Dr. Pavel Andreev is an Associate Professor of Business Analytics and Performance Management, Coordinator of the Business Analytics and Information Systems Section at the Telfer School of Management. He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Industrial Engineering and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel. His dissertation was focused on the impacts of information and communication technologies (ICT) on personal activities such as teleworking, telemedicine, teleshopping, tele-learning, telebanking, and tele-leisure. Andreev’s research interests are related to modeling and exploring performance of commercial and non-commercial organizations on individual, team, and organizational levels. Awarded an NSERC Discovery Grant (2013-2018), he is developing methodologies that enhance healthcare practitioners’ care delivery in interdisciplinary healthcare teams. He is also interested in the organization of Peer-Production (e.g. Open Source projects), Open Innovation, Social Networks, Mobility, Healthcare Information Systems (HIS). Andreev’s research projects cross several distinct disciplines and are international in scope. During 2010-2011, he was a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Sagy Center for Internet Research and the Study of the Information Society, the Graduate School of Management, and the University of Haifa, where his main research focus was on exploring Smart Phone user patterns. Previously, he spent a year as a Research Fellow at Business Information Systems, University College Cork, Ireland where he was engaged in the Open Code, Content and Commerce (O3C) project; their collaboration is ongoing. The results of Andreev’s research was presented and published in leading conferences such as International Conference on Information Systems (ICIS), European Conference on Information Systems (ECIS), IFIP and journals such as Health Policy and Technology, International Journal of E-Business Research, Transportation Research part C: Emerging Technologies, Behaviour & Information Technology, and Electronic Markets. 

Garrick Apollon has 15 years of experience as corporate lawyer with a special expertise in professional development for legal and business professionals. Over the past 15 years, Garrick has also taught thousands of university business and law students at the University of Ottawa, and also trained thousands of legal and business professionals across Canada and internationally. In addition, Garrick has researched and developed numerous accredited professional development programs for legal and business professionals, as well as developed new courses for Law and MBA students.

Garrick was called to the Law Society of Ontario in 2004 and holds a degree in civil law (LL.B.) from Université Laval and a Juris Doctor (J.D.) from the University of Ottawa. He has completed graduate studies in Law, holding both a Master of Law in International Business Law (LL.M.) from Université Laval and a Master of Comparative Law (LLCM) from the University of Pennsylvania Carey Law School (Penn Law, US).

Garrick strongly believes in the promotion of social justice, and that lawyers have an obligation to lead by example through the provision of pro bono legal services. In 2010, Garrick was the recipient of the Humanitarian Excellence Award at the Department of Justice for his pro bono work in Haiti. In 2012, he was the recipient of the Exemplary Public Service Award at Penn Law for completing the most pro bono hours of all graduate students. In 2014, Garrick received the Hope, Empowerment and Success Award from the University of Ottawa’s Black Students Association.

Garrick played college football for the Rouge & Or at Université Laval. In 1999, he was a player/member of the Rouge & Or when it won its first - growing since to a record - of ten Vanier Cups awarded to Canadian college football’s national champions. The Laval Rouge & Or football team is one of the most successful teams in Canadian college football history.

Jonathan Calof is recognized as one of the leaders in competitive intelligence. As Director of INTRAN (Intelligence Teaching and Research Academic Network), a global intelligence network, and Board member for CASIS (Canadian Association of Security and Intelligence Studies), Jonathan has given over 1000 speeches, seminars and keynote addresses around the world on competitive intelligence and has helped several companies and government agencies around the world enhance their intelligence capabilities. In recognition of his contribution to the competitive intelligence field, Jonathan was presented with Frost and Sullivan’s lifetime achievement award for competitive intelligence and the Society of Competitive Intelligence Professional's (SCIP) Catalyst award. Interest in his work has also resulted in several interviews on radio and in print around the world, with features in national publications. He is also a prolific author with over 100 publications to his credit. In addition to his involvement in the consulting and academic world, Dr. Calof is also a director with Success Nexus, a Malaysian biodiesel company and RoboCoder, a Canadian software company. In these executive capacities, Jonathan uses intelligence to identify technology trends and market opportunities.

