Dr. Vequist is an Associate Professor and Chair of the Management Discipline in the H-E-B School of Business & Administration at the University of the Incarnate Word.  In addition, Dr. Vequist also consults with companies worldwide.  In his previous career, Dr. Vequist was a Human Resources executive at the Methodist Healthcare System, a multi-billion dollar healthcare provider in South Texas.  Before that, Dr. Vequist was a management consultant for Ernst & Young, LLP doing consulting for Fortune 500 companies particularly in Telecommunications and High-Tech.  He has been a featured speaker at many conferences, worked with executives at companies all over the world and has teaching experience with the graduate program in Healthcare Administration at Trinity.  He received his Ph.D. in 2001 and Masters in 1997 from the University of Tulsa and his B.S. in 1994 from Northern Arizona University.  Dr. Vequist has presented information regarding information technologies at many conferences and is the author of book chapters on the Management of Technology (MOT), Information Communication Technologies (ICT) and Consulting Trends, and leading edge consulting tools (in press).  He has also had several journal articles published around Collaborative Knowledge Management (CKM), new technologies in Training & Development (T&D) and Business Simulations.