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JEFFREY A. KRUG teaches strategic management in the School of Business at Virginia Commonwealth University in Richmond, Virginia. He also teaches international management and global strategy in the Marketing Institute at the University of Münster, Germany. He has taught executives, MBAs, and international students at numerous institutions, including Penn State, Indiana University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Virginia Tech, The College of William & Mary, University of Memphis, Virginia Commonwealth University, and University of Münster. He was twice named Outstanding Instructor of the Year by the Executive MBA program at the University of Illinois.

Before entering academia, Krug worked at PepsiCo, Inc., where he was manager of finance and strategic planning for Latin America in PepsiCo’s Kentucky Fried Chicken International Division. Previously, he held several positions at Texas Instruments Incorporated, including financial planning manager for Latin America; credit manager for Latin America; marketing systems analyst in the European Semiconductor Group in Nice, France; financial planning analyst in the Materials & Control Group in Attleboro, Massachusetts; cost analyst in the Defense Electronics Group in Colorado Springs, Colorado; and, financial planning analyst in the Computer Systems Group in Austin, Texas. Previously, he worked in international corporate lending at the Commerzbank AG in Düsseldorf, Germany and as an economic analyst in the Austrian Postal Savings Bank in Vienna.

Krug is author, coauthor, or editor of six books. He is a leading authority on the post-merger effects of M&As on target company top management teams. His recent book entitled Mergers & Acquisitions: Turmoil in Top Management Teams (2009, Business Expert Press) is the product of more than 15 years of research on the effects of M&As on acquired executive teams. It provides a framework for understanding how acquiring firms can construct effective top management teams in target companies after an acquisition.

His forthcoming book Leading the Organization: Governance, Strategy, and Execution (2010, Business Expert Press), co-authored with Wally Stettinius, provides executives and students of general management with a broad overview of the theories, concepts, tools, and principles of general management, leadership, governance, strategy, and execution. It then integrates these topics into a comprehensive framework that helps executives think systematically about how their business as a whole should be managed.

Krug is an active keynote speaker on executive leadership issues in mergers and acquisitions (M&As). He also leads on-site executive seminars in strategic management and global strategy, facilitates workshops on strategic planning and global strategy, and consults for organizations on post-merger integration issues. He has worked with numerous corporations and non-profit organizations in the United States and Europe, including BB&T, Federal Reserve Bank of Richmond, ChemTreat/Danaher, Caterpillar, Porsche, Deutsche Telekom, Lufthansa, Procter & Gamble, and the Rural Cellular Association, among others.

Krug received his doctorate in strategic management and international business from Indiana University in Bloomington. He received his master’s degree in international business and bachelor’s degree in economics from The Pennsylvania State University. He lives in Richmond, Virginia with his wife, Miriam, and two children, Viviane and Alan.