About

Prior to joining the faculty at Portland State University, I retired from a 26-year career at Intel Corporation. My work at Intel consisted of a three-phased global and international management career built on a strong professional financial base to provide a rounded and deep understanding of -- and solid practical results in -- how to make a company a better corporate citizen while improving its return on Shareholder Value. Throughout my time at Intel I was involved in the training of leaders and managers. I have operated on the Academic side of learning and scholarship.

Before Intel, I trained as a Chartered Accountant in London. I worked for Peat Marwick Mitchell (Now KPMG) and for Avis Rent-a-Car. I was awarded a Masters of Research by the University of Liverpool having decided that I did not have the desire to finish my thesis “Meeting the challenge of Teaching Ethics within professional development for Accountants, in the light of changing practice and perspectives of the 21st century."

My personal area of scholarship interest is in the risks, controls, culture and governance challenges facing Modern Western Businesses as they strive to be both highly financially successful and good corporate citizens in the face of Globalization and its cultural relativism challenges.

At Intel Corporation

For 15 years including 10 reporting directly to the CFO, who is now the current Chairman of the Board at Intel Corporation. I worked as a senior controller within the Finance function. That role is recognized as adding value to the business which it supports while being unquestionably ethical in its approach. During this time I was also instrumental in developing award-winning Management and Leadership Training tools.

For 5 years I worked with Global Enterprise Systems in the development of strategy and implementation of IT projects at the edge of technological innovation in large companies.

For 5 years I drove a Global Business Ethics program to be effective within the company’s culture and increasingly global operations and a cynical public environment for big companies.

As Part of SBA Faculty

I joined the faculty as an instructor in the 2007/8 academic year having been an adjunct since the 2001/2 academic year. My focus has been to teach the senior classes in the Accounting undergraduate degree. I have specialize in the Auditing Concepts Class and the "quasi-capstone” class allied Integrated Issues in Accounting.

We have developed the IIA class to be a blend of Accounting, Finance and Business Acumen. Building on the solid core of teaching from the Accounting Faculty, and giving the PSU degree a unique competitive presence.

I have developed and taught the Ethics & Professionalism class on the Master of Financial Analysis. This is a compulsory class. At the risk of hubris, I believe it can hold its own with any class in the world that has a limit of 2 credit hour use of student time.

I also developed the new class Current Global Issues in Financial Accounting which is turning out to be a very interesting stretch of the students who sign up for professional accountant track of the Master of Finance.

While still at Intel, and as an Adjunct Professor, I mainly taught in the MBA program. My key achievement was to develop a class called Systems for Performance Management loosely based around Robert Simons' Levers of Control concepts and practical experience. As a newbie, I liaised with Dr. Simons in adapting the class to the PSU environment.

I have discovered that I like to introduce new concepts at the most senior level and gradually allow them to filter down to the less experienced students... It is this process that continues to enhance the IIA capstone class referred to above.

Again while still at Intel, I was art member of the Accounting Advisory Board of the Portland State University Business School and of the Accounting and Information Technology Advisory Boards at Oregon State University Business School.

I have guest Lectured at Oregon State University, The University of Manchester in, England and The University of Ireland in Cork.

I also served a three-year term as an elected member of the Faculty Senate representing the business school

Publications

My co-author has been Jesse Dillard, an emeritus professor at Portland State, who I credit with broadening my intellectual horizons and stimulating my Critical Thinking and Critical Theory way of looking at the world.

As early as 2002, we published an article in The Journal of Cost Management entitled The Accountability of Accountability systems subtitle The Ethics of Performance Systems. This was the first time I had married philosophy with business action (I am ashamed that it took this long).

In 2009, again with Jesse Dillard, I wrote a chapter in a book on Corporate Social Responsibility. The Chapter interprets Intel’s CSR activity into the broader academic discussion on CSR.

We have followed that up by publishing in May 2014. The Accounting Forum, a referred journal, an article called “An Ongoing Journey of Corporate Social Responsibility which continued the longitudinal study of Intel.

Voluntary Board Positions

I was the Financial Secretary of the PSU Bookstore. During my tenure we succeeded in changing the nature of the Bookstore Foundation from one where we run the bookstore and gradually losing our shirt to one where we are in effect an almost self-perpetuating charitable foundation. We did it by selling the operations -- which were failing -- and husbanding the proceeds. My financial skills were helpful in this change of direction.

I was a pretty passive member of the board of the Portland Chapter of the Institute of Internal Auditors and their academic representative. I help provide them with speakers and usually act as speaker once per year. I am told I was valued for my candor.

Education

Master of Research at University of Liverpool
Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales
MA in European Economic Studies - Exeter University - England
Executive Management Program – INSEAD – Paris Graduate
Certificate in the Management of Accounting and Information Systems Dublin City University