Twyla Cummings is an expert on project management, strategic planning, management development, mentoring and women in business.

Her research interests include graphic communications markets and applications, mentoring practices and trends, diversity, customer relationship marketing, Internet marketing, future management trends and women's studies.

Cummings earned a bachelor's in chemistry and a master's in business and industrial management from Wright State University and a Ph.D. in management from The Union Institute in Ohio.

Richard DeMartino holds the Albert J. Simone Endowed Chair for Innovation and Entrepreneurship at RIT and is the director of the Albert J. Simone Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship, a multidisciplinary effort to study and promote entrepreneurship in the RIT community.

DeMartino’s research interests include Entrepreneurial Motivations,Technology and Commercialization and Small Business Growth.More recently he has conducted research on the entrepreneurial motivations of the deaf community, in conjunction with RIT's National Technical Institute for the Deaf.

His innovations include collaborative efforts founding and administering the Saunders College of Business Summer Start Program, the Technology Commercialization Clinic, the Small Business Strategic Growth Program and the Digital Entrepreneurship Program.

His articles have appeared in a number of journals including the Journal of Business Venturing, Journal of Small Business Management, and the Journal of Innovation and Product Management.

Prior to his doctoral studies, DeMartino worked in industry as a foreign currency, bond and risk trader. He continues to consult in economic development and technology-related new business ventures.

DeMartino has taught at the McIntire School of Commerce, University of Virginia, and at the Virginia Commonwealth University.

He earned his bachelor's at Roanoke College and his master's and Ph.D. at the University of Virginia.

Michael Dwyer is an expert on the development of academic research programs in emerging technologies through the creation of partnerships between academia, industry and government.

With more than 25 years in engineering, marketing, and business-unit management, Dwyer focuses on matching faculty and students ideas with industry and government needs in applied research. His most recent position was vice president and general manager for Signaling Products at ALSTOM Signaling, a 0 million supplier of transportation management systems. Prior to that, he was vice president of marketing for ABB Automation, a .3 billion supplier of automation systems to the chemical, pharmaceutical, paper, and textiles industry.

Dwyer joined RIT in 2002 to focus on the development of the First in Class program through the creation of Industry and Government Partnerships.

Dwyer received his bachelor's degree in computer science from Clarkson University and is a double alumnus of RIT—master's of science in engineering technology, 1980 and an M.B.A. in technology management, 1994.

Eugene Fram is a widely known marketing expert, with a depth of experience in various forms of consumer marketing such as retail management and online retailing. He has published more than 100 journal articles and six books on a variety of business topics. Frequently quoted by national and regional media, he has an active consulting practice serving consumer, industrial and nonprofit organizations, and has three decades experience as a director on corporate boards.

His major areas of expertise include retail mall operations and shopping, online shopping, nonprofit boards, managing careers and promotional marketing. He is frequently quoted on a wide variety of topics, including the impact of Wal-Mart, mall development, store locations, time-compressed lifestyles, industrial purchasing partnerships, marketing in China, increases in consumer penalties (restocking penalties), operations of nonprofit boards, marketing channel issues, (dual distribution) and higher education marketing.

As RIT’s Emeritus Professor of Marketing, Fram is typically quoted about 100 times a year by newspaper, magazine and TV/radio media.

Fram holds a B.S. in commerce (marketing) and a Master of Letters in retailing from the University of Pittsburgh and an Ed.D. in higher education from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

He was named an RIT "Communicator of the Year" in 1995 and received RIT's Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching in 1997.

Clyde Hull is an assistant professor in the College of Business where he teaches classes in Strategy and Innovation and Technology Management at the undergraduate and graduate levels.

His research interests include innovation, commercialization, new product development in high-technology settings, new process implementation, business and corporate strategy, corporate social responsibility, corporate renewal and entrepreneurship, the effects of ecologically-friendly "green" strategies on firm performance, and global strategy formulation.

He has served as a strategy consultant and a high-technology consultant domestically and internationally for established high-technology firms, those in the pre-IPO stage, and start-ups.

Hull has delivered invited presentations on the topics of entrepreneurship, corporate entrepreneurship, strategic management, business ethics, and ethics in a high-technology environment in Singapore, Germany and the United States, as well as presented conferences throughout the world.

Hull earned his BA degree in philosophy from Yale University and his MBA and Ph.D. degrees from Indiana University.

Sandra Rothenberg is an associate professor of management and the director of the Saunders College Institute for Business Ethics and Social Responsibility. She teaches organizational behavior and business, government and society. She is also a research affiliate with the Printing Industry Center at RIT, the International Motor Vehicle Program, and the Harvard Global Environmental Assessment Program.

Her primary areas of expertise include corporate social responsibility, environmental and sustainable management, business and government relations and business ethics.

Rothenberg’s research primarily focuses on corporate environmental strategy and management, lean manufacturing and environmental performance, government regulation and technical innovation, international environmental management, worker participation and environmental activism within firms.

Rothenberg earned her bachelor’s degree in bioengineering from Syracuse University (1990), her masters in technology and policy from Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1992) and Ph.D. in organization studies from MIT’s Sloan School of Management (1999).