Analytics Certification Board (ACB)

The Analytics Certification Board (ACB) oversees the Certified Analytics Professional (CAP) program. The ACB is both a standard setting and assessment body for professionals in the analytics field, and is comprised of highly-regarded analytics and operations research professionals.

Vision

Advancing the use of analytics by setting agreed upon consensus standards for the profession.

Mission

Advance the analytics profession by providing a high-quality program of certification and promoting continuing competence for practitioners.

Impartiality

The Analytics Certification Board (ACB) oversees the Certified Analytics Program, to ensure impartiality of development and administration and to facilitate communication between leaders and administrators of the program and INFORMS Board of Directors. 

The ACB’s commitment to impartiality includes, but is not limited to:

 The development of an annual threat analysis, including analysis of potential threats to impartiality.  This annual threat analysis consists of :

• Identification and assessment of potential threats (both actual and perceived), that arise from INFORMS activities, related bodies, organizational relationships, and/or from relationships of INFORMS personal.
• Within the annual analysis a threat mitigation is conducted and resolution to eliminate the threat to impartiality is addressed and documented.

2026 ACB Board Members

Chair: Hua Ni, CAP-X
Immediate Past Chair: Aaron Burciaga, CAP-X
Vice Chairs: Zohar Strinka, CAP-X and Thor Osborn, CAP-X
Paulina Abramowicz 
Marie Gisella Bardossy, CAP-X
Sandy Balkin, CAP-X
Achille Ettorre
Dan Hudson, CAP-X
Taher Jamshidi, PhD, CAP-X
Matthew Lanham, CAP-X
Nasim Lari
Brian Jensen, CAP-X
Richard McGrath, JR, CAP-X
Stoney Trent
Kathryn Walter, CAP-X
Mark Zais, CAP-X
Pooja Dewan, ex officio
Les Servi, ex officio
Theresa Roeder, ex officio
Juan Jaramillo, ex officio
Elena Gerstmann, INFORMS Executive Director, ex officio
Carol Curley, INFORMS Director of Education and Industry Programs, staff liaison
Judy Clapp, INFORMS Certification Manager, staff liaison