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Dr. Mohanbir Sawhney is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology and the Director of the Center for Research in Technology & Innovation at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University. The Kellogg School is one of the top-ranked business schools in the United States and the world.

Prof. Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, author, and speaker in strategic marketing, IT, and e-business strategy. His research and teaching currently focuses on advanced digital marketing, engagement marketing, business innovation and enterprise analytics. He has pioneered concepts like the Innovation Radar, e-Hubs, Innomediation and the Sentient Enterprise.

He has been widely recognized as a thought leader. Business Week named him as one of the 25 most influential people in e-Business and Forbes names his as one of the top 50 greatest minds in United States. Crain's Chicago Business named him a member of "40 under 40", a select group of young business leaders in the Chicago area. The Editors of Fortune Magazine invited him to their Brainstorm 2001 and 2002 conferences, as one of the "smartest people we know". He is a Fellow of the prestigious World Economic Forum.

Prof. Sawhney is the co-author of five books. His most recent books are Collaborating with Customers to Create (2008) and The Global Brain: your Roadmap for Innovating Smarter and Faster in the Networked World (2007). His research has been published in leading journals like California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science.

Prof. Sawhney advises and speaks to Global 2000 firms and governments worldwide. His speaking and consulting clients include companies such as Adobe Systems, Boeing, Dell, DuPont, Ericsson, Fidelity Investments, General Mills, Goldman Sachs, Honeywell, IBM Consulting Services, Infosys, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, Motorola, MTV Networks, Nissan Motor, Nomura Research Institute, Raytheon Missile Systems, SAP, Sony, and Thomson Corporation. He serves on the boards and advisory boards of several technology startup companies, including EXLservice, Bahwan Cybertek, vMock, Cross-Tab Group, Firescope and Pagewell.

Prof. Sawhney holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania; a Master's degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta; and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.