Moodie is CEO of Searidge Technologies and oversees the corporate direction and strategy for global operations. He focuses on leadership, complex deal negotiations, and customers. Moodie has successfully grown revenue year over year in excess of 25%, while maintaining the company's profitability. Moodie is an industry recognized expert in the area of airport innovation, speaking at 50+ global conferences.  He continues to be recognized for his mentorship, entrepreneurship and active involvement in the community through his involvement with the Ottawa Board of Trade, Canadian Chamber of Commerce, and the CANARIE board of directors. 

Ian Cullwick is a Partner in Mercer’s Ottawa office. He joined Mercer in 2015 after having served as the Vice-President of HR and Organization Research at the Conference Board of Canada, and as a Partner at major international consulting firm.

Ian specializes in human capital strategy, governance effectiveness, total compensation strategy, performance management, and organization design.  Ian consults to a broad cross-section of organizations in both the private and public sectors, including high technology companies, financial institutions, crown corporations, health care and not-for-profit organizations.  He is also a noted thought leader and has authored a number of articles on organization, performance and compensation. Ian also taught an MBA course on High Performance Organizations at a Canadian business school.

Ian has an MBA from the Ivey Business School [Western University], an MIR from the University of Toronto and an undergraduate degree from Queen’s University.  He is also a former member of the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario’s Board of Trustees, and serves on the Compensation and Performance [Standing] Committee of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons.  Ian is also the former Chair of the Board of the Ottawa YMCA.

Dr. Jamal Hejazi is a senior member of the Gowlings Transfer Pricing and Competent Authority team. Working in conjunction with the Firm's National Tax Practice Group, Jamal helps organizations optimize their global tax position and reduce exposure to unfavorable audit assessments through proper tax planning and implementation strategies. He has been involved in work for a number of industries including automotive, pharmaceutical, energy, computer software, gaming, manufacturing and services. He also specializes in intangible valuation and has done work for both the technology and biochemical sectors.

Prior to joining Gowlings, Jamal was a senior transfer pricing economist with the Canada Revenue Agency, where he participated in the resolution of a number of transfer pricing issues, including the relief of double taxation on Canadian corporations. He was instrumental in the negotiation of Advanced Pricing Agreements between Canada and foreign tax authorities. Jamal has also held a faculty position at the University of Windsor, and was a lecturer at both Carleton University and the University of Phoenix. He has also served as an expert witness at the Tax Court of Canada.

Complementing his graduate degrees, Jamal has recently earned the Registered Professional Accountant (R.P.A.) designation. He is currently completing his CPA designation in the State of Illinois. In September 2011, Gowlings was recognized by the International Tax Review as Canada’s Transfer Pricing Firm of the Year.

Hal has 23 years of professional experience with the last 19 years devoted to operations management.  His professional experience is complemented with solid proven leadership and people management skills.  Hal developed a vast knowledge throughout his career as he worked in different industries such as; sheet metal fabrication, fiber-optics, contract manufacturing, telecommunication, printing, and most recently in healthcare.

He is focused on developing business systems, process re-engineering, warranty services, contracts negotiations, proposal development, client management, and process waste elimination using the principles and tools of Six Sigma and Lean methodologies.  Hal is results-driven, strategic thinker with the ability to manage long-term goals in conjunction with the immediate needs of the business.  Academically, Hal received a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering from the University of Dayton in Ohio, USA.  He also holds an Executive MBA degree from the Telfer School l of Management at the University of Ottawa, Canada.

Currently, Hal is responsible for running the operations team at Thermo Fisher Scientific – Microbiology Canada located in the nation’s capital.  He is responsible for the entire Canadian operation to manufacture and distribute prepared media (considered as a medical device) that allows healthcare laboratories and hospitals to culture and identify micro-organisms.  The product offers solutions to diagnose infectious diseases and tests potential bacterial contamination in food.

