Instructors
Thomas C. Bothen
Craig R. Boyer
Madonna Carr
Ranganathan Chandrasekaran
Joseph Cherian
Jim Erickson
Henry A. Feldman, Jr.
Wes Helms
James Hogg
Michael Miller
Arkalgud Ramaprasad
Dan Spillane
Michael S. Truesdale
Joel D. Warady
Thomas C. Bothen, CCIM Willowbrook, IL
RealtorŽ Bothen is a principal in BothenCharles Real Estate Group currently working with the United
States Army on redeveloping facilities for commercial use. Additional assignments in progress include the
marketing of a 300-acre mixed-use property. Recent transactions include brokering the sale of a $4.1 million
industrial property and the sale of a 10-acre site to Home Depot for $1.6 million. He is also developing
residential and retail properties in suburban Chicago and has closed several recent commercial transactions.
Tom is the associate director of the Center for Urban Real Estate at the University of Illinois Chicago.
He is an instructor and will also be assisting in the enhancement of curriculum and presenting the Center to the
real estate industry and related disciplines.
Prior experience includes being a regional officer for USAA Realty, managing a multi-state portfolio of
office and industrial properties. In addition to managing several hundred million dollars of lease negotiations,
Mr. Bothen initiated development of a 900,000 square foot industrial property for a major international company.
He has also managed numerous construction projects, completed acquisition due diligence on major office properties
and marketed and sold land to national retailers. He gained portfolio experience on a national basis with Balcor
where he managed over 60 properties in various asset classes.
Tom is a founding director of BOMA Suburban Chicago and served as an RPA instructor. He also teaches economics and
finance at Lewis University and real estate finance in the masters program at Keller Graduate School. Besides holding
the CCIM designation (Certified Commercial Investment member,)Tom is a licensed Illinois real estate broker and holds
an Illinois insurance license. He currently serves as a director of United Way and is a trustee for a local education
foundation.
Bothen is a senior instructor for the CCIM Institute and has taught real estate finance and market analysis around
the world from Honolulu, Hawaii to Moscow, Russia.
Mr. Bothen earned an undergraduate degree in Finance and Accounting from Loyola University and completed an MBA
from the University of Chicago.
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Craig R. Boyer
Mr. Boyer is a principal with Deloitte Tax LLP's Chicago
Office federal tax practice. Mr. Boyer has over 20 years of experience serving both public and
closely held real estate clients. His clients include real estate developers, investors, brokers,
REITs, and domestic and foreign opportunity funds. Mr. Boyer is a graduate of the University of
Illinois at Champaign-Urbana where he received a Bachelor's degree in Accounting. In addition,
he received his law degree from Loyola University in Chicago, Illinois and an award for Outstanding
Performance in the Field of Taxation. He is a member of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants,
the Illinois CPA Society, and the Urban Land Institute.
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Madonna Carr
Madonna Carr was born and raised in the Midwest. She has called Chicago home on and off for the last 20 years.
She received her BA in Consumer Science from the University of Wisconsin in Madison in 1981. After graduating,
she worked as a volunteer for two years in the US Peace Corp living in a rural village in Ecuador. She taught
classes in nutrition, health, and English. The experience of living and learning in another culture led her to a
career in language teaching. She returned to Chicago and received her Masters degree in Applied Linguistics from
the University of Illinois in 1988.
She has taught adult language learners for the past 14 years both internationally and in the United States. Her teaching
includes 3 years as the Director of Language School at the Dominican-American Cultural Institute in Santo Domingo,
Dominican Republic. She has also served on the Executive Board of the Illinois chapter TESOL, the international
professional organization of English language teachers.
She is currently the Program Coordinator for Special Courses at the Tutorium in Intensive English at the University of
Illinois at Chicago. Since joining TIE in 2000, she has helped to develop the English for International Professionals
series which offers courses in specialized areas of language training such as pronunciation modification and
professional writing.
