Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President
Science and Research
PROS Pricing
aboyd@prospricing.com
Andy Boyd has served as Chief Scientist and Senior Vice President of Science and Research at PROS (Pricing and Revenue Optimization Solutions) since 1999. He joined PROS in 1997 as Vice President of Science and Research following almost 10 years as a university professor. His group consists of an international collection of advanced degree recipients in Economics, Operations Research, Quantitative Marketing, and Statistics, with domain expertise cutting across multiple industries.
Andy is founding president of the INFORMS Section on Revenue Management and Pricing, and maintains a formal affiliation with the Texas A&M University Department of Industrial Engineering. He is one of the original designers of the CPlex linear programming library, now part of ILOG. Andy has over 25 scholarly publications to his credit, including papers in Operations Research, Management Science, and Mathematical Programming, among others. He has also held numerous research grants from agencies such as the National Science Foundation and the Federal Aviation Administration, has written several technical articles and book chapters, has been an active participant at industry conferences on pricing and revenue management, and was part of a 2003 Edelman finalist team for work with Texas Children’s Hospital. His forthcoming book, The Future of Pricing: How Airline Ticket Pricing Has Inspired a Revolution, is scheduled for release in October.
Andy received his A.B. with Honors at