Hal’s responsibility encompasses all aspects of the business including quality assurance, human resources, finance, planning, engineering, practical process improvement (PPI), facilities, and supply chain management.  Accountable for all areas of the site’s business operations, budgetary, throughput, supply chain, site P&L, site goals & objectives and alignment of the operational performance against the corporate strategy and long-term vision.  Continually influencing positive culture change throughout the organization by fostering an environment of honest and open dialogue, trust, and ownership.  Safety, quality, and cost-focused to deliver the best performing products at competitive pricing to the customer.

Derek Howe is a seasoned executive with over 15 years of progressive financial, operational and negotiating experience within the engineering, real estate and construction industries.  He is recognized as a leader in the Ottawa marketplace, who has been directly responsible for the origination, execution and development of over three million square feet of real estate and construction in the office, industrial and residential sectors representing over $1.0B dollars of economic activity.  

Currently, Derek is the Chief Operating Officer of Zibi Canada, slated to be one of the worlds most sustainable communities.  Situated on the Ottawa River, on the former Domtar Lands, Zibi is a master planned community consisting of 3.8M sq. ft. of residential, commercial, retail and mixed use real estate.  The project will eventually house some 2,000 units and be home to a vibrant urban community.

Derek received his Masters of Business of Administration, in 2013, from the Richard Ivey School of Business in London, Ontario.

Professor Dana Hyde holds an Honors Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration and a Master's of Business Administration from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario, and a Ph.D. in Management from INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France --recognized recently by Business Week magazine as the world's leading global business school -- with a specialization in Strategy.

Prior to joining the University of Ottawa, Professor Hyde taught at Babson College, which has the US' leading undergraduate and MBA programs in Entrepreneurship; and at the Ivey School of Business, where she won a faculty teaching award in both years. Several of the case studies Professor Hyde produced at INSEAD and IMD are worldwide bestsellers and have won international awards.

Now a full-time independent consultant in strategic and organizational change to several public and private sector organizations in the Ottawa region, including extensive work with an international government department, over the past twenty years Professor Hyde has worked as a consultant and researcher in many countries in Western Europe as well as in the US. Professor Hyde is also a Visiting Professor at Vlerick Management School (Ghent, Belgium and St. Petersburg, Russia).

Professor Hyde's interests include the linkages between organizational innovation and business innovation: how organizational practices and systems can drive, facilitate, or hinder business innovation; sparking and sustaining strategic and organizational change at all levels of the organization; the human processes involved in effective management consulting; strategy and the management of change in the public sector; corporate entrepreneurship for strategic renewal in medium-sized and large firms; horizontal management, including cross-business relationships among organizational units; corporate strategy in multinational multi-business firms, including the role of the corporate centre; and the integration process in mergers and acquisitions.

Elnaz is currently a Manager in Omnia – Artificial Intelligence practice at Deloitte. She is a Project Management Professional and holds a PhD in Management Sciences, Quantitative Methods, from University of Montreal for which she was the recipient of the best doctoral thesis of 2015. Mathematician at heart, Elnaz is passionate about putting theory into practice. She has worked with numerous public, crown, and private sector clients to deliver global technology-based business solutions and simulation/optimization modelling techniques to generate actionable insights and recommendations.

While her engagements have focused across the entire data lifecycle – from ideation to implementation – her main areas of expertise are Digital Transformation and Data Science Development (Data Governance, Data Modelling, BI and Data Analysis). Her clients have spanned several industries, including healthcare, financial and social services, and defence.

Prior to joining Deloitte, while pursuing her doctorate at HEC Montreal, she was a researcher at Groupe d’études et de recherche en analyses des decisions (GERAD) where she dealt with different optimization problems in finance and econometrics, energy systems and environment. She has a demonstrated record of performance in data analysis, research and development (R&D), and university-level teaching.

Elnaz published and presented over ten journal/conference papers proposing novel methodologies, on optimization and game theory, data/decision analysis, and mathematical modelling.

