Kārlis Jānis Ātrens B.Sc. Australian National University, |
Corporate Governance The Firm |
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Kārlis Jānis Ātrens has been working as an IT professional since 1983. In Australia until 2003, he worked in a large federal government department in various programmer and system development roles located in Canberra and then in Sydney at Australia's largest internet provider company Telstra in roles associated with IT infrastructure build, internet operations and IT management. Upon relocating to Latvia in 2004, he has worked for 12 years in an IT managerial role for the Kesko corporation (from Finland) in the Kesko Agro and Konekesko Baltic subsidiaries. During 2012-2015 he completed his professional MBA degree at the Rīga Business School where since he has been active in guest lecturing and teaching subjects in the BBA course. His other responsibilities include serving on the boards of Transparency International (Delna) in Latvia and Lettonia (Student Fraternity). |
Chiaki Bems Ph.D. SUNY, Buffalo |
US History |
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Chiaki Bems is lecturer in American history and literature. Her research interests include the twentieth-century American poetry, the visual arts, and comparative literature. |
Juris Blūms PhD in Physics, University of Latvia |
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Juris Blums is accotiative professor in physics at Riga Technical University and the vice director in learning of Technical Physics Institute. Scientific interests: investigation of laser induced creation of electrically active centres in silicon and germanium as well as the heterogeneous precipitation of oxygen at such centres; the ultrafast X-ray spectrometry of melting dynamics of semiconductors under action of laser radiation; modification of solids with laser radiation, characterisation of thin films on textile substrates by laser radiation, creation of human motion energy harvesters and its integration into apparel, ambient motion energy harvesting by electrodinamical and electrostatical harvesters, elaboration of physics study materials for distance learning and teaching. Visiting professor at Oulu Technological University, Finland,11.2005 and at University of Applied Sciences Berlin (Germany), 05.2012. Author of more than 25 scientific papers, 5 Latvian Patents. |
Katrīna Brimerberga BA Stocholm School of Economics in Riga
MBA Riga Business School |
Marketing Management | ![]() |
Katrīna has spent her working career of 10 years in FMCG industry. She has developed her career in Rimi, leading food retail chain in Baltics, currently her position is category support manager. |
Jānis Grabis Dr. sc. ing., |
Enterprise Process and Applications | ![]() |
Jānis Grabis is a Professor at the Faculty of Computer Science and Information Technology, Riga Technical University, Latvia. He obtained his PhD from the Riga Technical University in 2001 and worked as a Research Associate at the College of Engineering and Computer Science, University of Michigan-Dearborn. He has published in major academic journals including OMEGA, European Journal of Operational Management, International Journal of Production Research, Computers & Industrial Engineering and others. His research and teaching are in areas of process optimization, enterprise applications, supply chain management, and project management. He also serves as a director of Institute of Information Technology, Riga Technical University. |
Inga Jākobsone PhD, BA School of Business and Finance |
Production and Operations Strategy |
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Inga Jakobsone has more than 10 years experience as a Managing Director in company International Paper, providing leadership, coordination and management to integrate Baltics operations into company’s European business. Her fields of expertise cover Strategic Management, International Business, Production and Operations Management. Inga Jakobsone has received PhD from joint doctoral program of BA School of Business and Finance, RISEBA and VA in business management. |
Andrejs Jakobsons Ph.D.cand., University of Latvia |
Managerial Economics
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Andrejs Jakobsons teaches economics-related courses at Riga Business School as an Adjunct Professor. In recent years he has worked as a researcher at the Baltic International Center for Economic Policy Studies (BICEPS) and a consultant on labor market issues. His research interests include international economics, labor economics and macroeconomics. Previously Andrejs worked as an economist for the World Bank Latvia Office carrying out research and project-related duties (1998-2006). He holds an MA degree in Economics from Indiana University, USA. Andrejs Jakobsons also serves on the RBS Council. |
Andrejs Koliškins Ph.D., University of |
Managerial Statistics |
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Andrejs Koliškins is a Professor at Riga Technical University and an Associate profesor of statistics at Riga Business School. He is also a visiting professor teaching at Honkong University of Science and Technology. His research interests involve investigation of stability problems in hydraulics and fluid mechanics with applications to open-channel flows and transient flows in hydraulic systems, mathematical methods for heat and mass transfer problems, mathematical models for eddy current testing problems and business applications of statistics. Andrejs Koliškins has extensive list of academic publications. Andrejs Koliškins also serves on the RBS Council. |
Laine Kristberga PhD, Art Academy of Latvia |
The Firm Arts General |
