Ram Pandit

Ram Pandit, Ph.D. is the founder and owner of Applied Decision Technologies, Inc. based in the USA and Optimization Software Technology, LLC based in India. Ram holds a Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He has 20+ years of experience in Healthcare, Manufacturing, Logistics and Transportation areas. In his career, he has held leadership positions with the Fortune 500 companies such as Fort-James, Georgia-Pacific, CNF, Con-Way, Menlo Logistics, and Emery Worldwide. Prior to his corporate positions, he has held academic positions at several leading research and teaching universities such as Iowa State University, Georgia Tech and Georgia State University. Ram has been actively providing management consulting and software application design and development services to leading corporations, such as Graphic Packaging International, NCR, Tosca, WinCup, Georgia-Pacific to name a few. He has published several technical papers in leading refereed journals and holds two patents on Transportation Management Systems.