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Senior Project Manager, Go-to-Market, Supply Chain Technology,
Pepsi Bottling Group
A graduate of Istanbul Technical University (ITU) with a Bachelor of Science in Industrial Engineering, Akkas started her career as a Business Systems Consultant with Manugistics. Based in Istanbul, Turkey, she led a number of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) and Supply Chain Management systems implementation projects and was invited to speak at various academic programs. She left Manugistics to pursue a Master of Engineering in Logistics (MLOG) at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Upon graduating from MIT’s MLOG program, Akkas joined Pepsi Bottling Group as an Operations Specialist in charge of Forecasting and Supply Chain Scheduling applications. She managed the development of numerous application releases for which she designed the mechanics of the analytics and algorithms. She implemented the forecasting and scheduling applications in PBG’s Russian and Turkish Business Units. The systems she designed are currently being used at over 70 plants and 400 warehouses worldwide.
Akkas was later promoted to a new position in PBG’s Go-To-Market team as an Operations Manager responsible for Handheld Sales Order solutions. Forecasting and order creation tools she has developed help over 5,000 PBG Sales Representatives write accurate orders for PBG’s 200,000 customers everyday.
Director, Worldwide Demand Planning, Logitech Inc.
Trained as an engineer, Dennis Arnow has worked in sales, manufacturing and supply chain. He is currently Director, Worldwide Supply Chain at Logitech Inc.
Branch Chief, Military Strength Analysis and Forecasting, DAPE-PRS,
DCS-G1, U.S. Army
Lieutenant Colonel Lynette M.B. Arnhart currently serves as the Systems Team Branch Chief in the Plans and Resources Directorate of the Army G1. She is responsible for monthly strength accounting for the Army and aggregate forecasting of future strength. She earned her Bachelor of Science from the United States Military Academy. Upon her graduation, she was commissioned as in the Army as a Second Lieutenant in the Field Artillery. She earned her Master of Science from Colorado School of Mines and her Doctorate from George Mason University. She is a career officer, having served in the U.S. Army for more than 19 years. She has served as a troop leader in the Field Artillery, as a commander and staff officer in the Adjutant General’s Corps, and as a military OR analyst for the past 10 years working primarily in Human Resources and Operational Weapons Systems Analysis.
Global Head, Health Economics and European Operations,
RTI International
Stephen Beard is Global Head of Heath Economic and European Operations based in RTI HS’s UK office in Manchester. He has more than 20 years of experience in the application of mathematical modeling, optimization and decision analysis techniques to business problems gained in academic, government and industrial organizations. He has worked specifically within the health research sector for the past 11 years, having previously held a senior project management and research position within the University of Sheffield, UK, where he headed a team producing rapid review health technology appraisal reports for the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE) in the UK. His work has involved the management of projects using health economics, Markov modeling, and statistical modeling techniques to explore disease progression and the impact of treatment across a range of areas, including colorectal cancer, ovarian cancer, breast cancer, schizophrenia, depression, and infectious diseases. He is a member of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Research and INFORMS. He has presented his work at professional conferences and has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including European Journal of Health Economics, British Journal of Cancer, and Pharmacoeconomics.
Principal and Co-Founder, Spinnaker Management Group
Robert Benson is a Co-Founder and Managing Principal of Spinnaker; a supply chain management consulting and outsourcing firm. He has accumulated extensive domestic and international expertise leading the design and implementation of supply chain management solutions for the semiconductor, energy, and industrial products industries. Prior to Spinnaker, Benson held roles at Solutions Consulting and Advanced Micro Devices. He received his undergraduate degree in Operations Research from Cornell University, along with his M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from University of California at Berkeley. He was a recipient the Franz Edelman Award in 1995 for work at Harris Semiconductor.
Associate Professor of Operations Management, Fuqua School of Business,
Duke University
Fernando Bernstein is an Associate Professor of Operations Management at the Fuqua School of Business, Duke University. He obtained a Ph.D. in Operations Management from the Graduate School of Business at Columbia University in 2001. His research interests include supply chain management, production planning and inventory control, applications of game theory to production and distribution systems, and revenue management. He has published papers in leading journals like Operations Research, Management Science, and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. Bernstein serves as Associate Editor for Management Science, Operations Research and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He teaches the core Operations Management course and the Supply Chain Management elective course for the Full-Time and Executive MBA programs.
Manager, ISC Business Transformation, IBM Corporation
Blair Binney is responsible for IBM’s Integrated Supply Chain Business Transformation in Demand/Supply Planning and Execution processes across IBM hardware brands. He manages and leads broad-based initiatives for Supply Chain process transformation within IBM HW core Demand/Supply Planning and Supplier Integration processes including Demand Management, SOP, Requirements Generation, and Supply Allocation and Optimization. Key initiatives currently focus additionally on enterprise management systems to enable more dynamic sense-and-respond capabilities that deliver improved supply and channel execution. Binney has been a central leader in advocating and leveraging the Model-Driven Business Transformation environment including technologies and underpinning governance and culture. During his 25-year career, he has engaged in a variety of supply chain and development technical leadership positions focused on operations research and business process management applications, and client consulting. He currently manages Business Process Transformation for IBM’s hardware Demand/Supply Planning and is a certified IBM Consulting Supply Chain Managing Professional.
Operations Research Analyst, Center for Army Analysis,
Resource Analysis Division, U.S. Army
LTC Bradford is an Operations Research Analyst at the Center for Army Analysis located on Fort Belvoir, Virginia. He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Engineering from Princeton University in 1989 and his Master’s Degree in Operations Research from the Naval Postgraduate School in 2000. He has served 18 years in the U.S. Army, the last eight of them as an operations research analyst leading and supporting important Army studies and analysis.
