Milan Frankl, B.Sc. M.Sc., MBA
Summary Biography

I am presently the Director of Operations as well as a Business Professor at University Canada West in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

Thirty years ago, I graduated in Mathematics (Logic and Statistics) from Belgrade University (former Yugoslavia) where I taught mathematics in high school as well as university, and participated and organized several international mathematical symposiums. Soon after, I moved to Canada.

I continued my studies in mathematics at Sir George Williams University (Montreal), now Concordia University, before joining IBM Canada where I held technical, marketing and management positions serving the finance industry. A few years later, I joined the Desjardins Cooperative Credit Union Movement, with 1,500 branches and over 5 million members, taking over a major project of integration of this institution (and all its federations) into the Canadian Payment Association (CPA), ending as the Director of Clearing Systems. While with Desjardins and through CIDA (the Canadian International Development Agency) I spent some time in Latin America, implementing a generalized financial infrastructure project for the Latino-American Cooperative Movement (COLAC), out of Panama, spanning 19 Latino-American countries. From there I went to KPMG and thereafter to CGI becoming a Director of Consulting services and partner.

During all that period I acted as an adjunct professor at H.E.C. (the School of Business of Montreal University) and as an associate professor at the University of Sherbrooke, where I developed and taught Computer Science and Business Application courses. I published several course manuals on project management, information systems development as well as a variety of business topics.

After moving to Victoria in the early 90’s I became respectively CFO, President, and CEO of several hi-tech businesses on Vancouver Island.

I was associate faculty with the University of Victoria (Uvic), the University of Phoenix, Royal Roads University and Camosun College where I taught various business courses at the undergraduate and graduate levels. I am acting as a mentor in UVic’s MBA program and as a panel member on the entrepreneurship programs at both UVic and Royal Roads universities.

I earned my B.Sc. in Mathematics from the University of Belgrade, (former Yugoslavia) and my MBA (Information Technology Management) from Touro University International (Cypress, CA). Presently I am pursuing a Ph.D. at UVic. My research interests cover Knowledge Transfer, Artificial Intelligence, and Fuzzy Systems.

I consider myself a life-long learner. Besides being active in the community (Chamber of Commerce, Junior Achievement Program, the Student Entrepreneur’s Program, Young Entrepreneurs Association, Vancouver Island Advanced Technology Center), I enjoy Vancouver Island’s outdoors, gourmet cooking and entertaining, classical guitar, and hold a black belt in Karate.