Professor Nancy Pouloudi

Athanasia (Nancy) Pouloudi is Professor of Information Systems Management in the Department of Management Science and Technology at the Athens University of Economics and Business (AUEB), Greece. She is President-Elect of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). She was Region 2 Representative on AIS Council (2010-2013) and regularly serves on the AIS Region 2 Board and the Executive Committee of the Mediterranean Conference on Information Systems (MCIS).

Her research focuses on organizational and social issues in IS adoption and implementation. Her recent work studies user post-adoption behavior (SIG Grounded Theory Methodology 2021 Best Paper Award Runner-Up) and the impact of cloud computing and the pandemic in the work and personal contexts of IS use. She has worked in a number of European Union funded projects on e-business, e-government, digital health and e-society, and is currently studying children’s digital maturity (digymatex.eu) and gender equality in business schools (targeted-mpi.eu).  

Her service has been recognized by the 2016 AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award and the 2020 AIS Technology Challenge Award.

 

Professor Mathew (Mat) Hughes

Dr Mathew (Mat) Hughes is Schulze Distinguished Professor and, recently, Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the School of Business and Economics, Loughborough University, UK. Mat becomes Professor of Innovation at the University of Leicester from 1st January 2023. He previously held appointments as Reader in Entrepreneurial Management at Durham University, and Lecturer then Associate Professor of Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the University of Nottingham. His research expertise lies in entrepreneurship and innovation and their intersection with strategy and management. Professor Hughes’ expertise includes the strategy and management of entrepreneurship and innovation in various contexts. He is widely published in world-leading and internationally excellent journals. Professor Hughes is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Family Business Strategy and Senior Editor of familybusiness.org. He also sits on the Editorial Boards of the British Journal of Management, Journal of Management Studies, and Journal of Business Venturing, among others. He is a member of the Scientific Council of La Fabrique de L’Exportation, a French think tank located in Paris, France. He also hosts a successful podcast series on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, SoundCloud and Amazon.  

Dr. Lucy Gill-Simmen

Dr. Lucy Gill-Simmen is Director of Education Strategy and a Senior Lecturer in Marketing in the School of Business and Management at Royal Holloway University of London. She has a passion for marketing education and seeks to provide the best and most equal education experience for all students. 

She holds both a MBA and a Ph.D. in Marketing from Imperial College Business School, London. Her disciplinary areas of interest are in marketing education, marketing strategy, global marketing strategy, digital marketing, digital brand storytelling and strategic internal branding. 

Prior to entering academia, Lucy worked for a number of years in marketing and managerial roles in the publishing and communications industry both in Europe and in the USA. In addition, she has worked on major consulting projects in the Middle East and the USA where she was instrumental in identifying the internal branding strategies for companies such as 3M (USA) and Al Tayer Group (Dubai, UAE). 

Given her experience in marketing practice, she is particularly interested in employability of students and in facilitating students’ transitions from HE to the world of work. Her pedagogic research interests lie in human skill development amongst students, technology-enabled learning, and values-based pedagogies for educating the ‘whole’ individual. 

In 2022 she was awarded the Global Women in Marketing Award for her role as a marketing educator.