Richard Soley
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.

Michael Rosen
Director of the Cutter Consortium's Enterprise Architecture Practice
Mike Rosen is Chief Scientist at Wilton Consulting Group, which provides expert consulting on Enterprise Architecture, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), and model driven systems.
Mr. Rosen is also Director of Enterprise Architecture for the Cutter Consortium and Editorial Director of SOAInstitute.
He has been modeling in UML since the early 90’s and was an early adopter of Model Driven Architecture.
He has years of experience consulting in the architecture and design of applications for global corporations in Finance, Insurance and Telecom and in helping to create architecture and development processes and organizations.
Mike draws on his 20+ years of product development experience in distributed technologies including Web Services, J2EE, XML, CORBA, COM, DCE, transaction processing, and messaging. He frequently speaks at industry symposia, contributes to industry journals and is the author of several books including Applied SOA: Architecture and Design Strategies (2008).

Stephen Mellor
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."