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Keynote Presenters
Business Thought-Leaders
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer, ILOG-An IBM Company
A leading figure in the European technology community, Pierre Haren is chief executive officer of ILOG. Haren co-founded ILOG in 1987, and after seeing quick growth in Europe, launched fully owned subsidiaries in Singapore, the United States and Japan. Prior to co-founding ILOG, Haren spent four years at France's preeminent IT research institute, INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), where he led a team that produced breakthroughs in expert systems technology. Prior to INRIA, Haren was in charge of research funds for the French Ministry of the Sea, where he was involved in the creation of the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea and the funding of what became Jacques Cousteau's Calypso 2, equipped with a revolutionary propulsion system. Haren is a board member of ENPC, the graduate school for civil engineers. He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies and was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur medal, one of France's highest honors. Haren earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at L'Ecole Polytechnique, a master's degree in engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a doctorate in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).
Will OR Ever Become Pervasive?
Operations research has been in existence for about 60 years and has attracted the brightest analytical minds of three generations. These practitioners have demonstrated in thousands of examples the tremendous advantages that a company can derive from specific applications of that technology. And yet, we all share the sense that much more could be achieved in the world if OR was more pervasive. In this keynote presentation, Haren will examine the current conditions that were clearly not sufficient to trigger such pervasiveness and then consider some new trends in product development, data availability and industrial players involved. He will try to imagine what the world would look like with “pervasive OR”, and how it could change the way executive teams could interact with decision-science experts.
IT Leadership Academy
Thornton May operationalizes Henry David Thoreau's aphorism: "It's not what you look at, it's what you see." Collecting data from all corners of the technology world, May synthesizes the insights of the top thinkers on the planet seeking to understand where we have been, where are we today and where are we going. He is currently writing two books--The New Know: Analytics, Innovation & Transformation and 2033: Bringing the Future to the Present. He teaches at four business schools, writes for five magazines, researches at three think tanks and keeps in monthly contact with over a thousand C-level executives. Classically educated in anthropology, cognitive science and finance -- instead of focusing on primitive cultures, in-the-lab experiments or hedge funding—May’s observations illuminate our society and our behavior.The editors at eWeek magazine recently voted him “one of the most 100 influential people in the IT industry." At 5 foot 7 inches he played professional basketball in Japan.
Tribal Collisions in Decision Space: Understanding US/Playing Better With THEM
Anthropologically speaking the modern enterprise is a hot bed of “tribal” conflict. “Suits” compete with “Geeks”; “Guts” combat “Quants”; “bosses'” lord it over “workers”; and departments/silos wallow in perpetual internecine strife. Decision making/decision space is where all these tribes collide. Thornton May, futurist extraordinaire, will help us explore our tribal identity, the ideo-logic of other occupational tribes [i.e., the inner logic of the representations a group makes of itself to itself.], natural emotional tensions arising betwixt and between various tribes, and close by examining how enterprise tribes might interact in the future.
2009 Edelman Competition Winner - Winning presentation for the top prize in applied analytics.
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Professor of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Florida, and President & CEO, Innovative Scheduling, Inc.
Ravindra Ahuja is a Professor in Industrial and Systems Engineering at the University of Florida, Gainesville, and also the founding President & CEO of Innovative Scheduling, Inc., a company focused on developing cutting-edge decision support systems for large-scale and complex problems arising in logistics and transportation. Ahuja has contributed both to the theory and applications of operations research. He has developed innovative models and algorithms for several airline scheduling, railroad scheduling, and logistics problems that were previously considered intractable. His contributions have received highly competitive awards from INFORMS including 1993 Lanchester Prize, 2003 Pierskella Award, 2006 Daniel H. Wagner Prize, and 2007 Koopman Prize. Ahuja has coauthored three books, published over 90 journal papers and book chapters, and is an Associate Editor of the three prestigious journals: Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Networks. Professor Ahuja is also a Fellow of INFORMS.
Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Stephen Barrager has worked with senior management in Fortune 500 companies for more than thirty years. He teaches decision-making in organizations and environmental decision-making in the Management Science and Engineering Department at Stanford University. He is currently writing a book, “The Science and Engineering of Organizational Decisions.” Previously Barrager was a Director of Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) in Palo Alto, California. During his years with SDG, he led an eight-year engagement with General Motors. The goal of the program was to work with senior management to upgrade strategic decision-making throughout the company. The range of major decision areas included product planning, new business development, branding, marketing and sales strategy, global component strategy, R&D planning, and environmental strategy. Projects involved multidisciplinary, multinational teams in North America, Asia, Europe, South America and the Middle East. Barrager earned a PhD Degree at Stanford from the Management Science and Engineering Department (formerly Engineering-Economic Systems) in 1975.
Director, Strategy and Portfolio Management, Baxter Bioscience
Phillip Beccue is the Director of Strategy and Portfolio Management at Baxter Bioscience, where he specializes in decision analysis, portfolio optimization, risk analysis, and strategic business support. He helps decision-makers frame decisions, structure their values, and analyze the risks and returns of competing strategies. Beccue applies his expertise at Baxter on product strategy decisions, portfolio management, and functional decision-making. He has trained over 600 managers and senior executives on the principles and processes of strategic decision-making. Prior to joining Baxter, he was responsible for building the Decision Sciences group at Amgen and played a key role in institutionalizing decision analytic processes. Before joining Amgen he was a consultant with Applied Decision Analysis, where he helped clients in diverse industries solve challenging business problems in strategy, prioritization, and risk analysis. Beccue serves as Associate Editor for the Decision Analysis Journal, and received degrees from both Westmont College and Stanford University.
Industrial Engineer, Service Engineering Department, American Express
Scott Belsky has worked for American Express since May of 2007 as an Industrial Engineer for the Service Engineering Department located in Phoenix, Arizona. During his tenure at American Express, he has supported a wide array of projects. Prior to American Express, Belsky supported the Quality department at Honeywell Aerospace in Phoenix. He is currently the Membership Director of the Institute of Industrial Engineers (IIE) - Arizona Chapter. He holds a BSIE from Arizona State University.
Professor, Director of the Industrial & Systems Engineering Program, Director for Supply Chain Research, University of Minnesota
Saif Benjaafar is a Professor at the University of Minnesota where he is also Director of the Industrial & Systems Engineering Program, Director of the Center for Supply Chain Research, and a Faculty Scholar with the Center for Transportation Studies. He was a visiting Professor at universities in France, Belgium, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore. His research expertise is in the areas of supply chains, logistics, and operations management. He has published articles on related topics in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He has consulted extensively with leading companies, such as General Mills, Honeywell, and 3M, among others. His current work focuses on issues of sustainability in supply chains and logistics.
