Nathaniel G. Palmer
Executive Director
Workflow Management Coalition

Nathaniel Palmer is Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC) and President of Transformation+Innovation (www.transformationandinnovation.com). He was recently appointed Editor-in-Chief of BPM.

Nathaniel previously was Director, Business Consulting for Perot Systems Corp, where he worked for business process guru Jim Champy, and served corporate-wide as a primary BPM subject matter expert and general BPM ombudsman for a variety of global clients.

Prior to joining Perot Systems, he spent more than a decade with Delphi Group as Vice President and Chief Analyst. At Delphi Group, he led the business process management practice, built one of the fastest growing and best-performing business units, and helped lead the transformation of a small IT services provider into a global enterprise with offices across five continents.

The author of dozens of research studies and co-author of the management text, "The X-Economy: Profiting from Instant Commerce" (Texere, 2001) and the "BPM and Workflow Handbook" (FSI, 2007), he has been featured in Fortune, The New York Times, and many IT publications and is a frequent speaker on BPM at industry events.

His regular column, "Open for Business" is featured in each issue of the Enterprise Open Source Journal. He has also been a guest expert on National Public Radio and World Business Review.

He is on the editorial boards of Align Journal and E-DOC Magazine and on the Board of Directors of AIIM New England. He was nominated by the Governor of Massachusetts to the Commonwealth's IT Advisory Board.

In his role as Executive Director of the Workflow Management Coalition (WfMC), he is a voting member of OASIS and OMG, the leading standards bodies for distributed computing and service-oriented architecture.

He is a graduate of Bentley College and has pursued post-graduate study at Babson College F. W. Olin Graduate School of Business and the M.I.T. Sloan School of Management.