Dr Gurram Gopal holds the Theophil W. Mueller Endowed Chair and is an Associate Professor of Business Administration in the Center for Business and Economics at Elmhurst College, Illinois.  Dr. Gopal will be based at the Galway-Mayo Institute of Technology where he will lecture in Marketing and Supply Chain Management and will carry out research in the area of ‘Collaborative Innovations in the Design and Delivery of Business Courses for the 21st Century.’