Adam DeJans Jr.
Bridging AI, strategy and execution
Adam is a Senior Research Scientist in Supply Chain Intelligence at Amazon. Before that he held optimization and decision-science roles at Gurobi, Toyota, Infosys Consulting and Ford, working on mixed-integer programming, stochastic modeling and dynamic programming for manufacturing and logistics organizations across several industries.
He holds a master’s degree in Industrial Applied Mathematics from Oakland University, where he also taught mathematics, and holds a US patent for a dynamic programming approach to route optimization. He is the co-founder of Bit Bros LLC, co-author of The Decision Factory and three other books on optimization and data careers, and a former Division I athlete.
- Role
- Senior Research Scientist, Supply Chain Intelligence, Amazon
- Based in
- San Diego, California
- Education
- M.Sc. Industrial Applied Mathematics, Oakland University
- Also co-founded
- Bit Bros LLC
- Invented
- Order Otter
John Brandon Elam
Delivering intelligent solutions for modern enterprises
John is the co-founder and Managing Director of Bit Bros LLC. Before that he spent his career in product and technology leadership at AT&T and Toyota, twice a veteran of a Fortune 10 company, where he built and managed the teams delivering AI and optimization tools for Toyota’s supply chain.
He is the co-author of The Decision Factory and You Got the Data Job… Now What?, and is currently building Decision Arena, a simulation platform for testing operational decisions before they are made. He is based in Dallas and speaks regularly on decision systems, including at DecisionCAMP.
“Fuzzy language produces fuzzy thinking. Fuzzy thinking produces fuzzy decisions.”
- Role
- Managing Director, Bit Bros LLC (co-founder)
- Based in
- Dallas, Texas
- Background
- AT&T, Toyota
- Building
- Decision Arena
Adam and John founded Bit Bros LLC together: an AI strategy and transformation consultancy built around a specific bet, that most organisations do not need a permanent consultant, they need the capability transferred to them. Read more about the firm, and see both of their full profiles, at bitbrosdata.com.