Board of DirectorsDr. Jay April
is Chief Development Officer of OptTek Systems, Inc. He holds
bachelors degrees in philosophy and aeronautical engineering,
an MBA, and a PhD. in Business Administration (emphasis in operations
research and economics). Dr. April has held several executive
positions including VP of Business Development and CIO of PerkinElmer/EG&G
subsidiaries, and Director of Business Development at Unisys Corporation.
He also held the position of Professor at Colorado State University,
heading the Laboratory of Information Sciences in Agriculture.
Dr. Fred Glover is Chief Technology Officer
(CTO) of OptTek Systems, Inc., and is in charge of algorithmic design
and strategic planning initiatives. He currently serves as Comcast
Chaired Professor in Systems Science at the University of Colorado
and is also a Distinguished Researcher and co-founder of the Hearin
Center for Enterprise Science at the University of Mississippi.
He has authored or coauthored more than three hundred published
articles and seven books in the fields of mathematical optimization,
computer science and artificial intelligence, with particular emphasis
on practical applications in industry and government.
Dr. Glover is the recipient of the distinguished Von Neumann
Theory Prize, an elected member of the National Academy of Engineering,
and has received numerous other awards and honorary fellowships,
including those from the American Association for the Advancement
of Science, the NATO Division of Scientific Affairs, the Institute
of Management Science, the Operations Research Society, the Decision
Sciences Institute, the U.S. Defense Communications Agency, the
Energy Research Institute, the American Assembly of Collegiate
Schools of Business, Alpha Iota Delta, and the Miller Institute
for Basic Research in Science. He has consulted widely in business
and industry, and was also a cofounder of Analyses, Research and
Computation Corporation (now merged within Computer Science Corporation)
and Heuristic Corporation (now merged within Tomax Corporation). Dr. James P. Kelly is CEO of OptTek Systems,
Inc. and is responsible for all aspects of the business. He holds
bachelors and masters degrees in engineering and a Ph.D. in mathematics.
Dr. Kelly has authored or coauthored numerous published articles
and books in the fields of optimization, computer science and artificial
intelligence. His interests focus on the use of state-of-the-art
optimization techniques for providing competitive advantages in
engineering and business. Dr. Kelly also has served on the Boards
of Directors of several high tech companies.
Dr. Manuel Laguna is V.P. of Research of
OptTek Systems, Inc. He is also an Associate Professor of Operations
Management in the College of Business of the University of Colorado
at Boulder. He received masters and doctoral degrees in Operations
Research and Industrial Engineering from the University of Texas
at Austin. He has done extensive research in the interface between
computer science, artificial intelligence and operations research
to develop solution methods for problems in areas such as production
planning and scheduling, routing and network design in telecommunications,
combinatorial optimization on graphs, and optimization of simulations.
Dr. Laguna has more than fifty publications, including two books.
He is a principal editor of the Journal of Heuristics, is on the
editorial board of Combinatorial Optimization: Theory and Practice
and has been guest editor for the Annals of Operations Research.
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