Faculty & Instructors

Dr. Shamel Addas is an Associate Professor & Distinguished Research Fellow of Digital Technology at Smith School of Business. Prior to joining Smith in 2016, he was Assistant Professor of IS at IESEG School of Management in France. Shamel’s research centers on the intended and unintended impact of IS on organizational work. His current research interests include communication technology interruptions, the dark side of IS, and health information technologies. His research has been published in leading journals such as MIS Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, and others. He has also presented his work at various academic conferences, including the Academy of Management, ICIS, AMCIS, HICSS and ASAC. Shamel has won several teaching and research awards, including a 2010 Best Paper Award (2010 Pre-ICIS Workshop on HCI Research).

Dr. Addas completed his PhD at McGill University in 2013. He also holds an MBA from the John Molson School of Business and a BSc. in Mechanical Engineering from the American University in Cairo. Prior to joining academia, he held positions in various areas such as consulting, customer service and support, operations analysis, quality assurance, and production management.

Goce Andrevski is an Associate Professor and Distinguished Faculty Fellow of Strategy at Smith School of Business, Queen's University, Canada. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky and teaches courses in competitive strategy, dynamic strategy execution, and business and corporate strategy across undergraduate, graduate, and MBA programs.

His research focuses on competitive strategy, competitive dynamics, alliance networks, and diversity management. Goce’s work has been published in leading academic journals, including the Academy of Management Review, Information Systems Research, Journal of Management, Journal of Personality, Journal of Business Research, and Strategic Organization.

Goce has received numerous accolades for his teaching and research, including the 2008 Provost’s Outstanding Teaching Award (University of Kentucky), the 2023 Distinguished Teaching Fellowship (Queen’s University), the 2009 Best Doctoral Student Paper Award (Academy of Management), the 2010 Best Published Paper Award (Information Systems Research), the 2011 Dorothy Harlow Best Paper Award (Academy of Management), the 2022 Best Paper Prize for Advances in Strategic Management (British Academy of Management), and the 2022 Best Proposal Finalist (Strategic Management Society). His research has also been supported by SSHRC grants from the Government of Canada, totaling $431,721.

In addition to his academic achievements, Goce has extensive consulting experience in business strategy and public policy. He regularly advises executives from diverse sectors, including the automotive industry, professional sports organizations, and government institutions. His expertise helps leaders address complex strategic challenges, enhance organizational performance, and develop innovative solutions to policy-related and business issues.

Christine Coulter is a faculty member in the organizational behaviour/human resources area group. She teaches human resources, human capital management, and industrial relations in the Commerce and MBA programs. Christine is interested in the vast complexity of employee relations, especially: the role of government in the regulation of work and workplaces; employee rights, accommodation and inclusion; and unions in Canada. She has also delivered sessions and been a panellist on such topics as EDI strategy, workplace accommodations, collaboration, and professional integrity.

Christine is Chair of the Smith Academic Appeals Committee and sits on various Queen’s and Smith committees. She has also held administrative positions at Smith, and regularly consults on policy and procedure across the school. Prior to joining Queen’s in 2001, Christine worked as a project analyst at the Teachers’ Pension Plan in Toronto.

Christine holds a B.A. (Honours) from Queen’s University, a Master of Arts from Western University and a Master of Industrial Relations from Queen’s. She holds Certificates in Administrative Adjudication and Human Rights Theory and Practice from Osgoode Hall Law School. She is a member of the Society for Human Resource Management, and has been a contributing panel member for the Human Resource Professional Association CHRP Knowledge Exams. She regularly writes teaching cases for courses and case competitions.

Barry Cross is an award-winning professor and speaker, and an expert in operations strategy. He joined Smith School of Business in 2006 after nearly 20 years in leadership and executive roles in a global industry career./p>

Today, Barry speaks widely in the areas of Productivity, Innovation, Strategy, and Execution, helping organizations and leaders be their best. He is the bestselling author of three books, dozens of journal articles and case studies.

Dr. Detomasi is a Professor & Distinguished Teaching Fellow of International Business at Smith School of Business, Queen's University. He completed his PhD from the Department of Political Studies at Queen's University in 1999, specializing in international political economy. He also holds a Master of Arts in War Studies from the Royal Military College of Canada, a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) from Queen's University, and is a graduate of the Executive Program on the Global Financial System from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University.

