Tom Adler leads the Application Architecture and IT Governance Team at Comcast Corporation. In his 15 years of enterprise software development experience, Tom has held various positions including developer, architect, evangelist and senior level manager. In his role at Comcast, Tom serves as the SOA Evangelist and leader of the SOA Center of Excellence (CoE), leading a team of architects that enables the business and application teams to embrace SOA and realize the maximum benefits that SOA has to offer. This CoE team has built out the enterprise wide SOA infrastructure at Comcast and is now actively engaging with teams across the enterprise to promote and propagate best practices.

Tom has held a variety of positions in the IT industry as well as owned a small consulting company. Tom holds a Bachelor's Degree in Computer Science from the University of Scranton and a Master's Degree in Software Engineering from Penn State University.

David Boloker is a distinguished engineer and chief technical officer for Emerging Internet Technologies in IBM Software Group. Previously, he was chief technical officer for Java Technologies in Software Group. David is recognized as a technical leader in the Internet software space guiding IBM's investments as well as product development. David's recent responsibilities included shaping IBM's Web 2.0 strategy, founding the Open Ajax Alliance, and driving IBM's Situational Application work. Additionally, he spends about a third of his time working in the venture capital and startup communities partnering and discussing various trends in the internet and gaming areas. David worked at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center and the Cambridge Scientific Center doing research in the area of remote distribution and control of complex hardware and software systems, dynamic I/O configuration of mainframe operating systems and secure internet gateways.

David earned a Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts in Mathematics from Boston University.

Philip G. Bossy joined TIAA-CREF two years ago to lead the transformation of the financial services company's website. As the vice president of the Web and e-Business Strategy and Solutions' e-Governance team, which includes business planning and strategy, web architecture, and security, Mr. Bossy set the website's architectural direction and initiated the portal implementation. A successful change agent who understands the people, processes, and technology aspects of business transformation, Mr. Bossy is raising business agility through SOA. Prior to joining TIAA-CREF, Mr. Bossy led the Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceutical division's North American IT strategy and governance function. Mr. Bossy holds a Bachelor's degree from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

Martin Brodbeck is currently the executive director of Strategic Architecture for Worldwide Technology Engineering at Pfizer. Martin joined Pfizer in 2001 as a senior manager working in the PGP Application Architecture Group where he helped define and implement architecture strategies and capabilities for the marketing and medical organization. In 2003, Martin was promoted to director where he worked on defining architecture capabilities across the entire pharmaceutical line aimed at integrating information and business processes.

Prior to joining Pfizer, Martin was a vice president at Merrill Lynch in the Enterprise Architecture Group for the Private Client Business where he worked on defining the group's e-commerce architecture. He was also the assistant vice president for Architecture at Deutsche Bank where he worked on designing and developing the firm's institutional trading platform for its fixed income business.

Martin holds a B.A. from the University of Richmond and an M.S. from the Stevens Institute of Technology.

Andres Carvallo is currently the chief information officer at Austin Energy, where he is responsible for the technology vision, planning, development and operations across the enterprise. Since February of 2003, Andres has been driving a wireless and SOA transformation to deliver a fully-integrated and self-healing enterprise. The current direction for the company is to deliver the first smart grid in the world by 2009. In addition to his responsibilities as CIO, Andres is member of the 8 person executive team, and member of the Innovation and Opportunity Development executive board. Outside of Austin Energy, Andres is vice-chairman for the Large Public Power Companies' CIO Task Force, a board member of the Center for Commercialization of Electric Technologies, a founding member of IDC's Energy Executive Council, a member of the CIO Executive Council, a member of the CIOSummit, and an advisor to several companies.

David Chappell is vice president and chief technologist for SOA at Oracle Corporation. Chappell has over 20 years of experience in the software industry covering a broad range of roles including architecture, code-slinging, sales, support and marketing. He is well known worldwide for his writings on the subjects of Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), the enterprise service bus (ESB), message oriented middleware (MOM), enterprise integration, and is a co-author of many advanced Web Services standards.

As author of the O'Reilly Enterprise Service Bus book, Dave has had tremendous impact on redefining the shape and definition of SOA infrastructure. He has extensive experience in distributed computing infrastructure, including ESB, SOA Governance, EJB and Web application server infrastructure, JMS and MOM, EAI, CORBA, and COM. Chappell's experience also includes development of client/server infrastructure, graphical user interfaces and language interpreters.

Chappell is also well noted for authoring Java Web Services (O'Reilly), Professional ebXML Foundations (Wrox) and Java Message Service (O'Reilly).

