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THE BRAND PROTECTION PROFESSIONAL
Karen L. Sedatole is a Professor of Accounting at Emory University's Goizueta
Business School. Prior to joining Emory University in 2017, she served on the faculty
of the University of Texas at Austin and most recently held the position of Russell E.
Palmer Endowed Professor of Accounting at Michigan State University's Eli Broad
College of Business. Karen holds BSE (computer engineering) and MBA degrees
and received her PhD from The University of Michigan in 2000. Her research
focuses on the design and effectiveness of performance measurement and reward
systems, the role of forecasting and budgetary systems within organizations, and
control in inter-organizational collaborations. She has partnered with numerous
corporations in the auto, chemical, and high-tech industries to generate research
relevant to the business community and twice was awarded (along with her co­
authors) the Impact on Management Accounting Practice Award. Her research,
which includes archival, field research, and experimental methodologies, has been
published in Journal of Accounting Research, The Accounting Review,
Contemporary Accounting Research, Management Science, Journal of Management
Accounting Research, Management Accounting Research, Accounting Horizons, and
Accounting, Organizations and Society. Professor Sedatole is a two-time recipient
of the American Accounting Association Notable Contributions to Management
Accounting Research Award. She currently serves as Editor of Accounting Horizons
and Senior Editor of the Journal of Management Accounting Research.
Will Demere is an Assistant Professor of Accountancy at the University of Missouri.
He received his PhD in Accounting and Information Systems from Michigan State
University and his BS and MS in Accounting and Information Systems from Virginia
Tech. Will teaches advanced auditing and risk management, and has previously
taught courses in cost and managerial accounting, financial accounting, and
information systems. His research focuses on performance evaluation and incentives,
corporate governance, and developing new approaches to measurement. Will also
previously worked for Deloitte in its auditing practice, and taught in the Accounting
and Information Systems Department at Virginia Tech and in study-abroad programs
in France and Germany.
Jeremy Wilson is a Professor of the School of Criminal Justice at MSU, and has
founded and directs the Center for Anti-Counterfeiting and Product Protection and
the Program on Police Consolidation and Shared Services. Prior to joining MSU, Dr.
Wilson was a Behavioral Scientist at the RAND Corporation, where he led the
development of the Center on Quality Policing and the Police Recruitment and
Retention Clearinghouse. He has held a wide variety of appointments and honorary
titles at prestigious institutions around the world, and has served as an instructor
for numerous law enforcement and brand protection training programs. Dr. Wilson
has collaborated with police agencies, communities, task forces, companies,
associations and governments throughout the U.S. and the world on many complex
public safety problems, and has led over $10 million of projects sponsored by the
U.S. Congress, various units of the U.S. Departments of Justice and Interior,
community and institutional foundations, local governments, police departments,
professional associations, and corporations. Among other areas, he has written
extensively for practitioners and scholars on brand protection, product
counterfeiting, police staffing and personnel planning, organizational consolidation,
resource allocation, community policing, field interventions for violence prevention,
data and measurement, empirical modeling and evaluation. Dr. Wilson's research
and commentary have been featured in numerous books, professional publications,
academic journals, and Congressional testimony, and in various forms of national
and international media. The Academy of Criminal Justice Sciences, Johnson &
Johnson, Underwriters Laboratories, and others have honored him with recognition
awards for his contributions to criminal justice, policing and brand protection.
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