Curt Abraham, Best Buy, Inc.
Janaki Akella, McKinsey & Co.
Art Akerman, Capital One
Chris Barlow, McKinsey & Co.
Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink
Jim Bole, Infravio
Toufic Boubez, Layer 7 Technologies
Martin Brodbeck, Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals
Brent Carlson, Logic Library
Kerry Champion, Westbridge
Mark Chanliau, Netegrity
Dave Chappell, Sonic Software
James Clark, Microsoft
Michael Daconta, Smart Data Associates
Steven Davis, Walt Disney Studios
Eric S. Dungan, Best Buy
Dan Foody, Actional
Mark Goetsch, Wheels, Inc.
Pat Helland, Microsoft
Peter Herzum, Cutter Consortium
Dave Hollander
Ralph Hodgson, TopQuadrant
Chris Keene, Persistence

Adam Kolawa, Parasoft
Grant Larsen, IBM
David Linthicum, Grand Central
Boris Lublinsky, CNA Financial Services
Frank Martinez, Blue Titan
Richard Marshall, Rapid Mobile Media
Richard Murphy, Blueprint Technologies
Thomas Murphy, META Group
Peter O’Kelly, Burton Group
Mark O’Neill, Vordel
Tom Pardee, WWISA
Rahul Patel, BEA Systems
Keith Pleas, Guided Design
Vineet Rajput, Bank of America
Ron Rasmussen, KnowNow, Inc.
Atul Saini, Fiorano
Michael Sawicki, Compuware
Ron Schmelzer, ZapThink
Bruce Sheridan, General Motors
Charles Stack, Flashline
Vinu Sundaresan, Collation
Jeff Tyree, Capital One
Bram van der Ploeg, NetJets
Peter Varhol, Compuware

Read interviews and editorial perspectives from some of Enterprise Architect Summit’s key speakers and contributors.

Develop an Architectural Master Plan, Steven P. Davis, vice president of IT, Walt Disney Studios

SOA Holds Key to Agility, Ron Schmelzer and Jason Bloomberg, ZapThink analysts

Jason Bloomberg, Senior Analyst at ZapThink, has a diverse background in eBusiness technology management and industry analysis, including serving as a senior analyst in IDC's eBusiness Advisory group, as well as holding eBusiness management positions at USWeb/CKS (later marchFIRST) and WaveBend Solutions (now Hitachi Consulting). His articles have appeared in Electronic Commerce World, Intranet Journal, XML and Web Services Magazine, The Rational Edge, Application Development Trends, and ZDNet: Developer. He co-authored the book Web Page Scripting Techniques (Hayden Books, 1996), and in association with Ronald Schmelzer, contributed the chapters on Web Services to XML and Web Services Unleashed (SAMS Publishing, 2002). He has a bachelor's degree in physics from Pomona College, and Masters degrees in mathematics and history & philosophy of science from the University of Pittsburgh.

Jim Bole, Vice President, Professional Services at Infravio is a 17-year veteran of high tech startups and Fortune100 companies holding key technical leadership positions at both. At Infravio, he has led our professional services projects at such companies as Sabre, McGraw-Hill, Providence Health System, and British American Tobacco. Prior to Infravio, Jim was founding development team member at Formtek, an early pioneer in engineering imaging and document management. After leading core technology development, he assumed P&L responsibility for their Professional Services, Training and Support organizations. As VP of Technology and Services, Jim managed the rapid expansion of the company's global service business until Formtek's acquisition by Lockheed Martin. Jim also held VP of Engineering and CTO roles at pop2it.com and at WorkExchange Technologies. He holds a BS in Applied Mathematics and Computer Science from Carnegie Mellon University.

Toufic Boubez, Chief Technology Officer at Layer 7 Technologies, is a well-respected and renowned Web services visionary. Prior to co-founding Layer 7 Technologies, Toufic was the Chief Web Services Architect for IBM's Software Group and drove their early XML and Web services strategies. He worked as IBM's technical representative to the UDDI Web services consortium and participated on several standards bodies including the UN/CEFACT/OASIS ebXML initiative. During this time, Toufic co-authored the original UDDI API specification. Toufic also managed some of IBM Global Services’ largest e-business engagements. He is a sought-after presenter and has chaired many XML and Web services conferences. In 2002, InfoWorld named Toufic to its “Ones to Watch” list. An author of many publications, his most recent book is the top-selling Building Web Services with Java: Making Sense of XML, SOAP, WSDL and UDDI. Toufic holds a Master of Electrical Engineering degree from McGill University and a Ph.D. in Biomedical Engineering from Rutgers University.

