Program Faculty
Gurmeet Naroola
Seasoned entrepreneur, executive, and author having held key positions at SunPower,
Apple, Panasonic, Sanmina, Mahindra GenZe in Business Development, Global Operations,
Supply-chain and Customer Management. He has enabled $100+ million revenue and business
growth for electric vehicles/automotive (EV), solar technology (PV) segments at GenZe
and SunPower. C-level global connectivity and experience in over 25+ countries in
emerging markets and high-growth segments. Gurmeet has his executive education from
– GSB Stanford, MS engineering from SJSU, BE in mechanical engineering. He is the
recipient of the US Department of Commerce award and Apple quality award. Gurmeet
has authored three well-known business books on entrepreneurship, automotive business
systems and quality.
Nitin Aggarwal
Nitin Aggarwal is an Associate Professor of Business at the School of Information
Systems and Technology. He received his Ph.D. in Business Administration from Texas
Tech University. He has published in reputed journals like the MIS Quarterly, Decision
Sciences, International Journal of Electronic Commerce, and Electronic Markets. He
has also presented his research in a number of national and international conferences
such as ICIS, HICSS, and AMCIS. He is a member of the Association for Information
Systems, IEEE, and ANSI National Committee on Education. Nitin has won several teaching
awards and is on the editorial board of IEEE standards Education Magazine. Nitin’s
research includes organizational and governance issues, intellectual property issues,
transactional issues, and economic issues involved in standardization in the area
of standards and standardization and Web 2.0 technologies.
Dan Moshavi
Dr. Dan Moshavi joined SJSU in February, 2017 as dean of the Lucas College and Graduate
School of Business. Dan previously served as professor of management and dean of
the business schools at both Dominican University of California and Montana State
University. He began his academic career at San Jose State as an assistant professor in
the late 1990s.
Dan has extensive higher education administrative experience in strategic positioning, fundraising, community and alumni engagement, interdisciplinary program development, university operations, and faculty and staff development, and has led and managed initiatives focused on diverse and first generation student populations. Dan's teaching, research and consulting focuses on leadership, high performance teams, change management, and attitudes and emotions in the workplace. He has consulted for a variety of organizations, including health care institutions, universities and municipalities. He has been a faculty member in an executive master’s program at the University of Lugano in Switzerland and has served as a research fellow with the Nemours Center for Medical Leadership.
A skilled facilitator and instructor, Dan has won more than a dozen teaching awards during his career including the university-wide teaching award at Montana State. Prior to his academic career, he worked in industry in marketing and public relations. Dan received his Ph.D. in management from the University of Oregon as well an MBA and a B.A. (international affairs) from George Washington University in Washington DC.