Ramnath Cidambi is a senior manager at United Airlines managing the Middleware infrastructure and Unix/Linux platforms. He has over 15 years of experience at very large corporations, most of it in the middleware arena. Ramnath has significant expertise implementing the basic buildings of a SOA implementation such as a Message Bus, Legacy integration components. He has architected mission-critical environments at United and other large organizations. He has presented case studies on EDA, been part of panel discussions on SOA, and published articles in technology publications.

Jon Eisenstein is global CTO for GE Money, the consumer and small business financial services unit of General Electric. In this role he leads corporate initiatives, technology strategies and standards for GE Money in 53 countries, encompassing more than 2,000 applications and 100 Web sites. A Six Sigma Black Belt in Quality, he manages 650 employees and contractors around the world. Jon is currently driving an aggressive SOA deployment initiative at GE Money.

An 11-year veteran of General Electric and 17-year veteran of technology and related fields, Jon served in a series of increasingly senior IT strategy and management roles before becoming GE Money's global CTO in 2006. One of those roles was serving as a manager in General Electric's Corporate Initiatives Group, a think tank that drives the parent company's worldwide IT and sourcing strategy. He earned a BBS in Finance from the University of Texas at Austin.

Mr. Elnaj has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry. Currently he is the program manager of the Web re-launch project at American Psychological Association. The Web re-launch is a strategic initiative that includes the deployment of a new Web content management system, e-commerce solution, search engine, and identity management. He managed teams to successfully implement enterprise portals and enterprise applications at GSA and other clients applying SOA architectural principles and provided SOA architectural solutions for CRM implementations. Mr. Elnaj worked for 8 years at Oracle Corporation helping various clients achieve early successes with Web implementations. He received his Ph.D. from the George Washington University.

Eric Ericson, principal architect for Level 3 Communications, is responsible for the design and implementation of the company's Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and for governing its enterprise service portfolio. He also established Level 3's Model-Driven Architecture practice. Previously, Eric served as VP and chief architect at TelCove, and as a principal architect for Qwest. There, he created long and short term technical strategies and architectures for implementing end to end business processes using SOA technologies. He has also held director level architecture and development positions with Virtela and New Edge Networks. As owner of Ericson-Traeger, Inc., he was responsible for distributed systems development at FedEx and served as the integration lead for the MCI – Bank Of Mexico Aventel joint venture. Eric has an additional 20 years of experience in large scale DoD and telecommunications systems development and integration.

As VP of Actional Products at Progress Software, Dan Foody leverages his 20+ years of enterprise software development to span the boundary between business and technology with service-oriented architectures (SOA). Previously serving as CTO for Actional Corp., acquired by Progress in early 2006, Foody's experience with distributed systems technologies including middleware, integration and Web services have provided him with a broad understanding and passion for solving today's critical business issues with innovative technology solutions. Most recently, Foody was the recipient of InfoWorld's 2005 CTO 25 award.

Robert Geier is an innovative business and IT consultant with a focus on SOA strategy, leadership, governance and implementation as a vehicle for business transformation. As a co-founder of The SOA Monitor and former IT executive, he has developed and implemented business, IT, SOA, and integration strategies for a variety of companies; developed IT leadership teams and governance models; implemented complex new business processes; launched and marketed a groundbreaking multi-media product, and developed strategies for software and internet companies.

Prior to The SOA Monitor, Rob held executive positions at Columbia Pictures, Universal Studios, and Qwest Communications where he delivered systems and processes that enabled new product, marketing, distribution, and operational strategies. He began his career at Accenture where he implemented enterprise systems and change management programs at fortune 500 companies. Rob received an MBA, Magna Cum Laude from the Stern School of Management at NYU.

Hari Gopalkrishnan is the CIO for Global Technology Services (GTS), managing a headcount of over 1700 IT professionals worldwide and providing a comprehensive range of technology services to the Support & Control divisions at Lehman Brothers. GTS is comprised of the following groups with significant headcount presence in New York, London, Tokyo and Mumbai: Database, Middleware and Mainframe Services; Information Security; Corporate Technology; Enterprise Information Services; Application and Process Engineering; Architecture Services; Operations and Finance Technology and Production Management and Control.

With a BSEE from the University of Maryland and an MSEE from the University of Michigan, Hari began his career as a systems analyst at Eli Lilly and has held management positions within Bankers Trust and Deutsche Bank. Hari joined Lehman Brothers in 1999 as a manager in the distributed infrastructure engineering group. Hari has held the CIO title since March 2007.

