| | Carl Allen Manager of Corporate IS Security Intermountain Health Care United States | A seasoned professional with over 20 years in the IT industry, Carl’s experience includes working in the oil, banking and computer industries and then at Novell. While at Novell he launched its Global Network Security Architecture and advised Utah’s Governor’s Office in the formation of the Utah Digital Signature Act. He then formed InfoCore, an association of industry consultants that advised, managed, designed, developed and implemented business information systems and IT security solutions for global corporations, government agencies, and industry associations. In August 2004, he joined Intermountain Health Care as Manager, Corporate IS Security. At IHC he manages a corporate team and directs a matrix group of IT security professionals, and is responsible for designing, developing, and implementing enterprise wide best practice processes, security services and trusted technologies to enable integrated security. He continues in a limited advisory role to select organizations by providing industry leading practice methods and techniques for deploying security, privacy, forensic, and audit technologies. Mr. Allen is a member of ISACA and ISSA, and has the CISM professional certification. He holds an MBA from the University of Denver and Bachelor’s degrees in Mathematics and Applied Physics from Weber State University. | | | Gary Baker Process Executive and Managing Director EDS, GM Global Supply Chain & Global Business Services EDS United States | Gary Baker is the Process Executive and Managing Director at EDS of GM’s Global Supply Chain and Global Business Services. He lectures locally and nationally on Internet-related topics in general and specifically on new technologies and supply chain activities in the automotive industry. He co-authored a white paper on Virtual Supplier Networks that was published in the Automotive Industry Action Group's ActionLine magazine and has had other articles published on supplier collaboration in Manufacturing Engineering.
Listen to Gary, now in his seventh year as the Internet Advisor on WJR 760AM, every Saturday from 8 to 10 p.m. where he interviews various guests about Internet-related topics and answers listeners’ questions.
As a former Partner in the Advanced Technology Group in Business Consulting for Arthur Andersen, he created and led the first fully-functioning Application Development Center. In 1994, Gary founded and was the CEO of Online Technologies Corporation, a value-added Internet Solutions Provider that provides comprehensive Internet solutions for businesses.
Gary currently serves on the Board of Directors of University Bancorp Inc., (NasdaqSC: UNIB) a small, publicly traded bank holding company and at one time served on the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Advisory Council on Small Business. He is a MBA graduate of the University of Michigan. | | | Jeanne Baker BPMI Director and Chair VP Technology Sterling Commerce United States | Jeanne Baker is Vice President, Technology, for Sterling Commerce Inc., a subsidiary of SBC Communications and a global provider of business integration solutions. In this role, Baker shapes and articulates the company’s product strategy and solutions architecture.
Baker joined Sterling Commerce in 1996, and most recently served as Vice President, Solutions Engineering. Prior to that, she held various positions including product strategy director, product development director, software development manager and software developer. Baker is a frequent guest speaker at conferences hosted by Yankee, Gartner, ebizQ, Delphi, Brainstorm and others on the topics of e-business integration, software reliability and business process management. She is chairman of the international nonprofit Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org), which promotes and develops the use of automated business process management by establishing universal standards for process design, deployment, execution, maintenance and optimization.
Baker authored “Building an Incremental Enterprise That Works” which appeared in the June 2004 issue of Supply and Demand Chain Executive. Her other published articles include “Business Process Management Language: Automating Business Relationships,” which appeared in the November 2002 issue of eAI Journal and, with co-authors Peter Fingar and Howard Smith, “Integrated Value Chain” for the July 2002 issue of Internet World magazine.
Before joining Sterling Commerce, Baker worked in the information technology industry for ten years in a variety of software development and research positions with Comshare and the Environmental Research Institute of Michigan (ERIM). She holds a bachelor of science degree in marketing from Indiana University and a master of arts degree in mathematics from Eastern Michigan University. Baker also earned a graduate certificate in artificial intelligence from Eastern Michigan University.
| | | Rob Bartel,
Senior Developer,
iGrafx, United States | Rob Bartel is a senior software engineer with iGrafx, a division of Corel. He has been a lead developer of process modeling and simulation tools for the past 10 years, focused on enabling all levels of business users to take advantage of the benefits of simulation. Mr. Bartel was instrumental in developing the first process simulation product designed specifically for the Six Sigma community. Prior to his work in process simulation, Mr. Bartel developed electronic logic and circuit simulation software for 15 years. Most recently he has been working on solving the flowchart-to-execution problem, and is currently completing work that enables the compilation of BPMN diagrams into BPEL programs. Mr. Bartel is an active contributor to the BPMN working group and specification. He holds a PhD in Electrical Engineering from the University of Missouri.
| | | Justin Brunt WfMC Research Director TIBCO United Kingdom | Justin Brunt has been involved with Workflow/BPM for over 11 years since he joined Staffware in 1994 as VP of Engineering. Throughout that time he has been involved with the WfMC and has held the position of Vice Chair (Europe) of the WfMC’s Technical committee since 2002.
He has project-managed all of Staffware’s BPM standards based implementations including the WfMC interoperability standards. Following the acquisition of Staffware by TIBCO Justin took on the role the role of Research Director for TIBCO’s BPM Group.
| | | James Bryce Clark Director of Standards Development OASIS Untied States | James Bryce Clark, Director of Standards Development for OASIS, is responsible for managing the consortium's industry standards efforts. He is an e-commerce and information technology attorney who began his practice as a financing and corporate restructuring lawyer with Shearman & Sterling at 53 Wall Street in New York. He represented high technology companies in their banking, trade finance, acquisitions and securities transactions throughout the 1990's, and served two terms as chairman of the American Bar Association's business law subcommittee on electronic commerce.
While a practicing attorney, he was a contributor to the original ebXML project (now ISO 15000), co-editor of its business process standards in 2001, and chairman of the ebXML Joint Coordinating Committee. Prior to joining OASIS, he was vice president and general counsel of a healthcare e-commerce company, and corporate partner in a Los Angeles law firm.
He is a U.S. delegate to the e-commerce working group of the United Nations Commission on International Trade Law (UNCITRAL), and an expert adviser on automated contracting and Internet law for the U.S. State Department. He is a frequent speaker and author in e-commerce and information security law as well as complex finance transactions. Jamie holds JD and BSc degrees from the University of Minnesota, and is based in Los Angeles.
| | | Fred Cummins Fellow, EDS Director OMG United States | Fred Cummins is a Fellow with EDS with a background in application integration, business information systems and artificial intelligence technology. He is co-chair of the OMG Business Enterprise Integration Domain Task Force and has participated in W3C and OASIS efforts. He is particularly active in development of standards for business processes and business models. He is author of two books, most recently "Enterprise Integration: An Architecture for Enterprise Application and Systems Integration."
| | | Jean-Jacques Dubray Senior Technical Architect Attachmate United States | Jean-Jacques is a Senior Technical Architect at Attachmate. He is a graduate of Ecole Centrale de Lyon and earned his Ph.D. at the Faculty of Science of Luminy. He has designed and led the implementation of an XML and Web Services based business process engine at NEC Systems Labs in 1998. Since then he has contributed to several BPM standards: BPML, ebXML BPSS, and WS-CDL. For the past four years Jean-Jacques has focused on developing a model driven application model compatible with business process management for building information systems.
| | | Chuck Fenton Principal Research Engineer Sterling Commerce United States | Charles Fenton has over 30 years of experience in IT, including 13 years in e-commerce systems and technology. As principal research engineer for Sterling Commerce, Inc., he researches and analyzes innovative technologies for application to future e-commerce applications and services. Mr. Fenton has contributed to the development of industry standards and protocols. He has served as Program Architect at AIAG and has chaired work group and technical committees. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree in Engineering from the University of Michigan.
| | | Michael Grad Partner New Vista Group LLC United States | Mr. Grad has extensive experience in implementing growth strategies via enabling technologies to gain business and financial advantage. His approach to serving clients is focused on pragmatically managing the gap between strategy and execution. Mr. Grad has held senior executive positions at Bank of America, Booz-Allen & Hamilton and Accenture.
