[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 4, 2007.

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 (with the possible 
exception that at least one candidate elected to the SLB must *not* be a 
member of the COIN-OR Foundation).  Candidate bios appear at the end of 
this email.


Strategic Leadership Board

Three (3) to be elected.  Type an X in the brackets '[ ]' to vote for a
candidate.  You may vote for as many candidates as you like.

[  ]  Randy Kiefer

[  ]  Matthew Saltzman

[  ]  Michael Trick

[  ]  Other: __________________________


Technical Leadership Council

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.

[  ]  Andreas Waechter

[  ]  Other: ___________________________


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Candidate bios
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Randy Kiefer:

Randy Kiefer is the Director of Membership Subscriptions and Technical 
Services for INFORMS. Randy has been a Director with INFORMS for nearly 
nine years and is actively involved with INFORMS OnLine, PubsOnLine, and 
publications' suppliers as he works to expand access to INFORMS journals 
and related materials globally. In the past three years, he has traveled 
with other Directors in Germany, Holland, the U.S., China, and India to 
meet with librarians, professors, agents,and INFORMS members to develop 
business strategies for the journals. Prior to working at INFORMS, Randy 
ran his own consulting firm and sold custom software applications.


Matthew Saltzman:

Matthew Saltzman is Associate Professor of Mathematical Sciences at 
Clemson University and a Research Scientist in Clemson's 
Cyberinfrastructure Technology Integration group.  His research 
interests are in computational optimization--particularly discrete 
optimization--and high-performance computing.  He has been involved in 
COIN-OR since 2000 and is the founding president of the Foundation. He 
is the project manager of the OSI (Open Solver Interface) project, on 
the design team for CHiPPS (formerly COPS), and has contributed to 
several other components as well.  He is an active INFORMS member, on 
the board of the INFORMS Computing Society, former editor-in-chief and 
current deputy editor of INFORMS Online, and former VP for Information 
Technology.


Michael Trick:

Michael Trick is a Professor of Operations Research at the Tepper School 
of Business at Carnegie Mellon University.  In 2007, he is visiting the 
University of Auckland as a Hood Fellow and as the OR Society of New 
Zealand's Visiting Lecturer.  In 2002, he was President of INFORMS (the 
Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences) and he is 
currently a Vice-President of IFORS (International Federation of 
Operational Research Societies) and is on the Executive Committee of the 
Association for Constraint Programming.  His research interests are in 
computational integer and constraint programming. His consulting 
activity includes work with many sports leagues on scheduling issues, 
with the United States Postal Service on supply chain design, and with 
the Internal Revenue Service (US) on capital budgeting.  He is a Fellow 
of INFORMS.

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Andreas Waechter

Andreas Waechter is a Research Staff Member in the Mathematical 
Programming group in the Department of Mathematical Sciences at the IBM 
T.J. Watson Research Center.  His research concentrates on the design, 
analysis, implementation and application of algorithms for large-scale 
constrained nonlinear optimization, both continuous nonlinear 
optimization (NLP) as well as mixed-integer nonlinear optimization 
(MINLP).  Andreas is the primary author and project leader for the IPOPT 
project and co-developer of the BONMIN project on COIN-OR.  He has 
served as a member on the Technical Leadership Council since its 
foundation, and he has been the primary author of the BuildTools COIN-OR 
project that facilitates the build process for many COIN-OR projects. 
Andreas received his PhD. in Chemical Engineering at Carnegie Mellon 
University in 2002, is the recipient of the 2002 SIAM student paper 
prize, and is the author of 15 publications in international journals.