Julie Green-Heffern

President

Julie is a part-time MBA student in her second year at the Leavey School of Business. 

Lindsey Cromwell

Vice President

Lindsey is in her second year of the MBA program at the Leavey School of Business. She is the Sustainability Coordinator for Santa Clara University.

Timothy Driscoll

Vice President,TBA

Tim is in his first year of the MBA program at the Leavey School of Business. 

Jonathan Rodrigues

Vice President, TBA

Jon is in his first year of the MBA program at the Leavey School of Business. 

Chris Weir

Vice President, Marketing

Chris is in his second year of the MBA program at the Leavey School of Business. 

Michelle Chen

Vice President, TBD

Michelle is a new student in the Evening MBA program. She works in the finanical industry in a private equity company. She is particularly interested in finding out more about how businesses can be socially and environmentally responsible.

Eric Carlson
Associate Director, CSTS Global Social Benefit Incubator and Faculty, Entreprenueur Leadership Program, Leavey School of Business, Santa Clara University

Eric D. Carlson <> From 1972-1999, Carlson worked in research, product development, and executive management in Silicon Valley for IBM, Convergent Technologies, Unisys, the ASK Group, and Silicon Graphics. During that time he also served 10 years on the Los Gatos Town Council, including 2 terms as mayor. Carlson has a Ph.D. in computer science and a master’s degree in city and regional planning from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His bachelor’s degree in economics is from Carleton College, Minnesota.

Kirk Hanson
Professor of Organizations and Society and Executive Director of the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics, Santa Clara University

The Markkula Ethics Center is one of the most active ethics centers in the world, working in the fields of business, biotechnology and health care, K-12 character education, government and global ethics. Kirk is regarded as a global leader in the study of business ethics and business responsibility. He serves as Honorary Chair of China’s first business ethics center, the Center for International Business Ethics in Beijing. He also serves on the scientific Board of VIGEO, the Paris-based corporate social rating agency.

Michael Kevane
Professor of Economics, Santa Clara University

Professor Kevane teaches courses on African Economic Development, the Economics of Emerging Markets, International Economics, and has taught the Environmental Studies Capstone course. He has published articles on the performance of Sudanese rural institutions and markets in journals such as Review of Development Economics, World Development, American Journal of Agricultural Economics, and Africa. He is also co-editor (with Endre Stiansen) of a book, Kordofan Invaded: Peripheral Incorporation and Sectoral Transformation in Islamic Africa , published by E.J. Brill. He currently works on gender issues, including a research project in southwestern Burkina Faso investigating how social norms determine home and market production, and the allocation of time more generally, for women in rural areas, and another research project using Indonesian data to explore the effects of social and parental preference for boys rather than girls. In addition to English, Professor Kevane speaks fluent Spanish and French, and is competent in Sudanese colloquial Arabic.

Jim Koch
Founding Director, Center for Science, Technology, and Society
Santa Clara University,

James L. Koch is founding director of the Center for Science, Technology, and Society , and professor of management at Santa Clara University. He received his MBA and Ph.D. from UCLA. From 1990-96 he served as dean of the Leavey School of Business. In 1995 the school achieved national recognition from U.S. News and World Report as the 12th ranked part-time program in America. From 1981 to 1990, he was the founding director of Organization Planning and Development at PG&E, where his department was the recipient of the National Excellence Award for contributions to organizational development from the American Society for Training and Development. Prior to that he was associate professor of management and director of the MBA and Ph.D. programs at the University of Oregon. He serves on the editorial board for Health Care Management Review. His research and consulting focus on socio-technical systems and high performance organizations. His current work examines information technology and organizational change, social capital, and the psychological sense of community, and the role of technology in improving the quality of life in developing nations