David J OrtinauDavid J. Ortinau is Professor (Emeritus) of Marketing at the University of South Florida (USF). His PhD in Marketing is from Louisiana State University. He began his teaching career at Illinois State University and after completing his degree moved t USF in Tampa. Dr. Ortinau continues to be recognized for both outstanding research and excellence in teaching at the undergraduate, graduate, and doctorate levels. His research interests range from research methodologies and scale measurement development, attitude formation, and perceptual differences in retailing and services marketing environments to interactive electronic marketing technologies and their impact on information research problems. He consults for a variety of corporations and small businesses, with specialties in customer satisfaction, service quality, service value, retail loyalty, and imagery.

Dr. Ortinau has presented numerous papers at national and international academic conferences. He continues to make scholarly contributions in such prestigious publications as the Journal of the Academy of Marketing Science, Journal of Retailing, Journal of Business Research, Journal of Marketing Theory and Practice, Journal of Healthcare Marketing, Journal of Services Marketing, Journal of Marketing Education, and others. He is a coauthor of marketing research textbooks titled Marketing Research: In a Digital Information Environment, 4th edition (2009), Essentials of Marketing Research, 6th edition (2023) as well as guest coeditor of several JBR Special Issues on Retailing. He is an editorial board member for JAMS, JBR, JGSMS, and JMTP as well as an ad hoc reviewer for several other journals.

He has multiple "Outstanding Editorial Reviewer" Awards from JAMS, JBR, and JMTP and recently served as the JBR co-associate editor of Marketing and is a member of JMTP Senior Advisory Board. Professor Ortinau remains an active leader in the Marketing Discipline. He has held many leadership positions in the Society for Marketing Advances (SMA), including President; he is Founder and Chairman of Board of the SMA Foundation and is a 2001 Distinguished SMA Fellow. He has been chair of the SMA Doctoral Consortiums in New Orleans, Orlando, and Atlanta. Dr. Ortinau has been an active member of the Academy of Marketing Science (AMS) since the early 1980s, serving AMS in a wide variety of positions such as 2004 AMS Conference Program co-chair, AMS Doctoral Colloquium, Meet the Journal Editorial Reviewers, and special sessions on Research Methods as well as How to Publish Journal Articles. He was the recipient of the 2016 AMS Harold W. Berkman Distinguished Service Award, served as the program co-chair of the 2016 AMS World Marketing Congress in Paris, France, and was elected a member of the AMS Board of Governors.
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