Professor, Operations Research, Naval Postgraduate School
Gerald G. Brown is Distinguished Professor of Operations Research at the Naval Postgraduate School, where he has taught and conducted research in optimization and optimization-based decision support since 1973, earning awards for both outstanding teaching and research. His military research has been applied by every uniformed service, in areas ranging from strategic nuclear targeting to capital planning. Brown has been awarded the Rist and the Barchi Prizes for military operations research, and been credited with guiding investments of more than a trillion dollars. He has designed and implemented decision support software currently used by the majority of the Fortune 50, in areas ranging from vehicle routing to supply chain optimization. His research appears in scores of open-literature publications and classified reports, many of which are seminal references in the field. He has earned long-term sustaining basic research support from the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, and the Office of Naval Research. Brown is a member of the National Academy of Engineering, a recipient of the US Navy Superior Civilian Service Award, an INFORMS Fellow, and a founding Director of Insight, Incorporated, the leading provider of strategic supply chain optimization tools to the private sector. Brown is a retired naval officer and holds a TS/SCI clearance.
Executive Vice President, LLamasoft
Toby Brzoznowski, Executive Vice President at Llamasoft, has over 20 years of experience in building and growing technology businesses, with a focus on process improvement and analysis technologies. His expertise has been applied to bringing new and advanced technologies into mainstream use at Fortune 500 companies around the world. In the last decade, Brzoznowski has been involved in the start-up of three Michigan-based technology companies.
Professor, Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto
Michael Carter is a Professor at the University of Toronto and Director of the Centre for Research in Healthcare Engineering. [CRHE.ca]. Since 1989, his research focus has been in the area of health care resource modeling with a variety of projects in hospitals, home care, rehab, long term care, medical labs and mental health institutions. He has supervised more than 160 engineering students in over 100 projects with healthcare institutions. He currently has 12 graduate students (7 doctoral and 5 masters) working in the area. He was the winner of the Annual Practice Prize from the Canadian Operational Research Society (CORS) three times (1988, 1992 and 1996). In 2000, he received the CORS Award of Merit for lifetime contributions to Canadian Operational Research. He also received an “Excellence in Teaching” Award from the University of Toronto Student Administrative Council. He is on the editorial board for the “Journal of Scheduling” and the journal “Health Care Management Science”. He serves on the Advisory Board for the Regenstreif Centre for Healthcare Engineering at Purdue University.
Senior Research Associate, Clinton Foundation HIV/AIDS Initiative
Justin Cohen is an epidemiologist who leads CSHOR’s efforts to support global health decision-making in malaria. His research interests include the application of geographic information systems, satellite imagery, and mathematical models to understand transmission and enhance treatment of infectious diseases internationally. He has studied Chagas Disease vectors in rural Mexico and malaria transmission in the Kenyan highlands. At CSHOR, Cohen currently forecasts demand for drugs and diagnostics, models malaria elimination interventions, and builds tools for resource estimation and allocation. He earned a PhD in Epidemiologic Science and an MPH in International Health from the University of Michigan.
Director, Business Informatics, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Founder and Consultant, Decision Frameworks, Inc
Ellen Coopersmith is the founder of Decision Frameworks, Inc. and a Petroleum Engineer with a degree from the Colorado School of Mines. She is based in Houston, Texas, and specializes in decision analysis consultation, facilitation, training, and implementation. Prior to founding Decision Frameworks in 1999, Coopersmith spent 16 years at Conoco, where she led their implementation of Decision Analysis in Upstream for five years. She is an accomplished technical and managerial facilitator, as well as a published and invited speaker on both the implementation and the technical elements of decision analysis. Her passion for and focus on decision analysis is on skill development and on making framing, uncertainty analysis, and valuing information easy day-to-day asset management tools in a range of client industries.
President, Cox Associates
Louis Anthony (Tony) Cox, Jr., is President of Cox Associates, a Denver-based applied research company specializing in risk analysis and operations research modeling. He is an Edelman Laureate of INFORMS (2006), a Fellow of the Society for Risk Analysis (SRA), Area Editor for Mathematical Modeling for Risk Analysis: An International Journal, Area Editor for Real-World Applications for the Journal of Heuristics, and author of over 150 articles and of books on Risk Analysis of Complex and Uncertain Systems (Springer, 2009), Quantitative Health Risk Analysis Methods (Springer, 2006) and Risk Analysis: Foundations, Models and Methods (Springer, 2001). Cox is Honorary Full Professor of Mathematics and Clinical Professor of Preventive Medicine and Biometrics at the University of Colorado. He holds a PhD in Risk Analysis (1986) and an SM in Operations Research (1985) from MIT’s Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science. He received the Society for Risk Analysis Outstanding Risk Practitioner Award (2007).
Director, Operations Research, McDonald’s Corporation
Michael Cramer leads a corporate group of analysts providing decision support for McDonald’s Global Restaurant Solutions serving 34,000 restaurants in 118 global markets. His team’s work includes predictive modeling, predictive analysis, video ethnography and data mining. Before joining McDonald’s four years ago, Cramer was CLO for Hub One Logistics for eight years. He also has worked for Kellogg’s in Logistics and Competitive Intelligence, and for Tompkins Associates, an engineering consulting and implementation firm. He is a member of the Council of Logistics Management, INFORMS and the INFORMS Roundtable. He graduated in 1984 with a bachelor’s degree in information science from North Carolina.
Decision Analysis Group Leader, Unilever
Andrea Dickens joined Unilever in 1988 as a statistician. Since then she has had a number of roles in Unilever, but all with one thing in common: managing and analyzing uncertainty.
She now leads the Decision Analysis Group, which has been developing and applying a wide range of decision analysis techniques. These techniques have been deployed on probabilistic business cases and complex decision problems throughout Unilever. The group also leads the development and rollout of training courses for Unilever Managers in Decision Making techniques, and provides coaching to course participants. In addition, the Decision Analysis Group has an internal consultancy role where they provide facilitative leadership to analyze complex business decisions. These tend to be the large, difficult and sensitive problems, high stake one-off decisions, or problems that cross organizational boundaries.
Director, Indiana University Center for Health Services and Outcomes Research;
Associate Director, Regenstrief Institute, Inc., Indianapolis
Chief Economist, NISAC/Sandia, Sandia National Laboratories
Mark A. Ehlen, in his capacity as the Chief Economist of the National Infrastructure Simulation and Analysis Center (NISIC) located at Sandia National Laboratories in Albuquerque, NM, has conducted and overseen over 100 detailed economic analyses of man-made and natural disasters. Ehlen and his team of economists, infrastructure analysts, modelers, and programmers use industry standard economic tools and, when not available, develop next-generation economic models and software. Most notable of these is the NISAC Agent-Based Laboratory for Economics™ (N-ABLE™), which models hundreds of thousands to millions of U.S. firms in critical infrastructure value chains. Insights from these dynamic, adaptive, firm-level models of value chains and their component supply chains have informed the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and the White House on business issues including: small-business continuity of value chains during a pandemic influenza, vertical and horizontal supply chain “dis-integration” during hurricanes, and potential private industry policies that could reduce the potential use of chemicals as weapons of mass destruction.
