Govindan Kannan received his Ph.D. in civil engineering from Virginia Tech in 1999. He is the Senior Vice President for Mack Trucks, Inc. in the Volvo Group. He was a member of the Virginia Tech civil and environmental engineering alumni board and has served as an independent peer reviewer for American Society of Civil Engineers journals. In addition, Kannan has authored over 15 peer-reviewed journal and conference papers in the field of equipment costs, productivity, data mining, and project scheduling.