Executive MBA Program - Faculty

Edward S. Ageno School of Business

PROFESSOR, CAREER DEVELOPMENT

Deborah Annes, PhD has over 16 years of experience in executive education, executive coaching and management consulting. As an executive coach, her expertise includes helping teams and leaders to manage change, 360-degree feedback and leadership/management development, interpersonal skills and emotional intelligence, strategic career planning and negotiation. Deborah teaches from her experience - enabling organizations to "do it themselves." Deborah's Personal Peak Performance System, developed from her years of expertise, rejuvenates executives exhausted from never-ending change. She has joined Golden Gate University as a professor in the Ageno School of Business teaching organizational systems and change, organizational behavior and team dynamics. She is also the director of career planning for the executive MBA program.

Prior to starting her own company and joining the Alliance for Strategic Leadership and the Executive Coaching Network, Deborah was a principal with Delta Consulting Group, providing executive coaching and consulting services at the senior-executive level of Fortune 100 companies. She has consulted Deloitte Consulting in organizational behavior where her work included leading the change-management team of senior executives during the implementation of 50+-million-dollar change projects. She helped to develop the change methodology that Deloitte uses on all of their projects globally. She has worked with Marshall Goldsmith, ranked by the Wall Street Journal as a "top 10" executive educator. She has edited the best selling books "Leader of the Future" and "Organizations of the Future." Her leadership-coaching career began in the Israeli Army where she worked with officers from all over the world.

Deborah has a PhD and an MS degree in organizational psychology from the California School of Professional Psychology (Los Angeles) and a BA Magna Cum Laude in computer science and linguistics from California State University Northridge. She has received additional training from Harvard's Project on Negotiation, UCLA's Andersen School of Business - Advanced International Human Resources, NTL Institute for Applied Behavioral Science, Tavistock Group Relations Conference, A.K. Rice Institute, The National Conference: Human Relations Training, and the Coaches Training Institute. PROFESSOR, MARKETING MANAGEMENT

Thea Bellos serves as the international consultancy project director and marketing instructor for Golden Gate University's executive MBA program. She is the founding principal of The Bellos Group, a global marketing and management consulting firm. The Bellos Group provides market research, strategic planning and business consulting services to professional service firms and corporations in the engineering, environmental and legal industries, and to nonprofit cultural organizations. Prior to establishing The Bellos Group, Thea was the director of marketing and communications of EIP Associates, an environmental consulting firm; and director of development of the Oakland Ballet, a national touring company. Ms. Bellos has taught international marketing, market research and strategic marketing courses at Golden Gate University's Ageno School of Business since 1991 and was the recipient of the university's Stanley Price Adjunct Faculty Award for Distinguished Service in 1999. An avid traveler and photographer, Ms. Bellos also exhibits her photographs throughout the Bay Area. PROFESSOR, INTERNATIONAL MANAGEMENT

Dr. Admassu Bezabeh is director of business programs in the School of Business, Education and Leadership, at Dominican University of California. He completed his graduate studies in the United States through competitive academic scholarships. He received his PhD in business administration, majoring in finance and an MA in economics from the University of California at Berkeley. He also holds an MBA from Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon, and a bachelor of commerce in accounting from Addis University, Ethiopia.

Dr. Bezabeh consulted with the University of California Extension in banking and finance training programs. Prior to that he was an economist for Bank of America where he analyzed economic and financial trends of countries in Africa and the Middle East, participated in several debt rescheduling meetings with representatives of borrowing countries and monitored the global oil market. In addition, he advised bank clients on issues of international finance, trade and country risk. PROFESSOR, MANAGERIAL ACCOUNTING