Logistics Analyst Principal, Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation
Philip A. Fahringer is an Operations Analyst with over 22 years combined experience in the military and industry. He has specialized skills in requirements determination methods, risk analysis, capital investment strategies, business process improvement, and organizational effectiveness analysis and strategy development. Currently, he is engaged in using modeling and analysis to quantitatively and visually demonstrate and evaluate the value of Lockheed Martin Business Area products, services and solutions in order to help business areas improve their performance, keep sold existing programs, win new programs and ensure a reasonable likelihood of achieving desired performance and return goals. Additionally, he is currently pursuing collaborative research at the Lockheed Martin Center for Innovation partnering with United States Joint Forces Command associated with evaluating how different organizational structures, business rules and decision making processes relating to logistics support will likely impact operational outcomes in various scenarios.
Associate Professor, Statistics and OP, Public University of Navarre
Javier Faulin is an Associate Professor of Statistics and Operations Research at the Public University of Navarre (Pamplona, Spain). He holds a PhD in Economics from the University of Navarre, an MS in Operations Management, Logistics and Transportation from UNED (Madrid, Spain) and an MS in Mathematics from the University of Zaragoza (Spain). He has extended experience in distance and Web-based teaching at the Public University of Navarre, at UNED (Madrid, Spain), at the Open University of Catalonia (Barcelona, Spain) and at the University of Surrey (Guilford, Surrey, UK). His research interests include logistics, vehicle routing problems and simulation modeling. Since 2003 Faulin has been working on environmental issues related to transportation and routing and has developed several research projects about environmental problems related to transportation for the Spanish Government and different companies in Europe. He has published papers in international journals, books and proceedings about logistics, routing and simulation. He is an editorial board member of the International Journal of Applied Management Science and of the International Journal of Operations Research and Information Systems and an INFORMS member.
President, Growth Options, LLC
Jeff Fraser has extensive experience as an executive and consultant across Life Sciences. Prior to starting Growth Options in 2002, he was a senior member of the Life Sciences Practice of Strategic Decisions Group (SDG) and a planning, finance and technology executive with Monsanto for over 20 years. At Monsanto, Fraser built one of the most comprehensive Portfolio and Decision Analysis (PDA) networks for new product evaluations in the Life Science industry. As head of R&D strategy and portfolio management reporting to Monsanto’s Chief Scientific Officer, he was responsible for training and development of analytical teams across multiple business units and for evaluating and integrating a diverse portfolio from pharmaceuticals, nutrition, and agricultural biotech businesses. He holds an MBA from the Olin School of Business at Washington University, and a BS in biology from the University of Minnesota.
Associate Professor, Operations Management, MIT Sloan School of Management
Jérémie Gallien is an Associate Professor in the Operations Management Group at the MIT Sloan School of Management and is also affiliated with the MIT Operations Research Center and the MIT Leaders For Manufacturing program. His research focuses on pushing the frontier of supply-chain management practice, working in collaboration with industrial partners that include Dell Inc., Zara and Amazon.com. It involves the development, implementation and evaluation in the field of mathematical optimization models for the real-time control of physical flows and trading interfaces. Gallien teaches a variety of classes in Sloan's MBA, LFM and PhD programs, including Operations Management, System Optimization, Simulation, and several research seminars. He holds a PhD in Operations Research from MIT and an EngD in Industrial Engineering and Applied Mathematics from the Ecole des Mines de Paris.
Distinguished Engineer, IBM Global Business Services
Arnie Greenland is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Executive within the Global Business Services, Public Sector Supply Chain Practice. He has over 30 years experience in delivering modeling and simulation services for both public- and private-sector clients. His experience includes both project management and technical leadership in the areas of operations research, business process modeling and simulation, business forecasting, network optimization, and systems development. He has been a leader in introducing IBM’s simulation and modeling offerings to an number of clients including the Department of Homeland Security, the Social Services, Healthcare and Life Sciences, and Financial Services areas in addition to supporting such major public sector clients including the US Postal Service, the Social Security Administration, the Federal Aviation Administration, the Internal Revenue Service and the Department of Defense. Greenland is a recognized expert in simulation modeling and has written numerous referred papers and delivered many papers at professional and technical meetings in this and related areas. Currently his primary responsibility at IBM is technical leadership, project management, and business development within the IBM Global Business Services public sector supply chain practice.
President, Optware Solutions
Stephen Griffith has applied his modeling expertise to scores of businesses in the past 25 years. He currently serves as president of Optware Solutions, a company known for creating useful models that facilitate complex business decisions. His team has worked with operations throughout the United States, Canada, Europe and South America to improve profits and optimize manufacturing and logistics. Industries modeled include paper, wood products, food processing, oil refining and other types of manufacturing operations. His models are typically designed to consider full-context decision-making and to address a variety of questions including resource procurement and allocation, logistics, scheduling, process options, and product mix. Stephen formerly served as Director of Technology for Decision Dynamics, Inc. His work history also includes plant floor experience in manufacturing. Griffith holds a BS in Forest Products with an emphasis in Industrial Management and an MBA from Oregon State University.
Account Manager and Analytic Business Consultant, Strategic Planning and Modeling, Hewlett-Packard
John Haller grew up in Southern California playing sports and studying math and science. He attended Princeton University where he continued his sports while learning Electrical Engineering and Operations Research. Moving back to California, he entered Stanford University where he kept up his activities while writing a thesis on random motion. After graduate school, he joined McKinsey & Co. as an Associate. After two years working in high tech strategy and operations, he moved over to the Strategic Planning and Modeling group at HP where he has been honing his supply chain knowledge.
Manager, Schedule Development, Southwest Airlines
Alex Heinold is Manager of Schedule Development at Southwest Airlines, where he has worked for 11 years. He is currently responsible for researching ways to improve Southwest’s flight schedule and network design. His areas of work have included flight schedule optimization, on-time performance simulation modeling, and passenger traffic forecasting. Heinold received his Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science and Applied Mathematics and Master’s degree in Applied Mathematics, both from Purdue University.
Consulting Professor, Management Science and Engineering, Stanford University
Blake Johnson is a consulting professor in the department of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University. His work focuses on methods for proactively incorporating uncertainty about demand, supply, and technology in operational planning and performance management, both inside a company and in its relationships with key customers, suppliers and partners. He is an internationalized recognized leader in both the theory and practice of this emerging source of competitive advantage for manufacturing-based companies, and teaches, hosts conferences, develops tools and consults broadly on this topic with leading companies around the world. Prior to joining Stanford, Johnson was an Associate in the investment banking group at Credit Suisse.