Dr. Detomasi's research interests include globalization, corporate and non-profit governance, and corporate strategy.  He is nearing completion of the book manuscript Between Market and State: The Oil Multinational in Geopolitical Competition, currently under review at University of Toronto Press. He teaches courses on strategy, governance, and the geopolitics of global competition in undergraduate, MBA, and executive education programs at Smith School of Business and abroad. He has served as Academic Director for Global Business, Queen’s Executive Education.  He as has also served for a five-year term as academic director for the Fundamentals of Governance Program, Queen’s Executive Education.

Diana Drury is the Director of Team & Executive Coaching at Smith School of Business. She is an experienced Team Performance Coach, Counsellor, College Professor and Facilitator. Diana is responsible for the overall leadership of the team and executive coaching programs which operate across eight of the Smith School of Business MBA and Master’s programs and Queen’s Executive Education. She also works extensively with outside organizations. She has over 30 years’ experience working with high performing teams as an Administrator, Athletic Director, Coach and as an athlete at the College, University, Provincial and National levels. She has been the recipient of numerous coaching awards. She also competes as an athlete nationally representing Canada at the World Masters Games. To date, Diana has been inducted into seven Halls of Fames across Canada as an Athlete, Builder and Coach.

Shai Dubey teaches courses in negotiations, cross-cultural management, ethics, domestic and international business law and entrepreneurship.

Shai earned his Bachelor's Degree from the University of Toronto and his Law Degree from Queen's University. Shai is also a graduate of the aviation Flight Technology Program at Seneca College. 

After graduating from Seneca College in 1984, he began his working career as a commercial pilot. In 1985 he founded and ran both an executive aircraft charter company and a flight training school based in Toronto. After selling this company, Shai worked as an aviation consultant providing strategic and regulatory advice to Canadian and foreign clients. He practiced law on Bay Street and then ran a global company prior to joining Queen’s.

Andrea Hunt is a results-driven commercial executive with 25+ years of success driving growth in blue chip consumer goods organizations. Andrea has worked in a global capacity for multinationals including Kellogg’s, Molson, Kraft, Mondelez, and Weston. Leadership responsibility has spanned the Consumer Packaged Goods, hospitality, and technology spaces in the areas of Commercial Leadership, Sales, Strategy, Brand Development, Marketing, Insights, and Innovation. Andrea is currently President and CEO of the Association of Canadian Advertisers (ACA) and serves in the capacity of Independent Board Director and C-suite advisor with private companies and Private Equity firms.

Andrea obtained a BCom from the Smith School of Business, Queen's University, an MBA from the Schulich School of Business, York University, and has most recently completed her ICD.D designation for Corporate Directors.

When not working, Andrea can be found touring design haunts or seeking to convince one of her three teenage boys to engage in conversation.

Dane Jensen is an expert on strategy and leadership, and a furious cross-pollinator between the podium and boardroom. As Third Factor’s CEO, he advises other CEOs and Senior Leaders in both sport and business.

Dane’s extensive global experience includes work across 23 countries on six continents. He is an instructor in the MBA, EMBA and Executive Education programs at Smith School of Business, and has worked with Fortune 100 companies in industries from financial services to industrial manufacturing, and with CEOs and front-line managers. Dane’s unique ability to simultaneously educate and excite has resulted in equipping thousands of people with the clarity and skills necessary to move beyond what they thought they could do and execute winning strategies.

In addition to his corporate work, Dane works to enhance the competitiveness of Canadian athletes in international competition, working extensively with the Canadian Paralympic Committee and Canadian Sport Institute Ontario. Dane also leads the relationship with Right To Play by supporting the development of over 15,000 managers and volunteer coaches.

Prior to joining Third Factor, Dane worked as a management consultant at Monitor Group—a renowned strategy consulting firm that is now part of Deloitte. At Monitor, he moved from Consultant to Associate Partner in the shortest timeframe in firm history. He holds a Bachelor of Commerce from Smith School of Business.

Greg is based in Toronto, Ontario where he works on a range of active equity and strategic credit funds for a large Canadian asset management firm. Greg is a CFA Charterholder, holds the CFA Institute Certificate in ESG Investing, and is a double graduate of Queen’s University having completed a Master of Finance with a specialization in Investment Banking (MFin) and a Master of Business Administration (MBA). In addition, he holds an Honours Bachelor of Business Administration (BBA) degree with a Cooperative Education option and a specialization in Finance from Wilfrid Laurier University. Greg has worked on fundamental valuation, strategic company analysis, and economic research for eight years on both the sell-side and buy-side on a diverse range of public companies, numerous geographies and sectors. He maintains a particular emphasis in U.S. Healthcare and Canadian Consumer.