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Ranganathan Chandrasekaran
Professor C. Ranganathan is a faculty member of Information Systems at the Liautaud Graduate School of Business,
University of Illinois at Chicago. His areas of expertise include management of IT outsourcing, e-business
transformation, strategic management of information systems and business value of IT investments. Professor Ranganathan
has consulted and researched for several national and multinational corporations across the globe. He is the winner of
the Best Doctoral Dissertation Award and the Best Teaching Case Award at the International Conference on Information
Systems. He is a two-time winner of the prestigious Paper Awards competition by Society for Information Management.
He recently completed an extensive study of IT outsourcing and off-shoring practices of American corporations.
Professor Ranganathan's writings have appeared in several journals including Communications of the ACM, Decision
Sciences Journal, Information & Management, Information Systems Management, International Journal of Electronic
Commerce, Journal of IT, Journal of Strategic Information Systems , among others. He has also authored numerous case
studies on various technology management issues. Professor Ranganathan holds a doctorate from the Indian Institute of
Management, Ahmedabad and a Masters degree from BITS, Pilani, India.
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Joseph Cherian
Joseph Cherian is an Associate Professor of Marketing at the University of Illinois at Chicago in the College of
Business Administration. He has taught marketing and strategy in the MBA programs and in several executive education
seminars, and he is equally comfortable in the academic and practitioner worlds. He has conducted several workshops
for executives on marketing strategy, strategy formulation, and change management. These workshops have been known
for their clarity, creativity, and pragmatism. In his most recent engagement as the Associate Dean of MBA programs,
he has overseen the quintupling of revenues to the college and of more than doubling of student satisfaction scores.
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Jim Erickson
Jim Erickson has 25 years of experience working for AT&T/Lucent Technologies in the development of telecommunications systems and software including the 4ESS TM /5ESS TM switches, ADSL, and VoIP switching products as a Member of Technical Staff, Technical Manager, and Director. From 1990 to 2001, Jim held key project and program management positions at Lucent in the development of new products and systems. He was the Technical Manager of the Development Project Management group for the 1B Processor Project which won the 1996 Project Management Institute Project of the Year award. He has successfully managed projects ranging from a few staff years of effort to several hundred staff years of effort and has worked with project teams distributed across multiple global locations. Before retiring from Lucent Technologies in 2001, he was Director of thePacket Solutions Release Management Department where he had overall program management responsibilities for the development of a new voice over packet data product line.
Jim is currently pursuing a PhD in Management Information Systems at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he is researching the impact of distributed proposal teams on the successful risk management of projects. He teaches or has taught courses related to Project Management, Operations Management, and Information Technology at various academic institutions in the Chicago area. He has also delivered Project Management training to corporate clients.
Jim has a BS in Electrical Engineering from the University of Nebraska - Lincoln, an MS in Computer Science from the University of California - Berkeley, and an MBA from Northern Illinois University. He is a member of the Project Management Institute (PMI), the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), the Association for Information Systems (AIS), and the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM).
Henry A. Feldman, Jr.
Henry has over forty years of experience in marketing and selling investment management services. His retail brokerage career began at Merrill Lynch in 1968 and ended at Smith Barney in 1977. In that same year, he started his own company, The Feldman Investment Group, which became a leading investment adviser to independent bank trust departments. By 1982, he had become a Certified Financial Planner, and in 1987 he started Concord Asset Management LLC, a firm devoted to serving high net worth investors. In 1989, Henry organized the Association of Independent Trust Companies, and in 2000 he converted Concord to an independent trust company. Since 2007 he has been devoting his time to writing a book and teaching "How to Build a Successful Professional Practice". Henry has a BS in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania and attended the University of Chicago's Graduate School of Business.
