Joydeep Srivastava
Temple University, USA
Dr. Joydeep Srivastava is the Robert L. Johnson Professor of Marketing and Supply Chain Management, Fox School of Business, Temple University, USA. He earned a Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of Arizona, Tucson. His research interests include managerial and consumer decision-making. He examines issues in bargaining and auctions, strategy variables such as warranties and price-matching guarantees, and the psychology of money. Dr. Srivastava's recent work examined bargaining in marketing distribution channels, consumer reactions to partitioned prices, people’s valuation of products in foreign currencies, and people’s spending and saving decisions as a function of payment mode and denomination of money. He has published articles in the leading journals in marketing and related fields including Journal of Consumer Psychology, Journal of Consumer Research, Journal of Experimental Psychology: Applied, Journal of Marketing Research, Journal of Retailing, Marketing Science, Marketing Letters, and Organizational Behaviour and Human Decision Processes. He currently serves on the editorial review board of the Journal of Consumer Psychology.
Suresh Sethi
University of Texas at Dallas
Dr. Suresh P. Sethi is Eugene McDermott Chair Professor of Operations Management and Director of the Center for Intelligent Supply Networks at The University of Texas at Dallas. He has written 11 books and published over 400 research papers in the fields of manufacturing and operations management, finance and economics, marketing, and optimization theory. He teaches a course on optimal control theory/applications and organizes a seminar series on operations management topics. He initiated and developed the doctoral programs in operations management at both University of Texas at Dallas and University of Toronto. He serves on the editorial boards of several journals including Production and Operations Management and SIAM Journal on Control and Optimization. He was named a Fellow of The Royal Society of Canada in 1994. Two conferences were organized and two books edited in his honor in 2005-6. Other honors include: IEEE Fellow (2001), INFORMS Fellow (2003), AAAS Fellow (2003), POMS Fellow (2005), IITB Distinguished Alum (2008), SIAM Fellow (2009), POMS President (2012), INFORMS Fellows Selection Committee (2014-16), Alumni Achievement Award, Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon University (2015). Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has instituted a Suresh Sethi Best Interdisciplinary Paper Award given every two years beginning 2022.
Nagesh Murthy
University of Oregon, USA
Nagesh N. Murthy is the Roger Engemann Professor in the Department of Operations and Business Analytics at the Lundquist College of Business, University of Oregon. He received his Ph.D. and M.A. in Business Administration, and M.S. in Mechanical Engineering from The Ohio State University. His prior work experience includes faculty positions at Michigan State University and Georgia Institute of Technology. He has also held management positions with Indian Railways and Sundaram Clayton, India Ltd. He is currently the Associate Executive Director of POMS for Global Initiatives and Outreach. He is also the co-founding faculty for the Center for Sustainable Business Practices in the Lundquist College of Business. His passion is to engage with the industry for experiential education, research, placement, and alumni outreach. He has worked with major manufacturing firms in the Pacific Northwest, industry consortia, and Governmental and non-profit agencies to foster University-Industry-Government partnerships for enhancing innovation, sustainability, and competitiveness for the manufacturing sector in the region. His empirical and normative research has been supported by major grants from firms, industry consortia, and government agencies. His research has appeared in Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of Operations Management, Decision Sciences, and Naval Research Logisitcs, among others. He has won several best paper awards at the Annual Meetings of the Decision Sciences Institute.
N. R. Parasuraman
Director, SDMIMD, Mysore
Dr. N.R.Parasuraman is currently the Director and Senior Professor at SDM Institute for Management Development, Mysore. He is a Fellow member of the Institute of Company Secretaries of India and the Institute of Cost and Management Accountants, and a Commerce and Law graduate. His Ph.D. was on Capital Structure of Indian Companies. He has 37 years of experience in diverse areas of finance. His special areas of teaching and research are Strategy, Financial Derivatives, Multinational Finance, and Corporate Valuation. He has published over 30 papers and concept articles in various journals. He has authored a book titled “FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT – A Step-by-Step Approach”, published by Cengage which has now gone into a 2nd edition. Apart from this book, his earlier work ‘FUNDAMENTALS OF FINANCIAL DERIVATIVES’ published by Wiley India Limited, is very popular among the teachers and students of Derivatives has gone into a third edition. He has co-authored with Eugene Brigham and Scott Besley the South-Asian edition of ‘Corporate Finance (CFIN)’ brought out by Cengage.
