Dr. Bill Curtis, Maturity Model Theory and Design (Software, Business Process & People)
Dr. Bill Curtis advises Capability Measurement on in all areas of enterprise maturity.  He is Senior Vice President and Chief Scientist with Cast Software, a leader in providing technology for measuring and evaluating application system quality.  He is a globally recognized expert in software process and quality who co-authored the Capability Maturity Model (CMM), the People Capability Maturity Model, and the Business Process Maturity Model. The CMM and its successor, CMMI, have become the world's leading standards for evaluating the capability of a software development organization. Dr. Curtis has been the Chief Process Officer at both McAfee and Borland Software Corporation. Until its acquisition by Borland, he was Co-founder and Chief Scientist of TeraQuest in Austin, Texas, the global leader in providing CMM-based services. He is a former Director of the Software Process Program in the Software Engineering Institute at Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to SEI, Dr. Curtis directed research on advanced user interface technologies and the software design process at MCC, developed a global software productivity and quality measurement system at ITT’s Programming Technology Center, evaluated software development methods and metrics in GE Space Division, and taught statistics at the University of Washington. He has published four books, over 150 articles, and is on the editorial boards of several journals.  Dr. Curtis was recently elected a Fellow of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers for his contributions to software process improvement and measurement.

Dr. Roger Bate, Software and Systems Capability
Dr. Bate advises Capability Measurement on software and systems capability. He was the chief architect of the Enterprise Process Improvement Collaboration (EPIC), which developed the Systems Engineering Capability Maturity Model (SE-CMM) and the Integrated Product Development Capability Maturity Model (IPD-CMM). Dr. Bate was a Texas Instruments (TI) fellow and the chief computer scientist for TI, where he headed a corporate wide project to improve the software development process. Bate is also a fellow of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) and a fellow of the Society for Design and Process Science. Since the Software Engineering Institute’s founding, Bate has been in numerous key leadership roles including member of the Board of Visitors.

Dr. Robert Charette, Enterprise Risk Management
Dr. Charette advises Capability Measurement’s Enterprise Risk Practice. With over 30 years experience in a wide variety of software, systems and management positions, Dr. Charette is an internationally acknowledged authority and pioneer in risk management, information systems and technology, systems engineering, Lean development and management of large-scale software-intensive systems, risk entrepreneurship and innovation. Dr. Charette is a frequent international lecturer and author of several books (Software Engineering Risk Analysis and Management, Applications Strategies for Risk Management, Software Engineering Environments: Concepts and Technology, co-author of A Unified Approach for the Development of Systems, and primary author of Introduction to the Management of Risk). Dr. Charette is a member of IEEE and has written over 100 magazine, journal and other articles on the subjects of risk management, project and program management, innovation and entrepreneurship. He is also an information resource for CNN, the Wall Street Journal, Investor’s Business Daily, the Boston Globe, CIO magazine and several other print and television news outlets.

Beth Layman, Process Improvement
Beth Layman, co-founder of Layman and Layman, is a successful process improvement consultant, facilitator, instructor, and coach with over 25 years of experience in the high tech sector. She is a recognized authority on measurement, a published author, and a popular speaker. Her experience encompasses a wide range of commercial, government, aerospace, and product software organizations. Beth has worked both independently and with the Quality Assurance Institute, TeraQuest Metrics, Inc., McCabe and Associates, Software Quality Engineering, and other consulting firms to provide training and interactive workshops, assessments, management consulting, and coaching in process definition, management, and improvement, software and performance measurement, project and portfolio management, software quality assurance, and other software engineering methods. Beth's consulting credentials are supported by time spent in industry as an individual contributor, change agent and senior executive. She has served as COO of TeraQuest, helping to manage the acquisition and integration of the company, and for Borland Software and McAfee Software to establish worldwide employee development, software and business process improvement, and enterprise-level portfolio and project management. Beth is an SEI Authorized CMMI® Lead Appraiser and is co-author of Practical Software Measurement: Objective Information for Decision Makers. 