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J. Wesley Helms
Mr. J. Wesley Helms is a project manager in the e-business practice for IBM Global Services. He has over eight years
experience in information services, specializing in project management and e-business services. Additionally, he has
experience in business analysis, systems and services implementation, and account management. The bulk of his experience
has come from the development and implementation of solutions aimed at business improvement in the insurance claims,
customer service and automotive repair industries. Mr. Helms has experience managing projects involving the following
key e-business technologies: the IBM WebSphere family of application servers including Component Broker Connector and
WebSphere Advanced, Java application development including Servlets, Applets, Visual Age Java, and Java on the Mainframe
utilizing IBM CICS TS 1.3. Mr. Helms is also familiar with key e-business approaches to application development
including n-tier architectures, the IBM Application Framework for e-business, component-object oriented development,
and IBM's SI Method application development and project management methodology. He has exposure to a number of
technologies including electronic communication and workflow management via TCP/IP, portable and desktop PC hardware
and operating systems, CICS applications, host to host and host to LAN system integration, insurance claim systems,
call center automated call distribution and call management systems, customer service case management systems and Lotus
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James Hogg
James has over twenty years of experience in the Insurance and Financial Services industry. He has broad-based
technology, process, and operational experience as a CIO for a top 100 multi-line insurance company and extensive
management consulting experience in strategy, technology, and operations. He has successfully managed and delivered
multiple projects and has directed staff and line organizations of up to 250 people. James has successfully managed
projects with several of the largest multi-line companies for personal property/casualty and life insurance. These
projects have been in claims processing, customer relationship management, and policy administration systems. He was
part of the due diligence team that defined and planned a large application development program. He then directed a
sub-program that established a partnership with the client's IT organization to co-develop business applications for
the agency channel. The application development effort centered on web-based agent connectivity to legacy systems and
CRM databases. Working with a major Commercial Insurance and Claims Services company, James directed the implementation
of several new production and data base systems. This included a comprehensive billing, commission, and disbursement
system that automated a complex manual billing process and reduced processing time from over 4 hours per billing to
less than 45 minutes.
In an engagement with a large Life Insurance company, James directed a project that successfully developed a web-based
business strategy and then assisted in the definition and implementation of the projects required to execute the
strategy. The project centered on leveraging the Internet investments the company had made in the direct .com and
multiple financial channels.James managed a client team for a large insurance company and developed a business strategy
and operating plan for converting the corporate staff model of the internal Information Technology (IT) area into a
business operating model. The new IT organization sells a choice of services and products priced competitive to the
market to the internal Business Units and is accountable for an ROI result.
James has a JD from the University of Baltimore, an MBA from the University of Delaware, and a BA from Washington
College. He is active in the Chicago Archdiocese Big Shoulders program and is a mentor for nine high-school students.
He holds several awards from his consulting experience and has been a speaker at many industry conferences.
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Michael Miller (J.D., MBA, Northern Illinois University)
Michael Miller is a Clinical Assistant Professor at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He brings over 15 years of both business and law work experience to the classroom, which includes management, sales, negotiation (ADR skills) and seven years of law practice at the Federal Trade Commission in both Chicago and Washington, D.C. He teaches the Capstone Course on Competitive Strategy (Executives in the Classroom) in the College of Business Administration. In this course he recruits high level executives from around the country to present to his class on the subject of strategic management. Michael has also taught negotiation courses at both the undergraduate and graduate level, including a specially designed course for the Chinese MBA Program. He is a certified mediator and also has served as an arbitrator with the Cook County Courts. Other courses he has taught include: Introduction to Organizations, Business Law, Business and Its External Environment, The Legal, Political and Ethical Environment of Business and School Law. He is currently the faculty advisor to the Management Club at UIC.
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Dr. Arkalgud Ramaprasad
Dr. Ram is a Professor at the
University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) and is also the Director of the Center for Research in Information
Management (CRIM) there. He teaches courses and conducts research in management of information, and promotes
industry-university partnerships in education and research related to that topic. He has been at the University
of Illinois at Chicago since 2000.
He is an eclectic thinker, which sometimes gets him into trouble. But you can always count on an interesting
discussion with him on a variety of topics, inside a classroom and outside. He has mellowed in the last few years and
rarely indulges in heated verbal battles as he used to do. He keeps fit by doing yoga and walking.
He is amused when people address him by his first name feigning familiarity. It is actually the name of his village
in India. His last name is his given name. If the syllables twist your tongue too hard, just call him Ram (pronounced
as Rom). If you are a student, you lose five percentage points for misspelling his name on an assignment.
