Amer Al Ansari, MD, PhD
Clinical Psychopharmacology
Arie Barendregt, PhD
Marketing, Strategy
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Arie T. Barendregt, PhD, has been active in business-to-business sales and marketing management in Europe and the USA since 1980, with almost 40 years of experience in various industries. Barendregt is now an independent entrepreneur with his own company Stracom Intelligence, helping Dutch companies to structure their strategy, strategic marketing, operational marketing and sales activities, enter new markets and launch products. He gives lectures, seminars and trainings about strategy, sales, marketing, and competitive intelligence to companies. He has published about strategy, marketing, and competition in several Dutch magazines. Barendregt completed his MBA with distinction at Kingston University in the UK in 1996. In May 2008 he received the highest Dutch marketing title RM, Register Marketer, from the European Marketing Certification Foundation. He obtained his doctorate degree in Business Administration at Kingston University in the UK in January 2011, with the thesis, ‘Do Small Enterprises Study their Competitors?’ Arie has been lecturing since 1997 in the MBA, MA, and BA programs of Webster Leiden Campus, the IBEB BA, as well as MSc Marketing programs of the Erasmus University School of Economics, the MBA program of Wittenborg University at Apeldoorn and Amsterdam, as well as the MBA program of NTI at Leiden University. He supervises BA and MBA theses and bachelor’s internships at both Erasmus University and HAN, the Hogeschool Arnhem and Nijmegen, and is a certified examiner.
Steven Carnes, MBA, MSEE, MME
Steven Carnes is an independent consultant and serial entrepreneur who focuses on mission-critical projects for multinational corporations, primarily in the aerospace, automotive, energy and life sciences sectors in addition to M&A work (due diligence, valuations, and integration) for various PE groups. His academic studies includes an MBA from the Kellogg School, two master's degrees in robotics (Northwestern University and University of California at San Diego) and an international foreign exchange at Erasmus University.
He has taught various courses ranging from computer science (National University) to marketing, logistics, and finance (Rotterdam School of Business) in addition to numerous workshops on strategy (competitive analysis), market research and Go-To-Market roadmaps, financial valuations, and LEAN/6-Sigma Operations improvement. His corporate experience includes consulting at Deloitte & Touche, NASA, and independent projects across 15+ industries including 3-1/2 years in Asia and 7+ years in Europe.
His passions include interim turnaround management, clean energy, robotics and technology transfers/commercialization.
Sukai Ceesay
Multidisciplinary
Sukai Ceesay is a serial social entrepreneur, an EQ Master Trainer, and a start-up investor in Europe and West Africa. She is an active member and champion of the Startup Community in Amsterdam and Den Haag. She is also an advocate for "universal" human values, women's education and achievement of financial independence.
Ceesay holds a bridge-study Master of Industrial Engineering from The University of Michigan and EMU, and an Executive MBA from, Harvard Business School.
Ceesay is the Founder/CEO of Royal Blue & Orange International Trading, after 14 years at Domino's Pizza, LLC as a senior management responsible for Europe, Middle East and Africa. She is also the founder of AVIM Leadership Consulting and of a unique nonprofit organization called Global Village Children (GVC).
Marcel de Lijster, MBA
Strategic Management, Organizational Behavior
Marcel de Lijster is the business owner of “Down 2 Earth Dutch,” With his company, he helps organizations to build programs for skills management and lifelong learning that support the continued employability of employees. Before becoming an entrepreneur, Marcel de Lijster worked in the financial industry as a banker.
He has 27 years of working experience in the financial industry, for 23 of which he held leadership and management positions. He worked at one of the largest banks in Holland. He can be branded as a real people manager. He is also an “acknowledged” coach and helps people with their personal and career development. He has experience and knowledge of strategic management, organizational behavior, leadership, change management, risk management, and financial control.
He holds an MBA degree with an emphasis on Management from Webster Leiden Campus. He has been a member of the Webster faculty since 2004 and teaches courses in Organizational Behavior, Management, Managerial Leadership, Decision Making, and Strategic Management.
Yang Fan, PhD
Program Coordinator for Business & Management Department
Specialization: International Management, Marketing
Yang Fan, PhD, specializes in strategic and international management, with focus on strategic partnerships and collaborative innovation. Before joining Webster, she taught strategic management and international business at both undergraduate and graduate levels at Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University. She also supervised student’s theses, internships and consultancy projects. Prior to joining academia, she worked in the fields of sales and marketing in FMCG and in the consulting industry. Fan did her doctorate at London Business School on strategic & international management, her master's at Manchester Business School on international business & management, and her bachelor's at Shanghai Jiao Tong University on English literature and business studies.
Christine Fitzgerald, MA
Developmental Psychology, Stress Management
Sinead Hewson, PhD
Strategy & Communication, Entrepreneurship, Group Dynamics, Gender Equity
Tjebbo Kessler, MBA, MFP, MFA
Entrepreneurial Financial Management
Charlene Lambert, MA
International Marketing
Charlene Lambert’s interest in foreign languages was instrumental in developing her desire for an international career. She earned a BA in Modern Languages from St. Mary's College, Notre Dame, Indiana, a master's in planning from the University of Ottawa, Canada, and a certificate in economic development from the University of Waterloo, Canada. She has worked for the past 20 years in the fields of international city marketing, foreign direct investment, regional economic development, and entrepreneurship for organizations in both Canada and the Netherlands.
As an appointed member of the European-funded research program COST (Cooperation in Science and Technology), she is participating in the study to strengthen interdisciplinary research.
Tom Lupo, PhD
Value Chains/Networks
Truus Poels, PhD
Professor, Graduate Programs
Andreas Rambow, MBA
Finance, Economics, Leadership
Golam Robbani, PhD
Finance, Economics, Accounting
Sandrine Suman, MA
Madeleine van der Steege, MA
Bernadette van Houten, MA
Cross-Cultural Management
Bernadette van Houten has an academic background in communication, with later specialization in intercultural theory, methodology, and medical anthropology. She has lived and worked in the USA, Guatemala, and Aruba. She has had extended training and advising missions in Mexico, Thailand, Kazakhstan, Vietnam, Indonesia, and Lithuania.
Van Houten is the director of Consultants Intercultural Communication in Amsterdam. She coaches managers for international assignments and facilitates international teams throughout the world. She lectures and facilitates seminars on intercultural and diversity management for universities throughout Europe. She is a member of the International Academy of Intercultural Research. She has been a faculty member of the Webster Leiden Campus since 1998.
Marjon van Opijnen, MBA
Business Ethics