Don Oxley, Software Development
Don Oxley is a partner with Generative Programming Technology Group, LLC (gptg), a software development company working in parallel computing and robotics.  Prior to gptg, Mr. Oxley was responsible for product development with Capability Measurement. Mr. Oxley has over thirty years of significant experience both in the design, implementation, and management of leading edge process and software systems. He was President, Chairman and co-founder of TeraQuest Metrics, Inc., a process improvement company, which subsequently was acquired by Borland.

Dr. Joyce Statz, Project Management
Dr. Joyce Statz, Principal Consultant at Statz Consulting provides education and consulting services in requirements handling, measurement, project management, software acquisition, and process improvement. With more than 30 years of experience as a software professional, her consulting activities have met needs of people ranging from CIO to individual developer at more than 90 organizations world-wide.  She recently served as a Vice President at Borland Software Corporation, integrating process offerings from the acquisition of TeraQuest, the company that Joyce co-founded and co-led for 12 years.   Today she provides services to a range of  organizations, and she serves as an adjunct professor in the Master of Science in Project Management Program at St. Edward’s University in Austin.

Charles Weber, Process Improvement
Charles Weber is an independent consultant specializing in business process management, and in software and systems engineering and management. He has provided process improvement training, appraisals and implementation support to a number of companies in various countries. He is a co-author of the book, The Capability Maturity Model: Guidelines for Improving the Software Process (published by Addison-Wesley Publishing Company). He is also the project manager and principal author of the Business Process Maturity Model (BPMM), with Bill Curtis and Tony Gardiner as co-authors. In March 2008, the Object Management Group (www.OMG.org) adopted the BPMM as an OMG Specification. He was recently chosen and is participating as a subject matter expert in the development of the examinations for OMG-Certified Experts in Business Process Management.

Mr. Weber started his career with IBM Corporation and subsequently worked for Loral Corporation, Lockheed Martin Corporation, TeraQuest Metrics, and Borland Software in various technical, management and consultancy positions. He was twice appointed the IBM Resident Affiliate at the Software Engineering Institute (SEI) at Carnegie Mellon University and was also employed as a Visiting Scientist at the SEI.

Dale Fuller, Strategy, Executive Management and Investment
Mr. Dale Fuller is a leading technology executive with extensive experience in starting up and growing both technology and consumer businesses. He currently serves on the boards of Krugle and Phoenix Technologies (Chairman). He was most recently interim CEO of McAfee and CEO of Borland, both of which experienced huge shareholder value and/or revenue gains during his tenure. He has a track record of successfully leading companies through crisis situations and directing turnarounds that resulted in substantial improvements in operational performance and increased shareholder value. In an earlier part of his career, Mr. Fuller founded one of the leading community sites on the Internet, At WhoWhere?. As a start-up company CEO, he led the expansion of numerous domain sites, including Angelfire.com and Mailcity. He is a very active personal investor in approximately 60 different staged start-ups based in Silicon Valley, China and India. Mr. Fuller holds an honorary doctorate from St. Petersburg State University.

Steve McManus, Strategy and Corporate Development
Mr. Steve McManus provides Capability Measurement with insight on building long-term relationships with clients, partners and employees. He is a successful entrepreneur and 25-year veteran of the information technology industry. Mr. McManus is an investor/advisor to open source Zenoss, previously a co-founder and Vice Chairman of USInternetworking, Inc., which was the leading privately-held Application Service Provider until its recent acquisition by AT&T.

Dr. Ralph Oliva, Strategy and Market Development
Dr. Oliva advises Capability Measurement on all business-to-business marketing efforts. He is the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Business Markets (ISBM), a center of excellence in the Smeal College of Business Administration at Penn State, and a Professor of Marketing. Prior to joining Smeal, Dr. Oliva spent 23 years in business-to-business and consumer marketing at Texas Instruments (TI), where he served as vice president of market communications and was responsible for global management of the TI brand, market communications, design strategy, and corporate identity. Dr. Oliva is the author of 15 books and lectures on business-to-business market communications and brand management, among other topics.