The primary purpose of the Advisory Board is to advise IVI on how it can improve the collaboration with, and provide benefits to, organisations and wider society. The Board will provide advice, recommendations and guidance to the Director and management team at the IVI, related to research, research challenges and strategy. The Board members will play a valuable role by helping to shape the Institutes’ overall direction for the future.
Meet the Advisory Board

Professor Jan vom Brocke

Anne Josephine Flanagan

Edwina Fitzmaurice

Professor. Iris Junglas

Matthew Mullarkey

Cornel Klien
Professor Jan vom Brocke
Professor Jan vom Brocke the Hilti Endowed Chair for Business Process Management, Director of the Institute for Information Systems at the University of Liechtenstein and Co-Founder of DIGITIZE.EU – an innovative platform to inspire and implement ambitious digitalization initiatives across Europe. Jan`s research has been published in many of the Financial Times Top 50 journals, such as Management Science, Management Information Systems Quarterly, Journal of Management Information Systems and MIT Sloan Management Review, and a recent Stanford study ranks Jan vom Brocke among the Top 0.5% of the world’s most cited scientists across all disciplines. He is the author and editor of 44 books, many of them considered best sellers in management and digitalization, such as the book Business Process Management Cases – Digital Innovation and Business Transformation in Practice, which has been downloaded more than 5 million times on the Springer Nature database. Jan has acquired over €40 million in research funding and the projects of his team have been featured in popular newspapers around the word, including the Wall Street Journal, Daily Mail, and Telegraph. Jan has received over 20 international awards and has been named a Fellow of the World Association for Information Systems. Jan is an invited speaker and trusted advisor to many companies – big and small – as well as governmental institutions across Europe.
Anne Josephine Flanagan
Anne Josephine Flanagan is Vice President for Artificial Intelligence at the Future of Privacy Forum, a Washington DC-based non-profit with offices globally. FPF serves as a catalyst for privacy leadership and scholarship, advancing principled data practices in support of emerging technologies. Anne leads FPF’s portfolio of projects exploring the data flows driving algorithmic and AI products and services, their opportunities and risks, and the ethical and responsible development of this technology.
An international policy expert in Data and Artificial Intelligence, Anne is an economist and strategic technology governance and business leader with 18+ years’ experience on five continents, including in the EU and the U.S.
Anne spent over a decade in the Irish government and EU institutions, including developing Ireland’s technical policy positions and diplomatic strategy in relation to EU legislation on telecoms, digital infrastructure, and data. She has represented Ireland in the EU Digital Single Market Strategic Group at the European Commission, the Working Party on Telecommunications and Information Society at the Council of the European Union and was responsible for foundational work on the EU’s Digital Single Market, including the EU’s early approach to AI governance.
Since moving to the U.S. in 2019, Anne has held several senior positions in technology policy, where she has helped senior technology business leaders shape responsible and sustainable technology development through her research, advice, and expertise. At the World Economic Forum, she developed and led a global portfolio of work on Data Policy and later led cross-product policy strategy for Reality Labs Policy at Meta Platforms Inc. in San Francisco, California.
Anne holds a Masters in Economics and Political Science from Trinity College Dublin, a Masters in International Relations from Dublin City University, and a Masters of Business Administration from Trinity College Dublin.
Edwina Fitzmaurice
Edwina is the Client Technology, Chief Customer Success Officer, Principal Partner. Edwina leads Customer Success and Product Management for EY’s Client Technology business unit. Her responsibilities include enabling client centricity in line with EY’s NextWave strategy to transform the business through technology and data. Edwina works across the firm’s leadership team to identify, build, deploy and adopt high-impact CT solutions, products and platforms designed to meet and exceed the expectations of our engagement teams and clients. Edwina has been a CIO, COO and CEO in financial services businesses and holds board positions on industry innovation organizations. She was formerly the GCSP for Xerox, a G360 account and the Global Consulting Markets and Business Development Leader.
Professor. Iris Junglas
Dr. Iris Junglas is the Noah T. Leask Distinguished Professor of Information Management and Innovation in the Supply Chain and Information Management Department at the College of Charleston. She holds a Ph.D. from the University of Georgia, as well as an undergraduate and master’s degree in Computer Science from the University of Koblenz, Germany. Over a 20-year career, she has worked for a variety of IT consulting firms, including PricewaterhouseCoopers and Accenture where she worked under the tutelage of Jeanne Harris (co-author of the book “Competing on Analytics” together with Tom Davenport) as a Research Fellow for the Institute of High Performance.
Iris’ research sits at the intersection of technology innovation and business analytics. Overall, Iris has published more than 50 refereed journal articles in the field of Information Systems, including outlets, such as the European Journal of Information Systems, Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Management Information Systems Quarterly and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive. In 2017, Iris won the AIS best paper award for her work together with Oliver Müller, Jan vom Brocke, and Stefan Debortoli on “Deriving business value from unstructured data” for which the authors developed a text mining tool, freely available at MineMyText.com.
