Leaders and Partners in Value Creation
Instructors
Heino Beckmann, Ph.D. (lead instructor) is full-time faculty in the department of finance at the University of St. Thomas. He studied law, international relations, political science, business management and finance at the Freie Universität in Berlin, Germany, at the University of Minnesota, and at the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania. He has taught and lectured in Germany, Belgium, Greece, Croatia, Canada, Uruguay and Taiwan.
Dr. Beckmann is a past president of the Minnesota chapter and a national director of Financial Executives International, formerly the Financial Executives Institute (FEI). He serves currently on FEI’s Global Oversight Committee. He was also a member of FEI’s Committee on Government Liaison at Washington, D.C., which advised Congress and the administration on public finance issues.
Thadavillil Jithendranathan, Ph.D. has taught finance at University of St. Thomas for the past 16 years while also teaching classes in China, Russia, and Taiwan. His research focuses on international finance, derivative securities, corporate finance, and banking. In 1993, he won the Oscar Larson award for the best dissertation in business from Baruch College, New York. In 1999, he won the Competitive Research Paper award at the Pacific Basin Financial Management Conference in Singapore. Prior to his teaching career, Dr. Jithendranathan has worked in senior executive positions in Africa, Europe, and India. Dr. Jithendranathan has a M.B.A. in Finance from Baruch College, New York and a Ph. D in Finance from the City University of New York. He is a former member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants of India.
Debasish Mallick, Ph.D. teaches technology and operations management for the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business. He received his B. Tech. (Honors) in Mechanical Engineering from Indian Institute of Technology, his M.B.A. from University of Arkansas, and Ph.D. in Management from University of Texas at Austin. He has worked in manufacturing and service sectors in the U.S. and abroad and taught at the University of Arkansas, University of Texas, Virginia Commonwealth University, Boston College and the University of Minnesota before joining the University of St. Thomas. He has consulted with over twenty companies and serves on the editorial boards of several academic journals.
Jack Militello, Ph.D. is a professor of management and director of the Health Care UST MBA at the University of St. Thomas. He teaches and conducts research in corporate strategy and operational alignment. His consulting clients have included DuPont, Anheuser-Busch, Frito-Lay, as well as a variety of small to mid-sized firms, nonprofit organizations, and government agencies. He sits on a number of corporate boards and chairs the strategic planning committee for the University of St. Thomas Opus College of Business.
Rich Rexeisen, Ph.D. is a professor of marketing at the University of St. Thomas. He has 25 years of experience conducting research, teaching, and consulting on issues related to sales and sales management, business development, and strategic market planning. His consulting has focused primarily on business development issues, with particular emphasis on the identification, development and matching of unique and relevant value to emerging market needs. He has published in a number of academic and practitioner-focused journals and has presented his research at national and international conferences. His most recent research focuses on issues related to business ethics and how international education impacts the development of moral reasoning and cross-cultural sensitivity. He has a M.B.A. from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in marketing from the University of Minnesota.
John Schweers, M.B.A. is a senior consultant with DeMarche Associates, Inc., an investment-consulting firm based in Kansas City, Missouri. Prior to joining the firm in 1998, Mr. Schweers was managing director and chief operating officer of a Twin Cities-based regional investment consulting firm. Before entering the consulting profession, he served as treasurer of two multi-national manufacturing companies, the Trane Company and Donaldson Company. He was assistant treasurer of a global manufacturing company, American Standard, Inc. and cash manager and international subsidiary controller of a Fortune 100 company, Texas Instruments, Inc. Mr. Schweers holds a M.B.A. in Finance from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. He is also an adjunct professor at the University of St. Thomas, teaching corporate finance, international finance, investments, and portfolio management.
