CEMBA Faculty

Warsaw School of Economics

Academic Position: Professor

Professional Experience: Research and teaching at SGH-Warsaw School of Economics. Of Counsel Advisor at Głuchowski Siemiątkowki Zwara law firm. Expert of the Ministry of Economy for EU programs 2014-2020. Member of the board of Institute of Aviation and MBA SGH Program.

CEMBA course taught: Economics & Sociopolitical Context of the Firm (MBA 8421) & Consulting Integrative Project

Warsaw School of Economics

Academic position: Associate Professor, SGH Warsaw School of Economics

Professional position: Executive Director of the Polish-Japanese Management Center at Warsaw School of Economics. Member of the editorial board of "Organization' Review". Trainer and consultant in the fields of: Organizational Behavior, Negotiations, and General Management.

CEMBA course taught: Simulation / Corporate Management (MBA 8439)

Training in North America: Faculty development programme: University of Prince Edward Island, Charlottetown, Canada; University of Quebec at Montreal, Canada; University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA. Training course in Foreign Trade Promotion for Central-European countries - Kobe University, Japan. The Executive Program on Corporate Management for Central and Eastern European Countries - Tokyo, Japan.

ESG - University of Quebec at Montreal (ESG - UQAM)

Academic position: Associate Professor in Strategic Management, ESG - UQAM

Professional experience: Visiting professor in various universities throughout the world including INSEAD and CEDEP (France), Bucharest School of Economics (Romania), etc. Trainer in corporate programs both in Canada and France. Consultant in Strategic Management in several large financial institutions. Co-author of several books in strategy including "Strategic Thinking: A Financial Services Approach".

CEMBA course taught: Simulation/Corporate Management (MBA 8439)

Professor of Accounting and Business Decision Making. CEMBA Alumni, CEO of LRC Group. Was the Chief Financial Officer and an Executive member of the management board of GTC Group, a leading real estate investor and developer in CEE. Erez was in charge on GTC S.A.'s global capital markets activity, whereby he has led the company's numerous equity raising, bond raising, investment loans and acquisitions and disposals to the tune of several billion EUR. Erez has acted as a member of the supervisory board, Head of the Audit Committee and Member of the Investment Committee of Orbis S.A. (Accor Hotels Group) for several years

CEMBA course taught: Accounting and Business Decision Making

Professor of Digital Marketing and coordinator of Mission to Silicon Valley at CEMBA.

2003-2008 Doctorate in Technology Management (Ph.D.)
École Polytechnique, Montreal
2000-2006 Master's in Technology Management (M.Sc.A.)
École Polytechnique, Montreal
1994-1997 Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) -
École des Hautes Études Commerciales (HEC), Montreal

Global Winner, Google Online Marketing Challenge (2016)
Prize for emerging professors in research, ESG UQAM (2015)
1st position, Commerce Games - Marketing Case (2015)
2nd place, John Molson MBA Case Writing Competition (2015)
2nd place, John Molson MBA Case Writing Competition (2014)
Best Paper, Administrative Sciences Association of Canada (ASAC 2014) Conference (Category: Case Studies)
Primary Grant Holder: Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada - Insight Grants (2012-2017).

CEMBA course taught: Digital Marketing and coordinator of Mission to Silicon Valley at CEMBA

Professor of Strategic Management at CEMBA.

Director of Executive MBA (EMBA) Programs (since June 2020)
Director of the Strategy, Social and Environmental Responsibility Department, (November 2014- May 2020)
Academic Coordinator International EMBA-Mexico
Coordinator of DSR5100 Management Strategy Course Groups (since 2009)
Coach, ESG-UQÀM Business Games Strategy Team (2009-2017)
Member of the ESG-UQÀM Disciplinary Committee 2014-2016
Project Evaluator, French Committee for the Evaluation of Scientific and University Cooperation with Brazil. French Government, Ministry of Higher Education, Research and Innovation (MESRI) and Ministry of Europe and Foreign Affairs (MEAE)

Certification in Strategic Scenario Planning (Oxford University- Said Business School), Oxford, UK
Doctorate in Administration, Strategy (Ph.D). Joint program (UQAM, Concordia, McGill, HEC)
Master of Business Administration (MBA)-UQÀM
Bachelor of Management Accounting, Institut Supérieur Lucien Cooremans, Haute École Francisco Ferrer, Brussels

CEMBA course taught: Strategic Management, and Summer School in Montreal

Professor of Leadership at CEMBA Program

Associate partner of the Center for Strategy & Leadership and a senior academic at the Rotterdam School of Management, the Netherlands, where he teaches organizational behavior and strategic human resource management in the MBA and in-company executive programs. In addition, Bill is an independent consultant at Collins Consultancy.

Bill holds a Ph.D. and a Master of Science in Industrial-Organizational Psychology from Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta, and a Bachelor of Science in Psychology from Texas A&M University in College Station.

