OCOB Ann Rep 07-08 - Orfalea College of Business - Cal Poly San ...

FACULTY NEWSOrfalea College of Business welcomes four new faculty in 2007-08Rodney MockMock joins the Accounting Area asassistant professor in taxation.Mock did his pre-law work atPortland State University and graduatedsumma cum laude with a B.A.from the University of California atDavis. He received a J.D. with anemphasis in tax from the Universityof Oregon School of Law and anLLM in taxation from the Universityof WashingtonSchool of Law.Mock was apracticing attorneyin Oregon for twoyears before returningto school for hisRodney Mock LLM. From 2004 to2008 he was an associate with thefirm of Merrill-O’Sullivan, LLP inBend, OR, where he specialized inestate planning, trust administration,and business and tax transactions.Mock is also a member of theOregon State Bar Association and amember of the Investment Committeefor the Central Oregon CommunityCollege Foundation. Hepreviously served as a member ofthe board of directors for The CenterFoundation (www.neuro-ortho.com)in Oregon and as land use chair forthe Awbrey Butte NeighborhoodAssociation in Oregon.Stern NeillNeill joins the Marketing Area of CalPoly’s Orfalea College of Businessfrom Louisiana State University(LSU) in Baton Rouge, LA.Neill completed a bachelor’s injournalism at LSU and an MBA fromSoutheastern Louisiana University.He earned a doctorate in businessadministration from LSU with amajor in marketing and a supportingfield of informationsystems and decisionsciences.With industryexperience inspecial projects andas director ofStern Neill market research atNeill Corporation in Hammond, LA,Neill also has extensive academicexperience. He has been an instructorat LSU, a lecturer in businessadministration at the University ofWashington at Tacoma, a visitinglecturer in the Department of Managementand Public Administrationat the University of the South Pacificin the Republic of Fiji, and both anassistant and associate professor atthe Milgard School of Business at theUniversity of Washington at Tacoma.Neill’s professional affiliationsinclude the Academy of MarketingScience, the American MarketingAssociation, and the MarketingScience Institute.Andreas SimonSimon has lived in Australia, Germany,Michigan, and now calls theCentral Coast his home.As a new assistant professor inthe Accounting Area, Simon shareshis experiences from around the globe.Simon earned both the equivalentof an undergraduatedegreeand a Diplom-Kaufmann, orGerman graduatedegree, in financeand accountingAndreas Simon from the Universityof Applied Sciences in Berlin, Germany.He earned a doctorate inaccounting at the University ofQueensland in Brisbane, Australia.He was a visiting scholar at theUniversity of Michigan Stephen M.Ross School of Business in 2007.Simon has teaching experienceas a lecturer in accounting at MartinCollege in Australia and as a teachingassistant at the University ofQueensland. He also has industryexperience as an associate in assuranceand business advisory servicesfinancialservices forPricewaterhouseCoopers in Germanyand as a bank clerk for LandesbankBerlin in Germany.Simon has served as presidentof the Ph.D. Research Higher DegreeAssociation for the University ofQueensland Business School and is aformer member of the Accountingand Finance Association of Australiaand New Zealand, as well as theAmerican Accounting Association.Jonathan YorkYork has beennamed as the firstchair of the entrepreneurshipconcentrationat CalPoly’s OrfaleaCollege of Business.York brings an extensive recordJonathan Yorkof experience and fundraising expertiseto the college and is hailed byLou Tornatzky, Industrial TechnologyArea chair, as “someone whoreally makes things happen!”York earned a bachelor’s degreeat Yale University, a master’s degree inpsychology at Michigan State University,and his doctorate in psychologyat Michigan State University.Prior to his Cal Poly post, hewas instructor of entrepreneurship inthe MBA program at The Ohio StateUniversity Fisher College of Business.CONTINUED10 ❚ ANNUAL REPORT 2007-08