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DAVID STEWART - EDUCATION - University
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David Stewart joined Drexel University's LeBow College of Business in 2002 as Director of LeBow's Professional MBA Program. In 2003 he was appointed Senior Director for Graduate Programs in Business, where he contributed to LeBow's significant rise in the rankings. Working with LeBow faculty leaders, he successfully planned, developed and launched LeBow's innovative Evening Accelerated Drexel (LEAD) MBA Program in 2004 which was recognized among the top 10 part-time MBA programs in the world by Business Week magazine in 2007 through 2011.
He is a proud member of the pioneering Drexel University team which has successfully expanded the University's visibility, intellectual capital and commitment to excellence to the west coast with our Center for Graduate Studies in Sacramento California. Dave now resides in Sacramento while overseeing LeBow's external MBA Programs in Sacramento, Wilmington Delaware and Malvern Pennsylvania utilizing Drexel's superior technology and small but incredible team of educators on both coasts.
Prior to joining LeBow, Dave developed and launched Villanova University's inaugural Executive MBA Program, establishing the region's second largest EMBA program in 24 months in one of the world's most competitive EMBA markets - a position later held by Drexel.
Dave served as Associate Director for Wharton's Executive MBA from 1992-1999 and before that, was a successful entrepreneur in the Philadelphia area. He earned a BS degree in Marketing from Philadelphia University and an MS degree in Organizational Dynamics from the University of Pennsylvania.
Dave has been a member of GMAC, AACSB, MAACBA, MBA Roundtable organizations and has presented on topics such as EMBA Program Technology & Performance, Innovation In Graduate Business Education, Creating Optimal Graduate Learning Environments, The Advantages of Experiential Learning, Turning Part-time Programs into Institutional Flagships and The Power of Organization Alignment.
He lists his hobbies as hiking, biking, tennis, table tennis, satirizing incredibly bad movies (MST3K fan) and trying not to be overly serious too often. When it comes to passions, he hasn’t missed a Penn Relays (America’s largest and longest running Track and Field event) in 30 years. Dave used to run competitively in high school, college and post grad but would be afraid of taking up too many lanes if he returned to masters running these days. His newest passion in Sacramento has become Dad’s Deli sandwiches which will likely result in a life time ban from competitive and all public running for his sake and those nearby. Dave is the ying to his health conscious partner Luis Noguera’s yang, Luis has developed an amazing tolerance for bright people behaving badly given Luis’s affiliation with Dave and Bank of America.
Something folks may not know – Dave has traveled all over the globe from Argentina, Brazil, China, Columbia, Mexico, England, France, Germany, Hungary, Malaysia and Singapore to South Africa and Thailand. His favorite = right here in beautiful northern CA with the great people of Sacramento who will recover from the worst economy in our recent history with compassion and the occasional injection of humor!
(Photography by Tia Gemmell)