Chairman and CEO of the Object Management Group (OMG)
Dr. Richard Mark Soley is Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of the Object Management Group, Inc. (OMG) and Executive Director of the SOA Consortium. 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. [Richard Soley, Chairman and Chief Executive Officer] Previously, Dr. Soley was a cofounder and former Chairman/CEO of A. I. Architects, Inc., maker of the 386 HummingBoard and other PC and workstation hardware and software. Prior to that, he consulted for various technology companies and venture firms on matters pertaining to software investment opportunities. 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.

Vice-President of Project Technology Inc. and one of the 'fathers' of MDA
I am Stephen J. Mellor. My card reads "Freeter", a Japanese word, derived from English, that means "free agent." I was previously Chief Scientist of the Embedded Systems Division at Mentor Graphics Corporation. In 2004, MGC acquired Project Technology, Inc., the company I founded in 1985 to "make software development a rational, controllable, predictable process."
I explain, with clarity and humor, the intricacies of real-time and embedded systems model-driven development, in both presentations and text. I speak at commercial conferences such as the Embedded Systems Conference, academic conferences, such as MODELS, in public courses, and in private settings. I have also written several books:

• Structured Development for Real-Time Systems (Vols 1-3)
• Object-Oriented Analysis: Modeling the World (Two volumes)
• Executable UML: A Foundation for Model-Driven Architecture
• MDA Distilled: Principles of Model-Driven Architecture.

I am a prime mover at the Object Management Group (OMG), having proposed and submitted several executable UML-related standards. I was also elected to the Architecture Board, the final technical gateway for all standards adopted by the OMG. And I have sat on their Board of Directors."

President and CEO of The Open Group
Allen Brown is the President and CEO of The Open Group, a vendor- and technology-neutral consortium that works towards enabling access to integrated information within and between enterprises based on open standards and global interoperability, according to its vision of Boundaryless Information Flow.
The Open Group, among many other standards initiatives, is the home of TOGAF™ where members, who are themselves engaged in Enterprise and IT Architecture strive to evolve and improve this leading architecture framework and architecture development method. The Open Group members have also developed IT Architect Certification, a framework and methodology neutral peer review of the skills needed for implementing Enterprise and IT architecture, and more recently an equivalent program for IT Specialists. In January of 2007 The Open Group members launched The Association of Open Group Enterprise Architects, which now has more than 5,000 members worldwide.
As CEO, Mr. Brown, guided by the members of The Open Group, has led the organization since 1998. Before that he was an SVP of The Open Group and VP of X/Open Company Ltd, prior to its merger with the Open Software Foundation that created The Open Group.

IBM, BPM Architect
Stephen A. White, Ph.D., is a BPM Architect at IBM. He has over 25 years of process modeling experience, ranging from modeling pilot workload to commercial business processes, and has been involved in most aspects of business process modeling software, from product management, design, consulting, training, and technical writing. In the last few years, he has been active in the development of business modeling standards, was the primary editor of the BPMN 1.0 specification, and is now co-chairing the OMG task force that is continuing the development of BPMN, which includes the finalization of BPMN 2.0.

IBM, Senior Technical Staff Member on the SOA Foundation team
Claus Torp Jensen is a Senior Technical Staff Member on the SOA Foundation team. The SOA Foundation team has architectural responsibility for all of IBM's software products to ensure that they support the key principles of SOA from a client perspective. This role requires a both broad and deep expertise on SOA concepts and practical use. Claus is the Chief Architect of Architectural synergies and lifecycles, driving the alignment between SOA, Business Process Management and Enterprise Architecture, as well as the interlock between SOA and Information Management. Prior to joining IBM in March 2008, Claus was Group Chief Architect, VP of Architecture and Business Development, in Danske Bank, a regional european bank. He was responsible for driving Danske Bank's SOA initiative and SOA center of excellence since its inception in 1999, and is known as an SOA expert and evangelist. Claus holds a PhD in Computer Science from Aarhus University, Denmark.

Soluta.Net, Chief Architect and founder
Dr. Ferronato is the Chief Architect at Soluta.net, a provider of consulting services related to MDA, EA, EAI, web services and component-based development. He has 20 years of experience in all aspects of distributed systems development and is internationally recognized as an expert in large-scale architectures and model driven development.
His professional experience in Object Oriented Techniques and metamodelling started in 1994. He has provided technical and architectural leadership for several International enterprise class projects using advanced Internet-related technologies, component-based development, web services and wireless technologies in a number of domains, including telecoms, pharmaceutical, CRM, EAI and tourism.Dr. Ferronato is an active member of the OMG and a frequent speaker at conferences worldwide.