Advisory Council
The Entrepreneurship Advisory Council, a group of alumni and friends of Fordham with professional backgrounds in entrepreneurship and a true passion for the field, advises the University on its entrepreneurship curriculum and opportunities. Board members also get involved directly in helping students.
Meet The Council
Albert Bartosic
Albert J. Bartosic is a serial entrepreneur who has extensive experience with cloud-based applications and their interface with medical devices. He spent the last 12 years of his 30-year management career as CEO of Standing Stone Inc., a medical software company focused on subspecialty clinical decision support, now part of the global medical-device company Alere, Inc. Bartosic has worked across diverse industries, including private equity, financial services, consumer products, technology, entertainment, and public accounting. He advises startups, serves on the boards of Ridgefield Academy and other nonprofits, and is a director of SecLingua, a cybersecurity company serving the medical industry. A certified public accountant, Bartosic holds a MBA from New York University and a BS from Fordham University.
Michael McSherry
Mike has served as the Co-Chair of the Fordham Foundry Advisory Council for more than ten years. He is a retired Executive Partner with EY where he was a member of the Operations Executive Committee and served as Senior Advisor to the Americas and US Chairman and Deputy Chair/COO. He has over 40 years of management experience in operations, finance and budgeting, talent development and deployment, brand protection, internal and external communications, business development, sales and marketing. Earlier in his career, Mike provided assurance, tax, and advisory services to publicly held entrepreneurial startups across a variety of industries.
Mike is an Angel investor and Advisor to several start-ups and serves on several not-for-profit Boards and Advisory Committees.
Michael Doorely
Founder of U.S. Debt Forum and Hudson River Recreation Fordham University – BA, Accounting 1978; Harvard University – ALM, Management and Operations 2011. Career financial services executive, served as CFO, CAO, or COO at the division or corporate level in small and large, private and public, domestic and multi-national firms. Served as Director/Trustee of financial services companies and not-for-profits. Founder of U.S. Debt Forum and Hudson River Recreation. Member of The Ireland-U.S. Council and U.S. Coast Guard Auxiliary.
Tarik Abbas
Tarik is an investor at Saola Ventures, a sector agnostic investment company. Over several years, Tarik has gained experience working with early-stage companies as an entrepreneur, investor, and mentor. Since 2019, Tarik has served as a Board Member to the Fordham Foundry, the innovation and entrepreneurship hub of Fordham University. Tarik has a BA in International Studies & Business Administration from Fordham University.
Emily Pae
Emily Pae is the Head of Real Estate Advisory, Pacific at WeWork. Emily oversees enterprise transactions throughout the Asian region, focusing on portfolio strategy and revenue optimization across Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Philippines, Thailand, Indonesia, Vietnam, Malaysia and South Korea. With over a decade of financial services and business management experience, Emily's expertise spans structured finance, hypergrowth initiatives, operations, as well as investment banking and real estate capital markets analysis. Prior to joining WeWork in Singapore, Emily has lived and worked in New York, Tokyo and London. She is a dedicated member of the Financial Women's Association, as well as WeWork's Women's Global Ascend Program and focuses on mentoring and elevating minorities in the global business landscape. Emily has a BA in Business Administration with a minor in Economics and concentration in Alternative Investments from the Gabelli School of Business.
Andrea Di Giuseppe
Currently Di Giuseppe splits his time between Miami Beach, FL and Vicenza, Italy. He and wife, Federica, have two young sons, Francesco and Riccardo. In his free time, Di Giuseppe enjoys early morning beach runs and exercising, spending time with his boys, and flipping apartments when the market is right. He is a founder of and actively involved in Mount Sinai Medical Center, yet another local institution he is truly passionate about.
Kavi Misri
Kavi Misri is a seasoned entrepreneur with over 15 years of experience in investment banking, specializing in healthcare mergers, acquisitions, partnerships, and business development. As the Founder and CEO of Hibiscus Health, he leads an innovative AI-driven platform focused on early diabetes detection and management. Previously, Kavi founded Rose Health, a digital mental health platform that utilized advanced technology for the early detection and intervention of depression and mood disorders, which was successfully acquired in October 2022. His dedication to healthcare innovation is driven by a commitment to enhancing access and quality of care.
John Murphy
With his appointment to executive vice president and CFO in April 2018, John Murphy is putting his more than 25 years of finance experience to work leading Adobe’s worldwide Finance and Operations team and driving continued business momentum. Previously serving as Adobe’s Chief Accounting Officer (CAO) and Corporate Controller, John has quickly built a reputation as a champion for growth and innovation by leading initiatives to help the company scale the organization and re-imagine its processes using cutting-edge technologies. Prior to joining Adobe in 2017, John was CAO and Global Controller at Qualcomm, where he managed a global team leading core financial functions for the company. Previously he spent 10 years at DIRECTV, ultimately leaving the company as senior vice president and Chief Accounting Officer and Controller. John also held senior financial positions at Experian and Nestlé and began his professional career at PWC. He has an M.B.A. from the University of Southern California’s Marshall School of Business and a B.S. in Accounting from Fordham University and is a licensed CPA (inactive). If John wasn’t Adobe’s CFO he’d be starring in his own home renovation show on HGTV.
