Meet the Members

Please join us in welcoming a two new members to the School of Management’s Dean’s Executive Council and Advisory Council.

New to the Dean's Executive Council, Hugh Cassar is a life-long entrepreneur, a Chartered Accountant, and business graduate from The University of Toronto. He is the Founder and Chairman of Kretek International, Inc. Corporate offices are located locally in Moorpark, California.  For the past 14 years Hugh has served as the Honorary Consul General of Malta.

Hugh and his wife, Keets, focus their philanthropic efforts in the Conejo Valley where they reside, as well as many other communities.  Local charities include Casa Pacifica, Cancer Support, New West Symphony, Cabrillo Music, and The Alliance for the Arts. Hugh is presently on the Dean’s Executive Advisory Council for the School of Management at California Lutheran University as well as the Executive Board of Directors of Channel Islands University.  He is a long-time resident of Westlake Village (since 1970), and has been fortunate to raise his 6 children here in the Conejo Valley.  

New member of the Advisory Council, Bob Bushnell is Vice President, Strategy and Business Development, for L-3 Communications, Integrated Sensor Systems (ISS) business.  L-3’s ISS sector is focused on making the world safer by producing the best sensing solutions in all domains—Space, Airborne, Ground, Maritime (surface and undersea), and Cyber.  ISS does business globally and has a footprint comprised of seven divisions, with 20 operating locations in theUS,Canada,Australia, theUK, andItaly.

Mr. Bushnell has over thirty years of domestic and international business experience in aerospace and defense, and telecommunications.  He spent 23 years with Hughes Aircraft Company and, later, Raytheon Company, after it acquired Hughes. While at Hughes/Raytheon, Bushnell received multiple awards for Business Development Excellence, the highest recognition for excellence in his field.  He also served on the executive leadership team at Northrop Grumman’s Navigation Systems business, formerly Litton Industries.

Over the course of his career, Bob has sold highly complex military and commercial systems in some of the world’s most challenging markets such as the Middle East, South and Southeast Asia, andEurope. He has negotiated a wide range of international business transactions including special mission aircraft for Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance missions; telecommunications satellites, joint ventures, and strategic alliances, several in excess of $1 billion. While at Hughes, he helped launch the hugely successful direct-to-home satellite television service, DirecTV.

Prior to joining Hughes, Bob spent seven years with LTV Aerospace and Defense as a marketing executive.

He holds a Bachelor of Science degree fromPepperdineUniversity, an MBA degree fromCaliforniaLutheranUniversity and has completed graduate management programs at theUniversity ofSouthern California and theUniversity ofMichigan. In 2012, Bushnell was honored by CLU as a Silver Anniversary Alumni, one theSchool ofManagement's top 25 distinguished MBA graduates.

 Bob has been married for 35 years and has two adult children.