Fashion Institute of Technology

Faculty Member, Enterprise Center

Assistant Professor

About

My love of finance was piqued when I began my career at Lehman Brothers Investment Banking rising to the position of Vice President of New Business Development.  I became engrossed in the world of mergers and acquisitions and advised senior managers and owners of companies on strategies to improve their business operations.  I created Investment Banking Training Manuals for underwriting debt and equity financings and wrote a training module for the Securities Training Corporation in New York City.

In 1999 I began teaching entrepreneurship at the Fashion Institute of Technology, New York, which was a natural segue from the world of investment banking.  At the college I presently teach Starting Your Small Business, Marketing and Finance modules both live and on-line.

In 2000 to 2002 I also taught marketing management at Polytechnic University Graduate School, Brooklyn, NY.

Together with a business partner we launched in 1991 a small television station, The Arabic Channel, targeting the growing Arabic population in the New York City area. We also developed a multi-language web portal featuring several languages and went into a joint venture with EMI Music to sell international music on our website.

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