John S. Kakalik, Ph.D., is the co-chair of the Marketing Department and a full-time faculty member at Western Connecticut State University. He received his Ph.D. in Marketing from Michigan State University. He has been a member of the faculties at the University of Maine at Orono and the University of New Haven, where he also was the Associate Dean of the School of Business Administration. He has been a consultant to General Motors, the Federal Trade Commission, General Electric, and various state and regional businesses and law firms. His research interests focus on consumer privacy and the protection of sensitive information, and he has contributed to the information systems security/information assurance profession through the publication of a number of articles.
