Dr.  John R. McIntyre, is Center director of the Georgia Tech CIBER,  professor of management   and international relations, with joint appointment in the Georgia Tech’s College of Management and Sam Nunn School of International Affairs. He received his graduate education at Northeastern University, completing his Ph.D. at the Universityof Georgia.  Prior to joining Georgia Tech in September 1981, he was Research Associate for International Management at the Dean Rusk Center  of the University of Georgia Law School.  He has published in journals such as Technology and Society, Public Administration Quarterly, International Management Review, Defence Analysis, Studies in Comparative and International Development,  The Journal of European Marketing,  Politique Internationale,   International Executive,  International Trade Journal, among others.

Author or coauthor of the following books:  Uncertainty in Business-Government Relations: The Dynamics of International Trade Policy,  The Political Economy of International Technology Transfer,  International Space Policy: Legal, Economic, and Strategic Options for the Twentieth Century and Beyond,  Japan’s Technical standards: Implications for Global Competitiveness, Business and Management Education in China: Transition, Pedagogy and Training, A Handbook: Business and Management Education in Transitioning and Developing Country, Globalization of Chinese Enterprises,  The Multinational and Sustainable Development.   His professional memberships include: Sigma Xi, The Academy of International Business,  The Academy of Management, Policy Studies Organization, The American Society for Public  Administration.  Areas of interests include strategy, comparative management,    technology transfer, international political economy, regional economic integration,  and issues relating to the globalization of the management curriculum.

James Hoadley brings extensive personal experience to the Georgia Tech CIBER. He lived in Japan for nearly eight years, where he worked for Seiko Epson Corporation. He also worked as Human Resources manager for a Japanese-owned auto parts supplier in South Carolina before coming to Georgia Tech. He has an MBA from Georgia Tech and a graduate diploma in foreign language teaching and B.A. in international studies from the University of South Carolina. He is fluent in Japanese.

• Ph.D University of Illinois
• MBA University of Hawaii at Manoa
• M.A. University of Hawaii at Manoa
• B.A University of Hawaii at Manoa

Dr. Ulgado, Associate Professor of Management at the Georgia Tech College of Management, has interests in international business and marketing, global strategy, and the economics of the Pacific Rim. He is certified by the Pacific Asian Institute and has extensive consulting and teaching experience. He has published articles in the Management International Review, International Business Review among others. Dr. Ulgado is a member ot the Academy of International Business and the International Trade and Finance Association.

• Ph.D. University of Michigan
• M.S.E Princeton University
• B.S Northwersten University

He joined the School of ECE at Georgia Tech in September 1996 where is now Vice Provost for International Initiatives and Ken Byers Professor of ECE. As Vice Provost he is responsible for Georgia Tech's global engagement and is the point person for international initiatives in research, education, and economic development.

His research interests are in the general area of communications and information theory. His research group has on-going projects in the areas of turbo, LDPC, and constrained codes for magnetic and optical recording; FEC and equalization for wireless and optical networks; quantum key distribution, wireless and RFID security; and theory of error control coding. He has published more than 200 papers in journals and conferences and holds 26 US patents. He has served as the research and thesis advisor to more than 50 students at the bachelors, masters, doctoral and post-doctoral levels.

He was the first Georgia Tech recipient of the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers (PECASE) where he was cited by President Clinton "for leadership in the development of high-capacity, nonbinary optical recording formats." He also received the National Science Foundation CAREER award for this work. He received (with Dr. David Warland at UC-Davis) the Information Storage Industries Consortium Technical Achievement Award in 2002 for "pioneering work in the development of multilevel optical disk storage technology". From 1999-2003 he was also the Principal Scientist for Calimetrics where this work was commercialized (Calimetrics was acquired by LSI Logic in 2005). He received the Friend of the Graduate Student Award in 2002 from the GT Graduate Student Association.

In 2005, he was President of the IEEE Information Theory Society. He was also previously Deputy Director of Georgia Tech - Lorraine - the European Campus of the Georgia Institute of Technology - in Metz, France from 2006-2007. He has held positions at Booz, Allen and Hamilton, AT&T Bell Labs, and Eastman Kodak. From 1992-1996 he was on the Electrical Engineering faculty at the Rochester Institute of Technology.

He is a Fellow of the IEEE and served as an Associate Editor for Coding Techniques for the IEEE Transaction on Information Theory. He also served as the Publications Editor for that journal from 1995-1999. He co-edited (with Sergio Verdu) Information Theory: 50 Years of Discovery (Wiley/IEEE Press, 1999). He has also served on the IEEE Publications Activities Board (1998-2001) and is a former Secretary of the IEEE Atlanta Section (2000).