Her experience expands from customer service, compliance, administrative management, labor relations, to organizational development.

Outside work, Cres is passionate about travelling and sustainable living. She advocates for mental health and women's rights.

His experiences in curriculum development, experiential learning, and business research made him a passionate and creative educator that focuses on competency-based education. Dr. Rodriguez earned his Doctor of Business Administration Degree in the Lyceum of the Philippines University - Batangas, Philippines with Academic Excellence Award in 2017; his Master in Business Administration in the same University in 2014. With his strong intellectual and practical foundation on business, research, and education, tagged with his determination and work ethics, Dr. Rodriguez continues to improve his craft by establishing links with national and international organizations.

As an educator, he served as department chair, research chair, faculty researcher, and student-exchange program lecturer teaching international students from several universities in Germany, Taiwan, and Indonesia.

He has also worked as a sales and marketing manager, a freelance graphics designer, a social media manager, and a service quality manager in a hospitality-related company. Emmanuel is a founder of Zelery, a fresh produce e-commerce company situated in the Philippines. He also serves as an international director for education & research in an international socio-civic organization and a marketing communications officer in a professional marketing association.

She currently lives in Gig Harbor, WA which is just South of Seattle in the U.S. Her interests are in reading, dog rescue, and in travel.

Dr. Holguin is a passionate advocate for online learning. She has held various senior roles in higher education institutions, among them associate provost for student services and assistant provost for academic operations. She has served as a leader for higher education regional accreditation reviews and manage state registrations of over 30-degree programs.

Her research interest is human behavior in the workplace. Dr. Holguin has 10 years of teaching experience. She has taught leadership, organizational behavior and management.

In parallel to this experience and his current position with Unisys, is his mentoring at the collegiate level for Cornell University as an Instructor for eCornell and a Senior Fellow for Systems and Software Architecture at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to this role with Cornell University, he taught for Penn State, Syracuse, Saint John Fisher College, State University of New York, Columbia School of Medicine, Elmira College, and provided workshops to several branches of the military relative to cybersecurity requirements to prevent SQL Injection attacks, deploy artificial neural-networks, configure cryptographic modules, and develop enterprise-wide security architecture models that span a four-tier systems architecture model.

Bucciarelli is a a results-driven technologist with proven success in building and leading global teams of technical professionals in designing, developing, implementing and innovating data and security enterprise technologies and infrastructures. He is am adept at solving complex technical problems and leading innovation in Information Technology projects related to the Department of Defense (DoD), CENTCOM, National Security Agency (NSA), US Military Branches, etc., while working for Oracle, IBM, Lockheed Martin, Eastman Kodak as well as doing work in these areas for several Federal Civilian Agencies such as GSA, FDA, IRS, etc.

His first academic degree was a Bachelor of Science in Technology. Later, he successfully completed a Master of Science in Management. His Ph.D. is in Management Performance and Leadership.

Dr. Reed began his working career as a corporate pilot, with type ratings in Lear Jet, serving executive clients throughout the U.S., Caribbean, Canada, and Mexico. After seven years of flying experience, he accepted a position with the FAA as an Air Traffic Controller in both Chicago and New York. In 1981, he entered the business world, owning numerous businesses and organizations. During this time, he was active in the training and development of his salespeople and managers. After 17 years of self-employment, he entered the corporate environment where he was active in management for almost 9 years. His most recent corporate position was Executive Director of Sales for a division of a $2.5 billion sales organization.

Dr. Kendrick's previous positions include the Director of Industry Partnerships in an ed-tech solutions company, Director of Business Development for a large e-commerce multi-store company under the House of Staunton, a business development consult across a variety of companies, the Director of International Initiatives at Excelsior College, an award-winning college instructor that has been teaching for over a decade across 4 institutions of higher education, a K-12 teacher, the City Commissioner of Wade, NC, and a soldier in the US Army. Her experiences cross many industries, allowing her to make strong connections with students in multiple professional fields and degree programs. She has served on multiple public and private boards for education, human relations, girls development, and diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Michael’s visiting professor experience focuses on the delivery of courses on the following: Corporate Sustainability, Ethics, Economics, Organizational Development/Behavior, Leadership, Entrepreneurship, Operations Management, Quality Management and Dissertation/Thesis research.

