Kenneth B. Kahn, Ph.D., is a Professor and Dean of the Strome College of Business at Old Dominion University. In the role of Dean, he serves as chief executive officer for the College and strives to enhance the college’s reputation as a problem-solving leader in business education, scholarship, and research. Prior to joining Old Dominion University, Dr. Kahn was a Professor and Dean of Cleveland State University’s Monte Ahuja College of Business. He also has held leadership and faculty positions at Virginia Commonwealth University, Purdue University, The University of Tennessee, and Georgia Tech.

Kahn's teaching and research interests include product innovation, product management, and demand forecasting of current and new products. He has published more than 50 articles in prestigious journals, authored three books on product planning and forecasting, and edited the PDMA Handbook on New Product Development. Dr. Kahn is broadly recognized as one of the world's leading researchers in the field of innovation management. In Spring 2021, he was named to Stanford University's list of the Top 2% Most Cited Researchers in the World.

His industrial experience includes serving as an industrial engineer and project engineer for Weyerhaeuser Co. and a manufacturing engineer for Respironics Inc. He has extensive contacts in the private sector through his corporate consulting and training endeavors.

Kahn earned a Ph.D. in Marketing and a Master of Science in Industrial Engineering from Virginia Tech and a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech.

Mr. Moroney is a Partner in Apollo's Credit Business and currently serves as Co-Head of Global Corporate Credit and Head of Sustainable Finance. He joined Apollo in 2008 as the Head of Apollo’s Global Performing Credit Group. Mr. Moroney's investment management career spans 29 years, with experience at leading financial services firms including Aladdin Capital Management, Merrill Lynch Investment Managers and MetLife. Mr. Moroney graduated from Rutgers University with a BS in Ceramic Engineering and is a Director Emeritus of the Rutgers University Foundation. He is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the NYSSA

Lei Lei received her Ph.D. in Industrial Engineering from the University of Wisconsin (Madison) with a minor in Computer Science. Her research expertise includes supply chain network design and optimization, operations planning, scheduling, process recovery after disruptions, demand-supply planning, and resource allocation optimization. Lei has over 50 refereed publications – many appeared in leading journals such as Management Science, INFORMS Journal on Computing, Interfaces, IIE Transactions, European Journal of Operations Research, Journal of Operational Research Society, and Naval Research Logistics, etc. She was listed by ROI-NJ among the Top 50 NJ Women in Business Influencers (2021) and as a NJ Difference Maker (2020), and by NJBIZ as a Top 50 Women in Business (2015). Lei became the Dean of Rutgers Business School (Newark and New Brunswick) in January 2015.