Iris is a Senior Associate Editor of the European Journal of Information Systems, an Associate Editor for the Communications of AIS, and a board member of the Journal of Strategic Information Systems and Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive. She has just completed a Fulbright Scholarship at Maynooth University in Ireland where she researched the “Internet of Things.” She has taught at the undergraduate, graduate, Ph.D., and executive level, inside and outside the US, in English and in German. In 2018, she won a graduate teaching award for her work with MBA students.
Iris has lived in Germany, Switzerland, and Ireland. In the U.S., Iris seems to like the “ston” towns as she has lived in Houston, Boston, and now lives in Charleston. Iris loves oil-painting and repairing things.
Education
Ph.D. degree in Business Administration with a specialization in Management Information Systems and a Minor in Artificial Intelligence, University of Georgia, Athens, GA, 2003
Master’s and undergraduate degree in Computer Science with a specialization in Business Administration (Dipl.-Inf.), University of Koblenz-Landau, Germany, 1998
Fulbright Scholar at Maynooth University, Maynooth, Ireland, 2018/2019
DAAD Scholar at Otto-Beisheim School of Management, WHU, Koblenz, Germany, 2015
Fellow of the University of Liechtenstein, Vaduz, Liechtenstein in Business Analytics, since 2011
Courses Taught
- Information Management
- Business Analytics
Publications
REFEREED JOURNAL ARTICLES
Meske, C., Junglas, I. and S. Stieglitz (2019). Explaining the Emergence of Hedonic Motivations in Enterprise Social Networks and Their Impact on Sustainable User Engagement – A Four-Drive Perspective. Journal of Enterprise Information Management, Volume 32, Issue 3, p. 436-456.
Junglas, I., Goel, L., Ives, B. and J. G. Harris (2018). Innovation at Work: The Relative Advantage of Using Consumer IT in the Workplace. Information Systems Journal, Volume 29, Issue 2, p. 317-339.
Rehm, S., Goel, L. and I. Junglas (2017). Using Information Systems in Innovation Networks: Uncovering Network Resources. Journal of the Association of Information Systems, Volume 18, Issue 8, p. 577-604.
Junglas, I., Koch, H., Sundararajan, A. and P. Wang (2017). Shared Responsibility and Blurring Boundaries: Strategic Implications of the Sharing Economy. Management Information Systems Quarterly Executive, Volume 16, Issue 4, p. iii-i
REFEREED PROCEEDINGS
Zaza, I. and I. Junglas (2017). Conceptualizing IT Self-Service Engagement: A Grounded Theory Approach, Americas Conference on Information Systems, August 10-12, Boston, MA.
Zaza, I. and I. Junglas (2016). IT Self-Service Engagement: A Theory of Trying Perspective, Proceeding of the International Conference on Information Systems, December 11-14, Dublin, Ireland
OTHER NON-REFEREED PUBLICATIONS
Rehm, S. and I. Junglas (2017). Kybernetik and Digital Transformation, In: Kybernetik und Transformation – Regelung und Kommunikation in Organisation und Gesellschaft, Rehm, S.-V. and T. Fischer (eds), Wirtschaftskybernetik und Systemanalyse, Band 31, Duncker & Humblot, Berlin
Matthew Mullarkey
Matthew T. Mullarkey is the Director of the Doctor of Business Administration (DBA) Program for the USF Muma College of Business and an Instructor in the School of Information Systems and Management (SISM). Mullarkey received a Ph.D. in Business Administration with a concentration in Information Systems from the University of South Florida, an MBA from the University of South Carolina, an MS in Systems Management from the University of Southern California, and a BS in Engineering from the United States Military Academy (West Point).
Mullarkey’s areas of research interest include design science research and action research in the evaluation and creation of information systems, smart cities, IoT, healthcare, social networking, and data science. Mullarkey teaches using case based discussions that engage Doctoral, MBA and MIS undergraduates in complex business decisions that typically involve a technology component. His case study based capstone courses emphasize critical thinking, business analysis, and the impact of information technology and systems on real‐world, business decision‐making. Mullarkey is the Editor‐in‐Chief of the USF Muma Case Review and an editor and reviewer for a number of academic journals.
Mullarkey is a 2019-2020 recipient of the Fulbright Scholar Award, 2018 recipient of the USF Faculty Externship Award, 2017 recipient of the USF Muma College of Business Outstanding Faculty Community Engagement Award, and 2015-2016 ISDS Undergraduate Teacher of the Year Award. Mullarkey was named a 2019-2021 Extraordinary Research Scientist at North West University, Potchefstroom, South Africa.
Cornel Klien
Cornel Klein leads the corporate research program at Siemens Foundation Technologies on the validation and engineering of intelligent and autonomous systems and manages large collaborative research projects. In this role, he is closely connected with external partners in the Siemens research and innovation ecosystem, including funding agencies, universities, startups, and industrial R&I initiatives.
He has extensive expertise in communications, cyber-physical and embedded systems, software and systems engineering, as well as in application domains such as automotive, mobility, and smart cities/buildings. Cornel has also served as project manager and co-author of several foresight studies, including The Software Car, which explores the impact of digital transformation on the automotive industry, and Embodied Intelligence: Driving the Digital Transformation 2.0“
Cornel holds a Master’s and a PhD in Computer Science from the Technical University of Munich.
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