DAVID A. COLLIER is the Eminent Scholar, Alico Chair in Operations Management, at the Lutgert College of Business, Florida Gulf Coast University, Fort Myers, Florida. He is on numerous Who's Who directories such as Who's Who of Emerging Leaders in America, the editorial boards of three journals, and a member of The American Society of Quality Control and International Service Quality Association, and an invited speaker at past Quality in Services Symposiums. Dr. Collier also taught at Duke University, The Ohio State University and the University of Virginia.

Dr. Collier is the recipient of five awards for outstanding journal articles, has written and published eight invited book chapters, seven of his cases have been reprinted in major marketing and operations management textbooks, and he has over eighty refereed publications. A 2004 citation review found that over 250 journal articles have referenced Dr. Collier’s research. Current research interest focus on basketball analytics where teams, players, and owners are evaluated based on many metrics new to the game of basketball using advanced video replay, data mining, and software capabilities.