Pierre Haren	Chairman and Chief Executive Officer
	Jean-François Abramatic	Chief Product Officer
	Jerome Arnaud	Chief Financial Officer
	Eric Brisson	Executive Vice President, Sales and Services
	Christian Deutsch	Chief Quality Officer
	Bounthara Ing	Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO
	Janet Lowe	Vice President, Strategic Projects
	Olivier Maurel	Chief Information Officer
	David Simchi-Levi	Chief Science Officer
	Edith Simchi-Levi	VP of Operations, LogicTools Division

Pierre Haren Chairman and Chief Executive Officer

A leading figure in the European technology community, Pierre Haren is chairman and chief executive officer of ILOG. Haren co-founded ILOG in 1987, and after seeing quick growth in Europe, launched fully owned subsidiaries in Singapore, the United States and Japan. He took ILOG public on NASDAQ in 1997, and on Le Nouveau Marché, now Euronext, in 1998.

Prior to co-founding ILOG, Haren spent four years at France's preeminent IT research institute, INRIA (the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control), where he led a team that produced breakthroughs in expert systems technology. Prior to INRIA, Haren was in charge of research funds for the French Ministry of the Sea, where he was involved in the creation of the French Research Institute for the Exploitation of the Sea (IFREMER) and the funding of what became Jacques Cousteau's Calypso 2, equipped with a revolutionary propulsion system.

Haren is a board member of ENPC, the graduate school for civil engineers. He is a founding member of the Académie des Technologies and was awarded the Chevalier de la Légion d'Honneur medal, one of France's highest honors. He is also a member of the International Council of the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University's Kennedy School of Government, and a member of the Visiting Committee of the Civil Engineering Department of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Haren earned a bachelor's degree in mathematics at L'Ecole Polytechnique, a master's degree in engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées and a doctorate in civil engineering at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

Jean-François Abramatic Chief Product Officer

Jean Francois Abramatic is ILOG's chief product officer. He is responsible for product vision and strategy, product design and development, and product marketing and management. Abramatic oversees every element of how products are defined, developed, engineered, brought to market and maintained.

A former ILOG board member, Abramatic has more than 30 years of research-and-development experience in a broad range of academic and industrial disciplines. In his current role he spearheads ILOG's product division, directing an international team of scientists, product managers and software engineers located in France and the United States.

A recognized Internet authority, Abramatic was chairman of the International World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) from 1996 to 2001, and is a former director of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN). He has also advised the French government on the state of Internet development worldwide, including recommendations for speeding up Internet development in France.

Abramatic's technology experience includes roles as former associate director at the MIT Laboratory for Computer Science, and the founding of the Department of Business Development at the French National Institute for Research in Computer Science and Control (INRIA).

He currently serves on many advisory boards, including the Strategic Advisory Board on Information Technologies, which advises the French government on information technology strategies. He also serves on advisory boards for Reuters Venture Capital, the Forum des Droits de l.Internet (a forum aimed at debating about rights and ethics on the Web), and Xylème (a content solutions provider).

Earlier achievements include a role as founder, chairman and CEO of a company that designed and manufactured graphics terminals. Abramatic started his career as a research scientist at INRIA, concentrating on the area of image processing. He has published more than 40 scientific papers, and holds two patents in image processing.

Abramatic earned an engineering diploma at Ecole des Mines, Nancy, in 1971, and a PhD in computer science at the University of Paris VI in 1980.

Jerome Arnaud Chief Financial Officer

Jerome Arnaud is ILOG's chief financial officer, responsible for global financial operations. He brings to the position 15 years of international accounting and corporate finance experience. Arnaud's background includes time with technology, manufacturing and consulting organizations.

Arnaud joined ILOG as group controller. He led a major initiative to streamline the company's financial reporting systems. This effort helped create better cost-control and predictive capabilities. Arnaud has been actively engaged in investor relations during his tenure with ILOG. (The company is dually listed on the NASDAQ and EURONEXT.)

Prior to joining ILOG, Arnaud was group controller of Ansaldo Signal, a public company that sold transportation signaling products. He also spent a decade at Pricewaterhouse Coopers as a senior auditor, managing clients dually listed on the US and European stock exchanges.

