Ronald G. Ross is Principal and Co-Founder of Business Rule Solutions, LLC (BRS), where he actively develops and applies the BABusinessSpeak™ methodology including RuleSpeak®, DecisionSpeak™, and ConceptSpeak™. Ron consults to companies worldwide through BRS.

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:

• Building Business Solutions: Business Analysis with Business Rules (2nd edition) with Gladys S.W. Lam (2015, An IIBA® Sponsored Handbook).
• Business Rule Concepts: Getting to the Point of Knowledge (4th edition, 2013).

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. He was also a contributor to the IIBA’s BABOK v3.

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

Ronald's 2016 Presentations:

1. All About Business Rules: Principles, Concepts and Usage
   
   Monday, October 31, 2016 (9:00 am – 12:00 pm)
2. Enabling Operational Excellence
   
   Thursday, November 3, 2016 (9:00 am – 10:00 am)
3. An Opinion of Gurus: Leading Business Excellence
   
   Friday, November 4, 2016 (11:30 am – 12:30 pm)