Troy, N.Y — Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute today announced the appointment of David A. Gautschi, Ph.D., as Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology.  Most recently principal and director of research at CCG Group LLC, Dean Gautschi has had a long and significant career in the academic and business arena.

“Dean Gautschi is a thoughtful, energetic, personable, and widely-experienced leader,” said Rensselaer President Shirley Ann Jackson in making today’s announcement.  “His expertise in decision support systems and enterprise management, international business, and global information technology and telecommunications position him at the intersection of management, technology, and innovation, the focus of Rensselaer’s Lally School. He brings an outstanding combination of successful teaching, scholarship, consulting, and program leadership to Rensselaer at a time when we are moving boldly into new fields that will be critically important in the 21st century.”

Gautschi began his faculty career at Cornell University, where he served as Assistant Professor of Marketing from 1978-1982. To develop an understanding of international business, he worked as an Associate Professor of Marketing at INSEAD, a premier European business school in Fontainebleau, France, where he taught from 1982-1990. During his time at INSEAD, he was co-founder and managing director of a firm that developed and marketed decision support system software and market simulation models. The firm’s clients included a number of major European business firms in a wide range of industries.

From 1990-1992, Gautschi served as Associate Professor at the Yale School of Organization and Management, where he continued his research and teaching in the area of strategic marketing decisions, retailing and market systems, and the information and telecommunication industries.

He was recruited to the University of Washington in 1992 as Associate Professor with tenure, was promoted in 1994 to Professor of Marketing and International Business, and in 1997, was named the Kirby Cramer Scholar in Marketing at the University of Washington. At the University of Washington, Gautschi founded the Global Information and Telecommunications Industry Forum to foster collaboration between industry and curriculum development efforts. He also co-founded the Business and Economic Development Program to teach inner city middle and high school students how to run a business. From 1997 to 2000 he served as faculty director of the Center for International Business Education and Research (CIBER).

In 2000, Gautschi took a leave of absence to lead a new practice in e-Business in the Seattle office of Deloitte and Touche, working with clients on analytical models for strategic positioning, marketing, and management alignment. When the passage of Sarbanes-Oxley federal legislation required that this practice be separated from the firm’s audit practice, Gautschi and a group of fellow consultants created CCG Group LLC to use a laboratory model to help clients anticipate, plan for, and solve problems that arise in the process of adopting new technologies into organizations.

Gautschi received his B.A. in Mathematics from the University of Maine, Orono; an M.B.A. in Applied Statistics from the University of Oregon; and the Ph.D. in Business Administration from the University of California, Berkeley.

His appointment as Dean of the Lally School of Management and Technology is effective August 22, 2005.

About Rensselaer’s Lally School
Rensselaer’s Lally School of Management and Technology was founded in 1963 as an integral part of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the nation’s oldest degree-granting technological university. Building on Rensselaer’s heritage of more than 175 years of leadership in science and engineering, the Lally School is dedicated to advancing business through innovation. The Lally School’s curriculum is designed to produce leaders who combine creative passion with the ability to integrate technology across business functions. The faculty emphasizes the value of hands-on experience available through campus resources such as the Severino Center for Technological Entrepreneurship and the nation’s first on-campus business incubator. Rensselaer’s Lally School offers graduate and undergraduate degree programs in management, doctoral programs in management and technology, an Executive MBA program, and a joint Sino-U.S. MBA for companies operating in China. For more information on the Lally School, go to www.lallyschool.rpi.edu.

Contact: Theresa Bourgeois
Phone: (518) 276-2840
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