Advisory Board
The Building Business Capability Advisory Board steers the strategic positioning of the events and crafts the conference programs to ensure maximum value for attendees.
Kathleen Barret
President and Chief Executive Officer, IIBA®
In June of 2009, Kathleen Barret became International Institute of Business Analysis’s full-time President and CEO after having held the role as a volunteer since the organization’s inception in October 2003. IIBA, a professional association for Business Analysts, focuses on defining and enhancing the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK®) and implementing a certification program for qualified practitioners.
With over 25 years of experience in information technology, Kathleen has held many roles including most recently, managing offshore software development work for a large financial service organization. Her involvement in the field of business analysis began when she was asked to create a centre of competency for BAs for her company. She is experienced in CMMI and benchmarking, and through her many years of consulting, brings cross industry knowledge to her role at IIBA.
Kevin Brennan
Vice President, Professional Development, IIBA®
Kevin Brennan, CBAP, PMP, is IIBA®s Vice President, Professional Development. He led the development of Version 2.0 of the Business Analysis Body of Knowledge® (BABOK® Guide) and was also one of the authors of the CBAP exam. He is a frequent speaker on business analysis, project management, and software quality assurance topics at conferences. Kevin has over a decade of experience as a business analyst and project manager across several industry sectors, including regulated professions, utilities, automobile manufacturing, courier services, and mortgage banking. During this time he has performed just about every task a business analyst could be expected to do, from developing corporate and product strategies to being paged by end-users looking for technical support.
Kevin has taught project management and requirements analysis at Humber College, and has a B.A. degree in History and Political Science from the University of Toronto. He is also a graduate of Second City’s improv comedy program.
Roger Burlton
Founder, BPTrends Associates / Process Renewal Group
Roger T. Burlton, P. Eng, is a co-founder of the BPTrends Associates and the Process Renewal Group. He is considered a global leader, recognized internationally for his no nonsense insights and pioneering contributions in Business Process Management since 1991.
Roger has conceived and chaired over thirty high profile BPM conferences in North and South America, Europe, Middle East and Australia including Knowledge and Process Management Europe and the BPM Conferences for Shared Insights in the US. His pragmatic BPM seminar series has been running globally since 1992 and is the longest continuous series of their kind in the world.
Roger’s highly acclaimed book “Business Process Management: Profiting from Process” is regarded as a reference book for process professionals who want to conduct process architecture initiatives, process renewal projects as well as those who wish to entrench process governance across the enterprise.
Matthew Finlay
CEO, Rising Media, Inc
Matthew Finlay is a technology events veteran, starting his trade show experience following a career in electronic publishing, with the first ever Internet tradeshow – Internet World, in 1994 and subsequently leading its European expansion. Rising Media, which he founded in 2005, currently runs a number of technology events in an expanding list of countries including the USA, Canada, UK, Germany, France, Sweden and Australia.
Paul Harmon
Executive Editor, BPTrends
Paul Harmon is the Executive Editor and Market Analyst at BPTrends, the most trusted source of information and analysis on trends, directions and best practices in business process management, (http://www.bptrends.com). He is also a Co-Founder and Chief Methodologist of BPTrends Associates, a professional services company providing executive seminars, training and consulting services for organizations interested in understanding and implementing business process management. Paul is the author of the best selling book, Business Process Change, 2nd edition: He is an acknowledged BPM thought leader and noted consultant, educator, author and market analyst concerned with applying new technologies and methodologies to real-world business problems. He is a widely respected keynote speaker and has developed and delivered executive seminars, workshops, briefings and keynote addresses on all aspects of BPM to conferences and major organizations throughout the world.
Gladys S.W. Lam
Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC, Publisher, BRCommunity.com
Gladys S.W. Lam is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions (www.BRSolutions.com), the most recognized company world-wide in business rules, decisioning, and related methodology, publications, consulting services and training. She is the co-creator of the Proteus®, the BRS methodology for business analysis, decisioning and business rules, which is used by companies world-wide. Ms. Lam actively leads business rules and decisioning projects of all sizes across a variety of industries.
Ms. Lam speaks internationally at conferences and other professional events. She co-presents public seminars through AttainingEdge (www.AttainingEdge.com). She is also Executive Director of the Building Business Capabilities (BBC) Conference, the premier international conference on business rules and decisioning. She has moderated the most popular Dos and Don’t Practitioners Panel at the Business Rules Forum since the beginning.
Ronald G. Ross
Co-Founder & Principal, Business Rule Solutions, LLC; Executive Editor, Business Rules Journal
Ronald G. Ross serves as Executive Editor of http://www.BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. He gives popular public seminars through AttainingEdge (http://www.AttainingEdge.com) and IRM-UK (http://www.IRMUK.co.uk).
Mr. Ross is recognized internationally as the “father of business rules.” He has served as Co-Chair of the annual Business Rules Forum Conference since 1997. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group in the 1980s, and an editor of the two landmark BRG papers, The Business Motivation Model: Business Governance in a Volatile World and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR.
Mr. Ross is Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (http://www.BRSolutions.com). At BRS, Mr. Ross co-develops Proteus®, its landmark business requirements methodology, including the popular RuleSpeak®. Mr. Ross is the author of eight professional books. His newest are: Business Rule Concepts (2009), a just-released 3rd edition of his popular, easy-to-read 1998 handbook, and Principles of the Business Rule Approach, Addison-Wesley (2003).
Celia Wolf
Publisher and Founder, Business Process Trends
In addition to serving as the Publisher and Founder of Business Process Trends, Ms. Wolf is CEO and Founder of Enterprise Alignment, a professional services company providing educational and consulting services to managers interested in understanding and implementing business process change.
Celia has over 25 years experience in business development, operations management, and marketing across a broad range of industries and markets. She has held key management positions at several large corporations, including the Gillette Company, the Bose Corporation, Field Enterprises, Inc. and Scott Foresman & Company. For the past 15 years she has focused her efforts on the software applications, tools and services markets serving as President and CEO of Gold Hill, Inc., VP of Marketing and Operations for Genesis Development Corporation, and SVP of Marketing and Sales for LearningBrands, Inc. Most recently Celia has been a consultant to start-ups and restarts, developing and implementing strategies for e-business initiatives.
Celia has been an active member of the Massachusetts Software Council, was a Founder and President of the LISP Industry Council and has been a panelist for the MIT Enterprise Forum. She has spoken widely on developing international markets and marketing strategies for small to medium sized software companies.
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