Faculty

Dr. Ajit Mittal is a Professor of Finance at Amity International Business School, Amity University. He also taught Finance at the London and Singapore campuses of Amity University. Read Less Dr. Mittal holds a double Post-Graduate degree in Management and Commerce from Jaipuria Institute of Management, Lucknow, and earned a Ph.D in Finance from Chaudhary Charan Singh University, India. His research interests include corporate finance, mutual fund investments, portfolio management, and the Indian capital markets. Dr. Mittal has authored two books on information technology applications in finance and has published six papers in national level journals.

Dr. André Roux was the Director of the Institute for Futures Research (IFR) at the University of Stellenbosch from 1996 to August 2015. He is now in the full-time employ of the US Business School, where he lectures on economics and is also the program head for the school’s postgraduate programs in Futures Studies. He teaches on various executive education programs in South Africa and, from time to time, in Australia, Belgium, Mauritius, Namibia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Ghana, and Nigeria. He is a guest lecturer on post-graduate programs at the School of Public Management (Stellenbosch) and the post-graduate diploma in Managing [...]

Dr. Andrew R Thomas teaches Customer Relationship Management in the doctoral programs at ISM. Thomas is Associate Professor of Marketing and International Business at the University of Akron. Read Less He has traveled to and conducted business in 120 countries on all seven continents. Thomas is founding editor-in-chief of the Journal of Transportation Security, contributing editor at Industry Week, and a regularly featured analyst for media outlets around the world. Thomas received a PhD in International Business at the University of Bucharest, Academia de Studii Economice, an MA in International Political Economy from the University of Akron and a BA in [...]

Dr. Balvinder Shukla is a Professor of Entrepreneurship and Leadership at Amity University, Acting Vice Chancellor of Amity University, Director General of the Amity School of Engineering and Technology, and Head of the Amity Academic Staff College. Read Less Dr. Shukla received a Ph.D from Queen’s University, U.K. and a M.Tech in Chemical Engineering from IIT-Kharagpur. Her research interests include customer relationship management, corporate governance, organizational development, entrepreneurship, and leadership. Dr. Shukla has worked with some of the most prestigious institutions in the world, including Queen’s University, Bloomington State University, British Petroleum, Delhi University, IIHT Systems, and the Shimnit Group

Dr. Barak Ben-Avinoam teaches Entrepreneurship and Innovation in the IMBA program at ISM. Dr. Ben-Avinoam is a serial entrepreneur and an expert in the field of early-stage investments, technology start-ups, accelerators and incubators. Barak is a Partner at Benhamou Global Ventures (BGV), a Silicon Valley-based early stage venture capital fund that focuses on enterprise IT innovation. Prior to BGV, Barak Ben-Avinoam was a Managing Partner at Fastlane Ventures (FLV), the leading Internet accelerator in Russia, and a Managing Director at QuantumWave Capital (QWC), a boutique, Paris-based investment banking firm specializing in technology mergers and acquisitions. Read Less Prior to QWC Barak [...]

Strategic Technology & Innovation Management Department Chair Dr. Bernhard Koelmel teaches and researches in the field of future-oriented technologies, products and solutions at the interface of sustainable management (foresight, technology and market roadmapping, technology transfer, innovation management, business design and business models) and technological potentials (cloud, artificial intelligence, Internet of Things, metaverse, blockchain, etc.). He advises companies (technology companies, hidden champions) on their future initiatives. After his studies and doctorate at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Dr. Koelmel worked for a long time in management in the field of strategy, innovation and business design of leading technology companies and [...]

Dr. Brenda Massetti is an Associate Professor of Management at The Peter J. Tobin College of Business, St. John’s University. Dr. Massetti received a Ph.D in Information and Management Science from Florida State University, an M.B.A. from the University of Alabama in Birmingham, and a B.A. in Psychology from the University of South Florida. Read Less Her research interests include investigating the impacts of communications and information technology on organizations as well as the impacts of information sourcing on an individual’s decision-making and creativity. She has presented over twenty papers at conferences in the United States, Europe, and Asia.

Dr. Chafik Abid is the Co- founder, the Director and an Associate professor in the North American Private University in Sfax which consists of three institutions: The International Institute of Technology (IIT), The International School of Business (ISB) and The International School of Architecture (ISA).  Dr. Abid has an MBA in Logistic and Manufacturing Management and then a diploma in Industrial Engineering and a Ph.D. in Operations and Decision Systems from Laval University, Québec. Dr. Abid has an experience exceeding 20 years in research and teaching in Operations and supply chain Management, supported between others by The Natural Sciences and [...]

Dr. Chris Jeffs teaches Design Thinking in the DBA and PhD programs at ISM. He has over two decades of international experience in the pharmaceutical, technological, and higher education sectors. He earned his doctorate in the field of knowledge transfer and innovation management. Read Less As Director of FORM Strategies, he provides executive and business coaching specializing in leadership development and the co-creation of new business models using Design Thinking techniques. Chris sits on the Advisory and Decision Committee as a Sector Expert for the UAE Mohammed Bin Rashid Innovation Fund. He is a Senior Examiner for the Chartered Institute [...]

Finance Department Chair Dr. Christophe Schinckus holds a BSc in Engineering and Management; a BSc in Computer Science; an MSc in Engineering and Management; an MSc in Financial Risk Management; an MA in Philosophy of Science and a MASt (Master in Advanced Studies) in Economic Epistemology. He finished his first PhD in Economics in 2009 from the University of Paris I – Pantheon Sorbonne (France) and his second PhD in Philosophy of Science from the University of Cambridge (UK). Dr. Schinckus gained his teaching and managerial experience in different universities all around the world. He has published more than 130 [...]