BIO: William Ulrich is a management consultant, mentor, author and workshop leader. He is President of TSG, Inc., President and Cofounder of the Business Architecture Guild, and Co-Chair of OMG Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force

BIO: Diana Krohn is a Principal Business Architect at United Airlines. Diana assisted in establishing the company's first business architecture team in 2008. She is responsible for capability analysis, process modeling, portfolio analysis, road mapping, business impact analysis and business analyst competency development. Prior to her current assignment, Diana held positions in industrial engineering, business analysis, and process improvement, has a B.S. in Industrial Engineering from the Milwaukee School of Engineering and a member of the Business Architecture Guild's Advisory Board.

BIO: Diane Le Beau is the Director of Business Architecture at United Airlines. Diane established the company's first business architecture team in 2008. She is responsible for business capability and strategy alignment, transformation/merger activities as it relates to business readiness and impact analysis and portfolio and business Engagement. Prior to her recent position, Diane worked in operations, managing Customer Service at one of United's Hubs responsible for customer satisfaction, employee engagement and continuous improvement over three separate airport terminals.

BIO: Rich d'Erizans is Senior Business Leader of Business Architecture at MasterCard. He leads MasterCard's global business architecture practice. In his role. Rich works across global product, sales, finance and operations functions to map strategy, develop and align integrated roadmaps, identify candidate shared capabilities and drive alignment of technology strategy to business strategy.

BIO: Dr. Vijay Bhuvanagiri is Senior Vice President and Group Head of Enterprise Architecture at MasterCard. He is responsible for the global enterprise architecture practice within the Office of the CTO. Dr. Bhuvanagiri designed and implemented the business-centered enterprise architecture framework at MasterCard. He holds a Ph.D. in engineering from Kansas State University and a Master of Science in engineering from the Indian Institute of Technology, Madras.

BIO: Jeff Scott is an internationally recognized thought leader in the areas of business architecture, strategy management, and organizational innovation. He frequently speaks, writes, and teaches seminars on these topics. At Accelare, he helps companies design, implement, and manage their strategy to execution process. Prior to joining Accelare, Jeff was the principal analyst for business architecture with Forrester Research where he published over fifty research reports. Jeff currently writes the blog: The Business Architect.

BIO: Whynde Kuehn is responsible for managing Fortune 500 client accounts to help them develop business architecture in support of major change initiatives and build their own internal practices. Whynde is a Co-Founder and Board Member of the Business Architecture Guild, Chair of the Guild Editorial Board and Co-Chair of the OCEG GRC Architect Group. She teaches on behalf of the Business Architecture Institute and applies her experience to help social entrepreneurs and non-profit organizations to achieve their missions.

BIO: Angie Sanders is responsible for all the Corporate Accounting functions including corporate financial controls, expense management and areas for statutory and U.S. GAAP consolidated financial reporting, accounting systems support and accounting policy and advocacy, along with oversight responsibilities for all SCBU finance areas. After joining the company in 1989, she held various positions within the department. She was promoted to her current position in 2012. Angie, a CPA, earned her Bachelor's and Master's degrees in Accounting from the University of Iowa in Iowa City. Along with her memberships in American Institute of Certified Public Accountants and Iowa Society of Certified Public Accountants, Angie serves on the Iowa College Foundation, The Principal Riverwalk Development Authority and the Des Moines Symphony Board of Trustees. She also participates in the United Way Early Childhood Reading Initiative.

BIO: Alex Randell is a Business Architect at Principal Financial Group. As a business architect, he facilitates the translation of business strategy and capabilities, including the strategy-to-execution framework and business/technology alignment. Alex is a member of the Business Architecture Guild's Editorial Board and co-founder of the Business Architecture Des Moines group. He has over 15 years of experience in marketing and technology and holds an MBA with a Marketing emphasis from the University of Iowa.

BIO: Lloyd Dugan is a widely recognized thought leader in the development and use of leading modeling languages, methodologies, and tools, covering from Enterprise Architecture and Business Architecture down through Business Process Management and Service-Oriented Architecture. He specializes in the use of the Business Process Model & Notation (BPMN) language from the Object Management Group (OMG), and is an OMG Certified Expert in BPM (OCEB). He is the Chief Architect for Business Process Management, Inc. (bpm.com), and an Advisory Board Member of the Business Architecture Guild. He has nearly 30 years of modeling experience, and an MBA from Duke University.