Principal Engineer and Supply Chain Architect, Xilinx
Alex Brown is a Principal Engineer at Xilinx, having worked at Xilinx since 2002. As Supply Chain Architect, he is responsible for optimizing the supply chain by restructuring supply chain policies, processes, and systems. Prior to working at Xilinx, Brown was Director of Strategic Consulting at Manugistics, was an Assistant Professor of Operations Management at the Owen Graduate School of Management at Vanderbilt University from 1998-2000, and had an earlier term at Xilinx from 1996-98 as a Business Analyst. He has a PhD in Industrial Engineering from Stanford University, an MS in electrical engineering from Cambridge University, and a BS in electrical engineering from Vanderbilt University.
Executive Vice President, Innovative Decisions, Inc.
Dennis Buede is Executive Vice President of Innovative Decision, Inc., a consulting firm specializing in the use of decision and risk analysis techniques to the fields of systems engineering, intelligence analysis, and strategic planning. He has been a professor of systems engineering at George Mason University and Stevens Institute of Technology. Buede has published two books and been awarded best application paper for INCOSE Symposium, paper titled “The Concepts of Systems Engineering as Practiced by the Wright Brothers” in 2002; and best paper in the Systems Engineering Track of the 21st Digital Avionics Systems Conference for a coauthored paper titled “Considerations in the Design of an Air Traffic Management System”. He is a Fellow of INCOSE. He has been active in INCOSE (chair of the Education and Research Technical Committee), INFORMS, and IEEE.
Professor and Department Head, Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, University of Cincinnati College of Business
Jeffrey Camm is Professor of Quantitative Analysis, Head of the Department of Quantitative Analysis and Operations Management, and College of Business Research Fellow at the University of Cincinnati. He was the 2006 recipient of the INFORMS Prize for the Teaching of OR Practice, is an Edelman Laureate and currently serves as editor-in-chief of Interfaces. A firm believer in practicing what he preaches, he has served as an operations research consultant to numerous companies and government agencies and he routinely uses this experience to help his students learn how to be real OR practitioners. Camm is owner and president of Z Star Analytics, LLC, a consulting firm specializing in customized optimization models for distribution network planning and scheduling.
Associate Professor, Department of Biostatistics, Section of Health Services Research, The University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
Scott Cantor is an Associate Professor in the Section of Health Services Research in the Department of Biostatistics at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center. He has adjunct appointments in the Department of Statistics at Rice University and the Division of Biostatistics at The University of Texas School of Public Health. Cantor is a clinical decision analyst, having received his bachelor’s degree from Yale in Applied Mathematics and his doctorate from Harvard in Decision Sciences. From 2003-2004, he was President of the Society for Medical Decision Making, a professional society dedicated to promoting rational and systematic approaches to decision making that will improve the health and clinical care of individuals and assist health policy formation. Cantor’s research focuses on theoretical issues concerning cost-effectiveness analysis and diagnostic testing, and on clinical issues in cancer prevention, particularly prostate cancer screening and cervical pre-cancer diagnosis.
Senior Manager, Logistics Strategy, Planning & Analytics, JCPenney
William T. Cartwright began his logistics career as he worked his way through college loading ocean containers at the port of Los Angeles. After graduating from the University of California, he transitioned from his seat atop a forklift to a chair behind a desk and eventually to Asia, where he helped in the coordination of logistics for U.S. Foreign Military Sales. Upon his return to California, Cartwright studied transportation management at Golden Gate University in San Francisco and joined Fritz Companies, Inc. While with the Fritz organization, his responsibilities ranged from airfreight sales to customs brokerage, and the management of NVOCC operations in Los Angeles, Chicago (on site at Sears), and finally New York. Leading the selection and integration of TMS enablers, Cartwright joined GTE as Group Manager–Transportation & International Logistics in 1997. He continued in that role, subsequently directing the consolidation of the GTE and Bell Atlantic transportation networks through the initial acquisition and over Verizon’s first two years post-merger. At JCPenney Logistics since 2005, he currently leads business intelligence, strategy planning and modeling of the retailer’s logistics networks. Cartwright continues to be drawn to the classroom, having completed various professional SCM programs with the University of Pennsylvania and at MIT; as a guest lecturer at University of North Texas and Texas Christian University’s Neely School of Business, he instructs and presents discussions on transportation, international logistics and supply chain modeling
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President, Farm Foundation
Neil Conklin joined Farm Foundation at President in January 2008. Previously, he Conklin was director of the Market and Trade Economics Division of USDA’s Economic Research Service. The Market and Trade Economics Division provides a broad range of economic research and analysis on global agricultural markets. Prior to his service at USDA, Dr. Conklin was chief economist at the Farm Credit Council. Between 1984 and 1988, Conklin worked at the USDA Economic Research Service in various capacities including fruit and vegetable outlook and as deputy director of the Agriculture and Trade Analysis Division. He also served as chief of the Agriculture Branch at the Office of Management and Budget and on the faculties of Colorado State University, the University of Arizona and Arizona State University. Conklin received a Ph.D. in agricultural and applied economics from the University of Minnesota. He also holds an M.S. degree in agricultural economics from the University of Wyoming and a B.A. in history from Castleton State College in Vermont.
Senior Manager/Principal, International Resources Group
Pat Delaquil works in the Energy and Environmental Management (EEM) Division of International Resources Group to help build the emerging Energy Policy/MARKAL and Climate Change practice of the Division. In addition, plays a key role in the formation and execution of IRG’s proposed commercial Carbon Origination business unit. DeLaquil has been a leader in the commercialization of clean and renewable energy technologies for over 25 years, providing technical, market and financial services to government, multilateral and private sector clients. He has been team leader for several projects for Asian Development Bank, UN Development Programme, World Bank and others. He led the formation of two clean energy start-up companies: EnergyWorks, a Bechtel-PacifiCorp joint venture, which out-sourced energy services for major industrial companies in developing countries through renewables and cogeneration, and BG Technologies, which marketed biomass gasifier systems to agribusiness customers in developing countries. DeLaquil holds a PhD in Nuclear Engineering from MIT and a BSc in Marine Engineering from the US Merchant Marine Academy. He has authored of over 70 papers, reports, and articles on solar and renewable energy including chapters in two books on renewable energy technology. He holds a patent for a high temperature solar receiver.
