Dr. Blaize Horner Reich
Academic Director, DIAL, RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation, SFU Beedie, and Board Director
Before obtaining her Ph.D., Dr. Reich worked as an IT professional and consultant for 15 years in Canada and Asia. Her specialties were information management, IT governance and strategic planning. Dr. Reich is the RBC Professor of Technology and Innovation within the Beedie School of Business. She is an internationally recognized expert in IT governance, technology-based organizational transformation, and project management. Her research has been published in leading journals, and she speaks regularly at academic and practitioner conferences. Dr. Reich is a founding director of the CIO Association and a board director of ITAC Talent’s Business Technology Management program. She is also a board director of BCAA and Central 1. Dr. Reich was named an Academic Fellow of the International Council of Management Consulting Institutes in 2016 and a Canadian Association of Management Consultants Fellow in 2017.
Dr. Andrew Gemino
Professor, Management Information Systems & Associate Dean, Executive Education, SFU Beedie
Dr. Andrew Gemino is an award-winning teacher whose distinctions include two TD Canada Trust Distinguished Teaching Awards from the Beedie School of Business and the Teaching Excellence Award from SFU. His primary research interests include information technology project management and business analysis techniques. Andrew has also co-authored an award-winning textbook and is the past President of the AIS Special Interest Group on Systems Analysis and Design.
Dr. Jeffrey Yip
Assistant Professor, Management and Organization Studies, SFU Beedie
Jeffrey Yip is an Assistant Professor of Management at the Beedie School of Business. His research is in leadership, mentoring, and career development. His professional experience includes leadership development at the Center for Creative Leadership, as co-founder of the Halogen Foundation in Singapore, and as a consultant to public and private organizations. Prior to SFU, Jeffrey taught graduate courses in organizational psychology, interpersonal dynamics, and talent management at Claremont Graduate University (CGU) and Boston University. At CGU, he directed the Talent Science Lab and served as an advisor to the Accenture Talent Innovation Lab. He currently directs ListeningWorks - a research initiative on listening, and serves as representative-at-large for the Academy of Management Careers Division. His work has been supported by research fellowships and awards, including a Fulbright Scholarship, the Lim Kim San Fellowship from Singapore Management University, a research fellowship from the Learning Innovations Laboratory (LILA) at Harvard University, and the Arnon Reichers Best Paper award from the Academy of Management.
Dr. Sarah Lubik
Director of Entrepreneurship, SFU Co-Champion, Technology Entrepreneurship@SFU Lecturer, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, SFU Beedie
Sarah Lubik is a lecturer in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at SFU Beedie School of Business and Co-Champion of the Technology Entrepreneurship Programs at SFU. Sarah was appointed SFU's first Director of Entrepreneurship, aligning, supporting, and accelerating entrepreneurship education and early-stage incubation at SFU. She is also a mentor at SFU's Venture Connection incubator.
Dr. Andrew Harries
Tom Foord Associate Professor of Practice in Innovation and Entrepreneurship, SFU Beedie
Andrew Harries is the Tom Foord Professor of Practice in Entrepreneurship and Innovation at SFU’s Beedie School of Business and is a business advisor and corporate director. At SFU Beedie, he blends the latest in entrepreneurial theory and practice in his courses on entrepreneurship and innovation, product management, and resourcing new ventures. In his advisory practice, Andrew works closely with pre-revenue and growth-stage companies on business strategy, financing, leadership, and governance and how to create viable, high-growth business models. Andrew also chairs the board of directors at Bsquare Corporation (NASDAQ: BSQR) and was a co-founder of Sierra Wireless Inc. (SQ.TO, SWIR).
Dr. Ian McCarthy
W.J. VanDusen Professor of Innovation and Operations Management, SFU Beedie
Ian McCarthy is the W.J. VanDusen Professor of Innovation and Operations Management. He came to SFU from the University of Warwick, England, where he was a Reader and Head of the Organizational Systems Strategy Unit. He worked for several years as a manufacturing engineer before earning his Ph.D. in operations strategy from the University of Sheffield.
DR. TERRI GRIFFITH
Professor, Innovation & Entrepreneurship, Keith Beedie Chair In Innovation & Entrepreneurship, SFU Beedie
Terri Griffith holds the Keith Beedie Chair in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at Simon Fraser University’s Beedie School of Business. She spent two decades in Silicon Valley and in 2012 was honored as a Woman of Influence by the Silicon Valley Business Journal. Terri helps her students and their organizations accelerate performance and prepare for the future of work. Terri brings energy and evidence-based innovation to organizational design and technology management through her research, teaching, speaking, and writing. Her current research focuses on remote and hybrid work strategies, especially the bottom-up application of automation and artificial intelligence.
Dr. Joseph Peppard
Professor, Director of Executive Education, University College Dublin
Joe researches, teaches, and consults in IT leadership, digital strategy and innovation, digital transformation, and the creation of value from IT investments. Findings from his studies have been published in leading journals, including California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, MIS Quarterly Executive, and the MIT Sloan Management Review. He had held academic roles in Germany (ESMT Berlin), the UK (Cranfield School of Management, Loughborough University, Trinity College Dublin), the Netherlands (Groningen University), Italy (Politecnico di Milano), and Australia (University of Sydney).
