Leadership Team
Leadership Team
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Jessica Gardner, Director of the Professional Sales Program
Jessica Gardner has over 20 years of experience in the sales industry and higher education. Prior to academia, she was selling pharmaceutical products for a division of Johnson & Johnson. As an instructor at both UW-Stout and UW-Eau Claire, she has taught various marketing courses, including Professional Selling, Advanced Sales, Sales Management & Sales Internship. Jessica brings innovative ideas to the classroom and was awarded the 2020 Sales Educators Academy's "Top Paper" for her topic on adaptive selling.
In her previous role as Assistant Director of the Center for Sales and Sales Management at UW-Eau Claire, she was successful at developing corporate partnerships, hosting sales competitions, coaching sales team members, and advising students on career selection. Jessica continues to have a focus on student success beyond the classroom setting, some of this can be seen in her role as faculty advisor for the UMD Sale Club.
218-726-7155
335K LSBE, 1318 Kirby Drive, Duluth, MN 55812
Dr. Rajiv Vaidyanathan, Department of Marketing Head
Rajiv Vaidyanathan is Professor of Marketing and Department Head at the University of Minnesota Duluth. He served as Director of Graduate Studies for the School from 2001-2014. Starting in 2000, Rajiv spent two years as Vice President of Marketing at Active Learning Technologies where he was responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategy for a series of e-learning products.
For the last twelve years, Rajiv has served as executive director of the Association for Consumer Research, the largest scholarly organization of consumer researchers in the world and served as the co-chair of the organization's Asia-Pacific conference in Hyderabad, India in 2009. He has taught numerous classes including Marketing Research, Advertising, and Consumer Behavior at the undergraduate level and Data Analysis & Statistics and Influence and Persuasion in the Workplace at the MBA level.
218-726-6817
335A LSBE, 1318 Kirby Drive, Duluth, MN 55812
Dr. Praveen Aggarwal, Interim Dean of the Labovitz School of Business and Economics
218-726-8971
219E LSBE, 1318 Kirby Drive, Duluth, MN 55812
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