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.

2025 ACB Board Members

Chair: Hua Ni, CAP
Immediate Past Chair: Aaron Burciaga, CAP
Vice Chairs: Zohar Strinka, CAP and Thor Osborn, CAP
Paulina Abramowicz
Achille Ettorre
Rajan Gupta, PhD, CAP
Dan Hudson, CAP
Taher Jamshidi, PhD, CAP
Matthew Lanham, CAP
Nasim Lari
Brian Jensen, CAP
Richard McGrath, JR, CAP
Tayaba Nadeem
Stoney Trent
Kathryn Walter, CAP
Mark Zais, CAP
Robin Lougee, PhD, ex officio
Vinod Cheriyan, ex officio
Mark Squillante, ex officio
Ece Izgi, 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