Michael has also presented at numerous conferences including IAMB, ACBSP, FBI National Training Academy, Clemson University, University of North Texas, UCEA New England, Maynard Consulting, ASQ, AMA, SHRM, QACC, Timken Bearing and Industry Week’s America’s Best Plants. Michael has contributed articles to a variety of professional journals including IJSITA, IAMB, Development Dimensions International, Management Decisions, AMA, SHRM, and Futurics

Dr. Fonseca is an IT, audit, project management, statistics, and accounting professor, program director, and instructional content developer. Her specializations are in information technology, risk management, IT audit, cybersecurity, statistics and data modeling, operations, and project management.

Currently Dr. Fonseca is working on her second dissertation towards a degree in education with a specialization in instructional design. She’s an advocate for professionalization, the reason why she has collaborated and served as a volunteer and board member at the board of directors for local chapters in Puerto Rico for ISACA, ISSA, and PMI. In Washington DC she’s a volunteer for the Washington DC chapter of ISACA, and PMI.

Focusing on developing marketing strategy at the heart of being customer-centric, is Dr. Allison's passion in his career. Focusing on driving optimized user experiences, strategic marketing campaigns, and driving analytical solutions to meet the needs of the market, is the key pillars of his experience and career interest.

Providing that real-world application and experience into the classroom as a passionate instructor and content expert is what drives his scholarly spirit.

He holds a Doctorate of Business Administration from California Intercontinental University, an MBA from Amberton University, and a BA in Communication Studies from the University of North Texas.

Aside from being a scholarly practitioner, he spends his free time with family and keeping up with current events.

Olufunke (Funke) Akiyode is a business owner and believes that educating, impacting and improving people’s health status is her life calling. She also believes that people’s health status can be improved by improving their socio-economic status and has devoted her life to finding ways to improve the socio-economic and health status of populations. She is a business owner and believes that educating, impacting and improving people’s health status is her life calling. She also believes that people’s health status can be improved by improving their socio-economic status and has devoted her life to finding ways to improve the socio-economic and health status of populations

When Danai is not teaching, she loves to be active and outdoors, whether it is hiking, participating in water activities such as paddle-boarding or swimming at the beach, or anything else! She finds touching and smelling (and catching!) biological things irresistible, and will usually save a worm on a bike trail, help the turtle cross the road, or find herself with a pocket full of shells or rocks at the end of a long walk.

Hector Gonzalez has international experience in a wide range of industries. He is fully bilingual in English and Spanish.

While she has worked with several partners to accomplish women empowerment-related projects, Dr. Ru has funded 80% of the initiatives she leads. Dr. Ru leads and mentors an active network of over 15 000 women leaders. Dr. Ru is a trained leadership practitioner with a doctorate in Strategic Leadership from Regent University in the United States.

Her mantra is, "Leaders are born, Great leaders are developed, and the Greatest are called".

When she is not mentoring the community of leaders, Dr. Ru actively spends her time providing coaching and training services to thriving start-ups providing individualized coaching, leadership development, and organizational cultural assessments through her coaching practice.

Dr. Ru has delivered classes at a Duke University Summer School Program and provided coaching and consulting services to local nonprofits and international organizations.

She currently serves as a Visiting Professor at a University in Washington D.C where she teaches Business Culture, Introduction to Intrapreneurship, and Innovation. Dr. Rutendo Mudzamiri is the Chief Impact Officer of Her Next Level, a social enterprise focused on propelling women's leadership and enterprise forward globally.

When Danai is not teaching she can be found giving wellness assessments, assigning meal plans in her shop, and serving healthy products to her community.

Traci teaches because she wants to give back the excellent education she has been lucky enough to receive. While education has been a big part of her life, it isn't everything. She has two wonderful kids and a husband who keeps the technology running. Her hobbies include reading and cooking. She lives in the sunny Central Valley in California with her family and dog.