Garry Grandlienard has 22 years' experience in the computer industry, including enterprise architecture, systems engineering, marketing, education, management and project management. Specializing in assisting the companies he has worked for to architect, design and build service-oriented systems in a variety of language environments, Garry has a broad background in application architecture, design, implementation, and service. He is also involved in making Information Technology investments strategic to his companies' business goals.

Garry has designed information systems, installed communications networks, provided education and technical support for large information systems, supported and reviewed large database systems, and managed complex projects involving integration of IBM and non-IBM systems. He now works in the transportation industry at Railinc Corporation, a wholly-owned subsidiary of the Association of American Railroads. He is currently an IT Director at Railinc and leads the Enterprise Architecture function and is also managing an agile development project.

As Vice President of Solution Marketing of SAP NetWeaver, Fergus Griffin is responsible for the positioning and messaging, field enablement, and go-to-market strategy of SAP NetWeaver, a key catalyst for helping CIOs become strategic to their business. In particular, Griffin drives the marketing of SAP NetWeaver's pre-integrated standards-based capabilities for Master Data Management, Integration, Business Process Management, Business Intelligence, and Portal-based productivity and Collaboration. Prior to SAP, Griffin served as vice president of Product Marketing at Vignette Corporation and was responsible for enterprise portals, collaboration, analytics, and composite application in addition to Vignette's Employee Efficiency, Customer Self-Service and Partner Relationship Management solutions. Before joining Vignette, Griffin served as vice president of Product Management at Epicentric Inc., a market leader in enterprise portals and service-oriented application building. Previously, Griffin worked at Oracle Corporation where he held key product management and strategic partnership roles. Griffin also worked as a business integration specialist at Accenture.

Randy is a vice president and analyst at Forrester Research, where he writes primarily for Enterprise Architecture professionals. He is a leading expert on architectures and design approaches for building enterprise applications that are secure and resilient in the face of continuous business and technology change. This makes service-oriented architecture (SOA) one of Randy's primary focus areas. Since enterprise applications need much more than SOA, Randy led the development of Forrester's Digital Business Architecture, which provides a broad architectural context around SOA. Randy's research include general application architecture and design issues, overall SOA strategy, SOA platform and infrastructure strategy, core SOA design concepts, Web services architecture and standards, SOA security, SOA and Web services management, as well as continuing analysis of the longer term evolution toward Digital Business Architecture. Randy has over 25 years of IT experience, ranging from big five consulting and telecommunications to retail and litigation support.

Nishant Kaushik is principal architect for Identity Management at Oracle. In his current role, Nishant is responsible for driving innovation in Oracle's industry leading identity management solutions. He has seven years of experience in this industry architecting and delivering market leading products. Nishant is also an active member of the identity management community, regularly contributing his thoughts and ideas through his blog at www.talkingidentity.com, and participating in various community forums, user groups and industry conferences.

Eric Knorr is editor in chief at InfoWorld. He brings 20 years of technology journalism experience to the planning, development, and execution of feature articles that serve the needs of enterprise IT managers. Eric is the former editor of PC World magazine, the creator of the best-selling The PC Bible, a founding editor of CNET, and a veteran of several dot-com follies. A winner of the Neal and Computer Press Awards for journalistic excellence, he has written hundreds of articles on desktop and enterprise technology. He has a bachelor of arts from the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

Jose Lazares is the vice president of Development and Strategy for the Adaptive Business Solutions Group focusing on how Oracle's next generation applications will leverage a service oriented architecture (SOA) to deliver pre-built adaptable business processes that can be easily configured, deployed, monitored, modified and managed.

Mr. Lazares spent the past five years as a technology strategist focused on Enterprise Application Integration (EAI) and Business Process Management (BPM) at Vitria, PeopleSoft and now Oracle. He also brings over 10 years of industry experience in the manufacturing and distribution of consumer packaged goods. During this time period he held procurement and operations positions with Clorox and later marketing and brand management roles with Burns Philp and Monsanto.

Mr. Lazares holds an MBA with High Honors from Harvard Business School.

Patrick is responsible for software engineering and product strategy for all Rogue Wave products. To this role, Patrick brings a broad range of software and technology industry experience including software design and development, product strategy, international markets experience, public policy, professional services, and product marketing. He serves in the Open SOA specification body for Service Component Architecture (SCA) and as company representative to government organizations.