Mr. Grad is adept at driving revenue growth and enhancing profitability, while simultaneously ensuring the delivery of a quality customer/channel experience across all customer segments. His clients focus on building long lasting, profitable customer relationships by implementing growth strategies, process management and information technology. Mr. Grad’s industry network and knowledge accelerates his clients’ business results.
Mr. Grad has a Bachelor of Science, Industrial Engineering, University of Cincinnati, Cincinnati, Ohio, and a Masters of Business Administration, J.L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University.
| | | Layna Fischer Executive Director, BPMI.org United States | Layna Fischer is the Executive Director of BPMI.org. She reports to the Board of Directors and is tasked with promoting the mission of the Initiative and overall management of membership logistics, meetings and conferences.
She also serves as Chair, Workflow And Reengineering International Association (WARIA) and General Manager of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Her responsibilities include managing the annual Global Excellence in Workflow Awards.
As President and CEO of Future Strategies Inc., Fischer is editor and publisher of the business book series, New Tools for New Times: which includes The Workflow Paradigm and Electronic Commerce, and the annual Excellence in Practice series, starting with Excellence in Practice, Innovation and Excellence in Workflow and Imaging in 1997. She also edits and publishes the annual Workflow Handbook in association with the Workflow Management Coalition.
Her experience in the computer industry includes being the president and CEO of a multi-million dollar high-technology export company for seven years, during which time she also founded an offshore franchise distribution company. Fischer was a senior editor of a leading computer publication for four years and has been involved in international computer journalism and publishing for over 18 years. She was a founding director of the United States Computer Press Association in 1985. She serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Black Forest Group.
| | | Jean-Yves Gresser Vice-Chair Black Forest Group France | Since his studies in AI and robotics in the late 60's JYG has been on the leading edge of new information and telecom technologies. For the second half of his career he held several CTO/CIO/Web business development positions in the European banking and insurance industry with world-wide responsibilities. He now runs his own multimedia and consulting company, focusing on document and security management, sharing his time between the US and Europe. He is vice-chairman of the BFG.
| | | Paul Harmon
Executive Editor and Founder, Business Process Trends | In addition to his role as Executive Editor and Founder of Business Process Trends, Paul Harmon is Chief Consultant and Founder of Enterprise Alignment, a professional services company providing educational and consulting services to managers interested in understanding and implementing business process change.
Paul is a noted consultant, author and analyst concerned with applying new technologies to real-world business problems. He is the author of Business Process Change: A Manager's Guide to Improving, Redesigning, and Automating Processes (2003). He has previously co-authored Developing E-business Systems and Architectures (2001), Understanding UML (1998), and Intelligent Software Systems Development (1993). Mr. Harmon has served as a senior consultant and head of Cutter Consortium's Distributed Architecture practice. Between 1985 and 2000 Mr. Harmon wrote Cutter newsletters, including Expert Systems Strategies, CASE Strategies, and Component Development Strategies.
Paul has worked on major process redesign projects with Bank of America, Wells Fargo, Security Pacific, Prudential, and Citibank, among others. He is a member of ISPI and a Certified Performance Technologist. Paul is a widely respected keynote speaker and has developed and delivered workshops and seminars on a wide variety of topics to conferences and major corporations through out the world.
| | | Setrag Khoshafian VP of BPM Technology Pegasystems
United States | Dr. Khoshafian is a recognized expert in Business Process Management, Database Management Systems, XML, and Object-Oriented technologies. Currently he is Vice President of BPM Technology at Pegasystems Inc. Previously he was the Senior VP of technology at Savvion, Inc.
