Dr. Zamastil is an accomplished international educator and founder of the European Study Abroad Center. She earned her Ph.D. in Adult Studies/Higher Education with a cognate in International Studies from the University of Denver, her J. D. from John Marshall Law School, and her B.A. in English and Interdisciplinary Writing from the University of Northern Colorado. Dr. Zamastil spent five years as an Assistant State’s Attorney in Cook County, Chicago while teaching part-time at Robert Morris College and the Chicago Police Academy. In 1994, Dr. Zamastil moved to the Czech Republic to complete a one-year visiting lecturer position at Charles University Law Faculty in Prague. Upon completion of the lectureship in Prague, Dr. Zamastil founded an International Training Centre, coordinated continuing legal education courses for Central and Eastern European lawyers on behalf of John Marshall Law School, coached Moot Court competitions and was the Country Manager of a U.K based Executive Recruitment Consultancy firm.

After 4 years of international experience, Dr. Zamastil returned to the United States to teach a variety of international business, management, and law courses at the University of Denver, Metropolitan State College of Denver, and Johnson & Wales University. In addition to teaching, Dr. Zamastil organized and coordinated the international study abroad term for International Business Students and Co-Chaired the Honors Program. From 2005-2006, Dr. Zamastil taught Business Law at KIMEP in Kazakhstan. Currently Dr. Zamastil teaches the Introduction to Global Business, Business Law, and International Law courses at various universities including The University of Economics, Prague and Webster University, Thailand.  She is involved with NAFSA and has published numerous articles on legal issues in higher education and the impact of short-term study abroad programs on undergraduate students.

Dr. Jerry Collins is an experienced university professor with over 30 years of practical experience in military and civilian leadership positions. Throughout his career, he has routinely worked closely with the broadest spectrum of executives and leaders within domestic/international governmental, military, political, educational, and corporate environments. Jerry has keen academic interests in Higher Education Administration, Global Leadership, Leadership Ethics, Transformational Leadership, Social Change Leadership, and Organizational Communication.

In his current position as the Director of Undergraduate Studies at the University of South Florida (USF), he oversees educational outreach, college relations, transfer articulation policy, undergraduate academic policy, Applied Science degree programs, and serves as the lead professor and academic Chair of Leadership Studies department. Jerry holds a B.S. in Liberal Studies/Management, an M.A. in International Relations/Comparative Politics, and a Ph.D. in Higher Education/Curriculum & Instruction with cognate in Organizational Communication.

Anyone looking for an enthusiastic supporter of the Hospitality & Events Industry look no further than Cynthia Vannucci.

Cynthia was born and raised in Cleveland, Ohio, and moved to Las Vegas as a young woman. “When you live in Las Vegas, you work in the hotel industry,” she says. While working full-time in the hotel business, Cynthia was a full-time student at UNLV in the Hotel Administration program.

After graduation from UNLV, Cynthia worked for several years in the hospitality industry, starting as a management trainee and moving into catering and sales, and on to marketing.  Her company relocated her to five different cities, although, her base was mostly in the southwestern U.S.  She studied for her Master’s in Business, with a specialization in human relations.  During this time she married Peter Henkel, and raised their children, Petra, Christa and Phillip!

The combined responsibilities of a demanding career in hotel sales and marketing, along with the frequent travel of a young family became excessive.  Former professors at UNLV prompted her to consider teaching.  So, it was off to Penn State to get her Ph.D. in Management of Environment Relations.  At Penn State she specialized her research in the area of meeting planning.

Dr. Vannucci is the Director of Event Planning and is a fully tenured professor at Metropolitan State College of Denver.  She has earned numerous awards and says “the awards are a result of teaching some of the greatest college students!”

Dr. Cynthia Vannucci also holds a Certified Meeting Professional (CMP), CHE, CHSP & CHME designations in the professional industry.  She was honored to serve and be selected as the Educator of the year in 2008 for the Professional Convention Management Association (PCMA).

