CBAP Faculty

The Certificate in Business Administration Program is taught and facilitated by a core team of proven performers and subject matter experts. The instructors and program directors include practitioners and skilled educators to bring you real world experience combined with top-rated academic credentials. This is the only performance based faculty in a business management program. You, the participant, judge their performance. The faculty is a critical part of the reason why the CBAP at UIC is the only applied program in the country and is able to guarantee your return on investment through immediate business improvement.

	Rod Shrader, PhD Strategic Management Director Rod Shrader is the Faculty Director of the Institute for Entrepreneurial Studies at the University of Illinois at Chicago , he is the holder of the Coleman Foundation Chair in Entrepreneurship, and an Associate Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship at the College of Business Administration. He is the Founder and Director of UIC's Technology Ventures Program. Since inception of the program in 2005, teams have successfully launched four biotechnology companies under his guidance. His award-winning entrepreneurship research has been published in top academic journals.
	Edward A. Allfrey Strategic Management Program Director Edward Allfrey, one of founders of the Certificate in Business Administration Program at UIC, has been a pioneer in the development of practical education and training. With more than 25 years of experience in management education and as a teacher, management tool developer, national trainer, speaker and consultant, he brings a unique strategy development and implementation process to the program. He is a principal partner of the Center for Enterprise Development, a business education, training and consulting company.
	Brian J. Carroll Operations Management Brian J. Carroll is a Principal of Performance Improvement Consulting, Inc. (PIC), a management consulting firm specializing in Lean Performance services located in Downers Grove, Illinois. He is the author of Lean Performance ERP Project Management: Implementing The Virtual Lean Enterprise, an Auerbach Publication, 2nd Edition publishing Summer 2007. Mr. Carroll is also an instructor in the Lean Performance Certificate series offered by the Center for Enterprise Development.
	Joseph Cherian, PhD Marketing Management Joseph Cherian is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the College of Business Administration. He has taught marketing and strategy in MBA programs and in several executive education seminars, and he is equally comfortable in the academic and practitioner worlds. In his most recent engagement as the Associate Dean of MBA programs at UIC, he has overseen the quintupling of revenues to the college and of more than doubling of student satisfaction scores. Dr. Cherian has been an instructor in the CBAP for over 10 years. Testimony to his value to the participants is that his phrase, "Marketing is Everything", is evident in the customer and market analysis and strategy at the center of all the strategic plans that are developed in the program.
	Lyn Soo Hoo, CPA, MBA Financial Management Lyn Soo Hoo has consulted with businesses in a variety of industries for over 17 years. Her business experience includes auditing and analysis, accounting, budgeting, cash flow projections, valuation and strategic planning and operations management as it relates to financial objectives and tasks. Her training and facilitation experiences include instructional design and class and workshop presentations. In addition to working for a major accounting firm and an international consulting and training company she is the founder and President of Financial Works, Inc., a company specializing in providing hands-on accounting, financial and related training and strategic services to business organizations. She brings real world experience to her 13 years of instructing in the CBAP. Ms. Soo Hoo's MBA is from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.
	Thomas Trone, PhD Strategic Management Tom Trone is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Illinois Champaign teaching in Entrepreneurship and Strategic Management. He has been the business creator/owner/operator of 10 companies in 4 different industries with 3000 employees– Computer/IT, Food Manufacturing/Distribution/Retail, Real Estate Development, Professional Services – Engineering and IT Consulting. Since 1993 he has found time to guide Deere, a 150 year old American icon into the 21st century as both a consultant and now an employee in developing new business globally through acquisitions. He has taught in the CBAP since its inception in the areas of Managing Growth, Innovation and Change and Organizational Design.
	John Udelhofen, MBA, CPA Strategic Management John Udelhofen is the co-founder of Laurus Technologies. He has over 26 years of experience in entrepreneurship in middle market companies in a broad range of businesses. He has worked in and managed start-ups, fast growing companies and turnarounds. He has expertise in acquisitions, mergers, financial reporting, operations, automated systems, budgeting and planning, tax administration, risk and human resource management. He was inducted into the Chicago Entrepreneurship Hall of Fame and a finalist for both the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year and Illinois Technology Association CEO of the Year. He holds an MBA from the Lake Forest Graduate School of Management.
	Dean Walsh, MBA Operations Management Dean Walsh has consulted in the area of performance improvement for seventeen years and founded Sullivan and Walsh Associates in 1995, a management consulting firm dedicated to improving the way organziations perform their work. Dean was a Partner at Center for Workforce Effectiveness and a Consultant at Sibson & Company and at Hewitt Associates. Before that, he was the Director of Marketing for the Mason Shoe Comnpany, the world's largest direct marketer of footwear. Dean holds a Masters in Management degree from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management.