Freight Optimization Services R&D Manager, LeanLogistics, Inc.
A LeanLogistics employee for over four years and a software professional for over eight, Chris Johnson leads the R&D team for OR-based development. With degrees in Computer Science and Mathematics, he has spent several years utilizing operations research in an effort to refine and improve both the optimization capabilities and the way in which they are delivered in the Software as a Service model. LeanLogistics, a leader in web-based transportation management, provides solutions – including optimization – to dozens of companies, large and small, in a variety of industries.
Director, Operations Research and Optimization, Jeppesen
Stefan Karisch is Director of Operations Research and Optimization at Jeppesen, an information solutions provider that relies on operations research to deliver industry-leading navigation and operations management solutions for air, sea, and rail operators. In this role, Karisch leads Jeppesen's corporate Operations Research, Lean and Six Sigma programs. Before assuming his current position, he served Jeppesen (and formerly Carmen Systems) in a variety of commercial and technical roles. He is a long-time member of AGIFORS (Airline Group of IFORS), INFORMS, and OeGOR (Austrian Society of Operations Research). He currently serves as vice president of AGIFORS, as past chair of the Aviation Applications Section of INFORMS, as member of the Subdivisions Council of INFORMS, and as Jeppesen's representative on the INFORMS Roundtable. Karisch received the degrees Doctor technicae and Diplom-Ingenieur in Mathematics from Graz University of Technology (Austria) and a Masters of Mathematics degree from the University of Waterloo (Canada).
Senior Researcher, IBM T.J. Watson Research Center
Kaan Katircioglu is a Senior Researcher at IBM Corporation. He is the Research relationship manager for the travel & transportation industry, and the lead in supply chain sustainability research. He has more than 15 years of experience in Operations Research. He received his B.Sc. degree in Industrial Engineering from Bogazici University in Turkey, MS degree in Statistics from Simon Fraser University, and PhD degree in Management Science from The University of British Columbia, in Canada. He joined IBM T.J. Watson Research Center as a research staff member in 1996. Since then, he has worked on over 25 projects, written over 35 scientific articles, book chapters, made numerous conference presentations, appeared in various events as an invited speaker or panelist, and received patents for his work. He is the lead inventor of Carbon Trade-off Analyzer announced by IBM in 2008. He is a member of INFORMS, DAS and IEEE.
Professor, Operations & Decision Technologies, University of California- Irvine
L. Robin Keller is a Professor of Operations and Decision Technologies in the Paul Merage School of Business at the University of California, Irvine. Her research specialty is decision analysis, focusing on multiple objective decisions with environmental and health outcomes. She is Editor-in-Chief of Decision Analysis and was past president of the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS in 2004. She is an INFORMS Fellow and Kimball Medalist, and served as a program director at the National Science Foundation. She is currently on two National Academy of Sciences Committees, the U. S. National Committee for the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA), and the Committee on Ranking FDA Product Categories Based on Health Consequences. Keller is a Scientific Advisory Committee member for USC’s Homeland Security Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorist Events. Her Ph.D., M.B.A and B.A. are from UCLA.
Professor, Operations and Information Management, The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Steven O. Kimbrough is Professor at The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania. His principal research areas are in evolutionary computation, decision support, computational economics and agent-based modeling. His research group originated a variety of genetic algorithm that is especially well-suited for supporting deliberation with constrained optimization models, the subject of his talk. Kimbrough’s research has been supported by the National Science Foundation, the Army Research Office, and the U.S. Coast Guard, among others.
Associate Professor, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences, Northwestern University
Diego Klabjan is an Associate Professor at Northwestern University, Department of Industrial Engineering and Management Sciences. After obtaining his doctorate from the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering of the Georgia Institute of Technology in 1999, in the same year he joined the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. In 2007 he became an associate professor at Northwestern. He is the recipient of the first prize of the 2000 Transportation Science Dissertation Award and he received various other awards with graduate students. He is a former president of the INFORMS Aviation Applications Section. His research is focused on transportation, supply chain management, retailing, and large-scale optimization. He has extensive experience in software development and software trends.
Senior Partner, Kromite
Jack Kloeber is a retired US Army Lieutenant Colonel with experience in R&D portfolio management, decision analysis, technology selection, and strategy development. He taught mathematics at West Point and graduate level Operations Research methods at the Air Force Institute of Technology, advising students with projects which supported many technology organizations within the Departments of Energy, Army, Air Force, and Navy. Kleber was the head of Portfolio Management for Bristol-Myers Squibb and then coordinated the Portfolio Management efforts across multiple R&D and marketing operating companies as Head, Portfolio Management, J&J Pharma Services. He is currently a Senior Partner at Kromite, helping Life Sciences companies with project valuation, risk management, licensing, and portfolio management. He received his PhD in Economic Decision Analysis from Georgia Institute of Technology and a Masters in Industrial Engineering from Lehigh University.
Director, Management Science Group, Merrill Lynch
Russell Labe is Director of the Management Science Group at Merrill Lynch and helped establish the group in 1986. He has practiced OR/MS in industry for over 29 years, including 22 years at Merrill Lynch. During his tenure there, Merrill Lynch won the INFORMS Prize (1997), the Edelman Prize (2001), and the Wagner Prize (2004). The group has developed special expertise in application areas including pricing analysis, client attrition models, and liquidity risk modeling. Labe holds a M.Eng. degree in OR from Cornell University.
Director of Research & Development, Decision Theater, Arizona State University; Assistant Professor of Applied Mathematics
Timothy Lant is the Director of Research and Development for the Decision Theater at Arizona State University and Assistant Research Professor in the Department of Applied Mathematics for Life and Social Sciences. Lant builds mathematical and system dynamics models for the Decision Theater for a variety of topical areas including public health, natural resource management, critical infrastructure, emergency preparedness, and urban sustainability. He builds models for use as decision-making tools during policy and planning exercises. Previously, Lant was a member of the RAND Corporation, CIBC World Markets, and Actuarial Management Corporation. He earned his Ph.D. in applied mathematics at Arizona State University, a Master’s in Actuarial Science, and a B.S. in mathematics, summa cum laude, from Georgia State University.
