Ph.D., Professor of Marketing, University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt; Director of the Center for Business Administration and Chairman of the Academic Advisory Board of Prof. Schellhase Consulting Ltd, Germany

E-mail: schellhase@fh-darmstadt.de

Dr. Ralf K. Schellhase is a Professor of Marketing at the University of Applied Sciences, Darmstadt, the Director of the Center for Business Administration and chairman of the academic advisory board of Prof. Schellhase Consulting Ltd.
 
He received his academic education at the University of Mannheim, the leading busi­ness school in Germany. He has received the Promarketing Foundation award and his Dissertation has been funded by Alfried Krupp von Bohlen und Halbach-Founda­tion.
 
Dr. Schellhase teaches Principles of Marketing, Strategic Marketing, Marketing Management, Business-to-Business-Marketing, International Marketing and Mar­keting Case Studies. His research interests include the management of customer satisfaction and customer relationships, services in business-to-business-marketing, international marketing research and e-learning.
 
Dr. Schellhase is a member of the German Society of Marketing, the Society for Mar­keting Advances and the Academy of Marketing Science. He serves as a member of the editorial review board of the Journal of Marketing Channels and Marketing Education Review, as a peer reviewer of MERLOT (Multimedia Educational Resource for Learning and Online Teaching) and as an ad-hoc reviewer for the Journal of Business Research.
 
He has written over 30 articles for leading marketing journals and has taught and presented around the globe for both academic audiences and management groups, e.g. at:

Arizona State University, Phoenix, USA

Central Missouri State University, Warrensburg, USA

Georgia Southern University, Statesboro, USA

Hogeschool Inholland, Alkmaar, The Netherlands

St. Kliment Ohridski University, Sofia, Bulgaria

Universidad Nacional de Asunción, Asunción, Paraguay

Université de Savoie, Annecy, France

University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, USA

Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, USA

Xian Institute of Telecommunication, Xian, China

Dr. Schellhase has served in a variety of capacities including author, consortium pre­senter, reviewer, discussant, session chair and track chair for the Society of Mar­keting Advances and the Academy of Marketing Science. He was the Co-Chair of the "First International SMA conference - Global Marketing for a New Century", Track Chair "European Marketing Issues", for the 2003 AMS Annual conference, he is the program chair of the 2005 World Marketing Congress and he judges the 2005 AMS Mary Kay Doctoral Dissertation Competition.
 
Dr. Schellhase has been a consultant to numerous leading german and international corporations such as Bertelsmann, Baxter, British American Tobacco, Burda, Degussa, KPMG, Metro, Merck, Unilever.