Faculty
The faculty includes executives and consultants who are currently working in the private and nonprofit sectors.
Nancy Bobrek
MSCI 5010 Research Techniques, Writing & Oral Presentations
Nancy Bobrek has accumulated more than 25 years of experience in on-line database and library research, while serving in a variety of library research and management positions in Fortune 500 companies, academia and public education. She began her corporate library career at the American Cyanamid Company, and later became Manager of Business Information at Pitney Bowes, moving from there to become a Senior Information Specialist at Kraft General Foods. Her academic library experience was gained while serving as Head of Reference & Information Services at the Mortola Library of Pace University for three years and, for an additional three years, as Assistant University Librarian for Collection Development. Currently Nancy works at Southern Connecticut State Library. She received a B.A. in English from Wells College and an MLS degree from the University of Michigan.
Cynthia Brosnan
MSCI 5010 Research Techniques, Writing & Oral Presentations
OMHR 5007 - Research Techniques, Report Writing and Communication Development
Ms. Brosnan is a management development consultant specializing in leadership development, organizational design, career management and executive coaching. She is also a certified instructor for the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator. Prior to starting her own firm, she held both line and human resources positions for Fortune 500 companies. She has designed, developed and implemented global training programs for over 20 countries. She holds an MBA from New York University.
Francine (Fran) Columbus
MSMC 5002 Strategy and Communications
Fran Columbus has been a finance, strategy and operations executive with public, private and not-for profit organizations for over 30 years. She has extensive experience in business acquisitions and divestures, new product launches, business startups and joint ventures. Her financial background encompasses implementations of accounting/management reporting systems and forecasting processes, successful financings, including a public debt offering and financial models supporting strategic options.
Fran has held senior positions with major for-profit institutions including, Times Mirror, Primedia, Citicorp, Tambrands, Pepsico and Dewey Ballantine. She has also served in the public sector – most recently as Chief Financial Officer of Mosaica Education, a charter school management company and Chief Operating Officer of the JCC in Manhattan.
Ms. Columbus holds a BA in Business Administration and Economics from Simmons College and an MBA from Columbia University. She is currently Treasurer of Dance Theater Workshop and has served on various industry, community and academic boards. In these capacities she has frequently been speaker, moderator or panelist at seminars and conferences.
Harold M. Cornell
MSCI 5006 Managerial Finance
Harold M. Cornell, formerly of Valhalla, NY now lives in Vermont with his wife Janet. He received his undergraduate degree from The College of William and Mary in Williamsburg, VA with a major in Accounting and earned a Masters Degree in Finance from Pace University in Pleasantville, NY. He spent six years in public accounting, 28 years in corporate accounting and finance and for the past ten years has been a college teacher and financial consultant. He became a Certified Public Accountant (CPA) in 1962 and a Certified Financial Analyst (CFP) in 1988 and was licensed in these areas until his "retirement" in 2002.
Michael Crystal
MSCI 5028 Communications & Effective Leadership
LSMP5024 Leadership & Organizational Behavior
Michael Crystal is a consulting psychologist who, in the last thirty years, has been engaged in corporate human resources, organizational development consulting, and most recently, coaching, training, facilitating and presenting, all with the purpose of helping individuals achieve better performance at their work and more fulfillment from their work. Mr. Crystal earned a MBA degree from the University of Connecticut and he holds a Ph.D. in Organizational Behavior from Hamilton University.
Mary Durkin
MSMC 5021Marketing Research as a Communication Tool
MSMC 5019 Managing the Communications Function
Mary Durkin joined Delahaye in 2002 as Vice President of Marketing. She brings over 20 years of experience having spent most of that time in national marketing and communications at Deloitte & Touche. Before joining Delahaye, Mary was Director of Marketing for a professional services firm focused on the development of enterprise-wide information portals. She has a Masters Degree from the College of New Rochelle in N.Y., and a B.A. degree from the City University of New York. She is an adjunct professor at Manhattanville College in Purchase, N.Y. where she teaches graduate courses in the Integrated Marketing Communications program.
J. Thomas Failla
MSMC 5012 Marketing Strategies in Public Relations
J. Thomas Failla, B.A., Political Science, Central Connecticut State, M.B.A., University of New Haven, D.P.S. in marketing and management at Pace University’s Lubin School of Business; member of Beta Sigma Gamma national business honor society; Sigma Epsilon Iota, national management honor society; former executive for major U.S. corporations, former journalist for The Associated Press and daily newspapers. Mr. Failla has more than 39-years experience in the public and private sector. He is known for his ability to think and act strategically, solve problems and communicate effectively. He has held leadership roles in major corporations, higher education and local government. Currently, he is director of Cooperative and Workforce Education Outreach Programs at Norwalk Community College, where he also served for nine years as director of Business and Industry Services. He teaches at the undergraduate and graduate level. At Iona College in New Rochelle, N.Y., his graduate level seminars are on Propaganda and Persuasion and Theories of Human Communication for the Department of Mass Communications. He also teaches at Pace University Lubin School of Business art the graduate and undergraduate levels. For six years in the 1990s, he operated a virtual communications consulting and services corporation that he founded. Since 1989, he has served on land boards in Weston. Conn. and chaired the Conservation Commission from 1998 through 2002, where he continues as a commissioner. He is also a member of the Weston Kiwanis Club. His specific expertise includes: training and organizational development, management, marketing, public relations, journalism and mass communications, environmental regulation and public policy.
