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VILLANOVA SCHOOL OF BUSINESS

ADVISORY COUNCIL

CBA Advisory Board

The Center for Business Analytics (CBA) Advisory Council is a senior-level, invitation-only forum that assists CBA leadership in connecting analytical theory to analytics practice. Membership in the Advisory Council is an ongoing educational experience and a forum for executive networking. Advisory Council members identify analytics internship and job placement opportunities for Villanova students, assist with the identification and delivery of analytics consulting projects, and provide guidance on the content of the speaker, workshop and analytics roundtable programs offered by the Center for Business Analytics.

Advisory Council members as of June 30, 2020 are:

Timothy Barkdoll ’12 MBA
Senior Vice President, Quantitative Operations Executive, Consumer Optimization
Bank of America

Brian Carolan ’93 VSB
Chief Financial Officer
CommVault Systems

Ron Cline
Head of Marketing Analytics
TD Bank

Frank Codey ’17 MSA

Chief Operating Officer

ClearShares

Arup Das ’16 MSA
Senior Director, Enterprise Automation & Analytics

Compass

George Diehl '70 COE
Retired Global Director Process Management
Air Products & Chemicals

Patrick Farrell ’96 ENG
Senior Director of Analytics
Penn Medicine, University of Pennsylvania Health System

Greg Gartland  ’94 VSB

Chief Product Officer

S&P Global Market Intelligence

Dennis Johnson ’07 MBA

Chief Financial Officer

Qlik

Katie Taubar '13 MBA
Manager of Business Insights
Wawa, Inc.

Bernadette Kogler ’87 VSB

Co-founder and CEO

RiskSpan

Timothy Krall
Director, Customer Analytics
Exelon

Dennis Johnson ’07 MBA
Chief Financial Officer
Qlik

Matthew Liberatore, PhD
Founding Director
Center for Business Analytics

Scott Megill ’07 EMBA
President and Chief Executive Officer
Coriell Life Sciences

Paul Melchiorre '83 VSB
Operating Partner
Stripes

John Minalga '16 MSA
Director, Global Demand Generation
PayPal

Paul Mullen '91 CLAS
Director, Payer/Provider Insights & Analytics
Janssen Healthcare Innovation (Johnson & Johnson)

Roger O’Donnell ’91 VSB
Global Head of Data and Analytics, Audit 
KPMG

Cory Shouse
VP, IT Global Commercialization Services and Animal Health
AmerisourceBergen

Josh Truppo
Senior Director, Financial Planning and Analysis
Five Below

Michael L. Zubey ’01 MBA
Executive Vice President
ValueCentric

THOUGHT LEADERSHIP

EVENTS

EXPERIENTIAL LEARNING

CURRICULUM

Daniel Wright, PhD
Faculty Director
daniel.wright@villanova.edu

Allyson Daley
Director, Center for Business Analytics
allyson.daley@villanova.edu

Sharon Ballard
Program Coordinator
sharon.ballard@villanova.edu

  

The Center for Business Analytics Faculty Expertise Guide

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Center Highlights

Building Blocks for Success: David Bettenhausen ’20 VSB and Phong Nguyen Dang ’22 VSB

Both members of the Blockchain Society Bettenhausen and Dang have formed Aerotrax Technologies. Aerotrax is leveraging blockchain technology to streamline operational inefficiencies in the aviation industry. MORE...

VSB Wins Elon Business Analytics Case Competition

From February 21-22, the Center for Business Analytics sponsored a team of VSB students to compete in the Champion® Analytics Case Competition at Elon University (CACC). The case competition was hosted by The Elon Center for Organizational Analytics with HanesBrands. The case competition allows students the opportunity to build and demonstrate their data analytics and visualization skills to professionals in the data analytics community. MORE...

Inspiring Minds: A Prognosis for Prescriptions with Kathleen Iacocca, PhD

In recent years, the cost of prescription medication has been volatile. Changes in the insurance market, new regulations on wholesalers and the entrance of companies like FedEx and UPS into the retail-delivery market have all affected the profits of drug companies. In this episode of Inspiring Minds, we’ll get a look at the recent history and the near term future for the pharmaceutical market as Liam Hurley ‘19 VSB interviews Kathleen Iacocca, PhD, Assistant Professor, Management & Operations. MORE...