The expert is a Clinical Associate Professor at the Darla Moore School of Business. Prior to coming to the University of South Carolina, he was an academician of International Management at the MYRA School of Business in Mysore (India). He was a senior management professional GloBus Research in India, a niche consulting company, to help resolve international business and leadership challenges with expertise in intercultural collaboration, operational risk and change management. He has an active research agenda which focusses on the challenges of managing international teams and the needs of practitioners in international marketing. He has authored four books and co-authored one more. He received the Emerald Literati Network Awards of Excellence (highly commended) in 2014 and 2016. He was educated at the Technical University Munich (Germany) and University of Newcastle Upon Tyne (U.K.) where he studied Business informatics; he obtained his M.B.A. in Financial management from the University of Wales (U.K.) and his Doctorate in Marketing from the University of Kassel (Germany). He also studied at the Università per Stranieri Perugia (Italy) and Harvard Business School (U.S.).