[Coin-voting-members] COIN-OR Leadership Elections

[Brady Hunsaker]

Dear COIN-OR Foundation Member,

As a full member, you have a vote in the election for the Foundation's
leadership.

Members of the Strategic Leadership Board (the business board of the
COIN-OR Foundation) and Technical Leadership Council (the technical
advisory group to the board) are up for election.

Please fill out the ballot below and send it to secretary at coin-or.org.
Ballots from email addresses on record will be counted. All others will
be contacted.  Ballots must be received by 11:59 PM Eastern Time,
Sunday, November 5, 2006.

For questions about the election process, contact secretary at coin-or.org.

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COIN-OR Ballot

In each category below, you may vote for as many candidates as you like.
Those receiving the most votes will be elected.  Candidate bios appear
at the end of this email.


Strategic Leadership Board

Two (2) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate.  You may vote for as many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Kevin Furman

[  ]  Lou Hafer

[  ]  Bjarni Kristjansson

[  ]  Other: __________________________


Technical Leadership Council, Project Managers

One (1) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate.  You may vote for as many candidates as you like.

[  ]  JP Fasano

[  ]  Other: ___________________________ (must be a project manager)


Technical Leadership Council, General Representatives

One (1) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate.  You may vote for as many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Leo Lopes

[  ]  Other: ____________________________


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Candidate bios
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Kevin Furman:

Kevin Furman is the Optimization and Logistics Program Leader in the 
Corporate Strategic Research department of ExxonMobil Research and 
Engineering Co.  His recent research efforts include marine 
transportation optimization, process planning and scheduling, and mixed 
integer nonlinear programming.  Kevin is an active member of several 
professional societies including INFORMS and AIChE.  He has recently 
been an active as a member of the COIN-OR Logo Working Committee and 
with the COIN-OR banner preparations for the INFORMS 2006 Annual 
Meeting.  Kevin hopes to help promote the use and contribution to 
COIN-OR within industry through his service with the Strategic 
Leadership Board.  He is also interested in assisting in COIN-OR playing 
a role in setting new format standards for optimization, and perhaps 
operations research in general.   Kevin also plans to play a role in the 
proposed COIN-OR documentation project.


Lou Hafer:

Lou Hafer is an Associate Professor in the School of Computing Science 
at Simon Fraser University in Burnaby, British Columbia. He is the 
author of the dylp linear programming code and the OsiDylp OSI interface 
and is an active contributor to cbc and related COIN projects. He is a 
founding member of the Strategic Leadership Board. He has a 
long-standing interest in open source software and wrote the bonsaiG 
integer programming code before joining COIN-OR.


Bjarni Kristjansson:

Bjarni Kristjansson is the president and founder of Maximal Software,
Inc., a leading vendor of optimization modeling software.  He is the
principal developer of the MPL Modeling System; an algebraic modeling
language, and the OptiMax 2000; a component library for embedding
optimization into end-user applications.  He is also the project manager
of CoinMP, a callable library solver built on top of the CLP, CBC, and
CGL projects with a simple, easy-to-use C-API interface (Windows DLL and
Unix).

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JP Fasano:

JP Fasano is a Senior Technical Staff Member and manager of the 
Optimization & Mathematical Software group in the Mathematical Sciences 
Department of IBM’s Research Division. He joined IBM in 1979. Before 
joining Research in 1992, JP worked in several IBM development 
organizations which had responsibility for the operating system of an 
early IBM Intel based machine, vectorizing compilers for numerically 
intensive applications, and the development of OSL (Optimization 
Subroutine Library). In 1990, JP spent a year teaching in the math 
department of Grambling University. JP’s current interests are in supply 
chain optimization and open source math programming software tools. His 
current work includes reverse logistics and service personnel planning.

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Leo Lopes:

Leo Lopes is an Assistant Professor at The University of Arizona. His 
research interests are in computational optimization, specifically in 
dealing with unreliable, heterogeneous, or massive data sets and dealing 
with incomplete or inaccurate models. As a result of these interests, he 
has pioneered new XML-based standards for Linear and Integer programs, 
created automatic reformulation systems for Stochastic Programs, and 
produced modeling languages based on AMPL and UML for Stochastic 
Optimization. His current work is on incomplete biological models and 
scripting- and UML-based modeling languages. Leo is currently a member 
of the TLC. His contributions to Coin have been mostly in the area of 
packaging under Linux and interfacing with Coin from other environments.