GBA491 - Professor Bios

James Doyle Executive Professor of Business Administration

Office: CS-4-110D Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 275-4152 Email: [email protected]

Professor Doyle has had a varied career with a background that includes general management, management consulting and education. He has been the president of two companies, Watkins Products, Inc. and Sarah Coventry International. He was a principal in the international management consulting firm of A. T. Kearney International. In the field of education, he has lectured in several subject areas, including marketing, general management and entrepreneurship, both at the graduate and undergraduate levels. He has held teaching positions at St. John Fisher College and Alfred University; he also has taught in London, at Richmond College and the Kensington Campus of Huron University. He is a co-founder and director of R. A. Schoeneberger & Associates, Ltd., a management consulting firm.

B.A., Economics, Knox College M.B.A., Marketing, Northwestern University

Dennis Kessler Executive Professor of Business Administration

Office: Phone: (585) 424-5277 Email: [email protected]

Mr. Kessler is co-owner of Kessler Restaurants LLC, a Rochester, N.Y.-based owner and operator of 21 Burger King and 41 Friendly’s restaurants. Kessler has 27 years experience in restaurant ownership, real estate and human resource development. He employs about 3,000 workers in central and western New York State and is the largest Friendly’s franchise restaurant owner in the country. He has led a number of successful start-up companies and is a member of the Council of Advisors for Gerson Lehrman Group Inc., an international association of academic and industry thought leaders consulting for leading investment professionals worldwide.

Kessler is a member of the board of trustees of the University of Rochester Medical Center and The Boy Scouts of America, and serves as an advisor to local law enforcement agencies on matters pertaining to business.

B.S., City University of New York M.A., Sociology, John Jay College of Criminal Justice M.S.L., Yale University Law School

GBA491 - Professor Bios

Duncan Moore Rudolf and Hilda Kingslake Professor of Optical Engineering, Professor of Optics and Professor of Business Administration

Office: Wilmot 509 Phone: (585) 275-5248 Email: [email protected]

Professor Moore is the former dean of the School of Engineering and Applied Sciences and the former director of The Institute of Optics. He is a past president of the Optical Society of America. From 1997 to 2001, he served as associate director for technology in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy for the Clinton Administration, where he worked on the Next Generation Internet, Clean Car Initiative, new construction materials, and NASA. From 2002 to 2004, he served as president and chief executive officer of the Infotonics Technology Center Inc., an industry, academia and government partnership to foster cutting-edge research, prototyping of new technology and economic development in upstate New York.

Professor Moore teaches an entrepreneurship course to a combined class of engineering graduate students and M.B.A.’s.

B.A., Physics, University of Maine at Orono M.S., Optics, University of Rochester Ph.D., Optics, University of Rochester

David Oliveiri Executive Professor of Business Administration

Office: CS-4-110E Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 275-5144 Email: [email protected]

Professor Oliveiri has held several executive positions over a 30-year career in publishing and law.

He recently served as group vice president of legal education for West Group (an operating arm of the Thomson Corporation, a $7.3 billion publicly traded company listed on the New York Stock Exchange), and president of Foundation Press.

He has held positions as senior vice president and publisher, vice president of business development, vice president of product systems, and general manager/ chief operating officer for various Thomson subsidiaries and operating groups.

Oliveiri began his career at Lawyers Cooperative Publishing in Rochester, N.Y., where he was a managing editor, and later, an editorial director. He has also served as general counsel at Theatre Confections Inc. and was assistant counsel at Central Trust Bank.

He is a member of the New York State and Monroe County Bar Associations, Beta Gamma Sigma, the Scribes Society of Legal Writers, and the Academy of Legal Studies in Business. He is licensed to practice law before the courts of New York State and the Federal Court of the Western District of New York.

Oliveiri is the author of the revised edition of Nimmer’s Commercial Asset-Based Financing(Thomson/West), a leading legal treatise. His research interests are in the areas of law and economics as interrelated disciplines, and in particular how the legal environment affects comparative advantage.

B.S., University of Buffalo J.D., University of Buffalo M.B.A., University of Rochester GBA491 - Professor Bios

Peter L. Waasdorp Executive Professor of Business Administration and Area Coordinator, Entrepreneurship

Office: CS-4110G Carol Simon Hall Phone: (585) 275-0122 Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.simon.rochester.edu/fac/waasdorp/

Professor Waasdorp joined the Simon School after a 26-year career with Xerox Corporation. He began his career in sales management and held positions in business and product planning, new product development, manufacturing process re-engineering, product marketing and quality/ customer satisfaction management. He served on Xerox’s Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Team when Xerox won that award in 1989. Waasdorp’s interests, in addition to product marketing, product development and quality management, include the relationship between customer loyalty and shareholder value. He serves as the area coordinator for the entrepreneurship concentration. He has served as a consultant to Ameritech, Arthur Andersen LLP, Empire Blue Cross/ Blue Shield, Harris Interactive, RF Communications Division of Harris Corporation, Rochester Gas & Electric Corporation and the Timken Co.

In addition to his Simon School appointment, Waasdorp is a member of the University of Rochester’s Center in Electronic Imaging Systems (CEIS). He works with student intern teams that do market and product/technology assessments for CEIS member companies.

B.A., Business Administration, University of Rochester M.S., Marketing, University of Rochester

Paul D. Wetenhall Lecturer in Entrepreneurship

Office: CS-4110A Carol Simon Hall Phone: Email: [email protected]

Mr. Wetenhall serves as president of High Tech Rochester, an economic development organization that assists entrepreneurs and commercializes technology. It operates a business incubator known as the Lennox Tech Enterprise Center (TEC) that has assisted the business development of over 100 early-stage technology clients and affiliates. The incubator was recognized with the National Business Incubation Association’s 2002 Innovation Award. He founded QSoft Solutions Corp. in 1992 and served as president of this business software and e-commerce company through 2003. Wetenhall co-founded Microlytics, Inc., a Xerox Corporation-funded software company formed in 1985 to commercialize technology from Xerox’s Palo Alto Research Center, and served as a director. He joined as chief operating officer in 1988 and managed rapid growth, mergers, Hong Kong manufacturing and public company issues. Previously, he held a variety of management positions in pricing, marketing and operations during 13 years at Xerox Corporation.

Wetenhall serves as a director of Odyssey Software, Inc., a privately held mobile software company, and of New Jobs for New York, a non-profit organization. He was a Business Foundation Fellow and Dean’s Scholar at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and is a member of Tau Beta Pi and Beta Gamma Sigma.

B.S., Industrial Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology M.B.A., University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill