Advisors
CombineNet Advisors
CombineNet's Advisory Board is a who's who list of operations research and computer
science academics and former Fortune 100 senior operations and supply chain executives.
Their combined expertise and drive for innovation is instrumental in the development
of CombineNet's product strategy and direction.
Business Advisors
Dr. John J. Coyle
Professor Emeritus of Supply Chain Management and Director of Corporate Relations
for the Center for Supply Chain Research, Smeal College of Business, Penn State
University
Larry C. Giunipero, Ph.D., C.P.M.
I.S.M. Professor of Purchasing/Supply Chain Management, Florida State University
Former Purchasing Supervisor at Westinghouse Electric Corporation
Margaret McGrath
Former Vice President of Purchasing and Distribution, PPG
Steve C. Rogers
Senior Consultant, The Warren Company & The Cincinnati Consulting Consortium
Adjunct Professor and Member of the Board of Advisors to the Management Department
of the Williams School of Business, Xavier University in Cincinnati, OH
Former Director of Worldwide Purchases Mastery, The Procter and Gamble Company
Gregory Rosston, Ph.D.
Deputy Director, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research
Visiting Lecturer in Economics, Stanford University
Former Deputy Chief Economist, Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
Carol A. Rubeo
President, MSE Enterprises
Former Director of Purchases Innovation, The Procter and Gamble Company
Ram Shriram
Founder and Managing Partner, Sherpalo Ventures
Founding board member of Google Inc.
Former Vice President of Business Development, Amazon.com
Dr. Thomas Speh
James Evans Reese Distinguished Professor of Distribution
Associate Dean for Academic Affairs
Richard T. Farmer School of Business
Miami University of Ohio
Technical Advisors
Dr. Egon Balas
University Professor of Industrial Administration and Applied Mathematics, The Thomas
Lord Professor of Operations Research, The Tepper School of Business, Carnegie Mellon
University
Dr. Balas is a world renowned authority on Operations Research and is a member of
the National Academy of Engineering. He was awarded the degree of Doctor of Mathematics
honoris causa by the University of Waterloo in 2005, the EURO Gold Medal in 2001,
the John von Neumann Theory Prize of the Institute for Operations Research and the
Management Sciences in 1995, and the Senior U.S. Scientist Award of the von Humboldt
Foundation in 1980-1981.
Dr. Craig Boutilier
Professor and Chair, Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto
Dr. Boutilier is a renowned authority on decision making under uncertainty (including
computational methods, reinforcement learning, and preference elicitation). He has
served as Associate Editor with the Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
and the Journal of Machine Learning Research. He is a Fellow of the American Association
of Artificial Intelligence.
Dr. George Nemhauser
A. Russell Chandler III Chair and Professor, School of Industrial and Systems Engineering,
Georgia Institute of Technology
Dr. Nemhauser has served the Operations Research Society of America (ORSA) as council
member, president, and editor of Operations Research, and he is past chair of the
Mathematical Programming Society. He is the founding editor of Operations Research
Letters, and co-editor of Handbooks of Operations Research and Management Science.
His honors and awards include membership in the National Academy of Engineering,
the Kimball Medal, the Lanchester Prize (twice awarded), and Morse lecturer of ORSA.
Dr. David Parkes
Gordon McKay Professor of Computer Science, Harvard University
Dr. Parkes is a renowned authority on game theory, including auction mechanism design.
Dr. Rakesh Vohra
John L. and Helen Kellogg Professor of Managerial Economics and Decision Sciences,
Kellogg School of Management, Northwestern University
Dr. Vohra is a world renowned authority on decision sciences.