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Philadelphia – March 28, 2006 – Temple University's Fox School of Business and Management is honoring three top technology leaders at its Sixth Annual Fox Information Technology Awards on Monday, April 10. Awardees include Susan J. Unger, senior vice president and chief information officer for DaimlerChrysler AG; Jeffrey A. Citron, co-founder, chairman and chief strategist for Vonage Holdings Corp.; and Fox alumnus Ben-Saba Hasan (BBA '83), vice president of corporate and product group IT for Dell. The awards were organized by The Fox School's Department of Management Information Systems (MIS), the Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute (eBI) and the Association for Computing Machinery in partnership with TechWORKS Foundation. "The Fox School's Information Technology Awards have become a tradition in the Greater Philadelphia region's IT community," said M. Moshe Porat, dean of The Fox School. "Through our innovative programs and by integrating Management Information Systems into teaching, learning and research, we are responding to the needs of the industry within this region and educating the IT leaders of tomorrow." The Fox School's MIS Department focuses on research and teaching on the use, management and development of organizational information systems. The department serves approximately 250 majors at both the undergraduate and graduate level. The Irwin L. Gross eBusiness Institute enables integrative business technology education and research by organizing professional developments, workshops, forums and other activities. The Fox School of Business and Management, at Temple University, is the largest, most comprehensive business school in the Greater Philadelphia region and among the largest in the world, with more than 5,500 students, 147 full-time faculty and 45,000 alumni. Recently, The Fox School's MBA was ranked by Financial Times as one of the Top 20 programs among public universities in the U.S., and garnered a #1 ranking in "Value for Money" for public-urban universities.