Chief Economist, South Asia Region, The World Bank Group
Shantayanan Devarajan is the Chief Economist of the World Bank’s South Asia Region. Since joining the World Bank in 1991, he has been a Principal Economist and Research Manager for Public Economics in the Development Research Group, as well as the Chief Economist of the Human Development Network. He was the Director of the World Development Report 2004, Making Services Work for Poor People. Before 1991, he was on the faculty of Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government. The author or co-author of over 100 publications, Devarajan’s research covers public economics, trade policy, natural resources and the environment, and general-equilibrium modeling of developing countries. He currently maintains a development blog on ending poverty in South Asia http://endpovertyinsouthasia.worldbank.org/
Born in Sri Lanka, Devarajan received his A. B. in mathematics from Princeton University and his Ph.D. in economics from the University of California at Berkeley.
Global Head, Health Economics US, RTI International
Stephanie Earnshaw is the Global Head of Health Economics US at RTI Health Solutions where she applies mathematical modeling, optimization, and decision-analysis techniques to industry-related issues and healthcare problems. She has extensive experience in performing cost-effectiveness and budget impact analyses for compounds in early development and to support multinational reimbursement of over-the-counter and prescription pharmaceuticals and medical devices. Earnshaw has developed a these mathematical models using Markov, Monte Carlo simulation and other state transition methods, to analyze the impact of these products. She is a member of the International Society of Pharmacoeconomics Outcomes Research and INFORMS. She has presented her work at professional conferences and has published in several peer-reviewed journals, including Annuals of Internal Medicine, Medical Decision Making, Archives of Internal Medicine, the American Journal of Preventive Medicine, Stroke, Value in Health, and Pharmacoeconomics.
Assistant Professor, School of Industrial & Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Özlem Ergun is an assistant professor in the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech. She is also a co-founder and co-director of the Humanitarian Logistics Research Center at the Supply Chain and Logistics Institute. She received a B.S. in Operations Research and Industrial Engineering from Cornell University in 1996 and a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 2001. In her research, Ergun studies logistics and communications networks that are dynamic, partially decentralized, and are used and operated by coordinating but selfish entities. Given that one of the main challenges in responding to a humanitarian event is to coordinate the actions of many different private, government and non-governmental organizations, Ergun is applying her research in decentralized decision making in the humanitarian area.
Manager, Supply Chain Analytics and Architecture,
IBM Research
Markus Ettl is a Manager for Supply Chain Analytics Research at IBM’s T.J. Watson Research Center. He received his doctoral degree in Computer Science from Friedrich-Alexander University in Erlangen, Germany. Since joining IBM in 1995, Ettl has applied mathematical models to supply chain management problems and holds several US patents in this field. He currently manages a team on business management systems for adaptive organizations and supply chain management services. Ettl has over 30 publications that have appeared in Operations Research, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Interfaces, OR Spectrum and other journals. He has won the INFORMS Franz Edelman Award in 1999. His other awards and commendations include two IBM Outstanding Technical Achievement Awards and several IBM Research Division Awards.
Professor of Computer Sciences and Industrial & Systems Engineering, University of Wisconsin
Michael Ferris' research is concerned with algorithmic and interface development for large-scale problems in mathematical programming, including links to the GAMS and AMPL modeling languages, and general purpose software such as PATH, NLPEC and FATCOP. He has worked on several applications of both optimization and complementarity, including cancer treatment plan development, radiation therapy, video-on-demand data delivery, economic and traffic equilibria, structural and mechanical engineering. Ferris is an INFORMS fellow and received the Beale-Orchard-Hays prize from the Mathematical Programming Society and is a past recipient of a NSF Presidential Young Investigator Award, and a Guggenheim Fellowship. He serves as co-editor of Mathematical Programming, and is on the editorial boards of SIAM Journal on Optimization, Transactions of Mathematical Software, Journal of Economic Dynamics and Control, and Optimization Methods and Software.
President and CEO, Frontline Systems, Inc.
Daniel H. Fylstra is President of Frontline Systems, Inc., one of three key people responsible for the first spreadsheet program VisiCalc in 1979, and an 18-year veteran of optimization practice, starting with the Solver in Microsoft Excel which his team built in 1990. He led the design and implementation of Premium Solver software for optimization and Risk Solver software for simulation, among the most widely used commercial software products in these fields. He has focused in the last five years on innovations for optimizing models with uncertainty using robust optimization, stochastic programming, and simulation optimization. Fylstra has a BSEE in Computer Science from M.I.T. and an MBA from Harvard Business School.
Senior Manager, International Resources Group
Gary Goldstein, a modeler and information systems specialist, has extensive experience in project management, development and deployment of complex energy systems models and the design of data handling systems to facilitate the management of energy, environmental and economic data to support analytic undertakings. For over 18 years he has been the backbone of the International Energy Agency’s Energy Technology Systems Analysis Programme (ETSAP), responsible for the ongoing development of and worldwide support for the MARKAL/TIMES modeling framework. He has been a contributor to major initiatives to build global energy models at the US Energy Information Administration and the International Energy Agency. He has been heavily involved with significant MARKAL/TIMES model development and analysis undertakings for the US Environmental Protection Agency, Northeast States for Coordinated Air Use Management, and Natural Resources Defense Council, and Saudi Aramco. Goldstein has extensive international experience managing projects in numerous developing countries and conducting capability-building workshops for energy system researchers and planners throughout the world. He is currently leading a 8-country US Agency for International Development capacity building project in Southeast Europe. He has also coordinated efforts on behalf of the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation, Stanford University Program for Energy and Sustainable Development, and the World Bank Prototype Carbon Fund. Prior to his joining IRG, Goldstein ran a small modeling consulting business and worked for the International Atomic Energy Agency and at Brookhaven National Laboratory.