Director, Project Portfolio Manager, UPS
Jack Levis, Project Portfolio Manager, is responsible for providing operational technology solutions for UPS. His group manages projects that have reengineered current systems in effort to streamline processes and maximize productivity. Under his direction, UPS has completed integration of multiple operations systems, requiring extensive system engineering and usability provisions. These systems ultimately synchronize the flow of data throughout UPS, allowing the seamless movement of goods, funds and information. Levis has been the business owner, process designer, and project manager for UPS’ award winning Package Flow Technology suite of systems. His current role is a natural progression from his prior positions. Since joining UPS in 1976, as a package sorter, Levis has worked as a manager in multiple operations, an engineering section manager, and region transportation planner. In his position as region planning manager, he was responsible for the redesign of the Pacific Region transportation plan, resulting in UPS saving of over $30 million per year. Having earned his BA in psychology from California State University Northridge, Jack also holds a Master’s Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
Director, Innovation and Emerging Solutions, CTO for Public Sector Supply Chain Management, IBM Global Business Services
Grace Lin is the Director of Innovation and Emerging Solutions & CTO for Public Sector Supply Chain Management, IBM Global Business Services (GBS). She is also an IBM Distinguished Engineer, a member of the IBM Academy of Technology, and an INFORMS Fellow. Prior to her work with IBM GBS, she served as a Senior Manager for Supply Chain Management and e-Business Optimization at the IBM T. J. Watson Research Center. Lin initiated IBM’s Sense-and-Respond Value Net efforts and founded the IBM Value Chain Innovation Center. She led her team to win the 1999 INFORMS Franz Edelman Award – the top honor in OR/MS in Practice - for saving IBM $750M with their Extended Enterprise Management. She was listed as one of the six ”Supply Chain Gurus” in Forrester’s 2002 SCM Report, and served on the “Thinking with the Gurus” Panel from the 2004 eAsia Forum. Lin has co-authored more than 50 technical articles and six patents, with another five pending. She is a frequent speaker at various international conferences, universities and company sessions. She has twice been elected INFORMS VP, Practice, and served as Conference Chair for both INFORMS’ 2003 and 2004 ORMS in Practice, and IEEE’s 2006 SOLI Conference. She has served on the editorial boards of Operations Research, M&SOM, IJBPIM, and IJSOI, on National Science Foundation panels in the US, Canada, and Ireland, as well as on a number of university boards/panels. Lin and her team’s advanced work have been recognized in such publications as Forbes Magazine, China News, Information Week, INFORMS News, ComputerGram, Electronic Guyer, Computer Reseller, Stanford Supply Chain Forum Newsletter, Forrester, and CNET. She received an MS in Applied Math and a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Purdue University. She also received an MS in Mathematics and a BS in Mathematics from Tsing-Hua University, Taiwan.
Professor of Operations Research, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zürich
Hans-Jakob Lüthi studied mathematics at the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (ETH) Zurich and obtained a doctorate degree in 1973. He was an adjunct professor at ETH in operations research, visiting professor at the Pontificia Universidade Catolica, Rio de Janeiro; Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy NY; and Center of Operations Research at MIT. Before joining the department of mathematics of ETH in 1993 as Professor of Operations Research, he was directing a consulting firm in the area of information and organizational engineering. His main research areas are in the design of mathematical models and algorithms for industrial and economical decision support. In particular, his core competence lies in bridging the interface between optimization techniques and mathematical modeling enabling innovative applications of Operations Research techniques.
Analytical Business Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Company
Divya Mangotra joined the Strategic Planning & Modeling (SPaM) group in 2007 as Analytical Business Consultant in the Palo Alto, CA office. Members of the SPaM group use their technical expertise to develop and diffuse leading-edge business process innovations. In her current role, Mangotra applies her advanced analytical and consulting skills to solve critical business problems in the areas of inventory management and network planning. She holds a PhD and MS in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech. During her PhD, Mangotra was recognized as Global Logistics Scholar and received the General Motors Manufacturing Scholarship in 2006. She was selected as INFORMS Young Researcher at INFORMS Conference on O.R. Practice in 2008.
President, American Choice Modeling
Beau Martin, co-founder of American Choice Modeling, is a former Vice President and head of
Interbrand’s analytics and solutions architectures team, former chief strategist for the marketing and product development processes for Intuit’s consumer tax group, and former manager for network planning and engineering for AT&T Digital Broadband. He consults or has recently consulted to many of America’s leading companies, including Intel, Microsoft, the New York Stock Exchange, AT&T, DaimlerChrysler, Intuit, and the Boston Consulting Group both here and abroad. He and his teams have won numerous awards, including an SPSS Insights Award, Global Strategy and Global Research Project of the Year awards, and back-to-back project of the quarter awards from a leading technology firm. He is also a frequent presenter, having presented to the American Marketing Association, the Yale University School of Management, the Society for Competitive Intelligence Professionals, and the Professional Pricing Society.
Associate Technical Fellow, The Boeing Company
Scott Mathews is a Boeing Associate Technical Fellow and technical lead for the Business Engineering team within the Boeing research and development division. At Boeing he provides technical consulting to a group of mathematical engineers responsible for developing investment and risk models for new products and strategically significant projects. He has expertise in complex financial and investment decision modeling that features real option valuation. Matthews has a number of patents and patents pending in the field. For the past 15 years he has been engaged in stochastic modeling, capital markets investment and financial analysis, and international strategic analysis. Previously, he was engaged in the United States, Europe, and Asia as an engineer in robotic control systems, artificial intelligence, and systems and software development. He has academic training in computer engineering, digital control systems, artificial intelligence computer science, and computational finance.
LTC, US Army; Program Director, Systems Engineering Program, United States Military Academy
Daniel McCarthy is an Academy Professor in the Department of Systems Engineering at the United States Military Academy and serves as the Program Director for the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Program. He is a Lieutenant Colonel in the United States Army. Prior to his current assignment on the faculty at West Point, he served in Aviation and Airborne units in the United States and overseas. He graduated from the United States Military Academy with a Bachelor of Science in Organizational Leadership and holds a Master of Engineering in Systems Engineering from the University of Virginia. He earned his PhD in Management Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he studied system dynamics. His research interests include system design and modeling, decision analysis and project management. He has applied system dynamics in a variety of domains including new product development, human resource management, and public health policy.
Director, Global Supply Chain Management, Rider University
Tan Miller is the Harper Professor of Global Supply Chain Management in the College of Business at Rider University, and the Director of the Global Supply Chain Management program. Previously he worked in private industry where most recently he was responsible for the operations of the J&J’s US Consumer Distribution Network. Prior to that, he headed the U.S. Consumer Healthcare Logistics Network of Pfizer Inc., and he has also held production and distribution management positions with Mercer Management Consulting, Unisys, and American Olean Tile Company. Miller has published four books and over fifty articles on supply chain and logistics operations and planning including Hierarchical Operations And Supply Chain Planning (Springer-Verlag Publishers) and Strategic Logistics: Efficient Transportation Decisions (Boskage Commerce Publications). He guest lectures regularly at universities and industry conferences, and is currently on the Advisory Boards of Future Pharmaceuticals Magazine and the Logipharma Supply Chain Conference. Miller received an MA, MBA and PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Deputy Branch Head/ Senior Analysis, Operations Analysis Division, United States Marine Corps
Joseph Mlakar is the Deputy Branch Head and Senior Analyst for the Current Operations Branch of the Marine Corps Operations Analysis Division at Quantico, Virginia. He holds a BS in Mathematics from Carnegie-Mellon University and MS in Operations Research and Applied Mathematics from the Naval Postgraduate School.Mlakar has studied crime analysis techniques from the leading crime analysts in the United States and has spent the past three years extending those techniques to military applications. His experience includes a deployment as an operations research analyst with the Marine Corps operational forces to Fallujah, Iraq.
