Dr. Memo Diriker
 Dr. Memo Diriker,
is the Founding Director of the Business, Economic, and Community
Outreach Network (BEACON). BEACON is the premier business and economic
research and consulting unit of the Franklin P. Perdue School of
Business at Salisbury University. BEACON is home to the
award winning Community Visioning, ShoreTrends, GrayShore, and
Bienvenidos a Delmarva initiative. BEACON is also a
proude partner of ShoreENERGY.
Dr. Diriker
specializes in the use of “Scenario
Analysis,” and in “Demographic, Business, and Economic Trend
Forecasting.” As the Director of BEACON, Dr. Diriker advises a
large number of private, public, and nonprofit sector organizations.
Some of his current and former clients include U.S. Steel;
Allied-Signal; Dow Chemical; Mass Mutual; Federal Express; Chesapeake
Utilities; K&L Microwave; MaTech; Midway and Courtesy Chevrolet; The
Daily Times of Salisbury; Perdue Farms; Peninsula Regional Medical
Center, and the Maryland Baseball Partnership. His current research
focuses on the "Three Es: Effectiveness, Efficiency, and Evidence." He
is especially interested in exploring the successful deployment of the
"Three Es" concept in Government Agencies, Nonprofit Organizations, and
Small to Medium-Sized Enterprises.
As the director of BEACON, Dr. Diriker
has served as the principal investigator on numerous grants and
sponsored research projects, totaling over $6 Million in awards. In
addition to a book, Dr. Diriker has authored many articles in academic
and practitioner publications, and is a sought-after public speaker.
Dr. Diriker is a Past President of the
Salisbury Sunrise Rotary Club. He has also served as the President of
the American Marketing Association in Boston, Massachusetts, and as a
former advisor to the Board of Directors of the Sales and Marketing
Executives of Greater Boston, Inc. Dr. Diriker recently completed a
ten-year stint on WBOC-TV (Channel 16--Cable 6) as the weekly
guest of the Wednesday Morning Business Beat segments. He is a regular
contributor to the print and electronic media in the Mid-Atlantic Region
on Demographic, Business, and Economic Trends in the region. He has
also written a Small Business column in the Daily Times of Salisbury for
over fifteen years.
Dr. Diriker is the recipient of many
honors and awards, including a University System of Maryland Board of
Regents Award for Outstanding Public Service.
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