Warren Powell
FounderCo-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Optimal Dynamics
Princeton, New Jersey, United States
FoundedOptimal Dynamics
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About
Warren Powell is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and a co-founder of Optimal Dynamics, and currently serves as Executive-in-Residence at Rutgers Business School. He has authored more than 250 publications and five books, supervised 60 graduate students and post-docs, and secured $60 million in research funding.
Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer at Optimal Dynamics
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ACTivate CapitalCanberra · since 2026ACTIVATE CAPITAL PARTNERSSan Francisco · $10M – $30M checksBessemer Venture PartnersRedwood City · $5M – $100M checks · since 2026Embark VenturesLos AngelesFitz Gate VenturesHouston · $500K – $1M checks · since 2020Fraser McCombs CapitalBoulder · $5M – $15M checksFusionPalo Alto · $500K – $1M checksKoch Disruptive TechnologiesSan Francisco · since 2026Newark Venture PartnersNewark · $100K – $2M checksNVP CapitalNew York · $2M checksTenOneTen VenturesLos Angeles · $500K – $5M checksThe Westly GroupMenlo Park · $500K – $15M checks · since 2026
Co-founders at Optimal Dynamics
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Daniel PowellCo-founder and CEO
Experience
- Rutgers Business SchoolExecutive-in-Residencecurrent2024 — presentNew Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- Princeton UniversityProfessor (emeritus) Princeton Universitycurrent2020 — present
- Princeton UniversityProfessor Emeritus, Princeton University2020
- Princeton UniversityProfessor and director1981 — 2020Princeton, New Jersey, United States
- Princeton UniversityProfessor1981
- Optimal DynamicsCo-Founder and Chief Innovation Officer/Professor Emerituscurrent2017 — presentPrinceton, NJ
- Optimal DynamicsCo-founder and Chief Analytics Officercurrent2016 — present
- Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyLecturer1981Cambridge, MA
Skills & more
Freight Transportation16Supply Chain Management13Mathematical Modeling99Statistics99CPLEX31Operations Research99Machine Learning63Simulations75Algorithms99Optimization90Stochastic Processes32Stochastic Modeling27
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- Who is Warren Powell?
- Warren Powell is Professor Emeritus at Princeton University and a co-founder of Optimal Dynamics, and currently serves as Executive-in-Residence at Rutgers Business School. He has authored more than 250 publications and five books, supervised 60 graduate students and post-docs, and secured $60 million in research funding.
- Where does Warren Powell work?
- Warren Powell is Co-founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Optimal Dynamics.
- What companies did Warren Powell found?
- Warren Powell founded Optimal Dynamics.
- Where did Warren Powell go to school?
- Warren Powell studied at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Ph.D., Transportation/operations research); Princeton University (Bachelor of Science in Engineering, Engineering).
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