{"65039":{"#nid":"65039","#data":{"type":"news","title":"Seven ISyE Alumni Receive Honors at COE Alumni Awards Induction Ceremony","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt its annual Alumni Awards Induction Ceremony, the\nCollege of Engineering recognized 36 alumni who, in the words of President G.\nP. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, personify \u201cthe Institute\u2019s essence: a strong technological\neducation, the ability to think critically and to analyze problems and above\nall, a drive for excellence.\u201d \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EAmong the 36 inductees honored at the awards ceremony held on March 11,\n2011, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, 7 are alumni of the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering (ISyE). \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EGuy\nPrimus\u003C\/strong\u003E\n(IE 1992, MS IE 1995) and \u003Cstrong\u003EHeather S.\nRocker\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1998) were inducted in the Council of Outstanding Young\nEngineering Alumni, an award that recognizes\nalumni who have distinguished themselves through professional practice and\/or service\nto the Institute, the engineering profession, or society at large. They are on the \u201cfast\ntrack,\u201d have made rapid advancement within their organizations, and have been recognized for\nearly professional achievements by others within their profession, field, or\norganization. They are considered future leaders\u003Cem\u003E.\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Louis Fouts\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1990), \u003Cstrong\u003EJ. Chris Gaffney\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1985, MS 1986), \u003Cstrong\u003EEllis Johnson\u003C\/strong\u003E (Applied Mathematics 1960),\nand \u003Cstrong\u003EHanif Sherali\u003C\/strong\u003E (MS OR1976, PhD OR1979) are the new inductees in the Academy of Distinguished Engineering\nAlumni. This award recognizes alumni\nwho have provided distinguished contributions to the profession, field,\nInstitute or society at large. Candidates are highly placed executives and are actively\ninvolved in engineering, management, industry, academia, or government.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJohn H. Morris\u003C\/strong\u003E (IE 1965) has the\ndistinction of being inducted in the Engineering Hall of Fame, an honor\nreserved for those who have made meritorious engineering and\/or managerial\ncontributions during their careers.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003EThe Awards Ceremony was created in 1994 under the leadership of then Dean\nDr. John A. White to highlight the significant impact Georgia Tech students\nmake on the world.\u0026nbsp; White passed the\ntorch on to Dean Jean-Lou Chameau, and today, Dean Don Giddens continues the\ntradition of recognizing select alumni who have contributed to the profession,\nadvanced their careers, and enhanced the lives of others personally and\nprofessionally.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cem\u003EMore about ISyE\u2019s award recipients:\u003C\/em\u003E\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EJ.\nLouis Fouts, IE 1990\u003C\/strong\u003E\n--\u0026nbsp; Partner, Water Street Capital\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EFouts\nis a partner at Water Street Capital, a large Jacksonville-based hedge fund\nfounded in 1987 that manages money for leading endowments, institutions, and\nfamily offices. Fouts heads up Water Street\u2019s initiatives in the commodity,\nenergy, transportation, and automotive industries. Water Street is known for\ntaking large stakes in under-appreciated growth opportunities such as Apple\nComputer in 2003 and commodities (fertilizer, crude oil, coking coal) from\n2004-2008. Upon graduation from Georgia Tech in 1990, Fouts went to work for\nSysteCon, a logistics and distribution consultancy where he specialized in\nsupply-chain restructuring. After two years at SysteCon, Fouts joined the\nBoston Consulting Group\u2019s Russian office in 1993 and participated in the\nrestructuring of the Russian agricultural logistics network. He earned his\nMasters of Business Administration from Harvard Business School in 1996, and in\n1998 was recruited to New York City to help develop the private equity\ninitiatives of Caxton Corporation, one of the largest hedge funds in the world\nat that time. Fouts joined Water Street in 2002 and became the firm\u2019s youngest\npartner in 2004.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;J.