Operations Research Analyst, AT&T Government Solutions
Kristen Gooch is an AT&T contractor supporting the Active Army Strength Forecaster (A2SF). She works with the Army's military strength analysts to design system enhancements, train new analysts, interpret model results, and provide guidance for the selection of time series forecasting techniques. She designed the Enlisted Grade (EG) large-scale linear optimization and embedded network, and chooses the CPLEX solver algorithms and parameters that maximize solve time and accuracy. She has fifteen years' experience in the design, development, testing, validation, maintenance, and application of models, optimizations, simulations, and other analytic tools assisting decision-makers in the U.S. military, and she holds a Masters in Operations Research from George Washington University.
Associate Professor of Operations and Supply Chain, Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University
An associate professor of operations & supply chain management in the Smeal College of Business at Penn State University, Daniel Guide’s research is focused on closed-loop supply chains, time-based models for commercial product returns, remanufacturing, and industrial ecology. He is a regular contributor to numerous academic and managerial journals, including Management Science, Manufacturing & Service Operations Management, Production and Operations Management, Interfaces, Harvard Business Review, California Management Review, and other journals. Guide’s research has been supported by grants from the Carnegie Bosch Institute and the National Science Foundation. He also regularly partners with global organizations (including US Navy, Hewlett-Packard, Robert Bosch Tool, Pitney-Bowes, Xerox and other firms) on a variety of closed-loop supply chain problems.
Chairman and CEO, Comprehensive Health Services, Inc.
Mel Hall has been the Chairman of Comprehensive Health Services, Inc. (CHS) since 1984, and CEO since 1992. During the past thirty years, he has been the CEO of McLean Group, Inc., a financial services management consulting firm, and a partner at Ernst & Young in their financial services industry sector. Hall received a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Tech in 1967 and a M.S. degree in Engineering Management from the University of Alaska in 1970. He is a U.S. Army veteran. His responsibilities at CHS include corporate strategy and financial oversight. Over the past five years, Hall has been part of CHS’ team developing an analytical and management approach for changing the corporate on-site healthcare delivery model and health cost dynamics. He was a major concept contributor for the ‘Workforce Health Assessment Model’ developed by Georgia Tech, as well as instrumental in the establishment of the ‘Mel Hall Predictive Modeling Lab’ at Georgia Tech’s Health Systems Institute.
Chief Technical Officer, Applied Optimization, LLC
Vijay Hanagandi holds a PhD in Chemical Engineering with specialization in Operations Research. He has over 15 years of experience in formulating and solving optimization problems- LP, MILP, NLP and other variants. In his distinguished career, Hanagandi has worked for the Los Alamos National Laboratory, General Electric Corporate Research, and GE Plastics. In 2002, he founded Applied Optimization where he currently serves as the Chief Technical Officer and is involved in providing optimization expertise for a variety of industrial applications.
Research Associate, Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University, and Associate Professor of Economics, George Mason University
Professor of Supply Chain and Information Systems,
The Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business
Vice Chair, Dept. of Facilities & Systems Support and Associate Administrator for Outpatient Operations, Mayo Clinic
Mark Hayward currently holds at joint appointment at Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN. He is the Associate Administrator for Outpatient Operations and the Vice-Chair for the Department of Facilities and Support Services. He holds a bachelor’s degree in Mathematics from St. Olaf College in Northfield, MN and a master’s degree in Industrial Engineering (with a health systems focus) from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. He has worked at Mayo Clinic since 1987 and has spent the majority of his career working in and managing an internal consulting group (Systems and Procedures). He has worked extensively with all aspects of the Mayo Clinic practice.
Senior Consultant, Ventana Systems
Jim Hines has been with Ventana Systems since 2005 where he focuses on system dynamics modeling. Prior to joining Ventana, he taught system dynamics for a decade at MIT. His Applications course provided a laboratory for involving clients in modeling. Before MIT, Hines was a senior consultant with Pugh Roberts and then consulted independently. He has worked with organizations in North and South America, Europe, and Africa in a range of industries including electronics, aerospace, shipbuilding, finance, software, chemicals, pharmaceuticals, law, government, and publishing. He is a past president of the System Dynamics Society.
Researcher/Strategic Analyst, Intel Corporation
Jay Hopman has been with Intel since 1993 and a member of IT Innovation & Research since 2001. He has a B.S. in Computer & Electrical Engineering from Purdue University and an MBA from University of California, Davis. Hopman’s research has focused on risk and uncertainty in supply chain management, organizational behavior in forecasting and planning, use of qualitative and quantitative models to support forecasting, product diffusion, and prediction markets. His work has been sponsored jointly by two Intel organizations: Information Technology (IT) and Customer Fulfillment, Planning and Logistics Group (CPLG).
Operations Research Analyst, Center for Army Analysis, US Army
Tucker Hughes is an Operations Research Analyst at the Center for Army Analysis. He received his Bachelor's Degree from Vassar College in 2001 and a Master’s Degree in Economics from George Mason University in 2005. Since starting at the Center for Army Analysis he has worked on studies with a variety of topics and methods. The most recent of these was the Army Reserve Stationing Study that developed and applied a decision-analysis methodology for stationing Army Reserve units across the continental United States.
Software Engineer, Google
Brady Hunsaker earned a Ph.D. in Algorithms, Combinatorics, and Optimization from the Georgia Institute of Technology in 2003 and served as an Assistant Professor in the University of Pittsburgh Department of Industrial Engineering from 2003 through 2007. He has been an active user of free and open-source software since 2000 and has contributed code to several open-source projects related to operations research. He was one of four incorporators of the COIN-OR
Foundation in 2004, a not-for-profit educational foundation created to manage the COIN-OR initiative, which promotes the development and use of open-source software for operations research. He served on the Strategic Leadership Board of the COIN-OR Foundation from 2004 until 2007 and remains an active volunteer. In January 2008, he began work as a software engineer for Google in its Pittsburgh office.
