| California Lutheran University’s School of Management continues to provide a stimulating environment for our learners and the community around us, even in these unusual times. Today, we are once again happy to share a selection of exciting news, updates, and upcoming events with our communities in Southern California and beyond.
We encourage you to stay current on what’s going on at the School of Management by following our Showcase page on LinkedIn. |
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Discussing the “Great Resignation”
We held our 7th annual Executive Talent Management Forum on September 22nd. Close to 100 representatives from regional companies and national brands joined us for an inspiring exchange on the challenges and best practices related to the “Great Resignation”. The keynote presentations were by Vlad Vaiman (Associate Dean, Graduate Studies) and Kristin Fischer (Executive Director and Global Lead, Talent Acquisition, Amgen). Followed by round table discussions and an exciting panel with Susie Lundeen (CPO, Allogene), Kevin Elms (CFO, Dole Packaged Foods and member of the School of Management Dean’s Executive Council), Darren Kettle (CEO, MetroLink), and Judith Sanchez (GM and CMO USA, Jafra Cosmetics and member of the School of Management Advisory Council). |
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Steven Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Awards Four Incubator Grants
After a rigorous application and selection process, the Steve Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship recently announced the first four recipients of the Dorfman Incubator Grants. With 22 applications, the grants sub-committee of the Center’s Advisory Board choose the following four companies for a total of $180,000. Invocure/Evermore (Founder Brian Malchow), Modern Football Technology (Founder Christian Magesian and Tom Leogrande), Tlalipani (Founders Sabith Khan and Fabiola Lara), and the Fox and the Robot (Founder Joshua Janik). All recipients have involvement with Cal Lutheran, and one is even Cal Lutheran faculty! Congratulations to the four awardees, and our sincere thanks go to Advisory Council member Steve Dorfman for his generous funding of these startup companies! If you would like to meet the recipients in their celebration, join us at DIG This: Meet the 2022 Dorfman Incubator Grant Recipients on Friday, October 21, 2022, at 4 pm at Hub101. |
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More National Success for CERF
The Center for Economic Research and Forecasting (CERF) has been very busy over the last few months. Executive Director Matthew Fienup presented his and Dan Hamilton’s latest work on the economic contributions of the Latino cohort in many different cities across the United States, including Miami, Chicago, California Inland Empire, Dallas, Newark, New York City, and Los Angeles. This recent work at CERF builds directly on previous years’ U.S. Latino GDP Reports and last year’s eight separate State Latino GDP Reports. One of the latest presentations was at L’Attitude, the largest event of its kind for the LatinX community in the U.S., where they presented the 2022 U.S. Latino GDP Report. |
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Welcoming the New Program Director for Sports Management
Welcome to Mark Orlando, the new Program Director for Sports Managementand full-time faculty member. This major is now one of the most popular in the undergrad program! Previously, Mark served as Interim Program Director for the Hospitality and Tourism Management program and as an adjunct professor at the School of Management. As a Cal Lutheran alumnus, Mark always wanted to return to the university community that had established his academic career. Mark earned his Ed.D. from Pepperdine University; he was previously a lecturer for the sports management program at UC Santa Barbara and facilitated workshops and courses at MiraCosta College’s Emerging Leaders Institute and UCSB’s Professional and Continuing Education. His research on hiring criteria in big-market sports professions has inspired Mark to create his own company that educates aspiring and progressive sport professionals. |
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San Fernando Valley Business Journal Recognizes Three Members
The School of Management is proud to announce some of our members have been included in the San Fernando Valley Business Journal, Valley 200 2022: Gerhard Apfelthaler (Dean), Michael Panesis (Executive Director, Steve Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship), and Matthew Fienup (Executive Director, Center for Economic Research and Forecasting). We are so proud of our accomplished and dedicated faculty body selected specifically to teach and mentor our students. |
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Summer at Hub101 and Program Manager Kristin Bell Honored
Hub101 was very busy this summer. In June, they held Demo Day, showcasing the startups in our current IdeaToDo program, a program that assists very early-stage founders in developing their startup ideas. The startups presenting from the most recent IdeaToDo program that participated were Splitcoin (an offline, self-custody solution for crypto users), Dutch (a social connection platform focused on removing implicit bias), GLUKI (gamified edtech for children with Type 1 Diabetes), Frendii (wellness and social platform for women over 50), and Zavvaly (a smart, safety ring consumer product). In July, they kicked off the 2022 Business Barn Raising program, a 7-week program for the purpose of providing a forum for our community to collaborate to solve business challenges, launch entrepreneurial ventures, and gain practical experience. Then they held a Startup Bootcamp for High School Students. A small group of students from Westlake high school went through an intensive program in new venture creation and presented their ideas in front of an audience. It is not surprising the Hub101 Program Manager, Kristin Bell, was honored as one of the 40 under 40 by the Pacific Coast Times! |