Bill started his career working as Internal Human Resource Consultant at the Georgia Power Company in Atlanta, while simultaneously working on his Ph.D., and subsequently as Human Resource Management Consultant for Towers Perrin. Bill then moved to Spain where he worked at the Instituto de Empresa in Madrid. Here he held several functions, including executive director, internal consultant, coordinator of faculty recruitment, and professor.

After spending almost 5 years in Madrid, Bill moved to the Netherlands where he began working at the RSM Erasmus University. Soon after arriving in the Netherlands, he founded Collins Consultancy and became a visiting faculty at Leiden University.

CEMBA course taught: Leadership

Professor of Information Technology at CEMBA Program.

Professor is a distinguished professional with deep expertise in both accounting and information technology. His academic background and extensive practical experience allow him to bridge the gap between these fields, providing innovative solutions to complex financial and technological challenges.

With a comprehensive understanding of accounting principles and a strong command of IT systems, Sylvain has contributed significantly to the development of efficient, data-driven strategies in various sectors. His work focuses on optimizing financial processes through technological advancements, ensuring accurate analysis, forecasting, and decision-making support.

Professor of Leadership at CEMBA Program

Professor is the Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. He is also the Director of the Centre for Resarch on Community Oriented Entrepreneurship (CRCE). His research interests include business planning, nascent entrepreneurship, transnational entrepreneurship, ethics in scholarship, immigration and social entrepreneurship, social capital, and entrepreneurship in transition environments. He has published in leading academic journals (over 100 peer reviewed articles) and serves on ten editorial boards, including the AMLE,AMD,JBV,JMS & ET&P. Past chair of the Academy of Management Ethics Education Committee, Ethicist blogger, has served on the Babson conference board and on the Entrepreneurship Division of AOM. He is a board member of the Africa Academy of Management.

CEMBA course taught: Leadership

Warsaw School of Economics, Institute of Econometrics

Academic position: Professor at the Division of Decision Analysis and Support, Institute of Econometrics

Professional experience: Assistant at the Department of Pharmacoeconomics, Medical University of Warsaw; HealthQuest (in the past: Matrix, Bank BPH)

CEMBA course taught: Statistics and Operations Analysis (MBA 8411)

Education: Warsaw School of Economics (Ph.D., MSc), University of Warsaw, Faculty of Mathematics, Informatics and Mechanics (BSc), Center for operations research and econometrics, Louvain-la-Neuve, Belgium (Marie-Curie scholarship), Universidade Lusofona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal (Socrates-Erasmus scholarship)

ESG - University of Quebec at Montreal (ESG - UQAM).

Academic position: Full-time tenured professor (International Marketing), Director of the Philippe Pariseault Chair for Training in Agri-food Market Globalization. Coordinator and founder of the Canadian EMBA program at Warsaw School of Economics, Poland. Member of professional associations: European Foundation for Management Development, Academy of International Business, President of the Chambre de Commerce Canada-Pologne.

Professional experience: Vice-President of Promexport Canada, Montreal. Consultant at Lipos International, New York.

CEMBA course taught: Consulting Integrative Project (MBA 8448)

Professor of Operations Management at CEMBA

Doctorate, Ph.D., Computer Science, option: Industrial Engineering, National Conservatory of Arts and Crafts, Paris (1998)
Master's, Industrial Engineering, National Polytechnic Institute of Grenoble (1993)
Engineering, Industrial Engineering, Polytechnic School of Algiers (1991)

CEMBA course taught: Operations Management 

Warsaw School of Economics, International Marketing Institute.

Academic position: Professor of organizational behaviour, marketing, advertising, negotiations.

Professional experience: Former Director of the Promotion Department in Radio ZET. Consultant and trainer for many companies (ORBIS, Selgros, UNIDO Poland, Polish Chamber of Commerce, Canal Plus, Polish Ministry of Foreign Economic Relations, Apple Computer IMC Poland).

CEMBA course taught: Organizational Behavior (MBA 8410)

Training in North America:

Fulbright Scholarship, Columbia University, New York, USA. Faculty development program at the University of Prince Edward Island, Canada.

Professor of Marketing at CEMBA

André Richelieu has been a University professor for over twenty years now and has taught in Universities dating back to 1992. All in all, he has thirty years of expertise in both business and academia at the domestic and international levels. Since 2002, he has specialized in brand management and sport marketing in the context of ‘SPORTAINMENT’ (merger of sport and entertainment, and the reconfiguration of the boundaries of the industry

CEMBA course taught: Marketing

Professor in project management at ESG UQAM. He teaches in the graduate programs in project management and in the executive MBA.
He has supported several public and private organizations in the transformation of their structures and practices, allowing them to strengthen their performance and organizational maturity of projects. His main research expertise is in the governance and management of technology projects, including stakeholder issues, decision making and ownership of project results.
He works closely with public organizations in Quebec to ensure the performance of public projects.