Risk Management Consultant, Hewlett-Packard Company
Jerry Hwang has worked in the Portfolio Risk Management (PRM) group at Hewlett-Packard since 2002. He is responsible for product management, development, and technical support of the HP Risk suite of PRM software applications. These applications help measure and manage operational uncertainty; the core modules address forecast uncertainty, inventory optimization, and contract valuation. Hwang received his Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.
William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences, Yale School of Management; Professor of Public Health, Yale School of Medicine; and Professor of Engineering, Yale Faculty of Engineering
Edward Kaplan obtained his BA from McGill University with First Class Honors in Economic and Urban Geography, and proceeded to graduate study at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he completed three masters’ degrees (in Operations Research, City Planning, and Mathematics) in addition to his doctorate in Urban Studies. He currently serves as the William N. and Marie A. Beach Professor of Management Sciences at the Yale School of Management, Professor of Public Health at the Yale School of Medicine, and Professor of Engineering in the Yale Faculty of Engineering. An elected member of both the National Academy of Engineering (2003) and the Institute of Medicine (2004), Kaplan is an expert in operations research, mathematical modeling and statistics who studies problems in public policy and management. His recent research has focused on counter-terror topics such as the tactical prevention of suicide bombings, bioterror preparedness, and response logistics in the event of a smallpox or anthrax attack. His work on smallpox was awarded the 2003 Koopman Prize of the INFORMS Military Applications Society, while his models evaluating suicide-bomber-detector schemes received the same award in 2005. Kaplan currently serves on the National Academy of Sciences panel on basic research to defeat improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Kaplan has also conducted award-winning research that evaluates the effectiveness of HIV prevention programs while developing new mathematical models for the study of HIV transmission, prevention, and resource allocation. His empirical and modeling research demonstrating the effectiveness of New Haven’s needle exchange program remains among the most creative and important examples of HIV prevention program evaluation to date. Honors for his HIV-related research include induction into the Omega Rho operations research honor society in 2000, the 2002 INFORMS President’s Award recognizing work that advances the welfare of society, the 1997 Ira Hiscock Award of the Connecticut Public Health Association, the 1994 Lanchester Prize for the best publications in the operations research literature, the 1992 Franz Edelman Award for management science achievement, and the 1991 State of Connecticut Health Department’s AIDS Leadership Award.
Kaplan served twice as the Lady Davis Visiting Professor at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem—in the School of Public Health and Community Medicine in 1994, and in the Department of Statistics in 1997 -- and is also an elected member of the Board of Governors of the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology. For all of his contributions to the operations research profession, Kaplan was designated an INFORMS Fellow in November 2005.
Executive Vice President and CFO, Strata Decision Technology, and Research Professor of Policy and Management and of Industrial and Systems Engineering, University of Southern California
Don Kleinmuntz is cofounder, Executive Vice President and CFO at Strata Decision Technology LLC, a leading provider of financial planning and budgeting software to the US healthcare industry. He is also Research Professor at the University of Southern California, affiliated with the Center for Risk and Economic Analysis of Terrorism Events, with joint appointments in the School of Policy, Planning, & Development and in the Department of Industrial & Systems Engineering. Previously, he held faculty positions at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and the University of Texas at Austin. He holds a BA in statistics, MBA, and PhD with specialization in decision theory and statistics, all from the University of Chicago. Kleinmuntz’s professional interests focus on using analytics to improve decision making by individuals and organizations, and has consulted with corporations, public accounting firms, government, and not-for-profit organizations. His work includes mathematical and computational models of decision processes, resource allocation models, and decision analysis applications to healthcare and homeland security. Kleinmuntz is an active member of INFORMS, currently serving as President-Elect. He previously served as Treasurer, founding Editor-in-Chief of the journal Decision Analysis, and Associate Editor of Management Science. In 2007, he was named a Fellow of INFORMS.
Professor of Operations Management and Statistics, Rotman School of Management, University of Toronto, and Senior Partner, Research and Development, Custometrics, Inc.
Dmitry Krass specializes in the development and use of optimization modeling and decision support systems for business and marketing decision-makers. He has over 30 publications in leading journals in Operations Research and Management Science and over 100 presentations at international conferences on topics in facility location, stochastic optimization, inventory theory, and environmental modeling. Krass is also a founding partner of Custometrics Inc., a consulting company founded in 1996 that specializes in customer and market analytics and the development of related marketing strategies. Through his association with Custometrics, he has developed a wide variety of modeling and optimization tools for clients from both the private and public sectors.
President, Maximal Software
President, Applied Quantitative Sciences, Inc.
Michael Kubica is Founder and President of Applied Quantitative Sciences, Inc. He has over 17 years experience in the healthcare industry, and has been providing quantitative sciences consultancy since 1999. Kubica has extensive experience in providing quantitative decision support solutions for leading pharmaceutical, medical device/diagnostics, and biotechnology companies, addressing a wide range of business issues. Prior to establishing AWC, Kubica held the position of Vice President, Operations for Magellan Health Services. He has also held positions of Director of Quality Management, Regional Director of Business Operations & Finance, and Hospital Administrator. Throughout his career, Kubica has employed sophisticated quantitative methods to forecast performance, streamline operations and improve quality. He has an MBA and Master’s of Science in psychology. He serves as Adjunct Professor of Research Design and Statistical Analysis at St. Thomas University in Miami, Florida.
Senior Principal, Innovative Decisions, Inc.
Kenneth Kuskey's graduate training was at Stanford University in the Department of Engineering-Economic Systems (now Management Science and Engineering). Presently employed by Innovative Decisions, Inc., he previously worked at the MITRE Corporation (8 years), and at Decisions and Designs, Inc. (17 years). He has practiced decision analysis since 1976, working with 100 or more organizations, chiefly in the U.S. government. Most projects have involved the design and facilitation of organizational processes and/or workshops for strategic planning, budgeting, system design, source selection, and performance measurement. Other work has included decision modeling and decision software design. Experience highlights: Has facilitated resource allocation for the U.S. Marine Corps' Program Objective Memorandum since 1978; facilitated the Clinton Administration's Defense Science and Technology Strategy; facilitated the organizing meeting of the Partnership for Public Warning in 2002. His specialty is optimum allocation of resources in enterprise and program budgeting.
