Biographies of the Instructors ------------------------------- BUSINESS MODULE --------------- SUNNY MARCHE, Ph.D., CMC Sunny Marche is an Associate Professor of Management Information Systems at Dalhousie University. He is also a certified management consultant (CMC), with 19 years of consulting experience in a wide variety of areas. He has long experience in assessing how to improve the effectiveness of organizations, especially through the use of information technology. He completed a Ph. D. from the London School of Economics, where he developed tools to measure data model stability. He has a Diploma in Education and a Master of Education (Industrial Vocational) from the University of Alberta. He is also a graduate of the Royal Military College of Canada with a degree in Economics. Sunny has a special reputation among his clients for being able to help them to identify reasonable goals and objectives, and to develop practical strategies for achieving them. He has had significant experience in technology assessment for investment decision making. He has been involved in strategic planning, organization review, management education, project management, economic model analysis and development, and information systems design, policy and procedure development. He also has experience on the Board of Directors of both public and private companies. Working with a group of venture capitalists as the Vice President of Information Technologies, Dr. Marche has conducted hundreds of assessments of companies with significant technology components. On the basis of these assessments, the venture capitalists made major investment decisions. For example: - For a high-growth biotechnology company, assessed and refined economic models for bidding and cash flow management purposes. - Completed a technical assessment of software that predicts the relationship of hydrogen atoms transient through steel pipe, and the degree of corrosion on the interior. - Evaluated the competitive position, market factors, and technological future of a specialized Internet technology to distribute long distance facsimile at one-third the regular cost. - Led an evaluation team looking at the potential of a proprietary hardware / software solution to the challenge of simultaneous data compression and encryption that is transparent to the user, and which increases bandwidth capacity by a factor of four. As a regular part of his due diligence responsibilities, he regularly assesses the economic models that are part of the business plans of the prospective portfolio companies. Over a five-year period, he has participated in the analysis of over 200 such companies. Provided strategic planning and ongoing operational consulting to portfolio companies. PHIL MCLELLAN Phil McLellan is presently a private consultant on information systems and technology, specializing in public sector issues. Current interests are electronic service delivery, e-government, and police and justice information systems. Prior to retiring from the Public Service in 1998, he was Assistant Deputy Minister responsible for the Federal Government Telecommunication and Informatics Services program at Public Works and Government Services. From 1974 to 1994 he held several senior management positions with the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, and from 1986 to 1994 he held the position of Assistant Commissioner responsible for the Canadian Police Information Centre and the RCMP Informatics program. He also spent several years as systems engineering manager with a major computer manufacturer in the early 1970's. Mr. McLellan has a M.Sc. (Computer Science) from the University of Western Ontario, and B.Sc. and B.Ed. Degrees from Acadia University. TECHNOLOGY MODULE ------------------ ANDREW RAU-CHAPLIN Andrew Rau-Chaplin, B.A., M.C.S., Ph.D. Dr. Rau-Chaplin received a M.C.S. and Ph.D. from the School of Computer Science at Carleton University in Ottawa in 1990 and 1993, respectively. Between 1986 and 1988 he worked in the Knowledge Technology Group at Bell Northern Research as the principle designer of the Datapac Advisor, a real-time expert system which became the first AI based system in Northern Telecom's product line. From 1994 to 1995 he was a NSERC/DIMACS Postdoctoral Fellow at DIMACS - a National Science Foundation center run by Princeton University, Rutgers, and AT&T Bell labs. He is a faculty member of the Faculty of Computer Science Department at Dalhousie University, a member of the Global Information Networking Institute, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Master of Electronic Commerce program. He is actively involved in curriculum design for the new graduate program in electronic commerce and teaches the Electronic Commerce Overview course. Dr. Rau-Chaplin's research interests are in parallel and distributed computing and the design of scalable algorithms and applications for such data intensive application areas as data mining and geographic information systems. He has published over 40 papers in these areas. CAROLYN WATTERS Dr. Carolyn Watters is a faculty member of the Faculty of Computer Science Department at Dalhousie University, a member of the Global Information Networking Institute, and a member of the Executive Committee for the Master of Electronic Commerce program. She is actively involved in curriculum design for the new graduate program in electronic commerce and taught the Technology Overview course last fall. Web design and computer supported learning are two application areas of her fundamental research interest in the design and evaluation of network-based information systems from the point of view of the computer user. Dr. Watters earned her PhD from the Technical University of Nova Scotia and holds graduate degrees in both library science and computer science from the University of Western Ontario. EVANGELOS MILIOS Evangelos Milios received a diploma in Electrical Engineering from the National Technical University of Athens, Greece, and Master's and Ph.D. degrees in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts. He has worked as a Research Assistant Professor with the Artificial Intelligence group at the University of Toronto, and as an Associate Professor with the Department of Computer Science, York University. His research has centered on knowledge-based systems, mobile robotic agents and computer vision. He is currently with the Faculty of Computer Science, Dalhousie University. He is a Senior Member of the IEEE, and a registered Professional Engineer in Ontario. He served as a member of the ACM Dissertation Award committee (1990-1992). His current research activity is centered on software agents for information retrieval and electronic commerce. POLICY MODULE ------------- MICHAEL DETURBIDE Michael Deturbide is an Assistant Professor of Law at Dalhousie University. His research and teaching interests are focused in the areas of corporate, tax, and media law. Building on these three subjects he recently designed a course on Internet and Media Law, which is offered as part of the innovative Masters of Electronic Commerce degree at Dalhousie. He has been the Director of Continuing Legal Education in Nova Scotia, and has experience delivering seminars and workshops to a wide variety of professionals. TERESA SCASSA Teresa Scassa, B.A. (Conc.), LL.B./B.C.L. (McGill), LL.M., S.J.D. (U.Mich.). Teresa Scassa is an Associate Professor of Law at Dalhousie Law School. She has taught Public and Administrative law, and currently teaches Copyright Law, and Law and Technology. She has published in the areas of language rights, administrative law, constitutional law, and has given papers and presentations on intellectual property law, law and technology and electronic commerce. She is bilingual, and has spoken and published in both official languages.