Arnaud is a graduate of the Ecole Supérieure de Commerce, a business school in Lille, France.

Eric Brisson Executive Vice President, Sales and Services

Eric Brisson is ILOG's executive vice president with overall responsibility for sales in the U.S. and Europe. He brings 15 years of experience in the technology industry to the position.

Previously, Brisson was vice president of European sales, where he helped grow ILOG's BRMS business by 70 percent over two years. Prior to that, he led ILOG's Strategic Business Development Division, with responsibility for ILOG's award-winning partnership program. During his tenure, Brisson led initiatives to secure partnerships with leading business process management (BPM) vendors and systems integrators for ILOG's Business Rule Management Systems (BRMS).

An 11-year ILOG veteran, Brisson has also served as general manager of ILOG's Communications Business division where he helped cement the company's footprint with large carriers. Brisson also helped develop ILOG's Professional Services organization, creating customer relationships and project management for clients such as QUALCOMM Inc. and ARINC/CI. He joined ILOG as a senior software developer.

From 1991 to 1995, Brisson was a research engineer for CSTB, the French government research center, where he managed definition and scope for various research projects, and was responsible for specifications and software development in artificial intelligence.

Brisson earned a bachelor's degree in computer science at the University of Nice in 1988, and a master's degree in computer science at the University of Paris in 1990.

Christian Deutsch Chief Quality Officer

Christian Deutsch is ILOG's chief quality officer, responsible for establishing companywide quality control, including capturing and monitoring business processes that affect ILOG's performance and risk management. Deutsch also ensures ILOG's compliance with global corporate-governance requirements. He brings over 28 years of technology-industry experience to the position.

During his five-year tenure at ILOG, Deutsch most recently held the position of vice president and general manager of European sales. Previously, he served as general manager of the former Value Chain Management business division. Before that, Deutsch was vice president of operations, director of strategic partnerships and program director for ILOG Professional Services.

Prior to joining ILOG in 1998, Deutsch served as co-chief executive officer of OPEFORM. There, he developed the consulting company's business plan and provided implementation support for IT solutions in the transportation industry. Acting as OPEFORM's research manager, Deutsch led multi-disciplinary business analysis projects for private, national, European and international organizations. Most of these projects were driven by safety, compliance and quality issues.

Deutsch also held the position of chief technology officer at ERAAM, an IT services provider, which was later acquired by Lockheed Martin.

From 1973 to 1983, Deutsch held the positions of researcher and professor of mathematics at Paris University. He is a member of several professional societies, including IALA, UNIDO and IMO.

Deutsch earned master's and doctoral degrees in mathematics from the University of Paris.

Bounthara Ing Executive Vice President and Deputy CEO

Bounthara "Bounty" Ing is executive vice president and deputy CEO at ILOG, as well as head of the company's Asian operations in Shanghai, China. He also leads ILOG's partnering activities worldwide, as well as ILOG's new Semiconductor Business Division which focuses on the development and sales of ILOG's fab solutions suite, FabPowerOps (FPO).

Throughout his ILOG career, Ing has moved from groundbreaking technical work into key leadership roles. He spearheaded the company's entry into the financial services market, and has greatly contributed to the momentum of its business rule products.

Prior to becoming COO, Ing ran the division responsible for ILOG's strategy and execution in the financial industries (banking and insurance), as well as the transportation, travel, government and aerospace industries. He also founded and served as president of ILOG Japan, preceded by a term as managing director of ILOG Pte. Ltd., Singapore. Earlier, he managed ILOG's graphics department, where he built an advanced graphics team that developed products accounting for two-thirds of ILOG's revenue in 1988. Ing was awarded the Philip Morris Scientific Prize in 1989 for his contribution to ILOG Masai, the first GUI builder.

Prior to joining ILOG, Ing was an application developer for CGI, a subsidiary of IBM in Paris, and a researcher for the European Computer Research Center (ECRC) in Munich. He earned a degree in engineering at Ecole Centrale de Paris in 1986.