Engagement Leader, Decision Strategies, Inc.
Patrick Leach is an Engagement Leader with Decision Strategies, Inc., a leading management consulting firm with offices in the U.S. and Canada. He has also been an independent consultant, and worked for Texaco as a geophysicist, partner & government coordinator, and portfolio manager. Leach has 28 years of experience in the energy industry, ranging from Sumatra to Aberdeen. He is the author of Why Can't You Just Give Me the Number? - An executive's guide to using probabilistic thinking to manage risk and to make better decisions, which was published in September 2006. He has a B.S. degree from the University of Rochester and an MBA from the University of Houston Executive Program.
Research Staff Member, IBM Almaden Research Center
Toby Lehman is a Services Scientist, working in the Almaden Services Research group at the IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose California. He joined Almaden Research in 1986 after receiving his Ph.D. in Memory-Resident Database systems from the University of Wisconsin. In his 22 years with IBM Research, Lehman has created several novel technologies in the areas of database systems, client/server environments, distributed systems and grid computing. Most recently, he has been developing a new environment for managing the complex requirements of strategic outsourcing engagements.
Vice President of Professional Services, Vanguard Software Corporation
Brian Lewis is the Vice President of Professional Services at Vanguard Software, a leading vendor of enterprise planning and analysis solutions. In this position, he is responsible for all aspects of Vanguard’s consulting, custom solution development, technical support, and training services. Lewis has been published in both trade and academic journals on topics ranging from quantitative modeling to seaport security, and has been a presenter at numerous conferences and meetings for corporations, government, and trade organizations. Prior to Vanguard, he worked for UPS, Providian Financial, and Ford Motor Company. He received a Ph.D. from the Georgia Institute of Technology, a M.S. from the University of Michigan, and a B.S. from the University of California, Berkeley, all in the fields of operations research.
President and CEO, Schneider National, Inc.
Christopher Lofgren is President and CEO of Schneider National, Inc., a provider of transportation and logistics solutions and the largest truckload carrier in North America. Lofgren joined Schneider in 1994 as a Vice President and has served as Chief Information Officer and Chief Operating Officer. Before joining Schneider, he held positions at Symantec, Motorola and CAPS Logistics. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the School of Industrial and Systems Engineering at Georgia Tech, and the Board of Directors of the American Trucking Association. Lofgren holds BS and MS degrees in industrial and management engineering from Montana State, and a PhD in industrial and systems engineering from Georgia Tech.
Patterson Distinguished Chair of Transportation,
Northwestern University
Hani Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, with joint appointments in the McCormick School of Engineering and the Kellogg School of Management. He was previously the Charles Irish Sr. Chaired Professor and Director of the Maryland Transportation Initiative at the University of Maryland, after 20 years on the faculty at the University of Texas at Austin. He received his PhD from MIT and MS from Purdue. Mahmassani specializes in multimodal transportation systems analysis, planning and operations, dynamic network modeling and optimization, intelligent transportation systems, system vulnerability and security applications, and freight systems analysis. He has served as Principal Investigator on over 110 research projects funded by national and international agencies, and published over 250 articles in journals and conference proceedings. Mahmassani is Editor-in-Chief of Transportation Science, and Associate Editor of Transportation Research C (Emerging Technologies), and the IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems. He is a past president of the Transportation Science Section of INFORMS, and serves on several NAS and NRC committees and panels. He serves as evaluator and advisor to various university research and academic entities, national research institutes, government research programs, and corporate R&D units; he is a consultant to several companies and government agencies.
Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics,
Texas A&M University
Bruce McCarl is a Regents Professor of Agricultural Economics at Texas A&M University, a Fellow of the American Agricultural Economics Association, and is part of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change that was a co-recipient of the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize. McCarl has been on the Texas A&M faculty since 1985 and previously held positions at Oregon State and Purdue. His PhD was in Management Science from the Pennsylvania State University. He works on the economic implications of global climate change and greenhouse gas emission reduction including aspects related to biofuels, as well as environmental, forestry and agricultural policy design. During the last few years he developed the economic parts of the U.S. Global Climate Research Program National assessments for both forestry and agriculture, worked on agricultural and forestry multi-strategy assessment of climate change mitigation potential in conjunction with the US Kyoto Protocol negotiating team, and served as a member of the IPCC Agricultural Mitigation chapter writing team while assisting the forestry team. He also works on mathematical programming and risk modeling methodology. McCarl is the author of 186 journal articles and more than 400 other professional papers and presentations. He has been involved with over $30 million in sponsored research.
Director, Strategic Planning & Modeling (SpaM), Hewlett-Packard Company
Thomas Olavson is Director of the Strategic Planning and Modeling (SPaM) group at Hewlett-Packard. SPaM is an analytics group that works across all HP businesses through consulting engagements to drive innovation and data-driven decisions in HP operations. For over 15 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 as Strategic Decision Group.
PhD Candidate, H. Milton Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering, Georgia Institute of Technology
Evren Ozkaya graduated summa cum laude with B.S. in Industrial Engineering from Bilkent University, Ankara, Turkey in 2004. In 2005 he received his M.S. in Industrial Engineering from Georgia Tech, where he is now a Ph.D. candidate in Industrial Engineering with a minor in Management of Technology. Ozkaya worked for companies like Intel Corporation, Schneider Logistics, Case New Holland, Coca-Cola and Aselsan Electronics in areas such as Demand Management and Forecasting, Supply Chain Modeling, Logistics Pricing, Manufacturing, Sales and IT. He served as the President of Operational Research Club at Bilkent University, is the current President of Turkish Student Organization and was the former Vice President of Management Consulting Club at Georgia Tech. Ozkaya’s research interests include Demand Management, Supply Chain Information Systems and Logistics. After completing his Ph.D., he will be joining McKinsey and Company’s Atlanta Office as an Associate Consultant in Operations Practice.
