Ivo Blohm is Assistant Professor for Data Science and Management at the Institute of Information Management, University of St. Gallen. He holds a Ph.D. from Technische Universität München, Germany. He has been a visiting researcher at Harvard University, University of Queensland, and University of Verona. He heads the Competence Center Crowdsourcing at the University of St. Gallen — a research group at the Institute of Information Management, bundling several publicly and industry-funded research projects on crowdfunding, crowdsourcing, open innovation, data science and the Internet economy.