Patrick Palmer

Partner · VSA Partners

Partner & Consumer Marketing Lead at VSA Partners

Strategic Planning Qualitative Research Storytelling

Michael Hess

CEO/Founder · Skooba Design

Founder/CEO Skooba Design, CBS/Business Writer, Speaker

Entrepreneurship Product/Brand Development Creative Marketing Public Relations Customer Service

Marnie Smith

Partner · Lighthouse NINE Group

Marnie is a value-driven business professional with expertise in custom consulting solutions.

Coaching and Facilitation Change Management Leadership Project / Relationship Management Communication Strategy Program Design and Development

Anuj Kumar

Associate Professor · University of Florida

Anuj Kumar’s research is focused on understanding how information technology affects the behavior of organizations and individuals.

How Online Product Recommendations Affects Customer Demand How Technology Can Be Used to Remedy Societal Problems Technology Enabled Multi-channel Business Operations Information Systems and Operations Management Business Value of Information Technology

Richard Lutz

Professor/Chair · University of Florida

Richard Lutz’s research addresses experiential consumption, customer donation decisions, and social media's effects on purchase behavior.

Advertising Response Consumer Behavior Services Marketing Business

Yang Yang

Assistant Professor · University of Florida

Yang Yang studies how people make decisions, inferences and predictions, and their implications for consumer welfare.

Artificial Intelligence for Decision Support Business Well-Being Motivation Social Influence

Reshma Shah

Professor in the Practice of Marketing · Emory University, Goizueta Business School

Relationship Marketing Customer and Partner Retention Integrated Marketing Communications Brand and Category Management Marketing Processes and Performance

Robert Smith RGD

Owner/Creative Director · Association of Registered Graphic Designers

Creative Catalyst • Brand Builder • Speaker • Teacher

Product Design Interior Design Creativity Package Design Branding

Eli Goldstein

Senior Consultant · Customaline (Pty) Ltd

Experienced, innovative speaker on Sustaining Customer Satisfaction

Sustainable Customer Satisfaction Customer Experience or Relationship Customer Information Technology

Ryan Charles

CEO · Consmr

Mobile Expert and Entrepreneur

Mobile Reviews Consumer Packaged Goods Entrepreneurship Food

Angela Danyluk

Biologist/Sustainability specialist · local government

Ecologist who connects information and people to make change, solve problems and find solutions within the local government sector.

Reducing greenhouse gases Fish Ecology Agriculture Climate Change Adaptation

Lewis Perkins

Sustainability Strategist · New House LLC

Engaging Social and Environmental Responsibility Speaker

Corporate Sustainability Trends Knowledge & Insights Cradle to Cradle Product Innovation Continuous Improvement Quality Standards Sustainable Textiles & Apparel

Jeff Hoffman

Partner & Co-Founder · ColorJar, LLC

Internationally recognized public speaker on the topics of innovation, leadership, entrepreneurship, and more.

Entrepreneurship New Media Leadership Branding Futurist

Jim Signorelli

CEO/Chairman · ESW Partners/StoryLab

Understanding how stories work can help marketers, advertisers and sales people become powerfully persuasive.

Persuasion Marketing Advertising Entertaining Story

Lara McCulloch-Carter

Chief Brand Storyteller · READY2SPARK

Lara’s a secret you want to keep to yourself. Anti-PowerPoint, she’s innovative, a storyteller & meaningful. I’ve hired her time &...

Lyle Brenner

Associate Professor · University of Florida

Lyle Brenner's research investigates how consumers and managers make predictions, inferences and decisions.

Consumer and Managerial Decision Making Statistics and Research Methods Consumer Statistical Reasoning Judgment Under Uncertainty Mathematical Psychology

Steven Shugan

Chair · University of Florida

Steven Shugan is an expert in health care and market research.

Advance-Selling and other Creating Pricing Practices Normative Methods for Modeling Competition Competition in Health-Care Markets Markets for Evaluative Information Growth in Competitive Markets

Nick Virginio, MBA

Senior Marketing Lecturer, College of Business Administration · Loyola Marymount University

Part-time Faculty

Consumer Insights Brand Communications Product Marketing Marketing Strategy & Positioning Brand Management

Kari Kammel

Director of the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting & Product Protection, Adjunct Law Professor · Michigan State University

Kari Kammel actively researcheslegal issues pertaining to trademark counterfeiting, U.S. state and federal law and e-commerce.

International Law Intellectual Property Trademark Counterfeiting Trademark Enforcement

Jay Yoo, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Apparel Merchandising · Baylor University

Fashion merchandising and apparel expert specializing in appearance-related behaviors and individual social well-being.

Green Consumption Body-Tanning Behaviors Apparel and Consumer Behavior Fashion Merchandising Appearance-Related Behaviors