Managing Principal, Services Transformation and Innovation Group, LLC
Douglas Morse is currently the Managing Principal for the Services Transformation and Innovation Group LLC. Prior to starting this company in 2007, he was Vice President of Customer Experience and Strategic Planning for Global Customer Services at the Oracle Corporation. Morse has spent over 30 years developing service strategies and solutions for companies in high tech and medical equipment services including over 18 years at IBM. He has been a consultant to Fortune 500 companies, guiding efforts to build highly profitable global service based organizations. He was the 2007 recipient of the Donald F. Blumberg award for Services Innovation awarded by the Services Industry Association. Morse is an executive advisor and member of Services and Support Professional Assoc. He is a member of executive advisory board for Center for Services Leadership at the W.P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University and a member of the advisory board for the Industrial and Systems Engineering School at San Jose State University. Douglas has taught, and does guest lectures, at a number of leading universities around Strategy, Marketing and Global Operations for Service organizations.
Assistant Professor, Operations and Technology Management,
Boston University School of Management
John Neale recently joined the faculty at Boston University after more than a decade in industry. He teaches operations management and conducts research designed to bridge the gap between inventory theory and practice. His work on inventory models with nonstationary demand won the 2008 Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice. Prior to his return to academia, Neale was Vice President of Research & Development at Optiant, Inc. and a member of the Strategic Planning and Modeling team at Hewlett-Packard. He has taught at Harvard University and Stanford University and is the co-editor of the textbook The Practice of Supply Chain Management. John received his Ph.D. and M.S.E. in Industrial and Operations Engineering from the University of Michigan. He has a B.S. with Distinction in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University.
Director, Strategic Planning and Modeling, Hewlett-Packard
Thomas Olavson is Director of the Strategic Planning and Modeling (SPaM) group at Hewlett-Packard. SPaM is an analytics group that supports HP businesses through an internal consulting model. For nearly 20 years SPaM has been supporting HP businesses on mission-critical problems in supply chain and other areas. Olavson has been in analytical consulting roles in HP since 2001, prior to which he completed his PhD in Management Science from Stanford University and worked as a strategy consultant at Strategic Decisions Group.
Clinical Assistant Professor, Supply Chain Management, Arizona State University
Michele E. Pfund received her PhD in Industrial Engineering in 2003 from Arizona State University specializing in the area of Operations Research and Production Systems. She also received a MS Eng in Industrial Engineering from Purdue and a BS in Chemical Engineering from Case Western Reserve University. She is currently a Clinical Assistant Professor in the Supply Chain Management Department within the W. P. Carey School of Business at Arizona State University. Her primary area of research is scheduling and portfolio management and the use of simulation to evaluate potential methodologies within these areas. Pfund is a former President of the ASU INFORMS Student Chapter, a Faculty Advisor for the INFORMS student publication ORMS Tomorrow, a recipient of the INFORMS Judith Lieberman Award, and chair of the 2005 INFORMS Doctoral Practitioner Colloquium.
Founder and Chief Science Officer, Nomis Solutions
Professor, Columbia University Graduate School of Business
Robert Phillips is founder and chief science officer of Nomis Solutions, the leading provider of price optimization solutions to the financial services industry, as well as a professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business. Prior to founding Nomis, Phillips served as chief technology officer of Manugistics (NASDAQ: MANU) and as chief executive officer at Talus Solutions. He pioneered the application of pricing and revenue optimization in many industries including passenger airlines, cruise lines, rental cars, automotive, hotels, air cargo, trucking, container shipping, and financial services. He has worked on price optimization solutions for 6 of the 20 largest banks in the world. His book, Pricing and Revenue Optimization was published by the Stanford University Press in 2005. Phillips holds a PhD in Engineering-Economic Systems from Stanford University and BA degrees in Economics and Mathematics from Washington State University.
Professor, Tuck School of Business, Dartmouth College
Stephen Powell is a Professor at the Tuck School of Business at Dartmouth. His primary research interest lies in modeling production and service processes, but he has also been active in research in energy economics, marketing, and operations. At Tuck he has developed a variety of courses in management science, including the core Decision Science course and electives in the Art of Modeling, Business Process Redesign, and Applications of Simulation. He originated the Teacher’s Forum column in Interfaces, and he has written several articles on teaching modeling to practitioners. Powell was the academic director of the annual INFORMS Teaching of Management Science Workshops. In 2001 he was awarded the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of Operations Research/Management Science Practice. He is a co-author with Ken Baker of Management Science: The Art of Modeling with Spreadsheets (Wiley 2009) and with Bob Batt of Modeling for Insight (Wiley, 2008). Prof. Powell holds an AB degree from Oberlin College and MS and PhD degrees from Stanford University.
Advisory Board Professor of Operations, Sauder School of Business, University of British Columbis
Research Director, UBC Centre for Health Care Management
Martin L. Puterman is Advisory Board Professor of Operations in UBC’s Sauder School of Business and Research Director of the UBC Centre for Health Care Management at UBC. He was founder and director of the Centre for Operations Excellence at UBC and the Biostatistical Consulting Service at BC Children’s Hospital. His research focuses on health care operations research especially pertaining to cancer care delivery and decision-making, Markov decision processes and statistical modeling of golf performance. He has consulted widely on health care operations, statistical modeling, inventory control, forecasting, operations management and management strategy. Puterman received the prestigious INFORMS Lanchester Prize for his book Markov Decision Processes. He is an INFORMS Fellow and recipient of the Canadian Operations Research Society (CORS) Award of Merit, the CORS Practice Prize and the INFORMS case prize. He has been an editorial board member of Mathematics of Operations Research, Operations Research, Management Science and The Journal of the American Statistical Association. He has a PhD in Operations Research and an MS in Statistics from Stanford University and AB in Mathematics from Cornell.
Senior Scientist, Technology Solutions Experts
Daniel Rice received his PhD (Information Systems, 2004) and MBA (Finance, 1998) from the University of Connecticut and his BS (Naval Architecture and Marine Engineering, 1990) from the United States Coast Guard Academy. His research expertise applies methodologies of operations research, management science, economics, and simulation to the investigation of problems of computer and information systems security, simulation, and business. His most recent research interest is in areas of ontology-driven modeling and simulation. He has published in leading journals including Decision Support Systems (DSS); IEEE Transactions on Systems, Man, and Cybernetics; International Journal of Information and Computer Security (IJICS); and the Online Information Review. He has presented his work at various venues including INFORMS Annual Meetings, the 9th Annual INFORMS Conference on Telecommunications, the Conference on Information Science and Systems (CISS), and the 3rd International Conference on Security and Counter Terrorism Issues at Lumonosov Moscow State University, in Moscow, Russia.