Kelly Packalen specializes in the areas of entrepreneurship, strategy and organization theory. She has received fellowships for research from the Kaufman Foundation and the Social Science Research Council.  Her work has been presented at numerous conferences and published in multiple formats.  Prior to completing her PhD at Stanford, she spent two years as a Research Assistant at Harvard Business School.

Peter Richardson has been a faculty member of the School of Business for 37 years. He teaches both introductory and advanced strategy courses in the School of Business on the Executive MBA programs and on a number of the School’s one and three week Continuing Education programs.

Together with Elspeth Murray, Peter has authored a book, entitled Fast Forward: Organizational Change in 100 Days, published by the Oxford University Press in 2002. An accompanying Guide was published early in 2003. Through his research and associated consulting activities, he has developed a unique concept of Strategy as Action, and has written several papers on this topic. During his 30-plus years at Queen’s University, Peter has authored over 90 papers and case studies on strategic management. In his previous book, Cost Containment: The Ultimate Strategic Advantage, one of the few books written on cost improvement, Peter described a novel strategic approach to cost improvement that has been adopted in many organizations in both the public and private sectors. At present, Peter is exploring the impact of the increasing demand for speed in business, which he believes has profound implications for organization change, strategy implementation, risk management and organization processes.  

Peter consults widely with both public and private sector organizations, working closely for extended periods with senior executives on strategy development and deployment. Corporate clients have included Codelco, Vale, Anglo-American Corporation, Alcoa, BHP Billiton, Barrick Gold, Bell Canada, CIBC, CIBC-Mellon, De Beers Canada, Ivanhoe Mines, Ivanplats, Redpath Mining, Quadra Chemicals, Gibson Energy, and Xerox. In the Public Sector, clients have included the Supreme Court of Canada, The Office of the Auditor General for Canada, The Surveyor General of Canada, Health Canada, Natural Resources Canada and Health Canada. He has also been retained as a consultant on more than 20 major international mining projects including the successful development and construction of the Collahuasi copper mine in Chile which is to-date the world’s largest and highest single mining project, and the Victor Diamond Mine in Canada – designated globally as the ‘Mine of the Year in 2009’.    

Peter has also carried out strategic planning assignments for a number of Associations including the Professional Engineers of Ontario (PEO), the Association of Ontario Land Surveyors, The Consejo Minero de Chile, the Insurance Brokers Association of Canada, the Zinc Association, and the Mining Association of Canada.

Mr. Robertson was an investment banker for nearly 20 years and has over US$100 billion in completed transaction experience.  He has extensive M&A experience (>US$80 billion) as well as significant ECM, DCM and restructuring experience products (US$22bn across 50 capital raisings: 35 public market deals, 15 private market deals) across a broad group of sectors.  Mr. Robertson has held numerous senior positions, including Co-Head of Investment Banking, Asia and Head of Sectors, Asia (which included both investment banking and corporate banking).  Employers have included Lazard Freres, Credit Suisse First Boston/Donaldson, Lufkin & Jenrette and The Royal Bank of Scotland/ABN Amro. 

Mr. Robertson has executed numerous award winning and notable transactions across the globe.  Independently recognized “Deal of the Year” awards won by transactions led and executed by Mr. Robertson include Best Domestic M&A Deal in Asia in 2006, Best GDR/ADR in Asia in both 2007 and 2005, Best Equity-linked Deal in Asia in 2005, Best Secondary Deal in Asia in 2005, Best Deal in Singapore in 2006 and Best Deal in Korea in 2005.  Whilst in New York, as a junior banker, Mr. Robertson executed the largest and third largest M&A deals in history at the time of the transactions (MCI Communications’ US$42.7bn merger with WorldCom and SBC Communications’ US$23.8bn purchase of Pacific Telesis).

During his banking career, Mr. Robertson held a wide variety of committee responsibilities, including: Co-Head of the Investment Banking Management Committee in Asia, Co-Head of the Regional M&A Engagement Committee (Asia Pacific), Member of the Regional Equities Engagement Committee (Asia Pacific), Regional Capital Allocation Committee (Asia Pacific), Asia Pacific Banking Management Committee, Global M&A Engagement Committee, Global TMT Management Committee, Global TMT Capital Allocation Committee and the Asian Global Clients Management Team.

