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M. Lynne Markus
Professor M. Lynne Markus is the John W. Poduska, Sr. Chair in Information Management at the McCallum Graduate School of Business, Bentley College. Dr. Markus was formerly a member of the Faculty of Business at the City University of Hong Kong (as Chair Professor of Electronic Business), the Peter F. Drucker Graduate School of Management at Claremont Graduate University, the Anderson Graduate School of Management (UCLA) and the Sloan School of Management (MIT). She also taught at the Information Systems Research Unit, Warwick Business School, UK (as Visiting Fellow), at the Nanyang Business School, Singapore (as Shaw Foundation Professor), at the Universidade Tecnica de Lisboa, Portugal (as Fulbright/FLAD Chair in Information Systems), and at the Monieson Centre at Queen's Business School (as Fulbright -- Queen's Visiting Research Chair in The Management of Knowledge-Based Enterprises.

Professor Markus's three primary research areas are enterprise and inter-enterprise systems, IT and organization change, and knowledge management. Dr. Markus has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, The Advanced Practices Council of SIM International, the Financial Executives Research Foundation, the Office of Technology Assessment (US Congress), and Baan Institute. She is the author of three books and numerous articles in journals such as MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Organization Science, Communications of the ACM, Sloan Management Review and Management Science. She has served as AIS VP for Education, SIM VP for Academic Community Affairs, and on the editorial boards of several leading journals in the information systems field. She was named Fellow of the Association for Information Systems in 2004.

David Bennett

Dr David Bennett is a Professor of Technology Management at Aston Business School, UK . His teaching is in operations and technology management and his research is concerned with issues relating to management of technology (MOT), the transfer of technology between industrialised and developing countries, international manufacturing, production systems design, and quality & reliability management. Much of this research is international in context, with a particular focus on the Asian region. Dr David is a member of Aston Business School's Technology and Operations Management (TOM) Research Group. Dr David has authored and co-authored several books as well as numerous articles in the areas of specialisation. Dr David has also undertaken consulting assignments for the European Commission (EC) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO). His industrial experience includes periods in the automotive components and electrical equipment industries. Previous academic appointments have been with the former Wolverhampton Polytechnic (now Wolverhampton University ) and a secondment to the Malaysian National Institute of Public Administration where he was a training consultant. Professor David holds MSc and PhD degrees from the University of Birmingham . He is a Chartered Engineer and a member of a number of professional bodies including the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA), the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), the Chartered Management Institute (CMI), the Decision Sciences Institute (DSI), and the Institution of Electrical Engineers (IEE) - Management and Design Division. He is immediate past President of the European Operations Management Association (EurOMA) and a member of the Executive Council of the International Association for Management of Technology (IAMOT). Professor David is General Editor of "Journal of Manufacturing Technology Management", published by Emerald, and serve on the editorial advisory boards of several other academic journals. These include "International Journal of Operations and Production Management", "International Journal of Entrepreneurship and Innovation Management", "Benchmarking for Quality Management and Technology", "International Journal of Technology Transfer and Commercialisation", "Business Process Management Journal", "Journal of Technology Management in China", "Brazilian Journal of Operations and Production Management" and "Journal of International Business and Entrepreneurship".