Stamatia Petropoulou received her B.Sc. in International and European Studies from the University of Piraeus and holds a dual M.Sc. in Petroleum Economics and Management & Economy of Sustainable Development, Environment & Energy from the Institut Français du Petrole (IFP School). She began her career working for a major French gas operator and the sustainable deployment of the Gas Smart Meters project. She then moved to Singapore to work for a French oil and gas company in the marketing sector. While there, her enthusiasm for the maritime Industry matured and she joined the research and strategic planning department of a top regional containership operator company in Singapore. For the last six years she has been in Greece working for the safety department of a major tanker management shipping company. She is skilled in health, safety and quality initiatives, with a primary focus on incident preventive programs, improvement of safety culture, policy development and management system improvements. She is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University and teaches in the MBA program.
Theodoros Mitsikas holds a Diploma from the Department of Mathematics, School of Applied Mathematical and Physical Sciences National Technical University of Athens (NTUA) and is a PhD Candidate at the School of Electrical and Computer Engineering, NTUA. Since 2018 he has been working as a teaching assistant for the Department of Mathematics, NTUA, teaching Object-Oriented Programming and Graph Theory. He has participated in EU-funded research projects, focusing on formal methods, the semantic web, and knowledge representation, and has contributed to several publications in international journals and conferences. He is currently a researcher in the laboratory of Formal Methods and Logic at NTUA and at RuleML Inc., Canada., where he is also a chair of the PSOA RuleML Technical Group. He is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University and teaches in the BSI and MSI programs.
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.