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Thai American Business Program Conference
US and Thailand: Business at the Crossroads
Marriott Inn and Conference Center March 2-3, 2009
Speaker Bios
 G. “Anand” Anandalingam,
Dean, Robert H. Smith School of Business
The University of Maryland appointed G. “Anand” Anandalingam dean of the Robert
H. Smith School of Business on July 1, 2008 after a global search. Anandalingam
assumes leadership of the Smith School a recognized world leader in management education
and research. The average of the school’s overall undergraduate and graduate program
rankings is No. 19 in the U.S., and when research is taken into account, the school
is among the top 15 U.S. business schools.
Anandalingam identifies sustainable innovation as a priority in developing business
leaders ready to meet the varied and mutable challenges of a global 21st century
economy. Smith’s world-class programs and research reflect the core values of socially
and environmentally responsible organizational stewardship. Among the school’s strengths
are its strong and highly-respected faculty; its desirable location in the Washington,
D.C., metropolitan area; and its established global reach.
A dynamic leader with a strong founding in academia, Anandalingam has been
with the Smith School since 2001. During this time he has served in various key
senior leadership positions as senior associate dean and as chair of the Smith
School’s Decision, Operations and Information Technologies department. He has
played a role in supporting the school’s rise in reputation in the past decade
with expansion projects that more than doubled the physical size of the school
and equipped it with state-of-the-art infrastructure; and the recruitment of a
significant number of new faculty members from the world’s premier research
institutions. He was also responsible for helping to develop Smith’s global
executive programs and led the school’s effort to revamp and innovate the MBA
curriculum.
Anandalingam’s leadership has also included serving as the chair of Smith’s
Masters Design, Development and Innovation Committee. He is the founder of the
Center for Electronic Markets and Enterprises, a center that he co-directed from
2001-2004, and he helped found the school’s Center on Health Information and
Decision Systems.
Before joining Smith in 2001, Anandalingam was at the University of Pennsylvania
for nearly 15 years where he was the National Center Professor of Resource and Technology
Management, and a professor in both the Engineering School and the Wharton School.
His positions at the University of Pennsylvania included serving as the chair of
the Department of Systems Engineering and directing the Executive Master’s Program
in Technology Management. He has received numerous academic and teaching awards
while at the Smith School, as well as a variety of scholarships, fellowships, prizes
and endowed appointments at Pennsylvania, Harvard and Cambridge. He has been on
editorial boards of top-tier journals and has also graduated more than 20 PhD students,
many of who have joined top-30 academic institutions.
Anandalingam began his academic career as an assistant professor at the University
of Virginia. He received his Ph.D. and M.S. from Harvard University, and his B.A.
and M.A. from Cambridge University.
 Dr. J. Robert Baum,
Associate Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Dr. J. Robert Baum is Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship in the M&O Department
at the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School of Business. Baum is a Lehigh
University engineer and graduate of Northwestern University's MBA program in Finance
and Economics. Dr. Baum teaches MBA new venture courses, and he won four university
teaching awards since 2000. His research interests are entrepreneurship, quantitative
methods, and strategic decision-making. He has published in the Academy of Management
Journal, Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Applied Psychology, Strategic
Management Journal, Frontiers of Entrepreneurship Research, and he has chapters
in two books. His dissertation, The Relation of Traits, Competencies, Vision, Motivation,
and Strategy to Venture Growth won the 1995 Academy of Management, Entrepreneurship
Division, best dissertation award. Two of his publications won best paper awards
at Babson - Kauffman Entrepreneurship Research Conferences, and he is editor of
The Psychology of Entrepreneurship, a Society of Industrial Organizational Psychology
Frontiers Series book. Baum is a member of the Editorial Board of the Journal of
Business Venturing. He founded three new ventures, and he is a member of the board
of directors of six businesses.
 Dr. Sandor Boyson,
Research Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Dr. Boyson has significant expertise in Technology Management and Supply Chain
Management, with over twenty five years experience in strategic technology planning,
systems development/management, and enterprise-wide process integration. He has
been a consultant to public organizations as varied as the World Bank and the U.S.
Department of Defense; and private sector organizations such as Lockheed, KBR, Allied
Signal, Avaya Hughes Network Systems and the Chicago Tribune.
