Kipp Martin is Vice President and CIO of Global Optima. He is Professor of Operations Research and Computing Technology at the University of Chicago Graduate School of Business. Kipp has been teaching Internet business to MBA students since 1994 and has taught executives in Europe and the U.S. He has written Large Scale Linear and Integer Optimization: A Unified Approach (Kluwer, 1999). He holds a BA, MBA, and Ph.D. from the University of Cincinnati.