Our founding principals
Our Founders and Principals are acclaimed worldwide as the foremost experts and practitioners of business rule techniques and methodology. They actively lead an outstanding international staff of highly experienced business and IT consultants who are specially trained in the business rule approach.
Ronald G. Ross
Ronald G. Ross is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC, where he actively develops and applies the IPSpeak™ 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:
- Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th edition, 2013)
- Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules with Gladys S.W. Lam (2011, An IIBA® Sponsored Handbook).
Ron serves as Executive Editor of BRCommunity.com and its flagship publication, Business Rules Journal. He is a sought-after speaker at conferences world-wide. More than 50,000 people have heard him speak; many more have attended his seminars and read his books.
Ron has served as Chair of the annual International Business Rules & Decisions Forum conference since 1997., now part of the Building Business Capability (BBC) conference. He was a charter member of the Business Rules Group (BRG) in the 1980s, and an editor of its Business Motivation Model (BMM) standard and the Business Rules Manifesto. He is active in OMG standards development, with core involvement in SBVR.
Ron holds a BA from Rice University and an MS in information science from Illinois Institute of Technology. For more information about Mr. Ross, visit www.RonRoss.info, which hosts his blog. Tweets: @Ronald_G_Ross
Gladys S.W. Lam
Gladys S.W. Lam is a world-renowned authority on applied business rule techniques. She is Principal and Co-Founder of
Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRSolutions.com), the most recognized company
world-wide for business rules and decision analysis. BRS provides methodology, publications, consulting services,
and training. Ms. Lam is Co-Creator of IPSpeak™, the BRS methodology including RuleSpeak®,
DecisionSpeak™ and TableSpeak™. She is Co-Founder of
BRCommunity.com, a vertical community for professionals and home of
Business Rules Journal. She co-authored
Building Business Solutions, an IIBA® sponsored handbook on business analysis with business rules.
Ms. Lam is widely known for her lively, pragmatic style. She speaks internationally at conferences, public seminars and other professional events. She is also Executive Director of Building Business Capability (BBC) Conference, which includes the Business Rules & Decisions Forum and the Business Analysis Forum.
Ms. Lam is a world-renowned expert on business project management, having managed numerous projects that focus on the large-scale capture, analysis and management of business rules. She advises senior management of large companies on organizational issues and on business solutions to business problems. She has extensive experience in related areas, including BPM, structured business strategy, and managing and implementing information systems.
Ms. Lam is most recognized for her ability to identify the source of business issues, and for her effectiveness in developing pragmatic approaches to resolve them. She has gained a world-class reputation for fostering positive professional relationships with principals and support staff in projects. Ms. Lam graduated from the University of British Columbia with a B.S. in Computer Science.