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Willie
Appel Vice President, International META Group Consulting |
Mr. Appel, with more than 24 years of experience in the information technology industry, is an internationally experienced practitioner and leading authority on the META Group's discipline of enterprise planning and architecture. Since joining META Group in July 1998, he has been directly involved in the creation of enterprise architecture deliverables on four contents (Africa, Europe, America, and Asia-Pacific), with experience in both the government/public and private sectors. Prior to META Group, he was chief technology architect for the information technology division of Nedcor Bank, one of the four leading banks in South Africa. In this capacity, he was co responsible for driving the technical architecture strategy for the company and its many diverse business units. Internet/e-commerce development, a key focus area for Nedcor Bank, was his responsibility and is an area that has elevated the bank to one of the top banks in Southern Africa. He began his career with the country's Department of Post and Telecommunications, where he specialized in development of teletext networks and related telecommunications. Mr. Appel received a B.S. (Honors) degree in Computer Network Sciences from the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
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Sally
Bean Business Systems Arch Manager British Airways |
Sally has worked in the IT department of British Airways for 25 years. Has participated in a wide range of strategic planning and architecture activity over past 10 years, including management of an architecture change programme and participation in studies on operational control, airport and baggage systems. Most recent role was providing coordination of the business systems architecture of the airline's commercial systems within the Chief Architect's group. Currently on unpaid leave, doing research and study into business architecture and systems thinking.
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Brian
Burke Vice President, International Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies META Group |
Brian Burke has a broad and diverse background in technology and strategy, gained during 18 years in the industry. He is considered a thought leader in the practical application of enterprise architecture, and having developed federated architecture concept and techniques that have been applied at dozens of the worlds largest companies. Prior to joining META Group in October 1998, he was chief architect and director of the architecture office for the Workplace Safety and Insurance Board (WSIB) in Toronto. Brian's key focus is driving innovation strategy and business alignment to maximise the value contribution of IT organisations. Being a technology innovator, he has held senior management positions with responsibility for the development of IT strategies and the implementation of technologies, including Internet, knowledge management, data warehouse, groupware, client/server, and LAN/desktop technology.
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Richard
Buchanan Vice President, Enterprise Planning & Architecture Strategies META Group |
Richard Buchanan is a world-renowned expert on enterprise architecture and IT strategy. With 15 years of experience as a practitioner and consultant to Global 2000 companies, he has published numerous articles on topics as diverse as integrated logistics, electronic commerce, component-based software development, competitive intelligence, and financial modelling. Prior to joining META Group in November 1996, Richard was the founder and principal of The Buchanan Group, an analysis and consulting firm responsible for enterprise architectural planning, market studies, competitive profiles, white papers, focus groups, scenario planning, and competitive war gaming. Prior to that, he was an analyst in the Computing Strategy Service of Forrester Research. Richard's experience also includes work at Digital Equipment Corp., where he managed product research and competitive intelligence activities and was a key member of its global strategy planning team.
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Roger
Burlton Founder Process Renewal Group |
Roger has recently published the book: 'Business Process Management'. He is recognised internationally for his worldwide contributions in Business Architecture, Process Management, Prototyping, and people-based Project Management. He has chaired several high profile conferences on Advanced Knowledge, Information, Technology and Process Management around the world, including Process and Knowledge Management Europe 97 and 98, the National BPR Conference 97, DCI's Knowledge Management Conferences 98 and 99 as well as Software World and the IBM Executive Summit. Roger is a working practitioner and is regarded as a world authority on the pragmatic issues associated with introducing integrated and multi dimensional change. He apologises in advance for his reliance on common sense.
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Neal
Fishman Enterprise Architect Equifax |
Neal Fishman is an Enterprise Architect with Equifax. He has over 20 years of experience in IT. He is involved in the architecture and design of e-commerce applications. He serves as a member of the Business Rules Group and the IEEE IDEFobject Standards Committee. He is a former Associate Editor for the Business Rules Journal at www.BRCommunity.com. He is a Practising Member of the World Wide Institute of Software Architects, and a former board member of the DAMA Atlanta Chapter. He has delivered presentations in North America, Australia, and Europe. He has been published in various technical magazines.
