|   | | Jeanne Baker | | Director, BPMI.org
Vice President, Solutions Engineering, Sterling Commerce
| | Ismael Ghalimi | | Director and Chair, BPMI.org
CSO, Intalio
| | Georg Simon | | Director, BPMI.org
Director of Business Process Improvement Consulting, IDS Scheer, Inc.
| | Howard Smith | | Director and Co-Chair, BPMI.org
CTO, Computer Sciences Corporation Europe
| | Stephen White | | Director, BPMI.org
BPM Architect, IBM Corporation
| | Jan Popkin | | Director, BPMI.org
CEO, Popkin Software
| | Sinisa Zimek | | Director, BPMI.org
Director of Technology, Architecture & Standards, SAP Labs, Inc.
| | Derek Miers | | Director, BPMI.org
CEO, Enix Consulting, Ltd.
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 | | Layna Fischer | | Executive Director, BPMI.org
President and CEO, Future Strategies Inc.
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Jeanne Baker is Vice President, Solutions Engineering for Sterling Commerce Inc., a subsidiary of SBC Communications and a global provider of business integration solutions. Baker defines the technical capabilities and resources necessary to match Sterling Commerce Software and Network solutions to the business and IT needs of its customers and sales prospects.
Baker has been a part of the Sterling Commerce management team for five years. Known within her organization as the BPM evangelist, Baker has supported Sterling Commerce’s commitment to BPMI.org by adopting BPML and providing resources to meet the Initiative’s objectives. Before joining Sterling Commerce, Baker worked in the information technology industry for ten years as a developer and research scientist. She holds a Master of Arts degree in mathematics and a graduate certificate in artificial intelligence from Eastern Michigan University.
| |  | | Ismael Ghalimi
Ismael Ghalimi is Chief Strategy Officer of Intalio, the Business Process Management Company[tm], and Chairman of BPMI.org. He co-founded Intalio in 1999 after organizing the first ExoLab Session, an Open Source conference that laid the foundation for forthcoming Business Process Management Systems (BPMS). Ghalimi authored the first definition of this new enterprise software infrastructure with 'The Process-Managed Enterprise', a white paper published in July 2000. This was followed by his central role in the creation of BPMI.org in August 2000. Ghalimi majored in computer science at the Ecole des Mines de Nancy, France, and studied parallel & distributed computing at the Ecole Normale Superieure de Lyon, France.
| |  | | Georg Simon
Georg Simon has been the director of IDS Scheer’s Business Process Improvement consulting practice based in Philadelphia for the past two years. In 1993, Simon started with IDS Scheer in product development and a newly created business division focusing on methods and tools for business process improvement, which produced the ARIS Toolset. Prior to taking on his current role, he was the partner-manager in SAP’s support of initiatives to build the SAP reference model as well as tools to support the implementation or optimization of the SAP R/3 software.
| |  | | Howard Smith
Howard Smith is CTO (Europe) of Computer Sciences Corporation (CSC) and a co-founder of the Business Process Management Initiative (BPMI.org). With more than 24 years in the IT industry, he is a sought after speaker and advisor. His work in predicting and shaping technology at the intersection with business led him to take an active role in the development and application of business process management (BPM). He is currently researching the application of business process management to corporate sustainability, innovation and growth, for which he has global research and development responsibility at CSC.
He is the author of the best selling book Business Process Management: The Third Wave, www.bpm3.com, ISBN 0929652339. He published the first major industry report on the emergence of BPM in November 2001. This can be downloaded here http://www.cscresearchservices.com/process/bpmreport/.
