FRIDAY DINNER

FEATURED SPEAKER

Thomas Cook
Chairman and CEO
CALEB Technologies Corp.
9130 Jollyville Road, Suite 100
Austin, TX 78759
(512) 617-2128
tom.cook@calebtech.com

Thomas Cook is the Chairman and CEO of CALEB Technologies Corporation, which specializes in OR based software. Prior to CALEB, he was the founder and former President of Sabre Technology Solutions, a billion-dollar information technology services business specializing in the transportation industry. Dr. Cook served as a Senior Counselor for McKinsey & Company in the travel and transportation practice and as a consultant for Arthur Young and Company.

Dr. Cook is the President of the Institute of Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), past-president of The Institute of Management Sciences, and past-president of the Airline Group of the International Federation of Operations Research Societies (AGIFORS). He is also associate editor of Operations Research, Transportation Science, and Interfaces. Dr. Cook was inducted into the National Academy of Engineering in 1995 and cited for his "leadership in advancing operations research and decision-support technologies within the transportation industry."

Dr. Cook holds a doctorate in operations research from The University of Texas at Austin, an MBA from Southern Methodist University, and a BA in mathematics from Grinnell College. He has co-authored two books, published numerous papers in scholarly journals, and lectured at many universities.