Awarded annually to visionaries who have led significant achievements and advancements in IT and e-business. Recipients:
Pavan Nigam Pavan Nigam
Co-founder of WebMD, Trackle.com
Dale Nitschke Dale Nitschke
Former President of Target.com
John Morgridge John Morgridge
Former Chairman of Cisco Systems
Matt Korn Matt Korn
Executive Vice President, AOL
Jerry Shereshewsky Jerry Shereshewsky
Former Yahoo executive
Katherine Hudson Katherine Hudson
Former Chairman of Brady Corporation
Executive Director, A.C. Nielsen Center for Marketing Research.
Arthur C. Nielsen Jr. Professor of Marketing Research, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
narora@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-1990
Areas of interest: consumer choice, economic theory, marketing research, statistics.

Dr. Pascale Carayon
Director, Center for Quality and Productivity Improvement.
Procter & Gamble Bascom Professor in Total Quality, College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
carayon@engr.wisc.edu | 608-265-0503
Areas of interest: human factors and ergonomics, quality improvement, technological and organizational change.

Dr. Mason A. Carpenter
M. Keith Weikel Professor of Leadership, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
Areas of interest: corporate governance, global firms, strategy, venture development.

Peter Carstensen
George H. Young-Bascom Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, UW-Madison.
pccarste@wisc.edu | 608-243-7416
Areas of interest: antitrust, insurance law, energy law, torts

Anuj Desai
Associate Professor of Law, University of Wisconsin Law School, UW-Madison.
acdesai@wisc.edu | 608-243-7416
Areas of interest: Constitutional law, First Amendment, copyright, cyberlaw

Kristen Eschenfelder
Associate Professor, School of Library and Information Studies, UW-Madison.
eschenfelder@wisc.edu | 608-263-2105
Areas of interest: social and organizational impacts of information technology, Web information systems, information policy, user-based design and evaluation

Mark Finster
Associate Professor, Associate Professor, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
mfinster@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-1988
Areas of interest: creativity and innovation, design, strategic improvement

David Gustafson
Professor Emeritus, College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
Areas of interest: health services, decision analysis, computer-based decision systems, program evaluation, quality improvement technology

Donald Hausch
Dickson-Bascom Professor of Business, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
dhausch@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-2535
Areas of interest: auctions and competitive bidding, bankruptcy, contracts, procurement

Jan Heide
Irwin Meier Chair in Marketing, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
jheide@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-5224
Areas of interest: distribution channels, inter-organizational relationships, strategic decisions, vertical market restrictions

John Kidwell
Professor Emeritus, University of Wisconsin School of Law, UW-Madison.
jkidwell@wisc.edu | 608-262-3263
Areas of interest: contracts, remedies, trademarks

Sung S. Kim
Associate Professor of Operations and Information Management, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
skim@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-3481
Areas of interest: e-business, information technology, online marketing

Larry Landweber
John P. Morgridge Professor Emeritus, Computer Sciences Dept., UW-Madison.
lhl@cs.wisc.edu | 608-239-6263
Areas of interest: Internet, network technology and practices

Rafael Lazimy
Associate Professor, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
rlazimy@bus.wisc.edu | 608-239-6263
Areas of interest: database systems, Web-enabled systems, decision support systems, business process reengineering, time-to-market versus product performance.

Ann Miner
Executive Director, Initiative for Studies in Technology Entrepeneneurship (INSITE)
Ford Motor Company Distinguished Chair in Management and Human Resources, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
aminer@bus.wisc.edu | 608-263-4143
Areas of interest: entrepreneurship, industry learning, strategic marketing management, technological change.

Jim Morris
Dean’s Professor of Operations & Information Management, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
jmorris@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-1284
Areas of interest: distribution system network design, operations research, optimization models.

John Nevin
Executive Director, Grainger Center for Supply Chain Management.
Executive Director, Center for Brand and Product Management.
Marketing Department Chair, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
jnevin@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-8912
Areas of interest: distribution channels, franchising, inter-organizational relationships, strategic marketing management, supply chain management.

Jim Rappold
Program Director, Supply Chain Leadership, Wisconsin School of Business Executive Education.
Assistant Professor, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
jrappold@bus.wisc.edu | 608-262-8912
Areas of interest: executive education, supply chain management.

Parameswaran Ramanathan
Professor, College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
paramesh@engr.wisc.edu | 608-890-0804
Areas of interest: wireless networks, mobile computing, fault-tolerant computing, distributed systems.

Larry Rittenberg
Ernst & Young Professor or Accounting, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
Areas of interest: accounting standards, auditing.

Akbar Sayeed
Professor, College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
akbar@engr.wisc.edu | 608-265-4731
Areas of interest: wireless communications, statistical signal processing, communication theory, space-time wireless channel modeling.

Jude Shavlik
Professor, Computer Sciences, UW-Madison.
shavlik@cs.wisc.edu | 608-262-7784
Areas of interest: machine learning, neural networks, artificial intelligence, bioinformatics, informational retrieval, intelligent user interfaces.

Harold Steudel
Emerson Electric Professor in Total Quality (Emeritus), College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
Areas of interest: quality engineering, facilities planning and design, cellular manufacturing systems design and analysis, ISO 9000.

Gregg Vanderheiden
Professor, College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
gv@trace.wisc.edu | 608-263-5788
Areas of interest: ergonomics, nomodic/mobile computing, computer interface design, communication aids & systems, rehabilitation engineering, computer access for people with disabilities, design of next-generation information and transaction systems.

Daniel van der Weide
Professor, College of Engineering, UW-Madison.
danvdw@eng.wisc.edu | 608-265-6561
Areas of interest: multifunctional scanned probe microscopy, localized spectroscopy of biological and low-dimensional electronic systems, terahertz circuits and devices.

Mary Vernon
Professor, Computer Science & Industrial Engineering, UW-Madison.
vernon@cs.wisc.edu | 608-262-7893
Broad area of interest: the development and application of analytic modeling techniques that enable the design of software, hardware and communication networks with near-optimal performance.

Urban Wemmerlov
Director, Erdman Center for Operations and Technology Management (Wisconsin School of Business).
Associate Director, Manufacturing Systems Engineering Program (College of Engineering).
Kress Family-Wisconsin Distinguished Professor of Productivity and Quality, Wisconsin School of Business, UW-Madison.
Areas of interest: cellular manufacturing, change implementation, cross-functional management, just-in-time systems, production planning and inventory theory, supply chain management.