His current research interests are eMedicine, eBusiness Strategy, Information Systems Discontinuity, and Information
Systems Operability. He has published in Behavioral Science, Management Science, Academy of Management Review, Strategic
Management Journal, European Journal of Information Systems, Omega, Decision Sciences, and other journals. In 2001, his
goal was to make the Department of Information and Decision Sciences a premier department in its fields, and the Center
for Research in Information Management the premier center for information management research in the Silicon Prairie.
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Dan Spillane
Dan Spillane is a consultant for IBM Global Services in the Chicago Metro Professional Services organization.
He has strong financial analysis, risk management, process and financial application development skills. He also
has process development and change management experience. His strong technical and methodology skills include
financial portfolio management, derivatives valuation, and database management systems development. He has securities
and derivatives industry and international business experience. He combines all this experience to provide expertise
in e-business strategy and planning.
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Michael S. Truesdale, MAI, CRE
Senior Vice President, Draper & Kramer Realty Advisors, Inc.
Mr. Truesdale serves as Senior Vice President of Draper and Kramer's realty advisory group (DKRA). He was a founding
member of this subsidiary upon its 1988 inception and has been with the parent company since 1982. He is one of the
original members of the pension fund advisory relationship with the AFL-CIO Building Investment Trust (BIT) and has
been additionally responsible for the management of several other key client relationships in the advisory group. In
addition to his professional investment and appraisal responsibilities, Mr. Truesdale has served as president of a
residential condominium association, adjunct professor of real estate at three Chicago-area junior colleges and
presently sits on the real estate education committee of the University of Illinois at Chicago Circle Campus (UIC). He
received his Bachelors degree from Parsons College in 1968, was admitted as a Member of the Appraisal Institute in 1983,
Lambda Alpha, an honorary land economics group in 1985 and the International Advisors Network in 2001. Mr. Truesdale is
a member of a number of real estate industry trade associations, including PREA, NCREIF and NAREIT and sits on both the
information systems committee and the management committee of Draper and Kramer, Incorporated.
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Joel D. Warady
Principal - Joel Warady Group
Joel D. Warady is Principal of Joel Warady Group, a Marketing and Business Growth consulting firm based in Wilmette,
IL. In addition, Mr. Warady is President of Wisdom Oral Care, Ltd. (US), a distribution and marketing company in the
oral care consumer packaged goods industry. Wisdom currently markets products in retail accounts such as Walgreens,
Rite Aid, Albertson's, and CVS with distribution in over 17,000 stores in the US, as well as export markets such as
Australia, UK, Finland, and Norway. He also serves as President of CP˛ Distribution, LLC, a distribution and marketing
company in the US, and is President & CEO of OralCare.com, an integrated dental products marketing company that works
with global dental companies in the development of their US customer base. Academically, Mr. Warady is an Adjunct
Professor and Visiting Lecturer of e-business, marketing and finance at the University of Illinois at Chicago, in the
Finance Department, MBA program, as well as the Office of External Education. He has also taught in the International
Business program sponsored by the State of Illinois and Bradley University.
Internationally, Mr. Warady is respected as a sales and marketing expert, speaker, and advisor. In his various
businesses, he has been responsible for negotiating company relationships with companies throughout South and Central
America, Europe, the Middle East, and the Far East. He has spoken on the subject of digital marketing and marketing
trends to individuals and groups from Singapore, France, India, Austria, Turkey, Italy, Taiwan, China, Australia and
the UK, as well as speaking to numerous groups and companies in the US. Currently, he acts in an advisory capacity to
numerous start-up companies, and sits on the advisory boards of EnJoyLife Foods, LLC, Connexus, LLC, and Pharmacy TV
Network, LLC.
Mr. Warady has spent 23 years in a marketing capacity in the retail and CPG industries, including 6 years at a major
supermarket chain, 15 years developing a CPG company resulting in sales that exceed $27 million (USD), and over 10
years as a marketing consultant.
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