Gerry Cleaves

Background

About Gerry Cleaves

After 25 years in industry providing global supply chain, risk management and decision-support software and consulting, Mr. Cleaves joined the faculty of Fairleigh Dickinson University in the College of Business Management Department in 2003. He left FDU in 2019 to address the growing opioid addiction crisis in NJ through the Anchor of Hope Alliance. He now teaches part-time at Pillar College where he founded the Anchor of Hope @ Pillar College to address the perfect storm of mental, homelessness, incarceration and addiction that has stalled over NJ and the Nation in the 21st Century and has intensified during Covid. In February, 2022, he was named Director, Anchor of Hope @ Pillar College, LLC. In July, 2023, my wife Gwen and I founded the Anchor of Hope Alliance LLC to address issues surrounding the perfect storm in a meaningful way. He worked for Exxon Chemical Company, Chesapeake Decision Sciences, and consulted for industry through AtlanTec, a company he founded in 1995. He has degrees in chemical engineering from Lehigh University and Princeton University and an MBA from Harvard Business School. At FDU, Mr. Cleaves taught graduate MBA courses in Pharmaceutical and Life Sciences, Management. Leadership, and the Strategic Management, as well as undergraduate classes including Ethical Issues in Social Institutions and Fundamentals of Business. Previously, he taught at Stevens Institute of Technology and Monmouth University. His interests are in Leadership, Ethics, Social Entrepreneurship, Corporate Social Responsibility, Innovation, Sustainability, Strategic Planning, and Global Supply Chain Management. He has extensive expertise in on-line and hybrid education and in introducing controversial ethical issues into the classroom. He headed the Florham Scholars in Business for 10 years and was co-Director of FDU's award-winning Enactus Team advocating innovative business solutions addressing social problems to create a better world. He served for 20 years on the Board of Directors of the Market Street Mission in Morristown, NJ — an organization that has served the needs of the homeless, helpless, and hopeless of northern NJ since 1889. His interests are in advocating for the Jersey Shore Rescue Mission in Asbury Park which serve the needs of the New Jersey shore area. He also played the last chair, third trumpet in the Westfield, NJ Community Band and is famous for his world-class BBQ sauce.