Decision, Risk, and Operations Other Affiliates

Raymond G. Falci currently serves on several healthcare boards and is an adjunct professor at Columbia Business School, having previously worked on Wall Street for 20+ years. Mr. Falci was a Managing Director at Cain Brothers from 2006 to 2016, serving on the Executive Committee and co-heading the firm’s Services & Technology practice. Ray’s banking focus included Healthcare IT and Revenue Cycle Management as well as healthcare distribution, specialty pharmacy and PBMs. Prior to joining Cain Brothers, Mr.

Mattan Griffel is a recipient of the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence. Mattan is a two-time Y Combinator-backed entrepreneur and the Co-Founder of Ophelia, a company that helps people quit opioids without having to go to rehab.

Hardeep Johar received an M.A. in Economics from the Birla Institute of Technology and Science and is a Fellow of the Indian Institute of Management Calcutta. He received a Ph.D. in Information Systems from the Stern School of Business, New York University in 1994. Prior to joining Columbia, Johar has worked as a quantitative trader at Morgan Stanley, Credit Suisse and Deutsche Bank, at a tech startup (MSpoke), and has taught at NYU Stern School of Business and the Gabelli School of Business Fordham University.

David Juran teaches courses in Managerial Statistics, Decision Models, and Applied Regression Analysis. He is a winner of the Robert W. Lear Service Award, the Margaret Chandler Memorial Award for Commitment to Excellence, and the Dean's Award for Teaching Excellence in a Core Course. His research on the modeling of human factors in productive systems and the management of quality has appeared in Management Science, Journal of Operations Management, and other journals.

Kriste Krstovski is an adjunct assistant professor at the Columbia Business School and an associate research scientist at the Data Science Institute. Previously he was a postdoctoral research scientist working with David Blei at Columbia University and John Lafferty at Yale University.

Ezra Mehlman is a Managing Partner at Health Enterprise Partners L.P, a growth equity firm focused on healthcare IT and services. Ezra joined HEP in 2010, while completing his MBA at Columbia Business School. Prior to joining the team, Ezra was a Senior Analyst at the Advisory Board Company (NASDAQ: ABCO), providing best practice consulting and research services to hospitals and health systems. After leaving the Advisory Board Company, Ezra served as a Senior Consultant in the health care practice of Booz Allen Hamilton focusing on engagements in the provider space.

Professor Picoult teaches the Risk Management course, which is currently offered in a joint Master of Science degree program of the DRO department of the Business School and the IEOR department of the School of Engineering and Science. In 2018 Picoult retired as managing director of Citi, where he had worked for 38 years. He had been the head of Citi’s Economic Capital and Stress Testing Methodology unit and served on a number of firm-wide risk governance committees.

Angela Quintero is an adjunct faculty and Managing Director of the W. Edwards Deming Center for Quality, Productivity, and Competitiveness. The center promotes operational excellence in business through the development of research, best practices, and strategic planning by sponsoring applied research, focused education and professional development initiatives, disseminating best practices, and fostering partnerships with companies in the area of operational excellence.

Professor Stuart teaches Managerial Negotiations and Game-theoretic Business Strategy. His research focuses on the development of business theory using game-theoretic approaches. It includes the further development of "value-based strategy," which studies businesses as the central players in economic value creation, and “interactive decision theory,” which takes strategic uncertainty as the primary focus of strategic interaction.  Application of the research is principally to the fields of strategy, negotiation, and operations.

Dave Tamburri is a Managing Partner of Health Enterprise Partners, L.P. Prior to joining HEP in 2009, Dave was a Vice President for Susquehanna Growth Equity, a private equity group focused on growth stage technology companies. He was formerly the President and Chief Operating Officer of Onward Healthcare, Inc., a Welsh, Carson, Anderson & Stowe portfolio company. Prior to Onward, Dave was an Executive Vice President of Pinnacor, Inc., a General Atlantic portfolio company, which went public.

Peter Tollman is Senior Partner Emeritus at Boston Consulting Group. He's also Senior Advisor to the firm and, previously, was Managing Director and Senior Partner in the firm's Boston office. He led BCG's CEO Advisory Practice globally, served as global leader of BCG’s Biopharmaceutical Practice, and led its People and Organization Practice in the Americas.  He was also a BCG Fellow, a prestigious thought-leadership post.

Gustavo Vulcano's primary research interests are in data-driven decision-making with a focus on applications in pricing and revenue management, operations management and supply chain management. His research has been recognized by prizes such as the Best Paper Award 2021 of the INFORMS Technology, Innovation Management and Entrepreneurship Section, and the 2017 INFORMS Revenue Management and Pricing Section Award. He has served in the editorial board of the Operations Research journal.