All the business faculty members possess the following qualities: advanced degrees earned in business, computer science or mathematics disciplines, work experience relevant to their teaching subjects, and enthusiasm in teaching and helping the students. To increase the students’ learning effectiveness, they bring their real-world experience into the classrooms as well as use case studies to stimulate the students’ minds and exemplify various lecture topics.

Johnathan Mun

Johnathan Mun, Ph.D.

Professor and Chair of Business

Dr. Johnathan Mun is a full-time Professor and Chair of the Business Department at SFBU. He has over 26 years of experience building businesses, consulting, training, and academia. During that time, Dr. Mun has authored and published 32 books (several are translated into multiple languages), registered 13 patents, developed 12 software applications, and has taught at universities in ten countries (U.S., U.K., Australia, China, Colombia, Ghana, Malaysia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela). His books and software are used by over 50 universities worldwide. In addition, Dr. Mun has published over 150 academic journal articles and technical reports and has consulted for more than 100 global corporations and organizations (e.g., 3M, Airbus, Boeing, Cubic, Lockheed, Northrop Grumman, Saudi Aramco, Saudi Electric, State of California, U.S. Department of Defense, U.S. Marine Corps, and the U.S. Navy). He is also the CEO of Real Options Valuation, Chairman at IIPER Global, and currently sits on the Board of Directors at OSL Risk Management (U.K.).

Dr. Mun holds a Ph.D. in Finance and Economics from Lehigh University in Pennsylvania; an M.B.A. from Nova Southeastern University, Miami, Florida; and a B.S. in Biology and Physics from the University of Miami, Florida. He is also a C.Q.R.M. (Certified in Quantitative Risk Management, IIPER Global), F.R.M. (Certified in Financial Risk Management, GARP), and C.F.C. (Certified in Financial Consulting, AAFM). Dr. Mun’s other previous experience includes working for Real Options Valuation, Inc. as its CEO, as a Research Professor in the U.S. Naval Postgraduate School, as Vice President of Analytics at Oracle-Decisioneering, and as Senior Manager at KPMG Consulting.

His areas of interest in teaching include corporate finance, financial management, financial economics, econometrics, quantitative analytics, data science, strategic real options, predictive modeling, simulation, and optimization.

Courses: 
  • Production and Operations Management 
  • Financial Management 

 

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Ahmad Shaar

Dr. Ahmad specializes in Knowledge Management, Business Intelligence, and Agile Project Management, with research registered at the US Library of Congress. His work has been presented at Harvard and won best poster at the MIT Museum. Dr. Ahmad has program-managed projects across Alphabet divisions, including Google, YouTube, Waymo, Fitbit, and Chrome. He has collaborated with major companies such as P&G, Intel, Stanford, eBay, Starbucks, Levi's, and McDonald's.