Karen Crisonino
Contact: [email protected]

Courses taught at Drew:

• Fundamentals of Financial Accounting
• Managerial Accounting
• Intermediate Accounting I
• Intermediate Accounting II
• Accounting and Accountability
• Auditing
• Fundamentals of Business

Karen Crisonino has a BS in Accounting, an MBA in Accounting and Taxation and a DBA.

Karen founded and ran Crisonino Consulting, an accounting consulting business for 20 years. Karen has held positions at other companies.

Karen has taught graduate and undergraduate courses at several universities. Karen has taught a wide variety of courses and has designed many courses.

She won the NISOD Award (National Institute for Staff and Organizational Development Teaching Excellence Award) and is listed in Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers.

Publications:
George Repic, Karen Crisonino (2016) “Entrepreneurial Spirit in the United States: Attitudes towards entrepreneurship: Survey of Students” Inovacije i preduzetnisvo – pokretaci razvoja i zaposljavanja Zbornik Radova Innovation and Entrepreneurship: Launchers of Development and Employment Proceedings
ISBN: 978-99-938-46-65-9
COBISS.RS-5824280

Valentina Vukmirovic, George Repic, Karen Crisonino (2017)
“Comparative Analysis of Entrepreneurial Spirit of Students and Need for Marketing Support “
Innovations and Entrepreneurship – Launchers of development and employment Proceedings
Inovacije I Preduzetnistvo –Pokretaci razvoja I Zaposljavanja
Zbornik Radova
ISBN 978-99938-46-67-3 COBISS.RS-ID 6526232

George Repic, Karen Crisonino, Zeljko Kovacevic (2018)
“A Comparative Analysis of the Entrepreneurship, and Development Differences in the United States Relative to the Baltic Region States”
Innovations and Entrepreneurship – Launchers of development and employment Proceedings
Inovacije I Preduzetnistvo –Pokretaci razvoja I Zaposljavanja
Zbornik Radova
ISBN 978-99938-46-76-5 COBISS.RS-ID 7337496

Vukmirović, Е., Repic, G., & Crisonino, K. (2021). The role of international marketing in the improvement of economic cooperation between the countries of the Western Balkans in crisis period. New Economist, 15(30), 44–63.

Vukmirović, E., Repic, G., & Crisonino, K. (2021). Increasing the effects foreign direct investments through orientation into new forms of entrepreneurship in Bosnia and Herzegovina. (English) Business Consultant / Poslovni Konsultant, 13(110), 48–60.

Author, educator, and brand builder for businesses and individuals. Professor Donnelly began his career as a senior executive with IBM, Pfizer, and EXXON, and then as the CEO of the U.S. subsidiaries of several foreign multinational technology firms. He also developed and delivered management education seminars for Business Week and Inc Magazines, domestically and internationally. He was featured in USA TODAY for his work with the Inc. 500.

Professor Donnelly also functions as a Venture Mentor and Entrepreneur-in-Residence at several University Venture Centers, as well as TechLaunch, a new technology mentoring organization. Currently, he is involved with Stevens Institute of Technology’s – Institute of Artificial Intelligence, as a Mentor working with faculty and students on new AI initiatives.

The author of four books on business and personal planning, Professor Donnelly is also a prolific writer and blogger on technology and “the changing nature of work” issues. He has developed graduate and undergraduate courses on “Personal Branding” and is well known for his proven techniques to help anyone survive and thrive in the new world of work.

Professor Donnelly also serves on the Board of Directors of several growing technology firms.

Business Leadership & B2B Industry Executive.

During a career focused on business growth and sales & marketing leadership, Mark has had a portfolio of roles. After business school he spent eight years in brand management with roles at both Pepsi and Nabisco. Following that he became an early pioneer in online marketing at AOL, working in early day ad sales and monetization across CPG, auto and financial services. He expanded his media experience via roles at Time Warner and CNN, focusing on consumer marketing and client development. From media he moved to marketing analytics, spending five years leading a media effectiveness practice at Nielsen, where he introduced new products and services to financial services clients to optimize creative, spending and ROI. He also spent two years as SVP of brand and advertising for Discover Card just as the financial crisis was hitting.