Lynda Hanley
MSCI 5010 Research Techniques, Writing & Oral Presentations
Lynda Hanley is the Education and Outreach librarian acting as the liaison with the School of Education and coordinating displays and events in the Library. In addition she teaches a section in the Information Literacy program and teaches Information Literacy for Educators for the School of Education and Research Techniques in the Graduate and Professional Studies program. She received a Bachelor’s degree in Sociology from the University of Minnesota, Masters of Public Administration from Pace University, and Masters in Library and Information Science from Long Island University. In 2005 she attended the Association of College and Research Libraries Institute for Information Literacy Immersion Program. On the weekends she works as a part time librarian in her local public library where she delights is doing a drop-in story hour for preschool children.
Gene A. Herbster
MSCI 5023 Leading Change
Gene A. Herbster, M.S., M.A., is the founder and President of Gene A. Herbster & Associates, Inc., a management consulting firm, which for the past twenty-six years has focused on organizational and individual change processes. Other areas of expertise in which Mr. Herbster consults include executive coaching, mergers, and business strategies.
Margaret Lupton
MSMC 5009 Financial & Investor Relations
Peg Lupton is the Director of Investor and Public Relations and Assistant Secretary for Ethan Allen Interiors Inc., a $1.2 billion market cap NYSE listed company. Prior to becoming the Investor Relations Officer in 1998, Mrs. Lupton was responsible for the company’s financial relationships with its independently owned retailers. In 1989 she collaborated with the CEO to develop the internal financial models utilized to negotiate the 1989 LBO taking Ethan Allen private, and assisted the CFO in negotiation of the master bank credit agreement when Ethan Allen went public in 1993. Ms. Lupton has been a member of the National Investor Relations Institute (NIRI) since 1998 and has held various leadership positions in the Fairfield/Westchester Chapter. She earned a Master of Arts in International Management (MBA equivalent) from Thunderbird, Garvin School of International Management, in Phoenix, Arizona, and a B.A. from the University of Northern Colorado with a major in Spanish.
Mark Misercola
MSMC 5001 Integrated Marketing Communications Techniques – 1
MSMC 5006 Applying Integrated Marketing Communications Techniques-2
Mark Misercola is a communications strategist who has worked for some of the nation’s leading firms and senior executives. He specializes in connecting organizational goals and objectives with communications strategies, making communications a strategic revenue driver and competitive differentiator in the marketplace. A former speechwriter, Mr. Misercola has written for senior executives at Deutsche Bank, Deloitte, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Avon, IBM, NYNEX, Union Carbide and PepsiCo. He currently serves as Senior Vice President of CIO Communications at Lehman Brothers in New York. Mr. Misercola has also been teaching in higher education for a number of years.
Rex W. Mixon, Jr.
MSMC 5014 Communications Ethics & Law
Rex Mixonrecently retired from the New York Stock Exchange where, for more than 20 years, he worked as an attorney and manager in the Enforcement Division. As a Vice President and Department Head in the Enforcement Division, Rex managed a department of 30 attorneys who investigated and prosecuted violations of the federal securities laws and Exchange rules. His professional experience involved working with the SEC on matters of self-regulation of the securities markets, the application of ethical principles to conduct in the securities industry, and working with member firms to develop procedures to prevent violations and ensure compliance with federal securities laws and Exchange rules. Rex earned a B.A. from Davidson College, an M.B.A with distinction from Cornell University Johnson Graduate School of Management, and a J.D. from Cornell University School of Law. He also has an M.A. in philosophy from the University of Texas, with special interest in ethics and Bentham’s general theory of moral obligation. Rex is currently an Adjunct Professor at St. Francis College and the NYU Stern School of Business.
Laurel Peterson
MSCI 5010 Research Techniques, Writing & Oral Presentations
MSCI 5099 Final Project
Laurel Peterson is an Associate Professor of English at Norwalk Community College, where she also developed and chairs the Women's Studies concentration. She received her M.A. in Writing from Manhattanville College in 1995, after 10 years of experience in advertising, sales, retail management and administration. She has written a column on local history for Gannett Suburban newspapers, edited the literary journal Inkwell, and published over 25 poems in literary journals such as The Texas Review, Poet Lore, The Rio Grande Review and Yankee.
Wendy Stahl
MSMC 5002 Strategy & Communications
Wendy Stahl has more than 20 years experience leading, advising and teaching strategy and corporate development. She is currently VP Corporate Development for CreditCards.com, a high growth Internet based business. She has led and advised growth initiatives for a broad portfolio of companies including Mead Westvaco, Comcast, Landmark Communications, The Weather Channel, NBC, Sony and Bankrate. She has taught at Baruch College, Polytechnic University and NYU, in addition to Manhattanville. She has published a case study, The Fashion Channel, with Harvard Business School Press, June 2007. Wendy holds a BA from Carleton College and MBA from Harvard Business School.