Dr. Alma Mintu-Wimsatt received her Ph.D. from the University of Kentucky.  She is currently the William Mayo Professor and Professor of Marketing at Texas A&M University-Commerce. Her areas of research interest are cross-cultural negotiations, buyer-seller interaction and teaching pedagogy focusing on technology mediated learning.  Her research works have been published in Management Science, Chinese Management Studies, Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Thunderbird International Business Review, Journal of Personal Selling and Sales Management, International Journal of Research in Marketing, European Journal of Marketing, Journal of Business and Industrial Marketing, and Marketing Education Review, to name a few.  Dr. Mintu-Wimsatt was a recipient of a Citation from the Joseph H. Lauder Institute of Management and International Studies from The Wharton School and The School of Arts and Sciences, University of Pennsylvania.