Dr. Hair holds Chartered Marketer Status from the Chartered Institute of Marketing, a PhD from Cranfield as well as degrees from Sheffield and Cardiff Business Schools. His research and consulting activities are cutting edge, recent projects include understanding perceptions of advertising and customer value in popular online social networks like MySpace and Facebook, personal branding in virtual space, and virtual ethnography in popular worlds such as Second Life. He is also passionate about his role as a facilitator having recently won RIT’s highest teaching award for new faculty in 2006-07 and RIT’s highest teaching award for online learning in 2007-08. He has been awarded several research grants for pursuing pedagogy research. One such interest involves teaching the world’s first program on the commercialization of Second Life.