Advisory Board

Arjuna's Advisory Board provides the company with valuable insights into the latest market trends, industrial developments and ground-breaking academic research. Board members offer a wealth of experience covering the disparate expert domains of technology, business and research.

Bob Bickel

Entrepreneur

Bob is the founder and CEO of Bickel Advisory Services, LLC. Bob is an entrepreneur with passion, ambition, and insight. Prior to founding Bickel Advisory Services, he was VP of Strategy and Corporate Development at JBoss, Inc., helping to guide JBoss to acquisition by Red Hat. Before JBoss, he was the General Manager of the HP Middleware Division (HPMD) overseeing all market opportunities with regard to HP Middleware products. Before joining HP, Bickel was executive technology officer and executive vice president of products for Bluestone Software Inc., acquired by HP in January 2001. Bickel was one of the original creators who brought Bluestone's Application Server technology to the marketplace, and from that, was instrumental in growing the company to one with a global presence and a reputation for product excellence. Before Bluestone, Bickel spent eleven years at Digital Equipment Corporation, where he managed systems integration projects for a number of Digital customers. Bickel holds a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering from Bucknell University and a master's degree in business administration with a concentration in finance from Temple University.

John Harwell

Strategic Consultant

John Harwell is an executive with almost 30 years experience in high tech business. He has led the establishment of new businesses, developed new business models, and reinvigorated growth in key areas for a variety of businesses worldwide. He worked for Hewlett Packard for over 25 years in virtually every functional area of the business - marketing, research and development, and manufacturing (in both the hardware and software side of HP's business). In particular, John was the Manager of HP's $160 million Storage Solutions Business before taking consecutive posts as Director, responsible for HP's non-Intel Windows/NT strategy, followed by the Strategic IT Outsourcing and Vendor Relations business and the OpenView Application Management business. After which he was principal strategy consultant for the OpenView Software business and the EMEA Small and Medium Customer segment.

John is currently working on opportunities with several small and medium sized businesses in the US and Europe.

Dr Mark Little

Mark Little is Technical Director of Red Hat's SOA Platform, where he is also Director of Standards and Development Manager for the Transactions and ESB products. Prior to Red Hat, Mark was Chief Architect at Arjuna Technologies, leading the transactions efforts in Web Services and J2EE. Before that he was a Distinguished Engineer at Hewlett-Packard. He is author/contributor on many Web Services standards and specifications, including WS-Addressing, WS-TX and WS- CAF. Mark has published widely and is a regular contributor on WebServices.org and an editor on Infoq.com. He has co- authored several books and presented at many conferences and workshops over the years. Mark holds a PhD in Computing Science from the University of Newcastle.

Mark Potts

Mark Potts is chief technology officer in the Strategy and Technology Office within HP's Software Global Business Unit, responsible for HP's management initiatives for the Adaptive Enterprise. Prior to joining HP, Potts was the founder and chief technology officer of Talking Blocks, which HP acquired in September 2003. Talking Blocks was a software company that provided products for managing Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and web services. Potts has more than 12 years of industry experience. His background includes architectural design and innovation for large-scale system development in Australia, Europe and the United States. Potts has led work in new industry technology and standards for SOA, web services and grid technologies, including the Business Transaction Protocol, Web Service Distributed Management and Web Service Resource Framework specifications. He is a regular speaker at conferences in the United States and Europe and is on the editorial board of Web Services Journal. Potts holds a bachelor of science degree in computer science from Brookes University, Oxford, England.

Prof. Santosh Shrivastava

Santosh Shrivastava received his Ph.D. from Cambridge in 1975 and was appointed a Professor of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1986. His research interests are in the areas of distributed systems, fault tolerance and the application of transaction and workflow technologies to e-commerce. Santosh created the Distributed Systems Research Group at Newcastle, which now has an international reputation through the practical application of innovative research work. His group is probably best known for developing a CORBA based dependable workflow system for the Internet and, of course, the innovative distributed transaction system - which he named Arjuna. In 1998 he co-founded Arjuna Solutions Ltd to exploit this technology with great success. Santosh remains committed to the pursuit of 'cutting edge' research and is a central figure within the international arena, leading and managing collaborative research projects.