September 2005, NEW YORK, NY--The New York University School of Continuing and Professional Studies (SCPS) has appointed Chris Gadomski to teach Intro to Energy Policy and The Economics and Finance of Energy in its Masters of Science in Global Affairs Program. Gadomski joins as an adjunct a faculty of experts offering an integrated, high-level curriculum to address the need for skilled professionals with a strong global vision at a time of unprecedented environmental concerns and uncertainty in global energy markets.

"Energy has been a passion and focus of mine for most of my career. I am fortunate in that it has provided me business opportunities on four continents," says Chris Gadomski, president of Strategic Marketing Inc. (SMI), a business development and marketing communications consultancy founded in 1983. "It is a great challenge to instill in my students the same enthusiasm about the energy industry I felt when I completed my thesis work nearly 20 years ago."

Gadomski's interest in global energy was sparked by his first job as an officer onboard a U.S. Navy tanker that refueled the US Sixth Fleet in the Mediterranean shortly after the first oil price spike following the Arab Oil Embargo, and by his subsequent work as a research analyst at Defense Marketing Services, Inc. during the Iranian Hostage Crisis and the second spike in global oil prices.

Since then, some of Gadomski's prominent energy industry assignments have included:

* Developing, as a senior foreign trade counselor, technology transfer and market entry strategies in the Middle East for Alpha Solarco Inc., a Cincinnati solar engineering firm.

* Through the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), advising the Government of Egypt regarding energy policy to support the introduction of renewal technologies and the development of a local manufacturing industry.

* Through UNDP, as an in-country renewable energy specialist, advising the Government of Somalia regarding rural electrification.

* Retained as marketing and business development consultant to FINESSE Project--a joint World Bank and US Department of Energy (DOE) effort--to investigate institutional and financial obstacles to widespread adoption of small-scale solar, hydro, and energy technology in Indonesia, Malaysia, Thailand and The Philippines.

* Retained as business development and marketing communications consultant by US DOE to highlight the technological and field application success of Solarex Corporation--a leading manufacturer of polycrystalline and amorphous silicon PV technology.

* Editor and Publisher of the Eastern European Energy Report, The China Energy Report, and PowerPlays Country Specific Studies. These newsletters and marketing studies, sold to leading energy companies, identified power sector business opportunities and highlighted marketing and financing "best-practices" of industry leaders in China, Vietnam and Eastern Europe.

* Retained by UNDP/Global Environment Facility (UNDP/GEF) as public relations advisor to write and produce press releases and backgrounders on success stories for distribution at the GEF Assembly in Delhi.

* Retained as energy analyst to assess independent power generation opportunities in the Egyptian power generation market for Coastal Energy.

* Retained during corporate restructuring to conceptualize and write Annual Reports for Elektrim Corporation, at the time the largest publicly traded power generation and telecommunications conglomerate on the Warsaw Stock Exchange.

* Hired by Strauss and Troy in Cincinnati to provide deposition testimony as an expert witness on Eastern European power generation markets that contributed to a favorable settlement on client's behalf in multi-million dollar lawsuit.

* Produced multimedia, exhibit displays and brochures for the United States Energy Association and for the Cleaner Fossil Fuels Committee of the World Energy Congress

* Conceptualized, designed, edited, and produced case studies that constituted UNDP/GEF's lead marketing collateral material distributed at the World Summit on Sustainable Development in Johannesburg, South Africa.

Gadomski has published extensively on energy and power generation topics in: Modern Power Systems, Renewable Finance, A Supplement to EuroMoney/ Institutional Investor's Project Finance Magazine, World-Generation, The China Business Review, and Independent Energy Magazine.

A Complement to Zicklin School of Business, Baruch College, CUNY

The NYU appointment complements Gadomski's current teaching at the Zicklin School of Business, the largest business school in the US featuring the 13th ranked part-time MBA, and a new, highly selective full-time MBA program. Mr. Gadomski received his MBA in Marketing Management from the Zicklin School in June of 1986 having completed his thesis on "Marketing High Technology to Developing Countries" with a case study in the renewable energy industry. NYU, like Zicklin, is one of the most ethnically diverse institutions of higher education in the United States.

"Teaching about energy at the Global Affairs program at NYU is a logical progression of my experience teaching International Marketing and Internet Marketing and Global Business at the Zicklin School of Business. The education I received there--especially the attention from my thesis advisor Professor Yoshi Tsurumi--helped launch my international marketing practice in the energy field," says Gadomski. "Both at NYU and Zicklin I look forward to inspiring, and contributing to the success of a new generation of students facing much greater global challenges."

Gadomski's current research interests include the implementation of current energy policy; obstacles to the development and use of renewable energy; and the general ambivalence of US citizens to their economic, energy and environmental future.

Gadomski also received a Masters of Science degree at the Polytechnic University in Brooklyn and a Bachelor of Arts from Holy Cross College in Worcester, MA. He now divides his time between Hartsdale and Cooperstown, NY and his solar-powered, energy-neutral home in Borrego Springs, CA.

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