Team

David Abdow

President and CEO

David Abdow is President and CEO of Babson Global Inc. Previously, David served as Dean for Babson Executive Education, where he led Babson’s efforts to meet the executive and professional development needs of business organizations and professionals worldwide.Read More

David Abdow

President and CEO

David brings more than 20 years of senior-level experience at the intersection of higher education, business and social sectors to Babson. Before joining the Babson community, he served in leadership roles at Northeastern University’s D’Amore-McKim School of Business and Boston College’s Center for Corporate Citizenship. In these roles, he was responsible for a portfolio of corporate engagement and executive education activities, developing a clientele that included organizations such as IBM, Bose, Ericsson, Federal Bureau of Investigation, and Dell EMC.

David’s work has been recognized for Excellence in Practice by the European Federation for Management and for Leadership in Innovation by Northeastern University.

He holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University and a Master of Education degree from the University of Massachusetts Amherst.

Tala Khudairi

Executive Director

Dr. Tala Khudairi is the Executive Director of Babson Global, Inc., fostering meaningful relationships, leading quality assurance, accreditation and assessment initiatives, managing million dollar projects, and building ecosystems with entrepreneurial academic-industry enterprises regionally and internationally. She is known for her integrity as a global strategist, entrepreneur and scientist. Her passion is to empower lives through education- where she enjoys connecting and collaborating with others to create opportunities for institutions and individuals to thrive! Read More

Tala Khudairi

Executive Director

Previous positions include, Vice President of the New England Commission of Higher Education (formally CIHE of NEASC), where she liaised with 250 colleges and universities influencing the quality of accreditation initiatives aligned with NECHE Standards for Accreditation. Tala served diverse students for over a decade as Academic Dean of community colleges, where she led and advanced the mission of access; and transformed STEM divisions to meet the demand for an innovative economy in Massachusetts. She is proud to have created numerous efficiencies while managing a wide-range of complex programs, operations and resources including financial, human, physical, and technological.

Dr. Khudairi is a multi-lingual Fulbright Scholar (Jordan) and international presenter. Her degrees include: B.S. in Electrical Engineering from NYU Polytechnic, M.S. in Clinical Exercise Physiology, and Ph.D. in Biology/Pharmaceutical Sciences, both from Northeastern University. As a life-long learner she additionally completed certificates in Management and Leadership Education, Harvard University, and Higher Education Resource Services (HERS), Wellesley College, and recently earned her MBA ’22 from Babson College. She provides valued service as Executive Board member, American Council on Education-Women in Higher Education Network, and is a recognized contributor and mentor in the academy and global sisterhood.

Eric N. Berkowitz

Managing Director

Eric N. Berkowitz

Managing Director

Dr. Berkowitz is the Managing Director for Babson Global. He is also Professor Emeritus of Marketing, School of Management, at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst where he served for twelve years as Associate Dean of Professional Programs for the Isenberg School of Management responsible for both the full-time and part-time MBA program. He also served for 11 years as Head of the Marketing Department. Prior to joining the faculty at Massachusetts, Dr. Berkowitz was on the faculty of the University of Minnesota holding an appointment in the School of Management and the Center for Health Services Research. Dr. Berkowitz received his Ph.D. from the Ohio State University.

Professor Berkowitz has published extensively in both marketing and health care. He is an author of six books; Essentials of Health Care Marketing (Jones and Bartlett Learning, 5th ed., 2022); Marketing (Richard D. Irwin, 8th ed., 2006); Marketing in Canada (Richard D. Irwin, 5th ed.); Health Care Market Plans: From Strategy to Action (Jones and Bartlett 5th ed., 2020; Strategic Planning in Health Care Management: Marketing and Finance Perspectives (Aspen 1981); Health Care Market Research (Richard D. Irwin, 1997).

Dr. Berkowitz is a past editor of the Journal of Health Care Marketing. He also served as Chairperson of the Alliance for Health Care Strategy and Marketing. In 1985 Dr. Berkowitz was named an honorary member of the American College of Physician Executives. In 1988 Professor Berkowitz received the Frank J. Weaver Leadership Award from the Alliance for Healthcare Strategy and Marketing for his contributions to the advancement of healthcare marketing. For fifteen years he was on the board of Cooley Dickinson Hospital in Northampton Hospital serving for three years as Board Chair, and served for nine years on the board of Reliant Medical Group, a multispecialty group practice in Massachusetts.

Kim Stanhouse

Program Manager, Babson Global Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Kim Stanhouse is the Program Manager for the Babson Global Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership (BGCEL). As Program Manager, she plans and executes the annual funding cycles for projects, assists in their completion, and provides support for BGCEL and BG. She is responsible for the production of the Global Entrepreneurship Monitor reports for Saudi Arabia and collaborates with partners on events surrounding GEM Data and Reports. Read More

Kim Stanhouse

Program Manager, Babson Global Center for Entrepreneurial Leadership

Kim’s background is in teaching high school history; she spent eleven years at public and private schools in the US and United Kingdom. She has a B.A. in Secondary Education from the University of Nevada, Reno, a M.A. in European History from Birkbeck College, University of London and an Ed.M in Learning & Teaching from Harvard Graduate School of Education.