Joseph Abbondandolo
Adjunct Professor
o: NAC
e:
jabbondandolo@ccny.cuny.edu
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Joe started teaching as an Adjunct Professor at The City College of New York in 2011. He has taught undergraduate classes in Human Resources Management, Principles of Management, Strategic Management, and Organizational Change. Joe is also a Human Resources Facilitator for eCornell and an Adjunct Professor at Union County College in New Jersey teaching business courses. His most recent industry position was the enterprise VP, Benefits for Jefferson in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was responsible for designing and communicating the harmonized benefits offering across six separate hospitals and two different universities. The integration included consolidating the vendors for all benefits. He managed a staff of twenty benefits professionals. Joe’s extensive industry experience included working for large global for-profit organizations such as Johnson & Johnson (J&J), Bristol-Myers Squibb (BMS), and Ciba-Geigy. He also worked for non-profit organizations such as Thomas Jefferson University & Jefferson Health (Jefferson), Kennedy Health (Kennedy), and the International Aids Vaccine Initiative.
Richard Horwitz
Adjunct Professor
o: NAC
e:
rhorwitz@ccny.cuny.edu
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Richard Horwitz is a Managing Director at Capital Markets Risk Advisors (CMRA), a boutique risk management consulting firm. As an expert in derivatives and structured financial transactions, CMRA has been part of the solution for most of the prominent financial mishaps of the last two decades (e.g., Lehman, MF Global). He was previously a Managing Director of Risk Management (6 person team) and Investment Research (14 person team) at Merrill Lynch's Hedge Fund Development and Management Group (HFDMG), which had $26 billion under management. Prior to Merrill Lynch, Mr. Horwitz served as Director of Risk Management and Portfolio Analytics at Kenmar Global Investment Management, a $3 billion fund of funds. Mr. Horwitz began his financial career as a consultant in the financial services practice of Booz Allen and Hamilton, focusing on a combination of business, technology, and operational strategy work. Mr. Horwitz then spent 8 years as a Principal and Senior Equity Analyst and Principal at Sanford C. Bernstein. Mr. Horwitz authored Hedge Fund Risk Fundamentals, Solving the Risk Management and Transparency Challenge, published by Bloomberg Press, and Risk Management for Institutional Investors: Fulfilling Fiduciary and Strategic Responsibilities published by Risk Books. He also wrote "Integrating Credit Hedge Funds into a Portfolio of Investments," a chapter in Credit Derivative Strategies: New Thinking on Managing Risk and Return, edited by Rohan Douglas, Bloomberg Press. Mr. Horwitz received his undergraduate degree in Electrical Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, his MBA from the Sloan School of Management of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and partially completed the PhD program at the Operations Research Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Robert Mellman
Adjunct Professor
o: NAC
e:
rmellmanccny@gmail.com
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Bob Mellman is a volunteer at City College where he enjoys spending considerable time team teaching courses in economics and finance and also tutoring and mentoring individual students. Dr. Mellman came to City College after working more than 30 years at J.P. Morgan as a senior economist and Managing Director in the Economic Research group. At Morgan, he helped develop the forecast of the US economy, contributed weekly research pieces to Morgan’s Global Data Watch publication, and met regularly with investors and other clients of the bank. Before coming to J.P. Morgan, he spent a decade doing public policy research for the federal government and then for Charles River Associates, a Boston-based consulting firm. Bob Mellman is a graduate of Swarthmore College and has a Ph.D. in Economics from MIT.
Joshua Moritz
Adjunct Professor
o: NAC
e:
jmoritz@ccny.cuny.edu
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Joshua Moritz is an Assistant Adjunct Professor and serial entrepreneur, having founded, developed, sold and been part of numerous start-ups including DMTG, Customer Growth, Medozza, Worktopia and Challahconnection.com. Moritz teaches marketing, analytics, and leadership courses for New York University, CCNY, Baruch College and Yeshiva University. He was awarded a Rebus/CCNY grant to develop an OER textbook called “A Marketing Handbook,” as well as grants from New York University to study teaching modalities for simulations and programming languages. Moritz holds a BA from Rutgers College, an MBA from Babson College, Certificates in Effective College Instruction from CCNY/ACUE and Russian Business Practices from Saint Petersburg State University in Saint Petersburg Russia and has received simulation training from Harvard Business School Publishing and “Marketplace Simulations.”
Demetrios Papacostas
Adjunct Professor
o: NAC
e:
dpapacostas@ccny.cuny.edu
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Marianne Wolk
Adjunct Professor
o: NAC
e:
mwolk@ccny.cuny.edu
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Marianne Wolk has ~25 years of experience as a buy- and sell-side Equity Analyst following the technology industry. She is a ranked investment analyst, named an All Star by The Wall Street Journal, Starmine, Bloomberg and Greenwich Associate polls for both stock picking and earnings estimate accuracy. In November 2006, Bloomberg Magazine named Marianne Wolk one of the top 20 analysts in the world due to her pre-IPO analysis of Google and first-to-market recommendation of its shares. As a leading Internet analyst, Marianne made frequent appearances on CNBC and Bloomberg television and was widely quoted in The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, Forbes and Bloomberg. Marianne Wolk has held senior Equity Research positions with numerous boutique investment banks. These include derivatives leaders’ O’Connor & Associates and Susquehanna Financial Group and technology leader Robertson Stephens & Company. Marianne began her career in management consulting with Booz, Allen & Hamilton. In 2011, Marianne founded a strategic consulting firm and began providing financial advisory services to startups, primarily in the eCommerce sector. Marianne earned a BS in Applied Mathematics from Northwestern University (honors program, Mathematical Methods in the Social Sciences) and an MBA from the University of Chicago Booth School of Business.
Graduate Program Director
Prof. Yochanan Shachmurove
NAC Room 5/103B
e:
yshachmurove@ccny.cuny.edu
p: 212-650-6202
Professor and Chair
Prabal De
NAC 4/141
e:
pde@ccny.cuny.edu
Last Updated: 08/01/2023 11:30