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Benson HonigCo-Founder and Co-DirectorBenson Honig (Ph.D. Stanford University) is the Teresa Cascioli Chair in Entrepreneurial Leadership, DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University. Before entering the academy, Benson, a life-long entrepreneur, opened a number of businesses in construction, services, real estate, communications, computer consulting and product development, in the USA, Canada and Zimbabwe. He also worked for nearly a decade as a field engineer and engineering manager in silicon valley with General Electric in the CT and MRI field. His research interests include business planning, nascent entrepreneurship, transnational entrepreneurship, ethics in scholarship, immigration and social entrepreneurship, social capital, and entrepreneurship in transition environments.
Benson has published in leading academic journals (over 120 peer reviewed articles, well over 12,000 google scholar citations) and serves on numerous editorial boards, including the Academy of Management Discoveries, Academy of Management Learning and Education, Journal of Business Venturing, Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Strategic Entrepreneurship Journal, the African Journal of Management, and five others. Past chair of the Academy of Management Ethics Education Committee, Ethicist blogger, Benson has served on the Babson conference board and on the Entrepreneurship Division of AOM. He has held visiting and permanent academic positions in the USA, Canada, UK, Sweden, Denmark, Israel, Uganda, and South Africa. He is a board member of the Africa Academy of Management. |
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Ana Cristina SiqueiraCo-Founder and Co-Director Ana Siqueira (PhD, University of Cambridge; MA, Stanford University) is an Associate Professor of Management at Cotsakos College of Business, William Paterson University. She published with Benson Honig their Entrepreneurial Ingenuity framework in the Journal of Knowledge Management in 2019, which they incorporate in the Ingenuity Incubator. Dr. Siqueira was a Benavitch Scholar in St Catharine's College at the University of Cambridge in 2007-2009 and she was hosted as a Visiting PhD Student in 2008-2009 in the Industrial Performance Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). A paper from her PhD dissertation was selected for the Academy of Management Best Paper Proceedings by the Entrepreneurship Division, received a Research Promise IDEA Award, and won a Michael H. Mescon/Coles College of Business Best Empirical Paper Award. Her professional experience includes almost five years in financial services organizations such as Citigroup, where she developed business planning and new strategic initiatives involving communication and information technology.
Her research is published in premier journals such as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice, Journal of Business Ethics, and Journal of Business Venturing. Her pedagogical innovations are published in journals such as the International Journal of Innovation and Sustainable Development. She is an award-winning educator and has been teaching face-to-face, hybrid, and online courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels since 2009. In 2014, she received a university-wide Creative Teaching Award at Duquesne University for co-revising the Strategic Management course aligned with the Principles for Responsible Management Education (PRME). This revised course received a commendation by the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). Dr. Siqueira is originally from Brazil and has experience in researching diverse entrepreneurs as well as organizations that support entrepreneurship and social change. She served as an elected officer in the Organizations and the Natural Environment Division of the Academy of Management, and is an Editorial Board Member of the journals Cross-Cultural and Strategic Management as well as Entrepreneurship Theory and Practice. |
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Javid NafariResearch ManagerJavid Nafari, MBA, joined the Ph.D. program at DeGroote School of Business, McMaster University, in September 2019. His primary research interests revolve around entrepreneurial failure and entrepreneurial ingenuity. He is interested in studying how entrepreneurs create value and innovative new ventures within structural and resource constraints using creative problem solving, especially in times of crisis. He is involved in both the research and the administrative aspects at Reframery.
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Arden JacobySocial Media and Digital Design ManagerArden Jacoby is an aspiring communications professional, studying Communications and Multimedia at McMaster University. She is responsible for creating the Reframery logo, the Reframery digital content materials, as well as create and develop the Reframery website. In addition to her McMaster University education, Arden holds a certificate from Harvard University, in ‘The Art of Persuasive Writing and Public Speaking.’
For the past two years, Arden has worked for the McMaster University Faculty of Engineering as a Communications Manager, on the McMaster Engineering EcoCAR Challenge team. The EcoCAR Mobility Challenge is an advanced vehicle competition between 12 North American universities, sponsored by General Motors. Each university’s team is challenged to re-engineer a 2019 Chevrolet Blazer. On this team, Arden is responsible for special event coordination, media relations, marketing materials, and social media management. Being on this team has allowed Arden to gain valuable communications experience, which has allowed her to excel in the communications, graphic design, and marketing industries. |
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Emily RantaBusiness Case DeveloperEmily Ranta is a student in the Integrated Business & Humanities program at McMaster University, interested in international business and sustainable development. She recently studied abroad at the University of Copenhagen and has been an active participant in a variety of case competitions. In her free time, she enjoys hiking and reading.
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