Our People
Our team of supply chain professionals has a wealth of experience working directly for Fortune 500 companies across industries and around the globe. We’re here to help you meet and conquer the ever changing challenges your business faces.
Jim Piermarini
Co-Founder and CEO
Jim has extensive experience in the chemical industry, including ten years working in a plant and ten additional years working with businesses to improve manufacturing operations.
Alan Kosansky
Co-Founder and President
Alan has pioneered the application of advanced analytic techniques to transportation procurement, dynamic scheduling, supply chain management and financial optimization.
Mark Rockey
Production Scheduling and Supply Chain Planning Practice Leader
Mark has spent 30+ years applying analytic techniques to solve real world problems in network design; production and distribution planning and scheduling; and capacity analysis and design.
Eric Deahl
Director of Business Development
Eric has over 25 years of experience selling and delivering decisioning technology and advanced analytics solutions.
Karen Bird
Global Supply Chain Practice Leader and Chief Marketing Officer
Karen is a Supply Planning Management Professional with over 30 years of experience in manufacturing in the Specialty Chemicals industry and in Global Supply Chain Implementation management in Specialty Chemicals, Consumer Packaged Goods and the Wine Industries.
Jennifer Captain
Senior Supply Chain Consultant
Jennifer has 20+ years of experience working with customers to deliver supply chain management solutions in production planning and scheduling, and distribution network design.
Chris Gaffney
Senior Advisor for Supply Chain
Chris has over 25 years of experience in supply chain strategy, operations and execution for the Food & Beverage and Consumer Products industries.
Deanna Wenstrup
Practice Leader for Demand Management
Deanna has 28 years of experience in production scheduling and planning, linear program and expert systems design, development, implementation, and interfacing to external databases.
Bruce Shabosky
Global Supply Chain Practice Leader
Bruce has over 30 years of experience in engineering and supply chain in the chemicals industry, implementing and improving supply planning and scheduling processes and systems.
Aviva Kosansky
Senior Supply Chain Analyst
Aviva’s specialty is in Supply Chain Network Design & Analysis. Her areas of expertise include logistics & transportation, technology integration, and business optimization.
John Cutler
Senior Programmer
John has over 12 years of experience building and supporting enterprise technology, including software, hardware and networking. He has developed inventory management systems.
Rina Schumer
Senior Optimization and Analytics Consultant
Rina has 25 years of experience in the formulation and solution of data-driven models and optimization problems. She delivers solutions across engineering, physical science, business, and healthcare industries.
Kim Piotrowski
Senior Scheduling Consultant
Kim has extensive experience driving optimization in chemical manufacturing supply chains. She has a passion for building strong relationships at strategic and tactical levels to drive sustainable change.
Jackie Graver
Senior Scheduling Consultant EMEAI
Jackie Graver has 30 years of hands-on planning and scheduling experience, working in world-class companies across Textiles, Oil & Gas & Chemicals industries.
Nilgün Demir
Supply Chain Practice Leader Europe
Nilgün has end to end supply chain experience working in chemicals, food & packaging, and retail industries. She has extensive supply chain experience with linking planning, procurement, operations, and logistics for an integrated manufacturing solution.
Mark Gracey
Supply Chain Analyst
Mark has 20 years of experience as both an Analyst and Developer of enterprise-wide and tactical solutions to help manage, optimize and improve operations in the Manufacturing Supply Chain.
Steve Cutler
Software Developer
Steve has 15 years of experience building, supporting and maintaining critical enterprise systems, including technologies like SAP, Microsoft Active Directory, IBM Bigfix.
Gabriela de la Torre Rodriguez
Supply Chain Consultant
Gabriela has 10 years of project management and supply chain planning and scheduling experience in the Chemical Industry.
Scott Rollins
Production Scheduling Practice Leader
Scott Rollins has over 25 years of experience with a wide range of supply chain operations with a focus on production scheduling and manufacturing execution.
John Hughes
Production Scheduling Practice Leader
John has led the implementation of production scheduling models at such clients as Rohm and Haas, Hercules Chemicals, Bridgestone Firestone, and Exxon Chemicals.