Terri Albert, Ph.D. - Dr. T. Albert’s research and teaching focus is e-business marketing. She has multiple publications (scholarly articles, conference presentations, and an academic text) in the application of technology in e-business. Dr. Albert has been teaching Digital Marketing (graduate level) for seven years and the undergraduate course for four years. She developed and conducted three Internet conferences for the business and academic communities. Technology and its implications for marketing, legal, and information management were the focus of the conferences. Additionally, she co-founded an e-business outreach program with another faculty member. Dr. Albert is also active in the development of public policy and high tech products and services. She is specifically involved with the local, urban communities and their various technology initiatives.

Sudip Bhattacharjee is an Associate Professor in the Department of Operations and Information Management in the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science and Systems, with a minor in Industrial Engineering, from SUNY Buffalo. Dr. Bhattacharjee's research interests lie in distributed systems, multi-objective optimization, information systems economics and related issues of intellectual property rights, and supply chains. His research has been published or is forthcoming in various journals such as INFORMS Journal on Computing, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Business, Journal of Law and Economics, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions, Decision Support Systems, and other journals and conference proceedings. He received the School of Business Innovation in teaching award in 2002, the Graduate teaching award in 2004, and the Best research paper award in 2005. His research has been highlighted in various media outlets such as Connecticut Public Television, Business Week, Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Der Spiegel, Christian Science Monitor, slashdot.org, Business 2.0 Web Guide, and others.

Wayne Bragg is an independent business consultant and educator. At the University of Connecticut, Wayne teaches Cost Analysis for the Executive MBA, Part-Time MBA and the Executive Education Programs. He is also a facilitator for the Family Business Program. Wayne holds an MBA from the University of Connecticut and was recognized as “outstanding professor” by the Stamford EMBA Class of 2005. Prior to joining the University, Wayne enjoyed a 30+ year career at United Technologies Corporation, most recently as Controller at Sikorsky Aircraft. His responsibilities ranged from coaching senior executives in financial planning, capital budgeting, and supply chain strategy, to identifying and developing productivity and quality initiatives to improve operating performance. As company project leader, working collaboratively with Price Coopers and A.T. Kearney, he led several financial system implementations and strategic studies. In his private consulting business he provides business coaching and training for small business owners. His areas of interest are business plan development, performance measurement, profitability analysis and project management.

Timothy J. Dowding, Ph.D. is an Associate Professor-in-Residence for the Uconn Operations & Information Management Department in Stamford, CT. Dr. Dowding received his Ph.D. in Instructional Media & Technology from UConn, with a minor in Cognitive Psychology. He focused on improving the usability and effectivness of software interfaces and functional design. As an Associate Professor with UCONN, his teaching duties focus on undergraduate courses in business information systems, database design, and operations management. He has over 22 years experience in training and education for adults, specializing in instructional design and development of large-scale training programs for Fortune 500 corporations including G.E. Capital, American Express, Hoffman-LaRoche, Johnson & Johnson. In addition, he has completed projects for the U.S. Navy, State of Connecticut, and Canadian government. He also was founder and president of a corporation that provided computer software training services throughout Connecticut over a seven-year period. Dr. Dowding is a graduate of the U.S. Naval Academy, and currently holds the rank of Commander in the Naval Reserves (Retired).

Dr. Paulo B. Goes, Ph.D. is a Professor of Operations and Information Management and a Gladstein Professor of Information Technology and Innovation. A former Associate Director of the Connecticut Information Technology Institute, he played a fundamental role in the conceptualization and implementation of edgelab. He is director of the endowed Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative (TECI) and from 1996 to 1999 he was the Technology Director of UConn’s School of Business. He has been teaching information technology courses for UConn since 1990 and has received several teaching awards. His research interests include Internet technologies and electronic commerce, design and evaluation of models for e-business, online auctions, database recovery/security, computer networking and technology infrastructure.

Ram D. Gopal, Ph.D. is a GE Endowed Professor of Business and Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management in the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He currently serves as the Ph.D. director for the department. His current research interests include economics of information systems management, data security, economic and ethical issues relating to intellectual property rights, and multimedia applications. His research has appeared in Management Science, Operations Research, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Research, Communications of the ACM, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, Journal of Management Information Systems, Decision Support Systems, and other journals and conference proceedings. He is the recipient of the School of Business Undergraduate teaching award in 2002 and the School of Business Graduate teaching award in 2003.

