Pennsylvania SBDC - Duquesne University

Center Profile

Founded: 1981

Specialties: Global Business Program
Counties: Allegheny, Beaver, Butler, and Lawrence

Please note: Allegheny County is a shared territory by the the University of Pittsburgh and Duquesne University SBDCs. Please search by zip code to find the closest center to you.

Staff Profile

Rich Longo

Richard Longo
Director

Rich Longo is currently the Interim Director of Duquesne University/School of Business/ Small Business Development Center (SBDC) where he assists new and existing businesses in the areas of business plan development: financial forecasting/financial statement development: marketing strategy and implementation plans. Rich is also certified in Technology Commercialization.

Previous positions held include Owner/CEO of RIOL; LLC a boutique consulting firm specializing in Group Medical Practice Management, Pay for Performance, Accountable Care Organizations (ACO’S) and Productivity and Quality Outcomes based physician-based compensation and Senior Vice President, Network Management for Devon Health Services, Inc. King of Prussia, PA, one of the largest regional PPO’s in the Northeast.

Rich has also served as adjunct facility at Robert Morris University and the University of Pittsburgh. Rich received his Bachelor’s degree in Nursing (cum laude) from Duquesne University and a Master’s Degree (magna cum laude) from the University of Pittsburgh.

Tunca Cali

Tunca Cali
Marketing, Training & Informatics Manager

Tunca Cali is the Marketing & Training Coordinator of the Duquesne University Small Business Development Center. He earned his MBA degree from Duquesne University. He has worked with several clients over the past years and helped them to develop marketing strategies as well as marketing and coordinating the training events offered by the SBDC.

Donald Lodge

Don Lodge
Business Consultant

Don Lodge is a Business Consultant at the Duquesne University Small Business Development Center. He is also a certified business coach who has worked with over 100 small business clients since 2002. His areas of expertise include profitability improvement, effective sales techniques, and employee relations.

Doug Harding

Douglas Harding
Business Consultant

Douglas Harding brings over 35 years of managing international business development activities for various multinational industrial manufacturing companies, including a new venture within PPG Industries. Having traveled extensively throughout Latin America, Europe, Middle East, and Asia, Douglas has a deep intuitive understanding of business interactions in diverse cultural settings and has been able to bridge the culture gap to lead new business activities in many international industrial markets.

Douglas is a Visiting Instructor in Management at the University of Pittsburgh-Greensburg campus and had been an Adjunct Instructor in Business & Management at the College of Business Administration at Pitt's Oakland campus for several years. Douglas has also taught International Business, Strategic Management, and Public Affairs Management at Duquesne University’s A. J. Palumbo School of Business; and International Business courses at Waynesburg University’s Professional MBA program, and a Chatham University.

Douglas is a native of Venezuela and is fully bilingual in Spanish.

Cynthia Oliver

Cynthia Oliver
Business Consultant
Cynthia graduated from the Indiana University of Pa. with a bachelor’s degree in Journalism/Public Relations and a master’s degree in Public Affairs. She is completing her Ph.D. in Higher Education Administration from the University of Phoenix. Cynthia is a nationally certified fundraising executive (CFRE) and a certified Executive Director with GSUSA.

Cynthia has a diverse background with over 30 years’ experience as a senior executive in both the public and private sector. She has served as CEO of several local nonprofits including the Girl Scouts, Mothers Against Drunk Driving, and most recently as Executive Director of the East Liberty Chamber of Commerce. In the private sector, Cynthia worked for 10 years’ owning and assisting in managing the family’s real estate investment business where she specialized in buying, rehabbing, and marketing residential real estate. Cynthia currently owns and manages The Social Source Marketing, offering digital marketing services to small businesses.

Russell Combs

Russell Combs
Business Consultant
Russell is a native of the Southern Tier of New York but traveled to Dayton, Ohio to attend Dayton Bible College, where he earned his Bachelor of Arts degree. Since graduating, he has continued his studies in Business Administration and Management.

He brings over 40 years of economic development and business creation/counseling experience to the SBDC, 35 of which was concentrated in Business Incubation, including Concept to Commercialization for a variety of business genres. Until recently he was also the owner/President of Incubation Operations, Training and Applications (IOTA), headquartered in Albuquerque, New Mexico.

In terms of leadership, Russ has held a variety of positions: Director of the WESST Enterprise Center, Erie Technology Incubator at Gannon University, and Director of the Tech Ventures division for a non-profit in Southeastern, Ohio, just to name a few. His extensive background continues to attract several interested small business owners.

Michele Migliuolo

Michele Migliuolo
Executive Director
Michele Migliuolo, a multi-decade advisor, coach, and investor to technology startups, is an entrepreneur who has co-founded five high technology companies in the semiconductor, medical device, and energy sectors. He has decades' experience as an executive in the manufacturing and sales of scientific capital equipment and analytical instruments.

Michele is a Professor and Director of the Center for Excellence in Entrepreneurship at Duquesne University's Palumbo Donahue School of Business. Recently Michele was an Executive in Residence at TechGROWTH Ohio, a Venture Development Organization funded in part by the State of Ohio's Third Frontier Fund, and Commercialization Alliance Manager at Innovation Works, the seventh most active seed-stage investor in the United States, where he managed the relationships between member organizations to provide world-class commercialization expertise and take the lead on accelerating technology transfer of federal research performed at the Department of Energy's (DOE) National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL).

Michele is fluent in multiple languages, and is a member of the APS, the ASMS, and the IEEE, and has published over eighty papers, including patents, refereed publications, contributed proceedings, and invited presentations.

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