The Academy Team

LAFONDA OLIVER-BOWEN

BS, MSc(c), Sr. Vice President, Chief of Staff. Managing Director UpMarketing.com, the institutional public relations and Internet marketing division of Global Academy Online; Editor-in-Chief of UPM's Articles by Scholars; CEFE Fellow in Entrepreneurship, the Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise; nationally recognized SIFE Alumna (Student In Free Enterprise) Certified Scholar and an award winning Market Economics Scholar at the University of the Southwest, Hobbs, NM.

E. L. COOPER

BS-MSc(c), Vice President, Administration, Managing Director, PoweredbyGlobal, the Academy's Course and Learner Management Systems Division; Director, PBG special administrative and technical consultant to international MOODLE providers and developers in SA (South America), CA (Central America), ME, (Middle East), and Supervisor of the Academy Moodle project development in the Peoples Republic of China. Coordinates and supervises the default Academy training system e-Blackboard.org, the platform provider of Academy faculty members and all operating platform divisions of institutional higher education partners. Powered by Global is an international leader among advanced online education delivery systems.

MARGIE VANCE

BS, MBA, PhD(c), Director of Latin American Institutional Development Programs. Asst. Professor of Business and Market Economics; Special Assistant to the CEO for Latin American program development and liaison with Latin American Government Ministers of Education; a CEFE Fellow in Applied Ethics, Center for Ethics in Free Enterprise; a Walton Free Enterprise Fellow, and founder and director of a championship Student in Free Enterprise (SIFE) program at New Mexico's largest Junior College. Recognized as an outstanding educator by the Sam Walton Foundation.

DON ASHLOCK

BS, MBAc , Special Adviser to the CEO for Academic Affairs, Asst. Professor of Entrepreneurship; Executive Director, The AHEAD Foundation & Chair of the Entrepreneur Development Foundation, Collegedale, TN; CEO, Atlas Mall.com; founder of the Hulsey Foundation; and past Executive Director of the Entrepreneur Studies Program at Southern Adventist University; a CEFE Fellow in Entrepreneurship and former Walton Free Enterprise Fellow, recognized as an outstanding educator by the Sam Walton Foundation.

DAVID HOSTELLEY

BS, PhD, Special consultant and Director of National Education Development. A lifelong educator and CPA has over forty years of combined teaching and administrative experience in Management, Accounting, Finance and Training fields. Project manager for the Academy on behalf of Zhengzhou College of Economics and the Ancient Shaolin Temple of the Peoples Republic of China. The China Team, a division of the Academy, budget and funding compliance manager of the joint Shaolin and Zhengzhou College global education project with national and international vendors.

MORLEY CHERTKOFF

BA (RS-Honors), MSMn. Consultant and Director of the Academy's China and Canadian Education Development programs. An international educator and professor with combined higher education teaching and administrative experience in both North America and Asia for the past 19 years. Serves as the Asia representative for the China Team, a division of the Academy. He is the Director of International Studies at Zhengzhou College of Economics and liaison with other universities for English studies in Zhengzhou City, Henan Province, Peoples Republic of China and the Academy’s education consultant to municipalities and school districts throughout Canada.