Sixth Annual Netcentricity Conference

Panelists

Sandy Boyson

Sandy Boyson is research professor and co-director of the Supply Chain Management Center at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. He is an expert in technology management and supply chain management and has served as a senior information technology consultant for international organizations including The World Bank, The Inter-American Development Bank and the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico. Dr. Boyson has also provided supply chain consulting services to companies such as Hughes Network Systems, EDS and Allied Signal. He is currently an advisor to the Office of the Secretary of Defense on technology-enabled new supply chain practices and serves as Senior Advisor on the Sense and Respond Logistics Project of the Office Of Force Transformation, the major effort initiated by that Office to develop new system templates for transforming the military. He received his PhD from University of Sussex.

Chris Dellarocas

Chrysanthos Dellarocas is an assistant professor of information systems at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland . His research lies at the intersection between information systems, economics, and policy. The focus of his work is the study of the rapidly growing online "word-of-mouth" communities and their impact on marketing, product development, and public opinion formation. He also studies the use of online reputation mechanisms as a low-cost trust building device in electronic markets. Before joining the Smith School, Dr. Dellarocas taught for eight years at MIT's Sloan School of Management. He has also worked as a consultant for Andersen (now Accenture) and McKinsey. He is an inventor with three patents and the co-founder of one software company. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Wedad Elmaghraby

Wedad J. Elmaghraby is an assistant professor of management science at the Robert H. Smith School of Business. Prior to joining the Smith School, she was an the faculty of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Institute of Technology and NYU Stern School of Business in the Operations Management group. Her current research interests are the design of competitive procurement auctions in business-to-business markets and pricing in markets where buyers behave strategically. Her current areas of application are e-commerce, logistics, supply chain management in the electronics industry and energy markets.

Dr. Elmaghraby's research has been published in such journals as Management Science, MSOM, POM and European Journal of Operational Research. She is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and is the vice president of Conferences for the Women in ORMS forum. She is an editorial review board member for MSOM and POM. She received her PhD in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley.

Howard Frank

Howard Frank is dean of the Robert H. Smith School of Business of the University of Maryland and also professor of Management Sciences at the Smith School. Dean Frank has been a member of seven editorial boards, has been a featured speaker at hundreds of business and professional meetings, and has authored over 190 articles and chapters in books on technology and the management of technology. He is a Fellow of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers, and a recipient of its 1999 Eric Sumner Award. He is a member of the National Academy of Engineering and a member of the Strategy Council of the Washington Board of Trade. He also is a member of the Board of Directors of the Macklin Institute of Montgomery College and a member of the Federal Advisory Committee of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Advanced Technology Program. He has been a Senior Fellow at the Wharton School's SEI Center for Advanced Studies in Management and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors of the Center. He has also been an adjunct professor of decision sciences at the Wharton School and an associate professor of electrical engineering and computer sciences at the University of California at Berkeley. He received his MS and PhD from Northwestern University.

P. K. Kannan

P. K. Kannan is Harvey Sanders Associate Professor of Marketing at the Robert H. Smith School of Business at the University of Maryland. He is the director for the Center of Excellence in Service. His current research stream focuses on marketing and pricing digital products and product lines, new product development, marketing and product development on the Internet, e-service, and customer relationship management (CRM) and customer loyalty. He has received grants from National Science Foundation (NSF), Mellon Foundation, SAIC, and PricewaterhouseCoopers for his work in this area and research papers have been published in Marketing Science, Management Science, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, and Communications of the ACM. 

Dr. Kannan is an associate editor for Decision Support Systems and serves on the editorial boards of the Journal of Marketing, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Service Research, Journal of Business Research, and International Journal of Electronic Commerce. Dr. Kannan has served as the Chair for the American Marketing Association SIG on Marketing Research. He received his PhD from Purdue University.

Gil Souza

Gilvan “Gil” Souza is associate professor of operations management at the Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland. His research has been published in such journals as California Management Review, European Journal of Operational Research, Management Science, and Production and Operations Management. He regularly works with such companies as HP and Toshiba, primarily in production planning, and supply chain design. Dr. Souza is a member of the Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS), and the Production and Operations Management Society (POMS), and he is on the editorial board of Production and Operations Management. He won the Wickham Skinner Early–Career Research Accomplishments award from POMS in 2004. He received his PhD in from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.