Arturo Carrillo ’96, M.Eng. ’97 has been elected by his fellow Cornell alumni to the Cornell University Board of Trustees.
Before his election to the Board, Carrillo had spent decades strengthening his connection to Cornell through volunteer leadership and alumni service. What began as a simple desire to help high school students discover the opportunities he found in Ithaca gradually evolved into one of the most significant alumni leadership roles the university offers.
Having a seat on the Board of Trustees was definitely not on Carillo’s mind when he first arrived at Cornell from Mexico City in the early 1990s. He did know he wanted to have an impact, and that is why he was drawn to toperations research and industrial engineering. It seemed like the perfect discipline for a changing world.
Arturo Carillo ’96, M.Eng. ’97
The early 1990s were the years leading up to the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), and Carrillo could already see how manufacturing, supply chains and finance were becoming deeply interconnected across borders. Growing up in Mexico, he had always excelled at mathematics and naturally gravitated toward engineering. But once he arrived in Ithaca, he quickly discovered that operations research (OR) appealed to him even more.
