First Analytics Competition

In October of 2022, the Monte Ahuja College of Business hosted the first Business Analytics Competition, made possible by a gift from Redwood Living. Open to only Cleveland State students of all disciplines, students could participate as individuals or form a team of up to 4 students.

Drs. Ashutosh Patil (Marketing Department) and Pedro Cesar Lopes Gerum (Operations & Supply Chain Management Department) facilitated the month-long competition. The competition consisted of two phases. In Phase One, the written memo phase, students were required to submit a memo describing the analysis and recommended solution to the problem given. Phase Two was an oral presentation of no more than 10 minutes in which students presented to a team of judges on Friday, October 28th.

Judges were:

• Andrew Balazs, Manager of Data Centers and Disaster Recovery, University Hospitals
• Tom O'Malley, Senior Vice President, Huntington Bank
• Jeff Pecon, Senior Applications, Oracle
• Joseph Yusko, Vice President of Financial Planning Analysis, Redwood Living

The winning teams were:

First Place - Team B: Gagan Bansal, Jubin Jacob Varughese Lnu, Nitin Matthew and Aditya Rukadikar

Tied for Second Place - Team E: Sandra Dunlay, Scott Corsi and Team F: Rushik Bandodkar, Kenneth Dugger

Third Place - Team C: Konrad Dolega

Students that also participated included:

• Team A: Mohamed Gani Mohamed Sulthan, Rohin Ramachandran, Vishal Kumar and Lokteja Kandhipati
• Team C: Joseph Wills, Payal Goyani, Mariam Khalid
• Team D: Kamalaprasad Natarajan, Jasmine Blueter, Violet Hsieh
• Team E: San Ly
• Team F: Ajay Kumar Bhupatiraju