Dr. Karl Hellman has over 50 years of management and consulting experience, in addition to extensive academic credentials. He has a Bachelor's of Arts in Economics from Beloit College, a Master of Science in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from Northwestern University, and a DBA in Marketing from Georgia State University.

Dr. Hellman has authored numerous papers in business and marketing journals and has given presentations on marketing. He co-authored a book with Ardis Burst, The Customer Learning Curve: Creating Profits from Marketing Chaos, and has contributed to the field through his work as Chairman of the Board of Directors of Letterform Archive and the creation and curation of Salesinsights.org, a website focused on sales and marketing. Additionally, he has developed web-based courses on product management for the Institute for the Study of Business Markets at Pennsylvania State University.

Dr. Hellman has been recognized for his contributions to the field and has served as an Executive in Residence at the Center for Business and Industrial Marketing at Georgia State University. He joined a Harvard Business School faculty consulting firm from 1976 to 1982 and was later put into business for himself by Coca-Cola, co-founding several consulting firms, including Hellman Werneke, Vantage Consulting, The Learning Corporation, and Resultrek.

Lifelong learner and leader Doctor Scott Phillips joins the AVU faculty as an Adjunct Professor. Prior to joining Scott was the Humana Military Market Development Manager in Military Health and Resilience. He was also Humana SALUTE network Resource group Healthier Communities Committee Co- chairman and a Men Advocating Real Change (MARC) team leader. Prior to his roles with Humana, Scott completed his doctorate in business administration wherein he conducted and authored Fixed Effects Estimation of Private Insurance Influence on Workplace Outcomes. He received the Florida International University (FIU) Harry W. Colmery award, earning a graduate certificate in Management Leadership and his Doctorate in Business Administration. During his doctoral studies Scott was director of operations to a Miami health insurance sales start-up. Previous to that role he ran his own consulting firm while graduating under provost distinction from Florida International University College of Law.

During his enlistment Phillips completed a master of science in health care management, a Navy residency in Plans Operations and Medical Intelligence (POMI) and his Juris Master in financial compliance. Doctor Phillips also completed applied science studies at Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, focused on population health management.

Scott is an American Public Health Association, Academy of Management and American College of Healthcare Executives member, and an avid proponent of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention and Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation. He is married to Evelyn Robles of Hartford, Con- necticut. They live in Brickell, Miami, Florida, with their Australian Labradoodle Zoë, Maincoon cat Ezekiel and toy poodle Zuri.