Mr. Yaksick is an EDUCATOR AND FINANCIAL ECONOMIST (Ph.D. ABD, U. of Pennsylvania and former Wharton Research Fellow) specializing in the design and delivery of business school courses in Finance and Economics. Currently, he is an Adjunct Finance Professor at St. Joseph's University (Philadelphia). In that capacity, he is teaching the undergraduate course Introduction to Finance. During the 2017-19 academic years, Mr. Yaksick was an Assistant Professor in the Finance Department at the Temple University-Fox School of Business. In that capacity, he taught the undergraduate Security & Portfolio Analysis course as well as the case-based, capstone course in Corporate Finance. His course evaluations consistently average 4.6 out of 5.0 point system. In the summer of 2020, he taught the Introduction to Financial Management course via ZOOM. He also served as the Faculty Mentor to the award-winning Financial Management Student Chapter (Superior Designation) and Member of the Undergraduate Planning Committee.

In the prior 2016-17 academic year, Mr. Yaksick taught Corporate Finance I and II as well as Principles of Economics (Micro & Macro) to undergraduate business majors attending Wenzhou-Kean University in Wenzhou, China. He managed the Shark Tank Event as well as designed and taught the Start-Up Workshop, using Lean Start-Up principles and MIT's Disciplined Entrepreneurship road map. Two of his Workshop student teams received prizes in the 2017 Kean U. business plan competition (4th prize U$1000.00 and Consolation Prize - $300.00).

During the 2015 academic year, he taught Financial Management and Entrepreneurial Finance to undergraduate and MBA students at the Gulf University of Science & Technology in Kuwait. Also, he tutored senior executives attending the executive MBA programs at both MIT-SLOAN and DUKE U. Business Schools. He mentored MIT Sloan MBA students launching new ventures for the MIT Legatum Center for Development and Entrepreneurship.

During the period 1991-1997, Mr. Yaksick was an Assistant Professor (Finance & Economics Boston University and Clark University Schools of Management). He designed and delivered MBA courses in: Managerial Economics, Derivative Securities, Fixed Income Analysis, and Investment Management. Subsequently, he was retained as a Senior Consultant by the Saudi Arabian Monetary Agency (Kingdom's Central Bank). In that capacity he designed and implemented the Kingdom's first investment accreditation program--and related training curriculum--meeting international standards. Also, he co-delivered with a Wharton Finance Professor an MBA-level Investments course.