UC Business Analytics director named INFORMS fellow

Glenn Wegryn, executive director for the Center for Business Analytics at the University of Cincinnati’s Carl H. Lindner College of business, has been named a fellow for The Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), the largest international association of operations research and analytics professionals and students.

Established in 2002, the INFORMS fellowship program acknowledges operations research and management science professionals with outstanding lifetime achievements. In addition to being a long-time member of INFORMS, fellowship candidates are evaluated across five categories:

1. Education: Activities that have helped grow OR/MS instruction.
2. Service: Significant and sustained contributions that have advanced the stature or recognition of the OR/MS profession.
3. Management: significant responsibility for the development and application of OR/MS techniques and knowledge within an organization over an extended period of time.
4. Research: theoretical, empirical, or computational innovations in OR/MS.
5. Practice: substantial application of OR/MS to significant practical problems.

Wegryn’s diverse professional experiences made him an exceptionally strong candidate for the 2020 class of fellows.

“INFORMS has recently been recognizing those who have contributed to the profession through their industry experience more and more, and I believe that weighed on my nomination,” said Wegryn, who is an INFORMS Certified Analytics Professional, a past president of the INFORMS Analytics Section and a 10-year veteran of the INFORMS Business Roundtable. “I look forward to this new chapter in my involvement with INFORMS where I can contribute to the organization that is such a great partner to the Center and help advance the profession.”

Wegryn’s fellowship continues a rich legacy of Lindner-affiliated INFORMS fellows:

• Former Operations, Business Analytics, and Information Systems (OBAIS) Professor Jeff Camm, PhD (2017).
• OBAIS Professor Emeritus David Kelton, PhD (2007).
• OBAIS Professor Emeritus and Ohio Eminent Scholar Michael Magazine, PhD (2005).

Camm, along with the Business Analytics Center Academic Director and OBAIS Professor Mike Fry, PhD, was instrumental in putting together the nomination bid in spring 2020.

“I have known and worked with Glenn for over 25 years,” said Camm, who served as the Joseph S. Stern Professor of Business Analytics at Lindner from 1984 to 2015 before his current role as associate dean of business analytics and Inmar President Chair of business analytics at Wake Forest University School of Business. “Strong ties between industry and academia are critical to the analytics profession, and Glenn has made impressive contributions to this from both sides.”

Before joining the Lindner Center for Business Analytics as executive director in 2015, Wegryn spent more than 28 years at Procter & Gamble, notably creating and leading P&G’s award-winning Supply Chain Analytics group. The group’s work was recognized by INFORMS as a finalist for the Franz Edelman Award in 1996—coincidentally when Wegryn first connected with Camm and other OBAIS professors and leaders from Lindner to collaborate on future projects.