Ivan Rudolph-Shabinsky
Director, Division of Business Administration, Assistant Professor
Email: i.rudolph-shabinsky@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4023
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Area(s) of Specialization: Marketing, Finance, Investments, Sports Management
Education:
B.A., Cornell University (Economics and Soviet/East European Studies)
M.B.A., Columbia University (Marketing and Finance)
CFA, Chartered Financial Analysts Institut
Experience:
Senior Vice President, AllianceBernstein – held various senior roles over a 27-year career at AB, including senior portfolio manager, head of business development and co-head of global marketing. Prior to AB, he worked at AIG focusing on new product development and at Kwasha-Lipton as an actuarial analyst.
Director of Rockland Rowing Association, a not-for-profit community program for youth and adults.
Author and co-author for many investment-related articles, including “Beyond Interest Rate Anticipation: Strategies for Adding Value in Fixed Income” (2000) and “Assigning a Duration to Inflation-Protected Bonds” (1999), both published in the Financial Analysts Journal. He also wrote “Managed Synthetics,” (1998) published in The Handbook of Stable Value Investing, and “LDI: Reducing Downside Risk with Global Bonds” (2012), published in The Journal of Investing.
Russell Diaz
Executive Director of IT, Academic Technology Coordinator and Adjunct Instructor
Email: Russell.diaz@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4048
Office Location: Casey Hall-IT Department
Areas of Specialization: Exec. Director of IT, Academic Technology Coordinator, and Adjunct Instructor
Education:
A.A.S Academy of Aeronautics Queens NY, Major in Electronics
B.S. Mercy College, Dobbs Ferry NY, Major Computer Information Systems
M.S. Marist College, Poughkeepsie NY, Major Computer Information Systems
Work Experience:
- Bear, Diagnostics Division Tarrytown NY, 5 years as an electronics technician
- Bear, Diagnostics Division Tarrytown NY, ten years as a software engineer in R&D
- Bear, Diagnostics Division Tarrytown NY, 3years as a Network administrator
- GreategMacbeth, New Windsor NY, ten years managing IT services in 5 US sites
- Dominican College, Orangeburg NY, 9 years as Executive Director of IT, 5 years as an adjunct instructor, 1year as Academic Technology Coordinator
Jerrold Fleisher
Lecturer in Business Administration
Contact Information:
Email: Jerrold.fleisher@dc.edu
Phone: 845-398-7788
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Areas of Specialization: Business Law I & II and International Law
Education:
B.A., Union College
L.L.B., Albany Law School
J.D., Albany Law School
Work Experience:
Professor Jerrold Fleisher graduated Union College and Albany Law School. He entered private practice and then started a legal research service for attorneys. He now operates Research Associates on a full time basis as well as teaching in the Business Administration Division on law related courses.
Michael Hoffman
Instructor of Accounting
Phone: (845) 848-4022
Cell Phone: (914) 413-9725
Email: michael.hoffman@dc.edu
B.S. Accounting – Fairfield University
M.B.A. Finance – Fordham University
C.P.A. New York State
Work Experience:
Public accounting Eisner, Grant Thornton – senior audit manager
Lecroy – Director of financial reporting
Ziff Davis Media – Corporate controller
Parisi Sports Inc. – Chief Financial Officer
Major League Soccer – Controller
Prior Teaching Experience:
Adjunct accounting professor St. Thomas Aquinas MBA program.
Mike lives in West Nyack with his wife and two children and is involved in a number of community organizations including being a member of the West Nyack Little League board of directors for the past nine years.
Donald K. Hsu, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of CIS and International Management
Email: Don.hsu@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4025
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Areas of Specialization: CIS/MIS, Certificate Programs and International Mgt.
Education:
B.S. Taiwan Cheng Kung University
M.S. Fordham University
Ph. D., Fordham University
Work Experience:
Dr. Donald Hsu has earned a PhD from Fordham University, was the Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Princeton University and Columbia University. At Felician College, Dr. Hsu founded the Computer Science Department, served as the Chief Information Officer, and received hundreds of thousands of dollars in computer grants from the State of New Jersey.
At Dominican College, he was the Director of Business Division for six years, managing 7 full-time and 35 part-time MBAs and PhD staff. He consults with 5 CEOs in New York area companies. He is the president of Chinese American Scholars Association (CASA), a non-profit firm in NYC. CASA ran 17 successful E-Leader conferences in Asia and Europe since 2006. He is 1% top rank all-star at the Linkedin social network, with 5,000+ global business partners and clients.
Clare Pennino, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Business Administration
Email: clare.pennino@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4019
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Area(s) of Specialization: Business Administration and Management
Education:
B.A., Fordham University
M.B.A., Iona College
Ph.D., New York University
Work Experience:
Author of various journal articles and college textbook supplements
Former corporate manager at AT& T, BellSouth, MCI
Philip J. Sciame
Assistant Professor of Computer Science
Email: phil.sciame@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4021
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Areas of Specialization: CIS/MIS and Computer Certificate Programs
B.S. Manhattan College
M.S. Fairleigh Dickinson University
M.B.A. Iona College
Work Experience:
- Dominican College
- Long Island University
- Fairleigh Dickinson University
- Bergen Community College
- Dwight Morrow High School
- Insurance Services Organization
- Citibank
- CBS Records
John Spillner
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Email: john.spillner@dc.edu
Cell Phone: 340-626-8369
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Areas of Specialization: Economics, Finance, and Management
B.B.A. Pace University
M.B.A. New York University
Certificate in Management Accounting (CMA)
John studied at Pace University (BBA in Accountancy Practice) and New York University’s Stern School of Management (MBA in Business Economics), along with additional doctoral graduate studies in economics, business, and education at New York University.
He holds a Certificate in Management Accounting (CMA), granted him upon examination by the Institute of Management Accountants in 1972.
Work Experience:
John’s business experience includes positions as a corporate officer in the advertising industry (Vice President—Finance of Euro-Advertising Holding Company, BV, an international group of advertising agencies based in the Netherlands; Corporate Assistant Treasurer of J. W. Thompson Company—JWT, one of the world’s largest advertising agencies). He also has small business experience in real estate management.
John brings his business and international experience to the classroom. He primarily teaches economics, but has also taught numerous courses in finance, accounting, and management at the college level during the course of fifty years. He has taught at Dominican since 1996 and was Business Administration Division Director for seven years; prior to that he was a tenured faculty member at Pace University and taught as a visiting Professore at Franklin University in Lugano, Switzerland.
A native of the Bronx, John has taught, worked, and travelled in Europe and elsewhere. He lives in Westchester County, NY, when teaching at Dominican and spends his remaining time in the U. S. Virgin Islands (St. Thomas), where his wife resides and works as a Registered Nurse.
Victoria Szerko
Assistant Professor of Business Administration
Email: vicky.szerko@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4028
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division
Areas of Specialization: Management, Marketing, Business Administration
Education:
B.A. Barnard College
M.B.A. Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Work Experience:
Vicky Szerko received her BA in Political Science from Barnard College and an MBA from Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Prior to her teaching career Professor Szerko worked in advertising and product management at Ogilvey & Mather, Grey Advertising and A&W Beverages, and also produced sports documentaries for Conrad Television Associates in the UK. Professor Szerko’s interests center on behavioral economics and big data for marketing applications.
Denice Tomassetti
Email: denice.tomassetti@dc.edu
Phone: 845-848-4020
Office Location: Casey Hall-Business Administration Division