2025 Board Members
President: Subodha Kumar, Temple University, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
President-Elect: Eric Johnson, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, USA.
ABOUT US
MISSION
Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) is an international professional organization representing the interests of POM professionals from around the world.
The purposes of the Society are:
- to extend and integrate knowledge that contributes to the improved understanding and practice of production and operations management (POM);
- to disseminate information on POM to managers, scientists, educators, students, public and private organizations, national and local governments, and the general public; and
- to promote the improvement of POM and its teaching in public and private manufacturing and service organizations throughout the world
BOARD MEMBERS
leading the organization to success
Trilce Encarnación
Regional Vice President, Americas (2026-2028)
University of Missouri-St. Louis
University of Missouri-St. Louis
Dino Petrarolo
Regional Vice President, Africa & Middle East (2025-2027)
University of Johannesburg
University of Johannesburg
Nagesh Murthy
Associate Executive Director for Global Initiatives and Outreach
University of Oregon
University of Oregon
PAST BOARD MEMBERS
2024 Board Members
President: Gerard (Jerry) Burke, Georgia Southern University, USA.
2023 Board Members
President: Nagesh Murthy, University of Oregon, USA.
2022 Board Members
President: Zuojun (Max) Shen, University of California Berkeley, USA.
2021 Board Members
President: Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
2020 Board Members
President: Chelliah Sriskandarajah, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, USA.
2019 Board Members
President: Nada Sanders, Northeastern University, Boston, USA.
2018 Board Members
President: J. George Shanthikumar, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, USA.
2017 Board Members
President: Manoj Malhotra, University
2016 Board Members
President: Edward Anderson, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, TX, USA.
2015 Board Members
President: Asoo J. Vakharia, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
2014 Board Members
President: Asoo J. Vakharia, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL, USA.
2013 Board Members
President: Christopher (Chris) S. Tang, University of California, Los Angeles, CA, USA.
2012 Board Members
President: Suresh Sethi, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, TX, USA.
2011 Board Members
President: Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France.
2010 Board Members
President-Elect: Luk Van Wassenhove, INSEAD, Fontainebleau, France
VP-Finance: Beril Toktay, Georgia Tech, Atlanta, U.S.A.
2009 Board Members
President
Wally Hopp
University of Michigan
Ann Arbor, MI 48109-1234, USA
HISTORY
Kalyan Singhal, in collaboration with about three hundred professors and executives, founded POMS on June 30, 1989. The society held its first international meeting in Washington, D.C. in October, 1990. The inaugural issue of its journal, Production and Operations Management, was published in March, 1992.
GATEWAY TO THE POM WORLD
The Production and Operations Management Society (POMS) has become the "Gateway to the POM World".
The long term goal and vision for POMS is that it should become the "home" organization for all POM professionals and be recognized as such by other professional organizations, accreditation bodies, university administrators, business and industry leaders, and our own colleagues in business schools. POMS must become the repository of fundamental POM information and the most authoritative source of developments in the POM field.
To achieve this goal, POMS facilitates communication among professors and POM professionals from all over the globe. POMS provides the following multi-dimensional links which create a "virtual department" and provide avenues for sharing ideas that impact teaching, research and practice.
- electronic links which include the POMS website (www.poms.org) and e-mail to and from the POMS home office (poms@temple.edu)
- the printed word which includes Production and Operations Management, an increasingly influential quarterly journal solely devoted to the POM field, and POMS Chronicle, the society's newsletter
- face-to-face contact at POMS-sponsored conferences both in the United States and in other countries with an opportunity to network with members of POM community from all over the world.
WEBSITE REQUESTS
All POMS.org website change requests and comments should be emailed to the POMS Executive Director, Dr. Subodha Kumar, at poms@temple.edu
