Before founding DecisionBrain, Filippo Focacci worked for ILOG and IBM for over 15 years where he held several leadership positions in Consulting, R&D, Product Management and Product Marketing in the area of Supply Chain and Optimization. He received a Ph.D. in Operations Research (OR) from the University of Ferrara (Italy) and has over 15 years experience applying OR techniques in industrial applications in several optimization domains. He has published Supply Chain and Optimization articles for several international conferences and journals.