He has been a senior executive for the past 10 years and an architect and manager of various advanced products for the past 15 years. He is the lead author of eight books and has numerous publications in business as well as technical periodicals.
| | | Chris Lawrence Business Architect Old Mutual SA South Africa | Chris Lawrence has designed and implemented business solutions in the UK, US and Southern Africa over a 25-year career in Financial Services IT ranging from systems analysis and design to business architecture, by way of project and systems management, business analysis, data analysis and design, quality training, and process re-engineering. If he has a current specialty, it is where process architecture meets holistic delivery and transition methodologies.
In 1996 he moved from the UK to Cape Town to co-found a strategic business-enablement competency (eventually titled Global Edge), employing a version of Sherwood International's Amarta architecture to support Old Mutual’s international expansion. He developed Global Edge's delivery methodology and process-architectural approach, and is currently playing a similar role on a grander scale for Old Mutual South Africa’s administration and service organisation (‘OMSTA’).
Chris has Philosophy degrees from both Cambridge and London Universities, and is married with one son. He wishes he could play the guitar the way Thelonious Monk played the piano, but he knows he never will.
| | | Mike Marin Software Architect FileNet Corporation United States | Mike Marin is the architect for the FileNET workflow technology. Marin has a MSCS in Artificial Intelligence. He has more than fifteen years of experience designing and developing system software. The last six years, he has been developing workflow products for FileNET. Currently, Marin is a vice-chair of the WfMC Technical Committee and chair of the WfMC Interoperability working group, has contributed to the definition several workflow standards, and has received the WfMC Excellence Award for his technical contributions to the WfMC standardization efforts. | | | Richard Mattock VP, Product Strategy Fuego United States | Rick Mattock, VP of Product Strategy for Fuego since 2002, has more than 20 years of experience defining, designing, developing and selling enterprise software. Rick focuses on the over-arching goal of Business Process Management – measurable business improvement using his training and knowledge of decision sciences and process improvement techniques. Rick is responsible for all aspects of Fuego’s product definition and delivery to market - working closely with the development and sales/marketing organizations.
Prior to joining Fuego, Rick was the VP, Software Development and Media Operations at RegalCinemedia, where he was responsible for defining, designing and developing the world's largest out-of-home digital advertising network. Additionally, he has served in management positions at Lotus/IBM, ObjectSpace, QuestOne Decision Sciences and Symantec. Rick holds two B.A. degrees, Art History from Penn State University and Business Systems Analysis and Design from St. Vincent College, PA. He has also completed his Masters of Management, Business Administration at Penn State University.
Rick is an avid guitar player (Martin OM28-VR), golfer and recently finds himself a professional assistant coach for his two young sons.
| | | Monica Martin XML Web Services Standards Architect Sun Microsystems United States | Monica J. Martin is an XML Web Services Standards Architect with Web Products, Technology and Standards team for Java Web Services. She has a diversified background in information systems, enterprise architecture, business-to-business operations, and communications. Monica represents Sun in emerging standards development for business collaboration, web services choreography, business process, and related areas of rapidly growing importance in the web services arena. These efforts span organizations such as W3C, UN/CEFACT, and OASIS. Within Sun, Monica actively works with the product engineering, marketing, development, and software services teams to effectively integrate services-based approaches into product and service development.
| | | Derek Miers BPMI Director and Co-Chair Industry Analyst Enix Consulting Ltd United Kingdom | Derek Miers founded Enix in 1992 to provide strategy and technology consulting to astute blue chip commercial organizations, vendors and system integrators. Over the years he has developed unique perspectives on the use of BPM and other process-oriented technologies ranging from understanding and modeling processes to actively supporting them through modern BPMS environments, enterprise content management and Web Services. From a consulting perspective, Derek has enjoyed engagements with some of the worlds most well known brands, providing a range of training, executive level facilitation and technology selection services. He is the author and publisher of Process Product Watch – a detailed, evaluation level guide to BPM tools and technologies. Derek recently undertook a major evaluation of the leading BPM Suites for BP Trends (available free of charge at www.bptrends.com). As part of his contributing work, Derek has been a regular conference presenter and visiting lecturer at several European universities and business schools. In recognition of his insights and perspectives, Derek was elected as a director and co-chair of BPMI.org and was instrumental in development of BPM Think Tank held in Miami March 2005.
