Christopher Patch received his Master’s degree from Roberts Wesleyan College and Northeastern Seminary in Rochester NY. Prior to joining Hellenic American University, he was Director of IT and Business Education at TechMarket Training in Nashua, NH, USA and an adjunct professor for Manchester Community College and John Mason Institute. He has extensive experience in IT management, strategic planning, and predictive and adaptive management methodologies and has been active in the field of training, consulting and education development for the past 15 years. Chris has developed and delivered instructor-led training, virtual training, mentoring, and consulting services since 2005. He has worked on projects with clients and partners across multiple industries including government, health care, food production, media, hospitality, and telecommunications. Chris has extensive experience and skills in many different areas, including project management, Scrum, IT management and development, office applications, and soft skills. Mr. Patch is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the MBA program.

Rodger Martin has over forty years of experience as a journalist, editor, poet and writer and has covered every Democratic national political convention from 1974 to 2004. He currently teaches journalism at Keene State College, home of the national award-winning college newspaper The Equinox. He studied public speaking under the man who taught John F. Kennedy to speak and has taught it extensively for Mt. Wachusett Community College’s Fort Devens, Campus. Martin has published four poetry books, his latest, For All the Tea in Zhōngguό (Hobblebush Books, 2019), a collection of both his own and Chinese poets in translation, with each poem written in Mandarin and English. He has received awards from The New Hampshire state Council on the Arts and was chosen to represent the United States at the Hongzhou Prominent Figure Celebration in 2012. He is currently an editor of The Granite State Poetry Series, president of the Worcester County Poetry Association and Vice President of the Monadnock Writers Group. Mr. Martin is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the MBA program.

Stanley Ansel graduated from the University of California at Los Angeles (USLA) with a Bachelor’s degree in Pre-Law. Before graduating from UCLA he served in the U.S. Navy for three years, living in Japan for two years and on an ammunition ship in Vietnamese waters for one year. After completing his undergraduate degree, Mr. Ansel went on to obtain a Master's degree in Management from the University of Arkansas. Besides living and teaching in the U.S., he has lived and taught in Greece, Albania, Germany and India. In addition to many years of teaching experience in accounting, finance, management, marketing, economics, and statistics, Stanley also has many years of practical experience in the areas of accounting, finance and marketing. Mr. Ansel is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the BSBA program.

Anastasios Makris is an Information Systems & Usability specialist. He holds a BSc in Physics from National and Kapodistrian University of Athens and a MSc in Computer Science from Florida Institute of Technology. He worked for 5 years in the health sector in the U.K. and for 10 years in the Greek industry automation sector (Hercules Cement Corp/Amber SA) as Project Manager before joining the maritime sector in 1993, where he worked as the Information Systems Director for Gourdomichalis Maritime. He has been involved in human computer interface and software usability issues since the mid ‘80s, as a means to improve the quality of software and human productivity. He extensively applied these principles during his career in software development and maintenance as an IT Manager, presented his work and ideas at various maritime conferences and given yearly lectures to students in the Faculty of Communication & Media Studies of the University of Athens on the application of Usability and UX topics to our everyday life. He is a founding founding member and member of the Board of Directors of AMMITEC, a member of the Usability Professionals Association and Hellenic Management Association and founding member and member of the Board of Directors of the ACM Greek Special Interest Group on Computer-Human Interface. Mr. Makris is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the BSI program.