Hagai Gringarten, PhD

Dr. Hagai Gringarten is a marketing professor and a branding expert. He teaches branding

strategies and marketing at St. Thomas University’s Gus Machado College of Business and was

a Visiting Professor at Beijing Jiaotong University in Beijing and Harbin Finance University in

Harbin, China.

Dr. Gringarten founded and later sold a specialty coffee company and worked as development

manager for a global retailer. He has served as president of the American Marketing Association

South Florida chapter and co-authored a bestselling book about coffee. He also pursued

postgraduate studies at Harvard Graduate School of Business and the Kellogg School of

Management.

He currently serves as Vice Chair on the Board of the City of Miami Beach Budget Advisory, and as a member of the Audit Committee for the City of Miami Beach.  He served as Vice Chair of the Florida Undergraduate Research Association (FURA), and as the Chair of the Florida Undergraduate Research Conference (FURC 2023). He is the publisher and editor-in-chief of the Journal of Multidisciplinary Research www.jmrpublication.org.

Dr. Gringarten coauthored the books Over a Cup of Coffee, Ethical Branding and

Marketing: Cases and Lessons, and Advances and Lessons in Sports. His latest

book Strategies for Student Success in Higher Education: The First-Year Experience was

recently published in the UK & US.