Education
1996 - University of South Florida, Tampa Campus; Master of Arts - Political Science
1990 - University of South Florida, Tampa Campus; Bachelor of Arts

Experience
1997 to    Present - Department of Government and International Affairs; Adjunct Instructor, University of South Florida, Tampa Campus, International Studies Department. 
1991 to    1994 - Research assistant for the Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, Dr. Marilyn Myerson.

Non-Academic Employment
1976 to    1989 - Paralegal/Legal Secretary/Director of Word Processing Center - Law; Firms of Bush, Ross, et. al., Holland and Knight, and Trenam, Kemker, Tampa, Florida.

Miscellaneous
March 2009/ March 2010 - The Czech Republic in Transition as part of an Education Abroad course; Spring Break, Prague, Czech Republic.     
March 2011 - Turkey in Transition as part of an Education Abroad course; Spring Break in Istanbul, Turkey.

Robert W. Robertson is the Director, Graduate Business Studies at Saint Leo University, Florida. In addition, he serves as a Visiting Faculty member with the University of Ljubljana in the Executive MBA program.

Dr Robertson was the Dean, Bang College of Business and Executive Director, Center for Sustainable Urban Futures at the Kazakhstan Institute of Management, Economics and Strategic Research (2005-2006). He has more than twenty years of management experience in the public sector in Canada leading award winning organizations.

Most recently, he served as the City Manager, City of Hamilton, Ontario an organization with more than 8,500 employees and a budget in excess of one billion dollars. Robertson has lectured at universities in China, Brazil, Canada, Central Asia and Europe and he is an invited speaker at conferences world-wide.

Robertson holds a Doctorate degree from Stirling University, Scotland (Management and Organization); Master of Studies in Law, Vermont Law School; Master of Public Administration, Dalhousie University; and, Master of Art, Eastern Kentucky University.

Dr Robertson’s research and consulting interests include corporate and strategic planning, business planning, quality management, continuous improvement, organizational behavior, economic development, public sector management, city planning and international busines.

Kateřina studied Art History at the Faculty of Arts and Letters at the Charles University (Prague), where she obtained her Mgr. and PhDr. degrees.
She worked at diverse art galleries in Prague and Paris (Paul Prouté S.A, Old Master etchings and drawings). She was awarded different scholarships and internships in France (BNF Paris, Montpellier) and Italy (Perugia).
Kateřina is a lecturer for several study abroad programs in Prague, such as the Charles University (International Studies Abroad) and she teaches Prague Art and Architecture at the Anglo-American University. She works equally at the National Gallery in Prague, Collection of Old Masters (St. Agnes Monastery, Sternberg Palace).
Kateřina specialized in French and Flemish late medieval manuscript illumination. Her fields of interest include medieval painting in Bohemia, baroque architecture in Rome and Bohemia as well as contemporary sculpture and painting. Kateřina is fluent in four languages, namely English, French, Italian and Czech (mother tongue), she understands German and she has a reading knowledge of Hebrew and Spanish.
In her spare time Kateřina enjoys dancing, reading and cooking, she loves skiing and swimming too. Most often she travels around Europe, especially to Austria, France and Italy.

Presently, Dr. Patrick Low is Professor of Management and Marketing in Brunei. With an International PhD in Business and Management from the University of South Australia, Dr. Patrick Low also holds a Master of Business from the CURTIN University of Technology and a BA (Singapore). His other qualifications include being a

#Chartered Marketer (CIM, UK)
#Chartered Consultant and an Accredited Professional Consultant (American Consultants' League) as well as holding a
#Graduate Diploma in Marketing (UK)
#Graduate Diploma in Personnel Management (SIM/ SIPM)
#Graduate Diploma in the Marketing of Financial Services (MIS)
#Certificate in Administrative Mgt/ Organisation & Methods.

Dr. Patrick Low is also the licensed administrator, user and interpreter of MBTI personality type profiling for several years. A behavioral consultant, he is also DISC-certified.

