Rob Handfield is the Bank of America University Distinguished Professor of Supply Chain Management at North Carolina State University, and Executive Director of the Supply Chain Resource Cooperative. Handfield is considered a thought leader in the field of supply chain management, and is an industry expert in the field of strategic sourcing, supply market intelligence, and supplier development. He has spoken on these subjects across the globe, including China, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Latin America, India, Europe, Korea, Japan, Canada, in multiple presentations and webinars. Handfield has published more than 120 peer reviewed journal articles and is regularly quoted in global news media such as the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, LA Times, Bloomberg, NPR, Washington Post, the Financial Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and CNN. He served on the Joint Acquisition Task Force during COVID which led to published articles on the shortages of PPE in the Harvard Business Review and the Milbank Quarterly Journal, and led a NIIMBL research team studying distribution of test kits during the pandemic.Daniel Finkenstadt is an Assistant Professor in the Graduate School of Defense Management offering courses in Enterprise Sourcing. Dr. Finkenstadt holds a Ph.D. in Marketing from Kenan-Flagler Business School, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (2020). He has over 18 years of defense contracting experience in operational (base level), systems center, headquarters, joint, overseas and classified environments. He is also a graduate of NPS (M.B.A., 2011). His research interests are perceived service quality, value, business-to-government markets, professional services (knowledge-based services), non-traditional government contractor motivations. He has published articles in the National Contract Management Association Contract Management Magazine, Defense Acquisition Review Journal, Journal of Purchasing and Supply Management, International Journal of Operations and Production Management, the Milbank Quarterly, California Management Review and the Harvard Business Review. His most recent work centers around COVID-19 pandemic response supply chains and exploration into novel forms of gamified and simulated training for acquisition sciences. He is the Principal Investigator for the new Simulation and Ideation Lab for Acquisition Sciences (SILAS) at NPS.