Martin Brodbeck is currently a Director in the Global Application Architecture Group for the Pfizer Global Pharmaceuticals Group at Pfizer Inc. Martin holds a BA from the University of Richmond and a Masters of Science from the Stevens Institute of Technology. Prior to joining Pfizer, Martin was the Vice President of Enterprise Architecture for Merrill Lynch, where he was responsible for architecture initiatives within the Private Client Group. Martin also worked for Deutsche Bank Securities, where in his role as Assistant Vice President, he led architecture initiatives in the Debt Capital Markets Technology Group.

Brent Carlson, Vice President of Technology and co-founder, LogicLibrary, Inc. Recently named to InfoWorld's list of "CTOs to Watch in 2004," Brent Carlson drives the development and delivery of LogicLibrary's products. He is a 17-year veteran of IBM, where he served as lead architect for the WebSphere Business Components project and held numerous leadership roles on the "IBM SanFrancisco Project." Carlson recently led LogicLibrary's product development team in porting the Logidex solution to the .NET platform. He is the co-author of two books: SanFrancisco Design Patterns: Blueprints for Business Software (with James Carey and Tim Graser) and Framework Process Patterns: Lessons Learned Developing Application Frameworks (with James Carey). Carlson is also a frequent presenter at industry conferences, including Microsoft PDC 2003, and regional user groups. He is a BEA Regional Director and holds 16 software patents, with eight more currently under evaluation.

Michael Daconta is the founder and Chief Technology Officer of Smart Data Associates, Inc.  Mr. Daconta is a well-known author, lecturer and columnist having authored or co-authored 10 technical books, numerous magazine articles and online columns.  He previously served as the Chief Architect of the Defense Intelligence Agency’s Virtual Knowledge Base Project and also designed the electronic mortgage XML standard for Fannie Mae.  He earned his Masters degree in Computer Science from Nova Southeastern University and his bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from New York University.  His most recent book is entitled, “The Semantic Web: A guide to the future of XML, Web Services and Knowledge Management.”  His other books cover XML, XUL, Java, C++ and C.  More information is available on his website at .

Steven P. Davis is vice president of IT for the Walt Disney Studios, and also serves as co-chair of Disney's Architecture Council. Mr. Davis is a systems architect and technology strategist with over 25 years of experience in both commercial software and in-house application development. In addition to architectural and development responsibilities, Mr. Davis also oversees Disney’s domestic film distribution, music, and entertainment business services groups within the Studio's IT organization.

Eric Dungan is currently a member of the Enterprise Architecture Center of Excellence at Best Buy, a leading specialty retailer of consumer electronics, personal computers, entertainment software, and appliances. A 20 year veteran of the IS industry, Mr. Dungan has done design, development, enterprise architecture, application architecture, operations architecture and IT consulting in the telecommunications, financial services, health care, and retail industries. Mr. Dungan lives in Eden Prairie Minnesota with his wife Tracy and 3 sons Joshua, Jacob, and Tony. When not doing EA work, he performs with and manages a 90 member community band (), runs the T-Ball program for Eden Prairie, and is a Cub Scout Den leader for Eden Prairie Pack 497.

Dan Foody, as Chief Technology Officer at Actional, leverages his extensive experience in enterprise systems software toward designing manageable service-oriented architectures. He is an active participant in the Web services standards community, including OASIS, WS-I and OMG, where he contributed significantly to the OMG standard for COM/CORBA interworking. Dan also heads Actional's contributions on the OASIS Web Services Distributed Management Committee (WSDM).

Mark Goetsch is a Software Architect with Wheels, Inc. Mark has more than fifteen years of experience in Software Development, Enterprise Modeling & Software Architecture. He has another seven years experience as a Trader, Dealer, Broker and an expert in E-Trading. He was one of the Enterprise Modelers of the Tapestry Project at ABNAMRO, the most extensive use of UML component and Deployment diagrams to date. He is the lead architect for the MAP (Meta-Architectural Processes) framework, which is a framework for mapping the role of the Software Architect into Software Development Processes. Mark has a Masters in Computer Science with Distinction from DePaul University where he continues to participate in the Academic Community, and a Bachelor of Arts in History from Spring Hill College. Mark is certified in Intermediate UML with the OMG and a member of WWISA.

Pat Helland is an Architect in the .NET Enterprise Architecture Team and is helping to define Microsoft’s strategy for service oriented architecture. He has spent more than 25 years working in the area of database, transaction processing, application programming models, distributed computing, and fault tolerant computing. Pat started at Microsoft in 1994 and was a cofounder of the team that designed and implemented MTS (Microsoft Transaction Server) which is now called COM+. He has spent a lot of time in recent years working on loosely-coupled application models and reliable messaging. Prior to working at Microsoft, Pat spent most of the 1980s at Tandem Computers where he was chief architect and senior implementer of TMF (Transaction Monitoring Facility) which provided the transaction processing functionality for Tandem’s NonStop System.