For the last eight Mark worked at Accenture’s online agency, Accenture Interactive, helping establish and expand Accenture’s digital marketing services business around the globe. In that role he developed value propositions to appeal to key industries, created digital marketing programs working directly with clients, and developed large, integrated programs with key accounts. He worked in both North America and Europe, and during his last two years at Accenture was on assignment in Sydney Australia, helping build the practice in that market.

When Mark came back from Australia last July he shifted out of corporate America and into a boutique research and consulting firm, Magid Associates. He leads a practice focusing on primary research for mid-tier brands and businesses, delivering insights on customer journey, new products, brand health and advertising and communication effectiveness.

Mark has an undergraduate degree from Stanford University, and an MBA from Dartmouth’s Tuck School, and lives and works in the New York metro area.

Michael Hussain is an Adjunct Professor at Drew University. Michael has 30 years of experience across a variety of roles in the Financial Services industry. After graduating from the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) in 1992 with a degree in Economics, he began his career with Dean Witter Reynolds as an Account Executive specializing in investments, retirement, and estate planning. After 6 years he sold a $100MM book of business and went on to earn his MBA in Finance at the Indiana University Kelley School of Business in 2000. Michael served on the institutional sales and trading desks in New York for 12 years delivering research insights and corporate C-level access to hedge funds and mutual funds across the country for firms such as UBS, Janney Montgomery and ended his Institutional Sales & Trading career investing in with a start up research, sales and trading firm, Soleil Securities. He has re-established and re-built multiple regions, established a middle markets desk and was last in charge of the West Coast Region for sales and trading. He has extensive experience in sell side research, investments, trading, banking operations, IPO’s, secondary offerings in equity, preferred and fixed income securities, derivatives investing, risk and portfolio management. His extensive time on the institutional sales desks working with portfolio managers and hedge fund managers has given him insight into the inner workings of our modern financial markets. Having worked with firms private, public, having gone public and merged/acquired give him an added unique viewpoint on the management and and leadership in and around such events and across organizations.

For the last 9 years he has been employed with IHS Markit (under proposed Merger with S&P Global; expected to close in Q2’22) covering a variety of roles including Quantitative Models, Factors and Research Product Specialist, IHS Markit PMI Product Specialist, built out the vendor community for a new compliance and due diligence software solution (KY3P), and has most recently served as an Executive Director leading a US Client Success team for the Enterprise Data Management (EDM) software application & now serves as the Global Head of Private Capital Markets for the iLevel, Qval, Credit, and Full Service Valuations product lines within the Financial Services Solutions division.

Michael has previously co-founded a non-profit foundation raising funds for local cancer related charities and causes in San Diego and continues to volunteer his time and give to causes serving to alleviate children’s illnesses, promote animal welfare, and support for post action military related issues. Michael is currently on the Advisory Panel for the Managing a Remote Workforce program at the Pace University Lubin School of Business. He enjoys martial arts, is currently kick boxing (yellow belt), a licensed sky diver, and an avid student of self mastery, spirituality, self awareness, conscious based living as well as discovering, nurturing and promoting the inherent power that lies within each and every one of us as individuals.

Mr. Nolan is a co-founder of Octaviant Financial and currently serves as the firm’s Chief Investment & Science Officer. Before his charge with Octaviant, he was a Managing Director and Portfolio Manager of the WBB Life Sciences Long/Short portfolio—a fund dedicated to investing in early-stage life science companies—at WBB Asset Management, a division of WBB Securities, LLC.

Prior to WBB, Mr. Nolan led a quantitative investment research team at JPMorgan Asset Management and worked in fund’s research at Barclays Wealth. In addition to his time on Wall Street, Mr. Nolan spent several years as a researcher and epidemiologist at various medical institutions including the University of Pennsylvania and New York University. He has been published in peer reviewed journals on topics ranging from environmental toxicology to hepatitis B infection in children.

