Donna Agnew is vice president and chief information officer for Presbyterian Healthcare Services.

Ms. Agnew earned her bachelor's of nursing degree from Montana State University in Bozeman, MT., her master's of nursing degree from University of Texas and her MBA from University of Phoenix.

Ms. Agnew joined PHS in 1993. Her career has included leadership roles in nursing in various settings include acute care and homecare, quality and performance improvement and clinical informatics.  
 

John Quinn is a Senior Executive and Thought Leader in Accenture’s Health Life Sciences (H&LS) Practice, CTO to the Health Level Seven (HL7) Standards Development Organization and CTO to the Accenture’s Provider Practice Group in H&LS responsible for domain expertise on Healthcare Information Technology. He has an extensive background in information systems planning, development, support and systems integration; provider HIT vendor architectures, vendor and systems evaluations, and hardware and software implementations.
 

Ronald Schmelzer, Managing Partner at ZapThink, is a well-known expert in the field of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, and XML-based standards. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences and in front of some of the largest busineses in the world.Ron Schmelzer was the lead author of XML And Web Services Unleashed (SAMS 2002) as well as co-author of Service-Orient or Be Doomed (Wiley 2006) with Jason Bloomberg, due to be released in 2006. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Prior to ZapThink, Ron was founder, CTO, and “ePostle of Partners” of ChannelWave Software, as well as founder and President of VirtuFlex Software, and founder and CEO of VirtuMall, one of the first online eCommerce sites in 1994.
 

As Chairman and CEO, Dr. Soley is responsible for the vision and direction of the world's largest consortium of its type. Dr. Soley joined the nascent OMG as Technical Director in 1989, leading the development of OMG's world-leading standardization process and the original CORBA® specification. In 1996, he led the effort to move into vertical market standards (starting with healthcare, finance, telecommunications and manufacturing) and modeling, leading first to the Unified Modeling Language (UML®) and later the Model Driven Architecture (MDA®).

Dr. Soley has also consulted for IBM, Motorola, PictureTel, Texas Instruments, Gold Hill Computer and others. He began his professional life at Honeywell Computer Systems working on the Multics operating system.

A native of Baltimore, Maryland, U.S.A., Dr. Soley holds the bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.