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Charles Vincent, MSc (Statistics), PhD (OR), PDRF (OM), is currently with CENTRUM Católica Graduate Business School (accredited by AACSB, EQUIS, and AMBA), PUCP, Lima, Peru, as the Director of CENTRUM Research and as a Distinguished Research Professor. He is an Honorary Professor at Maastricht School of Management, The Netherlands, an Associate Staff at the Centre for Latin American Studies (CLAS), University of Malaya, Malaysia, and a Higher Education Teaching and Learning Association Liaison to Peru, HETL USA. He is also a post-doctoral research fellow from National University of Singapore (NUS), Singapore. He is a certified Six Sigma Black Belt and a Six Sigma Master Black Belt. He holds Executive Certificates from the MIT Sloan School of Management, Harvard Business School, and Royal Statistical Society. He has almost 18 years of teaching, research, and consultancy experience in various countries, including India, Malaysia, Peru, Singapore, and the USA, in the fields of applied quantitative analytics. He has published over 100 research works. He is a recipient of many international academic honors and awards. He won the 2013 award in the category of The Most Innovative Study from the Premio PODER to Peru’s Think Tank of the Year, the 2013 award in Summer Grants (competition) from the Emerging Markets Institute (EMI) of Johnson Cornell University, USA (along with Nagesh Gavirneni) and also the best research paper award (2006) in Finance from the Centre for Financial Excellence, KLS’ IMER, Belgaum, India. Additionally, in 2012 he received the Best Paper Award from the ESIC Market Best Papers Awards CLADEA 2012. For three consecutive years, 2010-2012, he was the recipient of the Highly Commended Award of the Emerald/CLADEA Latin American Management Research Fund Award and for six consecutive years, 2010-2015, he was the recipient of CENTRUM’s annual research contribution award. He has published books with Pearson Prentice Hall and Cambridge Scholars Publishing, UK.

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Ali Emrouznejad is a professor of Business Analytics in Operations and Information Management Group at Aston Business School, UK. His areas of research interest include performance measurement and management as well as data mining and big data. Dr. Emrouznejad is editor or associate editor in several respected Journals including Annals of Operations Research, Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, and IMA Journal of Management Mathematics. He has published over 80 articles in top ranked journals and several books including “Applied Operational Research with SAS” (CRC Press), “Performance Measurement with Fuzzy DEA” (Springer), “Managing Service Productivity” (Springer), and “Handbook of Research on Strategic Performance Management and Measurement Using DEA” (IGI Global). He is also co-founder of Performance Improvement Management Software (PIM-DEA), see http://www.DEAzone.com.