As Chairman and CEO of the OMG, 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®). He also led the effort to establish the SOA Consortium in January 2007, leading to the launch of the Business Ecology Initiative (BEI) in 2009. The Initiative now includes Communities of Practice focused on the adoption of BPM and SOA, Green Computing, Event Processing and Cyber Security.
 

William Ulrich is President of TSG, INC. and serves as mentor, advisor and educator in theareas of business architecture and business / IT alignment. He is Co-chair of the OMG BASIG, Editorial Director of the Business Architecture Institute and a Senior Consultant with Cutter Consortium. He has published extensively and has written several books.
 

Deb Boykin has over 30 years experience business architecture and business process management. Prior to joining Pfizer, Deb worked for several companies, mostly recently Molson Coors. She is a contributing author to "Business Process Management: The SAP Roadmap", has received a number of industry awards and participates as an industry partner expert for the master level BPM course IS 601 at Widener University.
 

Greg Suddreth is the Practice Director for STA's Business Architecture & Strategy consulting practice where he focuses on defining new methods and practices for business architecture and overseeing real-world deployments. He is the founder of the Business Architecture Community, a founding board member of the Business Architecture Institute and served on the Executive Council of the Business Architects Association. Currently, Mr. Suddreth is completing his book titled "Business Architecture - the Path to Real Business Transformation", due out in October.
 

An accomplished senior information technology leader and business development executive, Mr. Klipp has enjoyed over 25 years of success planning, implementing, validating, and managing sophisticated information technology initiatives and programs--as an IT operations manager within the Federal Government and technology sector. He has implemented and validated over 20 major systems, against tight deadlines and budgets, for diverse service, telecommunications, and defense organizations.
 

Jeff is a Senior Analyst for Forrester Research primarily contributing to the Enterprise Architecture offerings. He is a leading expert in business architecture, strategy development, organizational innovation, and enterprise architecture practice management. Jeff's current research focus includes business capability maps, business strategy development, and business-IT alignment.
 

Tom has more than 30 years experience working in many different roles in IT. In 2007, he led the development of a multi-year $175 million IT Modernization Program. Most recently, Tom is responsible for aligning IT's strategies and plans to help Thrivent attain its strategic goals. In addition to his IT Strategy and Planning role, Tom is a Business Solution Partner. In that role he is responsible for the executive-level IT relationship management and planning for one of Thrivent's primary business units.