International Business

Mark Cazem is an international business/marketing consultant to several global businesses in the San Francisco Bay Area.  He has experience as an international business transactions lawyer, and practiced law in the following areas:  International business transactions, trade law, immigration, civil litigation, domestic law, criminal law, probate, real estate law, and administrative law.  Cazem has been teaching as an adjunct professor since 1982 in several San Francisco Bay Area MBA programs.  In addition to teaching at CSUEB, Cazem is currently teaching at the University of California, Berkeley, Notre Dame de Namura University business program, ITU, and Santa Rosa Junior College. He has also taught in the MBA program at Hosei University in Tokyo, Japan. 

Richard Dawe, Ph.D. has extensive supply chain management and industrial marketing experience in the chemical, food, forest, retail, electronics, and transportation industries. Organizations he has worked for or consulted with include the US Air Force, Colgate-Palmolive, US Borax, Southern Pacific, Ernst & Young, Intel, Samsung, Fritz Companies, HP, Georgia Pacific, National Semiconductor, Unisys, IBM, Packard-Bell, and Cisco Systems. He is the author of numerous articles and a book titled “The Impact of Information Technology on Materials Logistics”, published in 1994. Dr. Dawe is involved with professional organizations such as CSCMP, APICS and ISM, plus an officer with the APICS Golden Gate Chapter. He is a member of the Talent Development Committee with the Biotech Supply Chain Alliance. He was selected as a ‘Supply Chain Pro to Know’ in 2013 by a professional group.

Dr. Dawe is a professor at Golden Gate University. He also teaches extended education courses at the University of California and California State University plus he has taught professional development courses at local companies including Ghirardelli Chocolate, Genentech, Bio Rad, Berkeley National Labs, Clif Bar, PGE, and FormFactor.

Professor Fernando Garcia is an advisor to entrepreneurial high technology, growth companies in connection with their financial & business strategy. Prior to this work, Professor Garcia worked 15 years on Wall Street as an investment banker at Kidder Peabody & Co., Bear Stearns, and later with Morgan Stanley’s private equity group. Mr. Garcia has also successfully founded and managed a professional services firm and two high technology companies in Silicon Valley. In the international arena, Mr. Garcia has advised and lectured to Chinese Financial Technology companies’ executives in the area of business development, business strategy, and product development space. He has also lectured to visiting delegations of mid-level municipal managers and financial regulators from the Peoples’ Republic of China government, including major state-owned enterprises, as well as other private company executives from China on topics ranging from the global capital markets, competitive strategy, U.S. capital markets, and corporate governance. Professor Garcia received his MBA degree from Harvard Business School, and his Bachelors and Doctorate of Laws degrees from University of California at Berkeley. Currently, Mr. Garcia is teaching a financial accounting course at the University of California at Santa Cruz. In addition, Professor Garcia also is affiliated with the International Education Department of the CSU-Eat Bay University Extension, where he teaches courses in International Finance and International Business Law. Mr. Garcia also serves as an Adjunct Faculty member at California State University at Sonoma teaching Management and Corporate Strategy courses.

Jeff Newcomb is principal of Red Widget Strategies, a communications research and consulting enterprise, having clients in the US, Britain, and Germany. Newcomb lectures in marketing and entrepreneurship for California State University East Bay, College of Business and Economics, and serves in CSUEB’s Academic Senate.

Among faculty honors, he has been voted Teacher of the Year and Distinguished Professor, CSUEB Concord Campus. Newcomb has taught extensively for the University of San Francisco School of Management and Hosei University, Tokyo, Research Institute of California. In service to community, he has co-founded two non-profit organizations dedicated to design, visual media, and the arts.