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Douglas A. Gray is an entrepreneur and executive with 30+ years of experience as VP & CTO in Data & Analytics, IT/Software, e-commerce, and Consulting. He has worked for Fortune 50-500, start-ups, and early-stage companies in industries including airlines, travel distribution, financial services, healthcare insurance, e-commerce, and commercial software. Most recently, he led Enterprise Data & Analytics in Technology at Southwest Airlines. Doug’s organization at Southwest Airlines won the following industry awards: Teradata EPIC Award (Customer Data Warehouse), Alteryx Best Business ROI Award (2), and Drexel LeBow Analytics50 Award (2) (Fuel Supply Chain Optimization-TOP 5 Designation & Crew Open Time Forecasting), & FICO Decision Management Innovation Award and AGIFORS Operations Best Innovation Award (Airline Irregular Operations Recovery Optimizer).

Doug is a recognized Analytics Expert at the International Institute for Analytics (IIA). He has published several articles and academic papers on analytics applications and has been an invited keynote & guest speaker and panel discussion participant at industry conferences and universities worldwide, including Gartner, IIA, Alteryx, SMU, NC State, Univ. of Dallas, and Georgia Tech.

He holds an MBA from SMU’s Cox School of Business (Beta Gamma Sigma), an MS in Operations Research from the Georgia Institute of Technology’s Stewart School of Industrial & Systems Engineering (Omega Rho, Qualified), and a BS cum laude in Mathematical Sciences (Statistics) from Loyola University Maryland (Pi Mu Epsilon).