Kock is a professor of management information systems of the Department of Computer and Information Sciences, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA. He holds a B.E.E. in electronics engineering from the Federal Center of Technological Education at Curitiba, Brazil, a M.Sc. in computer science from the Institute of Aeronautical Technology, Brazil, and a Ph.D. in information systems from the School of Management Studies, University of Waikato, New Zealand.