Meet Our Academic Team!

Prior to joining Quantic, Amos worked for 16 years in transnational education as a scholar-practitioner and strategy consultant. He has taught extensively at the undergraduate and graduate levels, teaching a rigorous MBA curriculum to over 1,500  professionals and senior managers in the UK, Nigeria, Uganda, the UAE, the US and Canada. He holds a bachelors degree from Nigeria's premier university of Ibadan, an MBA and an MSc in Strategy from Edinburgh Business School at Heriot-Watt University, Scotland, and MPhil and PhD in Strategic Management from Walden University, USA.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

To be able to disappear, go anywhere and reappear at anytime.

What is the best advice you have ever received?

You can understand life by looking backwards but you should live it by facing forward with lessons learned.

Darshan serves as an Academic lead for executive education programs in the area of data science and analytics. She brings to Quantic a wealth of experience in academia, industry consulting, and technology. She has taught in the applied analytics program at Columbia University. She was a founding chair of the Business Data Science Department at Berkeley College, directing an undergrad degree program, with concentrations in Artificial Intelligence and Business Analytics. She holds a Ph.D from Nirma University of Science and Technology, India, and an executive certificate in Business Analytics from Wharton, UPenn. And, she earned an MBA from Gujarat University, India.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

Power to instill inspiration and drive precisely when it's most needed. To be the spark that ignites the drive and will to harness our own innate super powers and amplifies positivity.

What's one of your strangest talents?

I have taken the tradition and the art of Indian head massages to the next level, some say I do “magic”!

What is the best advice you have ever received?

Practice gratitude. Live light and free. Serve with passion.

Prior to joining Quantic, Eleonora worked in higher education for over 18 years. She has extensive experience in the fields of retail, manufacturing, leasing, banking, tax, and auditing. She is a licensed CPA in the State of New Jersey and has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in accounting and finance. She earned her Doctorate in Business Administration from Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

What is the best advice you have ever received?"

Acquire a good education, it is the one thing that no one can ever take away from you.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

To blink myself in an instant anywhere in the world, so I can have breakfast, lunch, and dinner wherever I choose, especially gelato in Rome at least twice a day.

Prior to joining Quantic, Dr. Harsh worked globally for over 20+ years as a professor in business & entrepreneurship at SUNY, University of Alabama, IIT Delhi and MDI, and published in leading research journals in the area of innovation and strategy. He had founded and led iSEED that conducted programs for entrepreneurs and mentored early-stage startups. He earned his Doctorate in Business Administration from Temple University’s Fox School of Business.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

Ability to gauge anyone’s suffering and roll out a perfect solution for it with the snap of my fingers.

If you could time travel to a specific time and place in the universe, where and when would you go and why?

A flight into space that would extend my lifespan, bringing me back to the planet Earth 200 years into the future, where people are rejoicing the most evolved human bonds and purpose feasting over their choicest moments.

Prior to Quantic, Maggie was a professor of Managerial Economics at JWMI, CSUMB, and the College of William and Mary. She has experience creating and teaching courses in economics, statistics, and information management. She loves new ideas and was the founder of two small businesses in the areas of assisted living and graduate online business education. She earned a PhD in Economics and a MS in Information Management from Arizona State University.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

I would love to travel to the future and see how future generations live. It is amazing how much has changed just in the past 100 years.

If you could snap your fingers and become an expert at something, what would it be?

I would love to be an expert dancer.

What is the best advice you have ever received?

Less is more! Life is short and efficiency is important!

Michael joined Quantic as an Accounting Subject Matter Expert after working as the president of the American Accounting Academy. He holds a doctorate in Business Administration (Accounting) from Liberty University. His master’s degree is in Accounting and Financial Management with a CPA emphasis. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration (Accounting). He is also a Certified Fraud Examiner (CFE). He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in Accounting for sixteen years.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

Each one of us already has a superpower, which is that we can build our desired future the way we want through believing it, feeling it, and working.

Which three people (from the past or present) would you choose to have dinner with?

I would definitely choose my wife and my two kids. Same choice for breakfast and lunch. I always tell my family that I am grateful for having them.

What is the best advice you have ever received?

Life is happening now.

Natalie joined Quantic as an Academic Program Director of Business after working as an assistant professor in Management and Entrepreneurship at Manchester Metropolitan University. She received her doctorate in entrepreneurship from the same university, and her M.A. in Economics and Politics from the University of Glasgow. She is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and an Academic Fellow of the Institute of Enterprise and Entrepreneurs.

If you could have only one superpower, what would it be and why?

I’d absolutely choose to be invisible. The places you could go!

If you could snap your fingers and become an expert at something, what would it be?

I’d be a linguistic expert! Using my skills of invisibility, I’d hitch-hike across the world on private jets (this is in a post-Covid world of course), and then I would converse with the locals in every language imaginable.