Samuel Bradley has been a visiting professor at Philadelphia University since 2006. Mr. Bradley teaches a variety of undergraduate as well as graduate courses including Principles of Marketing, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior, Marketing Communications, Product Development and Innovation as well as Retailing.

Professor Bradley's teaching experience includes undergraduate and graduate Marketing courses at The University of the West Indies in Post of Spain, Trinidad, Holy Family University and Drexel University both in Philadelphia. In addition, Mr. Bradley developed undergraduate marketing curricula and wrote in-house curriculum for a variety of business training programs for Fortune 100 companies.

Professor Bradley's research area focuses on consumer and Retail Marketing as well as e-Commerce.

Mr. Bradley has many years of industry experience in a wide-rang of marketing assignments including international product marketing, market research manager, channel management, industry management as well as sales management. He worked for multinational companies including Tyco and ADC.  

Professor Bradley has developed marketing literature, marketing communications programs and promotional campaigns for multi-million dollar industrial product lines for which he was responsible. During his career Mr. Bradley worked closely with CEO’s and high management of these multinational companies.

Dr. Marie-Eve Faust joined the School of Business Administration at Philadelphia University as the team leader of Fashion Merchandising program where she teaches Fashion Merchandising and Retailing Strategy and Structure.

Before joining Philadelphia University, she was appointed at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Institute of Textiles and Clothing (ITC) where she led the Global Fashion Management Executive Master Degree Seminar with two joint-partners schools: Fashion Institute of Technology (FIT) in New York and l’Institut Francais de la Mode (IFM) in Paris. Before her Hong Kong appointment, she taught in Montreal Canada at l’École supérieure de mode de Montréal, l’Université du Québec à Montréal (UQAM) in their School of Business.

Dr. Faust’s research interests focus on size labelling system, vanity sizing, 3D body scanner & anthropometric (body measurements and fit) and body cathexis. She has also published on mass customization linked to garments sizes.

She held various positions in Canadian enterprises/business and was responsible for Hong Kong ITC’s 3D body scanner laboratory. At present she continues consulting to improve sizing for one of the biggest apparel manufacturer based in Asia producing for America’s market based on [TC]2 Size USA national survey.  

Her goals are to recruit the best students to fit the “best” Fashion Merchandising Program offered by Philadelphia University, School of Business Administration and to set up an international consortium for a size labelling system to help apparel manufacturers, retailers and consumers.

Ilene Fink joined Philadelphia University in 2007 and received Distinguished Adjunct Faculty Award for the 2008/09 academic year.  She is now a full-time Visiting Professor in the Fashion Merchandising Marketing department. 

Ms. Fink teaches a variety of courses including Principles of Marketing, Marketing in an Electronic Environment, International Marketing, Consumer Behavior and Fashion Merchandising. Additionally, she has developed and instructed courses such as Product Development, Advertising and Public Relations at The Art Institute of Philadelphia where she received The Teaching Excellent Award. Other institutions in which Ms. Fink has taught include Chestnut Hill College and the Fashion Institute of Technology.

Over the past fifteen years Ms. Fink worked in industry spearheading integrated marketing programs strategically designed to achieve company goals and objectives. Ms. Fink is recognized as a talented marketing professional who is consistently utilizing a diverse set of marketing tools to drive companies and institutions to be successful.

Currently, Ms. Fink not only teaches marketing, but also assists students in marketing themselves. She provides them with the intellectual tools they need to be successful in their field through hands-on projects that gives them experience prior to graduation.

Dr. Creighton G. Frampton is Associate Professor at Philadelphia University. His area of expertise is specialised in Marketing. For over three decades Dr. Frampton has taught Economics and Marketing at Philadelphia University (previously known as Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science). During this period he served as Director of the Master of Business Administration Program from 1983 to 1986. In addition, he also has been listed as one of the outstanding Educators of America.

Before joining Philadelphia University, Dr. Frampton taught at University of Richmond, Appalachian State University and at the University of South Carolina.

Dr. Frampton research area focuses on a wide range of marketing topics. He has published over 60 papers either in academic peer review journals, nationally known journal or regionally such as the Journal of Legal Economics, The Legal Intelligencer, The American Institute of Decision Sciences, The American Academy of Advertising, etc.

Dr. Frampton is also an active member of professional organizations including National Association of Forensic Economist (charter member), The American Academy of Economic and Finance Expert (President from 1996 to 1998) and American Arbitration Association.

Steven Frumkin is an Associate Professor at Philadelphia University for the School of Business Administration as well as for the School of Engineering and Textiles where he teaches a variety of courses (some he developed) to graduate and undergraduate students. He also taught as an Adjunct Assistant Professor in the Textile Development and Marketing Department, at the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York and as an instructor at the Parsons School of Design (New School University, New York), where he developed a textile distance-learning program.

Professor Frumkin has been engaged in the Textile/(Apparel) Industry since his graduation from the Philadelphia College of Textiles and Science, in 1970. Starting as fabric stylist he has held challenging positions for diverse companies such as Burlington Industries, United Merchants and Manufacturers, Biltex International Textiles, Keepers International (E. G. Smith), and most recently was Senior Vice President of Carleton Woolen Mills, Inc.

Professor Frumkin’s area of interest focuses on product development and fiber innovations; sales management, marketing and merchandising; domestic and international financing, sourcing and U. S. Customs regulations; retail product sourcing and strategy.

Professor Frumkin sits on the advisory boards of a number of textile, apparel and related industry companies as well as being involved with the USA State Department and United States Agency for International Development (USAID). He is Associate Director of the Laboratory for Engineered Human Protection a federally funded research initiative for protective apparel systems for the military and civilian first responders. Nationally he delivered a lecture series at the American Textile History Museum on the history of wool and internationally lectures at the National Institute of Fashion Technology, in New Delhi, India, the Arthur Lok Jack business School, University of the West Indies, other universities worldwide, and is a sort after national and international media and legal consultant.

Dr. Chae Mi Lim is an Assistant Professor of Marketing in the School of Business Administration at Philadelphia University. She earned her Ph.D. in Retail and Consumer Sciences and M.S. in Management Science at the University of Tennessee.

Dr. Lim’s teaching interests are in the area of consumer behavior, market research, retail strategy, Internet-based retailing, and international retailing.

Prior to entering academia, she worked for ten years as a researcher and product developer for major cosmetics companies in Seoul, South Korea.

Her research interests include consumer experience associated with luxury bargain shopping, value retailing, non-traditional retailing, global consumers in emerging market, and consumers in technology market. Her scholarly work on value retailing received the Best Paper Award from the American Collegiate Retailing Association (ACRA) in 2007.