Dr. Keri Pearlson is the executive director of the research group cybersecurity at MIT Sloan (CAMS). Dr. Pearlson has held positions in academia and industry including Babson College, UTexas-Austin, Gartner’s Research Board, CSC, Hughes Aircraft Company and AT&T. She was the CIO for Shalom Austin. Her research career focuses on the intersection of information systems, business strategy and organizational design. Her current research projects study how organizations build a culture of cybersecurity, how cybersecurity can be a competitive advantage and how organizations create and adopt cybersecurity innovations. She’s the lead author of the popular MIT textbook Managing and Using Information: A Strategic Approach (7th edition) and co-author of Zero Time: Providing Instant Customer Value. She has written dozens of papers and case studies, many of which included ground-breaking work which has influenced how managers and leaders think about and manage information. She was the founding president of the SIM-Austin chapter and has held various other positions on the SIM Management Council and committees. Dr. Pearlson holds a doctorate in business administration (DBA) in MIS from Harvard Business School, a Masters (MS) in industrial engineering and a bachelors (BS) in mathematics from Stanford University.