Instructors
Instructors are UW Business School lecturers and leading practicing professionals with extensive international business experience.
Gordon Neumiller
Gordon is Assistant Director of the University of Washington Business School's Global Business Center and Director of the MBA Field Study program. Prior to this appointment, his career includes service as Director of Marketing and Trade Development for Port of Seattle, and experience as an international trade and logistics consultant.
In his current position, Mr. Neumiller directs teams of students who work with local companies to help them expand their international business. As Marketing Director for the Port of Seattle, one of the largest container ports in the US, Mr. Neumiller traveled the world and has a wealth of global trade and business experience. He has worked in Chicago, New York and San Francisco.
Dennis George
Dennis has over forty years of business law and business experience. His current law practice focuses on business related counseling and problem solving and negotiation and litigation, including alternative dispute resolution.
He was also senior vice president for corporate affairs and general counsel at Dendreon Corporation, a public biotechnology company based in Seattle. He was responsible for the company's legal affairs and, as a member of the executive management group, for business matters, including the company's international scientific collaboration with a Japanese partner and for corporate governance.
Dennis has a wealth of teaching experience, having taught the credit courses Managing Risk in the Business Environment and Dynamics of Business Negotiation to senior undergraduate business students at Northern Michigan University, business finance in the University of Washington business program course in International Business to Emirati students at the United Arab Emirates Academy in Abu Dhabi, and portions of this course in the University of Washington Certificate Program for International Professionals.
Dennis practices law at McNaul Ebel Nawrot & Helgren PLLC in Seattle.
C. Patrick Fleenor
Pat is Professor Emeritus of Management and International Business at Seattle University. He is co-author of eight business management books and has published numerous articles on a variety of business subjects. His academic duties at Seattle University included teaching graduate courses in international business policy and international business consulting. He also served as Chair of the International Business graduate degree program.
Pat has been a visiting professor at universities in England, Sweden, France, the Czech Republic and Hong Kong. In 2002, he received a Fulbright Grant as a consultant to the Economics University of Prague in the Czech Republic. He has lectured widely to management groups in the U.S., Europe and Asia. His current business activities include partnerships in businesses in China and Vietnam.
Tieta Ralston
Tieta has a Master's Degree in International Studies (Intercultural Communications) from the U.W. Jackson School of International Studies. She has received additional training in global culture and business at the University of Geneva, Switzerland, and the Institute for Commerce, Hamburg, Germany.
Tieta has extensive experience working as an international consultant and has developed and conducted training programs in intercultural communication and international business protocol.
She has worked at the University of Washington in program management for various international programs and has taught several courses in intercultural business communication. Tieta has travelled extensively in Asia, the Middle East and Europe, and is conversant in several languages. She has lived in four different countries and brings a strong foundation of intercultural interaction skills to this program.
Darby Langdon
Darby was a highly successful senior executive for Airbone Express, a $3.4 billion Fortune 500 global logistics company. She has been recognized for her ability to apply strong business analysis skills and to design and implement strategic solutions across organizational functions and divisions. Langdon also has experience teaching in the United Arab Emirates Academy as part of the University of Washington Business Program.
Darby has also been involved in nonprofit contributions. She developed a grant writing program for Northwest Hospital and raised $116,000 in the first seven months of the program. She also worked with the city of Seattle on a project to better understand the homeless population in Seattle.
Mike Giambattista
Mike has been a lecturer in international business and marketing at the UW since 1995, teaching a variety of classes in both the graduate and undergraduate programs. Prior teaching experience was at Seattle and City Universities. With over 30 years business experience in a variety of industries in the US, Europe and Asia, he brings both a practical and theoretical understanding to the classroom.
Mike has an entrepreneurial background, having started several successful small businesses, and also has extensive experience as an international business consultant. Mike received an MBA from Harvard Business School and an engineering degree from the US Naval Academy, Annapolis.
John C. Howell
John Crawford Howell is President of SMART Business in a Flat World, Inc., a cross-cultural communications consulting company based in Seattle and Washington DC. John Crawford Howell's international business career spans more than three decades and 60 countries including having lived and worked in the Philippines, Taiwan, Singapore, Germany and Viet Nam. As a former executive with Westin Hotels, Rainier National Bank, International Silver Company, and Hostar International, John possesses an in-depth knowledge of the vital role cross-cultural awareness and behavior play in achieving strategic objectives. He currently serves as an executive advisor to corporations seeking to strengthen their professional presence and interactions at the global level. Mr. Howell is also Vice President of the International Association of Protocol Consultants® / Officers™ (IAPC) and a member of its Board of Advisors.
George J. Atwater
George, an Attorney & Counselor at Law, practices in Seattle, Washington, concentrating on international law trade law, licensing of intellectual property rights and international litigation. He represents international companies from Japan, Europe, the Middle East and Latin America. He speaks both French and Spanish.
George attended Hamilton College, receiving a B.A. in History. He holds his J.D. (magna cum laude) from Gonzaga University School of Law in Spokane and LL.M. (cum laude) in international law and law of the European Union, from Vrije Universiteit Brussel, in Brussels, Belgium.
Professionally, he has served as legal intern for the Honorable Smithmoore P. Myers (retired) of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Washington. He is admitted to practice in Washington and California, as well as before the U.S. Courts of Appeal for the Federal Circuit, the District of Columbia Circuit, the Fourth Circuit and the Ninth Circuit.
Sharzad Chatur
Shaharzad is a senior associate at Deloitte International tax services and assists multinational clients integrate tax planning into their business strategy to comply with United States regulatory requirements. She has researched various international tax issues in conjunction with FIN 48 and FAS 109 matters and assists clients with tax compliance focusing on multi-jurisdictional transactions including preparation of Form 1120, Form 1120F, Form 5471, and Form 5472. Assist with planning, budgeting, and billing for client engagements. Sharharzad earned her law degree from Seattle University School of Law and in 2004 earned her master's degree in laws in taxation from the University of Washington School of Law.
Fred Pursell
Fred holds the position of Lead Product Manager, Worldwide Licensing and Pricing at Microsoft Corporation. His focus on global marketing spans 3 decades, 6 continents, and 2 technology revolutions. As product marketing manager for Osborne Computer Corporation, the developer of the first-ever portable PC, and has also served in sales and marketing management positions for LAN pioneer Digital Microsystems, and CAD software leader Autodesk.
Much of Fred's work has focused on e-business strategy development, marketing program design, and execution. He has worked on strategic marketing and e-commerce projects for IT multinationals IBM, Sun Microsystems, GTE, Intel, Hp, Oracle, and a diverse group of technology start-ups. As VP e-consulting for Luminor Corp., Fred worked closely with Web usability design guru Dr. Jakob Nielsen building methodologies, business processes, and best practices to integrate Web usability principles with online marketing.
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