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Don Hicks is the CEO and founder of Optilogic, a company specializes supply chain design. Hicks has a passion for software development and applying scientific and engineering methods to solve complex supply chain problems. He is best known for founding LLamasoft, which provided supply chain modeling, optimization, and analytics software and services, in 1998. The company later sold for $1.5 billion. In 2015, while CEO of LLamasoft, Hicks led the acquisition of Barloworld’s Supply Chain Software Division and IBM’s LogicTools supply chain applications business unit.
In addition to making his mark in the supply chain technology market, Hicks founded a biotech software company called DNA Software. He later established Saganworks, an Ann Arbor-based tech firm that provides a 3D immersive experience used in museums, galleries, and a range of other industries.
Hicks graduated from the United States Military Academy at West Point and served as an officer in the US Army’s field artillery branch in Germany.
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