\nChris Gaffney, IE 1985, MS 1986\u003C\/strong\u003E --\u0026nbsp;\nSenior Vice President for Product Supply Strategy,Coca-Cola Refreshments\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EGaffney has been with the Coca-Cola Company for sixteen years. He began his\nCoca-Cola career with the Coca-Cola Fountain Division as a distribution project\nmanager and later took on the\nrole of director of national distribution before joining the Coca-Cola North\nAmerica Supply Chain team as director of logistics. Before taking on the\nleadership of Coca-Cola Supply in December 2008, Gaffney led the Coca-Cola North America Logistics and Planning team for four\nyears. In 2010, he was selected as the strategy leader for the Coca-Cola Refreshments\nProduct System Supply team. Before joining the Coca-Cola Company, Gaffney worked for four years with AJC\nInternational, a global food trader, as global operations manager. He started\nhis career with Frito-Lay holding various roles in distribution and logistics.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Ellis\nJohnson, Applied Mathematics 1960\u003C\/strong\u003E --\u0026nbsp;\nCoca-Cola Chair Professor, Georgia Tech School of ISyE\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EJohnson\u2019s main area of research is mathematical programming, especially\ninteger programming. He has developed theory and computational approaches and\nhas worked on problems inmanufacturing,\ndistribution, and transportation. Much of Johnson\u2019s recent work has been in airline planning and scheduling. His\nresearch with the National University of Singapore focusedon air\ncargo and included projects with SATS (Singapore Air Terminal Services) and SIA\nCargo. He was co-editor of two books and has published a research monogram and\nover 90 papers. He was awarded the John von Neumann Theory Prize from INFORMS\nin 2000, the Dantzig Prize from SIAM and the Math Programming Society in 1985,\nand the Lanchester Prize from ORSA\/TIMS in 1983. Johnson was elected to the National Academy of Engineering in 1987, and in\n1990 was named IBM Fellow. In 2002, he became one of the initial group of\nINFORMS Fellows. In 2009, Johnson\nwas elected as one of the initial class of SIAM Fellows. Before being named an\nIBM Fellow, Johnson was the\nmanager of IBM\u2019s optimizing center and was a research staff member. From 1964\nto 1968, he worked as an assistant professor at Yale University.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;John\nH. Morris IE 1965\u003C\/strong\u003E\n--\u0026nbsp; Co-chair (Retired), StoneCreek\nCapital\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EMorris obtained a Bachelor of Industrial Engineering degree from Georgia Tech\nin 1965. He was employed by the First National Bank as an internal consultant\nfrom 1968 to 1971. While working for the bank, Morris obtained an MBA in Finance from Georgia\nState University. He later earned a CPA certificate from the State of Georgia in\n1974. After graduation, he joined Booz, Allen and Hamilton and then Touche Ross\n\u0026amp; Co., a predecessor of Deloitte and Touche, where he worked for nine years\nas a management consultant. After leaving Touche Ross, Morris joined Kelso \u0026amp; Company, a boutique private\nequity firm in 1982 and moved to California with Kelso in 1985. While at Kelso,\nMorris was responsible for\nseveral large buyouts, including Spectramed, IHOP, Arkansas Best, and Landstar\nSystems, and he served on the committee that approved all Kelso acquisitions.\nIn 1992, he and the other west coast partner of Kelso left to form StoneCreek\nCapital. Morris is retired co-chair of StoneCreek Capital, a merchant banking firm\nthat sponsors leveraged acquisitions and leveraged buildups in partnership with\nmanagement teams. Morris is a member of the ISyE Hall of Fame and the ISyE\nAcademy of Distinguished Alumni, and he was honored with the College of\nEngineering Distinguished Alumni Award in 1996.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E\u0026nbsp;Guy\nPrimus, IE 1992, MS IE 1995\u003C\/strong\u003E -- Chief Operating Officer, Overbrook Entertainment\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003EPrimus\nis chief operating officer at Overbrook Entertainment, a company that has\nproduced a diverse slate of both critically acclaimed and blockbuster feature\nfilms. In addition to runningOverbrook\u2019s\noperations, Primus leads the company\u2019s Strategic Ventures Group, an\norganization dedicated to expanding and optimizing Overbrook\u2019s business\nportfolio. He serves on the board\nof directors of Starling TV, a new social TV platform that allows viewers to\nchat, play, and interact with one another while watching television. He also\nserves on the advisory boards of JibJab Media and Interactive One. Prior to\njoining Overbrook in 2007, Primus was the director of digital media at Starbucks\nEntertainment. In this role, Primus was responsible for setting the strategic\ndirection of Starbucks\u2019 digital entertainment initiatives. He has also served\nas group product marketing manager at Microsoft, where he oversaw marketing and\nrevenue advertising for MSN Entertainment. Prior to joining Microsoft, Primus\nworked as vice president of strategy and planning for Blue Flame, the marketing\nand advertising arm of Sean \u201cDiddy\u201d Combs\u2019 Bad Boy Entertainment. Guy started his\ncareer at Georgia Tech\u2019s Office of Minority Educational Development before\nmoving on to CAPS Logistics and then to A.T. Kearney.