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Preben
Folkjaer Head of IT Strategy Munich Re |
Preben Folkjaer is head of the IT strategy group at Munich Re. He is involved in alignment of IT and business with respect to both process, content and communication. He has over 25 years of experience in IT covering enterprise architecture, program design and implementation, and project management. He is a former member of the ISO Standardisation group for PROLOG and has a Master in Computer Science from the Technical university of Denmark.
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Tim
Harris Head of Business Information Architecture Swiss Re |
Since 2000, Tim Harris has held the role of head of Business Information Architecture at Swiss Re, where he has worked since 1996. Previously head of Group-wide Data Warehousing, Tim has extensive experience both in data and systems analysis and modelling, and also in meta-data management and repository development. Tim divides his time between the UK and Zurich, Switzerland, the headquarters of Swiss Re, where he works as part of the Swiss Re Group Architecture Support Team. Tim has over 15 years experience in many branches of IT, and has given presentations at many major international conferences and user groups on data warehousing and meta-data management. Tim holds degrees in Computing and Sociology, and is a member of the British Computer Society.
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Dave
Harrison Senior Consultant Popkin Software |
David has worked in the IT Industry for over 30 years. During 22 years with IBM in programming, systems analysis and database administration on a variety of development projects, and latterly in technical support to the IBM sales force, he gained considerable experience in all aspects of the systems development life-cycle.
More recently, David has worked for Ordnance Survey (OS) as a Senior Systems Development Consultant. In this role, he established the Design Authority and Enterprise Architecture Teams, and introduced the Dynamic Systems Development Method (DSDM). He was responsible for defining, promoting and advising on good design practice throughout OS, and acted as mentor in a number of DSDM projects.
David is an experienced facilitator of JAD and modelling workshops; he has given many courses, bringing enthusiasm and a thorough and practical knowledge of modelling and systems development to his teaching; he is a strong presenter and frequently presents to groups such as the DSDM Consortium and the SA User Group; and he has long experience of using System Architect both in development projects and to support implementation of an enterprise architecture.
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Jan
Hoogervorst Vice President Corporate Information Strategy KLM |
Jan Hoogervorst studied Electrical Engineering at the Delft University of Technology, and did his doctoral dissertation at the Amsterdam Free University in the area of Work and Organisational Psychology. He works with KLM Royal Dutch Airlines, currently as Vice President Corporate Information Strategy.
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Berit
Lönn Director IS Architecture Telia |
Currently Working as:
- Marketing Director on Telia MegaCom wich is our sales organisation towards large Cooperate business.
- Director CRM and Business Intelligence on BA Business Communication with responsibility for Telias business market.
- Marketing director BA Business Communication.
- Director IS Architecture
on Telia Coorperate
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Jim
Macintosh Chief Technical Architect Consignia |
Jim Macintosh is an IS/IT professional of more than 25 years practical experience. During his time at Consignia he has managed the planning and delivery of major systems projects before moving to enterprise architecture development. Prior to joining Consignia he worked for Granada, GE and Ford Motor Company where he held various senior management positions many of them in a strategic planning capacity. He has also published papers on simulation and its application to process modelling. Jim received his BSc in mathematics from London University and is a charted member of the Institute of Mathematics and its Applications.
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Tony
Pans Business Consultant Secorp |
Mr. Tony Pans is an internationally operating and highly experienced business consultant, active in the business modelling arena since 1989. He has conducted numerous reengineering and architecture projects in major organisations. These projects have spanned sectors such as pharmaceuticals, food, aerospace & defense, telecommunications, electronics and governmental sectors. He has advised them on the alignment of corporate IT-strategy with business objectives, the creation of best-practice business process models and the implementation of the resulting improvement roadmaps.
Next to high-level consulting and project management skills, he has extensive experience with business modelling techniques and the application of automated tools.
