Board Of Directors

Dr. Michelle Chan has be a Nevada resident for the past 7 years. She has over 25 years of experience in higher education leadership, online learning, and technology.  Her strengths are technology organization management, project management and various learning management system server technologies, in addition to a very strong background in AV technologies and production.  She completed her BA and MLS degrees from SUNY at Buffalo.  She obtained her Ed.D. degree from the University of New England in 2016.  Her dissertation was to better utilize MOOC (Massive Open Online Courses) as a mean to allow for mass educational content sharing and collaborations.  MOOC had since achieve a major successes in utilizing this course delivery methodology.  Dr. Chan currently serves as Senior Analyst at the College of Southern Nevada (CSN) supporting online learning.

Dr. Chan has a strong passion of serving the community and to bring together all community stakeholders for better communication, strengthens work relationships and service improvements.  Dr. Chan is especially interested in bridging the gaps to improve international trades amongst business communities, which is the reason why she serves as a volunteer mentor for SCORE Chapter 243.  She believes that when everyone works together, everyone wins in their business ventures, therefore lead to greater prosperity and harmony.

Dr. Cass Shum is an Assistant Professor in Hospitality Organizational Behavior at William F. Harrah College of Hotel Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas (UNLV). She received her Ph.D. in Management from Hong Kong University of Science and Technology. Her research focuses on interpersonal relationship and behaviors at work including abusive supervision, coworker support and influence, and employee’s ethical behaviors. Dr. Shum’s works can be found in Organizational Science, Journal of Business Ethics, International Journal of Hospitality Management, and other peer-reviewed journals. Her teaching interests includes organization behavior, leadership, and research methods. Prior to joining UNLV, Dr. Shum was a visiting scholar at University of Florida.

Tom Shu has been working as a commercial loan underwriter and portfolio manager at various banks in Las Vegas and California.  He also has a specialty in SBA guaranteed loans.  Tom enjoys assisting small business owners on the development of their business plans and reviewing their financial information to provide recommendations on improving their cash flow. 

Tom is the owner and operator of Shu Business Consulting Services, which provides consultations to business clients in improving their cash flow operations and assisting them in securing capital resources.  He also serves as a certified business mentor with the SCORE Organization in Las Vegas in assisting clients in developing business plans as well as financial projections.  In addition, Tom serves as the Treasurer for the Las Vegas Chapter of Chinese American Citizens Alliance (C.A.C.A). C.A.C.A. is a non-profit organization founded in San Francisco, California to secure equal rights for Americans of Chinese ancestry and to better the welfare of their communities. C.A.C.A. is the oldest Asian American civil rights organization in the United States.  

Tom received his master’s degree in business administration and has a bachelor’s degree in economics. He was also a guest lecturer on business ethics for financial institutions at Webster University in Irvine, California in 2015. Tom is also a tax preparer with the Internal Revenue Service.  Tom is fluent in both English and Mandarin Chinese.

Lucio has over 40 years’ experience in the hospitality industry in all facets of food and beverage operations and has held senior positions with Mandalay Resort Group, Bally’s Grand Resort, The Hermitage Hotel, the New York Hilton and Starwood (Sheraton).

Lucio’s career focus and vast knowledge in key areas such as; operation analysis, performance evaluations, training, staff development, business acumen, policies & procedures implementation, training programs including, efficiencies on food safety rules, cost control, labor requirement, covering the culinary, beverage & front of the house departments.

Lucio has master responsibility within organizations - how high performing individuals, teams, and business cultures influence responsibility to create impact. The commitment, his work, and his passion is the first how-to approach for taking and teaching personal responsibility, something that he has shared with staff, that how we choose to experience accountability & responsibility is a moment-to-moment personal choice and not about title, tenure, or position.

As the visionary force behind his leadership gif, Lucio applies groundbreaking discoveries about personal responsibility and performance to support future leader’s intent on rapidly building highly reliable, agile, sustainable, and accelerating teams and cultures 

Lucio Arancibia CEC ACC MCFE, focused on entrepreneurship and innovation, Lucio was the brainchild behind INFOODSYS® creation, development, and execution of a simple interface design App.

 He is convinced that simplicity will improved the life of hard working Chefs of all walk of life. His always inspired and guided by the same obsessive drive and belief, that everything should be simple.