Cathy Lewis earned undergraduate degrees from Carleton University, her Education Degree from the University of Ottawa and her Executive MBA from the Telfer School of Management. She has 25 years of experience working in a leadership role across government, corporate and not-for-profit sectors. Half of her career has been as a self-employed consultant and half as an employee. Her areas of expertise broadly include education, manufacturing, and governance.

Cathy leads domestic and international education programs through her consulting practice. Most recently she was the academic lead in developing the first International Payments Certification credential in collaboration with Australia, South Africa, the United States and the Netherlands to address the global talent shortage in Fintech. Education clients have included Microsoft, Nortel, NASA’s Distance Learning, Public Works Government Services Canada, the Library of Parliament, school boards and non-profit organizations. Cathy began her career in technology enabled learning with adaptive technology at the Paul Mentor Centre (Carleton University) and Student Academic Success Services (University of Ottawa) and then as the Education Technology Leader of the Ottawa-Carleton District School Board.

While working in biotechnology and medical device manufacturing, Cathy developed a learner-focused and first-of-its-kind workplace education program in partnership with Algonquin College and the Ministry of Training Colleges and Universities resulting in 487 apprentices graduating in Microelectronics or as an Instrumentation Control Technician. As a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt she led continuous improvement implementations across North America, including designing and delivering Green Belt certification training. In a manufacturing context Cathy has been the global lead for Environment, Health and Safety, Director of Communications, designed and implemented an Enterprise Strategic Program Office and created workplace mentoring and coaching programs.

Cathy has been a board member for 15 years and an area of expertise in her consulting practice is governance. A recent example was guiding the development of a transition path from successful start-up to long-term sustainability through organizational development, stakeholder consultation, strategy implementation, leadership coaching and the collaborative creation of a custom-fit governance structure.

Cathy is a passionate community member who recently volunteered on a Habitat Build team in Whitehorse, served as treasurer on the board of the Elizabeth Fry Society of Ottawa and is an active supporter of the Ottawa Network for Education’s Junior Achievement and School Breakfast Programs. Cathy founded iSisters Technology Mentoring in 2001. iSisters creates and delivers technology programs in collaboration with community partners to equip women with the skills and confidence to participate fully in their community. She supports strategy, programs and partnership development as a director on the board.

Francis A. Mensah combines experiences in accounting, finance and risk management. He is currently preparing a doctorate in project management at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. Previously, he held various positions at Export Development Canada (EDC) such as Director, corporate accounting and Manager, treasury accounting within the Corporate Finance and Control group. He has more than fifteen years of industry experience, as he also held various risk management positions during his career at EDC. Mr. Mensah joined the Telfer Executive MBA during the winter of 2009, building on his experience as a part-time professor at the Université du Québec en Outaouais. Mr. Mensah is a certified public accountant and a chartered financial analyst. Furthermore, he received training from the Risk Management Association. He acts as a mentor for entrepreneurs in developing countries for Enablis. Mr. Mensah holds an MBA in Finance from the Université Laval where he was awarded a scholarship for excellence.  

Evelyn Micelotta is an Associate Professor in Management at Telfer School of Management, University of Ottawa. She received a PhD in Strategic Management and Organization from Alberta School of Business and a PhD in Management Engineering from Milan Polytechnic. Her research interests include institutional maintenance and change, family business and sociocultural dynamics in entrepreneurial settings. Her research has been published in Journal of Management, Academy of Management Annals, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Organization Studies and Family Business Review, among others. She is currently Associate Editor of Family Business Review.

Michael Miles actively engages in research and consultation in international leadership practice (focus on China and Romania), organization design, governance, change management, and the use of simulation in teaching real-world business skills. He is an active consultant with North American clients such as Pratt & Whitney, the Bank of Montreal, and the Red Cross. His current international clients include the China National Petroleum Corporation, Vodafone, Coca-Cola (Romania), L'Oreal, and Wyeth Pharma Group. Dr. Miles has held faculty positions at numerous universities and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Telfer School of Management. He alternates residence and focus between China, Thailand, and Romania where he works on and researches global management issues.

