Guest Faculty

Joseph Abbondandolo

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: jabbondandolo@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

Joe started teaching as an Adjunct Professor at The City College of New York in 2011. He has taught undergraduate classes in Human Resources Management, Principles of Management, Strategic Management, and Organizational Change. Joe is also a Human Resources Facilitator for eCornell and an Adjunct Professor at Union County College in New Jersey teaching business courses. His most recent industry position was the enterprise VP, Benefits for Jefferson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was responsible for designing and communicating the harmonized benefits offering across six separate hospitals and two different universities. The integration included consolidating the vendors for all benefits. He managed a staff of twenty benefits professionals. Joe’s extensive industry experience included working for large global for-profit organizations such as Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), and Ciba-Geigy. He also worked for non-profit organizations such as Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health (Jefferson), Kennedy Health (Kennedy), and the International Aids Vaccine Initiative.

Brian Barnier

Guest Professor

e:bbarnier@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

Professor Brian Barnier teaches graduate data analytics for decision-making in the Business and Economics Department. Grad students in this course have the benefit of digging into data in what has been recognized as the most data-intensive grad econ course in the U.S. This supports the Colin Powell School mission of distinctive educational opportunities. His syllabus has been widely downloaded from the Open Education Resources database with about half of downloads from outside the U.S. His professional impact flows from his expertise in strategy, data analysis and technology. He is director of analytics at ValueBridge Advisors (US) and Burnt Oak Capital (UK). He serves on advisory boards for Blue Sky Capital, Disaster Intelligence, Origo Financial and Orion Worldwide. He serves on the Financial Review Board for Investopedia. He is author of The Operational Risk Handbook, contributor to Risk and Performance: A Guide for Government Decision-makers and Risk and Finance. Appreciating businesses through investor eyes, he served as co-chair of the risk committee of the USD26T assets London-based ICGN institutional investor organization. He has been interviewed and writes widely, including from floor of NYSE, NASDAQ MarketSite, The Street, NY1, WSJ, CNBC, and Bloomberg Brief. Previously, he led innovation initiatives for IBM, Lucent, and Ameritech (now AT&T) – across which he led teams to 9 patents and launched a pioneering fintech product. He taught finance and operations at the University of Detroit Mercy and economics at Western Michigan University. He has guest lectured in Russia and Mexico.

Mustapha Camara

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: mcamara@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

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Ernesto Garcia III

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: egarcia2@gc.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

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Paul Hayes

Guest Professor

e: phayes@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

Professor Paul Hayes teaches courses in International Finance, and Money and Banking. He has more than 25 years of experience working in corporate finance for large multinational corporations.  He most recently has served as Assistant Treasurer and Corporate Officer of Arconic Inc., managing Arconic’s global activities in corporate banking, foreign exchange, and metal trading.  Prior to joining Arconic, Professor Hayes worked in global finance and capital markets roles for Alcoa Inc., Lucent Technologies, and AT&T Corp.  He has also worked in the nonprofit sector in international relief and development. Professor Hayes has a bachelors degree in Literature from Wheaton College, Wheaton IL, and a Masters in Public Health from UNC Chapel Hill, and an MBA in Analytical Finance from the University of Chicago.

Richard Horwitz

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: rhorwitz@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

Richard Horwitz is a Managing Director at Capital Markets Risk Advisors (CMRA), a boutique risk management consulting firm. As an expert in derivatives and structured financial transactions, CMRA has been part of the solution for most of the prominent financial mishaps of the last two decades (e.g., Lehman, MF Global). He was previously a Managing Director of Risk Management (6 person team) and Investment Research (14 person team) at Merrill Lynch's Hedge Fund Development and Management Group (HFDMG), which had $26 billion under management. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Horwitz served as Director of Risk Management and Portfolio Analytics at Kenmar Global Investment Management, a $3 billion fund of funds. Mr. Horwitz began his financial career as a consultant in the financial services practice of Booz Allen and Hamilton, focusing on a combination of business, technology, and operational strategy work. Mr. Horwitz then spent 8 years as a Principal and Senior Equity Analyst and Principal at Sanford C. Bernstein. Mr. Horwitz authored Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals, Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge, published by Bloomberg Press, and Risk Management for Institutional Investors: Fulfilling Fiduciary and Strategic Responsibilities published by Risk Books. He also wrote "Integrating Credit Hedge Funds into a Portfolio of Investments," a chapter in Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return, edited by Rohan Douglas, Bloomberg Press. Mr. Horwitz received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MBA from the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partially completed the PhD program at the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Robert Mellman