CEMBA course taught: Project Management

University of Manitoba, I.H. Asper School of Business.

Academic position: Associate Dean for Professional Programs, Full Professor of Finance, former Department Head of Accounting and Finance.

Professional experience: Co-author of two Corporate Finance textbooks used at universities across Canada and internationally. Chartered Professional Accountant (CPA, CMA). Member of the Investment Committee for TRAF – the Teachers’ Retirement Allowances Fund (pension fund) for Province of Manitoba Teachers, Member of the Investment Committees and Pension Committees for the University of Manitoba Pension Funds. Former member of Independent Review Committees for several mutual funds. Academic Reviewer & Referee for various academic journals. Consultant to several international publishers on the development of corporate finance textbooks. Professional, educational, and research presentations given in Canada, Poland, Germany, USA, Czech Republic, Australia, Singapore, Sri Lanka, China and Mexico. Courses taught include Corporate Finance (undergraduate, MBA, and PhD levels), Investment Banking, International Finance and Advanced Finance Theory (all at undergraduate and MBA levels), and Managerial Economics (MBA).

CEMBA course taught: Managerial Finance (MBA 8415).

Professor of Human Resources Management in CEMBA Program

Assistant Professor skilled in Talent Management, Project Management, and Human Resources. Strong professional with a PhD focused in Management from SGH Warsaw School of Economics. Experienced Project Manager with a demonstrated history of working in the higher education industry. Author of two books in the area of HRM.

CEMBA course taught: Human Resources Management

The professors who made a significant contribution to the success of past editions of the CEMBA Program:

• Ajenstadt J., Ph.D., Canada
• Askanas W., Ph.D., Canada
• Augustyniak G., MA, Poland
• Balakrishnan J., Ph.D., Canada
• Barnhill A., Ph.D., Canada
• Bendavid Y., Ph.D., Canada
• Bieńkowski W., Professor, Poland
• Boucha M., Ph.D. MBA, CFA, Canada
• Carney M., Ph.D., Canada
• Cattaneo J., Ph.D., Canada
• Cherry D., Ph.D., Canada
• Chowdbury S., Ph.D., Canada
• Chua J., Ph.D., Canada
• Cloutier Martin, Ph.D., Canada
• Collins R., Ph.D., Canada
• Davis M., Ph.D., Canada
• Dębicki M., Ph.D., Canada
• Doligalski T., Ph.D., Poland
• Dow Sandra, Ph.D., Canada
• Dyngosz A., Ph.D., Poland
• Ferris A., Ph.D., Canada
• Filiatrault P.,Ph.D.,Canada
• Ganjavi O., Ph.D., Canada
• Geldner M., Professor, Poland
• Genest B. A., Ph.D., Canada
• Gołębiowski T., Professor, Poland
• Goliński J, Professor, Poland
• Good W., Ph.D., Canada
• Gopal A., Ph.D., Canada
• Gruszczyński M., Professor, Poland
• Gupta A., Ph.D., Canada
• Harvey J., Ph.D., Canada
• Isaak R., Ph.D., Canada
• Jarosiński M., Professor, Poland
• Kaciak E., Ph.D., Canada
• Kamiński B., Ph.D., Poland
• Laberge D., Ph.D., Canada
• Lee I., Ph.D., Canada
• Lepine I., Ph.D., Canada
• Madden R. CA (Chartered Accountant), FCA (Fellow Chartered Accountant), Canada
• Mahaffey T., Ph.D., Canada
• Marciniak Z., Ph.D., Poland
• Mazur J., Professor, Poland
• Matkowski Z., Professor, Poland
• Miciak A., Ph.D., Canada
• Noori H., Ph.D., Canada
• Nowakowski M., Professor, Poland
• Oppenheimer R., Ph.D., Canada
• Pac R., Ph.D., Poland
• Pankratz. B., Ph.D., Poland
• Paliwoda Stanley, PhD., Canada
• Pasquero J., Ph.D., Canada
• Pielaszek M., Ph.D., Poland
• Płoszajski P., Professor, Poland
• Polak P.,Ph.D.,Poland
• Prokop J.,Professor,Poland
• Prosper B., Ph.D.MBA, Canada
• Przybyłowski K., Ph.D., Poland
• Przytula Peter, Ph.D., USA
• Rapacki R., Professor, Poland
• Reavley M., Ph.D., Canada
• Robinson M., Ph.D., Canada
• Rutkowski I., Professor, Poland
• Storey R., Ph.D., Canada
• Sulejewicz A., Professor, Poland
• Szapiro T., Professor, Poland
• Tamilia R., Ph.D., Canada
• Thomas D., Ph.D., Canada
• Toffoli R., B. Sc., Ph.D., MBA, Canada
• Waters D., Ph.D., UK
• Warowny P., Ph.D., Poland
• Wojciechowski W., Professor, Poland
• Zuccaro C.,Ph.D., Canada