 Dr. Shailendra Palvia
World Conference Chairperson: Dr. Shailendra Palvia
Dr. Shailendra C. Jain Palvia is a tenured Professor of MIS at the C.W. Post campus of Long Island University. During 1997-2004, he was the director of MIS at Long Island University. He received his Ph.D. and M.B.A. from the University of Minnesota. Prior to that, he received his B.S. in Chemical engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology in New Delhi, India.
His research interests and publications are in the areas of -- Management of the Systems Development Process, Human Side of Information Technology, Social Issues of Information Technology, Global Issues of Information Technology, IT Applications and Architecture, Telecommuting, Computer Software Training Methods, Global Electronic Commerce, Global Outsourcing of IT and IT Enabled Services, and e-Government.
He has published over 140 refereed articles in journals, conference proceedings, and books. His publications (published or forthcoming) are in journals like the Communications of the ACM, MIS Quarterly, Decision Sciences, Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, Journal of Systems Management, International Journal of Information Management, Electronic Markets, Information Resource Management Journal, Journal of Industrial Management and Data Systems, Journal of Global Information Management, and Journal of Information Systems Education.
As Founding Editor, he edited the Journal of IT Case and Application Research (JITCAR) for 9 years during 1999-2007. Since 2002, he has been chairing the annual international smart-sourcing conferences (www.outsourceglobal.org). Over the years, he has been invited to speak in Germany, India, Italy, Singapore, Thailand, and Russia.
 M.B.A. Gustavo Pares
Industry Program Chairperson: M.B.A. Gustavo Pares
Mr. Gustavo Pares. CEO of Financetech, 2620 Paseo de la Reforma, Lomas Altas, Mexico DF. M.B.A. Gustavo Pares is the CEO of one of the top Consulting firms in Mexico and active advocate for the use of IT as a strategy for the development of Latin America. Gustavo has worked on several projects for companies such as Amercian Express, ING, Nestlé, L´Oréal. He has worked as an advisor for the Mexican Government in Baja California Norte. He has implemented several projects in Latin America to promote the use of IT in Small and Mediums Sized companies – this resulted in more than 345 companies in Mexico, Chile, Peru, Venezuela and Argentina implementing free ERP systems to improve their competitiveness.
In terms of participation in international conferences, Mr. Gustavo was Local Arrangements Chair for the 10th Annual World Conference of the Global Information Technology Management Association (GITMA) held in Mexico City, Mexico in June, 2009; Track Chair for the 9th Annual GITMA World Conference held in Atlanta, Georgia, in June 2008; and an Invited Panelist at the 8th annual GITMA world conference held in Naples, Italy in July 2007.
Mr. Pares is professor and researcher at the Tech of Monterrey and was nominated in 2007 as of the best professors of the year. Professor Pares has published more than 50 articles and research papers in well known magazines, websites, and newspapers around the world published by IGI Global, MSDN, Code Guru, Information Week, El Economista, Consultoría Empresarial, Microermpesa Mexicana, Netmedia, El financiero among others. He is also a contributing author for the book on, “Software Process Improvement for Small and Medium Sized Enterprises,” edited by Hanna Oktaba, IGI Publishing, 2008.
Academic Program Chairperson: Dr. Prasad Padmanabhan, Professor of Finance, Myra Stafford Pryor Chair of Free Enterprise and Sam Walton Fellow, Bill Greehey School of Business, St. Mary’s University, San Antonio, TX.
Local Organizing Committee:
Local Arrangements Chairperson
YongWook Jun, Ph.D
Dean and Vice President,
SolBridge International School of Business
151-13 Samsung 1-Dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814 Republic of Korea
Email: junywk@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: +82 42 6308503
Local Arrangements Co-chairperson
(Sing) Chia-Hsing Huang, Ph.D
Associate Professor
SolBridge International School of Business
151-13 Samsung 1-Dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814 Republic of Korea
Email: koreasing@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: +82 42 6308527
N. Rao Kowtha, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
SolBridge International School of Business
151-13 Samsung 1 Dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814, Republic of Korea
Email: rkowtha@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: (82) 42-6308522
Fax: (82) 42-6308510
Sung Tae "Daniel" Kim, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
SolBridge International School of Business
Woosong Educational Foundation
Room 1007
151-13 Samsung 1-dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814, Republic of Korea
Email: stkim1@solbridge.ac.kr
Phone: +82 42 630 8536
Fax: +82 42 630 8840
Nam Sung Ahn, Ph.D
Associate Professor
SolBridge International School of Business
151-13 Samsung 1-Dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814 Republic of Korea
Email: nsahn@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: +82 42 6308529
Rajesh Rajaguru, Ph.D
Assistant Professor (Marketing)
SolBridge International School of Business
Daejeon, South Korea
Email: rajeshrajaguru@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: +82 42 630 8538
+82 10 7564 6662
TRACK CHAIRPERSONS
Track: Global Sourcing of Services for SME Vendors and SME Clients
Dr. Subbu Murthy, President and CEO (OR HIS CIO)
USourceIT;
17215 Studebaker Rd.,
Suite 339 Cerritos,
CA 90703
Ph : +1-909-450-7888
e-mail: subbu@usourceit.com
Track: Global Sourcing of Financial Services
Dr. (Sing) Chia-Hsing Huang
Associate Professor
SolBridge International School of Business
151-13 Samsung 1-Dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814 Republic of Korea
E-mail: koreasing@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: +82 42 6308527
Track: The Indian Subcontinent
Dr. Jaideep Ghosh
Faculty, Information Systems and Operations Management Department
School of Management,
George Mason University,
Fairfax,VA
Phone #: 571-830-6116
Mobile #: 301-938-1032
E-mail: jghosh@gmu.edu
Track: Taiwan and ASIAN Countries other than India, Korea, Singapore and ASEAN countries
Dr. Yi-Hsien Wang
Associate Professor
Department of Banking and Finance
Chinese Culture University
55, Hwa-Kang Road, Yang-Ming-Shan,Taipei, Taiwan, ROC
E-mail: wyx12@faculty.pccu.edu.tw
holland@mail2000.com.tw
Tel: +886 938 266787
Track: Singapore and ASEAN Countries
N. Rao Kowtha, Ph.D.
Associate Dean
Solbridge International School of Business
151-13 Samsung 1 Dong, Dong-gu
Daejeon 300-814, Republic of Korea
Email: rkowtha@solbridge.ac.kr
Tel: (82) 42-6308522
Fax: (82) 42-6308510
Track: Mexico and Latin America
Mtro. Gustavo R. Parés Arce
CEO, Consultoría Lomas Altas
Av. Paseo de la Reforma 2600, Lomas Altas, Mexico DF
Telephone: +(52 1) 55 26 86 36 96
Email: gustavo.pares@itesm.mx / gustavo.pares@gmail.com
Track: Other
Dr. Prasad Padmanabhan
Professor of Finance, Myra Stafford Pryor Chair of Free Enterprise and Sam Walton Fellow
Bill Greehey School of Business
St. Mary’s University San Antonia, TX 78228
Tel: +1-210-431-2034
Fax: +1-210-431-2115
Email: ppadmanabhan1@stmarytx.edu
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