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VILLANOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

ADVISORY COUNCIL

CBA Advisory Board

The Center for Business Analytics (CBA) Advisory Council is a senior-level, invitation-only forum that assists CBA leadership in connecting analytical theory to analytics practice. Membership in the Advisory Council is an ongoing educational experience and a forum for executive networking. Advisory Council members identify analytics internship and job placement opportunities for ÄÌÌÇÖ±²¥ students, assist with the identification and delivery of analytics consulting projects, and provide guidance on the content of the speaker, workshop and analytics roundtable programs offered by the Center for Business Analytics.

Advisory Council members as of June 2023 are:

Lynn Bachstetter, '02 VSB
Vice President and Head Commercial Product Manager for Institutional Clients
CFRA Research

Timothy Barkdoll ‘12 MBA
Senior Vice President, Quantitative Operations
Executive, Consumer Optimization
Bank of America

Thomas Bertels
Partner
Valeocon

Kenneth Bull ‘84 VSB
Chief Operating Officer
Five Below, Inc.

Alexander Butler, ‘09 EMBA
VP, Analysis & Content-Bloomberg Law
Bloomberg L.P.

Brian Carolan ‘93 VSB
Chief Financial Officer
ComVault Systems

Frank Codey ‘17 MSA
Chief Operating Officer
ClearShares

Ed Coleman, ‘90 VSB
Partner
KPMG LLP

Arup Das ‘16 MSA
Senior Director, Enterprise Automation & Analytics
Compass

Heather Dickinson, ‘95 VSB
Managing Director, Audit and Assurance
Deloitte & Touche LLP

George Diehl ‘70 COE
Retired Global Director Process Management
Air Products & Chemicals

Greg Gartland ‘94 VSB
Chief Executive Officer, Qualification and Cultivation
3E

Jackie Griffin, ‘07 VSB
Business Insights Strategist
Wawa

Anne Heil, ‘83 CLAS
Senior Director Marketing Programs, North America Healthcare Vertica
Qlik

Bernadette Kogler ‘87 VSB
CEO and Co-Founder
RiskSpan Inc.

Timothy Krall
Director, Customer Analytics
Exelon

Matthew Liberatore, PhD
Founding Director
Center for Business Analytics

Christopher Malone, 91 VSB
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer
NJM Insurance Group

Alexis Mastrocola, ‘16 VSB
Consulting Associate
Q2 Strategies Inc.

Paul Melchiorre ‘83 VSB
Operating Partner
Stripes

John Minalga ‘16 MSA
Senior Director, Head of Global Database Marketing
PayPal

Paul Mullen ‘91 CLAS
Director, Commercial Analytics
Janssen Global Services, LLC

Roger O’Donnell ‘90 VSB
Global Head of Data and Analytics, Audit
KPMG

Sopheara Peoples
Director, Commercial Analytics Capability and Strategy
GlaxoSmithKline

Lawrence Prybylski
Global Vice Chair—Transformation
Ernst & Young LLP

Jim Sebra '08 EMBA
Chief Financial Officer
Independence Reality Trust Inc.

Katie Tauber ‘13 MBA
VP Global FP&A
Quaker Houghton

Michael Zubey ‘01 MBA
Chief Executive Officer
COEUS Solutions

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

EVENTS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

CURRICULUM

Daniel Wright, PhD
Faculty Director
daniel.wright@villanova.edu

Allyson Daley
Director, Center for Business Analytics
allyson.daley@villanova.edu

Sharon Ballard
Program Coordinator
sharon.ballard@villanova.edu

  

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Center Highlights

Both members of the Blockchain Society Bettenhausen and Dang have formed Aerotrax Technologies. Aerotrax is leveraging blockchain technology to streamline operational inefficiencies in the aviation industry.

From February 21-22, the Center for Business Analytics sponsored a team of VSB students to compete in the Champion® Analytics Case Competition at Elon University (CACC). The case competition was hosted by The Elon Center for Organizational Analytics with HanesBrands. The case competition allows students the opportunity to build and demonstrate their data analytics and visualization skills to professionals in the data analytics community.

In recent years, the cost of prescription medication has been volatile. Changes in the insurance market, new regulations on wholesalers and the entrance of companies like FedEx and UPS into the retail-delivery market have all affected the profits of drug companies. In this episode of Inspiring Minds, we’ll get a look at the recent history and the near term future for the pharmaceutical market as Liam Hurley ‘19 VSB interviews Kathleen Iacocca, PhD, Assistant Professor, Management & Operations.