Nitin Nayak  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (nnayakus.ibm.com). Dr. Nayak is a Senior Technical Staff Member in the Business Informatics department. His recent interests include modeling business architecture for service-oriented enterprises and globally integrated enterprises. He has an M.B.A. degree from New York University's Stern School of Business and a Ph.D. degree in mechanical engineering from The Pennsylvania State University.

Mark Linehan  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (mlinehanus.ibm.com). Mr. Linehan, a Senior Technical Staff Member with the IBM Research Division, was previously on the Architecture Board of the IBM Software Group. Over the past few years, his area of research was business rules technology, with a particular focus on the business aspect. Previously, he was involved in cryptography-based communication protocols and the development of communications software. He has an M.S. degree in computer science from Columbia University, and a B.A. degree from Case Western Reserve University.

Anil Nigam  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (anigamus.ibm.com). Dr. Nigam, a research staff member in the Business Informatics department, joined the IBM Research Division in 1981, soon after earning a Ph.D. degree in computer science at the University of Rochester. His research at IBM spans a wide range: VLSI design systems, parallel-processing architectures and database machines, logic programming and databases, knowledge representation, qualitative reasoning, operational business modeling, and business design.

David Marston  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, One Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 (David_Marstonus.ibm.com). Mr. Marston, a software engineer in the Extensible Technologies group, has extensive experience in software standards for XML and process models. Before joining the IBM Research Division, he was involved in software development, IT management, financial modeling software, and applications in media and the graphic arts. He has a B.A. degree in mathematics from Dartmouth College.

Jun-Jang (J.-J.) Jeng  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (jjjengus.ibm.com). Dr. Jeng, a research staff member in the Business Informatics department, has been associated with the IBM Research Division since 1999. He received a B.S. degree in chemical engineering from National Taiwan University, and M.S. and Ph.D. degrees in computer science from Michigan State University. His research interests include business process and performance management, formal methods in software engineering, real-time enterprise and sense-and-respond systems, and software agents. Before joining IBM, Dr. Jeng served at AT&T Labs, New Jersey. As visiting faculty, he has taught in several universities.

Frederick Y. Wu  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (fywuus.ibm.com). Dr. Wu, a manager in the Model-Driven Enterprise Solutions group, has worked for the past 12 years in the areas of electronic commerce and business integration. Recently, he has focused on business-operations modeling and transformation of operational models into IT implementations. Dr. Wu has S.B., S.M., and Ph.D. degrees from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Didier Boullery  IBM Client Process Transformation, Tour Descartes, Paris La Défense 92400, France (didier_boulleryfr.ibm.com). Mr. Boullery is IBM Worldwide Manager of Business-to-Business (B2B) Process Transformation. He has an M.B.A. from l'ESSEC (École Supérieure des Sciences Économiques et Commerciales). He has a career-long interest in leading-edge process and technologies. His current responsibilities include creating system-to-system business connections with IBM business partners and customers worldwide for all processes and all IBM brands, with multiple standards and adoption by all parties seeking business integration. He holds a U.S. patent for self-boarding of B2B trading partners.

Linda F. White  IBM Client Process Transformation, 4111 Northside Parkway, Atlanta, GA 30327-3015 (lfwhiteus.ibm.com). Mrs. White is the Worldwide Transformation and Strategy Planning Leader for the Business Partner Transformation group. She received a B.B.A. degree in international business from the University of Georgia. Throughout her association with the organization she was involved in various projects dealing with Web commerce as well as B2B RosettaNet solutions. She currently is responsible for the development and implementation of strategic initiatives for business partner fulfillment solutions.

Prabir Nandi  IBM Research Division, Thomas J. Watson Research Center, P.O. Box 218, Yorktown Heights, NY 10598 (prabirus.ibm.com). Mr. Nandi, a member of the Business Informatics department, also serves as the lead architect of the MDBT (model-driven business transformation) toolkit. He received a B.E. degree in electronics and communications engineering from Birla Institute of Technology, Ranchi, India, and an M.S. degree in computer science from the College of William and Mary. At the IBM Research Division, he has worked on business process integration and management. He co-invented the Adaptive Document (ADoc) technology and pioneered the business artifact-centric way of modeling, composing, and implementing business process integration solutions.

Jorge L. C. Sanz  IBM Research Division, Almaden Research Center, 650 Harry Road, San Jose, CA 95120 (jorgesus.ibm.com). Dr. Sanz is a manager and research staff member at the Almaden Research Center. His interests are in business modeling, services research, and strategy consulting. Before joining IBM, he held positions as a global executive in business and had local and overseas positions in academia, as a professor and president. He is a Fellow of the IEEE.