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Adjunct Faculty
Yusuf Azizullah is an adjunct
Strategy professor at University
of Maryland's Management &
Organization department at the
Robert Smith School of Business.
He also teaches at Johns Hopkins
University's Carey School of
Business & Stratford University.
He has taught undergraduate &
graduate MBA Finance, Ethics,
Strategic Management, Business
law, Globalization,
International Business,
Corporate Governance & New
venture creation courses. He has
also taught at NOVA, the
second-largest community college
in the United States. He has
been teaching as an adjunct
since 2004.
Yusuf's professional experiences
include being the global Sarbanes Oxley
& IT Compliance officer at the fifth
largest global Pharmaceutical Company
AstraZeneca's Biologics division
MedImmune. Yusuf was responsible for
global compliance & IT internal controls
for USA & International countries.
MedImmune was sold to AstraZeneca, a UK
corporation in 2007 for $16 Billion and
is one of the largest Biotechs in the
State of Maryland.
He is an executive management
consultant & lead finance, IFRS &
Sarbanes Oxley compliance at major
Fortune 100 companies Fannie Mae,
Freddie Mac, AOL Time Warner, Thomson
Reuters and MCI.
At Fannie Mae, he was part of an
elite task force of executive officers
responsible for responding to the
Regulator the
Office of Federal Housing Enterprise
Oversight (OFHEO). Yusuf was responsible
for the Budget, Expenses &
Controllership for the Restatement /
OFHEO Agreement division. Fannie Mae's
Restatement was one of the largest in
U.S. corporate history $6.3 Billion.
Professional associations, I belong and
encourage my students to check out
include;
- Ethics & Compliance Officer
Association (ECOA)
- Society of Corporate Compliance
& Ethics (SCCE)
- Financial Executive
International (FEI)
- The Institute of Internal
Auditor, Member (IIA)
- National Association of
Corporate Directors (NACD)
At FEI, he was part of a task force
responsible for editing & providing
comments on COSO, an Internal Controls
framework utilized by majority of
Fortune corporations for Testing &
Monitoring their Internal Control
systems.
His topics of interests include
Enterprise Risk Management (ERM),
Internal Controls, Compliance with IFRS
international accounting standards &
Stronger Corporate Governance at the
Board level.
He completed Executive Education at
the Harvard Business School with a
strategic focus on the Corporate
Governance Track. Making Audit
Committees stronger in a new Era of
Governance.
Yusuf holds a Bachelors degree in
Finance from George Mason University's
School of Management (SOM). He graduated
with Honors at Strayer University with a
MBA in Management & MS in Management
Information Systems (MIS).
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