Advisory Board Committee

Rob Amen '73, Chair of the Advisory Board and co-chair Deming Cup
Executive in Residence
Columbia Business School

Wolfgang Bernhard '88
Head of Mercedes-Benz Cars Production and Procurement, and Member of the Management Board
Daimler AG

Omar Besbes
Assistant Professor
Columbia Business School

Tom Cole
Former Chief Administrative Officer
Macy’s, Inc.

Bruno Di Leo
Senior Vice President for Sales and Distribution
IBM

Beth Ford '95
Chief Supply Chain & Operations Officer
Land O’Lakes, Inc

Nelson Fraiman '71, Director
Professor of Professional Practice
Columbia Business School

Tom Groos ’80
Partner
City Lights Capital

Richard Jaffe ’92
Managing Director
Stifel, Nicolaus & Company

David Niles ’98
President
SSA & Company

Bennett Nussbaum '71
Senior Vice President and CFO
Winn-Dixie

Paul O'Neill, co-chair Deming Cup
Former Secretary of the US Treasury and
Former Director, Chairman – Alcoa

Kristin Peck '99
EVP and Group President
Zoetis

James Peterson
Director, Corporate Initiatives Group
GE

Harry Silver '80
Managing Director, Goldman Sachs
Senior Advisor/Loaned Executive, Department of Homeland Security

Medini Singh
Senior Lecturer in the Discipline of Business
Columbia Business School

George Stalk
Senior Advisor and BCG Fellow
The Boston Consulting Group

Burt Steinberg ’70
Former President and Director
Dress Barn

Garrett Van Ryzin
Paul M. Montrone Professor of Private Enterprise; Chair of Decision, Risk and Operations Division
Columbia Business School

Andrew Wallach '00
President
Central National-Gottesman, Inc.

Gabriel Weintraub, Research Director

Associate Professor
Columbia Business School