Mohanbir Sawhney

Mohanbir Sawhney Speaker Biography

Mohanbir Sawhney is the McCormick Tribune Professor of Technology, the Director of the Center for Research in Technology Innovation and the Chairman of the Technology Industry Management Program at the Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University.

Prof. Sawhney is a globally recognized scholar, teacher, advisor and speaker in strategic marketing, technology marketing and e-business strategy. His research and teaching interests include collaborative marketing with customers, IT and business value, technology-enabled business transformation and business innovation in large companies. He has been widely recognized as a thought leader. Business Week named him as one of the 25 most influential people in e-Business. Crain's Chicago Business named him a member of "40 under 40", a select group of young business leaders in the Chicago area. He is a Fellow of the World Economic Forum.

Prof. Sawhney is the co-author of three books - The Seven Steps to Nirvana: Strategic Insights into eBusiness Transformation, Techventure: New Rules for Value and Profit from Silicon Valley, and Kellogg on Technology Innovation. He has also co-authored PhotoWars, a strategy simulation game. His research has been published in leading journals like California Management Review, Harvard Business Review, Journal of Interactive Marketing, Management Science, Marketing Science, MIT Sloan Management Review, and Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science. He has also written several influential trade articles in publications like the Financial Times, CIO Magazine, and Business 2.0. He has won several awards for his teaching and research, including the 2001 Accenture Award for the best paper published in California Management Review in 2000 and the Outstanding Professor of the Year at Kellogg in 1998.

Prof. Sawhney advises and speaks to Global 2000 firms and governments worldwide. His speaking and consulting clients include ABN-AMRO Bank, Accenture, ADP Dealer Services, Bank of America, Bell Canada, Boeing, Choice Hotels, Dell, Deloitte Consulting, Denstu, Dow Chemical Company, Eli Lilly, Ericsson, Estee Lauder, General Mills, Goldman Sachs Group, Hallmark, Honeywell, IBM Consulting Services, Infosys, Kraft Foods, Microsoft, Motorola, NCR Teradata, Nomura Research Institute, Rockwell Automation, Sears Roebuck Company, Stena AB, Telemar, Thomson Corporation and USA Networks. He has also advised the Governments of Oman, Punjab, and Andhra Pradesh on e-Government strategy. He also serves on the boards and advisory boards of several technology startup companies.

Prof. Sawhney holds a Ph.D. in marketing from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania a Master's degree in management from the Indian Institute of Management, Calcutta and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi. He is married to Tia Sawhney, and has two young children. He lives in Evanston, Illinois.