Peter Norden was the 17th President of TIMS. He is a retired consultant of IBM's Management Technologies practice, specializing in the application of quantitative techniques to management problems and project management systems. For more than 40 years he was involved in research and development management, and design and development in manufacturing and related industries. He continues to work as Adjunct Professor of Industrial Engineering and Operations Research in Columbia University's Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. He also taught at Columbia's Graduate School of Business and in the Executive MBA program of Pace University's Lubin School of Business.