Gene Bucciarelli, MBA, CPA is the principal of Internal Control Systems, a community bank internal audit outsource firm since 1985. He has conducted operational and administrative audits of banks since 1978. After three years at Touche Ross & Co.CPA's, he spent six years at Wells Fargo Bank where he was a vice president and manager of internal audit. He has created and markets two seminars, "Common Employee Frauds in Community Banks" and "Statistical Sampling for Auditors." He is the author of Are your Internal Controls like Swiss Cheese, a series on Bankersonline.com. He is an expert witness for operational bank issues and bank employee frauds. He is also a senior adjunct professor at Golden Gate University, where he has been on the adjunct faculty for over 23 years, teaching accounting and finance, currently in the executive MBA program. He was a navy pilot and a captain in the Naval Air Reserve until 1990. He conducts CMA/CFM review classes affiliated with the Rigos CMA/CFM review. His bachelor's and master's degrees are both from Golden Gate University. PROFESSOR, MANAGERIAL ECONOMICS

Ronald Helgens received his PhD in economics from the University of Iowa in 1979. He has been published in the areas of monetary theory and international finance. He taught a variety of economics courses at both the University of Iowa and at Lake Forest College for approximately nine years before coming to the San Francisco Bay Area.

Helgens is currently a manager in the Regulatory Relations Department at the Pacific Gas and Electric Company (PG&E). In this capacity he has managed a number of regulatory cases at both the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission (FERC) and the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC). He has also managed the preparation of the company's economic forecasts, sales forecasts and energy price forecasts, and developed a model of the world's markets for uranium, presenting the model in an article in the Nuclear Journal. Helgens has gained insights for courses he's taught in public finance and economics from his role as case manager for PG&E's public purpose programs.

Helgens joined Golden Gate University in 1985 and has since taught a variety of economics courses at both the undergraduate and the graduate levels. Other than the standard micro and macroeconomics courses, he's taught anti-trust law and international finance. He has taught courses in the EMBA program for over ten years at GGU's San Francisco and Walnut Creek sites. PROFESSOR, MANAGEMENT

Marianne Koch, Ph.D., is a management educator, human resources manager and consultant with twenty years of experience in designing, developing and delivering educational programs and courses, conducting research, and managing and consulting in the fields of human resource management and labor relations. Dr. Koch has worked in a variety of venues to: help managers improve how they manage people at work, help organizations understand, clarify and improve practices for the management of people at work, and research and write about such issues as collaboration, work/family practices, and the relationship of human resource management practices to productivity. She recently joined Golden Gate University as a professor in the Ageno School of Business and teaches Leadership and Organizational Performance and Career Planning in the Executive MBA program.

Dr. Koch has diverse experience in the field of education including college professor, manager of corporate and executive education program, academic consultant to an e-learning company, and as board member of a private school, and site-council member and board member of the after-school care program at a public school. In addition to Golden Gate University, she has been a professor at the University of Oregon (UO), and the Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) where she has taught undergraduates, masters and Ph.D. students. Her students have included executives in the Oregon Executive MBA program, healthcare professionals in the Healthcare Management Certificate program at OHSU, high-tech engineers in the Masters of Science and Technology at OGI/OHSU, and union members in the Labor Education and Research Center of the UO. She has won seven awards for her teaching.

Dr. Koch has served as Human Resources Director for two non-profit organizations. Her consulting experience includes designing, marketing and delivering management education programs for such clients as the Portland VA Medical Center and working with Babson College faculty in Wellesley, MA to design courses for a custom MBA program for Intel employees. She has worked with boards of several organizations on managerial and organizational structure issues. She has also served as an expert witness in discrimination cases and consults with both public and private organizations on human resource management issues.

Dr. Koch has written a book on hiring practices and productivity effects, in addition to many journal articles and book chapters on labor and human resource management topics. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the U.S. Department of Labor, as well as other organizations.

Dr. Koch received a B.A. in History from the University of Michigan with honors and distinction. She earned a Ph.D. from Columbia University in New York City in Business Administration with concentrations in Labor Relations and Human Resource Management. INTERNATIONAL TOUR DIRECTOR

As President at Rusher, Loscavio & LoPresto executive search firm, Michael Loscavio conducts searches in the financial services, high technology, venture-backed staffing and nonprofit practice areas. Located in the San Francisco office, he serves as liaison with the Globe Search Group, which extends the firm's global footprint to Europe, Africa and Asia. He serves clients in a broad range of industries from e-commerce start-ups to 130-year-old financial institutions. He has participated in placing over 250 senior executives domestically and internationally. He has completed searches for chief executive officers, chief operating officers, chief financial officers, vice presidents and board members. Loscavio co-authored Strategic Board Recruitment: The Not-for-Profit Model, a treatise on the changes taking place in board development for not-for-profit organizations.