Mr. Nolan holds a MPH degree from Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, a bachelor’s degree in Physics from Cornell University and is an Adjunct Professor of Finance at the Drew University Caspersen School of Graduate Studies. He is Series 7, 63, and 65 licensed.

Joy Palmer is a finance and accounting professional with over 30 years of experience, primarily in the financial services industry. She currently serves on the Board of Directors of Dynex Capital, Inc. (DX) as the Audit Chair. She retired from the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency (OCC)) in 2020, where she was the Deputy Chief Accountant. While at the OCC, she previously served in various positions over her 17+ years including as the Senior Accounting Policy Advisor to Large Banks and the Western District Accountant. At the OCC, Joy became a subject matter expert in GAAP and regulatory policies. Prior to that time, Joy was a Director in Equity Research at Merrill Lynch, where she was responsible for analyzing the financial statements and making investment recommendations to institutional investors in the specialty finance sector. Joy has also been a Controller and Director of Finance at other public companies during her career.

Joy also taught accounting and personal finance courses at Diablo Valley College in California.

Joy holds an MBA, concentration in Finance from New York University, Stern School of Business as well as her Bachelor of Science from Montclair State University.

Steven John “SJ” Scansaroli
Contact: [email protected]

Courses Taught at Drew:
New Venture Finance
Management
Mr. Scansaroli specializes in finance, healthcare, and strategy with an emphasis on organizational development.

He is CEO and MD of Elcat, a Private Equity firm, and the Vetrinox Equine Institute which specializes in the aggregation and arbitrage opportunities in select healthcare settings. Previous to his current role, Mr. Scansaroli was the creator and one of four principals of an initiative named “Motion is Medicine” which concentrated on the integration of various healthcare entities including turnaround situations, the continuum of care, and value creation leading to Blackstone divesting its longest-held portfolio company to Colfax for over $1B in a highly profitable transaction. He also held senior roles at Stryker Orthopedics where he was a worldwide speaker on various healthcare topics and was the recipient of numerous awards.

Mr. Scansaroli was named Valedictorian at New York University’s prestigious Stern School of Business for his MBA earning three majors: Finance, Strategy, and Healthcare. Additionally, he holds from the University of Scranton a MS in Human Resources and Organization Development including a thesis and dissertation entitled “Generation X and Their Effect on Business”, and a BA from Drew University with a concentration in Behavioral Science and Economics. He was awarded the Alan Ware Rodes Memorial Award at Drew for his academic performance.

Mr. Scansaroli is an active philanthropist in many areas but has a significant passion for assisting causes including women’s ice hockey, animal rights, and consulting with young entrepreneurs to help their dreams become a reality.

Lastly, Mr Scansaroli is also the Head Ice Hockey Coach at Drew University.

Doug Schneller is a partner in the New York City office of international law firm Rimon, P.C. His legal practice focuses on complex lending, finance, insolvency/bankruptcy and distressed investing transactional matters on behalf of US and international bank and non-bank lenders, hedge funds and financial institutions, as well as a variety of corporate clients.

Prior to joining Rimon in 2017, Doug was a partner at several prominent AmLaw 100 law firms in New York and in London. Doug is also a member of industry organizations, including The Loan Syndications and Trading Association and the American Bankruptcy Institute. He obtained his J.D. from New York University School of Law (Order of the Coif).

Kerem Yaman is currently the COO, CDO, and the head of Portfolio Risk Management at Morgan Stanley’s Market Risk department. He has previously served as global head of market risk for various areas including credit trading, rates trading, emerging markets, municipal markets, prime brokerage and clearing at top US investment banks. Kerem was in charge of Regulatory Management for market risk in the past, and is now leading major regulatory/capital implementation initiatives at Morgan Stanley’s market risk department.

Kerem started his career in Wall Street in 1997 as a derivatives trader in emerging markets, and became the head of the emerging markets derivatives desk at Citigroup, Prior to switching to risk management, he spent time on the buy side trading an emerging markets strategy,

Kerem has a BA in physics and mathematics from the University of Pennsylvania, and a PhD in theoretical physics from the University of California at Santa Barbara. He is an avid practitioner of Aikido, plays guitar, and enjoys skiing.