About the Authors

Philip Tetlow, PhD, C.Eng, FIET, is CTO for Data Ecosystems at IBM (UK & Ireland) and a Distinguished IT Architect in The Open Group Open Professions program. He is a one-time Vice President of IBM’s Academy of Technology, a W3C member, a Visiting Professor of Practice at Newcastle University and an Adjunct Professor at Southampton University.

Neal Fishman, BSc, is an IBM (US) Distinguished Engineer and a Distinguished IT Architect in The Open Group Open Professions program. He is a former distance learning instructor at the University of Washington. He has written several published works, including Enterprise Architecture Using the Zachman Framework, Viral Data in SOA: An Enterprise Pandemic, and Smarter Data Science: Succeeding with Enterprise-Grade Data and AI Projects.

Paul Homan, MSc, CITP, FBCS, is the CTO for the Industrial Sector in IBM Services (UK & Ireland). He is an IBM Distinguished Engineer and Distinguished IT Architect in The Open Group Open Professions program. With over 30 years’ experience in IT, he is highly passionate about and practically experienced in Architecture & Strategy; in particular, as applied to the Industrial sector. He is well known for applying an Architected Approach to delivering strategic business transformation, and has been a long time contributor to The Open Group, significantly in relation to the TOGAF Standard.

Rahul, MCA, BSc, is a Senior Research Engineer for the Emerging Technology Lab at Honda R&D Europe UK. He primarily focuses on deep tech strategy, data privacy, and decentralized architecture research for next-generation systems and services.