George McGeachie

Successful Information Management is critical for business success; Business Process Management, Web 2.0 and Service-Oriented Architecture can only succeed where there is a common understanding of the meaning, availability and provenance of data. This requires co-operative ways of working, the sharing of information, reusing what works, and finding the best way of making shared information available. * a highly experienced metadata and modelling specialist; excelling as a team member and as a consultant * currently an independent consultant, and was previously an internal consultant for many years at Abbey National, which was then the fifth largest bank in the UK. * my personal objectives have always been to achieve the desired end, and to push the boundaries of what IT believes is necessary, accommodating both the local and the enterprise perspective * an evangelist of cooperative ways of working, the sharing of information, reusing what works, and looking for the best way of making shared information available