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Douglas Hales is an Associate Dean and Professor of Supply Chain Management at the University of Rhode Island. His primary teaching expertise is Global Supply Chain Management and Lean Six Sigma. His research interests include Global Port Competitiveness and Applied Process Improvement. 

Hales has more than 20 years of operational and supply chain management experience for the U. S. Marine Corps as well as the plastics and construction industries. He can speak to the impact of U. S. imposed tariffs on Chinese goods and U. S. goods in many industries. He can discuss the delay between the tariffs and the arrival of goods being shipped to the U.S. and what consumers can expect, in terms of the timing of price hikes on goods purchased by Americans. He can discuss the 鈥渃old chain,鈥� agricultural goods, electronics and commodities in general that ship by container vessel.

Hales is a special issue co-editor for the Transportation Journal on Seaport Competition for 2018 and 2019, as well as the past Program Chair of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute. He is also the incoming President of the Northeast Decision Sciences Institute, beginning July 1, 2019.

https://web.uri.edu/business/meet/doug-hales/

Hitendra Chaturvedi is an expert in supply chain strategy, global logistics, entrepreneurship, sustainable supply chains and digitizing supply chains. 

He has extensive experience as a global business professional and subsequently as a successful entrepreneur and sits on advisory committees of many start-ups and incubators, speaker at numerous conferences. 

Chaturvedi is a professor of practice at the W. P. Carey School of Business.

He has been widely covered in press and media as a subject matter expert on global supply chain strategy, green/sustainable supply chain, digitizing supply chains and reverse logistics.

Dr. Stephen Arthur LeMay has a deep background in Transportation and Logistics and has authored two books, a textbook and a research book, on logistics and transportation topics.

LeMay, a Professor, has examined supply chain design, truck driver job satisfaction, supply chain security, computer literacy among undergraduate business students, and other topics in logistics and marketing.

Refereed publications carrying his findings include Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and Transportation Review, Journal of Business Logistics, International Journal of Commerce and Management, Journal of Supply Chain Management, Journal of Transportation Management, and Information Systems Education Journal.

LeMay鈥檚 Ph.D. from the University of Tennessee included a dissertation on, "The Design, Organization and Methods of Strategic Information Systems: A Study of the Motor Carrier Industry.鈥�

He has examined the motor carrier industry from many angles, such as how motorists perceive trucks on the highway and why truckers quit driving. His work covers a broad range of topics on human resources in logistics and supply chains, marketing and personal selling, and customer orientation.

Vitaly Brazhkin is an Assistant Professor with a Ph. D. in Supply Chain Management from the University of Arkansas. He teaches a variety of courses in logistics and other disciplines.

His research interests are in education, warehousing, and transportation. His peer-reviewed research has been published in Supply Chain Management: An International Journal, Journal of Business Logistics, Transportation Journal, Decision Sciences Journal of Innovative Education and others.  He has presented his research at national and international conferences held by Council of Supply Chain Management Professionals, Decision Sciences Institute and other organizations.

His current research focuses on the efficient use of lift trucks in warehouses and the effectiveness of assessment tools in experiential learning.

Brazhkin has extensive industry experience, particularly in international trade, transportation, and warehousing. Prior to working in academia, he held manager鈥檚 and director鈥檚 level positions with major U.S., French and German companies in the areas of sales management and supply chain management.

Suresh Acharya has spent over 25 years designing and building statistical and optimization solutions in the areas of Supply Chain Management, Retail Planning, Airline Operations, Logistics, and Pricing and Revenue Management. As a practicing analytics professional, he continues to work with Fortune 500 companies in delivering practical algorithmic solutions that demonstrate measurable customer value.