Peter Herzum, CTO and founder of , an international consulting company. After extensive object-oriented experience, since 1992 he has pioneered project, product, and product-lines development using enterprise components. Since 1999 he has worked with Service Oriented Architectures across the Internet and for large enterprises or federations of enterprises. A specialist in advanced enterprise architectures and advanced technologies, and in ROIcentric approaches to software manufacturing, he is helping companies around the world to define IT strategies, launch enterprise architecture efforts, establish agile software factories, and resolve complex development and integration problems. Peter is the main creator of COSM™, the agile component-based approach to large-scale development and integration, and of COSM™ Enterprise, the second-generation enterprise architecture approach. He is also the principal author of the best-selling book Business Component Factory. Respected industry analyst, Senior Consultant with the Cutter Consortium, he is also an active member of the OMG, where he is currently the chair of the Web Services SIG. Peter is an internationally recognized authority on large-scale architecture and agile development in the large.

Dave Hollander is a technology strategist and architect who has been on the leading edge of many key information technologies. Dave's career has concentrated on information management, blending new standards and technologies with corporate opportunities and needs. For example, while chief architect for hp.com, XML was invented in response to the need to find a better way to manage information. Dave has had a leading role in the development of XML since its inception. He is a co-inventor of XML, was an original member of the first W3C XML Working Group, and currently leads the W3C XML Schema Working Group and Web Services Architecture Working Group. Dave co-authored the W3C Standard, _Namespaces in XML_, co-authored a book titled XML Applications by Wrox Press, and was technical editor for Modeling Business Objects with XML Schemas from Morgan-Kauffmann. Dave has also contributed to a variety of XML based eCommerce standards including OAGI, RosettaNet, OBI and the ECO Framework. Focused on business oriented information management, Dave's corporate achievements include founding and chief architect of , leading the development of Contivo's semantic modeling technology, deployment of an internal HP-wide search engine and development a CD-ROM publishing system for all of HP's technical manuals. Dave has been on the advisory board for Cohera, XMology, OSM, and Noonetime and held senior technology positions at Contivo, CommerceNet, Hewlett Packard and Bell Laboratories.

Ralph Hodgson is the CEO and co-founder of TopQuadrant, Inc., a consulting company specializing in knowledge-based solutions, the semantic WEB, semantic technologies ontology engineering. He is the leader for the Semantic Technologies Pilots in the Emerging Technology sub-committee of the Government's CIO Council's XML Web Services Working Group. Ralph has over 25 years experience, in the United States and internationally in enterprise systems design, consulting, software development and methodology development and deployment. Prior to launching TopQuadrant he was an Executive Consultant at IBM Global Services from 1994 to 2001 where he was a founding member of the Portal and Java and Emerging Technology practices. Prior to IBM, Ralph was European Technology Director, founder and Managing Director of the UK Subsidiary of an international CASE tools vendor. He has held executive positions in a Process Control and Instrumentation group, Eurotherm International and started his career with Hewlett-Packard as an R&D engineer. Ralph is a published author, with some 30 papers and 6 chapters of books and a frequent speaker at international software engineering conferences.

Christopher Keene founded Persistence in 1991 with the vision of speeding and simplifying access to corporate data. Mr. Keene has appeared as a featured expert on real-time data convergence in numerous publications ranging from the Wall Street Journal to Information Week; and conferences ranging from Comdex to SD West. Mr. Keene has consistently been recognized as a software visionary, securing him a place in the Intelligent Enterprise Top Ten Technology Leaders. Prior to founding Persistence, Mr. Keene was an engagement manager with McKinsey & Company. Before that, Mr. Keene worked at Ashton-Tate and Hewlett-Packard. Mr. Keene is a frequent presenter on such topics as the future of software development, real-time information management, and data convergence through the virtual data layer. Mr. Keene earned an MBA from the Wharton School. He holds a Bachelor’s Degree with Honors in Mathematics from Stanford University.

Dr Adam Kolawa, Parasoft co-founder and CEO, came to the United States from Poland in 1983 to pursue his Ph.D. In 1987, he and a group of fellow graduate students founded Parasoft to create value-added products that could significantly improve the software development process. Kolawa's years of experience with various software development processes has resulted in his unique insight into the high-tech industry and the uncanny ability to successfully identify technology trends. As a result, he has orchestrated the development of several successful commercial software products to meet growing industry needs to improve software quality - often before the trends have been widely accepted. Kolawa has been granted eight patents for the technologies behind these innovative tools. Kolawa, co-author of Bulletproofing Web Applications (Hungry Minds 2001), has contributed to and written commentary pieces and technical articles for various leading publications such as Software Development, CIO Magazine and SD Times. Additionally he has presented on software quality, trends and development issues at various industry conferences. Kolawa holds a Ph.D. in theoretical physics from the California Institute of Technology. In 2001, Kolawa was awarded the Los Angeles Ernst & Young's Entrepreneur of the Year Award in the software category. Kolawa has been published in The Wall Street Journal and has appeared on CNN and CNBC.