Department Head, Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent
Iraj Saniee is a Department Head at Bell Laboratories, Alcatel-Lucent in Murray Hill, NJ. Over the past two decades, he has conducted research in and developed algorithms and software tools for analysis, control, design and optimization of communication networks. Prior to Bell Labs and until 1998, he was a director in the Information Sciences Laboratory at Bellcore in Morristown, NJ. He received his PhD in operations research and control theory from the University of Cambridge. Saniee has been a member of INFORMS (since 1985), an Edelman Finalist (1994), and Chair of Telecom Section (2002-2004). He has (co)authored numerous articles in INFORMS and IEEE publications and proceedings. In the past few years, a special focus area in his department has been automation and optimization of various aspects of the emerging and ever-present wireless systems, some of the salient features of which will be presented in his talk.
Validation Program Office Manager, Embedded Products, Intel Corporation
Tiffany Sargent has both a bachelor’s and master’s in Industrial Engineering from University of Massachusetts and North Carolina State University. Having an engineering education has enabled her to span technical and business areas at Intel for the past fourteen years. Sargent began as a systems engineer and progressed through five different business units taking on various leadership and management roles. She has managed numerous technical programs across several fields, most notability in information technology, software, and chipset platform product roles. She has also held positions as a business strategist and operations manager. Currently, Sargent manages a program management office responsible for validating Intel’s Embedded products. She has received Intel’s highest award, the Intel Achievement Award, for innovative cyber-security solutions. Outside of work, Sargent shares her business expertise with Arizona Non-Profits. In 2008, she was the recipient of the Mary Harriman Community Leadership Award and during Arizona’s PMI 30th Anniversary was highlighted through ”A Project Management Story."
Consulting Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, and Fellow, Cambridge University Judge Business School
Sam Savage is a Consulting Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a Fellow of the Cambridge University Judge Business School. His primary focus is on enterprise-wide visualization, communication and management of risk. Savage has published in both refereed journals and the popular press, with recent articles in the Harvard Business Review, Journal of Portfolio Management, Washington Post and Journal of Forensic Accounting. His book on the Flaw of Averages will be published by John Wiley & Sons in May 2009. Savage consults and lectures extensively to business and government agencies and has served as an expert witness. He has pioneered interactive portfolio modeling with Bessemer Trust, Shell Exploration and Development, and Merck & Co. He is the founder and president of AnalyCorp Inc. (www.AnalyCorp.com), a firm that develops executive education programs and software for improving business analysis. He is also a co-founder and chairman of ProbabilityManagement.org, an organization which promotes the extension of traditional information management into the domain of probability distributions.
Professor, Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin- Madison
Leyuan ShiI is a Professor in the Department of Industrial and Systems Engineering at University of Wisconsin-Madison. She received her PhD in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1992. Her research interests include simulation modeling and large-scale optimization with applications to operation planning and scheduling, supply chain management, transportation, and health care systems. She has developed a novel optimization framework, the Nested Partitions Method, that has been applied to many large-scale and complex systems optimization problems. This research work has been funded by NSF, AFSOR, ONR, State of Wisconsin, and many private industrial companies. Shi’s research work has been published in journals such as Operations Research, Management Science, JDEDS, IIE Trans. and IEEE Trans. She is currently serving on editorial board for IEEE Trans on Automation Science and Engineering, Journal of Discrete Event Dynamic Systems, and Journal of Methodology, and Computing in Applied Probability. She served on the editorial boards for Manufacturing & Service Operations Management and INFORMS Journal on Computing. She also served as General Chair, co-Chair, and program committee for many national and international conferences. She chaired the Outstanding Publication Award Committee for the INFORM College on Simulation. She is the recipient of the Vilas Associate Award in 2006.
Senior Operations Research Engineer, CASTLE Laboratory, Dept. of Operations Research & Financial Engineering, Princeton University
Hugo P. Simão obtained a bachelor's degree in Aeronautical Engineering and a master's degree in Transportation Planning from Instituto Tecnológico de Aeronáutica (ITA), in São José dos Campos, Brazil. He also holds a PhD in Operations Research and Civil Engineering from Princeton University. Early in his postgraduate career, Simão taught basic computer programming and transportation planning courses at ITA in Brazil. Since 1990 he has worked at CASTLE Lab, in Princeton University, performing research and developing strategic, tactical, and operational planning systems in the areas of transportation, distribution, logistics, and supply-chain, for large companies in the truck, rail, and air industry. He has also taught courses on computer programming, basic probability and statistics, and resource and information management at the School of Engineering at Princeton.
Chief Executive Officer, Strategic Decisions Group
Carl S. Spetzler is CEO and founder of Strategic Decisions Group, a strategy consulting firm that serves Global 1000 companies. He specializes in strategy development, business innovation, and strategic change management and advises top management and boards in improving corporate governance. He is a member of INFORMS and frequently speaks on strategy, innovation, and quality in decision-making. Spetzler serves as the program director of The Stanford Strategic Decisions and Risk management certificate program and is a lecturer at the Graduate School of Business at Stanford. He is the 2004 recipient of the Ramsey medal, the highest award given by the Decision Analysis Society of INFORMS. In 2008 Treasury and Risk magazine named him among the 100 most influential people in finance. He is a trustee of Illinois Institute of Technology and a director and founder of the Decision Education Foundation, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to developing the decision-making skills of youth. Spetzler received a PhD and an MBA in economics and business administration and a BS in chemical engineering from the Illinois Institute of Technology.
General Manager and Architect, Microsoft
Alexander is General Manager of Optima (Solver Foundation), Arena (Semantic Indexing and Storage) and Melange (UX Incubation). A 14 year Microsoft employee, he has been involved with enterprise computing since 1992. While at BEA Systems, he was Director of Engineering and co-architect of the Weblogic Integration 8.1 product. At Microsoft, he has designed distributed computing and data access technologies and teams to deliver them: ActiveX Data Objects (ADO), WFC.Data for Visual J++, Remote Data Services (RDS), Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP v0.5 for RDS). He has also architected and led the Dragonfly Rule Engine (shipped as Biztalk 2004 Business Rule Engine) and designed distributed messaging fabrics and brokers. He has managed the information architecture and high availability databases (OLTP and DSS) for Microsoft bCentral and developed integration technologies for online services. He has spent the past 6 years working in the CTO Office (David Vaskevitch), where he founded and designed Solver Foundation and Arena and managed the teams to deliver them. He is married and lives with his wife and daughter in Seattle, Redmond and (in the summer) Beograd (Serbia). He graduated with honors from Santa Clara University in 1991.
