Don Baisley works in the areas of business rules, vocabulary, and model-driven architecture. He is one of the original contributors to OMG's Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules (SBVR). Don also contributed to several other OMG activities including development of the Unified Modeling Language (UML), the Meta Object Facility (MOF), XML Metadata Interchange (XMI), and the Common Warehouse Metamodel (CWM).

Keri Anderson Healy is a principal in The Automated Reasoning Corporation (ARCorp Inc.) and consultant for Model Systems Consultants, Inc. She specializes in the practical application of modeling techniques and the development of architecture frameworks. She has over thirty years experience in developing shared data applications within an architected framework for both the private and public sectors.

Keri was a founding member and original chair of the Business Rules Group (BRG). She has served as technical editor on several major publications, including the original GUIDE white paper on Business Rules, the revision to the IDEF1X language standard (IEEE standard) which updates the classic IDEF1X data modeling language into an object modeling language, the BRG's 'Business Motivation Model' paper, and, most recently, the 'Semantics of Business Vocabulary and Business Rules' (SBVR) which is in finalization to become an OMG standard.

Keri is an adjunct faculty member of The Evergreen State College, where she teaches rule and object modeling techniques, and she developed the data and behavior modeling components of the University of Washington's DRM/Distance Learning program.

Ronald G. Ross is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC, where he actively develops and applies the BRS Methodology including RuleSpeak^®, DecisionSpeak^™ and TableSpeak^™.

Ron is recognized internationally as the "father of business rules." He is the author of ten professional books including the groundbreaking first book on business rules The Business Rule Book in 1994. His newest are:

• Rules: Shaping Behavior and Knowledge (2023)


• Business Knowledge Messaging: How To Avoid Business Miscommunication (2022)


• Business Knowledge Blueprints: Enabling Your Data to Speak the Language of the Business (2020)


• Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules with Gladys S.W. Lam (2nd edition, 2015)


• Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th edition, 2013)