Alan W. Brown  IBM Software Group, Rational, 4205 S. Miami Blvd., Durham, North Carolina 27709 (awbrownus.ibm.com). Dr. Brown is an IBM Distinguished Engineer with the IBM Rational software group. He is responsible for aspects of future product strategy in IBM Rational's design and construction products. He defines technical strategy and evangelizes product direction with customers, looking to improve software development efficiency through visual modeling, service-oriented design, generating code from abstract models, and systematic reuse. His current focus is on how service-oriented solutions are created and evolved, with particular interest in software process improvement, Model Driven Architecture, software design and development, and component-based reuse. He received a Ph.D. degree from the University of Newcastle in the United Kingdom.

Sridhar Iyengar  IBM Software Group, Rational, P.O. Box 12195, 3039 Cornwallis Rd., Research Triangle Park, North Carolina 27709 (siyengarus.ibm.com). Mr. Iyenghar is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and leads the technical strategy for IBM Rational Software. He works with development teams and architects inside IBM and in the industry to accelerate the use of industry standard models, patterns, and metadata for developing, integrating, and managing applications. His work focuses on the use of models, metadata, and transformation frameworks to create an integrated software platform built using industry standards (J2EE, Web Services, MDA, etc.) and open-source technologies (Eclipse, Apache, etc.). Mr. Iyengar serves on the IBM Software Group Architecture Board Steering Committee and the OMG Architecture Board. He works extensively with customers who are at the forefront of exploiting emerging technologies. He holds several patents, has a Master's degree in computer science, and has been in the IT industry for 24 years working on databases, design and development tools, and integration technology.

Simon Johnston  IBM Software Group, Rational, 4205 S. Miami Blvd., Durham, North Carolina 27709 (skjohnus.ibm.com). Mr. Johnston is a member of the IBM Rational strategy team and is responsible for the business-level tooling strategy. He has undertaken a number of standards-related activities for both Rational Software and IBM in the area of XML (W3C Schema working group), Web Services (RosettaNet architecture team), and modeling (OMG UML and OCL teams). He was the author of the UML Profile for Software Services and primary author of the RUP Update for SOA.