Before joining Rogue Wave, Patrick created new e-business and distributed enterprise application products for J.D. Edwards (now part of Oracle). Prior to that, he designed and built custom enterprise systems for Accenture (formerly Andersen Consulting). Patrick authored a patent for Content Based Routing, which was awarded in 2003. Outside of the office, he pursues various activities including oil painting, skiing, and mountain biking.

David S. Linthicum is an internationally known application integration and service oriented architecture expert. In his career David has formed many of the ideas for modern distributed computing including EAI (Enterprise Application Integration) and B2B application integration, and Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), approaches and technology in wide use today.

David is currently the managing partner of ZapThink, LLC, and is the former CTO of Mercator. He has held key technology management roles with SAGA Software, Mobil Oil, EDS, AT&T, and Ernst and Young. In addition he was an associate professor of computer science for eight years. David has authored over 500 articles for major computing publications, and has monthly columns in several industry magazines. He has authored or co-authored six books including David Linthicum's Guide to Client/Server, Intranet Development and Next Generation Application Integration.

Anne Thomas Manes is a vice president and research director with Burton Group, a research and advisory firm. She leads research on application platform strategies, with a specific focus on service-oriented architecture (SOA). Anne is a widely recognized industry expert on SOA and distributed computing. In 2002, NetworkWorld named Anne one of the 50 most powerful people in networking. She received a similar honor from Enterprise Systems Journal, who listed her among the 2001 Power 100 IT Leaders. She is the author of Web Services: A Manager's Guide. She has participated in web services standards development efforts at W3C, OASIS, WS-I, UDDI.org, and JCP. Prior to her role at Burton Group, Anne was chief technology officer at Systinet, a SOA governance company, and director of market innovation at Sun Microsystems, where she led Sun's early web services strategy. Anne developed her expertise working at a number of the world's leading hardware and software companies.

David's career spans more than 20 years of experience in operations, global sales and marketing management, business development, and information technology. As the Chief Operating Officer (COO) at IM Logic, Inc, he successfully led the company's global expansion, driving triple-digit revenue growth and overseeing the implementation of regulatory compliant instant messaging to 400,000 worldwide users. Prior to IM Logic, Inc, David served as president and COO at Exchange Applications, Inc. where he oversaw the implementation of marketing automation tools at leading brands like Citigroup, Bank of America and US West. In addition, David was vice president International and Alliances at MRO Software, Inc. (NASDAQ:MROI), in which he managed operations in more than 40 countries and grew international revenues to be 50% of worldwide revenues, resulting in a successful IPO. David graduated with honors from Bath University in England, and also holds a Master of Engineering degree from the University.

Dr. Nataraj Nagaratnam is an IBM distinguished engineer and chief architect for Identity Management, SOA security infrastructure and technical strategy. He drives security architecture and design activities across IBM products and platforms through the Tivoli organization around identity management and SOA security. During his career at IBM, he has been the lead security architect for WebSphere Application Server, and then the lead security architect for WebSphere Platform. He leads and participates in various open standards activities in standards organizations including JCP, OASIS, WS-I and GGF. He has authored and co-authored numerous journal articles, papers, books and security specifications, including the book on Enterprise Java Security published by Addison Wesley.

Sheppard Narkier is the head of Software Portfolio Management and IT Governance in the Wachovia CIB Technical Products Group. He is responsible for creating the practice and discipline to support the creation of reusable software infrastructure products that can be leveraged across CIBT. This practice encompasses a Service Oriented Product Management Strategy covering Service Oriented Architecture, Infrastructure and Utility.

Sheppard has 30 years experience in Financial Services IT, working as a manager and individual contributor in roles such as enterprise architect, and managing director of development, for firms such as Standard & Poors, Dow Jones, SIAC, UBS-IB. Sheppard was also global head of technology at Sapient. Sheppard’s early background includes systems engineer at Data General, and developer in a variety of Financial Services consulting firms.

In his role as Chief Technology Officer at IONA, Eric is responsible for IONA's technology strategy and participation in standards bodies. Eric joined IONA in November 1999, after nearly 16 years at Digital/Compaq, as the company's transaction processing architect, and also served as IONA's vice president of Engineering, Web Services Integration Products.

Eric has been involved in many transaction processing, middleware, and Web services standardization activities. He is currently a member of the Eclipse Board of Directors, and co-chair of the OSGi Enterprise Expert Group. Eric is the author of Understanding Web Services (published in May 2002 by Addison-Wesley), co-author with Phil Bernstein of Principles of Transaction Processing (published in January 1997 by Morgan Kaufman), and co-author with Greg Lomow of Understanding SOA with Web Services, published by Addison Wesley in December 2004.

