Museum, Aquarium of the Pacific, the Autry National Center.

Warren Cooley Business Advisor

Warren Cooley Business Advisor

Warren Cooley previously served as the Managing Director of the Entrepreneur Center operated by the VEDC, as well as serving interim stints as VEDC’s Chief Operating Officer and Chief Financial Officer. VEDC is a Community Development Financial Institution with offices throughout the United States. Prior to these C-suite positions, Warren served as Vice President of Marketing and Communication, and Vice President of Operations. Over the past 49 years, Warren has completed 400 economic planning studies for a wide range of clients in the recreation, resort and real estate fields. He has provided consulting services to 2,500 businesses; taught more than 200 business classes and workshops; and, facilitated a number of planning workshops for public agencies and non-profit corporations.

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