Nyoman Pujawan
Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia
Dr. Nyoman Pujawan is Professor of Supply Chain Engineering at the Department of Industrial Engineering and the Dean of the School of Interdisciplinary Management and Technology, Institut Teknologi Sepuluh Nopember (ITS), Surabaya, Indonesia. He is currently the President of the Indonesian Supply Chain and Logistics Institute (ISLI). He completed Ph.D. in Management Science from Lancaster University, UK. He also holds Certified Supply Chain Professional (CSCP) from APICS (USA) and CPLM (ISCEA, USA). His papers have appeared in many international journals including the European Journal of Operational Research, International Journal of Production Economics, International Journal of Production Research, Production Planning and Control, International Journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management, Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, International Journal of Logistics: Research and Applications, Business Process Management Journal, among others. Professor Pujawan worked in industry before moving to the academia. While his academic background is very strong, he is equally well experienced in handling industry problems. He is an active consultant for various supply chain and logistics related industry problems. He is now a member of committee responsible for designing national logistics systems under the Coordinating Ministry for the Economy, Republic of Indonesia.
S. Glory Swarupa
Director General, National Institute of MSME, Hyderabad
Ms. S. Glory Swarupa currently serves as the Director General of National Institute for Micro, Small and Medium Enterprises, Hyderabad, India. She is a professional in the field of Entrepreneurship and Skill Development with over 22 years of experience. Alumni of National Institute of Technology (NIT), Warangal. Worked with Union Ministries namely Coffee Board, Ministry of Commerce & Industry, Govt. of India; Ministry of Environment, Forest & Climate Change, Govt. of India; National Institute of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises (ni-msme), Ministry of Micro, Small & Medium Enterprises, Govt. of India; Mahatma Gandhi National Council of Rural Education (MGNCRE), Ministry of HRD, Govt. of India; National Fisheries Development Board (NFDB), Ministry of Agriculture & Farmers Welfare, Govt. of India and Skill Development University. Her core areas of expertise are Developed Expertise in Policy Advocacy, Program Designing, International Programs, Research, Training, Teaching, Extension, Mentoring, Monitoring, and Consultancy. Implemented Govt. of India schemes and programs in all states and Union Territories in Entrepreneurship, Skill Development, Agriculture and Rural Development sectors. She has Handled 10 research projects independently, published 41 papers including 10 presented in International Conferences, authored 3 books and made 3 Films. She is also honoured with Excellence in Education in the 7th Principals & Teachers Award 2018.
Antony Paulraj
University of Nottingham Ningbo, China
Dr. Antony Paulraj is the Li Dak Sum Chair Professor in Information Systems and Operations Management at the Nottingham University Business School, University of Nottingham Ningbo, China. He completed his Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Cleveland State University, Ohio, USA. His research interests are within supply chain management, strategic sourcing, sustainability supply chains, and supply chain innovation. He has published over 50 articles in journals including Journal of Operations Management, Research Policy, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, among others. He currently serves as an Associate Editor for the International Journal of Operations and Production Management and the Journal of Supply Chain Management. He also regularly serves as a reviewer for leading OM and SCM journals.
John Davies
Victoria University of Wellington, AUS
John Davies joined the Department of Business Administration at Victoria University of Wellington in 1980, following prior work at the Welsh Regional Management Centre (now the University of South Wales); in local government; and as an operational researcher in the cable industry. He retired from his Victoria Business School/Faculty of Commerce roles of Associate Dean (International & Executive Education), and Director of Academic Programmes Accreditation, in 2017, having also served a five-year term as Chairman of the Management Group in the 1990s, and as Head of Victoria University of Wellington Management School (VMS) from 2005 to 2009. John has also served terms as President of the Western Decision Sciences Institute (WDSI), Vice-President of the Operational Research Society of New Zealand (ORSNZ), as President of the Wellington Rugby Football Union and of the Poneke Football Club.