Paul Patrick, vice president and chief architect for BEA Systems, has been with BEA for more than ten years and has been instrumental in leading a number of architectural initiatives across BEA's various product lines. In his role as chief architect, Mr. Patrick leads the Corporate Architect Group responsible for driving a consistent set of architectural guidelines, principles, and best practices across the entire portfolio of BEA products. Prior to becoming BEA's chief architect, Mr. Patrick served in a number of architecture roles both at BEA Systems and other companies.

Mr. Patrick has nearly 30 years experience in the high technology industry with roles in software and hardware development, including security, network device firmware and diagnostics, network protocols, distributed computing technology, tool development, quality assurance, and technical support, as well being a published author, having written the books Understanding CORBA and The Black Book on Government Security, as well as numerous articles.

Bhaskar Rayavaram is a director at Bear Stearns, in-charge of the BPM Center of Excellence at EMC Mortgage Corporation, delivering enterprise wide BPM solutions. He has led many large-scale BPM implementations for various businesses in the past using iterative methodologies. He has an Executive MBA degree from The University of Texas at Dallas and a bachelor's degree in computer science.

Rob Risany is vice president of Product Marketing for Savvion. He is responsible for setting the direction and positioning of Savvion's products and services so that they meet customer requirements. Mr. Risany brings more than 10 years experience in software marketing including business process management, business intelligence, enterprise integration, and operational support systems. Prior to Savvion, Mr. Risany helped launch Orb Networks and AIM Technology in the United States, delivering marketing strategies and tactics which led to double-digit year-on-year growth for both companies.

Paul F. Roberts is a senior analyst covering enterprise security for The 451 Group, a technology industry analyst company headquartered in New York. Paul brings 13 years of IT industry experience to his job covering security. Prior to joining The 451, Paul spent five years covering the enterprise IT security space as a writer and editor for publications including InfoWorld, eWEEK and The IDG News Service. Prior to that, Paul worked as a communications and training professional in the IT industry for companies including Cisco Systems, SteelPoint Technologies (now Zantaz) and LogicaCMG.

Michael Rowley works on standards in BEA's office of the CTO. He was heavily involved in the development of the Service Component Architecture (SCA) 1.0 specifications. He was on six of the seven SCA working groups, was chair of one group and was an editor on one of the specifications. He has also worked on the Service Data Objects (SDO) specification. He is currently one of the seven elected members of the OASIS steering committee for the Open Composite Services Architecture (OpenCSA) Member Section, which is overseeing the standardization of SCA and SDO. Prior to working in the office of the CTO, he worked in product development as an architect on WebLogic Integration, AquaLogic Service Bus and WebLogic Server. Prior to working at BEA, Michael Rowley got his Ph.D. from UCLA in the area of object-oriented databases and later worked on database and business process management software at Object Design, Inc.

Rich works in the Software Infrastructure business unit at Sun Microsystems looking at emerging technologies and markets and their convergence. He's currently interested in a diverse spectrum of technology including Service Oriented Architectures, Web-scale Computing, Identity Management, Enterprise Collaboration and Social Networking.

He has previously worked as a technical consultant offering guidance to many Fortune 500 companies in the adoption of design methodologies, CORBA, Web Services, XML and Java. He has worked on a number of large, complex mission critical distributed systems in the Space, Transport and Defense industries.

Dr. Hubert Winter has been with Deutsche Bank for more than 10 years. He worked in Germany for about 2 years until he was assigned to the Deutsche Bank branch in New York, where he is now working in Global Technology and Operations, supporting the Human Resources systems environment. In his career, he also worked for Digital Equipment Cooperation in Munich in systems integration. For the last couple of years, Hubert has been working in the area of Service-Oriented Architecture. He put the SOA idea in practice in Deutsche Bank by realizing several business processes in the employee self-service space and in the HR approval and communication area.

Pete Yao is a senior manager in Accenture's Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA) practice and is the Global SOA solution lead for the Accenture Innovation Center for Sun Microsystems Solutions. Pete has 12 years of experience in SOA, enterprise integration, large heterogeneous environments, and ERP implementations. Based in Los Angeles, California, Pete has provided technology consulting and project management to numerous high-profile Global Fortune 500 clients and governments across several industries throughout the globe. He can be reached at peter.s.yao@accenture.com.

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