Mr. Joseph Gekoski is President and CEO of Advantexe Learning Solutions. He was a co-founder of Strategic Management Group, Inc. in 1981 and, prior to the sale of the company in 2000, was its President and Chief Operating Officer.
Joe has been consulting with organizations to help their executives and managers understand Finance, Marketing and Strategy since 1981. He is an expert in the use of business simulations for teaching fundamental and advanced business skills to middle and senior level executives. Most recently, he has led leadership development programs with: Advanced Micro Devices, Chemtura, Fairchild Semiconductor, Eaton Corporation, General Electric, LSI, Skyworks Solutions, Symantec Corporation and Quaker Chemical.
Mr. Gekoski is currently and adjunct professor at Villanova University, where he teachers Strategic Marketing Management in the MBA program using a marketing business simulation, and he was a former lecturer in management at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School of Business, where he taught a capstone course in Business Policy.
Mr. Gekoski is co-author of Financial Learning Systems, an introductory financial self-study text, and was a contributing editor to the Handbook of Business Strategy, 2nd edition. His recent research has focused on Customer Centricity and he is the author of the Customer Centric Organization Assessment Survey.
Mr. Gekoski holds an MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania and a BS in Mechanical Engineering from Drexel University.
