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Joseph H.
Astrachan, Ph.D.
Executive Director of the Cox Family Enterprise
Center
Wachovia Eminent Scholar Chair of Family
Business
Email:
Jastrach@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Joseph H. Astrachan is
the executive director of the Cox Family
Enterprise Center, holds the Wachovia Eminent
Scholar Chair of Family Business and is
Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship. He
served as editor of Family Business Review and
as an editorial board member of several other
academic journals. Dr. Astrachan is an
internationally recognized scholar in the field
of family business.
Kristi S. McMillan
Director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center
Email:
Kmcmilla@kennesaw.edu
Kristi S. McMillan is the
director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center
which she joined in 1994. Her areas of expertise
in family business are sibling relationships,
conflict resolution, raising responsible
children, and building family cohesion. Ms.
McMillan has a Master of Science in Conflict
Management and is co-author of the acclaimed
book "Conflict and Communication in The Family
Business."
Joe O'Farrell
Director of Development
Email: jofarrel@kennesaw.edu
Joe O'Farrell is Director of Development for the Cox Family Enterprise Center. His career includes experience in political strategy, fund raising/development, and project management. Joe has held development positions with Georgia Perimeter College and the Atlanta Council of the Society of St. Vincent de Paul. Joe was has also served as the Director of Lumen Institute's Atlanta Chapter where he built the organization's Southern operations. Earlier in his career Joe spent several years in national politics where he held leadership roles in three presidential campaigns and he also served as deputy press secretary for Governor Roy Barnes of Georgia. He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in American Literature from Bradford College.
Torsten M. Pieper
, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email:
TPieper@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Torsten M. Pieper is a
research fellow at Cox Family Enterprise Center
and an adjunct faculty member in the Department
of Management and Entrepreneurship. Torsten
holds Master of Science degrees from Saarland
University Saarbrucken (Germany) and EM LYON
Business School (France). He earned his
doctorate at European Business School (Germany).
In his dissertation research, Torsten
investigated some of Germany’s oldest and
largest family firms and identified the sources
and mechanisms of their owning families'
cohesion. Torsten comes from a family business
and is fluent is German, English, and French.
George E. Manners,
Ph.D.
Professor of Accounting and Management
Email:
GManners@kennesaw.edu
Dr. George Manners is
Professor of Accounting and Management, and has
decades of experience as an educator, a
consultant, and a business executive. Dr.
Manners has occupied tenured positions at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, and Clemson
University.His primary industrial experience was
10 years with the James River Corporation, where
he held the positions of Director of
Organization Development and Director of
Technology Services.
Georgia Bentley
Assistant Director
Email:
gbentle3@kennesaw.edu
Georgia Bentley is the Assistant Director of the Cox Family Enterprise Center. She is responsible for recruiting for the Executive MBA for Families in Business and promoting programs for the Center. Prior to that, she worked in the telecommunications industry for fifteen year and has held management positions in sales, customer service, operations, and human resources management for a Fortune 500 company. Georgia has a Master of Science degree from Western Illinois University and her Bachelor of Arts from Colorado State University.
Nancy Heller
Sr. Administrative Secretary
Email:
nheller@kennesaw.edu
Nancy has been with the Cox Family Enterprise Center since June 2005. She provides administrative support for all Center operations as well as the Executive MBA for Families in Business program.
A. Frank Adams,
III, Ph.D.
Aronoff Professor of Family Business
Email:
Fadams@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Frank Adams is
Associate Professor of Management and
Entrepreneurship, holds the Aronoff
Professorship of Family Business, and is
Director of Research for the Cox Family
Enterprise Center. Dr. Adams is a financial
economist who earned his doctorate from Auburn
University. He is overseeing the Center's newest
research program into family business finance
and is an integral part of all of the Center's
programs.
Gaia Marchisio,
Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Email:
Gmarchis@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Gaia Marchisio is
Assistant Professor of Management and
Entrepreneurship. Her focus is on strategic
management, next generation leadership, and
general family business topics. She earned her
degrees from Bocconi University, Milano, Italy,
and the Università degli Studi di Pavia. Prior
to joining Kennesaw State University she taught
at Bocconi University and she is currently
Visiting Professor at EAE - Barcelona, Spain,
where she teaches family business in the MBA
program.
Dana R. Hermanson,
Ph.D.
Mary and Jack Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of
Private Enterprise
Email:
DHermans@kennesaw.edu
Dr. Dana Hermanson is the
Mary and Jack Dinos Eminent Scholar Chair of
Private Enterprise and Professor of Accounting,
co-founder of the Corporate Governance Center at
Kennesaw State University and a Research Fellow
of the Corporate Governance Center at the
University of Tennessee. Among his other
important research reports, Dr. Hermanson is
co-author of a study performed for the Committee
of Sponsoring Organizations of the Treadway
Commission (COSO), Fraudulent Financial
Reporting: 1987-1997, An Analysis of U.S. Public
Companies.
James I. Herbert,
Ph.D.
Professor
Email:
JHerbert@kennesaw.edu
Dr. James I. Herbert is
Professor of Management and Entrepreneurship. He
formerly served as Associate Director of
Admissions and Lecturer in Organizational
Behavior at Yale. Dr. Herbert is former vice
president of the Family Firm Institute and
served as leader for the first meeting of the
next generation leaders of the Black Enterprise
magazine’s 100 largest Black-owned businesses.
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