Education Profile:

1. Thunderbird School of Global Management at Arizona State
   University, USA
   Masters in Global Management Operations; Merit Scholar at
   Thunderbird School of Global Management, Arizona State University, USA (a top-ranking business school in “international business” category by U.S. News & World Report, The Economist, The Wall Street Journal, Financial Times, and Bloomberg Businessweek; ASU being #1 university for innovation ahead of MIT).
2. International Trade Center for Supply Chain Management at World Trade Organization, Switzerland
   Post-Graduate Diploma and Professional Certifications with Distinction in Project Logistics, International Purchasing, and Supply Chain Management; International Trade Center at World Trade Org & UN, Switzerland, joint reciprocity with Institute of Supply Chain Management, USA.
3. Frank Barton School of Business at Wichita State University,
   Double bachelor’s in accounting & International Marketing; Dean’s List and Cum
   Laude; Wichita State University, Kansas, USA, 2003.

Awards and Honors:

• First Local Conference with World Economic Forum;
• Member served on Advisory Council Board, Arizona State University’s Thunderbird Global Network;
• Member of the Board served, Arizona State University’s Thunderbird Executive Leadership Counsel;
• Master Corporate Trainer, International Trade Center (World Trade Org & UN) Geneva;
• Recipient of Research Funding on “Innovation Studies” from Technical University of Eindhoven;
• Recipient of Thunderbird International Merit Scholarship;
• Presenter at American Management Association, New York;
• Thunderbird Strategy Consultant;
• Thunderbird Corporate Delegate to Microsoft, T-Mobile, and REI Inc.;
• Thunderbird Ambassador;
• Thunderbird Pakistan Chapter Leader;
• NUST’s first conference paper on Women Entrepreneurship;
• NUST’s first business plan competition with Islamabad Chamber of Commerce;
• Recipient of Wichita State University’s housing scholarship;
• Invited Conference Panelist, University of San Francisco, USA;
• Conference Reviewer, University of Cadiz, Spain;
• Wichita State Commendation Award

Yalman has consulted for over half-a-dozen Fortune 100 companies and has over a decade of experience in global business and commercial management. Although knowledgeable across a wide variety of industries, his particular experience is in Business Development, Corporate Strategy and Strategic Operations, Value Chain Logistics, and Sustainable Innovation & Branding. He has also been instrumental in pioneering multiple projects in the US, such as one under Sustainable Innovation with multinational companies including Johnson & Johnson, Deloitte, Intel, Cisco, Merck, and Arizona Public Service. He regularly consults with industry, helping companies increase the underlying value of their businesses through the merging of their corporate, branding and value chain strategies. He has extensive executive education and consulting experience with insights from Accenture and The Monitor Group (now Monitor Deloitte), and has delivered highly effective programs on three continents to middle and senior executives from a wide range of world class global enterprises, including among others, Nestle, Xbox division of Microsoft, Ingram Micro, National Association of Women MBAs, Apple, Giordano, Nike, Reebok, ExxonMobil, and MicroMentor. Having led nearly 100 project-oriented learning engagements, he has deep experience in facilitating learning and coaching teams to develop contract management outcomes by function, process and business practice.

1. Humor in Management
   Paper accepted double-blind, peer reviewed and included in the 40 th International Academic Conference organized by International Institute of Social and Economic Sciences at Ersta Skondal University, Stockholm, Sweden, 2018.
2. Is Mass Customization an Innovation Arbitrage for Fashion Industry?
   Paper accepted double-blind, peer reviewed and included in the would-be proceedings of 26th International Association of Management of Technology Conference, IAMOT 14-18 May, 2017, Austria.
3. A landscape for entrepreneurship Tendencies: A case of a developing economy.
   Paper accepted double-blind, peer reviewed and included in the would-be proceedings of 26th International Association of Management of Technology Conference, IAMOT 14-18 May, 2017, Austria.
4. Innovation: In(a)New-Way-Shown!
   Paper accepted double-blind, peer reviewed and included in the would-be proceedings of 26th International Association of Management of Technology Conference, IAMOT 14-18 May, 2017, Austria.
5. Management by Humor: A Path to a Performative Field?
   Paper accepted for the upcoming double blind peer-reviewed conference under the auspices of Australasian Humor Studies Network- 23rd AHSN Conference, Feb 1-3, 2017, Federation University, Australia.
6. Entrepreneurship Rooted Frugal Innovation: A Case of Pakistan.
   International Conference on Management of Technology organized by Iranian Association for Management of Technology (IRAMOT), Tehran, Iran, 2016.
7. A Verdant Approach to Analyzing “How Much Humor is Religiously Humorous”
   in an A Posteriori Context. Paper included in the proceedings of the 3 rd Taboo Conference-TaCo 2016, at PompeuFabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2016.
8. Demystifying the Women Entrepreneurism and its Cultural and Religious Inhibitions for Pakistani Women Entrepreneurs.
   in an A Posteriori Context. Paper included in the proceedings of the 3 rd Taboo Conference-TaCo 2016, at PompeuFabra University, Barcelona, Spain, 2016.
9. Demystifying the Women Entrepreneurism and its Cultural and Religious Inhibitions for Pakistani Women Entrepreneurs.
   Paper published in the Ministry of Equality and University of Cadiz sponsored proceedings of the 5th International Research Workshop Based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), Cadiz, Spain, 2010.
10. Influence of Workplace Religiosity on Transfer of Training.
    Paper included in the proceedings of the 18th Annual Conference of Association on Employees Practices and Principles (AEPP), University of San Francisco, CA, USA, 2010.
11. International Entrepreneurism: Branding the Small Business the Perfect Way.
    Paper included in the proceedings of 12th West Lake International Conference on Small & Medium Business (WLICSMB2010), jointly organized by World Association of Industrial and Technological Research Organizations, Hangzhou Municipal Government, Zhejiang Small & Medium Enterprises Bureau, and Zhejiang University of Technology, Hangzhou, China, 2010.
12. Invited Colloquium to Environmental conditions and entrepreneurial activity:
    A regional comparison in Spain by Claudia Alvarez, David Urbano, Alicia Coduras, José Ruiz. The 5th International Research Workshop Based on Global Entrepreneurship Monitor (GEM), Cadiz, Spain, (2010)