Vice President, Management Science, Merrill Lynch & Co.
Yanni Papadakis is currently Vice President in the Management Science Group of Merrill Lynch where his duties include researching, developing, and managing models for strategic analysis and business intelligence. He has practiced and taught Management Science, Statistics, and Managerial Economics for more than 15 years. Papadakis has applied Management Science methods in various domains in addition to financial services, including supply chain risk management, transferring military technology to commercial applications, energy economics, and container logistics. He has taught at the University of British Columbia and Drexel. He received his PhD from the University of Pennsylvania.
Consulting Economist, Decision Analysis, CH2M Hill
Daniel Pitzler is CH2M Hill’s practice lead for decision analysis in the Northwest Region of the United States. In this role, he leads a small group of analysts in advancing the firm’s decision analysis practice. He develops and facilitates structured decision processes, and applies decision tools to complex infrastructure development projects. Much of his work is with local and regional governments and utilities in a wide range of fields including water, wastewater, stormwater, solid waste, transportation, and power.
Vice President, Methodology, ILOG, Inc.
Jean Pommier is VP of Methodology for ILOG. He joined ILOG upon its creation in 1987, in R&D (rule-based systems), moving into consulting, and then management in 1991. From 2003 to 2006 he led Worldwide Professional Services, the fastest growing source of revenue. Prior to that, he was heading worldwide consulting and US sales operations for ILOG's largest division (financial services, transportation and government). Pommier has led several important initiatives at ILOG, including the company's technical account management, customer education and corporate quality programs. He established ILOG's services organization, creating new practice areas for business rule management systems and resource optimization. Overall, he has contributed to more than 400 successful customer implementations. Prior to ILOG, Pommier was a database administrator for the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN), where he helped build and maintain one of the largest Oracle installations in Europe. He earned an engineering degree at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Arts et Métiers, and a master's degree in computer science at University of Nice.
Senior Partner, Kromite, Inc.
Homie Razavi has over fifteen years of experience in the industry with a decade of experience in decision analysis, project and portfolio evaluation/assessment. Prior to founding Kromite, he was in charge of the Portfolio Management and Valuation group at Pharmacia with responsibility for analyzing individual pipeline projects as well as the portfolio management processes. His team worked on over 80 projects, with an R&D spending of $2 billion annually, in a number of therapeutic areas: inflammation/ arthritis, oncology, ophthalmology, urology, CNS and anti-infective. At Searle Pharmaceuticals, he helped establish and led the portfolio management activities in the Discovery organization with 30 projects worth over $30 billion. In addition, he was responsible for helping oncology and cardiovascular teams evaluate decisions and assess risk of different strategies. During his tenure at Kromite, he has helped a broad spectrum of pharmaceutical companies with their portfolio processes, project assessments and the improvement of the quality and speed of their decision making. Razavi has a broad management background, with experience in business and commercial development as well as R&D. He holds a Ph.D. in Chemistry from the University of Colorado and an MBA from Washington University.
Instructor in Supply Chain & Information Systems,
The Pennsylvania State University, Smeal College of Business
Chief Executive Officer, Intechné
Sanjay Saigal currently runs Intechné, a consultancy he founded in 2007. Before that, in an eight-year tenure at ILOG Inc., he oversaw new technology development for supply chain management, ran ILOG's very profitable telesales division, and successfully led a number of optimization projects. Previously, Saigal led the technology function for the software start-up Compass Modeling Solutions, acquired by ILOG in 1998. Before Compass, he was a staff consultant at Decision Focus Inc., a Silicon Valley OR consulting firm. In his 16 years in "real world" OR, Saigal has sampled all aspects of OR practice: research and development, sales and marketing, and delivery.
Vice President, New Product Development, Pitney BowesRungson Samroengraja is Vice President of New Product Development, Global Mailstream Engineering for Pitney Bowes, the world's leading provider of integrated mail and document management systems, services and solutions. He is responsible for managing the company’s core development portfolio responsible for delivering over $3 billion in annual revenue. Prior to his product development role, he managed the company’s Business Process Engineering group responsible for reengineering end-to-end processes and supporting IT implementations of SAP and Seibel. Prior to joining Pitney Bowes, Samroengraja was a management consultant with Booz | Allen | Hamilton specializing in operations consulting for media and telecom clients. He received his doctorate in Operations Research and a BS in Industrial Engineering from Columbia University. He has been an Adjunct Professor of Operations at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Business and New York University’s Stern School of Business.
President, InfoLogix, and Principal Decision Scientist, Serco
Douglas A. Samuelson is a Principal Decision Scientist for Serco, an information technology and management consulting company headquartered in London, England, with a North American subsidiary headquartered in Vienna, Virginia. He is also President of InfoLogix, Inc., a research and development company in Annandale, Virginia. He has also been a Federal policy analyst, inventor, high-tech entrepreneur and executive, and university faculty member. Samuelson is perhaps best known for his popular and long-running “The ORacle” column in OR/MS Today. He has a D.Sc. in operations research from George Washington University.
Consulting Professor of Management Science & Engineering, Stanford University, and Senior Associate, Cambridge University Judge Business School
Sam Savage is a Consulting Professor of Management Science and Engineering at Stanford University and a Senior Associate of the Cambridge University Judge Business School. His primary focus is on enterprise wide visualization, communication and management of risk. He 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. He also consults and lectures extensively to business and government agencies and has served as an expert witness. Savage has pioneered interactive portfolio modeling with Bessemer Trust in New York and Shell Exploration and Development in the Hague. He is the founder and president of AnalyCorp Inc., a firm that develops executive education programs and software for improving business analysis. .
