About the Author

Dr. John Charnes is currently President of the Risk Analytics and Predictive Intelligence Division (RAPID) of Syntelli Solutions, Inc. From 2007 to 2011, he was Senior Vice President in the Enterprise Credit Risk organization at Bank of America in Charlotte, North Carolina, USA.

He also served as professor and Scupin Faculty Fellow in the finance, economics, and decision sciences area at the University of Kansas School of Business, where he received both teaching and research awards, and was department chair from 2001 to 2004. Professor Charnes has taught courses in risk analysis, computer simulation, statistics, operations, quality management, and finance in the business schools of the University of Miami (Florida), University of Washington (Seattle), University of Minnesota (Minneapolis), and Hamline University (St. Paul).

He has published papers on financial risk analysis, statistics, and other topics in Financial Analysts Journal, The American Statistician, Management Science, Decision Sciences, Computers and Operation Research, Journal of the Operational Research Society, Journal of Business Logistics, and Proceedings of the Winter Simulation Conference. Dr. Charnes has engaged in research, consulting, and executive education for more than 100 corporations and other organizations in the United States and Canada.

John holds PhD, MBA, and bachelor of civil engineering degrees from the University of Minnesota. Before earning his doctorate, he worked as a surveyor, ...

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