Richard is a serial entrepreneur in the applied behavioral sciences. He was introduced to organizational behavior by members of the faculty of M.I.T who consulted to the firm in which he was Vice President of Administration. After several years of applied, on-the-job learning, he resigned and joined their Cambridge, MA. Consulting firm where he developed General Motors as a client. He then founded Baker & Co. with the assistance of David Kolb, Ph.D. of Case Western Reserve. Together they develop several very successful problem-solving applications based on Kolb's Experiential Based Learning research. Baker & Company grew as General Motors organizational needs expanded and it developed additional clients in automotive electronic systems. The company developed expertise in business to business customer satisfaction and was sold to J.D.Power and Associates in 1999. Dr. Michael Baron is Professor at the Department of Mathematics and Statistics. He came to American University in 2014, after 19 years at the University of Texas at Dallas. Supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, the National Security Agency, the Actuarial Foundation, and the Semiconductor Technical Council, he conducts research in the areas of sequential analysis, change-point detection, and Bayesian inference, applying obtained results in epidemiology, clinical trials, cyber security, energy finance, and semiconductor manufacturing. The last application brought M. Baron to IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, where he was a one-year Academic Visitor in 2003-04. M. Baron has published three books, a number of research articles and book chapters, and gave an even greater number of invited presentations and seminars. In 2007 M. Baron received Abraham Wald prize for the best paper in sequential analysis, and in 2013 he was elected a Fellow of the American Statistical Association. Currently, he serves as Associate Editor of the Journal of Sequential Analysis. He is a member of the American Statistical Association and the International Society for Bayesian Analysis. M. Baron has a University Diploma in Mathematics from St. Petersburg State University, Russia (1992), and a PhD degree in Statistics from the University of Maryland (1995). His University Diploma paper entitled "On the First Passage Time for Queueing Processes" was supervised by Prof. Ildar Ibragimov, and his doctoral dissertation was supervised by Prof. Andrew Rukhin.M. Baron graduated nine doctoral students.