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Hans Levenbach, PhD 
is founder and President of Delphus, Inc., which provides demand forecasting and 
replenishment planning software solutions for supply chain applications and 
hospital management organizations. He has extensive experience consulting, 
training and developing forecasting software applications across multiple 
industries in the USA and abroad.  Prior to founding Delphus, he was a forecast 
practitioner and Division Manager at AT&T and research statistician at AT&T Bell 
Labs. For a couple of decades, Hans has taught forecasting and business 
statistics courses at Columbia University and New York University. He is the 
co-author with Jim Cleary of a new book Forecasting – Process and Practice for 
Demand Management, published by Duxbury Press in June 2005.   
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 Jim Cleary, MBA 
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.   
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