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: rmellmanccny@gmail.com | LinkedIn

Bob Mellman is a volunteer at City College where he enjoys spending considerable time team teaching courses in economics and finance and also tutoring and mentoring individual students. Dr. Mellman came to City College after working more than 30 years at J.P. Morgan as a senior economist and Managing Director in the Economic Research group. At Morgan, he helped develop the forecast of the US economy, contributed weekly research pieces to Morgan’s Global Data Watch publication, and met regularly with investors and other clients of the bank. Before coming to J.P. Morgan, he spent a decade doing public policy research for the federal government and then for Charles River Associates, a Boston-based consulting firm. Bob Mellman is a graduate of Swarthmore College and has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.

Blair Miller

Leader-in-Residence | LinkedIn

e: bmiller2@ccny.cuny.edu

Blair Miller has spent her career using business to address pressing social challenges with a focus on talent, access, and inclusion.  Currently, she is a venture and private equity investor focused on the human side of the future of work.  In this capacity she works with Two Sigma Impact, a private equity firm focused on workforce impact.

Throughout her career, Blair has held key positions such as co-founder of Blue like an Orange Sustainable Capital, an emerging markets sustainable investment fund, Vice President at the family office of businessman Ray Chambers and she began her career at Acumen, a global impact investment fund. She has advised leading organizations such as Andela, McKinsey’s Generation Initiative, Reservoir Capital, and Rockefeller Foundation and worked across Southeast Asia, Subsaharan Africa, and the United States.

Blair served as a Senior Fellow at Yale's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs for six years where she taught a course called "Aligning Profit and Purpose". She is a trustee of The Africa Center, a multidisciplinary institution that serves as a gateway to contemporary Africa. Blair holds an MBA from the University of Michigan’s Ross School of Business and BA in English Literature from the University of Virginia. Her most recent op-eds address reframing the career track, building purpose resilient companies​, restructuring professional pathways for the future of work, and the rise of outsider talent.

Demetrios Papacostas

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: dpapacostas@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

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Marianne Wolk

Adjunct Professor

o: NAC
e: mwolk@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

Marianne Wolk has ~25 years of experience as a buy- and sell-side Equity Analyst following the technology industry. She is a ranked investment analyst, named an All Star by The Wall Street Journal, Starmine, Bloomberg and Greenwich Associate polls for both stock picking and earnings estimate accuracy. In November 2006, Bloomberg Magazine named Marianne Wolk one of the top 20 analysts in the world due to her pre-IPO analysis of Google and first-to-market recommendation of its shares. As a leading Internet analyst, Marianne made frequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg television and was widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Bloomberg. Marianne Wolk has held senior Equity Research positions with numerous boutique investment banks. These include derivatives leaders’ O’Connor & Associates and Susquehanna Financial Group and technology leader Robertson Stephens & Company. Marianne began her career in management consulting with Booz, Allen & Hamilton. In 2011, Marianne founded a strategic consulting firm and began providing financial advisory services to startups, primarily in the eCommerce sector. Marianne earned a BS in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University (honors program, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.

Sarah Dyer

Leader-in-Residence, Adjunct Faculty

o: NAC
e: sdyer@ccny.cuny.edu | LinkedIn

Sarah Dyer is a communications and organizational leadership professional who has served large and small companies in the financial services industry, as well as nonprofit organizations and social enterprises. A dominant theme in her professional life has been hands-on, pragmatic advocacy for diversity and equity within the financial services industry.    She is a co-founder, former chief marketing officer, former Asia Pacific director, and current board member of 100 Women in Finance, a global organization of more than 25,000 members in 32 locations, missioned to advance the careers of women working within the financial services industry and to enable greater access to internships and jobs within industry for pre-career women, especially those from underrepresented backgrounds. Additionally, Sarah is the founding chair of the Asian University for Women’s New York Advisory Board, a group of NYC-based executives who advocate for the Bangladesh-based liberal arts college serving first-generation students from south and central Asia. She recently became a Leader in Residence and joined the adjunct faculty at The Colin Powell School of Civic and Global Leadership at the City College of New York (CUNY), where she teaches business communications. Sarah is a graduate of Colgate University and completed post-graduate coursework at The University of Hong Kong.