A UC Berkeley enterprise professor was shot and killed by a masked gunman in broad daylight whereas in Greece for a custody listening to.
Przemyslaw Jeziorski, 43, was shot 5 occasions within the chest and neck at shut vary close to his ex-wife’s house in a suburb of Athens on July 4, in keeping with the Polish information outlet, TVP World.
He died on the scene, police mentioned.
The suspect — who stays at giant — fled on foot. He’s described by witnesses as being a tall man with an athletic construct.
Authorities are actively investigating Jeziorski’s homicide.
Jeziorski, a professor at Berkeley’s Haas College of Enterprise for 8 years, was in Greece to attend a toddler custody listening to for his two kids, ABC 7 reported.
“Our family is heartbroken, and we are doing everything we can to ensure that justice is served,” his brother, Lukasz Jeziorski, wrote on the European crowdfunding web page, WhyDonate.
“Przemek was a loving father to two young children and a beloved professor at the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. He was a leading scholar in marketing science, industrial organization and data analytics. He loved teaching and sharing his passion for the intricacies of marketing analytics and marketing science with his students.”
His brother mentioned they’re elevating cash to assist with “legal fees, the repatriation of Przemek’s remains to Poland, and related expenses.”
Within the wake of the tragic capturing, Berkeley Haas Dean Jennifer Chatman launched an announcement calling Jeziorski a “beloved” member of the “Haas community.”
“We are heartbroken by news of the tragic and sudden death of Professor Przemyslaw Jeziorski, a beloved member of our marketing faculty and Haas community,” Chatman wrote in an announcement offered to ABC 7.
“While authorities are investigating what happened, our focus is on supporting our community during this difficult period. My heart goes out to Przemek’s family and loved ones. We will miss him.”
An in depth colleague within the college’s enterprise faculty, Professor Zsolt Katona, described the daddy of two as an “outstanding scholar.”
“It’s hard to come to terms with this senseless tragedy,” Katona instructed SFGATE.
“Przemek was an amazing person, a friend, a colleague. He was a loving father of two young children and always there if someone needed help.”
His peer added that Jeziorski “had great influence on the marketing field, not only through his research, but his energetic presence and optimism combined with a healthy dose of skepticism.”
Earlier than becoming a member of the Haas school as an assistant professor of selling in 2012, Jeziorski studied on the SGH Warsaw College of Economics, the College of Arizona, the College of Chicago, and Stanford College, as listed on his web site.
He additionally beforehand taught at Johns Hopkins College and was a analysis intern at Microsoft.
The extremely accredited professor’s analysis targeted on quantitative advertising, industrial group, antitrust and regulation, digital advertising, and monetary know-how.
Jeziorski’s work has been printed in a number of acclaimed tutorial journals, together with Advertising Science, Administration Science, and the RAND Journal of Economics.
