Ramesh Sharda is Conoco/DuPont Professor of Management of Technology and a Regents Professor of Management Science and Information Systems in the College of Business Administration at the Oklahoma State University. He received his B. Eng. degree from University of Udaipur, M.S. from The Ohio State University and an MBA and Ph. D. from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. His extensive research has led to over 60 articles in top refereed journals in management science and information systems including Management Science, Information Systems Research, Decision Support Systems, Computers and Operations Research, and many others. He served as the Editor of the Interactive Transactions of ORMS and currently serves on the editorial boards of other journals such as the INFORMS Journal on Computing, Information Systems Frontiers, Journal of End User Computing, and OR/MS Today. One of his major activities in the last few years has been to start the MS in Telecommunications Management Program at Oklahoma State. Now he is establishing a major interdisciplinary center for research in information and telecommunications technologies (CRITT) at OSU. His research interests are in optimization applications on desktop computers, information systems support for new product development, neural networks, business uses of the Internet, and knowledge networks. Defense Logistics Agency, NSF, Marketing Scince Institute, and other organizations have funded his research. He and his colleagues are working on using the information technology to facilitate electronic commerce between the US government and small business.  Ramesh is also a cofounder of a company that produces virtual trade fairs, iTradeFair.com.