Özalp Özer is Professor of Management at the University of Texas at Dallas. He was also a faculty member at Columbia University and Stanford University. His areas of specialization include pricing management, supply chain management, global production and distribution system design, contract and incentive design, capacity and inventory planning. His articles on these topics have appeared in leading academic journals such as Management Science and Operations Research. He has also received several teaching awards by vote of students at Columbia and Stanford. National Science Foundation and Fortune 500 companies have supported his research and teaching activities. He is an active consultant to industries such as high technology and retail. He has been invited to present his work in national and international conferences and in lectures at universities, such as MIT Sloan Business School of Management, INSEAD, and London Business School. He received his PhD and MS degrees from Columbia University.

Robert Phillips is Professor of Professional Practice at Columbia University and Founder and Chief Science Officer at Nomis Solutions. He is also Director of the Center for Pricing and Revenue Management at Columbia University. Dr. Phillips has years of experience in pricing and revenue management in a wide variety of industries including airlines, hotels, rental cars, automotive, air freight, cruise lines, retail, and financial services. He is the former CEO of Talus Solutions and of Decision Focus Incorporated and author of the widely used textbook Pricing and Revenue Optimization. Dr. Phillips has served as a lecturer at the Stanford University Graduate School of Business and has published in many journals. He received his PhD from Stanford University in Engineering Economic Systems.