Meet Our Leadership Team
Our Talented Team Members / Our leadership team of dedicated higher education professionals is committed to collaborating with you to provide assistance and support for your university rankings efforts and your quality assurance needs.
Collectively, we possess over 60 years of experience and expertise in higher education, accreditation, and quality assurance, and we have held a variety of faculty, administrative, executive, and professional positions.
Prof. Dennis N. Gash
Founder and Principal
Dennis is the former President of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE). He has also previously served as a business dean, department chair, and professor of economics. Dennis possesses over thirty years’ experience in higher business education, academic administration, quality assurance, and accreditation. He has mentored and advised numerous business schools throughout the world.
Dr. Archish Maharaja
Founder and Principal
Archish is a professor of management and accounting at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. In addition, he serves as the university’s Director of Graduate Programs and its Director of Health Care Administration and Management program. Archish is highly experienced and accomplished in student learning assessment, quality advancement, and accreditation, and is passionate about helping others to succeed.
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Prof. Dennis N. Gash
Prof. Dennis N. Gash
Founder and Principal
Prof. Dennis N. Gash, Founder and Principal
Prior to founding the IAAHE, Dennis served as President of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) – the global leader in mission-driven, outcomes-based accreditation for business and management education. During his tenure at the IACBE, Prof. Gash led the successful efforts in achieving national recognition of the IACBE by the Council for Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) – the primary, nongovernmental national advocate and institutional voice in the United States for promoting academic quality through accreditation and the recognition of institutional and programmatic accrediting organizations.
In addition, Dennis previously served the IACBE as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Director of Mentoring Programs, member of the Board of Commissioners, and chair of site-visit peer review teams. In these various roles, he has conducted and led numerous workshops and seminars on accreditation, internal and external quality assurance, outcomes assessment, and strategic planning.
Before joining the IACBE, Dennis was the Dean of Business and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Jamestown. He has also served on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and Aurora University. Over his wide-ranging career in higher education, Dennis has traveled extensively and has worked with and mentored numerous higher education institutions and business schools throughout the United States, Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East, China, India, and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.
Dennis’ extensive experience in higher business education includes thirty-one years as a faculty member in business and economics, twenty-three years in academic administration as dean and department chair, and seventeen years in senior- and executive-level positions in accreditation and outcomes assessment.
Dennis holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Kentucky. In addition, he earned a Master of Science in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and also completed all of the coursework and candidacy requirements for a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from the Kellogg School.
In addition, Dennis previously served the IACBE as Vice President and Chief Compliance Officer, Director of Mentoring Programs, member of the Board of Commissioners, and chair of site-visit peer review teams. In these various roles, he has conducted and led numerous workshops and seminars on accreditation, internal and external quality assurance, outcomes assessment, and strategic planning.
Before joining the IACBE, Dennis was the Dean of Business and Associate Professor of Economics at the University of Jamestown. He has also served on the faculty at the University of Illinois at Chicago, Loyola University of Chicago, Lake Forest College, and Aurora University. Over his wide-ranging career in higher education, Dennis has traveled extensively and has worked with and mentored numerous higher education institutions and business schools throughout the United States, Europe, Central and South America, the Middle East, China, India, and other countries in East and Southeast Asia.
Dennis’ extensive experience in higher business education includes thirty-one years as a faculty member in business and economics, twenty-three years in academic administration as dean and department chair, and seventeen years in senior- and executive-level positions in accreditation and outcomes assessment.
Dennis holds a Bachelor of Science in Business and Economics and a Master of Arts in Economics from the University of Kentucky. In addition, he earned a Master of Science in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University and also completed all of the coursework and candidacy requirements for a Ph.D. in Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences from the Kellogg School.
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Dr. Archish Maharaja
Dr. Archish Maharaja
Founder and Principal
Dr. Archish Maharaja, Founder and Principal
Archish Maharaja has been working in higher education for the past ten+ years as a faculty member at Point Park University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA. Archish teaches accounting for managers in the Master of Business Administration program, and currently serves as Director of Graduate Programs and Director of the Master of Science in Health Care Administration and Management program at Point Park. In addition to health care administration, he has also taught numerous graduate and undergraduate courses in accounting and business management at the university as well as other local and regional universities.
Archish is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) – a global leader in outcomes-based accreditation for business and management education. In addition, he has served the IACBE as Interim President, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, chair and member of accreditation site-visit peer review teams, and as a candidacy visit chair for numerous higher education institutions in the Middle East, India, and the United States.
This experience has equipped him with a deep and thorough knowledge of accreditation standards and quality assessment and advancement processes and methodologies. Archish has also been involved in various academic program reviews and evaluations. For the past several years, he has been involved in developing evaluation rubrics, conducting assessments, analyzing assessment results, and recommending improvement measures for quality advancement in higher education.
Professor Maharaja also possesses significant industry experience as a Certified Public Accountant, consultant, and management professional. This experience has helped him to incorporate industry needs into graduate business programs and to expose students to hands-on, experiential learning. In addition, he has provided his services as a CPA to small- and medium-size businesses and to health care professionals in the fields of accounting, business management, finance, operations, and tax planning and preparation. These experiences have reinforced his ability to view accreditation, assessment, and quality in higher education from a practical perspective that focuses on the specific needs in those areas.
Archish has presented scholarly works on topics related to accreditation and educational quality at various academic conferences and is involved in scholarly research in those areas of interest. His wide-ranging experiences as a professor, chair of accreditation site-visit peer review teams, director of graduate programs, and as a CPA have uniquely equipped him to achieve his goal of helping others to advance quality in higher education.
Professor Maharaja holds a Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.) from Duquesne University, a Master of International Business Management from Point Park University, and is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Planner, and Personal Financial Specialist.
Archish is currently the Chair of the Board of Directors of the International Accreditation Council for Business Education (IACBE) – a global leader in outcomes-based accreditation for business and management education. In addition, he has served the IACBE as Interim President, Vice Chair of the Board of Directors, chair and member of accreditation site-visit peer review teams, and as a candidacy visit chair for numerous higher education institutions in the Middle East, India, and the United States.
This experience has equipped him with a deep and thorough knowledge of accreditation standards and quality assessment and advancement processes and methodologies. Archish has also been involved in various academic program reviews and evaluations. For the past several years, he has been involved in developing evaluation rubrics, conducting assessments, analyzing assessment results, and recommending improvement measures for quality advancement in higher education.
Professor Maharaja also possesses significant industry experience as a Certified Public Accountant, consultant, and management professional. This experience has helped him to incorporate industry needs into graduate business programs and to expose students to hands-on, experiential learning. In addition, he has provided his services as a CPA to small- and medium-size businesses and to health care professionals in the fields of accounting, business management, finance, operations, and tax planning and preparation. These experiences have reinforced his ability to view accreditation, assessment, and quality in higher education from a practical perspective that focuses on the specific needs in those areas.
Archish has presented scholarly works on topics related to accreditation and educational quality at various academic conferences and is involved in scholarly research in those areas of interest. His wide-ranging experiences as a professor, chair of accreditation site-visit peer review teams, director of graduate programs, and as a CPA have uniquely equipped him to achieve his goal of helping others to advance quality in higher education.
Professor Maharaja holds a Doctor of Education degree (Ed.D.) from Duquesne University, a Master of International Business Management from Point Park University, and is a Certified Public Accountant, Certified Financial Planner, and Personal Financial Specialist.
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