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Hans
Levenbach, PhD
- Program
Director. Hans is founder and President
of Delphus, Inc., which provides the PEER Planner
demand forecasting and replenishment planning
software solution for supply chain companies as
well as hospital management organizations.  Hans
began his career at AT&T Bell Laboratories as
an applied statistician specializing in predictive
analytics, forecaster training and developing
decision support systems. After the breakup of the
Bell System he founded Delphus, Inc.
(www.delphus.com). He has taught statistics and
forecasting courses at Columbia University as well
as MBA Statistics at New York University. He and
his wife Suzanne enjoy traveling and attend the
annual International Symposium on Forecasting,
where he gained much of the background for the
most recent book. He is an elected Fellow, Past
President, Treasurer of the International
Institute of Forecasters (IIF), and serves on the
editorial board of FORESIGHT, the practitioner
journal published by the IIF. He is also a
member of APICS, INFORMS, American Statistical
Association and elected member of the
International Statistics
Institute.
In
collaboration with the International Institute of
Forecasters, Hans has been instrumental in
designing and constructing "Certified Professional
in Demand Forecasting" (CPDF®)
curriculum for the professional certification of
demand forecasters globally. He is a co-author
(with Jim Cleary) of "Forecasting: Practice and
Process for Demand Management."
To reach Hans by email,
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Jim Cleary,
MBA - Curriculum
Development Director. Jim brings extensive
experience as a forecasting practitioner, manager
and trainer. He has provided expert assistance
to
businesses in the areas of supply chain planning
and management, business planning, sales and
operational planning, and business development. In
these areas, he has focused on improved business
results through improved forecasting processes,
forecaster training, market and product/service
analysis, market research and demand
forecasting.
Mr.
Cleary held a number of leadership positions in
marketing and finance at AT&T, Lucent
Technologies, Avaya and New York Telephone
Company. He led a forecast improvement team that
improved the accuracy of the customer team demand
forecasts. He was the Director-Market Research
& Analysis in the Business Communications
Services unit. Jim co-authored five
forecasting textbooks with Hans Levenbach that
were adopted by Columbia University, Berkeley,
Princeton, the University of Chicago and others.
The latest edition appeared in 2005 under a new
title Forecasting – Process and Practice for
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Leon Schwartz,
PhD has over thirty years
experience in management consulting, marketing,
information technology, product development and
applied research.  Leon led the corporate management
science consulting group at Pitney Bowes, Inc. and
provided analytical database marketing technology
services to Pitney Bowes customers. He
directed programs in demand forecasting, customer
retention, customer segmentation, and targeted
marketing; and was responsible for market
research, and customer data warehousing. He
operated data centers and created decision support
systems and strategic information systems. Leon
has been leading advocate of the “Customer First!”
approach, speaking at conferences and forums and
publishing in industry media.
In 2001, Dr. Schwartz
left the corporate world and formed his own
company. As Principal at IDG, Leon delivers
his “Statistics for Decision Making” seminar, with
a focus on forecasting in practice. He was
Visiting Professor at Fordham University Business
School, and is presently Adjunct Professor at
Touro College, teaching forecasting in the MBA
program. Dr. Schwartz is currently
researching issues surrounding data quality; and
continues to be very active in the Institute for
Operations Research and the Management
Sciences.
To
reach Leon's website, go to www.informeddecisionsgroup.com
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Roy Pearson, PhD
is Chancellor
Professor Emeritus at the Mason School of
Business, College of William and Mary, where he
has taught in the MBA program since 1971. 
He served as Director of the College’s Bureau of
Business Research from 1984 to 1998, publishing
the Virginia Outlook three times annually with his
short- and long-term forecasts for Virginia and
its six largest metropolitan areas. From
1998 through 2005, he periodically taught
week-long introductory and advanced forecasting
workshops for state employment agency forecasters
from across the nation under America’s Labor
Market Information System (ALMIS) as state
employment agencies began doing short-term
employment forecasts for their states as required
by the 1998 Workforce Investment Act.
His
research has focused on forecasting applications
and how to achieve credibility with forecast
users. Roy has given numerous outlook
presentations to professional and business
conferences, government agency meetings, trade
associations, and civic groups. A current
specialty is using the internet effectively for
business intelligence and forecasting, presented
in workshops for corporations, in academic
seminars, and at forecasting conferences. He is an
active member and has been on the Board of
Directors of the International Institute of
Forecasters, and serves on the editorial board of
FORESIGHT, the practitioner journal published by
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Robert Wayne Samohyl, PhD
is from
Houston, Texas, but has lived and worked in Brazil
permanently since 1978. Presently full professor
and Vice Chairman of the Industrial Engineering
 Department (EPS) at the Federal
University of Santa Catarina (UFSC), considered
among the best in Latin America, with 26 Ph.D.
faculty, undergraduate and doctoral programs, and
several state-of-the-art studios (sound and stage)
for distance teaching via satellite and Internet.
