Barbara Arel
Dr. Arel joined the faculty in 2006 after completing her PhD. at Arizona State University. Prior to her doctoral studies, Dr. Arel worked as a senior auditor in a regional public accounting firm and is licensed as a certified public accountant. She is also a member of the American Accounting Association. Her teaching interests are in the areas of auditing, accounting information systems and financial accounting and her research focuses on the judgment and decision making processes of auditors. Her research has been published in Auditing: A Journal of Practice & Theory, Advances in Accounting and The CPA Journal.
Andrea Cohen
Andrea became the Executive Director of Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (VBSR) in the fall of 2010. Andrea originally joined VBSR in the fall of 2006 as the Public Policy Program Manager. Previous to VBSR, she worked for 16 years at the Vermont Agency of Natural Resources in a variety of management positions involving pollution prevention, resource conservation, and solid waste management. Andrea holds her M.A. in Environmental Science from Antioch University and her B.A. in Psychology and Economics from Vassar College.
Becky Cohen
Becky joined the VBSR team as the Internship Program and Special Projects Manager in October of 2011. She was previously employed by AllEarth Renewables where she handled their customer support and assisted all departments of the company in a variety of tasks. Becky graduated from the University of Vermont in the Spring of 2010 with a Sociology major and a Business minor. After graduating, she spent the summer interning with VBSR to promote the “Buy Local Resource Guide and Coupon Book,” and working at HRSentry to learn the basics of internet based marketing.
David Cohen
Torn between his passion for both art and business David Cohen left his hospitality financial consulting career to travel the world to write, paint, and contemplate his future. Three years later, in 1991, after many adventures around the globe, he ended up in the East Village of New York City. Determined to pursue a more creative path he purchased a small bag of beads from an African bead store and taught himself how to make earrings. The business grew as David drove throughout New York and New England selling his creations door-to-door. His travels led him to the Mad River Valley in Vermont where he decided to relocate in September of the same year. A couple months later he met his soon to be wife, Robin, who added her design flair to the growing wholesale fashion jewelry business. Today, Baked Beads‘ jewelry can be purchased online and at selected retailers across the country.
Rachel Digiammarino
Rachels’ career has crossed over multiple times between corporate and non-profit work and she have honed her communication and management skills in information technology, education, tourism, real estate, social service and corporate training and consulting. She has applied her organizational and creative talents to assisting many small organizations in transition, navigating the wealth of opportunities that exist for developing system for process improvement, change management, and outstanding customer service models. Rachel is the Director of Operations, Client Services at Dealer.com.
Galen Dow
Galen has over 25 years of experience in Marketing, Sales & Engineering. With an engineering degree and MBA from the University of Vermont, Galen has held VP level positions at several mid-sized companies. Galen founded New Breed Marketing in 2001. The company has grown to be a premiere provider of marketing services in the Burlington, VT area.
Danielle Gallant
Danielle Gallant worked at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, RI as a Career Counselor after completing a Masters program in Student Affairs Counseling at Bridgewater State College, Bridgewater, MA. Danielle desires to work with students and to help them figure out what their life goals are after going through her own career transition. She worked in the veterinary medicine field for six years.
Kala Gillim
After getting her BA in English, Kala taught English in Japan and then wondered what else she could do with her degree. She lived, worked, and traveled across the U.S. from California and Oregon to Maine, and tried a range of jobs including office management, aromatherapy, and crisis intervention. In 2006, she graduated from UVM with a Masters in Counseling, and have worked with a wide range of clients including children, elders, families, couples, and students.
David Jones
David Jones is an Associate Professor in Management at the School of Business Administration, University of Vermont. David completed his Ph.D. in Industrial and Organizational Psychology at the University of Calgary in Canada. He is a passionate teacher who was recently honored as the recipient of a University wide teaching award.
Susan Lackey
Susan Lackey has 40 years of experience in apparel trailing, for both men and women, design and dressmaking instruction, for women. She is the image consultant and owner of Perfect Imagine Fashion, where she does image consulting, sales of Doncaster women’s apparels and accessories. She offers consultation on dress for success, presenting your best Image, sales, networking and Interview Skills.
Katy Lesser
Katy Lesser has owned and operated Healthy Living Market for over 26 years and now shares the business with her two children, Eli Lesser-Goldsmith (COO) and Nina Lesser-Goldsmith (Director of the Healthy Living Learning Center), making it a true family business. They are currently in the design/build process of a second location in Saratoga Springs, NY, slated to open early 2013.