Dr. Patrick Low has been a human resource professional since the late 1980s. He has work experiences in the Civil Service, electronics, trade and financial industries. He has handled HRD projects/ assignments in all ASEAN countries, Bangladesh, Hong Kong and Sri Lanka. His previous appointment was with a foreign bank as the Senior Training Manager, Management Development (Asia Pacific Region). Since 1995, Patrick runs his own consultancy (BusinesscrAFTTM Consultancy), undertaking consultancy work for other companies, both Singapore and overseas which include: Matsushita Electric Singapore, Kotobuki, MINDEF, Natsteel, Trans-Link Express, National Healthcare Group, Singapore National Employers' Federation, KAFCO (Bangladesh), Singapore National Co-operative Federation, NTUC, Comserv, Eagle's Wings, KKB Engineering Sdn. Bhd., Sawarak Craft Council, Sarawak Forestry Corporation, Rimbunan Hijau, SESCO, Sarawak State Library, Khind Marketing, Tan Tock Seng Hospital, Islamic Bank of Brunei, Maybank, Maersk Singapore, Hornbill Airways, Nam Ho Travel, Standard Chartered Bank, Sales Academy (MIS) and others.

Awarded the MIS/ Standard Chartered Gold Medal Award - 1994 for being the most outstanding graduate in the Graduate Diploma in Marketing of Financial Services, Patrick is also the author of (2000) (revised in 2002) Strategic Customer Management (one of Border's Top 10 Business Books as featured in Asian Entrepreneur). The reading public has also given good rating of his second book, (2001) The Power of Relationships. Developing True Leadership Potential is his fourth book while his third book (co-written with Dr. Daniel Theyagu), recently out, is Team Success. His fifth book is Training Success, published by the Institute of Chartered Financial Analyst India (ICFAI). Besides, several of his articles have been published in magazines (such as Horizons and Today's Manager) and journals including the Emerald Insight, the Management Development Journal of Singapore and the Effective Executive.

Dr. Smith earned his Ph.D. in Organizational Leadership from Regent University in Virginia.  Additionally, Dr. Smith has an International MBA from the prestigious Moore School of Business at the University of South Carolina and a BA in Economics from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.  Currently, Dr. Smith serves as a professor for Bethel University in Tennessee, with primary responsibility in the MBA program.  Dr. Smith also holds adjunct faculty appointments at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga, Covenant College, and at The Anglo American University of Prague, Czech Republic.   For eight years prior to coming to Bethel University, Dr. Smith served as the founding director of two MBA programs – first at King College and later at Bryan College.

Dr. Smith worked internationally in Haiti, West Indies for seven years before entering academia.  For the past ten years, Dr, Smith has directed international study abroad programs for undergraduate and graduate business students in 25 countries of Europe with a focus on introducing American students to the European Union.  Dr. Smith has most recently taught and lectured in Emanuel University in Oradea, Romania; Mendel University in Brno, Czech Republic; Anglo American University in Prague, Czech Republic; the University of Banja Luka, in Bosnia; SERC in Bangor, Northern Ireland; and he has delivered lectures on various topics in organizational leadership at Heopharm in Vrsac, Serbia; Club of Managers in Bratislava, Slovakia; and the Defense Language Institute for senior Czech military officers in Vyskov and Brno, Czech Republic.

Dr. Smith was the recipient of two academic awards to further his work in Europe. Dr. Smith participated as a Salzburg Seminar Fellow in Salzburg, Austria under the auspices of a Mellon Foundation Grant to explore the topic: The European Union: Challenges of Integration and Expansion in July of 2005 as well as an International Faculty Study participant to examine the cultural heritage of Christian, Jewish, and Muslim faiths in Andalusia, Spain in July 2004.

Dr. Smith is a member of ASTD (American Society for Training and Development), and he is President of GLOBE (Global Leadership for Organizations, Business and Education), a training and development consulting firm.

