Soren Bisgaard

Dr. Søren Bisgaard is the Eugene M. Isenberg professor of integrative studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and professor of business and industrial statistics at the department of economics, University of Amsterdam. He is an internationally recognized consultant in Six Sigma quality management and applied statistics. His areas of specialty are technology management and entrepreneurship, including quality management, operations management, design of experiments, process improvement and control, statistics, economics, innovation, and product design. For the past 25 years he has consulted extensively for leading U.S., European, and Asian companies such as Hewlett-Packard, Bell Labs, General Motors, Ford, DaimlerChrysler, S. C. Johnson, Mercury Marine, Philips, and Samsung. Dr. Bisgaard holds degrees in industrial and manufacturing engineering from Denmark, and MS and PhD degrees in statistics from the University of Wisconsin–Madison. Prior to his current academic appointments he has held positions as professor and director of the department for quality management and technology at the University of St. Gallen, Switzerland, and professor of industrial engineering at the University of Wisconsin–Madison.