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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.
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