Robert has consulted widely and was special
consultant to the Governor of the State of Mato
Grosso do Sul, for the States of Santa Catarina,
Alagoas, Rio Grande do Sul and Sao Paulo.
Dr.
Samohyl is the Coordinator of the
Normalization and Qualimetrics Study Group.
Visiting
Professorships include the National University of
Brasilia (UNB), University of Illinois at
Champagne-Urbana, and the University of Texas at
Austin. He was a recent Vice President of the
Brazilian Operations Research Society.
He
has been actively participating at the
International Symposium on Forecasting and has
published in the Foresight journal.
To
reach Bob, email him at samohyl@deps.ufsc.br
Lewis (Lew) Coopersmith,
PhD
is an
Associate Professor of Management Sciences at
Rider University where he lectures on statistics,
forecasting, operations management and quality
.JPG) control. He has worked
in the pharmaceutical and medical device
industries since 1969, when he was Chief,
Electronics Product Data Section, Bureau of
Radiological Health, FDA. Subsequently, he
served as Manager, Analytical Marketing Services
at Johnson & Johnson until he helped found
Health Products Research, Inc. (HPR) in
1973. At HPR Lew was responsible for the
design and implementation of market share tracking
audits, some which still serve as authoritative
industry sources for diverse markets such as
contact lenses, orthopedic implants, intraocular
implants of eyeglasses.
Lew
received his Ph.D. in Operations Research from New
York University. He is a member of INFORMS,
the American Statistical Association and the
International Institute of Forecasting. He
has presented numerous papers at professional
society meetings and has academic publications in
Decision Science,
Management Science,
Journal of Forecasting,
Journal of Marketing Education and the Journal
of Investing.
To
reach Lew directly, email him coopersmith@rider.edu
Amy
Waters,
BA
is a graduate
of The University of Texas-Austin with over 17
years experience in manufacturing and managerial
operations. 
After 5 years with The Stroh Brewing Company
she worked for Coca-Cola Enterprises for 10 years
(previously The Coca-Cola Bottling Company of New
York) and later as an independent forecasting
consultant with Blommer Chocolate.
While at CCE, Amy was
involved with Quality Control, Distribution and
Logistics, and Sales Forecasting. Amy helped
design, develop and implement an operations sales
forecasting system used for production planning,
distribution and warehouse optimization. Working
closely with Sales and Marketing, this forecasting
system helped drive operating efficiencies, lower
production costs and improve sales margins.
James Alleman,
PhD,
has been
involved in demand forecasting for over 35 years
focusing on the information and communications
technology (ICT) sector. Jim began his
professional career at the National
Telecommunications and  Information Agency
(NTIA), where he developed, inter alia, demand
models of the ICT sector. Upon leaving NTIA
Jim joined GTE (now part of Verizon) where he
developed forecasting and demand models for the
telecommunications industry, as well as price and
cost models for the company. As an economist
for the International Telecommunication Union, he
was involved in forecasting demand and its impact
for underdeveloped countries’ telecommunications
sector. He continued these areas of interest
while he was Director of the International Center
for Telecommunications Management at the
University of Nebraska at Omaha and Professor at
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University of
Colorado
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In
addition to his demand and forecasting work, he
has conducted research in the area of
telecommunications policy, with emphasis on
pricing, costing, and regulation as well as on
international telephony settlements,
communications in the infrastructure and related
areas. More recently, he has been
researching the application of real options
valuation techniques to network industries and the
causes, consequences and remedies of the financial
infirmities of the ICT sector. He provides
litigation support in these areas.
Currently, Jim is
Professor Emeritus of Network Economics &
Finance in the College of Engineering and Applied
Science, University of Colorado – Boulder and is
currently a Senior Fellow and Director of Research
at Columbia Institute of Tele-Information
(CITI), Columbia Business School, Columbia
University. He is a Senior Associate at
Centris (http://www.centris.com/),
a leading marketing and competitive intelligence
company with expertise in media, entertainment,
communications and technology. Centris is
the only United
States national
database that continuously collects household
information on the choice and use of voice, video,
data and electronic products and services.
To
reach Jim directly, send an email to James.Alleman@Colorado.edu
or visit his website: http://www.colorado.edu/engineering/alleman/.
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