Our Team

Our Leadership

The three founding partners have spent their careers improving business performance in the airline industry by applying advanced analytics.

Thomas Cook | Co-Founder |

Tom (tom.cook@decisionanalyticsintl.com) is co-founder of DAI. Tom brings over 25 years of experience applying advanced analytics to airline problems initially for American Airlines and later for over 100 major airlines worldwide. He has served as Assistant VP of Operations Research at AA, Founder and President of American Airlines Decision Technologies, President of Sabre Solutions, Senior Counselor at McKinsey, and Chairman and CEO of Caleb Technologies. He served as President of The Airline Group of IFORS (AGIFORS), The Institute of Management Sciences (TIMS), and Institute for Operations Research and Management Sciences (INFORMS) and is a member of the National Academy of Engineering.

Ajay Singh | Co-Founder |

Ajay (ajay.singh@decisionanalyticsintl.com) is co-founder of DAI. Ajay brings over 20 years of experience in travel and transportation in the areas of information technology, operations research, large-scale system development, strategic and financial planning and enterprise-wide business improvement. He has held several key corporate positions at United Airlines, including Vice President of Information Technology – Strategy, Vice President of Corporate Real Estate and Managing Director of Business Transformation. He has a Masters in Industrial Engineering and Operations Research from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.


Our Team

At DAI, our consultants bring a wealth of experience in solving airline problems. Each consultant has a strong graduate education in the area of advanced analytics and at least 5 years experience applying advanced analytics in the airline industry. The combination of strong analytics background and deep domain knowledge in high impact areas such as revenue management, network planning, crew resources, operations, maintenance and engineering, merchandising, and CRM set DAI apart from its competition. Individuals on our team have served virtually every airline of significance worldwide.