Advisory Board
The Entrepreneurship Advisory Board, a group of alumni and friends of Fordham with professional backgrounds in entrepreneurship and a true passion for the field, advises the University on its entrepreneurship curriculum and opportunities. Board members also get involved directly in helping students.
Meet The Board
Tarik Abbas
Tarik is an investor at Saola Ventures, a sector agnostic investment company. Over several years, Tarik has gained experience working with early-stage companies as an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. Since 2019, Tarik has served as a Board Member to the Fordham Foundry, the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Fordham University. Tarik has a BA in International Studies & Business Administration from Fordham University.
Albert Bartosic
Albert J. Bartosic is a serial entrepreneur who has extensive experience with cloud-based applications and their interface with medical devices. He spent the last 12 years of his 30-year management career as CEO of Standing Stone Inc., a medical software company focused on subspecialty clinical decision support, now part of the global medical-device company Alere, Inc. Bartosic has worked across diverse industries, including private equity, financial services, consumer products, technology, entertainment, and public accounting. He advises startups, serves on the boards of Ridgefield Academy and other nonprofits, and is a director of SecLingua, a cybersecurity company serving the medical industry. A certified public accountant, Bartosic holds a MBA from New York University and a BS from Fordham University.
Michael Doorely
Founder of U.S. Debt Forum and Hudson River Recreation Fordham University – BA, Accounting 1978; Harvard University – ALM, Management and Operations 2011. Career financial services executive, served as CFO, CAO, or COO at the division or corporate level in small and large, private and public, domestic and multi-national firms. Served as Director/Trustee of financial services companies and not-for-profits. Founder of U.S. Debt Forum and Hudson River Recreation. Member of The Ireland-U.S. Council and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Emily Pae
Emily Pae is the Head of Real Estate Advisory, Pacific at WeWork. Emily oversees enterprise transactions throughout the Asian region, focusing on portfolio strategy and revenue optimization across Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and South Korea. With over a decade of financial services and business management experience, Emily's expertise spans structured finance, hypergrowth initiatives, operations, as well as investment banking and real estate capital markets analysis. Prior to joining WeWork in Singapore, Emily has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo and London. She is a dedicated member of the Financial Women's Association, as well as WeWork's Women's Global Ascend Program and focuses on mentoring and elevating minorities in the global business landscape. Emily has a BA in Business Administration with a minor in Economics and concentration in Alternative Investments from the Gabelli School of Business.
Andrea Di Giuseppe
Currently Di Giuseppe splits his time between Miami Beach, FL and Vicenza, Italy. He and wife, Federica, have two young sons, Francesco and Riccardo. In his free time, Di Giuseppe enjoys early morning beach runs and exercising, spending time with his boys, and flipping apartments when the market is right. He is a founder of and actively involved in Mount Sinai Medical Center, yet another local institution he is truly passionate about.
Michael McSherry
Michael McSherry is the senior advisor to the Americas executive leadership team and the U.S. chairman and Americas managing partner at EY. He has 38 years of management experience in operations, finance and budgeting, talent development and deployment, brand protection, communications, sales and marketing, and risk management. He also serves as secretary for the Americas and U.S. governance bodies. Earlier in his tenure at EY, he was the talent leader for the New York metro area and director of business development and client relations. He spent the first 12 years of his career providing assurance, tax, and advisory services to publicly held entrepreneurial entities and privately owned enterprises. Mr. McSherry graduated from Fordham’s Gabelli School of Business and received an executive management certificate from Northwestern University’s Kellogg School, and he is a certified public accountant. He is an active member of his community in Westchester, New York, and has served as the Northeast region lead coordinator for the U.S. Olympic Committee’s Jobs Program.
John Murphy
With his appointment to executive vice president and CFO in April 2018, John Murphy is putting his more than 25 years of finance experience to work leading Adobe’s worldwide Finance and Operations team and driving continued business momentum. Previously serving as Adobe’s Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) and Corporate Controller, John has quickly built a reputation as a champion for growth and innovation by leading initiatives to help the company scale the organization and re-imagine its processes using cutting-edge technologies. Prior to joining Adobe in 2017, John was CAO and Global Controller at Qualcomm, where he managed a global team leading core financial functions for the company. Previously he spent 10 years at DIRECTV, ultimately leaving the company as senior vice president and Chief Accounting Officer and Controller. John also held senior financial positions at Experian and Nestlé and began his professional career at PWC. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting from Fordham University and is a licensed CPA (inactive). If John wasn’t Adobe’s CFO he’d be starring in his own home renovation show on HGTV.
Michael Priest
Michael Priest is President of Boosted.AI, a SaaS platform for investment managers to add customized, low cost, high alpha artificial intelligence to their investment decision making process. During more than 30 years in business, he has held roles including COO and CFO of Miura Global Management; finance manager at Jennison Associates, LLC; staff accountant at Group Health Incorporated; and staff auditor for two CPA firms on Long Island. A graduate of Hofstra University’s undergraduate business program and Fordham’s MBA program, Priest is an adjunct instructor and regular speaker at the Gabelli School of Business, where he advises the school’s leadership on entrepreneurship issues. He is a lead seed investor, along with the NYU Innovation Venture Fund, in Tagasauris, Inc., a developer of a patent-pending platform designed to teach computers the content of a picture or video. A certified public accountant in New York State, Priest is actively involved with professional organizations in accounting and with the Union League Club.
Angelo Santinelli
Angelo Santinelli is an experienced leader and innovator in creating business strategy, marketing, and delivering results. His more-than-25 years of business experience covers a broad range of disciplines and responsibilities, including: business development; strategic planning; M&A; IPO; private-equity financing; customer service; all aspects of marketing; and international operations. Mr. Santinelli has served on numerous boards of directors participating in both audit and compensation committees. He has served as an executive and officer of a public company. Mr. Santinelli is the founder of Dakin Management LLC, a strategy consultancy and advisor to small businesses. He is an active angel investor and advisor to several startup ventures. He is also an adjunct professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, where he teaches courses in entrepreneurship for undergraduates, MBAs, and Babson Executive Education. He is the faculty director of the Babson Boot Camp for Entrepreneurs, a weeklong intensive course on how to start a business. He also helped develop several programs in entrepreneurship for former NFL players.
Andy Restivo
Andy is a proud graduate of Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business where his passion for entrepreneurship was first ignited. Most notably, over those formative years it was the caring, knowledgeable and inspiring professors he met at Gabelli that provided invaluable guidance and practical real-world opportunities to begin the life-long path of learning what it really takes to become a successful business entrepreneur. Combined with the ever-present Jesuit core values that Fordham instilled in him, Andy’s experience at Gabelli gave him the confidence to believe that it was possible to live his entrepreneurial dream of creating a successful and sustainable organization that would be good for people, good for society, and good for business. Andy has successfully founded, funded, led, operated, grown, acquired, sold and integrated multiple enterprises, throughout a wide spectrum of business lifecycle stages and financial operating structures, including start-up, independent, private equity, and Fortune 250.
As a founding member of the Foundry Advisory Board and the inaugural Fordham University President’s Council, Andy is passionate about leveraging these experiences to mentor emerging entrepreneurs within the Fordham University ecosystem. Andy earned a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School and has successfully completed a post-graduate certification in Digital Transformation from MIT. He is a practicing Certified Executive & Leadership Coach and member of the International Coaching Federation. Andy received his coach training and credentials at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. He also consults with organizations in the development of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) and Women’s Leadership social justice programs designed to catalyze positive cultural change and earn deeper trust and commitment from their team members. Andy lives in sunny Southern California with his wife, two girls, and fiercely-loyal Golden Retriever.