He currently serves as founding Co-Director, Supply Chain Management Center;
and Research Professor at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at University Of
Maryland College Park. He also served the Chief Information Officer for the Business
School for four years and built a comprehensive web-based applications & learning
environment for the school that now serves its community in the U.S., Europe and
Asia.
His policy research on “Unified Communications” was featured in the World Economic
Forum’s 2008 Global IT Report. His IT & Supply Chain research has also been disseminated
in two books, “Logistics and The Extended Enterprise” (John Wiley, 999) and “In
Real Time: Managing The New Supply Chain” (Praeger, 2005); two World Bank monographs;
a DARPA research paper on Net Centricity and numerous publications/citations in
the Shanghai Daily; Economist Intelligence Unit; CIO Magazine; Info Week;
Fortune; Harvard Business Review & Journal of Commerce.
He has delivered papers at the Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals’
Annual Meetings; the Hawaii Conference of Information Science; the CIO Council of
Canada; and The Conference Board. He has been keynote speaker at the 31st Asian
Pacific Trade & Development Forum in Guadalajara, Mexico; and at the World Trade
Magazine’s Virtual University Supply Chain Leadership series as a global supply
chain expert. In 2005, he was the keynote speaker both at the Supply Chain Management
Review’s Thought Leader Series and at the China Higher Education Press’ Supply Chain
Conference for university program directors of supply chain academic offerings.
In 2004, he was keynote speaker at both the Greater China Logistics Forum in Taipei;
and at the E-Logistics Annual Conference sponsored by TEKES, the Finish Government
Economic Development & Technology Authority.
He has also been a senior consultant on technology-led economic development to
the governments of Puerto Rico, North Carolina, Indonesia & Panama .He served as
the Smith School Of Business organizer of the E-Leadership Forum that brought together
IT Policy Directors/ CIOs of Russia, China, Brazil, India, Vietnam., Sri Lanka,
Ghana (20 countries in all) under the co-sponsorship of the World Bank Institute
and a consortium of global high tech companies including Sun, Avaya, Oracle and
Cisco.
Dr. Boyson has a Master of Philosophy degree from the Institute Of Development
Studies, University Of Sussex, U.K.; and a Doctor of Philosophy from the University
of Sussex in the area of science and technology studies.
 Dr. Pat Cleveland,
Associate Dean of Undergraduate Programs,
Robert H. Smith School
of Business
Dr. Patricia Cleveland came to the University of Maryland's Robert H. Smith School
of Business in 1998 and holds the position associate dean of undergraduate programs.
Prior to coming to Smith, she was the assistant dean for student academic services
at the University of Hawaii's College of Business for six years.
Before joining the University of Hawaii, Cleveland held administrative and faculty
positions at other institutions. She served as director of academic and regulatory
affairs for Bowling Green State University's Department of Intercollegiate Athletics.
She also is a former director of undergraduate advising in the College of Arts &
Sciences at the University of Kansas. In addition, she has served on the faculties
of Ft. Lewis College in Colorado and Ottawa University in Kansas. Cleveland has
a PhD and MA, both in sociology, from the University of Kansas.
More than 2,000 undergraduates are pursuing business degrees at the Smith School
of Business. Available majors include accounting, decision and information sciences,
finance, international business, human resource management, logistics and transportation,
and marketing. The program also offers an honors program, which provides an exceptional
opportunity for students to develop enhanced business skills.
 Dr. Rebecca Hamilton,
Associate Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business
Professor Hamilton’s research focuses on consumer decision making and the effects
of consumers’ information processing strategies on their attitudes and choices.
Her research has been published in journals such as the Journal of Consumer
Research, Journal of Marketing Research, and Harvard Business Review. Her dissertation
received an honorable mention in the Association for Consumer Research’s Ferber
Award competition, and she was recognized as an MSI Young Scholar in 2007. She currently
serves on the Editorial Review Board of the Journal of Consumer Research. Professor
Hamilton teaches consumer behavior, brand management and experimental research methods
to undergraduate, MBA, and doctoral students.
Josef C. Hapli
MBA Candidate
Josef C. Hapli is a 2009 Full-time MBA candidate at the Robert H. Smith
School of Business, with a focus in strategy and marketing. While at Smith, Mr.
