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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Cenap Ilter
California State University Stanislaus, CA
Topic:
Exploring the Effects of Inflation on Financial Statements
Dr.
Cenap Ilter has completed all his studies in Turkey. He received a
BA from Bosphorous University Istanbul in 1982. Joined the army for
compulsory military service in the same year, completed it in 1984.
The same year joined the MA cohort at Istanbul University Faculty of
Economics. Completed his MA in 1985 and PhD in 1990 in Istanbul
University. His main area of study has been accounting and auditing.
He obtained an Associate Professorship certificate upon completion
of various domestic and international publishing and passing an oral
test given by a jury of full professor appointed by Council of
Higher Education in Turkey in 2010.
Dr.Ilter has long years of industry experience. After the military
service he worked as an auditor at PMM (known as KPMG) Istanbul and
London Offices. He then worked in banking for three years and went
into manufacturing industry. He mainly worked in mining and cement
industries but also had a chance of working in holding companies
whose main area was servicing rather than manufacturing. During his
industry and service years he held top financial positions in
various companies. Overall he has 22 years of business experience
after serving the military in Turkey. He has both CPA-Turkey and
CMA-Canada designations.
Dr.Ilter and his family immigrated to Canada in 2006 and he taught
accounting classes at MacEwan University in Edmonton until 2013. He
and his family moved to US in 2013 and since then he`s been working
as an Associate Professor of accounting at California State
University Stanislaus campus. His current research interests are
accounting fraud, inflation accounting, and research on macro
economic factors on development.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Steven Taylor
Professor of Marketing
Illinois State University, IL
Dr.
Steven Taylor is a Professor of Marketing who joined the faculty
of Illinois State University in the Fall of 1992. He received
his Ph.D. in Marketing from the Florida State University (1992).
Prior to entering academics, Dr. Taylor enjoyed managerial
experiences with the US Navy (seven years), as well as the drug
screening, pharmaceutical sales, and hospital management industries.
Dr. Taylor's areas of expertise concern Services Marketing,
Relationship Marketing, and eBusiness with an emphasis on how the
service quality, value, satisfaction, and loyalty constructs operate
in consumer models of judgment and decision making. Professor Taylor
has published 50 refereed academic journal articles in his academic
career to date across numerous journal outlets such as the Journal
of Marketing, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Retailing,
Journal of Service Management, British Journal of Social Psychology,
Journal of Business Ethics, Journal of Insurance Issues, Journal of
Product and Brand Management, International Journal of E-Business
Research, among numerous others. He has also published many refereed
proceedings and invited book chapters. Most recently, Dr. Taylor has
focused on attitude-based models of human decision-making in
consumer contexts, including a series of articles investigating
digital piracy behaviors.
In addition to regularly serving as an ad hoc reviewer for numerous
marketing journals, Dr. Taylor also recently served for a decade as
the Co-Editor of the Journal of Consumer Satisfaction,
Dissatisfaction & Complaining Behavior, currently serving as an
Associate Editor for the journal since 2014. Dr. Taylor has also
been a long-term member of the Editorial Review Boards of the
Journal of Service Research (founding member) and the Journal of
Service Management. He has consulted across a wide variety of
industries, including recent projects for insurance, retail, health
care, and manufacturing concerns.
Professor Taylor was recently named the Hinderliter Chair of
Business (2012-2013). He has previously been honored with the
Outstanding Reviewer for the Journal of Service Research (2007),
Illinois State University Outstanding Researcher (2013), Mannehan
College of Business Outstanding Teaching Award (2001), Illinois
State University Teaching Initiative Award (1997), the Illinois
State University Caterpillar Scholar (1998, 2003), the Illinois
State University College of Business Outstanding Researcher Award
(1997, 2009), the Wilma Jean Alexander Technology Innovation Award
(1997), and the Illinois State University Research Initiative Award
(1995). Dr. Taylor has been married to his wife Michel for 30 years,
and they have three children.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER
Dr. Sonia Dalmia
Professor of Economics
Grand Valley State University, MI
Dr. Sonia Dalmia is a Professor of Economics at the Seidman College
of Business, Grand Valley State University.
She received a B.A. degree in Economics (Honors) and a B.Ed. degree
in Economics and Mathematics from the University of Delhi in India.
She also has M.A. degrees in Economics from the Delhi School of
Economics and from the University of Oklahoma. Her Ph.D. in
Economics is from the University of Iowa. Her current research
focuses on the marriage premium, marital matching among immigrants,
intra-household allocation and child survival. She has published
extensively and is considered an expert on dowries and marital
equilibria. Her research is cited both nationally and
internationally and has been used as assigned reading in courses
taught at Cornell and Columbia University.
Dr. Dalmia
has served on the Economics Content Advisory Committee for the
Michigan Test for Teaching Certification. She is a sought after
speaker on the issues of wage gap and gender inequality in the
workplace. She has also done extensive consulting on SROI of welfare
to work programs, status of women in Michigan, health care economic
forecast and women’s economic self-sufficiency. She currently serves
as a reviewer for a number of academic journals.
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KEYNOTE SPEAKER - TOKYO
Dr. Kuan-Chou
Chen
Professor, Department Head
Purdue
University Calumet, Hammond, IN
Topic:
Business Education Trends: Integrating Business Analytics Curriculum
with Existing Business Program
Kuan C. Chen is Department Head and Professor of Department of
Information Systems at Purdue University Calumet.
His primary teaching responsibilities are in management information
systems, database management, computer programming, e-business,
decision support systems, knowledge management, project management,
supply chain management, and system analysis and design. Research
interests are focused on the system management, network design and
security, instructional design for information technology training,
data mining, system dynamics, and information technology economics
of information systems, network security, and applications of neural
networks to network design. In his consulting career, he specialized
in database design and management, information technology project
evaluation and feasibility studies, web site planning and analysis,
and networking planning and design. Prior to coming back academia,
Dr. Chen worked as information analyst and project manager for four
years. Dr. Chen received a 2005-2006 outstanding teaching award in
Purdue University Calumet. Dr. Chen also was nominated three times
outstanding scholar award in Purdue University Calumet.
Dr. Chen holds two Ph.D. degrees from the Michigan State University
as well as an MBA degree in Management Sciences from National
Cheng-Kung University at Taiwan. He has published more than 50
journal articles and 70 conference proceedings in information
systems, decision support systems, data mining, instructional
design, and systems thinking model. He is an active participant in
several professional journals and serves on two journals reviewer
boards: Journal of Management Information Systems, and International
Journal of Electronically Commerce. He taught at several
universities: Lansing Community College, Purdue University West
Lafayette, Bowling Green State University, IVY Tech State College,
and Davenport University. Dr. Chen was nominated as a 2006, 2007,
2009 outstanding scholar award in Purdue University Calumet.
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