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Martin
Phillips Head of Group Architecture Barclays |
Martin Phillips is Head of Architecture in Barclays' Group Technology Office, responsible for enterprise application, data and security architectures. The Group Technology Office sets strategic direction for Barclays' use of IT, aligning IT capabilities with Group strategy, designing for regulatory compliance and ensuring that best value is obtained from technology investments.
Martin has a PhD in physics gained from studying very high-speed collisions between elementary particles at CERN. Subsequent work took him into military systems, digital wireless networks and commercial and financial applications. Prior to Barclays, he worked with McKinsey & Co defining IT architectures for e-business building and post-merger IT integration with various European financial institutions.
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Chris
Potts Director Dominic Barrow |
Chris is increasingly recognized as one of today's leading experts on value-driven IT investment strategies. He provides advice, hands-on support, training and skills transfer to high-profile companies across a range of industries. Dominic Barrow is an independent consultancy dedicated to helping businesses to maximise the value of their IT investments, by ensuring that this a core business competency and the focus of their IT strategy.
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Robert
Rencher Senior Systems Engineer, Commercial Aviation Service The Boeing Company |
Robert Rencher is a Sr. Systems Engineer at the Boeing Company responsible for managing the definition and implementation of the global technical infrastructure in support of Commercial Airplane eBusiness initiatives at the Boeing Company. Recent successes include the deployment of a worlds largest aerospace Internet portal (www.myboeingfleet.com) enabling customers and partners of the Boeing Company secure access to digital content and services. Robert also chairs the technical working group responsible for establishing enterprise database technical standards for the Boeing Company.
Robert has over 15 years of experience in the IT industry, spanning all aspects of system design and operational support including: database administration, application architect, data resource management and strategic IS planning.
Robert's participation in the industry includes teaching the Enterprise Data Integration course at the University of Washington and publishing papers at several industry conferences.
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Pete
Rivett CTO Adaptive |
Pete Rivett is CTO of Adaptive, a company specializing in helping global businesses to remain agile and respond faster to market changes, whilst reducing costs and minimizing risk.
Pete has spent his career in modeling and the development of repository and metadata management software - including at ICL, N&P Building Society and Adaptive, which he co-founded in 1997. He works with customers on leading edge projects and is a regular conference speaker.
Pete is active in the Object Management Group (OMG) and has just been elected to the Architecture Board. He is directly involved in producing standards such as Unified Modeling Language (UML), Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM), Enterprise Distributed Object Computing (EDOC) and Software Portfolio Management Facility.
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Alistair
Shearin Director of Global Applications Diageo |
Alistair recently joined Diageo to establish the Global Applications function and to lead the creation of an IS Architecture culture and capability. Prior to joining Diageo he had a lengthy stay at Consultants PricewaterhouseCoopers, where he had leading roles in the IS Strategy and IS Management Practices, and in the direction and management of major IS programmes. It is this combination of strategic planning and pragmatic execution experiences which have shaped his views on the practice of IS and Enterprise Architecture.
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Andrew
Watson V.P. and Technology Director OMG |
Andrew has overall responsibility for OMG's technology adoption process, and also chairs the Architecture Board, the group of distinguished technical contributors from OMG member organizations which oversees the technical consistency of OMG's specifications. From 1992 to 1996 he also chaired the OMG's Object Request Broker Task Force, which was responsible for the development and deployment of the CORBA 2 specification. Previously Andrew spent six years with the ANSA core team in Cambridge researching distributed object architectures, specialising in distributed object type systems.
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John
Zachman President Zachman International |
John A. Zachman is the originator of the 'Framework for Enterprise Architecture', which has received broad acceptance around the world as an integrative framework or 'periodic table' of descriptive representations of Enterprises. He has been focusing on information strategy and architecture since 1970 and has written a number of articles on those subjects. John is retired from IBM, having served them for 26 years. He is Chief Executive Officer of the Zachman Institute for Framework Advancement (ZIFA), an organisation dedicated to advancing the conceptual and implementation states of the art in Enterprise Architecture. He also operates his own education and consulting business, Zachman International.
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