Samuli Pekkola is Professor of Information Systems at Tampere University, Finland. He has also held visiting positions in Norway and the Netherlands, along with several positions at the University of Jyväskylä, Finland. Dr. Pekkola’s research focuses on users in different manifestations of information systems, IS management and acquisition, and enterprise architecture. He has been published in various journals, such as Information Systems Journal, Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems, Communications of the Association for Information Systems, Enterprise Information Systems, Enterprise Information Management, Business and Information Systems Engineering, Decision Support Systems¸ and DATABASE, among others. Dr. Pekkola is Associate Editor for Business Information Systems and Engineering as well as advisory board member/former Editor-in-Chief of Scandinavian Journal of Information Systems. He is past President of the Scandinavian chapter of the Association for Information Systems (AIS). Dr. Pekkola earned a PhD in information systems from the University of Jyväskylä. He can be reached at samuli.pekkola@tuni.fi.