Dr. Omar Merlo is Associate Professor of Marketing Strategy and Academic Director at Imperial Business School. He previously lectured at Cambridge University and the University of Melbourne-where he earned his PhD-and has been a visiting professor at institutions including Oxford, LSE, UCL, ETH, EPFL, Lausanne, Lugano, and Aalto. His research on marketing strategy, services, and branding has appeared in Journal of Marketing, JAMS, Journal of Service Research, MIT Sloan Management Review, and others. As an advisor, he has worked with many global firms, including McKinsey, Airbus, Unilever, Samsung, Audi, ABB, Barclays, and HSBC. Dr. Konstantin Theile is a guest lecturer at Imperial Business School and several other universities. He was formerly Professor of International Marketing, Business Ethics and Entrepreneurship at ESB Business School, Reutlingen University, and Director at the Swiss Research Institute of Small Business and Entrepreneurship at the University of St. Gallen. After earning his doctorate in economics from St. Gallen, he worked at UBS and Hoffmann-La Roche. In 1982, he joined the watch industry to establish and lead the global marketing strategy for Swatch. He later founded several companies and now works as a business adviser.