Hapli serves as the Vice President of the Graduate Marketing Association, the
Vice President of the Black MBA Association, and co-founded the Smith Wine
Society.
In 2003, he obtained a BA in Communications and a BA in Fine Arts from the
University of Pennsylvania. While at Smith, Mr. Hapli has successfully completed
many consulting projects, such as developing a marketing and online philanthropy
strategy for the Coalition for Economic Empowerment, and an international market
entry strategy for Ouro Fertil, a Brazilian organic home products company.
Mr. Hapli also brings extensive experience from his work with the Ogilvy &
Mather Worldwide advertising agency. There he started as an Associate and
rose to the Art Director position. He is well versed in traditional marketing
techniques and has special expertise in online marketing, youth marketing, and
non-traditional media. After finding success at Ogilvy, Mr. Hapli leveraged his
skills as a Marketing Consultant through his entrepreneurial venture,
EtherStudios. EtherStudios is flexible enough to offer scalable marketing
solutions for its large clients such as PEPCO and AARP, and still offer
cost-effective solutions for small-to-medium sized businesses and non-profit
organizations.
Lisa H. Harrington,
President, Harrington Associates
Lisa H. Harrington is the president of Harrington Associates, a provider of a
variety of consulting and communications services within the general industry topic
areas of supply chain management, logistics, transportation, warehousing and e-commerce.
These services include strategic consulting for clients in the area of supply chain
management best practices. Clients include: A.T. Kearney, BP-Amoco, Cushman
& Wakefield, Ernst & Young LLP—Supply Chain Management Practice, Evolve Software
Inc., Exel plc, Georgetown University Graduate School of Business, i2 Technologies,
Intel Corp., Manugistics Software Inc., Mercer Management Consulting—Supply Chain
Management Practice, National Private Truck Council, North American Logistics, PricewaterhouseCoopers
– Supply Chain Management Practice, REM Associates Inc., Ryder Corp. -- Integrated
Logistics, Standard Corporation, US Freightways Corp., and the Warehousing Education
& Research Council. She is a Senior Fellow at the Supply Chain Management Center,
Robert H. Smith School of Business and a regular contributing editor to Transportation
and Distribution magazine and Chief Logistics Officer magazine.
 Dr. P.K. Kannan,
Associate Professor, Robert H. Smith School of Business
P. K. Kannan is Associate Professor of Marketing at the Robert H. Smith School
of Business at the University of Maryland. He is the Director for the Center of
Excellence in Service. His current research stream focuses on new product/service
development, design and pricing digital products and product lines, marketing and
product development on the Internet, e-service, and customer relationship management
(CRM) and customer loyalty. He has received several grants from National Science
Foundation (NSF), Mellon Foundation, SAIC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers for his work
in this area and research papers have been published in Marketing Science,
Management Science, Journal of Marketing Research, and Communications
of the ACM. His research
has also won the prestigious John Little Best Paper Award (2008) and the INFORMS
Society for Marketing Science Practice Prize Award (2007). His research has also
been selected as a finalist for the Paul Green Award (2008). Dr. Kannan was a panelist
in the NSF Workshop on Research Priorities in e-Commerce (1998) and a Fellow of
the AMA Consortium on e-Commerce (2001).
Dr. Kannan serves on the editorial boards of the Marketing Science,
Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of
Service Research, and International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Dr. Kannan has served as the Chair
for the American Marketing Association SIG on Marketing Research.
His teaching interests include customer relationship management, new product
development, Internet retailing and pricing and marketing models/research. He has
taught these courses in executive programs for Black & Decker, Home Depot, ARINC,
McCormick, and Northrup Grumman. He has corporate experience with Tata Engineering
and Ingersoll-Rand and has consulted for companies such as Frito-Lay, Pepsi Co,
Giant Food, Black and Decker, SAIC, Fannie Mae, and IBM.
Minwen Li
PhD Candidate
Minwen is a PhD candidate in Finance at the R.H. Smith Business School, University
of Maryland. She received her Master of Quantitative Economics from Tsinghua University
and her B.S. in Finance with an Outstanding Student Scholarship from Beijing University
in China. Prior to joining the PhD program, Minwen was a financial manager at State
Grid Corporation of China, the largest Chinese power company ranked 24th among the
Fortune Global 500. During her three years working experience at State Grid, Minwen
was responsible for capital budgeting and financial reporting of $23 billion assets
and involved in many large restructuring and financing projects. She also ranked
first in the national GAAP case competition sponsored by Treasury Department of
China in 2001. Her current research interests include executive compensation, CEO
turnover, and financial development in emerging economies.
