Advisory Board

Industry and Academic Experience

Professor Rohm participated in the Visiting Professor Program at Saatchi & Saatchi in New York in the summer of 2007. Before joining Northeastern's College of Business Administration faculty, he was Director of Marketing for Reebok International in Stoughton, MA. Professor Rohm also worked for Brooks Sports in Bothell, WA as National Sales Manager, for General Motors in Detroit, MI as Marketing Manager, and for United Technologies in Wet Palm Beach, FL as Senior Analytical Engineer.

Research and Teaching Interests

Professor Rohm's research interests are in the areas of New Media and Innovations in Marketing Communications and Branding. He has published his research in leading academic and managerial journals including MIT Sloan Management Review, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Interactive Marketing, International Journal of Mobile Marketing, Journal of Consumer Affairs, Journal of Public Policy & Marketing, and Sports Marketing Quarterly. Professor Rohm has presented at numerous international conferences and is on the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice. He teaches Integrated Marketing Communications, Brand Management, and Consumer Behavior courses at the undergraduate, graduate, and executive levels. He is currently visiting professor at the University of Maastricht, Netherlands.

More information can be found at: http://www.cba.neu.edu/andrew-rohm/

Industry and Academic Experience

Dr. Tita serves as Chairman and CEO of the Global Management Center, Trade Information Network of the G77 Chamber Ltd (GMC-TIN). GMC-TIN created and operates g77tin.org and tradeinfonet.org, recognized as the electronic commerce portal of the developing countries (133 member states). GMC-TIN is one of three partners (ICC, Paris, and the Paris Chamber) that own the World Chambers Network. He is also a Kent Fellow (post doctorate) in Social Ethics from the University of Southern California. Dr. Tita has held positions at the University of Pittsburgh and as adjunct professor at Framingham State College. He has been Program Manager and Chief Technical Advisor in the Private Sector Development Program of the United Nations Development Program. He is the founder of the IOCS-African Informatics, S.A., a Cameroonian software engineering firm and software reseller. Dr. Tita serves on several high-tech company boards.

Expertise

Dr. Tita has been recognized by the International Development Agencies, notably the World Bank, as a pioneer and expert in distance learning as well as in keeping developing countries within reach of the emerging information society and networked economy.

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Tita's research interests are in exploring the role of the Web in trade development for the emerging economies. His primary teaching interests are professional ethics, e-commerce, entrepreneurship, management, and strategy in the global economy.

More information can be found at: http://www.cba.neu.edu/william-tita/

Industry and Academic Experience

Professor Friar has been involved in the start-up of several companies and currently serves on the board of several others. He has held positions in planning, marketing, and finance at N.A. Philips Corp. and was a software engineer at Draper Laboratories. Professor Friar has also taught at Clark and Brandeis University, Melbourne University in Australia, and Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris. An active consultant, he has special interest in the medical electronic, computer, and telecommunications industries.

Research and Teaching Interests

Professor Friar has researched and written on the subjects of marketing strategy, management of innovation, and technology strategy, with emphases on radical innovations and start-up companies.

Awards and Honors

Pioneer Institute Research Grant 2009-10, and 2007-08
NCIIA Course Development Grant 2008-09
NACRA Theory Development Grant 2008-09
Best Conference Reviewer, Eastern Academy of Management. (2004).
McMaster Award in Innovation and New Technology. (2000).

More information can be found at: http://www.cba.neu.edu/john-friar/

John is Executive in Residence of The College of Business Administration at Northeastern University and a Batten Fellow at the Darden School of the University of Virginia. John’s work focuses on executive education, consulting on new ventures for established companies, and researching new applications of social networks to business. 

John has 28 years of industrial experience with every phase of R&D in the food industry. He has developed expertise with the many facets of R&D management, including innovation, technical leadership, fundamental research, quality assurance and food safety, external advisory boards, and product development. 

In addition to his R&D experience, John has experienced first hand the demands on the senior leadership team as a member of the Mars North America management team for 10 years. John also was responsible for External Relations for 2 years and is intimately familiar with the obesity issue in the US. 

After stints with Procter & Gamble and Ocean Spray Cranberries, John joined the R&D Division of the US unit of Mars, Incorporated in 1986. After a series of assignments with increasing responsibility, John was appointed in 1995 to the position of Vice President of R&D for Mars North America. John was appointed to the position of Vice President of University Research in mid 2005. He was responsible for creating and managing links between leading management thinkers and strategic problems at Mars. 

John graduated from MIT in 1979 with a BS degree in Chemical Engineering.

More information can be found at: http://www.cba.neu.edu/business-community/john-helferich/

As a member of the faculties of the College of Business Administration and the School of Law, Professor Montgomery teaches a variety of intellectual property (IP) courses, including IP Asset Strategies for International Business, IP Transactions Practice and International IP Law. She previously taught Trademark Law and an International IP Law Seminar at Suffolk University Law School.

Professor Montgomery is also Of Counsel in the Boston office of Foley Hoag LLP, where she practiced for 22 years as an associate and partner.  Her practice focuses on strategic planning for global development, exploitation and protection of IP assets; representing parties to domestic and international business transactions, including acquisitions, alliances, licenses and professional services contracts; advising on the purchase, sale, collateralization and license of IP assets; managing the prosecution and enforcement of international trademark portfolios; and advising companies on trademark selection and clearance, online use of IP and advertising, packaging, franchising and trade practices compliance. Her clients include US, foreign and multinational companies in a range of fields, including new technology start-ups, NGOs, professional service firms, software companies and mature manufacturing operations. She served for many years as outside general counsel to several technology companies.

Professor Montgomery is past chair of the Intellectual Property Law Section of the American Bar Association, and previously served the section as an officer, council member and chair of various committees. She has testified before Congressional committees on behalf of the ABA, co-chaired the ABA Joint Task Force on Security Interests in Intellectual Property and served on the ABA Working Group on the Uniform Computer Information Transactions Act (UCITA).

Professor Montgomery is an advisor to the American Law Institute on Principles of Software Contract Law and a member of the IP Programming Advisory Board of ALI/ABA. She has served on the advisory board of the Franklin Pierce Law Center, and the boards of directors of Volunteer Lawyers for the Arts (VLA) and the International Trademark Association (INTA). She has published and lectured in the US and overseas on a variety of topics relating primarily to IP and business transactions.

More information can be found at: http://www.northeastern.edu/law/academics/faculty/directory/montgomery.html

http://www.foleyhoag.com/People/Attorneys/Montgomery-Susan.aspx

Industry and Academic Experience

Before joining the College of Business Administration faculty at Northeastern University, Professor Adomdza was a lecturer at the University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada and Wilfrid Laurier University, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada. He has also worked with the Canadian Innovation Centre, Waterloo, Ontario, on market analyses for new ventures. In 2001, he worked as a financial analyst for the General Leasing & Finance Co. Ltd. in Accra, Ghana.

Research and Teaching Interests

Dr. Adomdza's research interests are in the areas of entrepreneurial decision making, new venture performance, and venture financing, with developing interests in social entrepreneurship. His teaching interests include entrepreneurial marketing, small business creation, and small business financing.

Education

Ph.D. in Management of Technology, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
M.A.Sc in Management Science, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
M.A. in Applied Economics, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada
B.A. in Economics, University of Ghana, West Africa
Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing, UK
Graduate Certificate in University Teaching, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

More information can be found at http://www.cba.neu.edu/gordon-adomdza/