Gerhard Pilcher is Chief Executive Officer for Elder Research with more than thirty years of analytics experience in the commercial businesses and government institutions in the United States and abroad. He is an adjunct faculty member in the Math and Statistics Masters program at Georgetown University and a regular instructor in the SAS Business Knowledge Series courses Gerhard currently serves on the advisory boards of the Institute for Advanced Analytics and George Washington University Master of Science in Business Analytics program.

Gerhard earned a Master of Science degree in analytics from the Institute for Advanced Analytics at North Carolina State University in Raleigh, North Carolina. Gerhard and his wife, Denise, have two children. In his spare time, he especially enjoys outdoor activities, including mountaineering and trail running.