Ms. Byrne has extensive professional HR experience leading the development and implementation of strategic people and organization initiatives in Talent Development, Performance Management, Employee Experience and Engagement, Rewards & Recognition, Learning and Development, Leadership Development and Organizational Transformation.

Ms. Byrne is a passionate advocate for online learning and has also held various roles in higher education institutions where she served as faculty and as a lead program designer in online learning. Her experiences across many industries allow her to make strong connections with students in multiple professional fields and degree programs.

Ms. Byrne is also member of SHRM’s Advocacy Team where she advises and advocates on crucial issues shaping public, social and business policies and is also an advisor with the SHRM Foundation championing research based solutions and awarding scholarships to developing HR professionals. In addition, Ms. Byrne is also a writer and contributing editor on current HR and careers topics.

Ms. Byrne is an advocate of non-profits and provides pro bono HR consulting for the Taproot Foundation as well as serving as an advisory board member for an education non-profit.

“I am a first-generational academic in my family like most of you. I want students to observe the opportunities in their education and embrace the results of success and prosperity.”

Marks' full-time hybrid remote position is Vice President of Information Technology, Business Solution for a bio-engineering firm located in Minnesota. He is also a business owner and has teaching relationships with other schools. He is continuing his education by obtaining a Ph.D. in Business Administration and Information Technology. When he is not working or teaching, or learning, he enjoys family, hiking, walking, and traveling to foreign countries.

His professional experience includes corporate positions with a National Hospitality company that managed gift shops in fine hotels. He owned and managed an insurance agency for a national insurance company for 10 years before getting into the teaching profession. Dr. Debo still participates in various conferences and workshops to enhance his knowledge in his business contents areas and has over 15 years of education experience as an instructor and a year plus as Academic Department Chair. In his spare time, Dr. Debo likes to watch war movies, American football, soccer, and CNBC and relaxes with marketing and management reading materials.

Joe lives and breathes accounting and hopes to bring not only theoretical understandings of our various learning objectives but also real-life implications.

As a mental health advocate, her greatest passion is to help people overcome hurdles in order to reach their full potential. When she isn’t supporting and mentoring learners, you can find her playing with her cats, singing, playing musical instruments, watching movies and traveling.

She finds joy in learning about people’s passions in life as well as traveling. For over seven years, she has performed different roles in the academic world. Trisha holds a bachelor's degree in tourism management, a master’s degree in business administration, and she is currently studying her master’s degree in counseling for mental health and wellness.

With this philosophy in education, she had two years teaching various subjects to the learners from Junior to Senior High. She also taught English as Secondary Language to kids from an Asian Country. During her spare time, she feeds her soul through reading books, binge-watching and of course making sure that she bonds with her family.

Outside of his professional activities, he likes spending time with his family, music and movies.

Katrina is passionate about shaping the minds of young learners and seeing them grow and become successful.

In her free time or outside work, you can see her traveling with her camera and capturing memories to share with everyone.

She experienced working in the different facets of Psychology such as being a behavioral therapist for children with special needs, guidance specialist/student affairs officer to local and international students, and human resource practitioner to a foreign company. These helped her improve her skills and expand her knowledge in the field.

During her leisure time, she enjoys binge-watching movies or series, exploring different places, and spending time with her loved ones.

Beyond work, Elsbeth's interests include listening to music, reading self-help and fictional books, watching movies, and spending time with her three cats.

She took additional units in education and became a Licensed Professional Teacher majoring in Social Science. She believes that grit and a growth mindset are vital factors in achieving one's definition of success.

“You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.” is one of her favorite quotations from one of her favorite writers, C.S. Lewis.

You may often find her dining out and traveling with friends, hanging out with her family, and spending time in the church outside work. She finds satisfaction in listening to and learning from people’s insights into different facets of life. She loves being with people while making sure she also has time for herself. During her alone-time, she enjoys binge-watching series while eating her favorite snacks, listening to acoustic music while polishing her nails, and biking in the neighborhood just before the sunset to witness the colors of the sky.