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHeather\nS. Rocker IE 1998\u003C\/strong\u003E\n-- Executive Director, Women in Technology \u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ERocker\njoined the Atlanta-based nonprofit organization, Women in Technology (WIT) in\n2007 as the group\u2019s first executive director. Prior to joining WIT, Rocker was\na product manager at the Georgia Center for Nonprofits, steering the\nimplementation of the Nonprofit Marketplace (which assists non-profits in\nmanaging the costs and time associated with everyday purchases). Previously,\nshe was a senior consultant for EnerVision, Inc., where she led projects such\nas rate\/pricing strategy, power supply and strategic and business planning for\nthe electric utility industry. Rocker currently serves her community as\nimmediate past board president of Atlanta Women\u2019s\nAlliance, executive team member and past state chair for the Distinguished\nYoung Woman of Georgia Scholarship Program, trustee and past Young Alumni\nCommittee chair for the\nGeorgia Tech Alumni Association\u2019s Board of Trustees, and volunteer training\ndirector for the Junior League of Gwinnett and North Fulton counties. Rocker\u2019s\nstory and advice are\nprofiled in the book \u003Cem\u003EChange Your Career: Transitioning to the Nonprofit\nSector\u003C\/em\u003E, and she is a contributing author to\u003Cem\u003E \u003C\/em\u003Ethe recently published\nbook, \u003Cem\u003ECLIMB: Leading Women in Technology Share Their Journeys to\nSuccess\u003C\/em\u003E.\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EHanif\nSherali, MS \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOR \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E 1976, PhD \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003EOR \u003C\/strong\u003E\u003Cstrong\u003E 1979\u003C\/strong\u003E --\u0026nbsp;\nUniversity Distinguished Professor, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State\nUniversity (VPI\u0026amp;SU),\u0026nbsp; W. Thomas Rice\nEndowed Chaired Professor of the College of Engineering, VPI\u0026amp;SU\u003C\/p\u003E\n\n\n\n\n\n\u003Cp\u003ESherali earned his MS and PhD in Operations Research from Georgia Tech and has\ngone on to provide research contributions in analyzing problems and designing algorithms\nfor linear, nonlinear and integer programs arising in various applications,\nglobal optimization methods for nonconvex programming problems, location and\ntransportation theory and applications, and economic and energy mathematical\nmodeling and analysis. He has been a principal investigator on 62 research\nprojects sponsored by several agencies including the National Science\nFoundation, Naval Surface Warfare Center, National Aeronautics and Space\nAdministration, U.S. Department of the Interior, Association of American\nRailroads, Federal Bureau of Investigation,\nFederal Highway Administration, U.S. and Virginia Departments of Transportation,\nand the Federal Aviation Administration. Hanif has published 271 refereed articles\nin various journals including \u003Cem\u003EOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EManagement Science\u003C\/em\u003E,\n\u003Cem\u003EMathematical Programming\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Global Optimization\u003C\/em\u003E, Naval \u003Cem\u003EResearch\nLogistics\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EJournal of Optimization Theory and Applications\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003ETransportation\nResearch\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EEuropean Journal of Operational Research\u003C\/em\u003E, \u003Cem\u003EAnnals of\nOperations Research\u003C\/em\u003E, and \u003Cem\u003EIEEE Transactions\u003C\/em\u003E. Sherali has also published seven books, directed 40 PhD dissertations and 43\nMS theses, and is a committee member for a total of 172 students.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":null,"format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003EAt its annual Alumni Awards Induction Ceremony, the\nCollege of Engineering recognized 36 alumni who, in the words of President G.\nP. \u201cBud\u201d Peterson, personify \u201cthe Institute\u2019s essence: a strong technological\neducation, the ability to think critically and to analyze problems and above\nall, a drive for excellence.\u201d Among the 36 inductees honored at the awards ceremony held on March 11,\n2011, at the Georgia Tech Hotel and Conference Center, 7 are alumni of the H.\nMilton Stewart School of Industrial and Systems Engineering. \u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":[{"value":"Seven ISyE Alumni Receive Honors at COE Alumni Awards Induction Ceremony"}],"uid":"27328","created_gmt":"2011-03-21 12:46:47","changed_gmt":"2016-10-08 03:08:26","author":"Edie Cohen","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","field_article_url":"","dateline":{"date":"2011-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2011-03-21T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"hg_media":{"65218":{"id":"65218","type":"image","title":"J. 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