Dr. Mulvey is an Assistant Professor of Marketing at the University of Ottawa's Telfer School of Management (2003-present). Previously, he held research and teaching positions at Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey (1996-2002) and Penn State University (1993-1996). He has also served as a visiting professor at Rutgers Business School (2005-06) and the Bucharest School of Management (2006-2010). At Rutgers, Dr. Mulvey was named GE Teaching Fellow in 2000 for his innovative use of technology in the classroom and he was a three-time finalist for the Paul Nadler Award for Teaching Excellence and a finalist for the Thomas H. Mott Teaching Excellence Award. He was nominated for TVO's 2010 Best Lecturer Competition and was a finalist for the University of Ottawa Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2009-10 and 2010-11.

Dr. Mulvey's research focuses on how products, brands and behaviours gain personal relevance to consumers. He is an expert in using qualitative research methods such as metaphor elicitation, means-end theory and the laddering technique to uncover how customers think. His recent research examines branding and positioning strategy, advertising design and testing, and perceived value and consumer choice. Dr. Mulvey's articles have been published in journals including The Journal of Retailing, The Journal of Public Policy and Marketing, International Journal of Research in Marketing, Advances in Consumer Research, Journal of Leisure Research, NMIMS Management Review, Qualitative Market Research, and Innovative Marketing. He has presented his work at many international conferences and often shares his expertise as a commentator in the media.

Dr. Mulvey has provided marketing consultation and expert witness services to clients in the financial services, tourism, consumer-packaged goods, retail, and not-for-profit industry segments. Past clients include Bank of America, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, Harrah's Casino, Hilton Hotels, Motorola, New York State, Panasonic, ShopRite Supermarkets, Toyota, and United Way. He has also provided expert testimony to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice, Superior Court of Quebec, Federal Court of Canada and Competition Bureau Canada regarding brand confusion, trademark infringement and price deception.

Prior to his academic appointment, he was Director of Market Development at Cognos Incorporated, working with leading companies in North America and Europe (for example, Panasonic, Staples, Electrolux, Webex, BASF) and prior to that as a strategy consultant for companies such as Nortel, iStat, Bitflash, and Solectron. He has also worked with federal departments including Finance, House of Commons, Treasury Board Secretariat, Public Service Commission, Western Diversification, and the Canadian Coast Guard. Early in his career, he worked as a public servant at Transport Canada and Consulting and Audit Canada.

Prior to his academic appointment, he was Director of Market Development at Cognos Incorporated, working with leading companies in North America and Europe (for example, Panasonic, Staples, Electrolux, Webex, BASF) and prior to that as a strategy consultant for companies such as Nortel, iStat, Bitflash, and Solectron. He has also worked with federal departments including Finance, House of Commons, Treasury Board Secretariat, Public Service Commission, Western Diversification, and the Canadian Coast Guard. Early in his career, he worked as a public servant at Transport Canada and Consulting and Audit Canada.

David has 30 years of experience spanning the private and public sectors supporting projects in Africa, Asia, Australia, Europe, North America and South America. David’s focus for the last 19 years has been on Corporate Indirect Procurement. In 2006 David joined Accenture as the Global Category Director for Professional Services. Prior to joining Accenture, David was a Director at Nortel Networks with responsibility for leading a global team overseeing strategic sourcing and category management activities in the corporate services domain. David’s experience includes negotiating a wide variety of large scale strategic sourcing and BPO engagements involving the outsourcing of various services including Contingent Labour, Corporate IS, Finance, HR, Legal, Payroll, Procurement Services and other areas of professional services. David has experience across the consumer products, financial services, health, natural resources and technology industry sectors.

David holds a Bachelor of Engineering Degree from Carleton University and he is a Registered Professional Engineer. David also holds an MBA from the University of Ottawa.