Elaine S. Potoker
(BA, SUNY, Potsdam, N.Y.; MAT, the University of Chicago; Ph.D. The Ohio State University) is Professor in the Loeb-Sullivan School of International Business and Logistics at Maine Maritime Academy, Castine, Maine, in both the undergraduate program and the Dept. of Graduate Studies and Research. Dr. Potoker is a recipient of the prestigious Fulbright Award (Fall, 2007) through which she was an invited researcher by the Research Institute Economic Science and Visiting Professor at the School of Business Administration at the University of Costa Rica (San José).
Dr. Potoker's business experience includes travel in a management, training, sales and marketing capacity for over 20 years. She is formerly Coordinator of Central American Sales for Reed Mfg. Co., Erie, Pennsylvania.
Her academic and work experience includes international workforce training, development and performance metrics, management across cultures, business assessment and strategic planning, integrated marketing communications, and international management and marketing (Focus: Central American and the Caribbean).
Her professional affiliations include: Rotary International (former Board member), The Cleveland World Trade Association (former Board member), The Niagara Moot Court Competition, and the Greater Cleveland Lawyers Group. She is a reviewer for the American Marketing Assoc. and the Academy of Management (International Division, Entrepreneurship, and Women in Management Division), and is listed in Who's Who in International Business, Who's Who, Women in Education, and Women in Business.
Additionally, Dr. Potoker is owner of Interloqui, a firm that provides service assistance (e.g., business planning, assessment, training, executive education workshops) to business and government.
