All the business faculty members possess the following qualities: advanced degrees earned in business, computer science or mathematics disciplines, work experience relevant to their teaching subjects, and enthusiasm in teaching and helping the students. To increase the students’ learning effectiveness, they bring their real-world experience into the classrooms as well as use case studies to stimulate the students’ minds and exemplify various lecture topics.

Johnathan Mun

Johnathan Mun, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Business

Dr. Johnathan Mun is a Professor and Chair of the Business Department with 25 years of industry and academic experience. He has taught at the MBA, M.S., and Ph.D. levels in 10 countries and authored 30 books and 150 academic articles. Dr. Mun holds 13 patents, has consulted for over 50 multinational companies, created 10 software applications, and founded three companies. His research interests include financial analytics, quantitative methods, data science, economics, investment science, simulation, predictive modeling, AI/ML analytics, and optimization.

Courses: 
  • FIN501 Financial Management
  • BAN460 Introduction to Business Analytics
  • BAN589 Special Topic: Quantitative Risk Management
  • MGT460 Operations and Production Management
Cassondra Smith

Cassondra Smith

Professor of Business, Postdoctoral

Cassondra has a diverse background in Business Management, Marketing, Project Management, Supply Chain Management and Finance. Cassondra’s expertise includes Supply Chain management, Consumer Behavior, and Cost Accounting. Cassondra’s research interest focuses on consumerism, marketing analytics, consumer behavior, and the fiscal implications of misaligned U.S. apparel sizing standards. Cassondra has over 20 years of professional business experience and 15 years of instruction experience across primary and tertiary education.

 

Meet our Faculty

Business Faculty Directory
Robert Steinberg

Robert Steinberg

Robert has been a value creator, Entrepreneur and Technologist for over 35 years for advanced technology companies such as Zilog Inc, Plexus Computers and Data Pathing (NCR). His primary roles in these companies involved technical marketing and business development for distributive computer systems. In 1987, he became a primary co-founder of IICON Corporation, a company focused on the Human-Machine Interface and Supervisory Control and Data Aquisition (SCADA), and Defense Markets.
Prof. Nik

Nik Tehrani

As an SME/Mentor in high-tech incubation, Dr. Tehrani previously served as a cofounder and VP of Business Development at DynoSense Corp., pioneering at-home vital sign monitoring. He led Savitron, Inc., surpassing growth projections by 30% and expanding marketing channels. As Global Director of Program Management at Sanmina-SCI, Dr. Tehrani's team increased revenue by 30% and achieved 97%+ customer satisfaction.
Bhanu Viswanadha

Bhanu Viswanadha

Bhanu is a transformational Information Technology leader with a proven track record success in establishing policies, building high performance teams for optimizing product and application delivery with security, risk management built-in and implementing advanced portfolio execution methodologies, best practices, and standards. His leadership style, open communication methods and relationship building skills, coupled with a diverse technical background, allows him to work closely with both business and IT teams to deliver strategic business goals.
James Wu

Jeng-Dau (James) Wu

james.wu@sfbu.edu
Dr. Jeng-Dau James Wu earned his terminal degree of DBA from Golden Gate University in 1993 and has been teaching in the colleges fore more than four decades, including UC Berkeley Extension and San Jose State University. Since 1995, he was in charge of GRI Technology Capital, a venture capital investment management firm in downtown San Francisco and has been traveling around the world for international business assignments as well as delivering workshop speeches on several topics worldwide. Dr.