Don Boyd is an expert on the establishment and lifecycle management of high technology research-from discovery of new concepts, through technology development, applications of technology through prototyping and technology transfer into new products, services and business.

Boyd is the Vice President for Research at RIT, responsible for establishing university-wide research programs and business/government research relationships. He is president of the RIT High Technology Incubator, which identifies and supports opportunities for new high technology businesses based relevant to RIT.

He can speak about applied research programs involving imaging science, Microsystems, information technology, bioinformatics, graphic communications and fuel cell technology; RIT's STAR Center and its program and plans in developing and applying Microsystems photonics technology to remote sensing systems and the next generation of sensor based micro/nano-systems; and RIT's High Technology Incubator and its relationship to the University including the opportunities for entrepreneurship and transfer of RIT's intellectual property into business.

Boyd holds a Ph.D. in computer sciences from the University of Iowa (1971).

John Ettlie is a professor and Benjamin Forman Chair for Research in RIT's E. Philip Saunders College of Business. He has published more than 60 journal articles and has made more than 100 professional presentations worldwide on the management of technological innovations. As founder of the RIT New Product Development Forum, he has established a collaborative with business partners intended to address applied research issues related to the strategic management of new product development.

His current research projects include an investigation of the adoption of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems, a study of technology, reliability and customization of manufacturing products and the context of new product development.

Ettlie holds a Ph.D. from Northwestern University (1975) and has held appointments at the University of Illinois in Chicago, De Paul University, the Industrial Technology Institute and the University of Michigan Business School.

Dr. Neil Hair is associate professor of marketing in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business. Areas of expertise include electronic commerce, ethics, international marketing and social entrepreneurship.

Recent projects include understanding perceptions of advertising and customer value in popular online social networks such as Twitter and Facebook, personal branding in virtual space, virtual ethnography in popular worlds such as Second Life, and global studies on social media use for collaboration and innovation looking at more than 100 of the worlds thought leaders operating in this space.

Hair is the recipient of RIT's Richard and Virginia Eisenhart Provost's Award for Excellence in Teaching in 2006, the Exemplary Online Faculty Award in 2008 and the 2012-13 Eisenhart Award for Outstanding Teaching.

Hair hails from the U.K. and holds Chartered Marketer Status from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a Ph.D. from Cranfield as well as degrees from Sheffield and Cardiff Business Schools.

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.

Qiang (John) Tu is a professor of management information systems and associate dean for faculty development in the E. Philip Saunders College of Business. He teaches MIS courses at both the graduate and undergraduate levels and is recipient of the 2005–2006 Dean Zutes Fellowship at Saunders College of Business for outstanding intellectual contribution.

Before joining the Saunders College in 2000, Tu taught at Montclair State University in New Jersey. Author of many published journal articles, conference papers and presentations, Tu's research focuses on information systems strategy, manufacturing strategy, technology management, and behavioral issues in information systems and manufacturing management. His latest research interests focus on technology related stress in workplaces, technology outsourcing to China, and e-supply chain management performance issues.

Tu is the winner of the prestigious Elwood S. Buffa Doctoral Dissertation Competition award sponsored by the national Decision Sciences Institute and Irwin/McGraw-Hill.

Tu has also published in academic journals including Information Systems Research, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of Operations Management, Communications of the ACM, Journal of Information Technology Management, OMEGA: The International Journal of Management Science, Information Resources Management Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Computers and Industrial Engineering Journal.

Tu received his Ph.D. degree from the College of Business Administration at the University of Toledo in 1999. He earned an M.S. in systems engineering and a B.S. in management engineering from Jiaotong University, China. He has had several years of business experience in China, where he helped establish high-tech joint ventures before starting his doctoral studies in the U.S.