Prior to joining the firm in 1977, Loscavio began his search career as a consultant in 1974 with Spencer Stuart in Chicago. In his previous career in the US Navy, Michael served as an officer and aviator. He was a strategic planner and project manager for the National Scientific Advisory Group where he consulted on domestic and foreign nuclear systems. He also served as the United States representative and foreign liaison officer to the United Nations Command in Tokyo where he interfaced with the Japanese Foreign Office and major foreign embassies. His tours as a naval aviator included operational and staff assignments throughout Asia and the United States. He retired as a Commander.

Loscavio has a bachelor's degree in political science from San Diego State, a master's degree in management from the University of Nebraska and has completed doctoral studies in business at Golden Gate University. Currently a faculty member in Golden Gate University's executive MBA program, he was the program's director in San Francisco from 1994 to 1998. Michael coordinates the University's EMBA International Study Tours with businesses and government agencies in Europe and South America.

Active in the local business and arts communities, Michael has helped some of the Bay Area's foremost organizations establish, expand and strengthen their staffs and boards as well as serving in leadership positions on several boards. ASSISTANT PROFESSOR, FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT

Dr. Moore is an Assistant Professor and Chair, Department of Finance & Economics in the Edward S. Ageno School of Business. He also provides strategic, financial, operating, and financial advice to a number of European based e-commerce companies, is a consultant to young renewable energy companies and investors, and is a member of the investment committee of Innovationsgruppe Liechtenstein AG, a Liechtenstein based private equity investment company that he helped form. Dr. Moore is a lecturer in finance and entrepreneurship at various universities in Switzerland and Liechtenstein.

Previously, Dr. Moore was Chief Operating Officer of iWorks Capital and Development AG, for whom he set up the European arm of an e-commerce incubator near Zug, Switzerland, CFO for a number of European based e-commerce startups, and a Europe based energy consultant. Before this, Dr. Moore was Chief Financial Officer and Treasurer of PG&E Energy Trading, the $9 billion commodities trading subsidiary of PG&E Corporation where he was responsible for gas and power accounting, financial planning, treasury, risk management, credit, and financial reporting. Dr. Moore also held positions in corporate finance, risk management, marketing, human resources, operations, customer services, and credit and collections at PG&E Corporation and its utility subsidiary.

Dr. Moore received a BA in Economics from California State University, Chico and an MBA in Management and MS in Corporate Finance from Golden Gate University in San Francisco, California. He is a graduate of Duke University's Fuqua School of Management Program for Manager Development and currently serves as a director of a $1 billion California based chartered credit union. He received his Doctor of Business Administration degree from the University of St. Gallen (Switzerland) where he studied financial market influences on innovation in the renewable energy technology sector. PROFESSOR, OPERATIONS MANAGEMENT

Nabil Rageh has a BS degree in industrial and mechanical engineering from Cairo University, Egypt, with distinction and honor; and PhD and MS degrees in operations research from the University of California, Berkeley. He completed training seminars in organization planning and development, long-range and strategic planning, and productivity improvement. His research interests include process improvement, total quality management and materials management.

Dr. Rageh returned to Golden Gate University in 1994 to head the Operations Management Department, and was named director of the doctor of business administration program in 1996. Before his five-year leave of absence, he was named dean of the School of Operations Management in 1986 and was later promoted to the position of dean of the School of Management in 1988.

