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George Kaludis, Ph.D., Chairman and President, has more than 40 years of diverse higher education experience in strategic planning, executive/governance relationships, economic system design, executive team building, organizational development, and finance and management. Before founding Kaludis Consulting in 1977, he served as Director of Planning and Evaluation at the State University System of Florida and Vice Chancellor for Operations and Fiscal Planning and Associate Professor of Management at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Kaludis has held several national leadership positions in higher education, including serving on the National Commission on the Financing of Postsecondary Education and as Chairman of the National Center for Higher Education Management Systems. He holds BA and MEd degrees from the University of Maryland and the PhD degree from Florida State University.

gkaludis@kaludisconsulting.com


Barry M. Cohen, Senior Vice President, has more than 30 years of strategic planning; resource development; organizational and operations assessment; systems and process appraisal and redesign; and communications and marketing experience in higher education and industry. He leads the firm's consulting in Institutional Advancement, and specializes in Advancement strategy development, fund-raising readiness assessment and enhancement; image and identity research; strategic marketing planning, and institutional positioning. Before joining Kaludis Consulting in 1979, Mr. Cohen held several positions in the Office of Public Affairs at Baylor College of Medicine and served as Executive Director of Marketing and Corporate Development for ARA Health Facilities, Inc., the long-term care and retirement-housing division of ARA, Services, Inc. He holds BS and MA degrees from The University of Texas at Austin.

bcohen@kaludisconsulting.com


Elliott Haugen, Senior Vice President, has more than 30 years of information technology leadership and consulting experience in higher education. He evaluates and advises on management, planning and organizational issues; administrative/enterprise systems projects; academic technology development; service and process enhancement; staff/professional development; and infrastructure improvement. He leads the firm's information management and technology practice. Before joining Kaludis Consulting in 1998, he served as Associate Vice President for Information Technology Services at Saint Louis University and as Associate Director for Academic Computing at North Dakota State University. Mr. Haugen is a long-time, active member of EDUCAUSE, hosted CUMREC-97, and served on the EDUCAUSE and CAUSE boards. He holds a BS degree from North Dakota State University and MBA degree from Minnesota State University Moorhead.

ehaugen@kaludisconsulting.com


Glen Stine, Ed.D., Senior Vice President, has more than 30 years of experience in higher education, including strategic planning, strategic financial planning, and finance and operations management. Before joining Kaludis Consulting in 1999, he served as Vice President for Budget and Finance of the University of Colorado; Executive Director of Resource Planning and Budget for the University of Pennsylvania; and Vice President for Management of the University of Massachusetts. Dr. Stine also held positions with the Massachusetts Board of Higher Education and the Ohio Board of Regents. He is a former member of the Pew Higher Education Roundtable and the Forum for Higher Education Futures Group. He holds a BS degree from Michigan State University, an MPA from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill, and an EdD from Harvard University.

gstine@kaludisconsulting.com


Richard Dean, M.D., Senior Consultant,has more than 40 years of diverse experience as a faculty member, vascular surgeon, funded investigator, administrator, and senior executive in academic medicine. He became President Emeritus of Wake Forest University Health Sciences in 2007, and remains on the Faculty of the Wake Forest School of Medicine and is a consultant to the Piedmont Triad Research Park. Prior to joining Kaludis Consulting in 2007, Dr. Dean served Wake Forest University for 20 years in a series of increasingly responsible positions that included department chair, chief of surgery, medical school senior executive, in 2001, President and CEO of Wake Forest University Health Sciences. Before Wake Forest, he served as professor and chief of Vascular Surgery at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Dean has held leadership positions for a long list of academic and medical organizations, including the Association of Academic Health Centers, American Board of Surgery, American Board of Plastic Surgery, and National Library of Medicine. He also has been chairman of the board of the Piedmont Triad Research Park. He holds a BA from VMI and an MD from the Medical College of Virginia.

rdean@kaludisconsulting.com


Robert Donaldson, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, has more than 35 years of experience as a higher education executive and internationally known scholar. Before joining Kaludis Consulting in 2004, he served president of Tulsa University and Fairleigh Dickinson University, and Provost of Lehman College, City University of New York. He also served as Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences and professor of Political Science at Vanderbilt University. Dr. Donaldson has been a tenured faculty member at four universities, and is active in international relations and political science scholarly circles. He has consulted in the areas of strategic planning and academic planning, and also developed and negotiated numerous international educational partnerships and conducted national higher education plans (e.g., management education in post-Soviet Russia). He holds AB, AM, and PhD degrees from Harvard University.