| | | Nathaniel Palmer Vice President & Chief Analyst Delphi Group, a Business of Perot Systems United States | Nathaniel Palmer is Vice President and Chief Analyst of Delphi Group, a Perot Systems Company, where he heads up the firm’s business process management research and consulting practice. Nathaniel is the first individual to receive AIIM’s Laureate in Workflow, a distinction today held by several business process pioneers worldwide, and is most widely recognized for his writings on business process issues.
Co-author of The X-Economy (Texere, May 2001), Nathaniel has also been featured in numerous media such as Fortune and The New York Times, National Public Radio and World Business Review, as well as various trade publications. Nathaniel’s client work has involved developing business process strategies, internal consulting practices, project business cases, and product selection processes for several Global 2000 firms. In addition, Nathaniel works with many of the leading BPM software vendors on positioning, go-to-market strategies, sale coaching, and market research.
| | | Jan Popkin BPMI Director and CEO Popkin Software United States | Jan Popkin's name is synonymous in the software development business with high-quality, leading-edge technology, implemented in many Fortune 500 organizations worldwide. Jan is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience developing large, complex systems.
Jan founded Popkin Software & Systems in 1986. The company has grown to become a leading developer of enterprise modeling tools, including System Architect™ V9, an enterprise-modeling tool that enables businesses to develop a blueprint for an organization's information infrastructure. System Architect supports the analysis, design, development and deployment of an enterprise-level architectural framework for the full development lifecycle, whatever the methodology or the language. Popkin has sold more than 60,000 licenses worldwide.
Before establishing Popkin Software & Systems in 1986, Jan was a software engineer for Logica, a large computer-consulting firm based in the United Kingdom. He worked in the same capacity for TRW and Bradford National Corp. Jan was one of the principal software architects for the American Express Image Processing System; the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Control System; and the Bank of America Image Teller System. Jan has been involved in fault tolerant computing on different hardware platforms including microcomputer, mini-computers and custom hardware. Jan holds a degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
| | | Jon Pyke WfMC Chair CTO TheProcessFactory United Kingdom
| Jon was the Chief Technology Officer and a main board director of Staffware Plc from August 1992 until was acquired by Tibco in 2004. He demonstrates an exceptional blend of Business/People Manager; a Technician with a highly developed sense where technologies fit and how they should be utilized. Jon is a world recognized industry figure; an exceptional public speaker and a seasoned quoted company executive.
As the CTO for Staffware Plc, Jon was responsible for a team of 70 people, geographically split into two countries (USA and the UK) and four locations. Jon's primary responsibility was directing the product development cycle. Furthermore, Jon had overall executive responsibility for the product strategy, positioning, public speaking etc. Finally, as a main board director he was heavily involved in PLC board activities including merges and acquisitions, corporate governance, and board director of several subsidiaries.
Jon joined Staffware in 1992 as the Technical Director. At that time Staffware was a privately held company employing approximately 18 people with an annual turnover of £1.2 million – during Jon's tenure with the company, it was taken public by floating on the London Alternative Investment Market (AIM) in 1995 followed by a full listing on the London Stock Exchange in 2000. The company has achieved year on year growth of more than 50% (CAGR) and now employs some 350 people in 16 countries with £40 million turn over. Profitable every year.
Jon was personally responsible for the re-design of the product from a Unix only “green screen” system supporting around 20 users to a full client server 3-tiered application supporting many thousands of users. Furthermore Jon personally designed the world’s first full Java workflow client and designed and implemented the "eProcess" initiatives.
When Staffware acquired a CRM company in the USA Jon was appointed Chairman of Staffware eCRM Inc. until the integration was complete.
