Organizing Committee

Erica Klampfl
Conference Chair
Technical Leader
Strategy & Sustainability Analytics
Ford Research & Advanced Engineering
eklampfl@ford.com

Zahir Balaporia
Co-Chair, Executive Forum
Director, Intermodal Operations
Schneider National, Inc.
balaporiaz@schneider.com

Jeremy Bloom
Co-Chair, Energy & Environment Track Liaison, IPC
Senior Product Marketing Manager, Optimization
IBM
bloomj@us.ibm.com

Donald (Don) L. Buckshaw
Co-Chair, Soft Skills Track
Co-Chair, Soft Skills Workshop
Senior Principal Analyst
Science Applications International Corp.
buckshawd@saic.com

Manoj K. Chari
Co-Chair, Marketing Analytics Track
Co-Chair, Analytics Process Track
Director, Operations Research R&D
SAS Institute Inc.
Manoj.chari@sas.com

Elea McDonnell Feit
Co-Chair, Marketing Analytics Track
Research Director, Wharton Customer Analytics Initiative; Lecturer in Marketing
The Wharton School
University of Pennsylvania
efeit@wharton.upenn.edu

Michael Gilliland
Co-Chair, Supply Chain Management Track
Product Marketing Manager, Forecasting
SAS
Mike.gilliland@sas.com

Genetha Gray
Co-Chair, Energy & Environment Track
Co-Chair, Young Researcher Connection
Principal Member of Technical Staff
Sandia National Laboratories
gagray@sandia.gov

Arnold (Arnie) Greenland
Co-Chair, Public Sector Track
IBM Distinguished Engineer
Office of the Public Sector CTO
agreenland@us.ibm.com

Mary E. Helander
Committee Member, Selects Committee
Master Inventor
Research Scientist: Math Science
IBM TJ Watson Research Ctr.
helandm@us.ibm.com

P.K. Kannan
Co-Chair, Marketing Analytics Track
Co-Chair, Job Fair Program
Ralph J. Tyser Professor of Marketing Science; Chair, Dept of Marketing
Robert H. Smith School of Business
University of Maryland
pkannan@rhsmith.umd.edu

Stefan Karisch
Co-Chair, Analytics Process Track
Co-Chair, Young Researcher Connection
Director of O.R. & Optimization
Jeppesen-A Boeing Company
stefan.karisch@jeppesen.com

Karl G. Kempf
Director of Decision Engineering
Intel Corp.
Karl.g.kempf@intel.com

Diego Klabjan
Committee member, Selects Committee
Chair: ISA-INFORMS Panel
Associate Professor, IE & MS
Northwestern University
d-klabjan@northwestern.edu

William (Bill) Klimack
Co-Chair, Soft Skills Workshop
Committee member, Executive Forum
Decision Analysis Consultant
Chevron Corp.
Colonel, US Army (Retired)
bill.klimack@stratda.com

Maher Lahmar
Co-Chair, Marketing Analytics Track
Manager, R&D, Merchandising and Business Intelligence
Target Corporation
maher.lahmar@target.com

Patrick Leach
Co-chair, Decision Analysis Track
Chief Executive Officer
Decision Strategies, Inc.
pleach@decisionstrategies.com

Eva K. Lee
Co-Chair, Decision Analysis Track
Co-Chair, Birds-of-a-Feather Networking
Director, Center for Operations Research in Medicine and HealthCare
Co-Director, NSF I/UCRC Center for Health OrganizationTransformation
Professor, ISYE
Georgia Institute of Technology
evakylee@isye.gatech.edu

David R. Leonhardi
Co-Chair, Selects Committee
Committee member, Soft Skills Workshop
Committee member, Executive Program
Business Strategist, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group
David.r.leonhardi@boeing.com

Jack Levis
Co-Chair, Executive Forum
Director of Process Management
UPS
jlevis@ups.com

Freeman Marvin
Co-Chair, Soft Skills Track
Committee member, Soft Skills Workshop
Executive Principal
Innovative Decisions, Inc.
ffmarvin@innovativedecisions.com

Douglas Meiser
Co-Chair, Analytics Process Track
Manager, Operations Research & Simulation
The Kroger Company
Doug.meiser@kroger.com

Scott Nestler
Co-Chair, Public Sector Track
Lieutenant Colonel, US Army
Asst Professor, Naval Postgraduate School
stnestle@nps.edu

Michael Rappa
Co-Chair, Analytics Process Track
Director, Institute for Advanced Analytics
Distinguished University Professor
North Carolina State University
Michael_rappa@ncsu.edu

Marius M. Solomon
Co-Chair, Select Committee
Professor, College of Business Administration
Northeastern University
m.solomon@neu.edu

Alan Taber
Co-Chair, Poster Session
Project Specialist Staff
Lockheed Martin Mission Systems & Sensors
alan.taber@lmco.com

Clive Thomas
Co-Chair, Supply Chain Management Track
Manager, Supply Chain Decision Support
Nestlé USA
clive.thomas@us.nestle.com

Paul Wicker
Committtee member, Soft Skills Workshop
Committee member, Selects Committee
Senior Consultant
Decision Strategies, Inc
pwicker@decisionstrategies.com

Jim Williams
Co-Chair, Birds-of-a-Feather Networking
Committee member, Selects Committee
Manager, Advanced Analytics
Land O’Lakes, Inc.
jtwilliams@landolakes.com

Selects Committee

Co-Chairs:
Marius Solomon, Northeastern University, m-solomon@neu.edu
David Leonhardi, Boeing Commercial Airplane Group, david.r.leonhardi@boeing.com

Members:
Christina Achampong, U.S. Dept. of Defense, chrisachampong@gmail.com
Mary Helander, IBM Research, helandm@us.ibm.com
Diego Klabjan, Northwestern, d-klabjan@northwestern.edu
Doug Mohr, UPS, dmohr@ups.com
Hugo Simao, Princeton, hpsimao@princeton.edu
Paul Wicker, Decision Strategies, pwicker@decisionstrategies.com
Jim Williams, Land-O-Lakes, jtwilliams@landolakes.com