Phil Rogers

Philip D. Rogers received a B.S. in Mathematics from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute and both an M.S. and Ph.D. in Operations Research from the University of California at Berkeley, with minors in Statistics and Mathematical Economics. Dr. Rogers joined Exxon Corporation in 1969 as an Operations Research Analyst. During his 33 years with Exxon, in many assignments with increasing responsibility, Dr. Rogers developed many sophisticated mathematical models that were used to optimize a wide variety of the Corporation's business operations. Examples include competitive bidding strategies, scheduling of airport refueling operations, short-term borrowing strategies, optimization of worldwide product manufacturing and distribution, and the structure of catastrophic loss insurance policies.

Since leaving ExxonMobil in 2002, Dr. Rogers has been teaching courses in statistics and business modeling and decision making in the College of Business at the University of Houston and working on models of the stock market, including proprietary trading and options models. His personal interests include skiing, squash, tennis and the movies.