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Dr. Stuart Schulman
Director
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Stuart Schulman, Ed.D. is the Founder and Executive Director of the Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE), a special initiative of the City University of New York (CUNY). IVE provides technology driven simulations that increase awareness engage students across the curriculum and serve the 540,000 students of CUNY. Dr. Schulman is also a Professor of Management at Baruch College.
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Dr. Christoph Winkler
Associate and Curriculum Director
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Dr. Christoph Winkler is the Associate and Curriculum Director of the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise. His work at the Institute focuses mainly on program and curriculum development, and research in the areas of entrepreneurship, STEM, and leadership education. He holds graduate degrees in Business and Vocational Education and Training (Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria) and Educational Psychology (CUNY Graduate Center), as well as a PhD in Educational Psychology from the CUNY Graduate Center.
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Edgar Troudt
Technology Coordinator
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Edgar E. Troudt, MPhil, MA is the Technology Officer for the CUNY Institute for Virtual Enterprise (IVE). Mr. Troudt applies his background in Computer Science to problems in business and education. At IVE, he has received approximately $1 million over the past 5 years from the National Science Foundation to design programs that fold entrepreneurship into science and technology disciplines. The University recognized his role in innovating in technology with its 2011 Michael Ribaudo Award. This is in addition to the award for most innovative use of technology by the Center for Digital Government in 2008. His work has been featured in several media outlets; most recently he has been a guest on Salt Lake City Public Radio's "Science Questions".
Mr. Troudt is also a full-time lecturer at CUNY's Kingsborough Community College and a part-time lecturer at CUNY's School of Professional Studies. His academic research is in the area of Human-Computer Interaction, where he has worked to design software that helps understand challenges faced by ESL students. In 2004, at CUNY's Queens College, he received the President's Award for Teaching Excellence.
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Christine Zagari
Assistant to the Director

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Christine Zagari-LoPorto is the Assistant Director to the CUNY IVE Leadership and Social Entrepreneurship Program and coordinates the development, supervision and implementation of the Institute for Virtual Enterprise. As a former alumni of Kingsborough Community College, Ms. LoPorto participated in the first CUNY based Virtual Enterprise program. She has earned her Bachelor of Professional Studies Degree in Hospitality Management, along with her Masters degree in Communication Arts, from the New York Institute of Technology. She currently owns and operates a sports bar and grill in Brooklyn, NY.
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Daniel Kane
Program Assistant
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Daniel Kane is the Program Assistant for CUNY IVE and a Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hospitality at Kingsborough Community College. Mr. Kane received his Masters in Liberal Studies as well as his B.A. in Political Science from the College of Staten Island.
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Erdal Kose
Web Developer
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Erdal Kose is the web developer and Database Administrator for IVE. Mr. Kose has a B.S in
Electric and Electronic Engineering, and M.A and M.Phil in Computer and information Science.
He has taught Operating System Concepts, Web programming, Paradoxes and limits of knowledge, and Introduction to programming languages in Brooklyn College.
He is currently pursuing his Ph.D at the CUNY Graduate Center.
His interests are Artificial intelligence (AI), AI Search algorithms, and Diverse Programming Paradigms.
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