Dr. Anne Nelson is a retired managing partner with NMA, Inc., an international consulting firm. Her research centers on the global aspects of communication, information systems, knowledge management and organizational structure. Prior to academia, Dr. Nelson was general manager with Park Communications (headquartered in New York), then the fifth largest media conglomerate in the U.S., where she managed several of their newspapers in the southeast. She has also been co-owner of a newspaper in western North Carolina for nine years. Dr. Nelson has been president of the Board of Trustees of a community hospital and the president of the local Chamber of Commerce. She has also been a past member of a community bank board of directors and past president of the local chapter of Rotary. Currently, she is on the board of advisors for the National School of Business in Bangalore, India.