Anne Gillian Robinson is a Canadian operations researcher and business executive, the chief strategy officer for Canadian supply chain management company Kinaxis, and the former president of the Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences (INFORMS), an academic society for operations researchers.[1]

Early life and education

Robinson was born in St. John's, Newfoundland and Labrador. She became an undergraduate at Acadia University, where she majored in mathematics.[2] Her interest in operations research was sparked by a presentation at a mathematics conference at Bentley College in 1993, where she had traveled as part of a group of Acadia University honours mathematics students.[3] She graduated with honours in 1996.[4]

After earning a master's degree in management science from the University of Waterloo, she went to Stanford University to study industrial engineering, earning a second master's degree[2] and then a Ph.D. in 2005.[5] Her doctoral dissertation, Real-time ATP /CTP: Policies for dynamic order promising, was supervised by Robert C. Carlson.[6]

Career

After completing her doctorate, Robinson worked in business analytics and supply chain management at Cisco Systems, before moving in 2011 to Verizon Wireless as executive director of Supply Chain Strategy and Forward Operations.[2][3]

In 2013, she became president of INFORMS, the youngest to take that office.[4][7] She moved to Kinaxis as chief strategy officer in 2019.[8]

Recognition

Robinson was awarded the INFORMS George E. Kimball Medal in 2015.[2] She was named a Fellow of INFORMS in the class of 2022.[9]

The Production and Operations Management Society gave Robinson their 2020 Martin K. Starr Excellence in Production and Operations Management Practice Award.[10]

References

  1. ↑ Anne Robinson: Chief Strategy Officer, Kinaxis, retrieved 2023-02-02
  2. 1 2 3 4 "Anne G. Robinson", Award Recipients, INFORMS, retrieved 2023-02-02
  3. 1 2 Horner, Peter (December 2012), "Ambassador of Analytics: In a wide-ranging interview, INFORMS President-Elect Anne Robinson discusses her passion for O.R., her view on volunteering and the "buzz" that's igniting the membership base", ORMS Today, vol. 39, no. 6, retrieved 2023-02-02
  4. 1 2 Anne Robinson (BScH '96) new President of INFORMS: Acadia grad youngest person in history to serve as President, Acadia University Mathematics and Statistics, 13 January 2013, retrieved 2023-02-02
  5. ↑ Schorow, Mona (12 April 2013), INFORMS Alumni Bring Life Experiences to Students, Stanford Management Science and Engineering, retrieved 2023-02-02
  6. ↑ Robinson, Anne Gillian (2005), Real-time ATP /CTP: Policies for dynamic order promising (Doctoral dissertation), Stanford University, ProQuest 305436931
  7. ↑ "Anne Robinson", Miser-Harris Presidential Portrait Gallery, INFORMS, retrieved 2023-02-02
  8. ↑ "Anne Robinson joins Kinaxis as chief strategy officer", Member News, ORMS Today, INFORMS, April 2019, doi:10.1287/orms.2019.02.38n, S2CID 242161596
  9. ↑ Fellows: Alphabetical List, INFORMS, retrieved 2023-02-02
  10. ↑ Starr Award, Production and Operations Management Society, retrieved 2023-02-02
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