• Everette Dennis
• Falguni Sen
• Hiro Naraindas Aragaki
• Elizabeth Ingrassia
• Laura Gonzalez
• Christine Tan
• Rachael Wells
• Alfred C. Holden

Everette Dennis
Everette Dennis is the Distinguished Felix E. Larkin Professor at Fordham's Graduate school of business where he directs the Center for Communication and serves as area chair for the Communication and Media Management MBA/MS program.  He was founding director of the Media Studies Center at Columbia University, founding president of the American Academy in Berlin, a former dean of the School of Journalism at the University of Oregon and a full professor at the University of Minnesota where he was director of graduate studies in mass communication.  He is author, co-author and editor of many books and scholarly articles on media industries, media law and regulation, and related topics.  He has also written and lectured widely on media education as well as business education.  He is a former president of the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. He has been listed in every edition of Who's Who in America form 1985 to the present.  He is a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and serves on several boards and advisory committees. For further information, click http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/facultydirectory/communications--media-management/edennis.html

Falguni Sen
Professor Management Systems
Honors and Awards
Received the Gladys and Henry Crown Award for Faculty Excellence at the Business School at Fordham University in 1992; Received a dissertation grant from the National Science Foundation, Washington D.C. in 1980; Received a graduate fellowship at Northwestern University from the Ford Foundation in 1977-78.
Corporate / Consulting Experience
Consulting: numerous private, public, and government organizations in U.S., India, and Ireland. For further information click http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/facultydirectory/management/fsen.html

Hiro Naraindas Aragaki
Assistant Professor Legal & Ethical Studies
Professor Aragaki's research interests focus on alternative dispute resolution, negotiation and international law.  Prior to joining the faculty at Fordham Professor Aragaki practiced law for ten years at global law firms, including Davis Polk & Wardwell in New York and O'Melveny & Myers in San Francisco.  In this capacity he represented Fortune 500 companies and financial institutions in complex commercial litigation and in transactional matters.  He has extensive experience settling business disputes as mediator and has collaborated with Gary Friedman at the Center for Mediation in Law, where he was a Sloan Fellow, and with the Hon. Daniel Weinstein at JAMS.  He has also served as a judicial arbitrator, a judge pro tem, and as a law clerk to the Hon. Fern M. Smith (ret.), U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California.
At Fordham, Professor Aragaki teaches Legal Framework of Business, International Law, and Negotiation.  He is admitted to the bars of California, New York and the District of Columbia, and to the Roll of Solicitors in England & Wales.  He is proficient in French, German, and Japanese. For further information click http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/facultydirectory/legal--ethical-studies/haragaki.html

Elizabeth Ingrassia.
Serves as Director of the Twaalfhoven Center for Entrepreneurship and Fordham Institute for Family & Private Entreprise at Fordham Graduate School of Business.. She is a seasoned entrepreneur, having starting several businesses in the retail, wholesale, licensing and Internet sectors. In 1999, she founded Eluxury.com, an internet retailer selling exclusive luxury goods. Ms. Ingrassia manages Harvard Managment Group, Inc., a boutique consulting firm specializing in startup issues and fund raising. She also advises early and later staged companies in the areas of marketing, sales communications, strategy, and product development. Ms. Ingrassia has worked for Time Warner and SNET, in their new media divisions. Ms. Ingrassia holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a BA from Boston College, where she was Captain of the Womens Varisty Tennis Team. Ms. Ingrassia has also served on the faculty at Columbia Business School, NYU and Georgetown University.

Laura Gonzalez
Assistant Professor, Finance and Economics
Professor Gonzalez joined the Fordham faculty as a full-time assistant professor of Finance in 2008. She is originally from Spain, where she pursued simultaneous BS in Electrical Engineering and BAs in Music Performance and Education (Piano) and collaborated in research projects with Telefonica SA. Prior to joining University of Florida for her PhD in Finance, Professor Gonzalez earned simultaneously an MBA in finance and an MA in Foreign Languages & Literatures (English, French & Spanish) at S. Illinois University, where she was finance intern at the University Foundation. Her research interests include financial institutions, corporate and international finance, and her research has been published in the Journal of Financial Economics. Her teaching experience includes financial institutions, case-oriented corporate finance, investments and international finance at the graduate and undergraduate level.

Christine Tan
Christine Tan teaches advanced accounting at Fordham University. Prior to joining Fordham, Christine was an Assistant Professor at Baruch College-City University of New York, and taught financial accounting to undergraduate and MBA students.  She also taught a doctoral seminar in financial accounting. Christine's non-academic work experience include consulting to the Australian government, to public accounting firms, investment banks and hedge funds on financial reporting and financial statement analyses.  More recently, Christine was a consultant for XBRL US, a sub-contractor to the Securities Exchange and Commission, and assisted with the development of the US GAAP taxonomies to be used by registrants for their filings with the SEC.

Rachael Wells
Rachael Wells is an Assistant Professor in the Management Systems area.  She received her PhD in Management from Columbia Business School.  Her research explores the factors that enable individuals, teams, and, ultimately, organizations to be resilient in the face of trying circumstances.  Her dissertation explored the impact of managers' emotional expressions during organizational change and developed an interpersonal model of resilient functioning in the work setting.  With Harvard Business School Entrepreneurship professor Mukti Khaire, she has also studied founders' attitudes and decisions regarding venture capital-funded growth.  Her future research plans include a more express focus on the entrepreneurial context with respect to resilience and a longitudinal study on career trajectories following a significant venture failure experience.  Before Columbia University, Rachael graduated summa cum laude from the University of Pennsylvania with a B.A. in Psychology. Rachael also has experience as an external organizational consultant.

Alfred C. Holden
Marketing Area Chair and Associate Professor
Professional experience encompasses VP/Marketing and Chief Economist, Foreign Credit Insurance Association, 1976-80; Senior Economist, Bankers Trust Co., 1970-76; International Economist, NY Federal Reserve Bank, 1968-70; International Business Consultant, public and private sectors including Economic Advisor to Senator Lowell Weicker and the Senate Small Business Committee. Served as an Air Force Lieutenant and research and development officer in the "space race" era. For further information click http://www.bnet.fordham.edu/facultydirectory/marketing/aholden.html.