Tanakorn Makaew
PhD Candidate
Tanakorn Makaew is a doctoral candidate in Finance at the Robert H. Smith School
of Business University of Maryland-College Park where he was awarded a full graduate
assistantship and a Dean's summer research fellowship. He graduated from Chulalongkorn
University, Bangkok-Thailand, with a Bachelor's in Computer Engineering (First Class
Honors) and a Master's in International Economics and Finance. He also received
another Bachelor's in Money and Banking (Second Class Honors) from Ramkhamheang
University. His research interests are in International Finance, Corporate Finance,
and Developmental Finance. Tanakorn is the winner of the 2007 Joseph Wikler Award
for Teaching Excellence and a finalist for the 2007-2008 Allen Krowe Teaching Award.
Steven Santangelo
Senior Director of Consulting
FutureBrand North America & Middle East
Steve is a Senior Director of Consulting who leads a variety of strategic
initiatives across multiple industries. His recent work includes efforts for
clients such as Saudi Aramco, Khalifa University of Research and Science,
Bahrain Airport and the rebranding of Qatar and St. Lucia. He also heads
research oversight and analysis for the Country Brand Index, the Gulf Real
Estate Study and consulting assignments for Australia, Hungary, Mexico, Peru and
Singapore.
Prior to joining FutureBrand, Steve was senior vice president of strategy and
branding for Mangos, a boutique marketing firm where he led the positioning,
marketing planning, organizational alignment and research processes. Steve’s
branding clients have included Siemens, Lockheed Martin, Cannondale, Vanguard
and Comcast. Steve also brings a unique perspective based on his prior
experience in advertising as a media planner, account manager and account
planner.
Steve has a BA from the University of Virginia and is in the process of
completing his MBA in marketing from the University of Phoenix. He is an
experienced public speaker on branding issues, particularly in the banking,
energy and technology industries, and is passionate about destination branding.
 Dr. Oliver Schlake,
Tyser Teaching Fellow,
Robert H. Smith School of Business
Dr. Oliver Schlake is a Tyser Teaching Fellow at Robert H. Smith School of Business,
a senior business consultant, entrepreneur and researcher. His publications and
research on scenario-based strategic planning and innovation strategy have been
featured in leading academic and practitioner journals worldwide. Oliver has been
an international management consultant and strategic advisor for leading companies
and government agencies in Europe and North-America. Prior to joining the Smith
School he was Assistant Professor for E-Business at National University, San Diego
and CEO for German based consulting firm Scenario Management International (ScMI
AG).
Brendon Weiss
MBA Candidate
Brendon Weiss is Vice President of Porterfield & Lowenthal LLC, a government
relations firm based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the firm in 2007, Brendon
served in the Securities and Exchange Commission’s Office of Legislative and Intergovernmental
Affairs. During his tenure at the SEC, Brendon represented the Commission’s views
on Capitol Hill and with other financial regulatory agencies on an assortment of
issues impacting the securities industry including the reform of Sarbanes-Oxley
rules, the Credit Rating Agency Duopoly Act, the regulation of Consolidated Supervised
Entities, and the role out of XBRL.
From 2001 to 2005, Brendon served in the Office of Congressman Vito Fossella
(NY-13th). As the Legislative Director, Brendon managed all policy issues falling
under the jurisdiction of the Financial Services and Energy and Commerce Committees
in the House of Representatives. Brendon played a key role in formulating the debate
on Capitol Hill during the drafting phase of Reg NMS, and worked closely on legislation
regarding mutual fund governance, terrorism insurance, radio spectrum interference,
the Digital TV Transition and multicast must carry rules.
Brendon started his career on Capitol Hill in the office of Congressman Paul
Ryan (WI-1st) who currently serves as the Ranking Member of the House Budget Committee
and is a member of the House Ways and Means Committee.
A native of Wisconsin, Brendon attended Northern Michigan University and is currently
pursuing his MBA at the University of Maryland’s Robert H. Smith School of Business.
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