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Frank Acito is professor emeritus of marketing at the Kelley School of Business. His area of expertise includes strategies for analyzing structural models, alignment of marketing and sales strategies, sampling characteristics, and the use of marketing research by managers. He served as director of the Kelley Institute for Business Analytics chair of the marketing department at Kelley. He earned a PhD and MBA at State University of New York at Buffalo and a BSEE from Cornell University.

Paul Acito is CEO of Lyftbridge, an AI-infused marketing agency, and an adjunct faculty member at the University of Minnesota and St. Catherine University. Previously, he worked at 3M, where he began as a marketing intern and rose to the position of chief marketing officer. In his time at 3M, he worked in the United States, Thailand, Belgium, and Japan. Paul was also a vice president for the medical device manufacturer Medtronic, an instructor at the University of Minnesota, and an adjunct faculty member at Indiana University. He earned his MBA from the Kelley School.

Tim Lemper teaches in Kelley’s Undergraduate Program, Full-Time MBA program, and Kelley Direct Online MBA program, as well as in Kelley’s partner MBA program at Sungkyunkwan University (SKKU) in Seoul, South Korea. He has also taught courses for the Media School, the Cybersecurity Risk Management program, and the Wells Scholars program at IU.

Tim serves as Kelley’s faculty liaison for undergraduate student engagement, having previously served nearly a decade as chairperson of Kelley’s Academic Fairness Committee. He is also director of the Legal Advising Forum at the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship & Innovation and is affiliated with the Center for Intellectual Property Research at IU’s Maurer School of Law.

Tim is a co-author of a business law textbook, and his teaching and research focus on the law of unfair competition, intellectual property law, marketing law, First Amendment and constitutional law, and media law. In 2012, in direct response to Tim’s research, Public Law 112–190 was passed by Congress and signed by President Obama to amend the federal trademark dilution statute.

Tim has a Juris Doctorate from Harvard Law School, a Master of Science in Public Administration and Public Policy from the London School of Economics and Political Science, and bachelor’s degrees in political science, history, and English from Indiana University, where he also completed the Liberal Arts and Management Program. He is a former Harry S. Truman Scholar and Herman B Wells Scholar, and currently serves as chairperson of IU’s Nominating Committee for the Rhodes, Marshall, Mitchell, and Churchill Scholarships.

Tim has a broad range of professional experience, including practicing as an intellectual property and First Amendment litigator, serving as a staff assistant to US Senator Richard Lugar, working as a consultant to the Air Staff for the United States Air Force at the Pentagon, interning in the British House of Commons, and participating in several businesses and nonprofit organizations.