Schneider National, Inc.
Peter Sun joined Schneider National in 2004. As a Senior Engineer, he is responsible for leading projects that improve operation efficiency and yield. His main focus areas include modeling and optimization. Prior to joining Schneider, Sun has worked for American Airlines (Sr. Operations Research Analyst, 2001 – 2004) and Sabre Inc. (Sr. Consultant II, 1997 – 2001). He was a technical lead providing consulting services and support to American Airlines’ capacity planning and revenue management departments. He obtained his PhD in Industrial Engineering from the University of Missouri, Columbia, M.Sc. from Electrical Engineering from University of Alberta, Canada, and B. Engineering from Northeastern University of China.
Lead System Engineer, Renewable Energy, Lockheed Martin MS2
Alan Taber is a Project Specialist at Lockheed Martin MS2 where he is a member of the Surface Systems Chief Engineer group, currently assigned as the Lead System Engineer for Renewable Energy. He has ten years of experience, two years at the Skunk Works followed by eight years at MS2 in increasingly responsible roles. He has a bachelor’s degree in mechanical engineering from Stanford, a master’s in System Engineering from Stevens Institute of Technology, and is working on an MBA from Rutgers-Camden.
Senior Decision Support Analyst, ARAMARK
John Toczek is an Operations Research professional with backgrounds in both engineering and information technology. He has extensive experience in designing and developing decision support systems for dynamic business environments and over seven years of experience helping clients make better, more informed decisions by championing the use of data and advanced O.R. techniques. Toczek is the Senior Decision Support Analyst at ARAMARK in Philadelphia, PA. He earned his MS in Operations Research from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2004 and his BS in Chemical Engineering from Drexel University in 1996. He is the current President of the Philadelphia Chapter of INFORMS and a regular contributor to ORMS Today.
Partner, IBM Global Business Services
Leanne Viera is a Partner in IBM's Public Sector Organization in Global Business Services. She is the Account Executive for the Department of Defense Logistics Account and is also leading the Supply Chain Strategy & Innovation team. She has over 20 years experience in transportation, distribution, supply chain management, manufacturing and operations research working within the IBM internal supply chain as well as in multiple commercial industries. She earned her doctorate at Northeastern University where her research focused in Industrial Engineering and applied Operations Research. Viera has multiple responsibilities in the organization, as the Supply Chain Strategy & Innovation Leader for the Public Sector, an Account Executive, and a Delivery Program Manager. She is responsible for driving both the relationships and the delivery of IBM services across the Public Sector with a specific focus on USTRANSCOM and FEMA. At FEMA, she supports the Logistics Management Directorate’s transformation initiative, driving FEMA’s evolution and transition into the National Logistics Coordinator. As the Supply Chain Strategy & Innovation Leader, she also is responsible for the delivery of strategic supply chain solutions, including the development of new and emerging technologies, as well as establishing the appropriate interlock to the other practice areas and the commercial supply chain teams. The team’s focus is to provide thought leadership and innovation, while maintaining strategic supply chain structure and direction. Her personal supply chain experience ranges from demand forecasting, to procurement, collaboration, shop floor planning systems, distributed order management, reverse logistics and aftermarket support, and transportation and warehouse management systems.
Principal Scientist, Hewlett-Packard Laboratories
Julie Ward is a Principal Scientist in the Business Optimization Laboratory at Hewlett-Packard Labs in Palo Alto, California. She has 15 years of research and practical experience applying operations research to improve business processes in areas including product portfolio management, IT infrastructure design, supply chain inventory management, forecasting, channel coordination, and service design and pricing. Prior to joining HP Labs, Ward received her Ph.D. in Operations Research from Stanford University and her Sc.B. in Applied Mathematics from Brown University.
Associate Director, Global Analytics, The Procter & Gamble Company
Glenn Wegryn has been a leader, manager and business analyst with P&G for over 24 years. During that time he has held organizational leadership, project management, technology development and analysis roles of increasing impact and responsibility for the Company. Most notably, he has re-built the Operations Research practice at P&G into a world-class practitioner’s organization and has become the acknowledged expert in strategic sourcing of manufacturing capacity on a global basis and for overall methodologies for creating effective supply networks for P&G and its’ affiliates. He has led various optimization, simulation, and decision analyses in strategy, manufacturing, warehousing, distribution, transportation, and customer services.
Associate Professor of Operations and Technology Management, Boston University School of Management; Co-Founder and Chief Scientist, Optiant, Inc.
Associate Professor at Boston University and Co-Founder of Optiant, Inc., Sean Willems develops model-driven supply chain management tools. This includes inventory placement in supply chains, configuring new product supply chains, and setting service levels for multiple customer segments. His work with Hewlett Packard on designing profitable supply chains was a finalist for the 2003 Franz Edelman Award and his work on extending the guaranteed service model of inventory placement to accommodate review periods was a finalist for the 2006 Daniel H. Wagner Prize for Excellence in Operations Research Practice.
Senior Vice President, Research Planning and Integration, Merck & Co, Inc.
Daniel C. Zweidler, Ph.D, is a petroleum geologist known for his “avant-garde” approach to research and development portfolio optimization and management. A recognized authority in the field, Zweidler has lectured extensively on the subject and has also published numerous articles. He co-authored two seminal papers on Probability Management, which serve as reference material for the business planning and portfolio management community. He is a founding member of ProbabilityManagement.org. After a distinguished 22-year career in the oil and gas industry, Zweidler joined Merck & Co’s Merck Research Laboratories on February 29, 2008 as senior vice president of Research Planning and Integration and as a member of the Research Management Committee. Prior to joining Merck, Zweidler was Head, Global Exploration Planning and Portfolio for Royal Dutch Shell in The Hague. Zweidler studied at Université de Neuchâtel in Switzerland, where he received both his master's and his doctorate in geology. |
Pierre Haren, PhD
Thornton May
Phillip C. Beccue
Scott M. Belsky, BSIE
Saif Benjaafar, PhD
Toby Brzoznowski
Justin M. Cohen, PhD
Louis Anthony Cox, Jr, PhD
Javier Faulin, PhD
Jeff Fraser, MBA
Arnie Greenland, PhD
Stephen Griffith, MBA
Alex Heinold, MS
Kaan Katircioglu, PhD
L. Robin Keller, PhD
Steven O. Kimbrough, PhD
Diego Klabjan, PhD
Jack Kloeber, PhD
Hans-Jakob Lüthi, PhD
Daniel J. McCarthy, PhD
Tan Miller, PhD
Joseph Mlakar, MS
Robert L. Phillips, PhD
Martin L. Puterman, PhD
Tiffany A. Sargent, PMP, MS
Hugo P. Simão, PhD
Carl S. Spetzler, PhD
Alexander Stojanovic 
John Toczek, MS
