As the fall semester opened at Yeshiva, the Sy Syms School of Business introduced a number of new faculty members who will replace departing professors in vital Syms areas of study.

Foremost among the hirees is Dr. Peter Sperling replacement for Finance Professor Aaron Brown who earned his PhD at City University of New York and boasts more than fifteen years teaching experience. Over the past twenty years, Sperling has worked as the Managing Director of Credit at AT&T, and later filled the same position at Lucent Technologies. There, he managed a team responsible for evaluating the credit risk of customers' major transactions, some of which involved billions of dollars in capital.

Dr. Charles Snow, the new Syms Dean, pointed to Sperling's vast work experience as an invaluable educational tool. "Sperling was involved in a number of financial deals engaging large companies," remarked Snow. "This provides a strong base of practical experience to supplement and concretize the information covered in the classroom."

Dr. John Malindretos is another new professorial face at Syms this year. When Finance Professor George Andreadis handed in his resignation toward this summer's end, Snow was left with the challenge of rapidly locating a competent replacement for the numerous students enrolled in Andreadis's finance courses. The answer emerged in Malindretos, a professor whose experience includes twenty years of teaching, sixty refereed professional presentations, and upwards of fifty published works including two books. Malindretos holds a PhD in International Finance from Rutgers University, and is currently pursuing the Chartered Financial Analyst Designation. For the past two years, he has been working for global banking power Salomon Smith Barney.

Professor Sheryl Brahnam, the only new SSSB full-timer not hired as a replacement for a departing professor, has also begun teaching classes this fall. Brahnam is on schedule to complete her PhD in Computer Science within the year at City University of New York, and she brings both adjunct and full-time experience to Yeshiva's Management Information Systems department.

Although the school has undergone a relatively large faculty turnover in a short period of time, Snow remains optimistic about the adjustments. "In the business world, change is part of the corporate arena, and one must be comfortable with changes," he insists. "We have changed faculty members, and we feel as though we have added tremendous strength both to the practical and theoretical side of the discipline."