V. Kumar is Professor of Marketing, and the Goodman AcademicIndustry Partnership Professor at Brock University's GoodmanSchool of Business. Kumar joins Brock from the Tobin College ofBusiness at St. John's University in New York, where he started anew Master of Science in Marketing Intelligence program andengaged the faculty with co-authored publications.His work focusing on rigour - the developing of new methods -and relevance to the business world has led to the publication of morethan 300 scholarly papers, 30 books, and has earned him more than 25research and teaching excellence awards.His distinguished career has earned him many accolades, includingbeing selected by SAGE publications as a one of eight 'MarketingLegends, ' being inducted to the inaugural class of the United StatesAnalytics Hall of Fame in 2019, named a Fellow of the AmericanMarketing Association (AMA), recognized as the Cutco VectorDistinguished Marketing Educator by the Academy of MarketingScience, and recipient of both the Charles Coolidge Parlin Award andPaul Converse Award from the AMA. As a way of honouring hiscontributions to student mentorship, the AMA has instituted the V.Kumar Doctoral Student Mentorship Award funded by many of hisformer doctoral students. Vibrant Publishers is focused on presenting the best texts for learning about technology and business as well as books for test preparation. Categories include programming, operating systems and other texts focused on IT. In addition, a series of books helps professionals in their own disciplines learn the business skills needed in their professional growth. Vibrant Publishers has a standardized test preparation series covering the GMAT, GRE and SAT, providing ample study and practice material in a simple and well organized format, helping students get closer to their dream universities.