Nicholas Harkiolakis is Senior Vice President, Executive Coaching Consultants and leads negotiations between the European Commission and Technology consortia he represents. Dr Harkiolakis has 25 years’ experience as a technology educator and practitioner. He has served as a project manager on information technology projects and taught IT and Research Methods to undergraduate and graduate business students. He is currently a Research Fellow at Brunel University Business School in the UK. He teaches e-Negotiations at the Normandy School of Business in France and his research interests embrace social networks mining and analysis, e-business and e-commerce, IT management and strategy, business intelligence, and optimization. Dr Harkiolakis has authored or co-authored several books, including e-Negotiations for Gower.