Tom Dwyer, tdwyer@bpminstitute.org
Editorial Director, BPMInstitute.org & Industry Analyst
Tom Dwyer is the VP of Research for BrainStorm Group, the Editorial Director of BPMInstitute.org, an Editorial Board Member for SOAInstitute.org and a co-chair of BrainStorm Group's SOAI conference series. He writes, presents and consults on topics that include Service-Oriented Architecture, Business-to-Business, Enterprise Application Integration, and Business Process Management. Mr. Dwyer has conducted primary research and published extensive reports on the Application Software Infrastructure markets.

Tammy Adams
Managing Partner of Chaosity LLC
Ms. Adams is currently the Managing Partner of Chaosity LLC and specializes in Team Facilitation and Business Process Analysis. As a certified facilitator Ms. Adams is able to extract the experience and knowledge of your Subject Matter Experts and quickly transform it into the specific outputs required to achieve your business objective. She guides teams in identifying and transforming their process knowledge and business requirements into viable project and system deliverables that incorporate quality principles consistent with methodologies such as TQM, Six Sigma, and Lean. Ms. Adams background includes extensive experience in project management, operations management, consulting services, training, and facilitation.

She is the co-author of the soon to be released book “Facilitating the Project Lifecycle: Skills & Tools to Accelerate Progress for Project Managers, Facilitators and Six Sigma Project Teams” and a regular speaker at International Facilitator, Quality, Business Process and Project Management Conferences.

Web site: www.chaosity.com

Brett Champlin
President, ABPMP.org
Brett Champlin is an internal Process Consultant with a large insurance firm where he leads business and IT process redesign projects. He led the development of an enterprise process model repository and the selection of the enterprise process modeling, analysis and design tools.

He has over 20 years of experience working in Information Systems and Management. He has an undergraduate degree in Computer Science from Roosevelt University and an MBA from Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT). Brett is a Certified Computing Professional (CCP) with proficiencies in Information Management, Systems Development, Software Engineering and Data Resource Management. He is a Senior Lecturer in the MBA and MSIS programs of School of Business at Roosevelt University where he has taught for the past 15 years.

Web site: www.abpmp.org

Janelle B. Hill
Vice President, Gartner
Ms. Hill has over 20 years of IT experience and is an industry expert on software infrastructure. She has held both technical and management roles in software architecture, database development, IT operations, and product marketing and sales. Most recently, Ms. Hill was responsible for the integration of MetaGroup's Research organization with Gartner's. As a Gartner analyst again, Ms. Hill's research agenda focuses on Business Process Management as a management discipline and as emerging technology to enable organizations to become more adaptive. Ms. Hill also contributes to Gartner's research on core middleware, Service Oriented Architecture and Web services. Previously Ms. Hill held positions at MetaGroup, Vitria, Gartner, MCI, IBM, Select Magazines, and Standard Motor Products. Ms. Hill has an MBA from NY University/ Stern School of Business and a BA from Barnard College / Columbia University.

Web site: www.gartner.com

Michael Melenovsky
Editorial Board Member, BPMInstitute.org
Michael Melenovsky is Senior BPM Consultant. Most recently he was Vice President of Satyam’s Consulting and Enterprise Solutions Group with focus on business process management and business transformation. In this senior leadership role, he worked closely with major clients to assure successful adoption of process-management practices and enabling technologies. Prior to joining Satyam, Mr. Melenovsky served as Director of Business Process Management at Gartner where he engaged with Global 1000 companies assisting them with best practices and organizational readiness. As a proven leader and visionary, Michael held several senior leadership positions throughout his career. As a Senior Vice President at IDC he led the firm’s worldwide services and vertical markets groups. At Rockwell International he led the start-up of customer services operations for the industrial automation group and served on corporate strategic planning.

Bruce Silver
Principal, Bruce Silver Associates
Dr. Silver is an independent industry analyst specializing in enterprise content management and business process management technology. He writes the monthly Business Rules column for Transform magazine, as well as numerous white papers and reports available at www.brsilver.com. His report, The Manager's Guide to BPM Software, provides in-depth reviews and walkthroughs of leading BPM vendor offerings. Previously, he was VP and Director of Workflow and Document Management services at BIS Strategic Decisions, which became Giga Information Group. He is on the board of directors of Captiva Software, a document imaging vendor.

Web site: www.brsilver.com

Andrew Spanyi
Author of Business Process Management is a Team Sport: Play It To Win!
Andrew Spanyi is the managing director of Spanyi International Inc., a consulting and training company that operates in the field of organization and process design. He has worked with executive teams at global organizations for nearly two decades, assisting them in transforming the way they tend to think about their business. He is the author of 'Business Process Management is a Team Sport, Play It to Win!'

Visit the book's Web site at www.anclote.com/spanyi.html.

Ken Vollmer
Principal Analyst, Forrester Research
Ken is a principal analyst in Forrester's Enterprise Applications research group, covering trends, issues, and strategies related to all forms of integration, including application integration (AI), business process integration (BPI), business process management (BPM), enterprise application integration (EAI), and electronic data interchange (EDI).

Ken came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and has 18 years of management-level experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Giga, he was the director of information systems planning for a large retail company, where he implemented a comprehensive EDI program with more than 1,000 trading partners. He has held a wide range of IT management positions at Carrier Corporation and MONY Financial Services, as well as various positions in the logistics arena at John Deere and Carrier.

Ken has assisted hundreds of clients in North America and Europe with their integration projects, drawing upon his knowledge of emerging trends and many years of practical experience in implementing eBusiness solutions

Web site: www.forrester.com

Larry Goldberg
Managing Partner, Knowledge Partners, Inc.
Larry has over thirty years of experience in building technology based companies, focused on rule-based technologies and applications. Prior to joining KPI as Managing Partner, he was Senior Vice President of Sapiens Americas, Inc., which he joined when he sold his company, PowerFlex Software Systems, Inc to Sapiens. Larry is co-author of “The Business Rules Revolution” (Happy About, 2006), Editorial Director of “The Business Rules Newsletter”, and co-chair of the Brainstorm Business Rules Symposium track.

Web site: www.kpiusa.com

William Ulrich
President, Tactical Strategy Group, Inc.
William Ulrich is President of Tactical Strategy Group, Inc. and a strategic planning consultant. He has been helping corporations and government agencies develop and deploy architecture alignment strategies for more than 25 years. Mr. Ulrich serves as Co-chair of the OMG Architecture-Driven Modernization Task Force and his latest book is called "Legacy Systems: Transformation Strategies".

Web site: www.systemtransformation.com