Rocel has a solid background in academic advising, supporting learners in the US with reaching their academic goals.

When she's not helping learners she loves to binge-watch Netflix series and movies with her family.

A graduate of Bachelor of Science in Psychology with a specialization in Guidance and Counseling at the University of Caloocan City and is a candidate for graduation of the Master of Arts in Education major in Guidance and Counseling program at the St. Joseph's College of Quezon City-Graduate School.

Furthermore, Rainier was also a Radio DJ in the Philippines. He conceptualized and hosted a radio program that aims to aid those who are in need of a friend over the radio with the application of Psychology and other related disciplines.

He believes that being part of an individual’s journey in pursuing a career by providing genuine guidance, evidence-based counseling, and holistic advising is part of his mental health advocacy.

In her previous role, Sandra oversaw recruitment, admission and enrollment operations at Mapua University in the Philippines. She holds a BA (Psychology), and is a MS Clinical Psychology candidate and De La Salle University. Outside of work, she enjoys playing volleyball, reading novels and binge-watching Netflix series.

She has most of her experience holding various administrative roles assisting with business operations, registration, organization, and maintenance of database records mostly in the healthcare industry and has been able to transfer those skills to her work here at Nexford.

Outside of work she enjoys swimming, binge watching shows and writing poetry.

Outside Nexford, Janine is a deaf advocate and a Clinical Audiologist who specializes in management of hearing loss and balance disorders. In her spare time, she loves exploring food and places, binge-watching Netflix series, and solving mystery puzzles.

As an Admissions Officer, she ensures that all learners have and feel a safe, inclusive learning environment regardless of race, gender, and status quo.

Outside Nexford, she is a mother, an entrepreneur, a trainer, a digital creative, and a disciple. In her spare time, she finds joy in having a cup of handcrafted coffee while spending quality time with her family, friends, and loved ones.

Fadl became an entrepreneur at 18, and has accumulated 17 years’ experience founding digital marketing and SaaS startups, leading award winning digital engagement and digital transformation projects. Cumulatively, his startups have raised over $15 million in growth capital and employ more than 500 people globally. Under News Group International, he launched and grew SOCIALEYEZ from two to more than 120 people globally. He has worked with Fortune 500s, global consumer brands such as Starbucks, and governments in the US, Europe and MENA regions. Fadl has lived in Cairo, Paris, Washington DC, Dubai and London. He holds a BBA from the American University in Cairo and management degrees from George Washington and Middlesex Universities.

Paul then spent five years at a fintech startup, followed by a move to the UK and a startup aimed at disintermediating the recruitment industry in the country. Paul has an MBA and a computer science undergraduate degree with honors from Cornell University. He has two teenage children, and outside of work is often found on a tennis court.

Dr. Plunkett has had leadership positions in both the academic and business sides of an institution, serving as a Campus Director, Regional Director, Executive Vice President of Academic Affairs and Director of Regulatory Compliance. The knowledge and experience gained in all of these positions provide solid platform to provide support and guidance to all all departments of the university to ensure compliance with accreditation and state licensing standards. She is passionate about learning and providing students with a positive educational environment for them to meet their educational goals and ultimately succeed in their chosen career.

Outside of work he can usually be found playing or watching football.

He is a qualified chartered accountant with over 17 years of experience primarily in Post M&A Integration, Budgeting & Forecasting, Financial Planning & Analysis, Accounting, P&L Responsibility, Project Management; Driving Special Projects for Management, Revenue Recognition, Validation of Revenue Leakage, Inventory Management, Internal Audit, Taxation & Compliance. Prior to joining Nexford, he has worked with corporates like IBM, Upland Software, TASC Outsourcing, Mphasis, iGate among others. He has also won talent recognitions in IBM and has vast experience in working with distributed teams globally. He has worked with organizations in APAC, MEA, ANZ, US, UK & Europe and has also transitioned processes to set-up back office in India. He has worked across various industries including SaaS, Ed-Tech, IT Hardware, Software, Healthcare, Telecom & Manpower Staffing.

