Nathaniel Palmer
WfMC Executive Director

Nathaniel Palmer is President of Transformation+Innovation and Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC). In addition he was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of BPM.com. Previously he was Director, Business Consulting for Perot Systems Corp, where he worked for business process guru Jim Champy, and served corporate-wide as a primary BPM subject matter expert and general BPM ombudsman for a variety of global clients. Prior to joining Perot Systems, Nathaniel spent over a decade with Delphi Group as Vice President and Chief Analyst. The author of over several dozen research studies as well as co-author of the critically-acclaimed management text The X-Economy: Profi ting from Instant Commerce (Texere, 2001) and the BPM and Workflow Handbook (FSI, 2007), Nathaniel is a widely-recognized industry expert who has been featured in numerous media ranging from Fortune to The New York Times, plus over 100 by-lined articles in IT publications such as CIO and InformationWeek. His regular column Open for Business is featured in each issue of the Enterprise Open Source Journal. He has also been featured as a guest expert on National Public Radio, World Business Review.

 

Keith Swenson
WfMC Technical Committee Chairman

Keith Swenson is WfMC Technical Committee Chairman as well as Vice President of R&D at Fujitsu Software for the Interstage family of products. He is known for having been a pioneer in web services and has helped the development of numerous standards including WfMC Interface 2, OMG Workflow Interface, SWAP, Wf-XML, AWSP, WSCI, WS-CAF and ASAP.
He has led efforts to develop software products to support work teams at MS2, Netscape, and Ashton Tate. In 2004 he was awarded the Marvin L. Manheim Award for outstanding contributions in the field of workflow.

  

Michael zur Muehlen, Ph.D.
Director, Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation

Dr. Michael zur Muehlen is the Director of Center of Excellence in Business Process Innovation at the Stevens Institute of Technology. A long-time and active member of the WfMC, he has a decades experience in workflow and BPM, and has conducted various reengineering projects within utilities, financial services, industrial, and telecom. He has published numerous articles on meta-modeling, workflow and BPM, and is a member of the editorial boards of leading publications, such as the International Journal on Business Process Integration and Management.

 

Ken Mei
Technology and Information Director, Global 360

A long-time of member of the Workflow Management Coalition, Ken Mei also serves as Technology and Information Director of Global 360, where he represents Global 360 in several major ECM and BPM standard organizations. With a career spanning nearly decades, Ken Mei is one of the leading authorities on the design and implementation of workflow and business process management software. In his roles within the WfMC, Ken Mei has been a persistent force in the interoperability of BPM, and has helped lead the coalition's on-going initiatives on process model interchange.

    

Justin Brunt
Vice Chair, WfMC

Having been involved with workflow and BPM for over 12 years, Justin Brunt is Vice Chair (Europe) of the WfMC, since he joined Staffware in 1994 as VP of Engineering. Following the acquisition of Staffware by TIBCO, Justin took on the role of Senior Product Manager for TIBCO's BPM product, TIBCO Staffware Process Suite. He has been a leading light in the development of Wf-XML and XPDL, and is one of the leading authorities in the process model and BPM system interoperability.

    

Reinhold Engelbrecht, Ph.D.
Manager Technical Sales Northeast Europe
IBM Enterprise Content Management

Senior technical sales consultant in the field of Enterprise Content Management (ECM). He joined IBM in 1993 and has worked in this field since 1997. In the past, he has provided world-wide sales support and enablement for email and records management. Today, he is responsible for the combined IBM FileNet technical pre-sales team in Northeast Europe. He holds a bachelor's degree in Mechanical Engineering (Diplom-Ingenieur) and a doctorate from the Technical University of Vienna, Austria, as well as a master's from Purdue University, USA.

    

Mariusz Momotko, Ph.D.
Director of OfficeObjects(r) products division, Rodan Systems
Leader of NESSI Business Process Management Working Group

Received his Ph.D. in Computer Science from the Institute of Computer Science of the Polish Academy of Sciences in 2005 (thesis about ‘Tools for monitoring workflow processes to support dynamic workflow changes’). He also received his MSc in Advanced Computer Science from University of Birmingham and MSc in Computer Science from Technical University of Gdańsk. He has also been awarded Several TEMPUS sponsored scholarships.
His interests are focused on business process management, workflow management and document management technologies. He is an author of several Polish as well as international publications on business process and workflow management systems. He has been participated in several EU founded research projects such as ICONS (IST-2001-32429), COMPONENT+ (IST-1999-20162), ASG (FP6-2003-IST-2-004617) and OneStopGov (FP6-2004-IST-4-26965). He was/is the project manger and the chief architect of Polish part of the COMPONENT+, ASG, and OneStopGov projects.

    

Vladimir Puskas
PROZONE, Serbia and Montenegro

Co-autor and main developper of Enhydra Shark workflow engine and Enhydra JaWE (Java Workflow Editor) - well known and popular open source workflow products, first implementation of XPDL implementation.

    

Dominik Zyskowski
Department of Information Systems
Poznan University of Economics

Research assistant and PhD student at the Department of Information Systems, Poznan University of Economics. He was involved in the ASG FP6-2003-IST-2-004617 where he was leading the team working on the Dynamic Service Profiling component. Currently, he is with SUPER FP6-IST-026850 and Knowledge Web FP6-507482 projects. He is an author and co-author of several international publications on Semantic Web Services, Quality of Service and BPM

    

Rafał Renk
Department of Applied Informatics
Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan

Graduated from University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz in 1998. Since 1998 he has been working as a assistant at the University of Technology and Agriculture in Bydgoszcz. He is currently one of the director of the Institute of Information and Communication Technologies, ITTI, in Poznań. In the recent years he has directed projects dealing with information and security systems, teleinformatics and intelligent networks, Internet telephony, traffic engineering, broadband services and distance learning.

    

Maciej Łosiak
Director of Document Management Systems Department
Sygnity Group 

Graduated from Poznan University of Technology in 1999 and later graduated PhD studies. He has been focused on document management and archiving systems for the last 8 years and workflow management systems for the last 6. In Emax Group (currently in Sygnity Group) he was involved in ICR/OCR, DMS and BPM systems implementations and deployments for customers, basicly from financial, public and industry sectors.

    

Marek Marciniak
EasyWork Product Manager
Projekty Bankowe Polsoft Sp. z o.o. 

    

Tomasz Wrzosek
BPBWorkflow Designer
Projekty Bankowe Polsoft Sp. z o.o. 

In 2001 received his MSc degree in Computer Science from Adam Mickiewicz University in Poznan. His major was distributed computing in Java. In 2002 and 2003 he worked as a research scholar at Emory University in Atlanta (GA, USA) where, under the supervision of prof. Vaidy S. Sunderam, he indulged in distributed computing areas. His research interests concerned especially PVM/MPI computational issues and RMIX (a multiprotocol RMI framework) development. Since 2004 he has beeen working as a chief architect for Projekty Bankowe Polsoft (Poznan, Poland), where he took part in many J2EE projects. Under his guidance BPBWorkflow (a J2EE-based, embeddable, and high-performance workflow engine) has been developed. His current interests encompass workflow related issues and distibuted processing and computation.

    

Piotr Biliński
Assistant in Architects Department
Projekty Bankowe Polsoft Sp. z o.o.