Jon co-founded and is the Chair of the Workflow Management Coalition. He is an AiiM Laureate for Workflow – and was awarded the Marvin Manheim award for Significant Contributions to the Workflow Industry in 2003.
| | | Jaakko Riihinen Director, BIA Nokia Oyj Finland | Jaakko Riihinen has been working in the ICT industry since 1979. He has been deeply involved in the development of a broad range of technologies and products, including distributed real time operating systems, programming language compilers, datacommunication protocols, telecommunication systems, and enterprise applications. His wide experience includes hands on R&D, as well as management of projects, programs, and businesses of various kinds, first in the research community, then as a private entrepreneur, and eventually working in large international companies in the ICT industry.
Since 1992, Mr. Riihinen has been working in Nokia, first as the program manager for the GSM switch, then in corporate strategy planning and technology management, and from 2001, as the Chief Enterprise Architect of Nokia Corporation. During his current tenure, he has established enterprise architecture as a strong competence for Nokia, with the help of 100+ organization of architects he is leading. He has always had a special interest in information architecture and process architecture, and has produced a number of innovations in both areas. Mr. Riihinen is also known for his educational activities. In addition to teaching computer science courses in the university, and lecturing in conferences,
in 1995 he established a postgraduate training program "Management of Software Product Development" in Helsinki University of Technology, and just in the beginning of 2005, Nokia's "Enterprise Architecture and System Engineering Academy" saw the daylight. Mr. Riihinen lives in Espoo, Finland, with his spouse and children, and enjoys music, downhill skiing, motorcycling, and white water rowing during his leisure time.
| | | Jukka Riivari CEO Meridea Financial Software Ltd Finland | Jukka Riivari is the CEO of Meridea Financial Software Ltd., a software company based in Helsinki, Finland. Prior to his role at Meridea, Jukka worked as a Vice President at Nokia, where he was responsible for the licensing and sales of Nokia’s Series 60 software platform to vendors like LG, Panasonic, Samsung, Sendo and Siemens.
Before that Jukka headed the Nokia’s business of mobile Internet software targeted at enterprises like financial institutions.
Prior to his positions at Nokia, he held positions at TeamWARE Group and ICL. Jukka was also a member of Meridea’s Board since the founding of the company until late 2003. | | | Robert M. Shapiro Senior Vice President Global 360 United States | In January 2005 Robert Shapiro joined Global 360 as Senior Vice President and remains President of Cape Visions, now a subsidiary of Global 360. As founder and President of Cape Visions he directed the development of Analytics and Simulation software now used by FileNET, Fujitsu, PegaSystems and Tower Technology Business Process Management products. Prior to founding Cape Visions, Robert was a driving force in the creation and promotion of graphical techniques for modeling, analyzing and simulating complex systems. As founder and CEO of Meta Software Corporation, he directed the implementation of a unique suite of graphical modeling and optimization tools for enterprise wide business process improvement. Products based on these tools are used by Bank One, Wells Fargo and other major banks to optimize their check processing operations.
As a participant in the Workflow Management Coalition and chair of the working group on process definition interchange, he plays a critical role in the development of international standards for workflow and business process management.
| | | Bruce Silver Principal Bruce Silver Associates United States | Dr. Bruce Silver is an independent industry analyst and consultant focused on business process management and content management technologies. A frequent speaker at BPM conferences, he is a regular contributor to Intelligent Enterprise magazine, and for several years wrote the Business Rules column for Transform Magazine. He publishes The Manager’s Guide to BPM Software, a series of in-depth reports on leading BPM software offerings. He also has written numerous industry trend reports and white papers available for free at www.brsilver.com.
Since 1994, Bruce Silver Associates has supported technology buyers in requirements definition and product selection, and provided vendors with product evaluation, market positioning, and related marketing services. Previously, Dr Silver directed workflow and document management research at BIS Strategic Decisions (which became Giga Information Group).
