Distinguished Professor @ SIBM Pune

Angappa Gunasekaran

Dean and Professor,
School of Business and Public Administration,
California State University,
Bakersfield Bakersfield, California

Dr. Angappa Gunasekaran is the Dean at the School of Business and Public Administration, California State University, Bakersfield (USA). Prior to this, he held the position of Dean and Professor at the Charlton College of Business from January 1, 2013 to June 30, 2017, Chairperson of the Department of Decision and Information Sciences from 2006-2012 and Founding Director of Business Innovation Research Center (BIRC) from 2006-2017 at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth (MA). Dr. Gunasekaran has held academic positions at Brunel University (UK), Monash University (Australia), the University of Vaasa (Finland), the University of Madras (India) and the University of Toronto, Laval University, and Concordia University (Canada). He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the Indian Institute of Technology (Bombay). Dr. Gunasekaran has received Thomas J. Higginson Award for Excellence in Teaching (2001-2002) within the Charlton College of Business. He has over 300 articles published/forthcoming in 40 different peer-reviewed journals. He has presented about 50 papers and published 60 articles in conferences and given a number of invited more talks in about 20 countries.

Dr. Gunasekaran is on the Editorial Board of over 30 peer-reviewed journals which include some prestigious journals. He has edited a couple of books. Dr. Gunasekaran is the Editor of Benchmarking: An International Journal and the North-American Editor of the International Journal of Enterprise Network Management. Dr. Gunasekaran is currently interested in researching benchmarking, agile manufacturing, management information systems, e-procurement, competitiveness of SMEs, information technology/systems evaluation, performance measures and metrics in new economy, technology management, logistics, and supply chain management.

Rameshwar Dubey

Reader-Operations Management
Liverpool Business School,
Liverpool John Moores University
Liverpool, England,
United Kingdom

Dr. Dubey is currently working in Reader-Operations Management Liverpool Business School, Liverpool John Moores University Liverpool, England, United Kingdom, he was an Associate Professor (Operations Management) at Symbiosis International University, Pune, India and Post Doctoral Fellow (President Fellowship) and Visiting Professor at Computer Science Engineering Department, Southern University of Science and Technology, China and Assistant Professor (Logistics and Supply Chain Management), College of Management and Economic Studies, UPES, Dehradun, India.

Dr. Gunasekaran is on the Editorial Board of over 30 peer-reviewed journals which include some prestigious journals. He has edited a couple of books. Dr. Gunasekaran is the Editor of Benchmarking: An International Journal and the North-American Editor of the International Journal of Enterprise Network Management. Dr. Gunasekaran is currently interested in researching benchmarking, agile manufacturing, management information systems, e-procurement, competitiveness of SMEs, information technology/systems evaluation, performance measures and metrics in new economy, technology management, logistics, and supply chain management.

Yogesh Dwivedi

Dean of Academic Leadership (Research Environment and Interdisciplinary Research) at Swansea University Swansea,
United Kingdom Higher Education. Distinguished Research Professor at SIBM Pune

Yogesh K. Dwivedi is a Professor in the School of Management at Swansea University, UK. His research interests are in the area of Information Systems and Electronic Business including the adoption and diffusion of emerging ICTs (e.g. broadband, e-commerce, e-business, e-government, m-commerce, m-payments, m-government); an interest in analysis of usage trends of IS theories; and understanding the evolution of information systems, e-government and e-commerce research. His work on these topics has been published in a range of leading academic journals including: Communications of the ACM, European Journal of Information Systems, Government Information Quarterly, Information Systems Journal, Information Systems Frontiers, International Journal of Information Management, International Journal of Production Research, Journal of Information Technology, Journal of the Operational Research Society, and Scientometrics. He has presented his research at key international conferences in Asia, Australasia, Europe and North America. He has edited/co-edited more than ten books on technology adoption, e-government and IS theory and had them published by international publishers such as Springer, Routledge, and Emerald. He acted as co-editor of fourteen special issues in international journals; organised tracks, mini-tracks and panels in leading conferences; and served as programme co-chair of IFIP WG 8.6 Conference at the prestigious IIM Bangalore in 2013. He developed, taught and assessed undergraduate (e.g. Business IS, e-commerce, IS Management & Planning, Systems Analysis, Contemporary Issues in IS) and postgraduate (e.g. e-business, Managing Processes) modules to groups of different sizes. Yogesh has acted as Director of PGR students and has examined many doctoral theses from universities in Australia, India and UK. He is involved in the supervision of several PhD candidates undertaking research on e-government, e-commerce and IS/IT adoption and diffusion.