Angelo Santinelli
Mr. Santinelli, a Certified Executive Coach/Advisor, is equipped with diverse skills to cater to the unique needs of CEOs and senior leaders. Mr. Santinelli earned an MBA from Harvard Business School and is a graduate of Fordham University. His more than 30 years of experience in private and public companies have endowed him with credentials in corporate strategy, leadership, corporate finance, fundraising, marketing and business development, mergers and acquisitions, and corporate governance. This diverse skill set instills confidence in his ability to address a wide range of professional challenges.
As a certified professional co-active coach (CPCC), a certified financial analyst (CFI), and a certified private company governance expert (PDA), he offers clients a unique combination of coaching, finance, and strategy expertise. His over 30 years of business experience covers various disciplines and responsibilities, including business development, strategic planning, M&A, IPO, private equity financing, customer service, and marketing and international operations. He has served on numerous boards of directors participating in both audit and compensation committees. He has served as an executive and officer of a public company.
Mr. Santinelli was an adjunct professor at Babson College in Wellesley, Massachusetts, for seventeen years. There, he not only taught courses in entrepreneurship to undergraduates, MBAs, and Babson Executive Education but also served as a member of the Babson Private Equity Investment Committee, which oversees a fund valued at more than $200 million in private equity investments for the Babson Endowment. Mr. Santinelli was a general partner with North Bridge Venture Partners, a venture capital firm that focused on seed and early-stage high-tech ventures. During his tenure, Mr. Santinelli sourced and invested in startups specializing in telecommunications and data communications infrastructure and software, as well as Internet-related companies, gaining valuable experience in the venture capital industry.
Before joining North Bridge, Mr. Santinelli was a senior executive and officer of the Shiva Corporation, a pioneering high-tech venture and one of the top IPOs of the year in 1994. He was responsible for developing several domestic and international company functions, including product management, product marketing, marketing communication, business development, and investor relations. He also ran U.S. sales and portions of customer service for some time. Before joining Shiva, Mr. Santinelli was with the Boston Consulting Group, where he managed engagements in the high technology and consumer goods/retail practice groups for five years.
Andy Restivo
Andy is a proud graduate of Fordham University’s Gabelli School of Business where his passion for entrepreneurship was first ignited. Most notably, over those formative years it was the caring, knowledgeable and inspiring professors he met at Gabelli that provided invaluable guidance and practical real-world opportunities to begin the life-long path of learning what it really takes to become a successful business entrepreneur. Combined with the ever-present Jesuit core values that Fordham instilled in him, Andy’s experience at Gabelli gave him the confidence to believe that it was possible to live his entrepreneurial dream of creating a successful and sustainable organization that would be good for people, good for society, and good for business. Andy has successfully founded, funded, led, operated, grown, acquired, sold and integrated multiple enterprises, throughout a wide spectrum of business lifecycle stages and financial operating structures, including start-up, independent, private equity, and Fortune 250.
As a founding member of the Foundry Advisory Board and the inaugural Fordham University President’s Council, Andy is passionate about leveraging these experiences to mentor emerging entrepreneurs within the Fordham University ecosystem. Andy earned a Juris Doctor from Loyola Law School and has successfully completed a post-graduate certification in Digital Transformation from MIT. He is a practicing Certified Executive & Leadership Coach and member of the International Coaching Federation. Andy received his coach training and credentials at Georgetown University’s Institute for Transformational Leadership. He also consults with organizations in the development of Diversity, Equity & Inclusion (DE&I) and Women’s Leadership social justice programs designed to catalyze positive cultural change and earn deeper trust and commitment from their team members. Andy lives in sunny Southern California with his wife, two girls, and fiercely-loyal Golden Retriever.
Veronica Daigle
Veronica Blount Daigle is the President of the National Security Practice at Red Cell Partners, a Virginia-based incubation firm creating rapidly scalable technology companies in healthcare, cyber, and national security. Prior to joining Red Cell, she spent four years as an executive in Boeing’s government operations and over ten years in the federal government, ultimately serving as the Senate-confirmed Assistant Secretary of Defense for Readiness in the Department of Defense. Prior to her federal service, Ms. Daigle worked nearly ten years in the financial sector where she developed industry-wide benchmarks to measure the risk-adjusted performance of securities lending activities.
Usman Raza
Usman Ali Raza "Ozzy" is a seasoned serial entrepreneur with a strong track record of building, scaling, and successfully exiting ventures across multiple industries. Ozzy has founded and led several companies, including TurnKey, a peer-to-peer exotic and ultra-luxury car rental platform; Elite Transport, a high-end storage, logistics, and transportation service company; and TKX Associates, a management consulting firm specializing in distressed turnarounds, M&A advisory, and large-scale program management—all of which he successfully exited.
Currently, Ozzy is the Founder and CEO of Equepay, an innovative FinTech company providing advanced payment processing solutions to hospital systems, resorts, and large corporations. Equepay is redefining how businesses manage payment processing, offering customized solutions tailored to the unique needs of enterprise clients. Ozzy has also held senior leadership roles as Chief Information Officer of the Cable Entertainment business unit at NBCUniversal and VP of Program Management at Beachbody.