In the 1980s, he was a principal developer of Wang's WIIS document imaging system. He currently serves on the board of directors of Captiva Software. He holds Physics degrees from Princeton and MIT, and four patents in electronic imaging.
| | | Richard Soley Chairman and Chief Executive Officer OMG United States | As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is ultimately responsible for all of the business of the OMG, including Board activities and oversight of the OMG's neutral and open Technical Process.
Richard serves as a valuable resource for a broad range of topics ranging from predictions and trends in the industry to the details of CORBA and UML (based on his original leadership as the OMG's original Technical Director for the first eight years).
| | | Keith Swenson WfMC TC Chair Chief Architect Fujitsu Software Corporation United States | Keith Swenson is current Chief Architect and Director of Development at Fujitsu Software Corporation for the Interstage family of products.
He is known for having been a pioneer in web services, and has helped the development of standards such as WfMC Interface 2, OMG Workflow Interface, SWAP, Wf-XML, AWSP, ASAP, WSCI, and is currently working on standards such as WS-CAF and ASAP. He has led efforts to develop software products to support work teams at MS2, Netscape, and Ashton Tate.
| | | Kevin Vaughn BFG Chair Black Forest Group
United States | Kevin Vaughn is an independent consultant who specializes in business strategy creation and alignment within multi-national and startup organizations. He is often called on by investors to address critical business issues in their software and professional services ventures. In combination with business strategy and executive leadership coaching, he develops marketing and product strategies and manages the sales and consulting process. He has held several positions as interim CEO and COO in these organizations.
Additionally, Kevin has held the position of new ventures including CEO of an early micro-payments software firm and CEO of an innovation software company. Kevin began his career in IT as Technology Architect for the worldwide organization at Bankers Trust Company. Other positions have included VP of Advanced Technologies for several News Corporation subsidiaries including HarperCollins Publishers, TV Guide, Fox and others.
He managed the management consulting practices for $1 billion global professional services firm specializing in Business Strategy, IT Strategy, Knowledge Management and the Balanced Scorecard. Kevin has also successfully managed global corporate development and conducted international M&A transactions. He has worked extensively in the U.S., Europe, Latin America and Asia. Kevin holds a B.S. in French Literature and Language from the University of Kansas
| | | Paul Vincent Product Manager Fair Isaac United States | Paul Vincent is a Product Manager and Rules Specialist at Fair Isaac, responsible for enterprise rule management and the development of rules standards and methodologies. He has been involved with the design and implementation of rule-based systems in the finance, manufacturing, government and defense industries in both Europe and the US, is co-author of both the RUP plug-in for Business Rules and the forthcoming OMG Production Rule Representation standard. He has been actively involved in BPMI.org since 2001.
| | | Stephen White BPMI Director and BPM Architect, IBM Corporation United States | Stephen White is currently a BPM Architect at IBM. He has 20 years experience with process modeling—ranging from developing models, consulting, training, modeling tool design, product management, and standards development. He served on the BPMI.org Board of Directors in 2003 and 2004 and chairs the BPMI Notation Working Group, which is developing BPMN. | | | Dr Michael zur Muehlen Assistant Professor of Information Systems Stevens Institute of Technology United States | Michael zur Muehlen is Assistant Professor of Information Systems at Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, NJ, where he directs the SAP/IDS Scheer Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation. An active contributor to standards in the BPM area, Michael is a fellow of the Workflow Management Coalition and chairs the WfMC working group “Management and Audit”. Michael’s research interests center around the organizational aspect of business process management technology, and process support for managerial decision making such as Business Activity Monitoring. He is currently primary investigator of a project funded by SAP Research on the advanced monitoring and controlling of business processes and partner investigator of an Australian Research Council project on process modeling in the large. Michael is the author of a book on workflow-based process controlling and has published more than 40 articles on workflow and process management in academic and industry outlets, which can be found at http://www.workflow-research.de. He holds a Ph.D. and an M.S. in Information Systems from the University of Muenster, Germany
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