Ciaran S. Kelly, M.A. The George Washington University 1990, B.A. and B.A. California State University at Long Beach (1987). Mr. Kelly has 25 years of international management experience,  10 years of Interior Design in Los Angeles and Beverly Hills (www.duxiana.com), as well as 15 years in academia and the auto industry in Europe.  As National Sales Manager and Group Operations Director for AAA AUTO, his sales teams sold more than 400,000 cars and generated some 83 billion Euros for the Czech economy (www.aaaauto.cz).  Mr. Kelly has been teaching at University level since 1993.  He began by teaching History and Political Science, and for the last 5 years has been teaching HR, Marketing, Business Management, Sales and Advertising.  In Prague, he has taught at University of Northern Virginia, University of New York, Anglo American College and Vysoka Skola Economics and Management.  Mr. Kelly frequently travels to Sweden where he teaches business courses in Sales and Customer Service for Ideforum (www.ideforum.com).  Mr. Kelly coached the Prague Panthers to their first four National Championships in American football, brought them to the quarter finals of the Eurobowl competition and now coaches the Pilsen Patriots (where last year, he led them to their first ever playoff appearance).  Mr. Kelly has created two international internship programs: one for the Foreign Ministry of the CR with Dr. Vladimir Galuska, and second intern program for United Nations Office in Prague with Dr. Andreas Nicklaus.

Chad’s passion lies in the International marketplace and his focus is on developing expertise in trading and communicating in a Global environment.

He has been teaching Management and Marketing subjects at University in Shanghai, China over the last two years.

His organizational experience includes technology marketing and training management for the world’s leading wireless manufacturer where he was involved in numerous technology and new product launches, healthcare sales at a large European pharmaceutical company, agricultural and industrial equipment international brand management, strategic marketing consulting and entrepreneurial endeavours. Chad built his reputation in both complex relationship management and as a corporate trainer. Prior to going to Shanghai he owned a specialized consulting firm serving the private and public sector in communications, process management and business formation.

On a personal level Chad has served on young executive boards at a number of professional organizations, fine arts guilds and non-profit ventures. He is an active alumnus and enjoys extensive travel and various sports.

Educational Background:

• Master of Business Administration [Management], University of Miami
• University of Cambridge CELTA, Berlin School of English
• Bachelor of Science [Agri-Business / Marketing], Middle Tennessee State University
• Six Sigma, Green Belt Certification Course, Villanova University
• Certificate in International Business and Global Marketing, ESAC & Prague College

Miriyam Nitzberg currently works as Head of Legal & HR in Central & Eastern Europe for a multinational health & fitness company. She has a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley, an M.A. from the Monterey Institute of International Studies, and she completed her Post-graduate Diploma in Law and her Diploma in Legal Practice at The College of Law in Guildford, England. Miriyam has been working in education, business and law in the Czech Republic since 1992. She has taught at Purkyně University in Ústí nad Labem, Anglo-American College in Prague, the Czech Ministry of Defense, and the Czech Military University in Vyškov.  She has also worked for several law firms in Prague. In addition to teaching Law for Business, Miriyam has taught legal writing and is a member of the Legal Writing Institute.

Don C. Smith is the Director of the Environmental and Natural Resources Law & Policy Graduate Program at the University of Denver Sturm College of Law. He specializes in environmental law, with particular emphasis on environmental law and policy of the European Union.

Mr. Smith formerly worked as a water policy advisory for Kansas Gov. John W. Carlin. After leaving Gov. Carlin's office he served as the governor's appointee to the Kansas Water Commission.

He practiced natural resources law before joining the legal publishing arm of McGraw-Hill, where he was an associate publisher. He has also served as a publisher for an Anglo-Dutch publishing company, Reed-Elsevier, where he was responsible for a series of publications (e.g., "The Air Pollution Consultant" and "The Hazardous Waste Consultant") about U.S. environmental law. He has also had extensive experience working on environmental publications involving European Union policy.

He is a member of the Association of International Petroleum Negotiators, the Colorado Bar Association, and the Rocky Mountain Mineral Law Foundation. He is editor in chief of Utilities Policy, a peer-reviewed journal, published by U.K.-based Elsevier Science, Ltd.