Prior to starting his business and later his teaching career, Tony Baker had a 22-year career with the U.S. Army. After retiring from the Army in 1996 he was the Founding and Managing Partner of a Seafood Producers Cooperative and in 2000 established a Small Business Information Management Consulting firm. From the Fall of 2000 to the Fall of 2005 he was a substitute faculty member at various high schools and middle schools, an adjunct faculty member at the Community College of RI, New England Institute of Technology, Gibbs College Boston, and Johnson and Wales University. Fall 2005 he began teaching full time at Providence College’s department of Management. In July 2007 he joined the staff of the Entrepreneurial Studies Institute here at AACC. 

His educational achievements include obtaining an ASB from the Community College of Rhode Island in 1984, a BSB from New England Technical Institute in 2000, an MBA from Johnson and Wales University in 2002, completion of 18 semester hours of post graduate course work in Business Education at Johnson and Wales University in 2003, required for a Rhode Island teaching certificate. Currently he is enrolled in a PhD program with Walden University and working on his dissertation on the topic of “Learning and Knowledge Management in Chesapeake Bay Commercial Fishing Communities.”

His publication credits include the following:

• “The Cultural Evolution of the Fishing Industry: The Effects of Fisheries Regulations on Community Based, Family Fishing Businesses.” Walden University, September 2006, published online Providence College Library March 2007
• “A Comparative Analysis of Government Regulations, Fishing Effort, and Outside Influences on Lobster Landings for the State of Rhode Island from 1988 – 1998.” JWU Graduate School, March 2002, published online Providence College Library March 2007
• “The Cultural Evolution of the Fishing Industry: The Effects of Fisheries Regulations on Community Based, Family Fishing Businesses.” Society for the Advancement of Management 2007 International Conference, published in 2007 Conference Journal
• Co-author “Military Operations Other Than War” Stackpole Books, January 2000

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