Antonia is a transdisciplinary scholar of management and intercultural communication, who explores the intersections between culture, language and cross-cultural, technology-mediated communication and organizational learning. She holds an MΑ in Media, Culture and Communication from the University of London, Institute of Education, and is a PhD candidate in Education at the University of Ruskin Anglia. Antonia has extensive teaching and research experience, mainly from her positions at Coventry University (London), University of East London, University of Bedfordshire, London College of International Business Studies, EU Business School, and Open University where she held the position of Subject Leader for Marketing and PR pathways for the Undergraduate Program. She has participated in various conferences and has been a contributing author and editor in a number of books. She is currently an Associate Editor for the book Small Business Management and Control of the Uncertain External Environment - Emerald Publications, UK, and a reviewer for the Springer Nature Journal of Knowledge Economy – JKEC. Antonia is a Member of CMI (MCMI) and Fellow of HEA the in UK. She is currently an adjunct faculty member in the Business Department at Hellenic American University.

Jeffrey Hansel holds a Master’s of Business Administration (MBA) from Syracuse University in Syracuse, NY, as well as a Bachelor of Science in Business Management with a minor in Information Technology from Bentley University in Waltham, MA. He has over twenty years of professional experience in credit and banking, managing highly complex middle-market relationships with lending sizes up to $75 million. He is currently vice president of a community bank where he manages all aspects of the Small Business Lending Group, and has helped the bank win several U.S. Small Business Administration awards. Jeffrey has taught courses in operations research, sales management, financial statement & cash flow analysis, business legal structures, small business lending basics, and start-up lending. He is an adjunct faculty member at Hellenic American University, where he teaches in the MBA program.

Eric Drouart, a French native, received a Business Administration Diploma from the Institut de Préparation à l’Administration et à la Gestion (IPAG) in Paris, France. He then came to the US and attended the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA, where he received two degrees, a BBA with a concentration in Marketing Management and an MSBA. He transitioned to academia in 2000, and has been teaching at Rivier University in Nashua, NH (USA), Southern Vermont College in Bennington, VT (USA) and Assumption University in Worcester, MA (USA). He has also taught seminar courses at IPAG – Nice Campus (France).

Eric has extensive international marketing and general management experience, including 15 years with New York-based Bristol-Myers Squibb. He has spent four years in Tokyo, Japan working in New Products and Business Development for a J.V. in OTC medicines, one-year short-term assignment in Italy for the transition management of a recently acquired Italian skin care company, and five years (1994-1999) in France after the acquisition of a French family medicines company. He also has prior international marketing research experience with General Foods Corporation (White Plains, NY), and Burke International Research Corporation (Cincinnati, OH, and New York City). Mr. Drouart is an adjunct faculty member teaching in the business program at Hellenic American University.

Dr Stavros Sindakis is an educator, advisor, and mentor in the areas of business innovation, knowledge and technology management, entrepreneurship, and product design and development. As an educator, he has taught in several different countries at the undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and has held a variety of advisory and mentoring positions for both students and faculty at numerous schools including the University of Liverpool, University of Roehampton London, American University in Dubai, University of Sharjah, Bangkok University, and New School of Architecture & Design. He is also a Visiting Scholar at Chongqing Technology and Business University, and Visiting Professor at the Hellenic Open University. With a PhD in Strategy, Enterprise & Innovation from the University of Portsmouth, Dr Sindakis has made significant contributions to these fields through his research and publications on entrepreneurship and business innovation, with his fifth book in progress. He currently holds the positions of Director of Business Programs and Assistant Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management at Hellenic American University.