Dr. Rageh joined NASCO Group International in 1989 in the position of corporate vice president. This group has manufacturing and real estate development operations in Switzerland, Italy, Nigeria, Turkey, and Morocco. Its operations included textile, garment manufacturing, food processing, chemicals and packaging. In 1982, Dr. Rageh was named senior vice president of BETA Company, Saudi Arabia, an engineering and construction firm, with overall responsibilities for the operations, finance, and administration divisions.

During the period 1966-1982, he held several progressive managerial positions, leading to a vice presidential assignment in operations and materials management with Cutter Laboratories (now Bayer) in Berkeley, CA, a biological products manufacturing firm. PROFESSOR, LEADERSHIP AND ORGANIZATIONAL PERFORMANCE

Lee Robbins is a full-time faculty member and associate professor of management at Golden Gate University. He holds the AB from Harvard University in economics, an MA and post-MA studies in economics from the University of Pennsylvania, certificates in mediation and corporate ombudsmanry from The Friends Mediation Center and the National Association of Corporate Ombudsmen, and a PhD in management from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. His experience includes starting, operating and eventually selling his own small business; consulting work in organizations from Fortune 100 firms to small businesses to non-profits in industries from heavy industrial machinery production to biotechnology to international law to sports to AIDS prevention plus start-up and management of an independent urban studies program for a consortium of colleges.

His research and publications include a wide range of topics including organizational learning and action research, participative learning in management and entrepreneurship, corporate ombudsmen and conflict management, trial judges and the judicial system handling DUI (driving-under-the-influence) violators, management and spirituality, and the relevance of 12-Step-Fellowship methodology for business firms. His work has been accepted as presentations or published articles for conferences and journals including the Journal of Organizational Change Management, Personnel Journal, the Eastern Academy of Management, Journal of Simulation and Gaming, Negotiation Journal, Journal of Health and Human Resource Administration, Mid-Atlantic Organizational Behavior Teaching Conference (OBTC) and the Judges' Journal.

Robbins is currently studying entrepreneurship and spirituality and is a member of the division review committee of the Academy of Management (the primary international organization for management faculty), which examines the qualifications of its various divisions (e.g., Organizational Theory, Organizational Consulting, etc.) to continue their existence.

Professional memberships include the Academy of Management, the International Advisory Board for the Journal of Management Learning, the Organizational Behavior Teaching Society, the Western Academy of Management and the Editorial Board of the forthcoming Journal of Management and Spirituality. PROFESSOR, BUSINESS, GOVERNMENT AND SOCIETY

Walt Stevenson is professor of management and communications and a full-time faculty member at Golden Gate University. He currently serves as faculty liaison to the vice president for academic affairs and as cyber development director for the Ageno School of Business.

He holds a BA in English Literature from the University of California at Berkeley and an MBA and DBA in general management from Golden Gate University. He is a colleague, associate and distinguished leader of the Creative Education Foundation, located in Buffalo, New York. He teaches in creative problem Solving Institutes in the United States, Canada and Brazil. He has taught Managerial Analysis and Communications for Golden Gate University in its Southeast Asia programs located in Singapore, and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His university trip took him to Djakarta, Indonesia, to Bangkok, Thailand, and to Hong Kong where he visited students and alumni. A recent teaching assignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil allowed him to explore managerial decision making in a Latin-American culture and to present a forum on the post-industrial manager. He has also taught courses on managing cultural diversity for GGU's programs in American Samoa.

Walt has served on the board of directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of San Francisco and Tale Spinners, a theater group writing and performing oral history plays. PROFESSOR, STRATEGIC PLANNING

Bruce Wasserman, PhD, holds both a BA and an MA from Binghamton University (SUNY). He received his PhD in 1975 from Washington State University. Upon completion of his doctorate, he worked in academic environments for several years before joining Pacific Telephone Corp. in 1980, in the Marketing Department. Over the next 20+ years, Dr. Wasserman held various sales and marketing positions, including director of competitive analysis, director of market strategy and sales director. Dr. Wasserman retired from SBC Corp. in 2000, and now shares his teaching time between Golden Gate University and California State University, Hayward where he teaches strategy, marketing and business communications courses.