Mr. Robertson lived and worked in Asia (15 years) as well as in New York and San Francisco (4 years).   Prior to becoming an investment banker, Mr. Robertson spent over a year volunteering primarily with domestic female indigenous NGOs in remote areas of Central America followed by a year working and volunteering in Nanning and Wuhan, China.

Mr. Robertson currently teaches/has taught over 6,000 students in twelve different finance courses across seven different programs at the Smith School of Business, including courses in the Executive MBA, Master of Finance – Toronto, Full Time MBA, Master of International Business, Accelerated MBA, GDB and Bachelor of Commerce programs.  Courses taught include: Investment Banking (MFIN 840), International Investment Banking (MGBL 822), Investments (MBAS 824), Corporate Valuation and Merger and Acquisition Analysis (MBAS 823), Investments and Portfolio Management (COMM 324), Advanced Managerial Finance (MBUS 813), Financial Strategy (MBUS 925), Corporate Financial Decision Making (COMM 323), Global Financial Institutions (COMM 329), Financial Management (GDB – MBAS 821), Finance Fundamentals (MBAS 821) and Introduction to Finance (COMM 121).  

He is also works with Smith’s Career Advancement Centre.  Students trained/coached have successfully landed jobs at the world’s top hedge funds (including Point72, Citadel, etc.), private equity firms (including Blackstone, KKR, BC Partners, etc.), boutique investment banks (including Ardea, Armentum, Evercore, Greenhill, Lazard, Moelis, etc.) and bulge bracket banks (including Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley, JP Morgan, CSFB/UBS, BMO, CIBC, RBC, Scotia, TD, etc.) in a variety of global financial centers including New York, San Francisco, Toronto, Los Angeles, Chicago, Calgary, Hong Kong and London.

Mr. Robertson is conversant in Mandarin and Spanish.  He is also a professional portrait photographer and has photographed people across the globe, often in extreme conditions (www.blairrobertsonphotography.com).  Subjects have ranged from Balinese royalty to world class skateboarders to members of the award winning band The Tragically Hip (aka Canadian royalty!).  He earned his H.B.A. from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.

Professor Schneider does research in empirical microeconomics, with a focus on industrial organization, information economics, and behavioral economics. He uses both laboratory experiments and small and large-scale field experiments with firms and government agencies; analysis of large observational data sets; and collaboration with applied theorists to test economic theories.

For example, in the field of information economics, his work has tested a range of classic theories of asymmetric information, such as adverse selection in the used car market and agency problems in the auto repair market. Some of this work also examines solutions to the inherent contracting and incentive problems, such as when personal connections are a viable substitute for formal contracts. In behavioral economics, he has examined why people do not always complete tasks on time – for example, why people sometimes pay a parking ticket or file taxes late – and in auctions, he examined why bidders sometimes overbid and whether competitive spirits, inattention, and other psychological phenomena are to blame.

Daniel Tisch is widely known as a leader in the Canadian and global communications community. He is the CEO and principal owner of the Argyle Group, one of Canada's largest communications consulting firms, and previously served as chair of the Global Alliance for Public Relations and Communication Management, the confederation of the world's public relations professional associations.

Daniel began his career in the Canadian government and served in progressively more senior roles, culminating in a post as Senior Policy Advisor and Acting Chief of Staff to the Canadian foreign minister in the 1990s. In more than two decades as a consultant, he has advised a long list of Global 500/Fortune 500 companies as well as both Canadian and international government leaders. Daniel is particularly well-known for expertise in reputation, issues and crisis management, including serving as lead communications advisor to an industry affected by the largest food recall in North American history. His other areas of practice include reputation management strategy, stakeholder engagement, governance and executive leadership communications.

Under Daniel's leadership, Argyle has grown from a small Toronto-based consultancy in 2003 to a team of more than 100 full-time professionals with offices in five major Canadian cities. Argyle was recently named 2020 Canadian Agency of the Year by PRovoke Media, the leading source of news and analysis on the global public relations industry. Other recent honours for Argyle include being named Global Mid-Sized Agency of the Year by the International Association of Business Communicators in 2017 and 2018, and listed on the Globe and Mail's inaugural ranking of Canada's Top Growing Companies in 2019.

Daniel speaks English, French and Spanish, and holds a BA and an MBA (specializing in marketing) from Queen's University. He is the Vice-Chair of the Queen's University Board of Trustees and a frequent guest lecturer at the Smith School of Business.