Jose Benitez is Professor of Information Systems (IS) and Bridgestone Endowed Chair in International Business in the Department of Information Systems and Business Analytics at the Ambassador Crawford College of Business and Entrepreneurship, Kent State University, Kent, Ohio, USA. He served as the Inaugural Department Chair of Information Systems and Business Analytics from 2023 to 2025. Before joining Kent State University, he held senior academic appointments in Europe, including positions such as Endowed Chair Professor, Department Chair, and Associate Dean of Faculty and Programs. His research and teaching focus on how emergent digital technologies transform individuals, teams, organizations, and society, and on how individuals and organizations can leverage these technologies responsibly and effectively to create value. His work has appeared in more than 80 articles in premier journals, including MIS Quarterly, Information Systems Research, Journal of Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Journal of International Business Studies, Journal of Management Information Systems, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, European Journal of Information Systems, Information Systems Journal, Journal of Strategic Information Systems, Journal of Information Technology, Information & Management, Decision Support Systems, IEEE Transactions on Engineering Management, and Decision Sciences. Professor Benitez is an AIS Distinguished Member Cum Laude and recipient of the AIS Sandra Slaughter Service Award. He serves as Senior Editor of European Journal of Information Systems, Information & Management, and Decision Support Systems; Associate Editor of the Journal of the Association for Information Systems; and member of the Editorial Review Board of Information Systems Research. He has also served as Guest Editor of Decision Sciences and will serve as Program Co-Chair of the European Conference on Information Systems 2028. Professor Benitez was ranked No. 1 worldwide in 2025 for the number of publications in the AIS Senior Scholars’ List of 11 Premier Journals. He was also recognized in the 2025 Top 2% Global Scientists list published by Stanford University and Elsevier, where he was ranked No. 50 in the USA in the IS discipline. Furthermore, he was named a 2025 Clarivate Highly Cited Researcher, placing him among the top 1% of researchers in Web of Science citations over the past decade.