Matthew Lonam, Ph.D.
Dr. Matt Lonam is the founding Executive Director of Mountain State University Orlando, the central Florida branch of Mountain State University, Beckley, WV. Dr. Lonam's vision of university teaching is embodied in its small, boardroom style classrooms, state-of-the-art technology and modular design that permits easy upgrading as events and technology require future physical changes. Mountain State University Orlando is a center for Leadership Studies, offering the graduate and undergraduate degrees in the field as well as leading the way in higher education through innovative scheduling, affordable tuition and personal attention to students based on an instructor-led cohort learning model. Prior to becoming the Executive Director of Mountain State University Orlando, Dr. Lonam was the Associate Director of the Accelerated (online) Master of Tourism Administration program in George Washington University's School of Business and Public Management. He designed the program's unique course rotation model that made it possible for students to choose among a dozen sets of course options in pursuing their degrees. He also directed the program's day-to-day operations, with a special emphasis on student recruitment and advising.

Dr. Lonam's experience with non-traditional post-secondary education began twenty years ago in Mexico City as Vice President - Latin America for the Educational Institute of the American Hotel & Lodging Association and continued as the Senior Education Consultant for Compass Knowledge Group, a company specialized in the marketing and administration of university distance learning programs. Dr. Lonam also has many years of experience in Tourism and Hospitality Management education, most recently at George Washington University, but also as a faculty member at Johnson & Wales University, Northern Arizona University and the University of Missouri. Prior to his career in higher education, he was a hotel general manager, food & beverage director, sales manager, and front office manager. Dr. Lonam also worked in the hotel technology as a computer installer and trainer throughout the United States and the Caribbean. Born in Washington, D.C., raised in Germany and Italy as well as the United States, Dr. Lonam received his Bachelors degree in Political Science from Loyola College in Baltimore, Maryland; his MA in Tourism Development from The George Washington University; and a Ph.D. from the University of Missouri in Higher and Adult Education. He is married and lives in Orlando, Florida with his wife, son, two dogs and a cat.

Lincoln H. Marshall, Ph.D.
Dr. Marshall is the Coordinator of the Hotel Management Certificate Program at the International Institute of Tourism Studies in the Department of Tourism & Hospitality Management at The George Washington University. Previously he served as the Director of the Accelerated Master of Tourism Administration at GWU, and also a tenured Associate Professor at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in the Hotel, Restaurant, & Institutional Management Department. He is also an adjunct professor at Nova Southeastern University in Fort Lauderdale, Florida. In 1996 he served as a visiting professor at Cornell University and taught Casino Management.

He is the co-author of Introduction to Casino and Gaming Operations and has worked at three of the four casinos in The Bahamas.

He has conducted hospitality training programmers in Aruba, The Bahamas, Barbados, The British Virgin Islands, France, Jamaica, Madagascar, Nicaragua and the United States of America.

Dr. Marshall is currently a member of the Society of Human Resource Management, the American Society of Training and Development, and the Council on Hotel, Restaurant and Institutional Education. He received a Bachelors degree in Psychology from Grinnell College and a Doctor of Philosophy in Counseling and Student Development, with a support field in Human Resources Management from The American University in Washington, D.C.