82 Millennium - A Marquis Who’s Who Magazine BUSINESS, FINANCE AND ENTREPRENEURSHIP operations manager at IBM, leading a team of 40 system analysts and managing a multi-milliondollar budget. Notably, she was the youngest person, the first African American and the first woman to hold this role at IBM. She also taught collegiate courses as a guest lecturer and adjunct instructor for over five decades. Publishing over 100 articles and multiple books, Dr. Hannum is the author of the bestselling “The Art of Selling Art,” which has sold over 50,000 copies to date. She also contributed an original screenplay to Lighthouse Publishing, producing “The Art of Selling Thomas Kinkade’s Art” to train 5,000 licensed Kinkade dealers worldwide. To attest to her success, she was honored with the Professoriate Award from the National Science Foundation and was named Career Woman of the Year by the State of Hawaii. Dr. Hannum holds a PhD in industrial and manufacturing engineering from Western Michigan University. Distinguished for her expertise in fine arts, consulting, technology and business development, Dr. Zella Jackson Hannum has thrived as the owner and founder of Novasearch Consultants & Publishing since 1983, assuming a vital role in commercializing technology in the U.S. and Mexico. Concurrently, she founded Gallery Zella in 2016 and now serves as its business development and artist brand manager. Drawing on over 40 years of experience across diversified industries – including engineering, authorship, public speaking, and fine arts management and promotion – Dr. Hannum also provided expert testimony at federal and state court depositions. Earlier in her career, Dr. Hannum was a mechanical engineering technology instructor and the director of the Entrepreneurship and Small Business Development Institute at Ferris State University and conducted research at Western Michigan University and for the North American Advanced Manufacturing Research and Education Initiative. She held several contract management roles within the fine arts sphere, including managing business development at art galleries nationwide, in the Netherlands and in Canada. In the early stages of her career, Dr. Hannum was a systems ZELLA JACKSON HANNUM, PHD OWNER, FOUNDER Novasearch Consultants & Publishing Bryson City, NC
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