Grant Larsen is a model-driven development specialist at IBM Rational software and has been working in the software development field for eighteen years. At KPMG Peat Marwick’s Advanced Technologies practice he applied object-oriented solutions. At Rational Software Grant had multiple roles including product development for Rational Rose, services, and business development. Grant was a member of the UML committee for Rational and published portions of that specification. Grant has published articles for multiple magazines, has been a guest editor and contributed to other books on frameworks and related technologies. Grant has worked to establish industry standards on specifying reusable assets, known as the Reusable Asset Specification (RAS) and its submission to the OMG. Grant currently drives pattern strategies and implementation at IBM Rational.

Boris Lublinsky is an Enterprise Architect at CNA Insurance where he is involved in design and implementation of CNA’s integration strategy, building application frameworks and implementing service-oriented architectures. Prior to this he was a Director of Technology at Inventa Technologies, where he was overseeing and actively participating in engagements in EAI and B2B integration implementations and development of large-scale web applications, Technical Architect at Platinum Technology and SSA, where he was involved in component-based systems development and design. Boris has over 20 years experience in software engineering and technical architecture. He has over 20 technical publications in different magazines, including Distributed Computing, Nuclear Instruments and Methods, Java Developer’s Journal, XML Journal, Web Services Journal and EAI Journal. Boris can be reached at

Atul Saini, Chairman of the Board, CEO and CTO, Fiorano Software, Inc. founded the company in1995 with the vision of bringing an architectural revolution in the realm of business integration. Today, Fiorano provides the most comprehensive Enterprise Class Integration middleware powering Enterprise Nervous Systems of Fortune 500 companies spread across fast-growing sectors such as telecommunications, health, technology, financial services, government, manufacturing, retail and transportation. Mr. Saini has over 15 years of experience in the software industry. He has been a contributing member of the C++ Standards Committee and published an authoritative work on the subject "C++ Programming with the Standard Template Library" (Addison Wesley). He is a Board Member of the EAI Industry Consortium and member of the BPMI.org Standards organization. Prior to founding Fiorano, Mr. Saini founded Modena Software Inc. which is a leading provider of C++ and Java Test Suites and Libraries. Prior to that, Mr. Saini led compiler development at HAL Computer Systems which was later taken over by Fujitsu of Japan. Mr. Saini holds a Master of Science degree in Computer Science from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, and a Bachelor of Science degree in Computer Science from the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT) at Madras.

Michael Sawicki is the OptimalJ technical manager for Compuware and an expert on model-driven, pattern-based development with more than 25 years of experience in the application development industry, He frequently presents on the subjects of development standards, best practices and the effects of model-driven, pattern-based development on organizational measurements of efficiency. Mr. Sawicki has spoken at many of the industry's leading conferences, including SD West (keynote), JavaOne, Gartner Application Development Summit and ITExpo. Mr. Sawicki's work experience includes business process reengineering, decision support and data warehousing, and application development with a focus on the practical approaches to achieving business objectives and improving customer service through the use of technology.

Bruce Sheridan has held various positions with GM, Lockheed Martin, City of Gloucester (now Ottawa), Performance Microsystems, University of Waterloo, Bell Northern Research (now Northern Telecom), and IBM. His roles have included Enterprise Architect, Technology Architect, CEO, CTO, Director of Strategic Planning, Manager of Systems Operations and Administration, Product Marketing & Distribution Specialist, R&D Analyst and other responsibilities . Currently, Bruce is focused on the development, deployment, and institutionalization of Enterprise Architecture Metamodels, Methodologies, and Tool sets at General Motors. He can be contacted at

Ronald Schmelzer Senior Analyst and founder of ZapThink, is a well-known expert in the field of XML and XML-based standards and initiatives. Ron has been featured in and has written for periodicals, and has spoken at numerous industry conferences including XML One, Comdex, and Internet World on the topic of XML. Ron has served as the chair of the RosettaNet Cluster 1 Workgroup, working group member of CPExchange, member of the UDDI advisory group, and was a member of the CompTIA Electronic Commerce Standards Board (ECSB). Ron He was named "Geek of the Week" in Internet Magazine and was listed in Boston Magazine's Internet Top 40. Ron received a B.S. degree in Computer Science and Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).