Dr. John Sutherland


Professor of Information Systems, has been at VCU since 1980 having previously served as Dean of the Stillman Graduate School of Business at Seton Hall University and as Chairman of the Department of Administrative Science at Southern Illinois University. He has authored six major books dealing with the management, information and decision sciences, and has published dozens of papers in the top international academic journals in these fields. Dr. Sutherland has served as technical consultant to several national governments (and several branches of the US government) and to many commercial firms, particularly those with requirements for advanced information processing and management support technologies.


Education: UCLA (BS; MS; PhD, 1967).

Telephone: (804) 828-7133

Specialties: Design and Development of Integrative or "Open" Systems, High- Performance (Real-Time) Decision Support Systems.

Consulting Relationships: DOD, HEW, DOE, TRW, IBM, ATT (Bell Labs), etc.