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Laine Kristberga, PhD, is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy and Sociology of the University of Latvia. She is an author of numerous publications, including in such publishing houses as Routledge and Cambridge Scholars Publishing. Her research interests cover art and politics in the Socialist period, media studies and urban studies. Laine Kristberga is also an active member of the Nordic Summer University, where she has held several positions: Head of the Arrangement Committee, Coordinator of Circle 2 and currently Coordinator of Circle 1. |
Sanita Meijere MBA: Riga Business School |
Computer Lab (Word & PowerPoint)
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Sanita Meijere has joined Ph D program at Riga Technical University, Management sciences, specifically focusing on IT strategic management. Currently providing quality management, continuous service improvement and information security management for Scandinavian company Atea Global Services and consulting few start - ups in Georgia and Ukraine. Her previous work experience as well is related to IT industry for 4 years creating and managing Latvian IT company`s DPA branch in Georgia, 1 year in Microsoft Latvia. Besides IT and management strong experience in intellectual property rights. |
MBA,Stockholm School of |
Personal and Career Development | ![]() |
Claudio grew up in Argentina, but he is based in Latvia since 2004. Most of his career has been developed in consulting, training and research on Leadership and Organizational Behavior at companies and organizations like Elevator International, Turiba Business School, Stockholm School of Economics in Riga, Euromonitor International, Cisco Networking Academy and IAE (the best Business School in Latin America) Claudio has a long track of experience in consulting at the IT, NGOs and HR sectors. He teaches in English, Spanish and Latvian and has been training people in more than 10 countries and from more than 30 nationalities. Claudio has been appointed visiting lecturer for FEN (Poland) for the courses on Leadership and Human Resources run in cooperation with IESE (www.iese.edu), one of the best business schools in Europe. As researcher he has been publishing in several journals and conference proceedings, and he has participated in several international research projects. Overall, Claudio has been extensively involved in professional and higher education. Currently he is one of the leading consultants at MODES project, one of the largest co-funded EU initiatives for modernizing higher education in Europe. Claudio shares his professional career with a broad range of social undertakings in areas connected with education and promotion of family values. Claudio Rivera personal webpage |
Kaspars Šenvalds MFE, University of Latvia, |
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Kaspars Šenvalds is the Chief Financial Officer at NCH Advisors Inc., a USA based investment fund with over 3.5 USD billion of capital under management in CIS and Eastern Europe countries. He is also the Quality Manager at Domus UK LTD, a UK based real estate developer. Previously he held financial analyst position at Swiss based asset management company. His fields of interest cover investment portfolio management, business valuation as well as real estate investment. |
Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh |
Financial Mathematics and Statistics Lab
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Leo Selavo earned his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Pittsburgh in 2004. Currently he is a professor at the University of Latvia and co-director of curriculum for Bachelor of IT Leadership (BITL) program. Leo has been active in research and teaching at organizations in USA, Germany, Sweden and Latvia, including University of Virginia, University of Iowa, University of Skovde, AGT International, Institute of Computer Science Latvia and University of Latvia. The fields of his research and development include Internet of things, wireless sensor networks and embedded systems with applications in healthcare, environmental research, autonomous transportation systems and sports and entertainment. |
Kalvis Apsītis Ph.D. University of Maryland |
First Year seminar
Data Structures
Discrete Structures
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Kalvis Apsītis has experience in software engineering, academic and non-academic teaching. He has worked in some large IT companies such as Accenture, Blue Coat (Symantec) and Websense (Forcepoint). He has done courseware development, certification procedures and training delivery in diverse areas of mathematics, computer science, programming and IT security. As a part-time activity he is involved in training high-school students to participate in mathematical olympiads including International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO) and Baltic Way. |
Zanda Vipule MSc., Copenhagen Business School
MIM, CEMS
BsC. Stockholm School of Economics in Riga
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Zanda Vipule is a Junior Partner specialized in market intelligence projects in export consulting and market research company Gateway&Partners, which has helped to enter the doors in export markets for more than 1000 clients. Zanda's specialty is to structure the market insights, situation, and outlining the factors that determine the success in the export markets. She has been creating market entry strategies for various industries from food to waste management and medicine and IT. Her passion is strategic market creation within international markets, which has been underlined by studies in double master degree programs. |