TEAM MEMBERS
Paul Seroka, MBA, MA
For more than 30 years, Paul Seroka has provided strategic management and corporate advisory services to hundreds of executives at more than 65 companies, including large publicly traded organizations including Apple, Grifols, IBM, Nestle Foods, and Time Inc.
As a corporate advisor to Patricia Harmon LLC on a project basis, Paul completes assessments, prepares strategic plans and presentations, and implements customized programs designed to meet each customer’s unique requirements. His expertise involves helping customer’s define engagement strategy, establish SMART goals, and analyze their human resource and change management offerings. As project leader he can develop cost-effective strategies for organizational change that closes the gap between “current state and desired state.”
For seven years, Seroka served in the Chief Marketing Officer role and as CEO, board advisor to three high-growth companies while providing consulting services to small business owners, investors and entrepreneurs. In 2005, Paul earned a Masters of Business Administration degree from New York University, London School of Economics and Political Science and HEC University in Paris. He completed a Master’s of Public Affairs degree from Fordham University, a Business Administration degree from Oswego State University, and holds post-graduate certificates from New York University in Digital Marketing, Social Media, E-Commerce and Executive Coaching.
Philip Young, Ph.D.
Phil has over 25 years of experience designing and delivering corporate education programs in business acumen all over the world. He is currently a faculty member of Duke Corporate Education’s Global Learning Network – a program consistently ranked #1 by the Financial Times and Business Week.
As an MBA professor in finance and economics for over 30 years, he has received numerous “best instructor” awards. He is the co-author of a leading MBA textbook and a popular business trade book available in English, Chinese, Russian, and Spanish. His clients rank among top global companies in industries such as information technology, telecommunications, financial services, manufacturing, consumer goods and consulting. Phil received a B.A. from the University of Hawaii, a Master’s degree from Columbia University, and a Ph.D. in economics from New York University.
He lives in Westchester County, New York with his family, and enjoys playing jazz guitar, cooking holiday feasts, and visiting his grandchildren in Brooklyn.
Bill Corbin Sanford, Ph.D.
William applies 38 years of experience in the diversified high-technology, biodiversity and biomimicry categories. His diversified high techno-logy credentials include serving as a space shuttle scientific advisor to NASA, a corporate liaison for Teledyne Systems and the Department of Physics at UCLA, a plasma physics research volunteer at UCLA, a former member of the UCLA Department of Physics Research Counsel, a Manufacturing and Project Engineer for deep space electronics for Teledyne Systems and Litton, Vice President responsible for transfer of new products to production at both Pacific Transducer and Phoenix Scientific and Cabin Systems Engineering at Boeing.
William’s biodiversity experience includes managing cross-cultural communications as a Member of The Boeing Company Diversity Council and extensive international ecosystem observations in over twenty countries around the world. He is also a charter member of the Boeing Biomimicry team applying biological observations to engineering solutions.
William holds a Bachelor of Science degree from Sacramento State University in Biology and Chemistry and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Davis in Cell Biology and Bio Physics. He has served as a faculty member at Oklahoma State University in Biophysics, Cell Biology, Experimental Embryology, Zoology, Cancer Research, Tissue Culture and Physiology. He’s also been a faculty member at an International University, World Campus Afloat leading Marine and Terrestrial Biology studies.