Wynd Harris is a member of the University of Connecticut and the GE edgelab marketing faculties. At UConn Stamford, she is the leader of both the global marketing and business intelligence marketing initiatives for the professional MBA program. In addition, she is the former director of eLearning for the campus and a founder of the faculty eLearning support lab. Doctor Harris’ articles have appeared in the Journal of Consumer Research, the Journal of Advertising, and Advances in Consumer Research. She has been a consultant to GE, Exxon-Mobil, IBM and number of smaller firms and organizations. She currently serves on the broad of directors for the Westchester-Fairfield Promotional Marketing Association. Before coming to UConn, she was a Yale Post Doctoral Fellow, Chair of the Marketing Department and Director of the Masters of Health Administration at Quinnipiac University. She worked in public administration, healthcare, and telecommunications for a number of firms and public organizations before becoming a college professor. Her current research interest are in the areas of brand management, CRM, new product development, and global marketing.

Wei-Kuang Huang, Ph.D. is an Assistant Professor-in-Residence of the Uconn Operations & Information Management Department. He received his Ph.D. in Computer Information System and MBA from Rutgers University, NJ. He teaches web application development, systems analysis and design, database management and business programming at both undergraduate and graduate levels. He has more than 5 years industrial consultation experience with an expertise in web development and project integration. Dr. Huang's main research area includes data security, access control policy and workflow management. His research appears in Journal of computer security, Journal of intelligent information system and information security related conferences.

Richard E. Hurley earned a BA from Syracuse University, a MS in Accounting from the State University of New York, a JD from the Albany Law School, and a Ph.D. in Accounting from the University of Connecticut. In addition, he maintains a license to practice as an Attorney and a Certified Public Accountant in the State of New York. He is admitted to practice before the U.S. Tax Court, the U.S. Federal Courts and the U.S. Supreme Court. Currently he is an Associate Professor in the Accounting Department at the University of Connecticut at Stamford. Since joining the University of Connecticut in 1999 he has taught several diverse accounting topics including, Financial Statement Analysis, Accounting and Security Fraud, Financial Accounting and Reporting and Managerial Accounting. His research interest includes Accounting Fraud, Detection of Fraudulent Financial Reporting, Accounting for Internal Controls and Corporate Governance and Data Mining within the financial regulatory environment.

Dr. James R. Marsden serves as the UConn Director of edgelab. He joined UConn in 1993 as Professor and Head of the Department of Operations and Information Management. He was part of a three-person team that conceptualized, initiated and oversaw the development of the Connecticut Information Technology Institute and is currently serving as its Executive Director. He also developed and implemented the Treibick Electronic Commerce Initiative. Dr. Marsden also serves as Director of the OPIM/SBA MIS Research Lab and served for several years as a member of the Advisory Board and Steering Committee of CIBER (Center for International Business Education and Research). He currently serves on the edgelab Steering Committee which selects and resources projects and oversees operations. Dr. Marsden is a two-time winner of the Chancellor's Award for IT Excellence and a co-winner of the Team Connecticut Program Award from the Office of Economic Development.

Norm Moore - Norman H. Moore holds a B.B.A., a M.B.A. from the University of Alaska and a Ph.D. in Finance from Florida State University. Prior to earning his Ph.D. he held a variety of management positions including Treasurer and Controller of a Savings and Loan Association, Vice-president of Finance for a large mineral exploration company and CEO of a computer software development and consulting firm. During his tenure in private industry he also obtained the CPA and CMA designation. Since earning his Ph.D. Norman has held faculty positions at the University of Alaska, University of Texas, University of Notre Dame and Indiana University. He currently teaches graduate courses in global corporate finance and investments, advanced corporate finance, short-term corporate finance, valuation and financial modeling. Norman has published in many of the top academic finance publications including the Journal of Finance, Journal of Financial Research, Financial Review, The Journal of Risk and Insurance, The Journal of Futures Markets, and The Journal of Quantitative Finance and Accounting. He has also published a variety of articles in leading economic and international journals and serves as Associate Editor for the Asian Banker’s Digest and The Malaysian Journal of Management. He is the author of 25 Key to Budgeting published by the New York Times.

Zhongju (John) Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Information Systems in the School of Business, University of Connecticut. He received his Ph.D. in Management Science (with minors in Economics and Operations Management) from University of Washington Business School. He also holds a B.Sc. (with honors) in Computer Science from Xi’an Jiaotong University and a M.Sc. in Computer Science & Information Systems from National University of Singapore. Dr. Zhang’s main research area is in the area of e-business/e-commerce. His research interests include pricing of data communication services, economics of information technology/systems, product differentiation, technology adoption and diffusion, data warehousing and data mining. His research has been published in INFORMS Journal on Computing, European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal on Human Computer Studies, Communications of the ACM, Electronic Commerce Research and Applications, as well as in leading international conference proceedings. He currently serves on the editorial board of Journal of Database Management.