Her experience ranges from startup/scaleup to multinational corporates across various sectors and markets and has led some of the tech industry's most complex scaling talent programs for organizations, transforming employee experience and operational efficiency, and building world-class innovative company cultures.

He joined pre-Series A and helped manage the Trilogy brand to a $750 million exit to 2U in May 2019. Trilogy was the fastest-growing EdTech company in history and the second largest acquisition of an EdTech company.

Prior to Trilogy, Adam led marketing Jornaya, a data-as-a-service company that helps marketers understand consumer behavioral intent online. As Vice President, he led the rebranding of the company (from LeadiD to Jornaya) and built the company's annual partner summit from scratch.

Adam also ran Product Marketing for Monetate, a marketing personalization technology that enables companies to deliver more relevant experiences to online shoppers. At Monetate, he led go-to-market for five products during a period of record growth from 2011 to 2014.

Dr. Bangoura was an Industry Engagement Network Manager at 2U where she identified strategic industry partners to hire students and alumni of 2U-powered programs and provided 1:1 and group career coaching. Dr. Bangoura also previously worked on IREX’s workforce development programs in Morocco and Iraq and the World Resources Institute on their West and Central African forestry programs. As a Peace Corps Volunteer in Mali, she worked on environmental programs related to shea butter and reforestation and served as a communications specialist for a USAID-funded teacher training and literacy program with Education Development Center.

She is an advisory board member of the Peace and Collaborative Development Network and active in PEO International, an organization dedicated to providing educational opportunities for women worldwide. Dr. Bangoura received a Doctor of Education in organizational change and leadership from the University of Southern California, a Master’s in International Education from the SIT Graduate Institute, and a Bachelor’s in Art History and French from the University of Mary Washington. She is a native English speaker, fluent in French, and conversational in Bambara, and lives in Lilongwe, Malawi.

Her past experience includes the director of academic innovation for McGraw Hill Higher Education and associate dean for business at Excelsior College. She has served as dean, associate dean, program chair, professor, instructional designer, adjunct instructor for various online and traditional institutions and mentor for the Online Learning Consortium. Dr Johnston lives in Venice, Florida and holds an EdD in Organizational Leadership, an MS in Human Resource Development and Management, a BA in Psychology, and is a certified job and career transition coach.

Her experience includes the development of academic programs, the delivery of student support services, the management of faculty and academic staff, as well as the oversight of academic operational functions. Ann holds a Doctor of Education degree with an emphasis in Higher Education Administration from the University of South Dakota, two Master's degrees from the University of Mary, and a Bachelor's degree from North Dakota State University.

During his time in the public sector, Joe worked in a variety of marketing and branding roles. This included projects with Creative England, UKTI, the Cabinet Office and Emirates. After moving to Sydney in 2016, Joe started a digital marketing role within FMCG, before moving onto work for the WPP group of agencies. Joe returned to the UK in 2019 to set up his own business, working as a digital marketing consultant for SMEs in the UK, Australia and New Zealand. Joe is passionate about using data and customer insights to improve marketing performance.

Hailing from South Africa, and with a wealth of experience in traditional advertising, direct marketing, and online demand gen marketing, Mark is putting those skills to great use creating engaging and thought leadership content that sells in his role as Content Marketing Manager at Nexford.

In her previous role, Sandra oversaw recruitment, admission and enrollment operations at Mapua University in the Philippines. She holds a BA (Psychology), and is a MS Clinical Psychology candidate and De La Salle University. Outside of work, she enjoys playing volleyball, reading novels and binge-watching Netflix series.

He’s passionate about education and people development and loves to find meaning in everything he does.

She has 8 years’ experience in team management for various acquisition and customer service centers — 5 years of which are within the education industry. She found her passion in this industry as she has the opportunity to positively impact someone’s life.

Ursula’s pursuit of a career in education began at Cengage, as an academic publisher. More recently, she has worked at Instructure, introducing institutions across the world to the Canvas platform. Outside of education and tech, she enjoys exploring London, and getting her hands on some last minute theatre tickets.