Friends and Guests

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Some of our past guest lecturers and Thought-Leaders have included:

Kirk Borne
Principal Data Scientist
Booz Allen Hamilton

Lars Bjork
CEO
Qlik Tech

Tom Davenport
President's Distinguished Professor of Information Technology and Management
Babson College
Co-founder
International Institute for Analytics

Christopher T. Gheysens '93 VSB
CEO
Wawa

Dr. Jim Goodnight
CEO and Founder
SAS

Chris Heck, ’92 VSB
President
Philadelphia 76ers

Tom Klein '84 VSB
Former CEO and President
Sabre Hol

Gary Loveman, Ph.D.
Chairman, CEO and President
Harrah's Entertainment
Currently: President of Consumer Health and Services
Aetna

Thornton May
Futurist & Executive Directors
IT Leadership Academy

Chris McCann
President
1-800-Flowers.com

William McDermott
CEO
SAP SE

Alicia Rankin
Director of Research
National Football League (NFL)

John Sall
Co-founder and Executive Vice President
SAS

Ed Toben '70 VSB
Former CIO
Colgate

Daniel Wright, PhD
Faculty Director
daniel.wright@villanova.edu

Allyson Daley
Director, Center for Business Analytics
allyson.daley@villanova.edu

Sharon Ballard
Program Coordinator
sharon.ballard@villanova.edu

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Center Highlights

Both members of the Blockchain Society Bettenhausen and Dang have formed Aerotrax Technologies. Aerotrax is leveraging blockchain technology to streamline operational inefficiencies in the aviation industry.

From February 21-22, the Center for Business Analytics sponsored a team of VSB students to compete in the Champion® Analytics Case Competition at Elon University (CACC). The case competition was hosted by The Elon Center for Organizational Analytics with HanesBrands. The case competition allows students the opportunity to build and demonstrate their data analytics and visualization skills to professionals in the data analytics community.

In recent years, the cost of prescription medication has been volatile. Changes in the insurance market, new regulations on wholesalers and the entrance of companies like FedEx and UPS into the retail-delivery market have all affected the profits of drug companies. In this episode of Inspiring Minds, we’ll get a look at the recent history and the near term future for the pharmaceutical market as Liam Hurley ‘19 VSB interviews Kathleen Iacocca, PhD, Assistant Professor, Management & Operations.

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