Dr. Les Stein
Chair
Dr. Stein retired as a colonel in the United States Marine Corps in 2001, after serving 27 years on active duty. He received a B.A. in political science from Rider University, Lawrenceville, New Jersey; an M.S. in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California; an M.A. in National Security and Strategic Studies from the Naval War College, Newport, Rhode Island; and a Doctor of Education degree from United States International University, San Diego, California more..
Jacques Alexis, PhD, PMP
Co-chair
Dr. Alexis is a scholar practitioner with a unique combination of expertise in business economics, general management, portfolio, project, and operations management. He has nearly two decades of experience managing major programs and projects within the manufacturing and power generation industry sectors. He has played key role in areas such as project and program delivery, portfolio design and management, project planning and financial analysis, business and project process improvement more..
Ammar Aamer, Ph.D., PMP, CSSBB
Co-chair
Dr. Ammar Aamer has over 22 years’ industry experience in project management, operations management, supply chain management, and strategic business consulting with various companies such as Volvo, TRW Automotive, Gap Inc., and Industrial and Business Services. As an educator, he has served in various roles, including Assistant Professor, Associate Professor, Professor, and Dean of Engineering at Sana’a and Sampoerna Universities – in Yemen and Indonesia more..
Adel Zadeh, Ph.D, PMP
Co-chair
Dr. Adel Zadeh is an Associate Teaching Professor in the Master of Science in Project Management program at Northeastern University and is the director of academia with the PMI Toronto chapter. He is a Professional Program/Project Manager with over 10 years of industrial and academic experience managing and consulting many complex public/private projects including planning, estimating, engineering, procurement, and implementation. As a professor and program director, he has developed, taught, and run a number of PM programs in GTA more..
Sriram Rajagopalan, PhD, PMP, PgMP
Co-chair
Dr. Rajagopalan’s research interests include leadership through project management, virtual teams, emotional intelligence, process improvement, and individual career development. Calling himself the Strategic Productivity Expert, he has researched and published both scholarly articles and practitioner columns. Experienced in teaching in India, United States, and Vietnam, and exposed to online, in-person, and blended models, Dr. Rajagopalan also mentors college students besides having started his own initiative of projecting leaders of tomorrow (PLOT) teaching project management to high school students more..
Serhiy Kovela, Ph.D
Co-chair
Dr Serhiy Kovela is a scholar, educator, and practitioner with over 20 years of experience in project management and business IT, consulting and delivering training programmes for clients and executive audiences internationally, and teaching students across various institutions in the UK, US, and Europe. He is Associate Professor in Project Management at New College of the Humanities at Northeastern based in London (UK). more..