BIO:  Atul Bhatt is responsible for all aspects of developing and promoting the use of architecture strategies, solutions, standards, and practices across the enterprise. Dr. Bhatt has over 35 years of systems architecture, technology planning & integration, and business strategy experience in computers and communications across various industries. In addition to consulting on various business architecture efforts, he currently runs a business architecture community of practice within Wells Fargo. Dr. Bhatt holds a B.Tech. degree in electronics and electrical communications engineering from IIT Kharagpur (India), and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in electrical engineering, computer science, and operations research from the University of Minnesota.

BIO:  Mike Rosen is Chief Scientist at WCG and VP, Cofounder and Director of the Business Architecture Guild. Mike is a thought leader in business and enterprise architecture and is on the Board of the Federation of Enterprise Architecture Professional Organizations (FEAPO).

Business Architecture Innovation Summit – Day Two
Wed. March 25, 2015
 

BIO: Nordea Capital Market is the largest investment bank in the Nordic countries. Lene Osterberg serves as Head of Product Controls at Nordea Capital Market, an investment bank. Her team is responsible for determining the fair value of trades and determining the official profit and loss figures.

BIO: Piyush Bhatangar is Senior Director, Enterprise Architect at John Hancock Financial Services. The business architecture role was created at John Hancock under the CTO as part of organizational redesign. With 20 years of technical experience and exceptional business skills, Piyush Bhatangar was identified as one of the business architects reporting directly to the CTO. His main challenge was to not only understand how business architecture has been interpreted and applied in the industry, but to establish a practice to demonstrate business value at John Hancock.

BIO: Jim Rhyne is a principal at Thematix and a Cofounder and Board member of the Business Architecture Guild. He was previously a Distinguished Engineer at IBM and has a PhD in Computer Science and Linguistics. 

Leveraging Business Architecture for Business Requirements Management

BIO:  Paula Mihalek is in enterprise architecture at the US Patent & Trademark Office. In this role, Paula supports and enables a mature business architecture practice across the Patent Office and Trademark Office, ensuring that the business architecture is fully integrated across all aspects of major portfolio programs. This includes a wide range of business / IT alignment, reporting and transformation work. In her prior work, Paula served as an enterprise architect in her 25 year career with the US Army.

BIO: Steve DuPont is an Associate Technical Fellow and Enterprise Architect with The Boeing Company. He has over 30 years of experience in the aerospace industry, leading IT and business architecture development for engineering, manufacturing, sales and marketing domains. His mission is to advance the state of the practice of business architecture at Boeing and contribute to the body of knowledge and industry standards in this discipline. Steve's current interests include business design, business models, and operating models.

BIO:  Janice Lewis is the Director of Enterprise Architecture at Pfizer and a member of the Board of Directors of the Business Architecture Guild. Janice has worked at Pfizer since 2001, working cross-functionally on key business modeling and transformation efforts. She led several teams in the multi-year "Molecule to Market" program focused on driving time and cost out of the drug development process during which time Pfizer's business architecture and related practices were developed. Janice's current role is focused on delivering "the connected view" of the enterprise, anchored by Pfizer's enterprise metamodel and business capability map, to drive business / IT alignment. Prior to joining Pfizer, Janice worked for General Dynamics for 18 years, globalizing and standardizing supporting functions across the company.

BIO:  Giovanni Traverso is Corporate Chief Business Architect at Huawei Technologies, a Chinese ICT vendor - operating a Telco Infrastructure for Enterprise and the Consumer. Huawei grew in a few years from the ground up to #1 in revenues worldwide in its sector. Giovanni is working on foundation and continuous improvement of the business architecture engineering methodology, its deployment and application from strategy to execution, through research on best business practices and industry trends in cooperation with consultants and academic institutions. He combines more than 20 years of direct business management experience in Telecom, up to GM/VP level, 10 years of experience in China, and various roles covering both transformation leadership and consulting. He joined the Business Architecture Guild in 2014, where he shares the interest in practice improvement, common effort for recognition and maturity of the discipline.

BIO: This panel brings together a Summit speakers to share additional insights into business architecture deployment. Panelists will discuss issues raised during the course of their individual presentations.

The wrap-up session will discuss post-event plans for various collaborative teams, gather lessons learned and identify ways in which future Innovation Workshops can be improved or structured more effectively.