David Penney is Director of SOA Strategy at Vitria, with a 25 year career spanning highly technical, management and commercial roles. Much of that time has been spent in practical applications of SOA, integration, distributed systems and data management to Financial Services, Defence and other industries.

Prior companies include the virtual data services product pioneer, MetaMatrix, where David was a key executive for 5 years as European Managing Director and as Technical Director; at Logica David was as a consultant, middleware expert and senior solution architect advising banks and brokers on changing business processes, building new propositions including an internet based trading system and its implementation at a top European bank and the design of extreme scale trusted third party internet services for the European Union.

Before Logica, David enjoyed a varied and fast paced career for 15 years at Citibank Global Treasury during which time he was an architect, ran development for key high performance distributed trading systems used in 35 countries, support and technical infrastructure design for dealing floors.

David holds a Bsc in Computer Science.

Ken Vollmer is a principal analyst in Forrester's Application Development & Infrastructure research group, covering trends, issues, and strategies related to all forms of integration, including business process management (BPM), enterprise application integration (EAI), B2B integration (B2Bi), and electronic data interchange (EDI).

Ken has assisted hundreds of clients in North America and Europe with their integration projects, drawing upon his knowledge of emerging trends and many years of practical experience in implementing a wide range of business solutions.

Ken came to Forrester through its acquisition of Giga Information Group and has 20 years of management-level experience in the IT industry. Prior to joining Giga, he was the director of information systems planning for a large retail company, where he implemented a comprehensive EDI program with more than 1,000 trading partners. He has held a wide range of IT management positions at Carrier Corporation and MONY Financial Services, as well as various positions in the logistics arena at John Deere and Carrier.

Ken earned a B.S. in management information systems from the State University of New York and an M.S. in information resource management from the School of Information Science and Technology at Syracuse University.