Howard's previous role in CSC was as director of e-business strategy. During this period he co-founded Ontology.Org and became an invited expert to CommerceNet's eCo Framework Project. Ontology.Org and eCo influenced the development of many of today's XML standards and Howard continues to help the industry and CSC to innovate through his role in BPMI.org. Prior to CSC, Howard held a variety of senior technical management roles at Logica.
| |  | | Stephen White
Stephen White is the BPM Architect within IBM’s WebSphere Business Integration Strategy and Architecture Software Group. He has nearly 20 years of process modeling experience, ranging from modeling pilot workload to commercial business processes, and has been involved in most aspects of business process modeling software, from product management, design, consulting, training, and technical writing. Serving as the chair of BPMI.org’s Notation Working Group since its formation, White has been the primary editor of the BPMN specification playing an instrumental role in its rapid development to date.
| |  | | Jan Popkin
Jan Popkin's name is synonymous in the software development business with high-quality, leading-edge technology, implemented in many Fortune 500 organizations worldwide. Jan is an accomplished software engineer with extensive experience developing large, complex systems.
Jan founded Popkin Software & Systems in 1986. The company has grown to become a leading developer of enterprise modeling tools, including System Architect™ V9, an enterprise modeling tool that enables businesses to develop a blueprint for an organization's information infrastructure. System Architect supports the analysis, design, development and deployment of an enterprise-level architectural framework for the full development lifecycle, whatever the methodology or the language. Popkin has sold more than 60,000 licenses worldwide.
Before establishing Popkin Software & Systems in 1986, Jan was a software engineer for Logica, a large computer consulting firm based in the United Kingdom. He worked in the same capacity for TRW and Bradford National Corp. Jan was one of the principal software architects for the American Express Image Processing System; the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) Control System; and the Bank of America Image Teller System. Jan has been involved in fault tolerant computing on different hardware platforms including microcomputer, mini-computers and custom hardware. Jan holds a degree in computer science and mathematics from the State University of New York at Stonybrook.
| |  | | Sinisa Zimek
With extensive experience in standards development, Zimek currently runs an independent consulting practice. As a former director of technology, architecture, and standards for SAP where his responsibilities included the planning and coordination of SAP’s involvement in standards organizations. He has served on the WS-I Board of Directors and the OASIS XML.org Advisory Board, participating in technical working groups within these organizations, and has been a voting member of the W3C’s Web Services Architecture Working Group. Zimek was also involved in BPM as a co-author of the Web Services Choreography Interface (WSCI) specification. Together with co-promotors Sun, BEA and Intalio, he represented SAP as co-submitter of the proposal to the W3C’s Web Services Choreography Working Group. In his eight years at SAP, Zimek held various positions, including executive assistant to SAP’s executive board, a product manager, and manager of business process consulting. As a BPMI.org board director, Zimek has been appointed the Initiative’s Standards Liaison responsible for overseeing BPMI.org’s relations with other standards organizations.
| |  | | Derek Miers
Derek Miers founded Enix in 1992 to provide strategy and technology consulting to astute blue chip commercial organisations, vendors and system integrators. Over the years he has developed unique perspectives on the use of BPM and other process-oriented technologies ranging from understanding and modelling processes to actively supporting them through modern BPMS environments, enterprise content management and Web Services. Derek is the author and publisher of Process Product Watch – a detailed, evaluation level guide to BPM tools and technologies. As part of his contribuitng work, Derek has been a regular conference presenter and visiting lecturer at several European universities and business schools.
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Layna Fischer is the Executive Director of BPMI.org. She reports to the Board of Directors and is tasked with promoting the mission of the Initiative and overall management of membership logistics, meetings and conferences.
She also serves as Chair, Workflow And Reengineering International Association (WARIA) and General Manager of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). Her responsibilities include managing the annual Global Excellence in Workflow Awards.
As President and CEO of Future Strategies Inc., Fischer is editor and publisher of the business book series, New Tools for New Times: which includes The Workflow Paradigm and Electronic Commerce, and the annual Excellence in Practice series, starting with Excellence in Practice, Innovation and Excellence in Workflow and Imaging in 1997. She also edits and publishes the annual Workflow Handbook in association with the Workflow Management Coalition.
Her experience in the computer industry includes being the president and CEO of a multi-million dollar high-technology export company for seven years, during which time she also founded an offshore franchise distribution company. Fischer was a senior editor of a leading computer publication for four years and has been involved in international computer journalism and publishing for over 18 years. She was a founding director of the United States Computer Press Association in 1985. She serves on the boards of several organizations, including the Black Forest Group.
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