Rina Schneur

For over 20 years Rina has led and participated in top advanced analytics organization. Combining Operations Research scientific methods with her strong modeling and management skills. Most recently Rina served as Director of Business Analytics at Verizon, Managing a group of Ph.D.s Advanced Analytics professionals who developed solutions, methodologies, models and tools across Verizon, resulted in bottom-line impact of Millions of dollars per year, as well as qualitative impact on areas such as network reliability and customer satisfaction.

While serving as the President of Informs – the largest organization for Advanced analytics professionals in the world with about 11,000 members from academia, industry and government – Rina has guided the organization through a major transition into an Advanced Analytics leader, and its board to become more strategic oriented.

Earlier in her career Rina managed an Operations Research group at Emptoris, Sabre, focusing on developing algorithms for planning and operational software products.

Rina Received her BSc from the Technion, Israel, and her MSc and Ph.D. from MIT. She published articles in few journals such as Interfaces and Operations Research, and has granted a number of patents on Auctions and Telecommunication.

Rina’s received various honor/awards throughout her career, including: Winner of Informs Kimball Medal award. Winner of 2004 Edelman award of Informs with Emptoris and Motorola for best industry application of Operations Research/Advanced Analytics with focus on impact to business; Finalist of 1991 Dissertation Prize from Transportation Science SIG of ORSA; Verizon Excellence Award, Dispatch Algorithms, 2005 and Energy Board, 2002.