Ron S. Kenett

Professor Ron S. Kenett, is Chairman and CEO of KPA Ltd., an international management consulting firm, Research Professor at the University of Turin, Torino, Italy and International Research Professor, Center for Risk Engineering, NYU Poly, New York, USA. He has over 25 years of experience in restructuring and improving the competitive position of organizations by integrating statistical methods, process analysis, supporting technologies and modern human resource management systems. He has published 7 books and over 160 scientific papers on industrial statistics, quality management, statistical process control, design of experiments, biomathematics and biostatistics, data mining, risk management and performance appraisal systems.

As a Professor of Management at the State University of New York, he was awarded the General Electric Quality Management Fellowship. For nine years he served as Director of Statistical Methods for Tadiran Telecommunications Corporation and, previously, as researcher at Bell Laboratories in New Jersey.

He is past president of ENBIS, the European Network for Business and Industrial Statistics (www.enbis.org) and editor in chief of the Wiley Encyclopedia of Statistics in Quality and Reliability.

A partial list of companies he has consulted for includes: Intel, AT&T, AVX, EMC, National Semiconductors, Motorola, HP, SanDisk, Perrigo, Teva, BTG, Kamada, Orbotech, Eden Springs, The Israel Electricity Company, Applied Materials, Israel Aircraft Industries, EDS, IBM, Amdocs, ECI and various banks. He is Chairman of the Board of Takeoff, an organization whose mission is to help start-up companies develop business and marketing plans and establish strategic partnerships and is on the board of directors of several high tech and biotech companies such as D-Pharm (www.dpharm.com) and Optimata (www.optimata.com).