Optimum Decision Making in Asset Management

Dr. Vicente Gonzalez-Prida is PhD (Summa Cum Laude) in Industrial Engineering by the University of Seville, and Executive MBA (First Class Honors) by the Chamber of Commerce. He has been honoured with the following awards and recognitions: - Extraordinary Prize of Doctorate by the University of Seville; - National Award for PhD Thesis on Dependability by the Spanish Association for Quality; - National Award for PhD Thesis on Maintenance by the Spanish Association for Maintenance; - Best Nomination from Spain for the Excellence Master Thesis Award bestowed by the EFNSM (European Federation of National Maintenance Societies). Dr. Gonzalez-Prida is a member of the Club of Rome (Spanish Chapter) and has written multitude of articles for international conferences and publications. His main interest is related to industrial asset management, specifically the reliability, maintenance and aftersales organization. He currently works as a Program Manager in the company General Dynamics - European Land Systems and shares his professional performance with the development of research projects in the Department of Industrial Organization and Management at the University of Seville