Ponsford to serve as Arkadelphia Rotary Club guest speaker, February 28, 2014

The Arkadelphia Rotary Club will meet Friday, February 28, 2014, at Western Sizzlin, 106 WP Malone Drive, for its weekly meeting. Dr. Brenda Ponsford has been invited to serve as guest speaker and will speak regarding “Shaping the Future of the School of Business at Henderson.” Rotarians and guests are invited to attend. For more information on the guest speaker, please read her brief biography below. 

DR. BRENDA PONSFORD is the Dean of the School of Business at Henderson State University, a post she assumed last July. Prior to coming to Arkadelphia, she was a tenured full professor, chair of the Marketing Department and Director of the MBA program at Clarion University of Pennsylvania. She moved to Pennsylvania from California where she had been a tenured associate professor of marketing at Sonoma State University. She has also taught at Morgan State University in Maryland, the University of San Diego, Seton Hall University in New Jersey and Radford University in Virginia. She was also a visiting professor at the  Institute of Business and Economics, The Academy of National Economy, Moscow, Russia.

Brenda earned her Ph.D., M.B.A. and B.S. degrees (double majoring in  Economics and Marketing) from  Virginia Tech and a law degree from Concord Law School. She is a member of both the California and District of Columbia bars and has served on several American Bar Association business law committees.

Brenda has traveled to more than 35 countries, primarily in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East, meeting with educational foundations, university administrators/academics, government officials, and education recruiters. She worked in Beijing as a senior technical advisor on a short term assignment for the North China Aeronautical Materials Research Institute, Beijing, China. Brenda has a strong publications record in professional journals and at academic conferences focusing on marketing and international business areas. Her primary research interests include legal/ethical issues, marketing strategy and outcomes assessment studies.