Steve Cook

Steve Cook is a software architect in the Enterprise Frameworks and Tools group at Microsoft. He previously was a Distinguished Engineer at IBM, and represented IBM in the UML 2.0 Specification process. A Fellow of the British Computer Society, he helped pioneer object-oriented programming.

Gareth Jones

Gareth Jones received both his B.A. and Ph.D. from the University of Lancaster, U.K. He previously held teaching and research appointments at the University of Warwick, Michigan State University, and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Professor Jones specializes in both organizational behavior and organizational theory and is well known for his research on socialization, culture, and applying transaction cost analysis to explain many forms of intraorganizational and interorganizational behavior. He also has published many articles in leading journals of the field and is one of the most prolific authors in the Academy of Management Review. One of his articles won the Academy of Management Journal Best Paper Award. He is, or has been, on the editorial review boards of the Academy of Management Review, the Journal of Management, and Management Inquiry.

Professor Jones is a professor of Management at the Lowry Mays College and Graduate School of Business at Texas A&M University, where he is involved actively in teaching and research in Organizational Behavior and related fields.

Stuart Kent

Stuart Kent joined Microsoft in 2003 as a program manager to work on the DSL Tools. Before that, he led research in model-driven development at the University of Kent and was a significant contributor to the UML 2.0 and MOF 2.0 standards.

Alan Cameron Wills

Alan Cameron Wills is technical director of TriReme International Ltd., consulting and training clients in many fields including banking, telecommunications, and manufacturing. Dr. Wills has worked on methods and tools since 1982, and specializes in making frontline research practical and available for main-stream software engineering.