Dr. Brett Trusko

Editor-in-Chief - International Journal of Innovation Science
President and CEO
The International Association of Innovation Professionals
Member Board of Directors - StepOne Health

Dr. Brett Trusko is a global leader in innovation science and is the founder and chair of the International Association of Innovation Professionals. (IAOIP.org). A sought after speaker, Brett has delivered hundreds of dynamic speeches, talks and discussions surrounding the science of innovation across the globe. Having authored 6 books, with Global Innovation Science Handbook (co-edited with Praveen Gupta) noted as Honorable Mention in the 2015 Prose Awards in the Engineering and Technology segment, Brett is dedicated to advancing innovation sciences for everyone. A professor and evangelist of big data and bioinformatics, and Brett was recently named as one of "20 Professors Changing Health Information Technology" by MedicalTechnologySchools.com. Breaking the mold of "those who can't teach" - prior to advancing his academic career, Brett worked in big six consulting, was a CPA and is a Master Black Belt Six Sigma. He currently is on faculty at Texas A&M and Mt. Sinai Medical School in NYC and also Editor-in-Chief of International Journal of Innovation Science

Dr. Pawan Budhwar

Head, Aston Business School,
Aston University,
Birmingham, United Kingdom

He is a member of the Work and Organisational Psychology Group, Joint Director of the Aston India Centre for Applied Research and Joint Co-Editor-in-Chief of British Journal of Management, Pawan is globally renowned for his research into the international aspects of HRM, and has held many visiting professorships worldwide.

Dr. Rajat Roy

Doctor of Business Administration from Golden Gate University in Information Technology Management

Dr Rajat Roy obtained his PhD in marketing from Nanyang Business School in Singapore and has published in leading academic journals (ABDC ranked A* and A) like European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Advertising and Journal of Consumer Psychology.

Rajat has been invited as a speaker to reputed universities like The University of Sydney, University of Western Australia and Chiba University of Commerce. Currently, he sits on the editorial board of the Journal of Business Research. Rajat has taught a wide range of marketing units both in Australia and at overseas locations across different countries like Singapore, Hong Kong, Malaysia, and Mauritius. He has teaching experience at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels.

Dr. Justin Paul

Editor-in Chief, International Journal of Consumer Studies (A Rank- ABDC Australia) & Professor,
University of PR, San Juan, PR, USA

Dr Justin Paul, currently serves as Editor-in-chief of International Journal of Consumer studies (IJCS), a 45 year old, global academic journal ranked as A grade by Australian Business Deans Council. .A former faculty member with the University of Washington, he is a full professor of PhD & MBA programs, University of Puerto Rico, USA and a 'Distinguished Scholar' with IIM- K, India's premier business school. He is known as an author/co-author of books such as Business Environment (4th ed), International Marketing, Services Marketing, Export-Import Management (2nd edition) by McGraw-Hill & Oxford University Press respectively. Dr. Paul serves as Managing Guest Editor with the International Business Review, Journal of Business research & European Business Review. He serves as Associate Editor with European Management Journal, & Journal of Strategic Marketing. He has edited special issues for Journal of Retailing & Consumer Services, Small Bus Economics and Journal of Promotion Management. He was Senior editor for International Journal of Emerging Markets and European Journal of International Management for 3 years. Dr. Paul introduced Masstige model and measure for brand management, CPP Model for internationalization, SCOPE framework for Small firms and 7-P Framework for International Marketing. His articles have been downloaded over 550,000 times during last five years. He has published over 55 research papers in SSCI journals and 70 in Scopus. He has also served as a faculty member of Nagoya University, Japan and IIM. In addition, he has taught full courses at Aarhus University- Denmark, Grenoble Eco le de Management-& Universite De Versailles -France, University-Lithuania, Warsaw -Poland and has conducted research development workshops in countries such as Austria, USA, Spain, Croatia, China. He has been a Program Director for training diplomats from different countries and also holds an honorary title- as Professor of Eminence at a Govt University . He has been an invited speaker at several institutions such as University of Chicago, Fudan & UIBE-China, Barcelona and Madrid and has published best selling case studies with Ivey & Harvard.