Janet Lowe Vice President, Strategic Projects

Janet Lowe is ILOG's vice president of strategic projects. Lowe has more than 20 years of experience in technical management of software operations. Prior to her current position, she led special projects at ILOG.

Prior to her positions at ILOG, Lowe was cofounder and vice president of CPLEX Inc., the leading supplier of math programming optimization engines. She also served on CPLEX's board of directors from 1989 until 1997, when ILOG acquired CPLEX. Under Lowe's direction, some 500 former CPLEX customers transferred to ILOG, continuing nearly all existing relationships. Additionally, two important CPLEX sales models transferred to ILOG: the independent software vendor (ISV) partner model and the direct telesales model. Both remain significant profit producers for ILOG.

Before cofounding CPLEX, Lowe held positions as manufacturing operations manager at Shell Oil Company, a product marketing manager at Compaq Computer Corporation and director of mergers and acquisitions at Vyvx Inc., a subsidiary of Wiltel.

Lowe earned a Bachelor of Science in chemical engineering at the University of Texas in 1980, and an MBA at Rice University in 1988.

Olivier Maurel Chief Information Officer

Olivier Maurel is ILOG’s chief information officer. He is responsible for developing and implementing strategies related to the management of ILOG’s international IT operations, managing IT professionals in nine countries.

Maurel has 30 years experience in IT, with management positions at IBM, ADP-GSI, Software AG and SAGA. He was most recently CIO of the SNCF (France’s national rail) freight division, an ILOG customer, where he oversaw the development and operation of high-performance IT systems.

Maurel has served on the SNCF Fret Board of Directors, where he defined and implemented the complete rebuilding of IT systems in line with a major business process re-engineering (BPR), and he was chairman of the AP IT FRET at Union Internationale du Chemin de Fer and of RailData, a European railways association.

Olivier earned a Master’s degree in engineering from Ecole Nationale Superieure d'Informatique et de Mathematiques Appliquees de Grenoble in Grenoble, France, and a doctoral degree in informatics in the IBM labs (La Gaude), Universite of Nice in 1978.

David Simchi-Levi Chief Science Officer

David Simchi-Levi is a professor of engineering systems at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the chief science officer for ILOG. His research focuses on developing and implementing robust and efficient techniques for manufacturing and supply chains. He has been published widely in professional journals on both practical and theoretical aspects of supply chain management, and he has been the principal investigator for more than five million dollars in funded academic research.

Simchi-Levi is the editor-in-chief of Operations Research, the flagship journal of INFORMS, the former editor-in-chief of Naval Research Logistics, and a member of the board for several scientific journals. His Ph.D. students have accepted positions in leading academic institutions, including Berkeley, Columbia University, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, University of Michigan, Purdue Universtiy, Georgia Tech, and Virginia Tech.

Simchi-Levi co-authored The Logic of Logistics, published by Springer in 1997 and now in its second edition, as well as Designing and Managing the Supply Chain, published by McGraw-Hill in August 1999 and now in its third edition. Designing and Managing the Supply Chain received the Book-of-the-Year award and the Outstanding IIE Publication award from the Institute of Industrial Engineers in 2000. It has been translated into several languages. His third book, Managing the Supply Chain, was published by McGraw-Hill in December 2003.

Simch-Levi is the co-founder and chairman of LogicTools, which provides software solutions and professional services for supply chain planning. These solutions have been widely used to reduce cost and improve service levels in large-scale supply chains in various industries for over 250 customers. The company is now part of ILOG.

Edith Simchi-Levi Vice President of Operations, LogicTools Division of ILOG

The co-founder of LogicTools, Edith Simchi-Levi is vice president of Operations for ILOG's LogicTools division, which makes, markets and sells strategic and tactical supply chain planning applications.

Simchi-Levi has extensive experience in software development and has consulted on numerous logisticsand supply chain management projects She co-wrote the books Designing and Managing the Supply Chain and Managing the Supply Chain with David Simchi-Levi and Philip Kaminsky, and has published articles related to supply chain management and e-business. She received a Bachelor of Science in mathematics and computer science from Tel-Aviv University.