rdonaldson@kaludisconsulting.com


William Fenstemacher, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, as more than 30 years of managerial experience in public and private higher educational institutions: small private colleges, large private and public universities, a public community college, and a state coordinating board. His specialties include strategic planning and budgeting, and encompass admissions, financial aid, academic planning, information technology, institutional finance, and development. He holds an AB degree from Oberlin College, an AM from Columbia University-Teachers College, and a PhD from the University of Michigan.

wfenstemacher@kaludisconsulting.com


Bethany S. Jones, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, has more than 40 years of experience in domestic and international education. Dr. Jones has particular expertise in the education of women in the Middle East, quality assurance and accreditation, higher education reorganization, entrepreneurship education, faculty performance reviews, curriculum development, and preparation of engineers for international practice. Before joining Kaludis Consulting in 2010, she held faculty appointments and administrative positions at Cleveland State University, the University of Delaware, Southwest Missouri State University, and then served as Vice President for Academic Affairs at James Madison University. Most recently, Dr. Jones completed service as Dean of the College of Humanities and Social Sciences at the UAE University in Al-Ain. She is currently continuing her work in the Middle East, serving as Advisor to the Executive Affairs Authority of Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, providing policy guidance and strategic implementation in university-industry relations, creation of new universities, building a knowledge economy, and financial management of higher education initiatives. She holds a BA from Chestnut Hill College and MA and PhD degrees from Case Western Reserve University.

bjones@kaludisconsulting.com


Russel C. Jones, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, has more than 40 years of experience in higher education, as faculty member, administrator, university president, and international advisor. He served on the faculty at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, as department chair at the Ohio State University, Dean of Engineering at the University of Massachusetts, Academic Vice President at Boston University, and President at the University of Delaware. After his successful US career, he served as Founding President at Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, then as Senior Advisor at Khalifa University of Science, Technology and Research, both in Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates. Dr. Jones is active in professional society and international activities, having served as an officer in the American Society of Civil Engineers, the American Society for Engineering Education, the World Federation of Engineering Organizations?and President of the Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology. He consults extensively in the areas of higher education in the international arena, and in developing human capacity for economic development. He holds BS, MS and PhD degrees from Carnegie Institute of Technology, and a MALS degree from the University of Delaware.

rjones@kaludisconsulting.com


John A. Palmucci, Senior Consultant, has more than 30 years of diverse higher education experience. Before joining Kaludis Consulting in 2011, he served as the Vice President for Finance and Treasurer at Loyola University Maryland from 1994 to 2010. Prior to Loyola University Maryland he served as Vice President for Fiscal Affairs at Merrimack College and as Registrar and Dean of Administration at Northern Essex Community College. John also held a variety of positions at Northeastern University in the College of Business Administration and in Student Affairs. John maintains served in leadership capacities in the National Association of College and University Business Officers, Eastern Association of College and University Business Officers (EACUBO), Middle States Commission on Higher Education, the New England Association of Schools and Colleges. He was awarded the EACUBO Distinguished Service Award in 2000 and the NACUBO Distinguished Business Officer Award in 2003. He was awarded the Cardinal John Henry Newman Medal at the Loyola University Commencement exercises on May 15, 2010. John holds a BS in Business Management and MBA from Northeastern University.

jpalmucci@kaludisconsulting.com


J. Bradley (Brad) Reese, PhD, Senior Consultant, has achieved a distinguished career in all aspects of information technology in higher education: academic and administrative; strategic and tactical; research university and urban university; faculty member and consultant. Prior to joining Kaludis Consulting in 2011, he had consulted with over 25 institutions in IT Strategy, IT Assessment and academic and administrative information technology. His higher education career includes having served as Vice President for Technology and CIO and as a trusted strategic advisor to the President of Roosevelt University; as Director of the Computer Information Research Center at George Washington University; as Director of the Computing Center at Loyola College (Maryland); and in 5 information technology positions of ascending responsibility at Georgetown University. He serves GWU as a faculty member and has been a lecturer at other institutions. Dr. Reese holds BA and MA degrees from the University of Cincinnati and a PhD in Political Science from Georgetown University.

breese@kaludisconsulting.com


Kenneth J. Roozen, Ph.D., Senior Consultant, , has more than 40 years of experience in higher education teaching, research, research administration, and executive management. In a career that spanned more than two decades at the University of Alabama at Birmingham, Dr. Roozen served as professor and department chair, Graduate School dean, Assistant Vice President for Health Affairs, Executive Assistant to the President, Vice President for University Affairs, Vice President for Research and University Affairs, Executive Vice President and Provost, and Executive Director of the UAB Research Foundation. He joined the Medical University of South Carolina in 1997 as founding Executive Director of the MUSC Foundation for Research Development, with responsibility for managing intellectual property, technology transfer, and new business development. He holds a BA degree from Lakeland College, an MA from the University of South Dakota, and PhD in Molecular Biology from the University of Tennessee.

kroozen@kaludisconsulting.com


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