Keynotes

Alfred S. Chuang  |  View the Keynote
Founder, Chairman, Chief Executive Officer and President, BEA Systems

Alfred Chuang, who founded BEA Systems in early 1995 with Bill Coleman and Ed Scott, had managed just about every aspect of BEA by the time he became CEO in October 2001. He had led the areas of finance, sales, services, engineering, product development, MIS, corporate development, business planning, developer services, human resources and global operations. He had been BEA's chief technology officer, executive vice president of product development, president of BEA WebXpress, president of business operations, and president and chief operating officer. In August 2002, in addition to CEO, Mr. Chuang became BEA's chairman of the board.

Paul Coby  |  View the Keynote
CIO, British Airways

Paul Coby's business principle is – 'there are no IT projects, only business projects'. Over the last five years he has reduced the cost of running BA's IT operation by 45%, enabling the Airline's investment in industry revolutionising 'customer and employee enabled' systems to increase by 50%. These include the award winning ba.com, on-line check-in and Employee Self Service, which has made on-line the main way of doing business for both BA customers and employees. Paul has established the IT and Business Change team within the IT Department to bridge the gap between technology and business transformation.

Andy Mulholland  |  View the Keynote
Global Chief Technology Officer, Capgemini

Andy Mulholland's role as Global CTO includes advising the Capgemini Group management board on all aspects of technology-driven market changes. He is particularly knowledgeable on the alignment of IT technology to serve business objectives with emphasis on improving the communication and use of information in business processes. Andy has worked in all major industry sectors on strategic initiatives to deliver business advantage from Technology. He is the founder, or co-founder, of four technology companies and an international expert on Web 2.0 and SOA.

Hans Henrik Eigtved  |  View the Keynote
Executive Vice President, Transformation, Nordea, Inc.

Nordea is the largest Nordic and Baltic Financial Institution with 30,000 employees, 1200 branches and 11 million customers. The bank has grown by acquisitions; 250 at last count, which has resulted in a fragmented legacy structure with information silos. Nordea is currently going through a major transformation program called NTP which is enabled by SOA.

Hans Henrik Eigtved, Executive Vice President of Transformation and a member of the Group Senior Management, is leading Nordea's transformation program. He has been with Nordea for 7 years and led the initial trading and custody operations of the bank. Before that, he spent 17 years in the retail industry where he held various positions ranging from head of IT development, to Chief Financial Officer, and head of business strategy. He is a lawyer by training.

Giovanni Chiarelli  |  View the Keynote
CIO of Operations Support Systems, Telecom Italia

Giovanni Chiarelli is responsible for innovation, development and maintenance of the Wireless and Wireline Network Information Systems (OSS), Network Security Platforms, and Platforms for IT Services at Telecom Italia. Prior to joining Telecom Italia in 2003, Giovanni was a telecommunications consultant with Accenture and Director of Network Support Systems with Infostrada, the first new entrant following Italian telecommunications market deregulation. Giovanni holds a degree in Electronic Engineering from the Politecnico di Milano University (Milan,Italy) and an MBA from Bocconi University School of Management also in Milan.

Paul Kenmir  |  View the Keynote
Director, E Capability, Zurich UK Life

Paul Kenmir is Director, E Capability, at Zurich UK Life. In this position, Mr. Kenmir is responsible for the design and delivery of Zurich UK Life's e-platforms that support channel partners as well as consumers. He is charged with ensuring that Zurich competes effectively in a market place that is becoming increasingly dominated by online sales and service. He has held this position since April 2006. Overall, he has worked at Zurich UK Life for 23 years in a variety of roles. These have included marketing positions, such as new product development for the Protection, Investment and Pension markets; sales operation positions, including sales training, sales management, and the development and deployment of point-of-sales software; and business transformation positions, including the creation of a new mortgage distribution business and spinning off the technology sales force into a separate company.

Mark T. Carges  |  View the Keynote
Executive Vice President, Business Interaction Division, BEA Systems

Mark T. Carges, Executive Vice President, has been with BEA for more than ten years, and has been instrumental in leading the strategy, development and integration of several BEA products and acquisitions. As Executive Vice President, Business Interaction Division, Mr. Carges is responsible for the strategy and leadership of this new division, formed following the BEA acquisitions of Plumtree Software and Fuego. This division is central to the company’s AquaLogic® brand and is focused on enabling business process management, enterprise portals, collaborative communities and composite applications.

Bruce Graham  |  View the Keynote
Senior Vice President, Worldwide Consulting, Global & Enterprise Accounts, BEA Systems

Bruce Graham, Senior Vice President, is responsible for BEA's consulting organization and its Global and Enterprise Accounts. Since joining BEA in 2003, Bruce launched and led BEA's Global SOA Practice, and has been a major driver behind BEA's recognized leadership in SOA. Bruce joined BEA from the Feld Group, a premiere IT strategy and technology management firm serving Fortune 200-sized corporations, where he was a founding partner in the firm.

During his career, Bruce has served as CIO of multiple multi-billion enterprises, in addition to serving as COO then CEO of a publicly held application service provider. Bruce brings to BEA a unique, broad understanding of the development and real-world execution of "transformational" IT strategies, as well as extensive hands-on experience in systems development and integration in the Global 2000.

Bruce regularly keynotes industry conferences, is interviewed by publications worldwide, and briefs both industry and financial analysts for BEA. He attended the Advanced Management Program at Harvard Business School and holds a bachelors degree from Texas Tech University.

Guy Churchward  |  View the Keynote
Vice President, Engineering, BEA Systems

Mr. Churchward brings over 25 years experience in the information technology industry as a business executive, with extensive international experience in engineering, sales, marketing, strategy and market development.

He is currently Vice President of Engineering at BEA Systems, Inc., and oversees product strategy and development in the areas of virtualization/utility computing, Event Driven Architecture (EDA) including real-time and complex event processing, portals and Java Virtual Machine technology. Prior to that, Churchward was Vice President of Marketing Development for Mainspring Ventures, Inc., a consulting firm he also founded. He has held executive management positions at Sun Microsystems and Caplin Cybernetics, and sales management positions at Granada Computer Services and Vanco.

Churchward holds a M.B.A from Stanford University and studied Computer Science at Cambridge College in the U.K.

Paul Patrick  |  View the Keynote
Vice President and Chief Architect, BEA Systems

Paul Patrick, Vice President and Chief Architect for BEA Systems, has been with BEA for more than ten years and has been instrumental in leading a number of architectural initiatives across BEA’s various product lines. In his role as Chief Architect, Mr. Patrick leads the Corporate Architect Group responsible for driving a consistent set of architectural guidelines, principles, and best practices across the entire portfolio of BEA products. Prior to becoming BEA’s Chief Architect, Mr. Patrick served in a number of architecture roles both at BEA Systems and other companies.

Mr. Patrick has nearly 30 years experience in the high technology industry with roles in software and hardware development, including security, network device firmware and diagnostics, network protocols, distributed computing technology, tool development, quality assurance, and technical support, as well being a published author, having written the books “Understanding CORBA” and “The Black Book on Government Security”, as well as numerous articles and white-papers. He holds a number of patents and patent applications.