Dr Patricia Chew holds a PhD in services marketing from the National University of Singapore. She is Deputy Head of Business and Head of Area in Marketing at SIM
University in Singapore. She is in charge of the designing the business program, and overseeing curriculum development. She also appoints and manages the faculty. Dr Chew
teaches a variety of marketing courses at SIM University and has also taught at the National University of Singapore in MBA and BBA programs.
Dr Chew’s research focuses on services marketing. She has published several articles and conference papers, particularly on incentivized referrals and word-of-mouth. One of her
articles on incentivized word-of-mouth won the “Emerald Literati Club Award for Excellence” for the “Most Outstanding Paper” of the year in the International Journal of Service Industry
Management. Dr Chew has consulted on services marketing-related projects for companies like LG Capital, National Library Board in Singapore and SK Telecom.

The late Dr Christopher Lovelock was one of the pioneers of services marketing. Widely acknowledged as a thought leader in services, he was honored by the American Marketing
Association’s prestigious Award for Career Contributions in the Services Discipline. In 2005, his article with Evert Gummesson, “Whither Services Marketing? In Search of a New
Paradigm and Fresh Perspectives” won the American Marketing Association’s Best Services Article Award. He was a finalist for the IBM award for the best article in the Journal of
Service Research. Earlier, he received a best article award from the Journal of Marketing. Recognized many times for excellence in case writing, he had twice won top honors in the
Business Week “European Case of the Year” Award. Dr Lovelock consulted and gave seminars and workshops for managers around the world.
His particular focuses were on strategic planning in services and managing the customer experience. His distinguished academic career included serving 11 years on the faculty of
Harvard Business School, and two years as a visiting professor in Switzerland’s IMD. He has also held faculty appointments at Berkeley, Stanford and the Sloan School at MIT, as
well as visiting professorships at INSEAD in France and The University of Queensland in Australia. Professor Lovelock was the author or co-author of over 60 articles, more than 100 teaching
cases, and 26 books. His work has been translated into 12 languages. He served on the editorial review boards of the International Journal of Service Industry Management,
Journal of Service Research, Service Industries Journal, Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly, and Marketing Management. He was also an ad hoc reviewer for
the Journal of Marketing.  

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