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Our experienced faculty advisors support our students throughout the six-month Global Access Program (GAP) project. Each team is assigned a faculty advisor
 who works closely with the team to monitor progress, review documents and presentations, and encourage academic and professional growth. However, the faculty advisor does not directly manage the interactions with companies; that is the job of the student team. 

Many of our advisors have directed, invested in and provided consulting services to leading companies all over the world, in addition to their academic accomplishments, so both our students and our partner organizations benefit from their wealth of expertise. They are chosen both for their skills as generalists and for their specialties.

Bob Foster
Director, GAP Advisor Since 2000

Bob Foster

Foster has directed GAP for the past 15 years. From 1983 to 1999, he was president and chief executive officer of four technology firms. During that period, he taught part-time, joining the faculty full-time in 1999. He created and taught the High Technology Management course for 10 years. 

bob.foster@anderson.ucla.edu - 310.206.0937

George Abe
GAP Advisor Since 2019

George Abe

George Abe is a lecturer at the UCLA Anderson School of Management and faculty director of the Strategic Management Research (SMR) program. SMR is the field study project required of Anderson’s Executive MBA students. He teaches entrepreneurship, business plan development and field study program advisories.

george.abe@anderson.ucla.edu

Jody Dunitz, J.D.
Faculty Advisor Since 2017

Jody Dunitz, J.D.

Dunitz has an extensive business and legal background in the entertainment industry. She served as the EVP of Sony/ATV for nine years and is an active member of the Tech Coast Angels. She also provides her support by judging entrepreneur competitions and providing published commentaries to the music business community.

jody.dunitz@anderson.ucla.edu

Janis Forman, Ph.D.
GAP Advisor Since 1998

Janis Forman, Ph.D.

Forman is the founder and director of the Management Communication program at UCLA Anderson. She teaches communication strategy, and practices and trains staff who teach communications across the curriculum. Forman was one of the co-founders of GAP.

Biography - janis.forman@anderson.ucla.edu - 310.206-8086 - 310.825.2505

Gary Hutchinson
GAP Advisor Since 2014

Gary Hutchinson

Hutchinson has over 35 years of experience in business and entrepreneurship, having served as CEO for 3 healthcare technology companies and eight boards of director assignments. He has been engaged as an adviser and consultant to numerous start ups. Gary served as a panel judge for GAP from 2003-2013. He is currently the President and CEO of Biothelium, a startup focused on the cardiology market with technology developed in conjunction with U.C. San Francisco and the Alfred E. Mann Institute at the University of Southern California (AMI-USC).

gary.hutchinson@anderson.ucla.edu

Jeffrey C. Lapin, J.D.
GAP Advisor Since 2012

Jeffrey C. Lapin, J.D.

Lapin, a consultant and angel investor since 2010, has served as CEO of six companies, including Atari S.A., Razorgator Interactive Group, Take-Two Interactive Software Inc. and Starwood Hotels. He has extensive experience in executive management, organizational structure, finance, corporate growth, public company management, and restructuring, as well as domain experience in a variety of industries.

jeffrey.lapin@anderson.ucla.edu

Jonathan Lasch, Ph.D.
GAP Advisor Since 2005

Jonathan Lasch, Ph.D.

Lasch is the executive director for the Alfred E. Mann Institute for Biomedical Engineering at the University of Southern California (AMI-USC). He brings more than 25 years of experience in science and technology development and evaluation in the fields of biomedical instruments and systems, biotechnology, chemistry and materials science. In addition to advising GAP, he served for two years as the director of the Executive MBA Field Study Program at UCLA Anderson. 

jonathan.lasch@anderson.ucla.edu - 626.233.8349

Fredrik Leuhusen, Ed.D.
GAP Advisor Since 2019

Fredrik Leuhusen, Ed.D.

Leuhusen is the Executive Director of the UCLA Anderson Global Access Program. He has over a decade of experience in the higher education industry and has strategically supported universities through revenue diversification initatives. Included in his tenure is an extensive background in mergers & acquisitions with deals ranging up to over $1 Billion dollars in valuation.

fredrik.leuhusen@anderson.ucla.edu

Jim Myers
GAP Advisor Since 2019

Jim Myers

Myers joined Northrup Gunman in 1997 at the former TRW Space & Electronics, where he served as vice president of business development and, subsequently, vice president of strategic development with responsibility for strategic planning, mergers and acquisitions, and portfolio and intellectual asset management. In 2003, he was named vice president of satellite communications and later served as vice president of payloads and sensors at Northrop Grumman's Aerospace Systems sector. In 2007, he joined the company's Electronic Systems sector serving as sector vice president and general manager of the Navigation Systems Division. Today he serves as vice president and general manager of its Civil Systems business group

jim.myers@anderson.ucla.edu

Paul Park, J.D.
GAP Advisor Since 2018

Paul Park, J.D.

Park is a principal of Bethel Counsel, PC, where he focuses on corporate law and general counsel to real estate, startup, nonprofit and social enterprise clients. He previously worked with the Cesar Chavez Foundation. He is an Anderson Lecturer who teaches on nonprofit management, social entrepreneurship, and international business at the UCLA International Institute, in addition to serving as a faculty advisor for the Applied Management Research program.

paul.park@anderson.ucla.edu

Paulo de Rezende
Senior Faculty Advisor
GAP Advisor Since 2017

Paulo de Rezende

Paulo de Rezende has over fifteen years of experience in investment management, both in Venture Capital and Private Equity, having worked sourced, negotiated and managed deals in both United States and Brazil.

paulo.de.rezende@anderson.ucla.edu
 

Eric Sussman
GAP Advisor Since 2003

Eric Sussman

Sussman is a lecturer in accounting and real estate. He has been voted Teacher of the Year 11 times by UCLA Anderson MBA students. Bloomberg Businessweek has recognized him as one of the 10 most popular business school professors. He is currently a managing partner of a successful real estate investment company with over 3,000 residential units, in addition to serving as the chairman of Causeway Capital Management's group of funds, which collectively have more than $9 billion in assets.

Biography - eric.sussman@anderson.ucla.edu - 310.825.3564

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