# Don N. Kleinmuntz

> Don N. Kleinmuntz is a Chicago-based decision researcher, entrepreneur and investor. He co-founded Strata Decision Technology with Catherine Kleinmuntz in 1996, held several executive roles, served as INFORMS president in 2009 and became the founding academic director of Notre Dame’s Chicago MS in Business Analytics. He is now a principal at Kleinmuntz Associates and co-executive director of the Kleinmuntz Family Foundation.

- **Role:** Principal at Kleinmuntz Associates LLC; co-Executive Director at Kleinmuntz Family Foundation
- **Organizations:** Kleinmuntz Associates LLC, Kleinmuntz Family Foundation, Strata Decision Technology (co-founder; former executive), INFORMS, Spertus Institute, University of Notre Dame (former faculty), University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (former faculty), MIT (former faculty), University of Texas at Austin (former faculty), University of Southern California (former research faculty)
- **Education:** BA, Statistics, University of Chicago, MBA, Statistics, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Booth), PhD, Statistics and Decision Research, University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (now Booth)
- **Known for:** Association for Psychological Science Fellow, 1997., INFORMS Fellow, 2007., INFORMS President, 2009.

## Career timeline

- **1978** — Completed BA in statistics at the University of Chicago.
- **1980** — Completed MBA at the University of Chicago.
- **1982** — Completed PhD in statistics and decision research at Chicago.
- **1994-1995** — Associate at Illinois Center for Advanced Study, studying decomposition methods in subjective probability assessment.
- **1996** — Co-founded Strata Decision Technology with Catherine Kleinmuntz in Champaign.
- **2001-2006** — Founding co-editor-in-chief of Decision Analysis with Robert Clemen; first issue appeared in 2004.
- **2003-2006** — INFORMS Treasurer.
- **2006** — Left full-time teaching to devote more time to Strata.
- **2009** — INFORMS President.
- **2013** — Kleinmuntz Associates founded.
- **2014** — Departed Strata; named founding director of Notre Dame’s Chicago MSBA.
- **2014-2017** — Founding academic director of Notre Dame’s Chicago MS in Business Analytics.
- **2018** — Established Kleinmuntz Family Foundation with Catherine Kleinmuntz.
- **2019** — Received Notre Dame MSBA Outstanding Professor Award.
- **2022** — Completed teaching in the Notre Dame MSBA; joined Spertus board in July.
- **2025** — Became Spertus Institute treasurer, according to his public LinkedIn profile.

## Achievements

- Association for Psychological Science Fellow, 1997.
- INFORMS Fellow, 2007.
- INFORMS President, 2009.
- Frank P. Ramsey Medal, 2011.
- George E. Kimball Medal, 2012.
- INFORMS Volunteer Service Award, 2016.
- Notre Dame MSBA Outstanding Professor Award, 2019.
- Co-founded Strata, which had more than 100 employees by his 2014 departure.

## Latest updates

- **2026-06** — Decision Analysis announced the 2025 Clemen-Kleinmuntz Best Paper Award, supported by an endowment established by the Kleinmuntz Family Foundation.
- **2026-06** — Appears in Spertus Institute’s 2026 board retreat photograph; its current board lists him as treasurer.
- **2026-04** — Published INFORMS and the Practice of Operations Research on LinkedIn, co-signed by Radhika Kulkarni and Anne Robinson.

## Links

- Website: https://www.kleinmuntzassociates.com/
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/donkleinmuntz
- Twitter/X: https://x.com/donkleinmuntz

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