Howard Thomas is Dean and LKCSB Chair in Strategic Management at the Lee Kong Chian School of Business, Singapore Management University. He was Dean of Warwick Business School (2000–2010) and, prior to this, he was Dean of the College of Commerce and Business Administration at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign (1991–2000).
Peter Lorange is President of the Lorange Institute of Business, Zurich and is one of the world's foremost business school academics. He is Professor of Strategy at IMD, Switzerland and was the President of IMD (1993–2008). Prior to this, he was President of the Norwegian School of Management in Oslo.
Jagdish Sheth is the Charles H. Kellstadt Chair of Marketing in the Goizueta Business School at Emory University, Atlanta, where he won the school's Global Innovation Award in June 2008. Professor Sheth is an internationally recognised business consultant and has been an educator for more than 40 years.