Faculty
Nabil N. El-Hage heads up a faculty of top MBA professors and seasoned entrepreneurs with international experience and a global perspective.
Nabil N. El-Hage, Chief Executive Officer
Nabil N. El-Hage is the Chief Executive Officer of AEE International, LLC. dba Academy of Executive Education, a company he founded after leaving Harvard Business School to offer top-quality executive training and coaching to senior executives around the world. Nabil was on the faculty at HBS for nearly ten years, and he served as Professor of Management Practice and as Senior Associate Dean for External Relations. At Harvard, he taught courses in corporate finance, private equity, corporate governance, and real estate.
Nabil is also a seasoned executive, having been CFO of two listed (public) companies, and CEO of a Private Equity-backed company for nearly a decade. He has also served on a dozen boards of companies, public and private, large and small. He currently serves on three boards of directors, including an insurance company and a life insurance company-affiliated $50-billion mutual fund complex.
Professor El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
Nabil is also a seasoned executive, having been CFO of two listed (public) companies, and CEO of a Private Equity-backed company for nearly a decade. He has also served on a dozen boards of companies, public and private, large and small. He currently serves on three boards of directors, including an insurance company and a life insurance company-affiliated $50-billion mutual fund complex.
Professor El-Hage graduated cum Laude from Yale University with a degree in electronic engineering (1980), and earned his MBA with the Highest Honors, as a Baker Scholar, from Harvard Business School in 1984, where he was awarded the Henry Ford Foundation Award for the Best First-Year academic record, the Loeb-Rhoades Fellowship for Excellence in Finance, the Copeland (Marketing) Award nomination, and a Dean’s Doctoral Fellowship.
Christopher Payton
Mr. Payton is a Teaching Fellow at Harvard Business School, where he has taught both finance and entrepreneurship and published dozens of case studies. At AEE, he has conducted executive programs for leading financial institutions on the topics of real estate, private equity, and corporate governance. He is also an experienced private equity investor with a background in both fund investing and middle market buyouts.
Thierry Bardury
Mr. Bardury worked with JP Morgan for around 20 years, both in Paris and London. His roles included the building of the control and support infrastructure for new market activities. Later on he became COO for Barclays Capital and for the Abu Dhabi based ADCB (Abu Dhabi Commercial Bank).
Professor Chibli W. Mallat
Professor Mallat is a highly regarded academic and legal scholar. He holds three independently tenured professorships, one each in Europe, the United States and the Middle East. In the past, he has held visiting professorship positions at Harvard Law School, Yale Law School and Princeton Law School. He has authored and edited half a dozen books on Islamic Law and Islamic Finance. He has been called upon as an expert in leading edge Islamic Finance cases throughout the Islamic world.
Kenneth Sanginario
Mr. Sanginario has provided companies with financial and operational leadership for over 25 years, most recently as a founding Partner of NorthStar Management Partners, a turnaround management and corporate finance consultancy. He specializes in crafting strategies in turnaround and workout scenarios, raising equity and debt capital, and M&A advising. He has authored numerous articles on turnaround management.