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Undergraduate Students Study Entrepreneurship in Portugal
During the summer, three School of Management students were selected to attend the European Innovation Academy (EIA) – Andrea Villaseñor, Brissa Castaneda, and Nick Acosta. An entrepreneurial study abroad program that provides “participants with the resources, connections, and mentoring necessary to build a successful startup in 10 or 15 days.” This program is recognized globally and has developed joint partnerships with Standford University, U.C. Berkeley, and Google. The EIA trip was funded by a gift from the NewCo Foundation, a non-profit formed by CLU alumna Dawn Gross and Dave Gross that promotes student entrepreneurship. Going forward, EIA trips will be one of the awards given at the New Venture Fair. |
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Hub101 Coming to a Screen Near You with Alumnus Matthew Weisman
CBS Sports recently interviewed alumnus Matthew Weisman at Hub101! President of tech company LetzChat spent its early days at HUB101, and now the NFL uses it to support the growing popularity of American Football around the globe. It has developed a unique technology for live translations between more than 100 languages for live TV, SMS and chat platforms, phone calls, video subtitling, web communication, and more. We are proud to share another excellent startup story emerging from Hub101, the Steve Dorfman Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, and the School of Management! A copy of the CBS story can be found here. |
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Welcoming Two New Dean’s Executive Council Members
This semester, we welcome two new members to the Dean Executive Council. Firstly, Kristin Caltrider, EVP and Chief Financial Officer at Inogen, Inc. (Nasdaq: INGN), a California-based medical technology company offering innovative respiratory products for use in the homecare setting. Best of all, Kristin graduated from California Lutheran University with a bachelor’s degree in Business Administration, and also holds an MBA from the University of San Diego. Our second welcome goes to Shauna Vernal. Shauna is General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer at Flipt, a company providing a fairer and more transparent alternative to pharmacy benefit managers (PBMs). Shauna also has a BA in Business Administration from California Lutheran University and a JD (with honors) from the University of Washington School of Law, and she is an honors graduate of Pacific Coast Banking School. |
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Participate at Paths to Professionalism!
In March 2023, we will be hosting our annual Paths to Professionalism event. This popular event provides insight to our students about the different paths careers can take in all the undergraduate majors across the School of Management. If you are interested in being either a panelist or participating in a breakout group, we would love to hear from you! Please email Rosie Baker at rlbaker@callutheran.edu. Please note details of the event are yet to be announced, including whether it will be in-person, hybrid, or online. |
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| Our School of Management events are beginning to return to a new normal, some continuing as virtual while others are hybrid or in-person. The number of events has slowed for our Summer term but no matter the delivery, we are still providing great topics, speakers, and educational offerings to our greater School of Management community! |
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- September 20 – December 20 (Tuesdays, 4-6pm, Hub101): Idea2Do.
- October 17, 7pm (Lundring Events Center): Entrepreneur Speaker Series with Petra Griffith, Managing Director and CEO of Wedbush Ventures. For more information and to register, please click here.
- October 21-23: Homecoming
- October 21 – 23 (Hub101): Startup Weekend Conejo Valley at Hub101.
- October 21 (8:30am, Ullman 100/101): Financial Planning Education of Ventura county- Quarterly Education Meeting.
- October 21 (4pm, Hub101): DIG This: Meet the 2022 Dorfman Incubator Grant (DIG) Recipients.
- October 24 (5:30pm, Lundring Events Center): MPPA Policy Talks on “How to Build Better Community-Police Relations?” with Juan Ponce, Patrol Supervisor at the Venture County Sheriff’s Department and as an Adjunct Professor, MPPA.
- October 25 (11:30am-1pm): DEI in the Workplace : Managing Yourself Through Change.
- October 29 (12pm, Booth Park): 2022 Annual MBA BBQ
- December 6 (5-7pm, University Chapel): The MPPA program hosts the General Consul of the Republic of Austria for a talk on “Europe and the War in Ukraine“.
- December 9 (5-7pm): Sports Management Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Competition. More information coming soon.
- February 16 (11:30-1pm, Ullman 100): Being a female student at the School of Management, invitation-only event, in collaboration with the Women in Business club.
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