MIKE ROSEN is the Chief Scientist at Wilton Consulting Group which specializes in architectural consulting. He is also Director of Enterprise Architecture at the Cutter Consortium which provides research and analysis on IT. He is an accomplished architect and technical leader with extensive experience in enterprise architecture (EA), service-oriented architecture (SOA), product strategy and development, software architecture, distributed technologies, and industry standards. Mr. Rosen's 30 year career has spanned startups, CTO roles, chief architect, and product architect for industry leading middleware products, software development, and hardware design. Throughout his career, Mr. Rosen has been a frequent technical speaker and author for conferences in more than a dozen countries. He has created hundreds of models, authored dozens of articles and reports and is coauthor of Applied SOA: Service-Oriented Architecture and Design Strategies; Developing E-Business Systems and Architectures: A Manager's Guide; and Integrating CORBA and COM Application.
The Managing Director of Wilton Consulting Group, TAMAR KRICHEVSKY has more than 25 years of experience in program management, product management, and technical leadership roles. She specializes in defining and building applications to meet the enterprise needs of Global 1,000 companies. Prior to Wilton Consulting Group, Ms. was the Director of Product Management for Azora Technologies, a startup that provided a design framework for creating enterprise-level service-oriented architectures and implementations. At Azora she created product roadmaps and worked with product development and marketing to keep both organizations in alignment. She came to Azora via several companies that produced a diverse set of products including a portfolio management application for corporate R&D, rules-based enterprise language translation engine, imaging and workflow systems for government agencies, and newspaper systems.