Huseyin Tanriverdi is an Associate Professor of Information, Risk, and Operations Management at Red McCombs School of Business at The University of Texas at Austin. Dr. Tanriverdi has a research and teaching program that examines how organizations innovate, grow, and achieve and sustain superior financial performance. He focuses on complementary IT and business capabilities that enable firms to achieve superior financial performance in corporate diversification moves; mergers, acquisitions, divestitures, spin-offs and split-ups; outsourcing and off shoring initiatives; and adoption and deployment of complex IT innovations. He examines IT governance practices that reduce corporate risks, increase corporate returns, and lead to superior risk-return positions for corporations. Dr. Tanriverdi teaches courses on strategic IT management, IT governance for enterprise risk management and regulatory compliance, and management of emerging information technologies. His publications appeared in top information systems journals such as Information Systems Research and MIS Quarterly, and top management journals such as Academy of Management Journal and Strategic Management Journal.