Professor of Operations Research and Management Emeritus,
Sloan School of Management, MIT
Jeremy Shapiro is Professor of Operations Research and Management Emeritus in the Sloan School of Management at MIT. For nine years he served as Co-Director of MIT’s Operations Research Center. He took early retirement from MIT in 2001 but continues to teach short courses there in supply chain management and related topics. He is currently President of J. F. Shapiro Associates, a firm specializing in the development and application of analytics to business decision-making. Shapiro Associates was responsible for the implementation and initial applications of SLIM, a general purpose supply chain network optimization system. Shapiro is also President of Slim Technologies, which was formed in 2000 to promote wider application of SLIM to supply chain network design and tactical planning. SLIM was acquired in 2007 by Optiant, another Boston-based firm offering software for inventory optimization. .
Professor and Chair, Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department, George Mason University
Ariela Sofer is Professor and Chair of the Systems Engineering and Operations Research Department at George Mason. She is also affiliated with the Simulation Group at the ISIS Center, Department of Radiology, at Georgetown University Medical Center. Her major areas of interest are nonlinear programming, numerical optimization, and optimization in medical applications. She is coauthor (with Stephen Nash) of the book Linear and Nonlinear Programming, (McGraw Hill 1996, to be republished), and coeditor (with Eva Lee) on the Annals of Operations Research series of volumes on "Operations Research in Medicine" established in 2000. Her research has been funded by the National Science Foundation and the Air Force Office of Scientific Research, among others. Sofer is President of the Association of Chairs of Operations Research Departments (ACORD). She is Past Chair of the INFORMS Computing Society and has served as Secretary/ Treasurer of the SIAM Special Interest Group on Optimization SIAG/OPT..
Supply Chain R&D Manager, Personal Beauty Care, Procter & Gamble
William Tarlton has been a member of Procter & Gamble’s product supply team for more than 29 years. He is currently in P&G’s Beauty Care business unit, serving as Supply Chain R&D Manager, where he is responsible for identifying and implementing leading edge strategies and solutions across P&G Beauty’s end-to-end consumer-driven supply network – from suppliers through retailers. Prior to his current position, Tarlton has held various logistics and manufacturing positions in many of the individual Health and Beauty businesses. He is recognized throughout P&G as a thought-leader in supply chain management. .
Senior Decision Analyst, Northrop Grumman Information Technology-TASC
John Tindle earned a Bachelor of Science degree with focus on Operations Analysis from the U.S. Naval Academy and was awarded a Master of Science in Operations Research from U.S. Naval Postgraduate School. He completed 22 years of Naval service where he served in various squadron, ship and staff billets. His qualifications included A-6 Bombardier/Navigator, airwing strike leader, proven Operations Analyst Specialist (Plans and Policy), and Weapons Systems Acquisition Manager. For the last 14 years, he has conducted applied decision analysis for the intelligence community, Air Force Space Command and Air Force Research Laboratory. Currently, he is the senior decision analyst at Northrop Grumman Information Technology/TASC in Colorado Springs. He is a co-chair for the decision analysis working group at MORS, is a two-time semi-finalist for the INFORMS Edelman Award and 2007 finalist for MORS Rist Prize..
Assistant Professor of Operations, Technology and Innovation Management,
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Kenan-Flagler Business School
Brian Tomlin is the Benjamin Cone Research Fellow in Business and an Assistant Professor in the University of North Carolina’s Kenan-Flagler Business School. Before joining UNC, Tomlin held several professional roles. He was director of research at Optiant, a supply-chain software company. Before that, he worked as a consultant for the Boston Consulting Group. He also spent a number of years with General Electric. The focus of his research is the design of robust supply chains, i.e., supply chains that can absorb significant supply and demand disturbances. Much of his work focuses on supply risks. His work on risk management has been published in practitioner outlets, such as The Financial Times and Supply Chain Management Review, and in research journals such as Management Science and Manufacturing and Service Operations Management. He received his PhD from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and his bachelor's degree from University College Dublin in Ireland..
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.
Manager, Operations Research, Land O’Lakes, Inc.
Jim Williams has over 25 years experience at Land O'Lakes, Inc., a food and agricultural cooperative, as an Operations Research consultant and supply chain manager. Project implementations span companywide business units, with strategic and tactical cost-savings in procurement, manufacturing, logistics, sales and marketing. Williams led the implementation of Sales and Operations Planning (S&OP) as an effective process to connect functional leaders along a consistent forward operating plan. He received an MS degree from the University of Minnesota.
Research Manager, IBM Research
Ruoyi Zhou manages Innovation Services group at IBM Almaden Research Center. Her responsibilities include building unique and scalable service capabilities to impact IBM’s services business through research innovation, expertise and collaboration. Zhou holds 5 patents and has published 23 papers. She received her Ph.D. in Materials Science from Rutgers University, and a Masters Certificate in Project Management from George Washington University.
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Dennis Arnow, MBA
Blair Binney
Lt. Colonel Robert D. Bradford, MS
Dennis Buede, PhD
Scott B. Cantor, PhD
William T. Cartwright, BA
Shantayanan Devarajan, PhD
Özlem Egun, PhD
Markus Ettl, PhD
Daniel H. Fylstra, MBA
Vijay Hanagandi, PhD
Terry P. Harrison, PhD
Mark J. Hayward, MS
Tucker D. Hughes, MA 
Don N. Kleinmuntz, PHD
Dmitry Krass, PhD
Kenneth P. Kuskey, PhD
Tobin J. Lehman, PhD
Brian Lewis, PhD
Christopher Lofgren, PhD
Bruce A. McCarl, PhD
Evren Ozkaya, MS
Daniel R. Pitzler
Jean Pommier, MS
Thomas Robbins
Rungson Samroengraja, PhD
Douglas A. Samuelson, DSc
Sam L. Savage, PhD
Jeremy F. Shapiro, PhD
Brian Tomlin, PhD