Chyi-Lyi (Kathleen) Liang
Dr. Liang has been a faculty member in the Community Development and Applied Economics Department at UVM since 1998. Over the past 10 years, she has created innovative, award-winning courses in entrepreneurship. Her research, teaching, and outreach focus on many perspectives of entrepreneurship and its interactions with people, communities, and organizations. Her learning-in-the-now approach to teaching and dynamic interactions with students push them from the classroom into learning entrepreneurship as an actual entrepreneur.
Barbara McIntosh
Professor Barbara McIntosh has been actively involved in examining aging labor force issues for over 25 years. She is a Professor in the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont where she teaches human resources management, organization behavior, and a course on aging and employment. She is also Associate Director for Policy of the University of Vermont’s Center on Aging. She has been honored by being named a Fellow of the Association for Gerontology in Higher Education (AGHE) in 2001 and a fellow of the Gerontological Society of America (GSA) in 2010.
Thomas G. Noordewier
Thomas G. Noordewier is a faculty member in the School of Business Administration at the University of Vermont. He received his B.A. in Economics, and M.B.A. and Ph.D. in Business Administration, all from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Prior to joining the business faculty at the University of Vermont, he was on the faculties at Yale University and Ohio State University. His research interests focus on organizational buyer-seller relationships, environmental management practices, and the development of models assessing mortgage applicant product choice and creditworthiness. He is co-author of a book on customer service, Customer Service: A Management Perspective, and has published articles in the Journal of Marketing, the Journal of Health Care Marketing, the Journal of Business and Economic Statistics, the Journal of Purchasing and Materials Management, Real Estate Economics, the Journal of Real Estate Research, the Journal of Environmental Management, Computers & Education, and the Journal of Business Logistics.
Melinda Moulton
Melinda has been involved in environmental and socially conscious redevelopment since 1983. Her commitment to protecting the natural and cultural environment of Vermont is embodied in Main Street Landing’s project for a 25-year incremental redevelopment of the Burlington waterfront. The project’s newest addition, the Lake and College Building, was awarded Silver LEED certification from the U.S. Green Building Council, and houses a black box theater and cinema, offices, incubation opportunities for start-up businesses, and space for community gatherings, including the Orton Family Foundation’s 2007 COMMUNITYMATTERS national conference.
Daniel Post Senning
Daniel Post Senning is the great-great-grandson of Emily Post and the manager of web development and online content at The Emily Post Institute. Dan joined the Institute full-time in June, 2008 and he brings a new perspective and fresh approach to the Institute’s mission to promote etiquette. Dan is a co-author of Emily Post’s ETIQUETTE, 18th edition, scheduled for publication in October 2011 and is a presenter of the Emily Post Business Etiquette Seminar series. Prior to joining the Institute, Dan worked in the performing arts, touring with the Laurie Cameron Company based in Los Angeles. He is a graduate of Pomona College and holds a Bachelor of Science degree in molecular biology.
Mark Youndt
Dr. Youndt’s research activities revolve around the intersections of strategic management, intellectual capital, innovation, and competitive advantage. More specifically, his most recent work examines how human, social, and organizational capital influence organizations innovative capabilities; how strategic human resource management activities help develop and leverage intellectual capital for competitive advantage; and how the strategic management of human capital influences the performance of service firms. He has a B.A. degree in management and economics from Gettysburg College, a MBA from Rollins.
Richard G. Vanden Bergh
Dr. Vanden Bergh came to UVM in the fall of 2000. Prior to UVM he worked in corporate banking and investment banking specializing in highly leveraged transactions. He graduated from the University of California at Berkeley, where he completed his Ph.D. in Business and Public Policy. He also earned an MBA from Berkeley and a BA from Swarthmore College. Dr. Vanden Bergh’s current areas of research include: firm strategy in the political environment; design of regulatory, political and judicial institutions. Dr. Vanden Bergh’s research has been published in the Academy of Management Review, the Academy of Management Journal, the Journal of Law & Economics, the Journal of Law, Economics, & Organization, the Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Public Choice, and Business and Politics.
Jane Van Buren
Jane is the owner and president of Noonmark Nonprofit Services and is well-known in Vermont as the founding executive director of VANPO – the Vermont Alliance of Nonprofit Organizations. Her extensive experience in nonprofit management and consulting has spanned many crucial aspects of organization development including: empirically based research on board hiring processes and executive leadership development; organization start-up and nonprofit regulatory compliance; human resources, and the development of capacity building opportunities.
